Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield 1982
Jay Horne 75 of Belfast Cedar Bluff Va died Friday in Lebanon hospital after a long illness. Survived by wife Irma E Brown Horne five daughters two sons one sister nineteen grandchildren nine great grandchildren. Funeral Monday 2 p.m. Hurst-Scott Richlands Va. burial Brown Family Cemetery. Grandsons pallbearers. A.M. Dorton 75 Coal Mountain Wyoming County retiree mill superintendent died Thursday in Beckley hospital after heart attack. Survived by wife Irene Meyers Dorton and family. funeral details and pallbearers listed. burial Greenhills Memory Gardens. Mrs Dexter LaFon 81 Falls Mills Va died Friday at home after brief illness. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Horne
Jay Albert Horne
Belfast
Cedar Bluff
Lebanon
Buchanan County
Gordon and
Mattie Brown Horne
Jewell Ridge Coal Corp
Jewell Valley
UMWA
Roy
Hallie
Earnest Horne
Irma E. Brown Horne
Jim
Marie) Jackson
Winfred
Louis) Hess
Richlands
McClellan
Evelyn) Horne
Charlie
Maxine) DeBord
Lillie) McGraw
Samford
Fla
Chester Horne
Jewell Ridge
Roger Horne
Lewisburg
Euva McCain
Bedford
Ind
Hurst-Scott
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
A.M
Mack) Dorton
Coal Mountain
Wyoming County
Beckley
Wise County
Joe
Minnie Clendenin Dorton
Georgia-Pacific Lumber Co
Church of Christ
Irene Meyers Dorton
Margaret Thacker
el Paso
Texas
Betty Joe Hamshaw
Gene Dorton
Los Angeles
Calif
Bill Dorton
Paintsville
Bob Dorton
Harold Dorton
Claremont
Kate Cole
Whitewood
Byrd Skeens
East Stone Gap
Dexter
Sallie Daniel) LaFon
Falls Mills
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Bluefield
Price Isom
East 178Th St
Apt
Bronx
N. Y
New York Hospital
Fries
George and
Lizzy Tolbert Isom
Gary
New York
U. S. Steel
Jones Chapel United Holy Church
Freeman
Perry Slaughter
Alvester McConnell
May Moore
Oakwood
Missionary Society of Jones Chapel
Lugo
Bobby J
Dot) Mullins
Pilgrim Knob
Ellen Deel Cole
Leck Cole
Hale Creek
Sammy Sampson
Sammy Hart Sampson
Russell County Medical Center
Russell County
Frank and
Francis Cook Hart
Finney Baptist Church
Larry H. Sykes
Willard
Lorene) Ball
Fred
Gladys) Owens
Honaker
W. W
Jean) Barrett
Russell County Funeral Home
H. G. Musick Jr
W. L. Odum
Russell Memorial Cemetery
Bluefield area notices and obituaries brief list
Mercy bluefield area paper reports multiple obituaries and funeral notices. Edward Lee Phillips Sr. and Price Isom are named among the deceased, with services and burial plans at Mercer Funeral Home Chapel Roselawn Memorial Gardens and Oakwood Cemetery. Additional deaths include Nannie Lula Shufflebarger, Kenneth Perdue, Bobby Mullins, Martin Lester, Ellsworth Downard, French Mounts, Martha Mounts, Velma Nipper, and Mrs. Sampson, with service details in Princeton, Oakvale, Richlands, and Lebanon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer Funeral Home Chapel
Clifford Compton
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Paul Stone
Santa Fe family welcomes long-lost daughter Christina
A mother in Albuquerque confirms her daughter Christina is the child she believed missing. Police say Christina had likely lived in Riverside, California until recently. Mrs Serna describes the joyful reunion and how the family plans a Christmas dinner after sleepless nights filled with well wishers. Christina cherishes a doll as her favorite gift.
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Albuquerque
David Garcia
Riverside
Calif
Christina
Mine Bulldozer Operator Killed In Kentucky Accident
The body of 42 year old Columbus Osborne was found in a railroad coal car at the Ohio River Terminal near Kenova West Virginia early Friday after searchers emptied 27 cars. Osborne worked at Mapco Inc Pontiki No 1 mine and was operating a bulldozer when it fell into a 30 foot hole Thursday at the mine seven miles south of Inez Kentucky.
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Kenova
W.va
Kentucky
Ohio River Terminal
Here
Columbus Osborne
Jay Hinkle
Martin County
Osborne
Mapco Inc
Pontiki No. 1
Inez
Pope John Paul II Delivers Christmas Mass At St Peter's
Pope John Paul II led a midnight Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter's Basilica, praising Jesus birth as bringing a unique power of peace. Thousands attended as the service aired live in 38 countries, though not in Poland for the second year. Earlier the pope shared carols and oplatek with about 3000 Poles at the Vatican.
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Vatican City
John Paul II
St. Peter's Basilica
Jesus
Christendom
Poland
Vatican
John Paul
Teenager who stole to feed family gains deputy sympathy
In Fairview North Carolina deputies empathize with a youth who stole guns and fishing gear to feed his family. He was charged with breaking and entering and larceny felonies. A hospital offers a part time job and officials consider guilt options while a restitution program may apply.
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Fairview
N.C
Buncombe County
Tom Morrissey
Morrissey
Clark Takes First Wheelchair Ride After Artificial Heart
Barney Clark rode in a wheelchair for the first time since his artificial heart was implanted and moved to a room with a Christmas tree in Salt Lake City. Karen Shaffer described plans for a quiet family Christmas attended by her husband Tim and Una Loy Clark. She noted the family faced fears but kept faith as they celebrated Clark's renewed chance at life.
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Salt Lake City
Barney Clark
Karen Shaffer
Tim
Clark
Una Loy
They Were Surprised By Christmas in Reedley
Peggy Amaral and her 15-year-old daughter Angie planned to skip Christmas due to cost but Angie's school friends secretly brought and decorated a 7 foot 2 inch tree in their Reedley home. The gesture impressed Ms. Amaral who works at a convalescent home and praised the students for keeping the Christmas spirit alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reedley
Calif
Peggy Amaral
Angie
Amarals
Ms. Amaral
Magistrate at Scene in Welch Hit and Run Fatality
Welch magistrate David Hunt denied driving the vehicle that struck and killed 68 year old John Kitchen in Welch near Junior Poca early Monday. West Virginia State Police confirmed investigators, with McDowell County sheriff's deputies, are pursuing the hit-and-run case, with evidence from Hunt's car sent to Charleston lab for testing. Hunt said he may have swerved and not a hit-and-run, and he remained at the scene for hours after the incident.
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Welch
McDowell County
David Hunt
Welchman
Corp. C.N
Blizzard
Hunt
Charleston
The
Daily Telegraph
Kitchen
Christmas Flooding and Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma and Illinois
About 100 people were moved to a relief shelter at the Masonic Temple as Salem Illinois prepared evacuation shelters for a mobile home park due to flooding from Town Creek swelling four inches. Tornadoes and high winds struck southern Tulsa Ketchum and Wright City Oklahoma damaging more than 50 homes with Wright City incurring at least 250000 dollars in damage. A Tulsa trailer was overturned leaving a couple and their 1 year old son hospitalized. It marked Oklahoma's first Christmas tornado activity in 15 years with more than three dozen people injured and 11 homes and businesses destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Temple
Salem
Ill
Town
Tulsa
Ketchum
Wright City
Okla
Oklahoma
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
A.M. Dorton
Mrs. Dexter LaFon
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Bland Street
Associated Press
West Virgin
Applcation
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Wesmaster
VO Bee BR
Lander Ann Liles
Edward Phillips
Edward Lee
Slim) Phillips
Luther St
Switchback
Foster Phillips
Bluefield Hardware Co
Lois Doss Phillips
Dorothy Barrett
Gail Taylor
Rocky Gap
Edward Lee Phillips Jr
Daniel M. Phillips
John Wayne Phillips
Kenneth Dale Phillips
Elizabeth Shupe
Mountain City
Tenn
Grover Phillips
Roanoke
Mike Hamm
James Hamm
Jimmy Hamm
Chris Evans
Terry Proffitt
Don Stamper
Price
Isom
Nannie Shufflebarger
Nannie Lula Shufflebarger
Village Green
Moble
Princeton
George W. Seaver Funeral Home
Kenneth Perdue
Kenneth (Rack) Perdue
Oakvale
Riley and
Zara Perdue
Norfolk and Western Railway
Chrysler Corporation
Kimberly Tile Company
Mona Stump
Mary Fields
Sarah Jane Maynard
Columbus
Ohio
Charlie Perdue
Mavisdale
Jack E. Perdue
Bessie Radford
Boyd Perdue
Davis Funeral Chapel
Thomas McClanahan
Mrs
Bobby Mullins
Martin Lester
Martin E. Lester
Hobart
Pocahontas
National Steel Co
Portage Moose Lodge
Indiana Sheriffs Assn
Eula V. Lucas Lester
Jessie Lester
Danny Lester
Marion
Wanda Denney
Delores Lester
Clarence
Billy Lester
Robert Lester
Pageton
Eltonie Haga
Laura Boulings
Nathalie
Rees Funeral Home
Mrs. Ellsworth Downard
Ellsworth F
Tressia Ella) Downard
Shadow Wood Valley Park
Jackson
James and
Tressia Stickler Leach
Donald E. Downard
Roland Gene Downard
San Jose
Roger Lee Downard
Hinton
Jerry Allen Downard
Judith Marlene Carlson
Stillwater
Patricia Anne Mabes
Branton
Florence Vance
Lancaster
Marvale Gilliland
Alice Hall
Audrey Channel
Henry Leach
Athens
Russell Leach
Jolo
Roanoke, Va
Bartley
Lillie W. Mounts
Cromwell, Conn
Ed Mounts
Martha Baker Mounts
Chester
Clayton Mounts
Portland, Conn
Agnes
Joyce Mounts
Portland
Jiggs Edgell
Mack
Andrew Riffe
Michael Vestal
Eddie
Glenda) Arrington
Ray
Wanda) Bishop
Bradshaw
Pearl Beavers
Ruth Mary Faltz
Lexie Zimmerman
Florence, Ky
Ethel Reagan
Birtie Sweeney
Cromwell
Wayne Mounts
Ernest Mounts
Tex
Chester Mounts
Florida
Velma Nipper
Velma Jean Nipper
Kegley
Memorial
United Church of God
Atwell Mountain
Roger Lee Hale
Crockett Hagerman
Lacy Griffith
Atwell Cemetery
James Roberts
Leonard Yates
Johnny Beavers
Mack Riffe Jr
Fanning Funeral Home
Saeger
Spring ST
Bluefield VA
Princeton & Beckley
Pope
Magistrate
Pennsylvania Station
New York City
Danforth Insurance Agency
Bluewell
Industrial Gas
East Bluefield
Mercer Mall
Satan
Devil
Memorial Church of Christ
Christaan
New Hope Road
Penn
Glenn A. Tabor Jr
Merry Christmas
Hearing Aid Service
Wythe Avenue
Our
Honaker Ave
Princeton, WV
National and
West Virginia Funeral Directors Associations
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