Deaths and Funerals in Virginia and West Virginia
Kenneth Miller aged 65 of Swords Creek Virginia dies in Richlands hospital. WWII Army veteran, retiree and businessman survived by wife Dorothy and two sons plus siblings and nine grandchildren. funeral Saturday at Honaker Funeral Home Chapel with LDS Church officiants. Burial at Greenhills Memory Garden. Grace Kennedy 54 of Jolo dies at Welch hospital with many siblings and several remarried survivors. funeral Friday at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jolo. Burial at Kennedy Family Cemetery in Jolo. Leon J. Smith 77 of Fort Montgomery New York dies in Tulsa Oklahoma. burial today. Edith Karnes 60 of Princeton dies. funeral arrangements complete. Bessie Brown 96 of Woodbridge dies in hospital. previously of Princeton. Noah Stilwell 82 of Raven dies. arrangements at Hurst-Scott in Richlands. Laura Sharrett 96 of Princeton dies. survivors listed. funeral Friday at Princeton Presbyterian Church. Other funeral notices list Cheeks William Ozell 81 Welch. Proffitt William Jesse 72 Bluefield. Porter Joe David 34 Northfork. Easter Frederick Anderson 54 Bluefield. services today in various locations.
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Kenneth Miller
Kenneth Clyde Miller
Pine Creek
Swords Creek
Richlands
Garnett
Cora Horton Miller
James M. Miller
Dorothy Hart Miller
Kenneth Clyde Miller Jr
Stephen Keith Miller
Kathleen Lambert
Raven
Ellen Martin
Pembroke
Honaker Funeral Home
C. Richard Farthing
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Greenhills Memory Garden
Claypool Hill
Grace Kennedy
Jolo
Welch Hospital
William Henry
Mary Elizabeth Muncy Kennedy
Clara Hicks
Bluefield
Nancy Owens
Tamsey Riffe
Florida
Virginia Perkins
Georgia
Dorothy Griffis
Indiana
Maudie Gibson
Wolf Pen
William Kennedy
David Kennedy
Bartley
Elmer Kennedy
George Kennedy
Joe Kennedy
Corby Kennedy
Calvin Kennedy
Carl Kennedy
Weddle Kennedy
Ernest Kennedy
Kentucky
Full Gospel Tabernacle
Roger Payne
Kennedy Family Cemetery
Fanning
Laura B. Sharrett
Princeton Ave
Princeton
Welch
McDowell County
Lewis and
Mary Carter Blakely
Princeton Presbyterian Church
The
Eastern Star
White Shrine
Princeton Woman’s Club
William A. Sharrett
Mary Wedgewood
Edna Hurt
Lucy Johnson
Ruth Mitchell
Clara Greer
Fairfax, Va
Clarence Sharrett
Lakeland
Fla
Harry Christie
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
George W. Seaver
Porter
Joe David
Box
Northfork
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home
Bluewell
John Hymen
William Hanks
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Rahall Opposes Tightening PAC Contribution Rules
Congressman Rahall defends PAC fundraising for candidates from poorer districts while opposing a House bill to raise individual limits from 1000 to 1500 dollars. He argues PACs are essential and wants public financing via a one dollar check off on tax returns to broaden donor base.
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House
Rahall
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publisher and Staff Credits
A masthead lists Edwin M Freakley as publisher and Thomas A Colley as executive editor with Patsy P Malamisura operations manager Mike Blanton circulation director Carl H Meade Jr press supervisor Jim Terry editorial page editor Linda M Osborne and Lewis B Spence advertising director. The paper, established 1893, is published daily from 928 Bluefield Ave Bluefield West Virginia 24701 by Worrell Newspapers Inc and is a member of the Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Jim Terry
Linda M. Osborne
Lewis B. Spence
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield
W.va
P. O
National Advertising Rep
London Associates
Warrant actions linked to interstate theft across Tennessee and Virginia
Law enforcement in Hawkins County Tennessee and Bland Virginia pursue capias warrants for three suspects in thefts occurring July 24 in Tennessee and days later in Virginia. Weakley County plans similar extradition efforts as investigators gather evidence. The case echoes cross county activity and disputes over border enforcement.
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Tennessee
Patrick County
Virginia
Lawson
Hawkins County
Bland
Capias
Weakley
Senate votes largely against Contras aid despite warnings
Debates over Contra aid show skepticism toward a blank check for Reagan policy. Amendments to restrict U S troops or training of Contras were rejected. The Senate, like the House, would allow CIA training while expressing concern over mission scope. Ghana
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Weicker
Senate
Nicaragua
U.S
Honduras
Costa Rica
Thomas Harkin
Diona
Harkin
House
CIA
Opposition mobs clash as police jail hundreds in Pakistan
In Pakistan, authorities jailed about 500 opposition leaders nationwide in raids, banned meetings, and blocked Benazir Bhutto from entering Punjab for five days. Karachi riot police used tear gas and bamboo canes while Lahore mobs attacked buses. Faisalabad saw tear gas and arrests. Bhutto planned an independence day rally but faced travel bans and legal limits.
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Erich Honecker
Honecker
Communist Party
East Germany
East Berlin
Brandenburg Gate
Unter den Linden
West Berlin
Reichstag
GDR
Kohl
Willy Brandt
Brandt
U.S
East
Conrad Schummann
Lahore
Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
Miss Bhutto
Pakistan People’s Party
Karachi
Punjab
Faisalabad
Salman Taseer
Faislabad
World’s oldest birds found in Texas quarry reframe evolution
Scientists at Texas Tech University report fossil bones from at least two crow sized birds 225 million years old in a Texas quarry. Marking Protoavis as earlier than Archaeopteryx, the find challenges the central role of Archaeopteryx in bird evolution and suggests Protoavis and Archaeopteryx had separate lineages.
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Washington
Texas
Europe
Texas Tech University
Sankar Chatterjee
Chatterjee
British Museum of Natural History
Bavaria
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Leon J. Smith
Leon J
Turk) Smith
Fort Montgomery
N.Y
Tulsa
Oklo
William Smith
Independence
Harold Smith
Nellie Pierce
Bessie Woodworth
Bradenton
Edith C. Karnes
Airport Drive
Bessie A. Brown
Woodbridge
George W. Seaver Funeral Home
Noah Stilwell
Noah W. Stilwell
Raven, Va
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Proffitt
William Jesse
Stadium Drive
Mercer Funeral Home Chapel
Marshall Parvin
Fredrick Anderson
Bluewell United Methodist Church
Carl Burrows
Ridgedale Cemetery
Rich Valley
Bluefield Ave
Princeton Bureau
Edwin M. Freakley
Thomas A. Colley
Patsy P. Malamisura
Mike Blanton
Carl H. Meade, Jr
D&i
Berlin
Wall
Holmes
South Africa
Mark Polen
West Virginia Coal Association
United States
Revvik
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