Obituaries from Bluefield area on December 23 1982
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists a long obituaries page noting the deaths of Mrs. Stella Kowaleski of Maybeury and Mrs. Ollie Mullins of Saeger among others. It records survivors, churches, and funeral details including services at Sacred Heart Church Powatan and Fanning Funeral Home Saeger, with burial plans and visiting hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Manessa
Stanley Groski
Sacred Heart Catholic Church of
Powatan
Maybeury
Switchback
Gary
Cause Undetermined In Pipestem Blaze
Fire at Pipestem State Park administration building caused about 100000 in damage Tuesday morning. Fire investigator to appraise wreckage to determine the cause as park officials plan temporary offices in the clubhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pipestemn
Pipestern State Park Administration
Douglas Ritchey
Pipestem Volunteer Fire Department
Fire Department
Hinton
Athens
Park
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Publisher and contact note
Bluefield Daily Telegraph details its city, year of establishment, address at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia 24701 and mailing box 208, subscription and advertising information including rates and Bureau memberships. The notice notes Associated Press rights and Audit Bureau of Circulation participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
Associated Press
W.va
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
P.O. Box 208
Landon Associates
Mall Spokesman Denies Barred JA Booth at Mercer Mall
A Mercer Mall spokesman rejected a Telegraph report that county Junior Achievement groups were denied a booth for the holiday season. He said JA declined space offered near Sears, and that a main concourse booth was not allowed during peak shopping but would be possible after the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer Mall
Sears
Telegraph
JA Group
Hills
Green Valley
Letters About Tazewell County Animal Shelter Controversy
The Telegraph published letters from Tazewell County residents alleging improper operation of the county animal shelter. Follow up stories and editorials expanded the controversy, highlighting community concerns and calls for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telegraph
Tazewell County
Funerals Scheduled for GRAVES ARCHER Leonard Jr and Others
Funeral services planned today for GRAVES Archer Leonard Jr 68 of St. Petersburg Fla formerly of Montcalm at 2 p m in George W Seaver Funeral Chapel Princeton with Rev Roy Knight officiating. Vista Park Cemetery Green Valley. Also John Kitchen 69 of Junior Poca near Welch to be buried at Lee Family Cemetery Johnnycake near Saeger after 1 p m service at Fanning Funeral Home Saeger. Willard Lee Green 38 of Hemphill funeral at 11 a m with Rev Morgan Belcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eli
Ollie Jane) Mullins
Saeger
Welch
Slate
Wallace
Rebecca Addair Horne
Freewill Baptist Church
Ikes Fork
Wayne
Clara) Lester
Ashland
Woodrow
Willie) Trail
J.E
Helen) Morgan
Hanover
J.C. Mullins Sr
Bluefield
Mary Keen
Pilgrim Knob
Susie Riffe
Lanesville
Ind
Martha Justice
Pikeville
Pearl Maynard
Belle
Beulah Justice
Trace Fork
Freela Dempsey
Columbus
Ohio
Jerry Runyon
Sharples
Wallace Horne Jr
Chapmanville
Bobby Horne
Massillon
Fanning Fuenral Home
Edgar Riffe
Virgil Akers
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Bluefield-Princeton Road
C.Q. Bingham
C.Q
Eloise) Bingham
Park Ave
Princeton
Pocahontas County
Walter and
Josephine Gay Mann
First Christian Church of
Elkins
Robert
Helen) Cramer
Charleston
C.W. Bingham
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
George
Nancy) Burnette
Palatka
George W. Seaver
Richard Flowers
Oakwood Park
John Thomas
Ray Eades
Ruben Hawks
Dover Jackson
Fred Cook
Cyrus Buckley
Cecil William Alford
Athens Road
Robert Lee
Mary Lee Ogle Alford
Melrose Presbyterian Church
Shirley Ann Higginbotham
Calvin Ray Peake
Katherine Tiller Alford
Thomas
Jack
Ronald
Charles
Paul Alford
Linda) Witt
Beckley
Mark
Brenda) Lippincott
Pat Higginbotham
Carl Alford
Lester Alford
New York
N.Y
Myrtle Dunn
Robert Belcher
Paul Bohn
Maude Marie Craft
Wyoming County
John
Mary Farley
Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witnesses Church
Fanning Funeral Home
Ralph Null
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Bluewell
Earl Sprinkle
Earl E. Sprinkle
Lewis and Clark Blvd
St. Louis
Verdun Heights
Groseclose
Walter R
Lana Hicks Sprinkle
Appalachian Power Co
Bland Street
Ruby Luck Sprinkle
Spencer T. Branham
Bernard
Hazel) Wills
Earl
Alverta) Fry Sr
Willie Dole
Radford
Aussie Astley
Richmond
Fred Sprinkle
Fall Brook
Calif
Carl Sprinkle
Long Beach
Frank Sprinkle
South Port
S.C
Walter Sprinkle
Atlanta
Mercer Funeral Home
D. Keith Clarke
Monte Vista Park
Harry Tyree
Carl Dunn
Gordon Douglas
C.N. Rudolph
Bruce Walk
Cecil Bond
Hazel Wills
Union Street
Tazie Belcher
Tazie F
Bertha) Belcher
Cleveland
Bristol
Carl Wilson
Lebanon
Dan Plank
Johnson City
Russell Memorial
Charles Morgan Bales Jr
Pearisburg
Nannie Morris Bales
Charles M. Bales Sr
Mary J. Bales
Edwin
Carolyn) Martin
Everette Lee Neel
Newport News
Sam
Ivan
Jim Bales
Graham Bales
Red Sulphur
Tommy Bales
West Point
Neb
Givens
Jim Fisher
Birchlawn
Wazzennia Gorsky
Wazzennia
Dean' Gorsky
Eckman
Melvin
Susie Ford Parks
Keystone Smokehouse
Rita Denise Gorsky
Johnny Gorsky
Martinsville
Bennett-Fanning
Northfork
Johnny Gray
Arthur Lee Surratt
Plantation Rd
Roanoke
Oakvale
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home
Johnnie Mize
Barren Springs
William and
Mary Elizabeth Fleming Surratt
Church of God of Prophecy
UMWA
Amlhurst Coal Co
Logan
Effie Lena Surratt
Roy
Kenneth Surratt
Lakeland
Raymond
Graves
Archer Leonard, Jr
St. Petersburg
Montcalm
Roy Knight
Green Valley
Kitchen
Junior Poca
Chapel of Fanning Funeral Home
Lee Family
Johnnycake
Miner-turned-police officer seeks work amid layoffs
Anderson, a former U S Steel mechanic of 17 years, joined the police four years ago and now faces a June-like crisis as unemployment benefits and health insurance near expiration. He drives 300 miles weekly in search of jobs, noting patrol vacancies in Dade County Florida and fearing a pension delay until age 55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
U.S. Steel
Dade County
Florida
Gary
Community policing debates in Northfork and Kimball
Presley in Anawalt notes elderly population and seeks help as volunteers could boost police when needed. Northfork city clerk cites two volunteers for emergencies while three full and three part time officers cover the town. Kimball police say volunteers aren’t used yet and discuss potential 32 hour week amid WIN Program funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presley
Anawalt
Northfork
Jackie Roller
Kimball
Ronald Billings
WIN
Welfare Department
Princeton Acme Market Closes After Years of Trouble
The Acme Market on Main Street in Princeton shut down Tuesday after years of economic problems. About 30 employees remain unemployed, with the company offering continued assistance. The store opened in 1959 and was rebuilt after a 1967 fire. Investigations and investor interest are noted, with no final property disposition yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Acme
Main Street
Virginia
West Virginia
World's Fair profit falls far short of prediction
The Knoxville World’s Fair will close with a profit under 500000, far below the 5 million forecast, blamed on high interest rates and inflation. The report notes Soviet progress in Afghanistan remains minimal despite 105000 troops, with 5000 dead and 5k-10k more wounded or ill. Jerry Lewis recovered after heart irregularities during surgery, while the U S Postal Service reports Christmas mail volume up 2.4 percent to 1.7 billion pieces through December 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
Las Vegas
Nev
Jerry Lewis
Lewis
U.S. Postal Service
Surinam Families Allege Torture and Execution
Families of 15 prominent citizens slain by Surinamese military police allege torture before execution. The victims, advocates of free elections and multi party politics, were rounded up by military police and army before dawn on December 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramaribo
Surinam
Desi Bouterse
Massive Western Power Outage Hits California and West
A large scale blackout left at least one million customers without power across storm battered California, Arizona, and Nevada. Reports extended to Las Vegas with lines from Northern California to the Mexican border affected. Utility officials blamed a Pacific Intertie problem as engineers investigate the outage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California
Arizona
Nevada
Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada Power & Light
Mexican
Allen Thompson
National Weather Service
The
Weather Service
Pacific Intertie
Two Hurt In Wreck Near Mercer Mall
Donald L. Stone and Norma Stone, both 48, listed in stable condition at Princeton Community Hospital ICU after a Monday morning collision on U S Route 460 near Mercer Mall. The Stones were in a 1982 Ford pickup hit by a 1978 Mack truck driven by Ronnie Alton Pack, 38, of City View Estates Princeton. Police await accident report from Trooper S E Pennington as details remain unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer Mall
Princeton Community Hospital
Donald L. Stone
Norma Stone
Ronnie Alton Pack
City View Estates
Princeton
Christmas Program At Mill Creek Missionary Baptist
The Mill Creek Missionary Baptist Sunday School will stage its annual Christmas program on Friday December 24 at 6 PM. Sunday School members will present a carol service in three parts The Light Revealed The Light Received and The Light Rev. T B Hamlin is pastor of the church.
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Mill Creek
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William Kowaleski
William
Stella) Kowaleski
Wanda Ann) Ferrell
Bobby” Kowaleski
Stanley Kowaleski
Alex Groski
Chicago
Ill
Lexie
Wanda) Wargo
Detroit
Mich
Geneva Groski
Emerson
Sophia) Holland
Holland
Alton
Helen) Phillips
Annie Pearson
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Ronald A. Getsinger
Bennett-Fanning Funeral
Mrs
Eli Mullins
Ernestine Mullins
Ernestine Compton Mullins
Whitewood
Buchanan County
Cecil Alford
James Phillips
James E. Phillips
Beaver Pond
Richardson
C.S. Davis
C.S
Arra) Davis
College Ave
Keith Clark
Funeral
Charles Bales Jr
Arthur Surratt
William Jarrell
William L. Jarrell
Holly Hills Estates
U.S
Supreme Court
Danforth Insurance Agency
Biueweis
Industrial Gas
East Bluefield
Wva
Jones
Bluefield Ave
American Cancer Society
Yogesh Chand
ST. Lukes
HigHway 460
Southview Dr
Bluefield, W. Va
Knoxville, Tenn
Treva Miller
AVON
Antiques Plaza
Roller Floral Co
Princeton & Beckley
Chanel
Medical Arts Pharmacy
Cherry ST
Bluefield, W.va
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