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Alex Perry Digges Jr.

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Alex Perry Digges, Jr., age 81, died on September 15, 2001 at Oakwood Garden of DeLand. Funeral Services will be Thursday, Sept. 20, 11 AM at Allen-Summerhill Memorial Chapel, DeLand with Fr. Robert M. Anderson, Church of The Holy Presence, DeLand officiating. Interment will follow at DeLand Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Wednesday, 6-8PM at the funeral home. Mr. Digges was born in Asheville, NC and moved to DeLand in 1987 from Kissimmee. He was a US Army veteran of WWII, Korea & Viet-Nam retiring in 1961 after 25 years as a Major with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, member of National & Local Retired Officers Assoc. Survivors: son, Alex P. Digges, III of Debary; daughters, Janet D. Hartman of Debary and Dorothy Jean Towe of Asheville, NC; sister, Anne D. Agnew of Asheville, NC; 6 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. ALLEN-SUMMERHILL FUNERAL HOME, DeLand, FL 32724 (386) 734-4663.

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Published by Orlando Sentinel on Sep. 18, 2001.

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