Deaths and funerals in Bluefield and area
Woodrow Bailey 62 of Bluefield Route 2 died at home after WWII service and work for Norfolk & Western. Survivors include wife Bonnie and multiple siblings and grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at Caffee Memorial Christian Church with burial at Roselawn Princeton. Londo Gross 74 of Bramwell died at Welch hospital. Survivors include wife Ruth and children. funeral Tuesday at Cravens-Shires Bluewell with burial at Woodlawn Bluewell. Memorials to Alzheimer’s or Bramwell Presbyterian. Additional obituaries note Maxine Asbury 54 of Cedar Bluff. Louis Loos 33 of Pocahontas. Manuel Brown 74 of Northfork. Fred Tickle Jr. 41 of Bland County. Mayme Morehead 83 of Jacksonville, Mo.. Anna Quesenberry 62 of Newhall. Juanita Coleman 56 of Jolo. Mrs. John Ratcliffe 96 of Bluefield. Arthur Cox 80 of Bluefield. Lillian Shumaker 83 of Portsmouth. Cosimo Serge 63 of Worth. Each entry lists survivors and funeral details.
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Woodrow W. Bailey
Woodrow Wilson
Chick’’ Bailey
Bluefield
Basil Jennings
Nettie Hartwell Bailey
Caffee Memorial Christian Church
Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
Norfolk & Western Railway
Bonnie Belcher Bailey
Betty Yvonne Sanginario
Fred Toney
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Mercer Funeral Home
Londo Edward Gross
Londo
Edward Gross
Box 2
Bramwell
Welch Hospital
Albino I. Gross
Isabella Peraldo Gross
Bramwell Presbyterian Church
Ruth Mahaffey Gross
L.E. Gross Jr
Treasure Island
Fla
Daugher
Kay Gross Asbury
Richmond
C.N. Gross
Richmand
Washington
Kimberly and
Clay Asbury
Cravens-Shires Funeral Chapel
Bluewell
C.H. Patterson
Ansley Carter
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Don Anello
Alzheimer’s Foundation
Maxine Asbury
Baptist Valley
Cedar Bluff
Richlands
Tazewell County
Elizabeth Tabor Rasnick
Ed Rasnick
Asbury
United Methodist Church
West End Church of Christ
Jasper Asbury
Lee Jeanie Christian
Joan Pruett
Kingsport
Tenn
Amy Brooks
North Tazewell
Jerry
Jimmy Asbury
Doug Rasnick
Michael Rasnick
Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel
Kenneth Fields
Greenhills
Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Manuel Brown
Northfork
Elkridge
Beckley
Charles and
Callie Black Brown
Northfork High School
Bluefield State Teachers College
Mount Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church
Algoma
UMWA
Ella Mae Brown
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg Road
Sandy River District
American Legion
Bradshaw
Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Fred Lemuel Tickle Jr
Bland County
Abingdon
Virginia D. Tickle
Bland
Beth Tickle
Wytheville
Jennifer Warden
Larry K. Tickle
Waynesboro
Linwood
Kenneth Tickle
Newberry Funeral Home
Bob Hendren
Bland Cemetery
Juanita Rife Coleman
Jolo
Asheboro
N.C
Sheila Keaton
Sophia
Marcus Rife
Luke Proffitt
Brunswick
Maine
Ricky Hagg
New Hampshire
Willard Rife
Anthony Rife
Bastian
Mearlene Rose
Saeger
Roas Bailey
Lucy Cantrell
Alexandria
Thelma Cline
Rocky Gap
Marie Hagg
Community Holiness Church
Jewell Ridge
Billy Ward
McGinnis Rife
Freddie Dobbs
Rife Cemetery
Buchanan County Funeral Home
Keen Mountain
John A. Ratcliffe
John A
Lillian) Ratcliffe
Virginia Ave
Smythe County
Roland Hopkins
Mary McClure Hopkins
Graham Christian Church
Golden Age Club
Thomas A. Ratcliffe
Etta Mae Tabor
Falls Mills
Fannie Haga
Josie Blevins
Chilhowie
Dudley Memorial Chapel
W. Donald Weaver
Maple Hills Cemetery
Arthur Cox
Walton Ave
Russell County
Emanuel
Edie Mash Cox
Bluefield Supply Co
Dixie Appliance Co
Trinity United Methodist Church
Ollie Mae Cox
Ralph Cox
Newport News
George H. Cox
Mandy Cox
Belfast
Lula Fogelman
Honaker
Gracie Lawson
Tazewell
Charlie Cox
George W. Seaver
Lillian Driscoll Shumaker
Portsmouth
United Church of Christ
Mary Driscoll
Gladys Harvey
William and
Paul Driscoll
Roanoke
Norma S. Jeannette
American Heart Association
Funerals Listed for Area Residents in West Virginia Death Notices
A long list of funeral services and burials is reported for residents of Princeton Bluefield and surrounding towns. It notes services today at multiple chapels including Mercer Funeral Home and Memorial Funeral Directory with burial at Resthaven Grandview and other local cemeteries. The seagoing ferry Princess Victoria sank off Northern Ireland in 1953 killing 132 people.
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Davis
Beulah M
Route 1
Maple Acres
Princeton
Mercer Funeral Home Chapel
Bluefield
Charlie G. Dooley
Grandview Memory Gardens
Wright
Edwin G
Mercer Funeral Home
James R. Denney
Ronnie Smith
Monte Vista Park
Gilley
Catherine
Lark Drive
Columbus
Ohio
Matoaka
Memorial Funeral Directory
Athens Road
David Adams
Resthaven Memorial Park
Henegar
Thurman Kenneth
Bishop
Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel
Tazewell
Ted Anders
Curtis Shrader
Leon Yost
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Northern Ireland
Road bypass funding and timeline face uncertainty
Road funds extend into 1987 with construction likely starting next spring. Contractors favor March to December work, suggesting the bypass may gain spring funding but not finish until 1990. Bluefield bypass not in the department’s five year plan, yet new road funds create optimism for at least two lanes completion.
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Bluefield
Tax law shifts tax rate for minors under fourteen
The article explains that under new tax laws minors under age 14 earning over 1000 dollars in a calendar year will be taxed at their parents or guardians rate, higher than the child rate. It notes Biggs advised guardians to sell high income stocks to keep total income at or below 1000 and reinvest gains in tax exempt bonds or growth stocks with low or no dividends.
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Biggs
Health progress lowers infant mortality from 13.8 to nine
Provisional 1984 data show infant death rate at 10.6 per 1000 live births, with only a small drop in low birth weight babies. Report notes two thirds of infant deaths were underweight at birth, reflecting persistent risk factors despite improvements.
Singer Boy George friend dies in suspected overdose
In London a 20 year old man, Mark Golding, died after a suspected methadone overdose. He had been arrested with pop singer Boy George a day earlier in connection with a possible drug offense. Police say there is no foul play. Golding died at St Marys Hospital Paddington. autopsy not yet arranged. George was at his Hampstead home several miles away.
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London
Boy George
Mark Golding
St. Mary’s Hospital
Paddington
Scotland Yard
Golding
Hampstead
Hall says he joined American foreign legion
Sam Hall, arrested on espionage charges in Nicaragua, claims to be the sole remaining member of a private 1984 formed American foreign legion called the Phoenix Battalion. He spoke on CBS 60 Minutes from a Sandinista prison in Managua and denied ties to the CIA or NSC. Congress probes possible agency aid to Contra rebels. battalion once had 540 members. Hall says invitation to start was at a Pentagon event on November 28, 1984, but won’t name the inviter.
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New York
Sam Hall
Nicaragua
American Foreign Legion
U.S
CBS News
60 Minutes
Hall
Managua
Phoenix Battalion
CIA
National Security Council
Congress
Pentagon
Immunity debate lingers as Bush slips in polls 1988 run
Sunday reports show Vice President George Bush losing ground in Republican presidential poll standings amid Iran arms crisis. Senate leader Bob Dole gains, while National Security Council restructuring aims to heighten policy coordination under Frank Carlucci. CIA Director William Casey remains in stable condition after brain tumor surgery and seizure delay.
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George Bush
Roper Organization
U.S. News & World Report
CNN
Des Moines Register
Iowa
Bush
Senate
Bob Dole
National Security Council
Frank C. Carlucci
White House
Council
Carlucci
CIA
William Casey
Georgetown University Hospital
Casey
Iran
Dutch Marines Free Hostages After Train Siege in 1977
In 1977 Dutch marines assaulted a train seized by South Moluccan terrorists, freeing 49 of 51 hostages. Two hostages were killed and six terrorists died in the operation, marking a defiant end to the hostage crisis.
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Netherlands
Chinese officials lose patience with students in Shanghai
Authorities urged thousands of student demonstrators to clear the streets as days of protests tested Shanghai’s tolerance. By midnight 10,000 to 15,000 students remained in a cordoned area at People’s Square while police blocked access near City Hall. Xinhua described the demonstrations as disrupting traffic and social order.
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Shanghai
China
People’s Square
Bund
Xinhua
Also Mentioned on This Page
Louis Joseph Loos
Box 315
Pocahontas
West Virginia
Helen Loos
Tele-Scrips Cable Co
J-104
Horsepen Church of Christ
Horsepen
Center of Christian Action
Diana Jean Bowman Soos
Jason Lou Soos
Brandom Joshua Soos
Rose Soos
Charles Sublette
Bob Hogan
Grandview Cemetery
Rodriguez Chapel
Mayme G. Morehead
Jacksonville
Moberly
Anna Quesenberry
Newhall
Welch
Douglas Funeral Home
War
Cosimo Serge
Cosimo ‘‘Coco”’ Serge
Worth
Bennett-Widener Funeral Home
Roberts
Elbert
Lashmeet
Bailey Funeral Chapel
L.A. Farmer
Clarence Fink
Resthaven Cemetery
Gaughan
Francis Russell
Flat Top
Star Route
T. Mathew Bough
Barnhart
Kermit Richard
Honaker Funeral Home
Clyde Lambert
Ketron Memorial Gardens
Lebanon
Childress
Jessie Willie
Oakwood
Charles Davidson
Ancil Childress
McGlothlin
Youngs Branch
Thompson
James R
Wood St
Memorial
David Barnett
Shrader
Herbert McKinley
Wilkinson
Speedway Christian Community Church
Larry Dyer
Billings
Cathy Mae
Kegley
Keith Farley
Dale Mills
Green Valley
Bowers
Nora M
Sixth St
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Porter Cordle
Greenhills Memory Gardens
White
James McCoy
Mount Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
David L. Smith
Singer
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Bluefield Ave
W.va
Princeton Bureau
Edwin M. Freakley
Thomas A. Colley
Jim Terry
Linda M. Osborne
Lewis B. Spence
Patsy P. Malamisura
Mike Blanton
Carl H. Meade, Jr
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
National Advertising Rep
London Associates
D&s
A.P.R
Princeton-Mullens-Bluefield
Steve Land
All Furs
Thelma Mitchell
Merry Christmas
Hamptons Market
WV & VA
Cag
Christmas Apples
Roman Beauty
Johnson Stayman, Winesap
Red & Golden Delicious
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