Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area
James Wyrick 81 of 828 Frederick St Bluefield dies after brief illness. Retired Norfolk and Western machinist with 50 years service. Survived by wife Hersie Duncan Wyrick, sister-in-law and siblings. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield. burial Monte Vista Park Cemetery. Funeral home open today 5–9 p.m. Geraldine Fox Wyrick and other survivors noted.
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James Wyrick
James Whitley
Pat) Wyrick
Frederick St
Bluefield
James H
Hannah Grace Rogers Wyrick
Norfolk & Western Railway Cor
Grace United Methodist Church
Kentucky
Monte Vista Park
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publishing Details
Bluefield Daily Telegraph established 1893 publishes every morning from 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia 24701. Member of the Associated Press with exclusive rights to news dispatches and local news. postal and circulation details listed.
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Daily Boys Ted Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
W.va
Audit Bureau of Circulation
P.O. Box
W. Keventang
London Associates
Funeral services for James Albert Greene Jr
Funeral services for James Albert Greene Jr 25 of 2603 Kanawha Ave Charleston will be held today at 3 p.m. at Mercer Funeral Home Chapel with Dr Conrad Crow of Charleston officiating. Burial follows at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Survivors include his mother Elizabeth S Yancey stepfather Benjamin Yancey two brothers Charles Roba Greene and Benjamin F Yancey III and grandmother Elizabeth Wilson. Pallbearers listed as Dante Citrapano James Knowles Carl Harless Douglas Kiser Frank Smolarick Wesley Hopkins.
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Nick (Joy Fay) Semanco
Barrett
Charleston
Kentucky
Barrett United Methodist Church
Judy Semanco
Roanoke
Karen Sue Eshbaugh
Huntington
Mark Semanco
Judy Literal
Maybeury
Olen Robinson
Holly Shrewsbury
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Handley Funeral Home
Danville
Walls
Dennis
Princeton
Burns Wornal Chapel of Memorial
Athens Road
Leonard Repass
Resthaven Memorial Park
Tommy Lilly
Roy Pack
Doug Brinkley
Dennis Collins
Chuck Schockley
Charles Schockley
F. Lee Hoops
F. Lee
Ettie Alice Kidd) Hoops
Bramwell Road
Bluefield
Bland County
Wesley
Nannie Kidd
Midway Church of Christ
Tazewell
Hubert Hoops
Aston
Woody
Gene Hoops
Virginia Shrewsbury
Ruby Justice
Dayton
Ohio
Maxine Hoops
Albert Kidd
Geoge Kidd
Burkes Garden
Clara Fox
Dorothy Earls
Dudley Memorial Chapel
E.C. Burton
Brad Burnette
Maple Hill Cemetery
James Albert Greene, Jr
Kanawha Ave
Mercer Funeral Home Chapel
Conrad Crow
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Princeton Avenue
Elizabeth S. Yancey
Benjamin Yancey
Charles Roba Greene
Benjamin F. Yancey III
Elizabeth Wilson
Dante Citrapano
James Knowles
Carl Harless
Douglas Kiser
Frank Smolarick
Wesley Hopkins
Services Set For Jennings
Oakwood Virginia funeral services are arranged for William Jennings Fields 30 of North Tazewell killed in a Monday mining accident at Judy C Coal Company The Rev Nelson McCall and Rev Paul Winfrey will officiate Burial is in Maplewood Cemetery Tazewell Fields son of Luther and Ina C Fields born in Bluefield member of Midway Christian Church
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Oakwood
William Jennings Fields
North Tazewell
Judy C. Coal Coal Company
Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home
Tazewell
Nelson McCall
Paul Winfrey
Maplewood Cemetery
Bluefield
Luther Fields
Ina C. Fields
Midwy Christian Church
Magistrate Threatened After Complaints About Trooper
Welch David N Hunt, one of two magistrates who filed complaints about a state trooper, says he has received three anonymous threatening calls since giving an interview to Internal Affairs. He noted the calls came after he and Magistrate Judy Ray Decker alerted Chief Judge Jack Marinari to alleged eavesdropping by Trooper Walter Martin. Sgt. R L Martin was sent to McDowell to collect statements, but no action was announced.
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Welch
David N. Hunt
Hunt
Department of Public Safety
State Police
R.L. Martin
Charleston
McDowell
Welch Hospital
S.L. Cox
Miller
Davis
State
Trucker Is Killed In Virginia Mine Accident
A 48 year old Bluefield truck driver, Ralph Eugene Stowers, was fatally crushed while unloading a conveyor belt roll at Island Creek Coal Co Mine No 6 near Oakwood Virginia. He was pinned between the belt and trailer when it rolled during unloading. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Oakwood
Bluefield
Island Creek
Stowers
McMurray
Mercer Funeral Home
Mine blast near Whitwell prompts state agency response
Tennessee and the Emergency Management Agency investigate a blast about 1 p.m. seven miles north of Whitwell near Tennessee Consolidated in Jasper. Deputies were sent to the mine in Marion County as officials from Labor and Barbourville Ky coordinate on site.
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Emergency Management Agency
Roy McCarter
State Labor Department
Nashville
Whitwell
Tennessee Consolidated
Jasper
Judy Humphreys
Grundy County
Sheriff's Office
Marion
Kathy Snyder
Labor Department
Washington
Jerry Spicer
Barbourville
Mercer County Schools Audit Details 20 State Violations
Mercer County audit for 1979 80 reports more than 20 state law violations by the county board of education. Investigator Frank Serge told the Parent Student Action Committee that the group has evidence to oust all board members and the superintendent. He cited overstated funds and receipts, late published financials, uncontracted auxiliary staff, travel expense lapses, nonbonded trustees, budget overages, and failure to audit school accounts, among other issues. The committee voted to continue the probe and seek removal of all board members and Superintendent Hughes, with a suit planned for early next year.
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Daily Telegraph
Bluewell
Mercer County
County Board of Education
Frank Serge
Parent-Student Action Committee
Frankie
John Hughes
Board of Finance
Serge
Parent-Student Action Com
Mittee
Jim Leslie
Hughes
Hedrick
McDowell Board Approves Agenda Guidelines
McDowell County Board of Education approved new guidelines to govern what matters appear on the agenda for bi monthly meetings. Rules limit public presentations to 15 minutes and five adults with one spokesman plus a five day prior application. Denials possible if issues already addressed or can be handled by staff. Budget changes bring total to 27 million and Christmas holiday date for 12 month staff was set as December 24.
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Daily Telegraph
Welch
McDowell County Board of Education
Robert I. Goosens
John R. Drosick, Jr
Goosens
Mercer Frazier’s seat kept quiet in nominee selection
Mercer Frazier, who left his seat to be a Circuit Court judge, played no part in choosing nominees for his former legislative post. It was expected that the three nominees would come from Mercer County since Frazier, a Democrat, was one of three delegates from that county. Monroe and Summers counties each have one delegate in the Legislature.
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Page One
Frazier
Mercer County
Monroe
Summers
Libyan plane hijack ends with hostage release in Beirut
Shiite militants hold Libyan leader implicated hostage on a Boeing 727 that landed in Rome after Beirut Athens stops. Authorities report 30 passengers, eight crew, five armed men aboard. Libyan officials list 40 onboard. Hijackers release pregnant Libyan woman and two children in Beirut. Mujahedeen for Imam Sadr join the siege demanding a U.N. inquiry into Sadr's disappearance.
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Libya
Muammar Khadafy
Tripoli
Rome
Beirut
Athens
Greece
Mujahedeen
Warriors
Imam Sadr
U.N
Sadr
Libya Told To Drop Plot
The Reagan administration warned Libya through a third country to abandon a purported plot to kill top U.S. government leaders. An authoritative source said the message outlined some evidence the United States has, plus a warning of consequences if Libya acted. Details of the intermediary country and further specifics were not disclosed.
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Washington
Reagan
Libya
United States
Howard Baker Jr
Attorney Seeks Acquittal In Deprogramming Kidnapping Trial
Fayetteville report on four men charged with kidnapping Douglas A. Wilson to deprogram him from alleged brainwashing by The Way. Wilson testified of 16 days in Michigan and multiple moves to West Virginia with abuse during deprogramming attempts. Trial expected to continue through Thursday.
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Daily Telegraph
Fayetteville
the Way
Bill Owens, Jr
Beckley
William M. Lewis
Dublin
Phillip Bevins
Rodney B. Conner
Princeton
Fayette County
Douglas A. Wilson
Michigan
Robert Holroyd
T.E. Myles
Mark Wills
Holroyd
Paul M. Blake, Jr
Wilson
West Virginia
Kenneth Conner
Rodney Conner
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George
Sarah Tillison Willis
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Aletta) Burks
Wilma Little
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D.W. ‘Pete (Lena) McNamara
Thornton Ave
Memorial
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Cecil C
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Daytona Beach
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Blair Hearth
Cedar Hill Memory Gardens
Holly Hill
Godfrey Dotson
Rebecca
Kathy Hamlin
David Hamlin
Richard Lee Hamlin
Indianapolis
Ind
Cecil Wayne Hamlin
Sarah Ann Neal
Dale Woodward Funeral Home
Henry Clark
Henry
Rosa L.) Clark
Christiansburg
Radford
Birchlawn
Pearisburg
First Baptist Church of
Richardson Home Funeral Home
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Greene
Jennings
Sgt. Martin
Trucker
Allen
Justice Department
Nancy Reagan
Tennessee
Hubert Miller
Mercer County School Board
Cochairman
Myra Hedrick
McDowell Board of Education
Mercer
Danforth Insurance Agency Auto License Service
Kerosun
Virginia Hardware Company
Mercer St
Laurel A. Farmer
Mercer Road
Princeton, W.va
Bertna Reed
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