Deaths and Funerals in Narrow Mountain Region
Ebb K Whitley Sr 77 of Jaeger area dies after long illness at Welch hospital. Former W W Supermarket owner and Jaeger Bank director, survived by wife Pearl Long Whitley, two daughters and son Ebb Jr, siblings and many grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at Fanning Funeral Home Kaeger with burial at Jaeger Memorial Cemetery. Also listed are Phyllis Jean Williams 37, several other local obituaries and funeral notices with service details and pallbearers.
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Ebb K. Whitley
Ebb Keister Whitley Sr
Laeger
Welch Hospital
North Tazewell
Reece
Rachel Whitten Whitley
Jaeger
Bank of Jaeger
Jaeger United Methodist Church
Pearl Long Whitley
FE. G
Rachel) Althoff
Douglas
Phyllis) Whatley
Richlands
Ebb K. Whitley Jr
W. C. Whitley
Bluefield
Vernon
Kate) Smith
Grundy
Frank
Sadie) Shelton
Rose Whitley
Fanning Funeral Home
Kaeger
Alton Richardson
Danny Camden
Jaeger Memorial Cemetery
Roderfield
Don Morgan
Tom Fanning
Paul Hare
Howard Bean
A. J.signingo
Quinton Whaley
Bill Stepp
Pat Fanning
C. O. Davis
Harry Pauley
John Pate
Joe Crozier
A. S. Bailey
A. F. Linkous
Red Lester
Edwin Pauley
Cleve Helton
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Presents Local News (1939 data)
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, established 99, prints morning editions daily. It lists subscription rates and advertising details, noting Associated Press affiliation and local news publication, with postal address 412 Blend Street and Virginia rates per year.
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Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Associated Press
Hs Paper
Mall
Audit Bureau of
Cr Calenon Advertise
London Associes
Obituaries: Louis Stout and Clay Eldridge Pass Away
Louis Stout 87 of Caretta died after a long illness. Born in Glade Springs he leaves wife Polly Lucille, two sons James and Charles, daughter Emma Hall, 10 grandchildren. Services at Douglas Funeral Home Chapel with interment at Grandview Memory Gardens. Friends may call today 5 to 9 p.m. Clay Eldridge 77 of Welch died after a lingering illness. Born in Winston-Salem he lived in Welch 60 years. he was a St James Baptist Church member and employed at Page Funeral Home and other Welch businesses. Funeral from St James Baptist Church with interment at Restlawn Memorial Gardens. Friends may call today 5 to 9 p.m.
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Phyllis Jean Williams
Welch
Welch Hospital
Cranberry
Margaret W. Webster
Johnny Williams
McDowell County
Charlene Williams
Telena Williams
Leckisha Williams
Andre Williams
Lewis Williams
Michael Williams
Leon Faulkner
Lenoir
N.C
Page Funeral Home
Claude Smith
Kaeger Memorial
Roderfield
Elsvan
Alberia Mae) Johnson
Switchback
Wilmington
Del
Joe
Rebecca Mitchell Crigger
Holiness Church
Gertrude Farmer
Vivian
Shelby Weimerskirch
Clinton
Iowa
Betty Murphy
Barbara Woods
Ethel Day
Brushfork
Ruth Belcher
Cecil Faye Sheaves
Linda Johnson
Brenda Johnson
Sheila Johnson
Carolyn Musick
Bramwell
Richard Johnson
Roanoke Va
Charles Johnson
Elsvan Johnson Jr
Gertrude Wade
Bluefield
June Newman
George van Dyke
Richlands
Charlie van Dyke
Ashland
Ore
John Crigger
Switchcack
Milford Crigger
Maybeury
Theodore Crigger
Leslie Crigger
William Crigger
Maybeury Church of God
C. C. Blevins
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Wesley
Varise Helton Crabtree
Warriormines
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
UMWA
United Methodist Church
War
Cleveland
Noah
Alta Mae Bales Crabtree
Texie Jackson Crabtree
Norma Jean Crabtree
Richmond
Ind
Paul
Evelyn) Elkins
Tampa
Fla
Wanda Sue Hicks
Tazewell
S.H. Nancy Vandyke
Newcastle
Reed
Ruby) Martin
Trambell
Luther Crabtree
Coca, Fla
Tea Crabtree
Grundy
United Methodist
Douglas Funeral Home In War
Harry Shrader
Matoaka
Charles
Mary Caffee Shrader
Dott
Pauline Jenkins Shrader
Larry
Earl
Darrell Shrader
Buddy
Janice) Graham
Rt. 1
Lashmeet Church
Louis Stout
Caretta
Glade Springs
Polly Lucille Lewis Stout
James Stout
Pickway
Ohio
Charles Stout
Ellicott
Harry
Emma) Hall
Detroit
Mich
Douglas Funeral Home Chapel
Alex Hagerman
Thornton Deskins
George Lake
Grandview Memory Gardens
Douglas Funeral Home
Clay Eldridge
Beech St
Winston-Salem
Robert and
Fannie Evans Eldridge
St. James Baptist Church
0.J. Douglas Mortuary
Hazel Eldridge
Braxton Broady
James E. Davis
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg Road
Funeral notices for LEFTRIDGE, NEAL, and CHILDRESS in Bluefield and Mouth Card
Albert E LEFTRIDGE 56 Bluefield today at 11 from George W Seaver Chapel Princeton with Rev John Asbury officiating. Interment Walnut Grove Cemetery Pallbearers Princeton Veterans Group Virginia Louise NEAL 56 Bluefield Va today 2 p m Dudley Memorial Chapel Bluefield Va Rev Allen Tompson officiating Burial Maplehill Cemetery Pallbearers Everette Lambert Earl Blankenship Buford Carter Walton Hale M R DeRouse Daniel Mooney Oren Rolen White Lee. Louise A CHILDRESS 81 Mouth Card Ky Saturday 2 p m Mouth Card Baptist Church Rev Carl Mullins officiating Burial Mountain Valley Memorial Park Grundy Va Grandsons pallbearers body taken to church one hour prior to service.
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Leftridge
Albert E
Bluefield
George W. Seaver Chapel
Princeton
John Asbury
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Princeton Veterans Group
Childress
John
Louise A
Mouth Card Baptist Church
Carl Mullins
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Grundy
Grundy Funeral Home
Obituary: David Lee Frazier 18 Bluefield Dies Suddenly
David Lee Frazier aged 18 of Bluefield died on arrival at a Hinton hospital after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements are pending at Hawkins Funeral Home in Bluefield.
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David Lee Frazier
Bluefield
Hinton Hospital
Peneeverte
Hawkins Funeral Home
Oceana Firm Competes For Trash Service Jurisdiction
MoHawk Sanitation Service of Oceana files a PSC complaint alleging three Wyoming County commissioners run trash and compactor service at Tralee and Jesse Mountains without PSC approval. The firm, armed with a PSC certificate, seeks customer choice while the county argues its landfill extension complies with state waste laws. A PSC hearing is scheduled in Charleston at 9:30 a.m. next Thursday.
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Oceana
Wyoming County Commission
Public Service Commission
MoHawk Sanitation Service of
Tralee
Jesse Mountains
Mo-Hawk
PSC
Charleston
Church Trial Ends Dodrill Freed and Reinstated
The church trial of Rev. Carl D. Dodrill from Spencer ended as charges were dropped and his suspension lifted after Dodrill and Bishop D. Frederick Wertz reached agreement. An appointment in the West Virginia Annual Conference was offered.
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Charleston
W.va
Carl D. Dodrill
Spencer
Dodrill
D. Frederick Wertz
West Virginia
Johnston Rites Stated Saturday
Mass of Christian Burial for W Broughton Johnston 73, Princeton attorney and former state senator, will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Princeton with burial in Monte Vista Park Cemetery Mausoleum. He led West Virginia educational and state development efforts and served as Mercer County bar leader and Bank board chair. Friends may call at George W Seaver Funeral Home.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Princeton
W. Broughton Johnston
Johnston & Holroyd
William O'Donnell
O.M.1
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Bluefield
Princeton Road
McDowell County
Walter & Nelle Johnston
Sacred Heart Catholic Church of
Johnston
West Virginia University
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Senate
Princeton Jaycees
Bluefield State College
W.va
Andrew S Rowan
Sweet Springs
Women's Prison
Peace Springs
State Parole and Probation Dept
Concord College
Frank Holroyd
H.P. Hunnicutt
W.va. University College of Medicine
Dentistry
Brush Creek
Princeton Bank and Trust Co
Mercer County Bar Association
Mercer County Mental Health Board
Princeton- Mercer County Chamber of Commerce
Princeton Rotary Club
Princeton Elks Lodge
W.va. Bar Association
Lena
Dove) Johnston
Harlee H
Nelle Keating
Land of Mayo
Fla
Harlee Broughton
Robert E. Holroyd
Ernest D. Lilly
Curry Blank
John McCabe
Andy Clark
Harold Wood
Mike Gibson
Paul Champion
Robert Richardson
Edmund C. Stone
al Kemper
Wallace Greer
Howard M. Jarrett
Jerome Katz
Princeton Bank & Trust Co
George W. Seaver Funeral Home
Lincoln Memorial Dedication and Design Details
The Lincoln Memorial in West Potomac Park along the Capitol axis houses a seated Lincoln statue within a marble hall. Dedicated on Memorial Day May 30 1922, it was designed by Henry Bacon.
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Lincoln Memorial
West Potomac Park
Capitol
Washington Monument
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Bacon
TVA Contracts Are Approved For Coal Purchases
TVA approved 15 contracts totaling 524 million dollars for 14 million tons of coal. S. David Freeman alone on the board signed the awards amid resignations and retirements. The new coal purchases push TVA’s total negotiated coal cost near six billion dollars to meet sulfur dioxide limits.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
S. David Freeman
Freeman
Louis Gwin
Prosecutor reports clothing donations amid staff shortages
The prosecutor discussed gifts given to three Tazewell County workers as compensation for efforts during a coal miners strike. He noted caseloads were over triple normal during distribution and Avon Fashions stipulated the clothing be for the ill and needy. French called for no formal remarks and said the investigation is over. הרב
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Tazewell County
French
Daily Telegraph
Gibson
Father Welch
Avon Fashion
Tazewell
Buchanan
Departments of Social Services
William Willet
Avon Fashions
Willet
Department of Social Services
Virginia
William Lukhard
Gas leak from Titan II silo in Kansas causes injuries
A toxic cloud from a Titan II missile silo near Wichita forced evacuations after a fuel line rupture during fueling. One person was killed and three injured as the liquid propellant formed a large drifting plume, with no nuclear danger reported. Gas continued to leak hours later.
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Wichita
Kan
Ford
Jichit
Air Force
Alan Defend
McConnell Air Force Base
Charles Tanner
Cowley County Civil Defense
Onr
Manchin Faces Hurdle in Willow Island Debris Case
West Virginia Secretary of State A James Manchin moved to revoke the New Jersey firm Research Cottrell Inc charter in a bid to stop debris removal at the Willow Island disaster site. He sought a preliminary injunction to halt work as judges in Pleasants Kanawha and Wood Counties weighed whether to enforce the action amid vacation delays.
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Charleston
W Va
A. James Manchin
New Jersey
Willow Island
Manchin
ReSearch- Cottrell Inc
Pleasants County
Bound Brook
N.J
Pleasants
Monongahela Power Co
Research Cottrell
Wood
Kanawha
West Virginia
State Attorney General's Office
Chauncey Browning
Question Of Ethics Should Man Be Created For Science
Nashville AP reports a Vanderbilt professor proposes in vitro fertilization of human eggs for six days to study birth defects. A NIH advisory board will hear experts on Sept 15 to decide if federally funded embryo research should proceed or end. The debate centers on whether a cultured cell dot is human tissue or a potential baby and the ethics of creating and destroying embryos for science.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville
National Institutes of Health
Vanderbilt University
Pierre Soupart
United States
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Loupart
Britain
Soupart
Civil Service Bill Clears Senate Faces White House Push
The Senate approved President Carter’s top domestic priority, a sweeping reform of the federal personnel system. The 87 to 0 vote strengthens managers and eases firing, accelerating passage before the recess, with a similar bill pending in the House.
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Washington
Senate
Carter
House
Bond Plan Sparks Countywide School Reform Debates
Caldwell asked Lilly to include a Bluefield consolidation plan in recommendations. Lilly refused, saying he must consider the whole county. He noted six to eight months to complete plans and that two bond issues could be run if the first fails.
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Caldwell
Lilly
Bluefield
Central
Fairview
Helen Keller Dies at 87 Left Lasting Impact
Helen Keller, renowned writer and lecturer who was blind and deaf from childhood, passed away in 1968 at age 87. Her achievements bridged disability and education, inspiring global advocacy for people with disabilities.
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Helen Keller
Louis Prima Dies at 66 After Long Illness
Louis Prima, famed for his gravel voice and trumpet, died of pneumonia at 66 after nearly three years in a coma following brain surgery in October 1975. The New Orleans native rose to fame in the 1950s with Keely Smith, his third wife, with their hit Old Black Magic topping charts around 1961.
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New Orleans
Louis Prima
Prima
Los Angeles
Keely Smith
Miss Smith
Virginia Beach
Kate Jackson Weds On Martha's Vineyard Private Ceremony
TISBURY Mass AP Kate Jackson star of Charlie's Angels wed a 24 year old son of actress Stella Stevens in a private ceremony at friends home on Martha's Vineyard off Cape Cod. They applied for a marriage license in Boston Wednesday morning.
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Tisbury, Mass
Charlie's Angels
Kate Jackson
Stella Stevens
Home of Friends
Martha's Vineyard
Cape Cod
Solters
Boston
Princeton Men Plead Guilty To Tax Charges
Two Princeton men, Joseph Auer and Basil Legg of American Block Co., pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to one count of conspiracy to evade taxes and income tax evasion in specific years. Judge Dennis R. Knappe ordered a pre sentence report and continued disposition for October 3. The indictment originally had seven counts split between the two defendants.
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Princeton
Charleston
Joseph Auer
Basil Legg
American Block Co
Dennis R. Knappe
Auer
Blaze Ervin Mullins Jr. Funeral Arrangements Set
Blaze Ervin Mullins Jr. three, survived by paternal grandmother Mrs. Steel Reed of Jaeger, will be taken to Sparks Community Chapel on Bradshaw Mountain near Paynesville at 4 p.m. today. Funeral services planned for 11 a.m. Saturday with Revs. Booker Riffe and John H. Jewell officiating. Burial at Tom Sparks Cemetery. Fanning Funeral Home of Jaeger is handling arrangements.
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Ervin Mullins Jr
Steel Reed
Jaeger
Sparks
Bradshaw Mountain
Paynesville
Booker Riffe
John H. Jewell
Tom Sparks
Fanning Funeral Home
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Frances Jean) Wilson
Rockbridge St
Bluefield Hospital
Mae Crowell Whittaker
Joseph Wesley Whittaker
Bluefield College
Bluefield Lions Club
Teresa Marie Wilson
Michele Clair) Hallis
Suzette Denise Wilson
Paul H. Whittaker
Dorothy Wilcher
Charles J. Schneider
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
R. W
Bud) Johnson
Frank Fitzgerald
Andy Hallis
Nick Amell
David Spraker
Kenneth J. Smith
Warren Volk
H. Warner Graham
Mercer Funeral Home
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bles SC PO UN
Oceana Firm
Complete Auto License Service
Danforth Insurance Agency
US RT
Bluewell
Spring ST. Bluefield
Bond
Greenbrier
Forest Hill
Hinton
Don Pfiefer
Don Humble
Charlies Williams
Curtis Cox
Kenneth Gott
Easter Brothers
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Harry &. Peyton
Roanoke
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Lee Solter
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