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Completing a string of judicial retirements. Judge William F. Moffett Jr. of Juvenile and Domestic Court has announced that he will leave the bench Feb. 1.

Judge Moffett follows Circuit Court Judge Rayner V. Snead and District Court Judge William W. Carson Jr. in their retirements. Judge Carson left the bench in December; Judge Snead will leave it this month.

Judge Moffett, 59, has presided over juvenile and domestic relations cases since 1973 in Fauquier, Loudoun and Rappahannock counties. He is a resident of Washington in Rappahannock.

Lately the judge has been suffering ill health. He underwent an operation on Tuesday. ♦ Before his present judgeship he was a county judge in Rappahannock, appointed to that position in 1968. He served as Commonwealth’s Attorney in Rappahannock from 1953 to 1955.

Moffett was graduated

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