Obituaries and funeral notices from Princeton area
Deaths include Elizabeth Howard 81 of Princeton and Calvin Meadows 63 of Narrows with incomplete funeral arrangements. War, Welch and Bluefield area services list graveside and chapel rites for multiple residents including Cora Atwell, Dorothy Spangler, James Cannaday, Lillie Tolliver, Hazel Richardson, Glenda Crockett Carrigo, Kathleen Deskins Farley, Zelma Wilkins, John Morris and others with varied burial sites in Virginia and West Virginia communities.
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Golar Elizabeth Howard
Cook St
Princeton
George W. Seaver Funeral Home
Calvin Meadows
Narrows
Riffe
James Cannaday
O'Toole
Welch
Page Funeral Home
Glenda G
Crockett Carrigo
Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel
Tazewell
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield
John S. Morris
Rowland H. Bailey
Bailey-Kirk
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Perdue seeks broader powers for West Virginia treasurer
Treasurer-elect John Perdue called for restoring the treasurer as the state's chief financial officer by making the Board of Investments answer to the treasurer. He backed a constitutional amendment to allow stock investments, electronic payments, and a college savings plan while stressing efficiency, faster processing with auditor Glen Gainer III, and stronger unclaimed property recovery.
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Charleston
John Perdue
Board of Investments
Perdue
Gaston Caperton
Caperton
Larrie Bailey
Bailey
James Manchin
Perdue’s
West Virginia
Stan Klos
Kanawha County
Lyne Ranson
State Supreme Court
Glen Gainer III
Pennsylvania man killed at I-95 rest area in Virginia
A Pennsylvania man returning from South Carolina was shot and killed early Wednesday in a rest area between Dale City and Dumfries on Interstate 95. He helped a handicapped family member to the restroom, then was shot while inside. Police are investigating robbery as a possible motive.
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Dale City
Pennsylvania
Prince William County
South Carolina
Virginia
Lucy Cald
Dumfries
Caldwell
Virginia Department of Transportation
Beyer rolls out six education safety and funding proposals
Lt. Gov. Donald Beyer Jr. unveiled six education focused bills and six more on crime and small business for the upcoming General Assembly. He aims to empower teachers to remove disruptive students, push Literacy Passport Test passage, and urge accepting Goals 2000 funds and School to Work grants totaling tens of millions. He seeks local aid for police recruitment and wider access to the sex offender registry. Beyer, the only declared Democratic candidate for governor, urged government action to secure federal money.
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Richmond
Donald S. Beyer Jr
General Assembly
Beyer
George Allen
Allen
Virginia
Snow drifts and cold blamed on ongoing Arctic storm
Snow continued from A-1 Street as city crews worked to clear roads. By Sunday December 8 the two state area saw one to four inches melt away with warm temps but officials warned teens ahead as Friday and Saturday forecast to dip. The storm disrupted Midwest roads from the Dakotas to Minnesota and even prompted freeze warnings to El Paso Texas. It set a Colorado Springs record low and was linked to five Oklahoma traffic deaths as Four Seasons Country braces for more Arctic air.
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A-1
Two-State
Dakotas
Minnesota
el Paso
Texas
Colorado Springs
Colo
Oklahoma
Burned Bluefield Drive-In Known As Chicken In The Rough
The Bluefield Drive-In operated for about thirty years under the Chicken In The Rough name with a neon chicken on a bicycle sign and served hamburgers hot dogs fries milk shakes and beverages. It was a teen hangout in its prime with curb service. The building burned in roughly an hour and later demolition was planned.
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Bluefield Drive-In
Steele
Arnold “Nub” Porterfield
Mary Bauguess
Bauguess
Pounding Mill to get expanded post office
Pounding Mill Virginia plans a new 3100 square foot post office on 30000 to 35000 square feet of land across from the quarry and near Claypool Hill. Postmaster Lee Davidson says completion expected in the 1996 97 fiscal year with about 600 boxes and 30 customer spaces.
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Dunding Mill
Pounding Mill
Lee Davidson
Davidson
Pounding Mill Quarry
Claypool Hill
Cedar Bluff
Richlands
Democrats for Underwood founder charged with DUI
Nicholas Corky DeMarco, 48, founder of Democrats for Underwood, was arrested on drunken driving charges in Kanawha County court records show. He allegedly stopped his vehicle Friday after police stopped him for speeding and suspected intoxication.
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ST. Albans
Democrats For
Underwood
Kanawha
Nicholas “Corky” DeMarco
Ette Ee
Arena
C.R. Bedwell
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Cora Brewster Atwell
Eral
Atwell
Dorothy G. Spangler
Zella Sutherland Freedman
Sutherland Cemetery
Haysi
Sarah J. Barton
Honaker Funeral Home
Honaker
Barton
Lillie C
Bill
Tolliver
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Mrs. Hazel Plaster
Richard
Pine Creek
Richardson Family
Kathleen Reedy
Jackson Cemetery
Constance Perkins Farley
Christ United Methodist Church
Low
Cumberland Memorial Gardens
Zelma Fleshman Wilkins
Dudley
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
West Virginia Trust Fund Inc
Thomas A.colley
Melody Kinser
Teddy Paynter
Barbara Hawkins
W.va
Jim Terry
Samantha Perry
Bill Archer
Terri Hale
Tammy Richardson
Randy Sanger
Rhonda Wade Watson
Bobby English
Steve Smith
Mastercard
Visa
Daily Telegraph
Mont
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
National Advertising Rep
Cresmer
Liwaa
Bluefield Monument
Compan
The
Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners
Aces
Greg Cruey
Democrats For Underwood
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
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