Obituary notices list James Folks and others in Bluefield area
James Andrew Folks 79 of Rt 1 Bluefield Sandlick died Sunday after long illness. He worked as a carpenter for US Steel in Gary and was a member of United Mine Workers Local 10. Surviving are Ada Marie Sawyers Folks his wife three sons three daughters a brother two sisters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday 3 p.m. Craven Shires Bluewell with burial at Roselawn Princeton. Pallbearers named. Call between 5 and 9 p.m. Monday.
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James Folks
James Andrew Folks
Rt. 1
Bluefield Sandlick
Bluefield
Tazewell
Lee Allison
Anna Belle van Dyke
Winston-Salem
N.C
Ernest J. Folks
Bramwell
Walter L. Folks
Bluewell
Ruth Crawford
Wellsburg
Marie Morris
Dallas
Texas
Becky Barnett
Walter Folks
Princeton
Pearl Halloway
Moundsville
Mary O’buck
Craven Shires Funeral Chapel
Dave Lusk
David Barnett
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
James Clower
Freddie Bailey
Allen Christian
Eddie Lester
Joey Lester
Johnny Caudill
John Trechock
Upland
Welch Hospital
Jack and
Marianna Robert Trechock
St. Mary's
Switchback
Paul
Mary) Semanco
J.H
Pauline) Chow
Galion
Ohio
St. Mary's Orthodox Greek Catholic Church
Elkhorn
John Housty
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Friends
Bennett-Fanning Funeral Home
Northfork
John Pickett
Billy Pickett
Bobby Merdith
James Lane
Tommy Cable
Nick Sernanco
Jimmy Haluski
Don Bowling
James Emmett Phillips
Beaver Pond
Northside
Youngstown
Larry Phillips
Bronx
N.Y
Randolph Phillips
Geneva Rucker
Pauline Hayden
Martha Pullins
Stuart
Henry Phillips
Posey Phillips
Jessie Phillips
Washington, D.C
Calvin Phillips
Madison
Jacob
Jerry
Leonard
Oliver
Clifford Rucker
Richardson Funeral Home
Thomas Barker
Thomas C. Barker
Anawalt
Ash County
Aby
Mary Davis Barker
Mary Roark Barker
Brushfork Baptist Church
State Department of Highways
McDowell County
Amos Barker
Arley Barker
Arlington
Ernest Cook
Elzie Barker
Cal Barker
Lansing
Lester Barker
Lutz
Fla
Craven Shires Funeral Home
Clifford Compton
Grant Akers
Harold Barker
Louis Lunsford
Clyde Lynch
Dan Compton
Ed Akers
Opie Dillon
Opie C. Dillon
Peterstown
Cashmere
Carlos and
Elizabeth Dillon
Pentacostal Holiness Church
Peggy Critchley Dillon
Ruth Dunn
Bluefield News Notice Subscription Rates and Address
Postal line lists Associated Press rights and Bluefield West Virginia mailing details. It notes subscription rates by mail and home delivery, with zones and annual price, and directs readers to post office box 208 for address changes. It includes subscription benefits and a note about the Audit Bureau of Circulation membership.
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Associated Press
Bluefield
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Landon Associates
Funerals list in Bluefield area spreads across multiple families
The funeral notices itemize service details for several regional residents. Thomas Earl Meade 57 at Dry Fork, services in Tazewell. French Mounts 50 in Jolo at United Church of God. Kenneth Cooper 58 in Roderfield Church of God. Price Isom 82 in Freeman. Velma Jean Nipper 48 in Princeton. Dexter Lafon 80 in Bluefield. Oscar Shufflebarger 82 in Princeton. Robert E Landers 90 in Bluefield. William Lee Jarrell 54 in Bluefield. Memorials include Maplewood Cemetery, Oakwood Cemetery, Resthaven Memorial Park, and Monte Vista Park Cemetery with multiple pastors officiating. Pallbearers listed per family. Funeral homes: Peery & St. Clair, Fanning Jaeger, Burns Wornal, Mercer Funeral Home, George W. Seaver.
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Cooper
Kenneth
Effie Eloise
Capels
Roderfield Church of God
Big Sandy
Roger Yates
Joe Banes
Jaeger Memorial Cemetery
Roderfield
Jimmy Steele
Steven Marshall
Michael Carter
Curby Steele
Bob Greene
Darrell Steele
Richard Struggle
Darrell Bishop
Nipper
Charles Henry
Velma Jean
Keyley
Oakwood
Princeton
Leonard Kepass
Memorial Funeral Directory
Athens Road
Shufflebarger
Oscar
Nannie Lola
Village Green
Mobile Home Park
First United Methodist Church of
Charles Scragg
Resthaven Memorial Park
George W. Seaver
Tazewell Man Killed By Auto
Arthur Freeman Deskins of North Tazewell Va died after a hit and run in heavy rain in Kimball. Nancy Jo Varalli of Box 203 Bramwell driver of a 1982 Mercury Cougar remained under investigation. Body sent for autopsy. funeral planned at Peery St Clair Chapel Tuesday at 2 p.m. Interment Maplewood Cemetery. Survivors include wife Wanda Myers Deskins and son Anthony Scott Deskins with several siblings.
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Arthur Freeman Deskins
North Tazewell
Welch Hospital
Kimball
McDowell County Sheriff's Department
D.E. Chittum
Nancy Jo Varalli
Bramwell
Deskins
Chittum
Varalli
State Medical Examiner's
Charleston
Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home
Ted Anders
Dee Brown
Maplewood Cemetery
Doug Hardy
John Marrs
Steve Ross
Luther Freeman Deskins
Walter Howery
Stanley McCann
Tazewell
Patrick J. Deskins
Wanda Myers Deskins
Anthony Scott Deskins
John Deskins
Pat Deskins
Franky Deskins
David Deskins
Lonnie Deskins
Tessie Crabtree
Terissa Hurst
Las Vegas
Nev
Buchanan County Man Wounded
A 22-year-old Buchanan County man Woody Mack Harris of Council was fatally wounded Sunday afternoon at his home. Funeral details were incomplete at Honaker Funeral Home. His survivors include his wife, daughter, sister, and several brothers and his parents.
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Council
Buchanan County
Buchanan County Sheriff's Department
Woody Mack Harris
Sterling E
Ada Tiler Harris
Buchanan County School Board
C.H
Benny Harris
Judy Marie Harris
Lisa Marie Harris
Virginia Boyd
Honaker
Cecil Harris
Rising Sun
Darrell Harris
New Harmony
Ind
Flora Tiller
Honaker Funeral Home
Doctors Studied For Effects Of Aspirin And Vitamin A
Boston AP reports more than 27,000 American physicians will take a daily pill for four years to test if aspirin prevents heart disease or if beta carotene from carrots may reduce cancer risk. The Harvard project, led by Dr. Charles Hennekens, uses placebos and blinding so doctors and researchers do not know who gets what. Results will reveal potential benefits or lack thereof for aspirin and carotene.
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Boston
United States
Charles Hennekens
Harvard Medical School
Artificial heart recipient counts Christmas milestone
Barney Clark resting after a very active Christmas at University of Utah Medical Center following implantation of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart on December 2. Doctors report he remains serious but stable, with whirring pumps and brief moments of responsiveness amid periods of confusion.
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Salt Lake City
Barney Clark
Clark
William DeVries
Lyle Joyce
University of Utah Medical Center
John Dwan
DeVries
Seattle
Dwan
Joyce
Santa
Homelessness spreads as cities try to shelter families
As homelessness grows across the nation, cities from Phoenix to Indianapolis seek beds and shelters. San Francisco considers repurposing port buildings. Portland allocates 65,000 dollars for families with children. Arlington spends 18,000 on motel space. Kentucky launches 1.5 million Project Warmup to fund emergency centers. Indianapolis reports families doubling up at a 30-bed Salvation Army shelter.
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Denver
California
Phoenix
Maj
Bruce Harvey
Salvation Army
Houston
U.S.A
San Jose
Calif
Guadalupe River
San Francisco
Portland
Arlington
Tucson
Indianapolis
Army
Howard Green
Friendly Ransom Demand Fulfilled Teddy Bear Kidnapping
In Fernie British Columbia pranksters abducted a four foot tall RCMP teddy bear mascot during a Christmas party and demanded a 1000 donation to the Salvation Army. The campaign raised 1900 and the bear was returned. a City Council member was named as an abductor. Lt. Mary Wise praised the effort saying it saved the year’s fundraising and exceeded last year’s quota.
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Fernie, British Columbia
British Columbia
Salvation Army Christmas Fund
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Mary Wise
Salvation Army
Seven Die In Centerville Fire Killing Five Children
In Centerville Illinois a one story home fire late Saturday night killed seven people including five children aged 2 to 10 who were staying with their grandmother for Christmas. Adults Samuel Adell 60 Antonio Carril 10 Larry Stanberry 5 Franco Carril 2 and Artent Morgan 79 died. Authorities said the children likely sheltered in the living room and became disoriented by smoke. The medical examiner identified the victims and noted where each was found.
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Centerville
Ill
St. Clair County
James Radden
Monica Thomas
Luuna Carril
Sam Adell
Antonio Carril
Larry Stanberry
Franco Carril
Artent Morgan
Bluefield Man Shot Over Parking Dispute
Kenneth Lee Hurt, 25, of 228 Randolph Terrace, was shot by neighbor William Otto Farmer, 81, during an argument over parking at 4:38 p.m. near Hurt’s home. Hurt remained in stable condition after surgery at Bluefield Community Hospital. Farmer was charged with felonious assault, bond set at $500, and case referred to Magistrate Mike Flanigan.
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Bluefield
Bluefield Community Hospital
Karmer
Mike Flanigan
BCH
Hurt
W.T. Jones
Trial details emerge in Sadat assassination case
Explosion doctors examine the defendants and a jurist investigates alleged torture incidents. Prosecutors deny the allegations, saying the prisoners mutinied. Indictment names Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman as ringleader and Lt. Col. Abboud el-Zemar as another leading defendant among 24. Five were executed in April, seventeen jailed long term.
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al- Jihad
Omar Abdel-Rahman
Abboud el-Zemar
Wag
Abdel-Rahman
el- Zomar
Sadat
Army
Khaled al-Islambouly
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Tockland Pentacostal Holiness Church
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Greenhills Memory Gardens
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Ernie Ward
Robert Deel
Grundy Funeral Home
Eliza Tiller
Eliza Henritze Tiller
Parsons St
St. Albans
Putnam County
Welch
Western Electric Co
Ermel and Welch Henritze Jr
Caldorph and Curry Funeral Home
Don Mash
Truman W. Potter
Roselawn
Marion
Callie Gatewood
Callie Woody Gatewood
Keystone
Jack McKamey
Jack B
Dorothy Shelton) McKamey
Knoxville
Tenn
Charles
Wanda) Bradley
Blurfiris Barig Leirgraph
Jarrell
William Lee
Holly Hills Estates
Mercer Funeral Home Chapel
Charles G. Dooley
Grandview Memory Gardens
Harold Blevins
Charlie Davis
Walter
Bud) Davis
Gordon Lane
William Leftwich
Gale Anderson
Industrial Gas & Supply
East Bluefield
Mercer Mall
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Veterans Administration
Danforth Insurance Agency
Tachment
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Meyer
Charleston National Plaza
Stephen P. Meyer
Paul S. Perfater
Warrenizing Cleaners
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