Bluefield Panel Praises City Junk Car Clean Up and Health Drive
The Terry Theluefield Citizens Advisory Committee praised Bluefield for removing junked cars from Northside and Cherry Streets and urged continued effort. Members urged ongoing cleanup, supported Red Cross Blood Bank participation, and recommended 200th anniversary events. They also requested HUD project updates on Hill Street Extension and commended street number distribution in East Cumberland Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Theluefield
City of
Bluefield
Cherry Streets
City Hall
Cherry Street
John Holpe
Richard Rouquie
Bernard Farmer
American Red Cross Blood Bank
Farmer
Red Cross
Edwin Elliott
Rouquie
Dan Ashlin
Hill Street
Ashlin
Ted Boggess
Princeton
Boggess
Pasterday
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
East Cumberland Road
Ernie Froye
Feuchtenberger Hospitalized After Stroke At Home
L D Feuchtenberger Sr 78 an official of Betsy Ross Bakeries in Bluefield was reported in serious condition at Bluefield Sanitarium Thursday night after suffering a stroke Wednesday He is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the baking firm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D. Feuchtenberger Sr
Betsy Ross Bakeries
Bluefield
Bluefield Sanitarium
Feuchtenberger
Alcohol Laced Punch Sparks Cookies Confiscated at Rest Home
In Parkersburg West Virginia two volunteers prepared homemade cookies and punch for residents on Christmas Day. The rest home manager confiscated the treats after discovering the punch was heavily laced with alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W.va
Daily Telegraph Publishing Details and Rates
Establishment since 1893 prints daily from 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia. Associated Press member handles news dispatches and local news. Subscriptions listed by carrier mail and motor route with zone pricing and WV coverage. rates subject to change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Telegraph Printing Co
Bland Street
Bluefield
W. V
Associated Press
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulerion
Mathews, Shannon & Cullen Telephone
Burgess Reed Dies After Illness at Panther Home
Burgess Reed 39 of Panther died Thursday at his home after a short illness. He was a disabled miner and Old Regular Baptist Church member. Survived by wife Fannie Lester Reed three sons Larry Teddy Ronald all at home three daughters Stella Teresa and Della Riffe one sister Martha Smith two brothers Elvie Burl Estep Julius Estep and one grandchild. Services 11 a.m. Saturday at Little Dove Church Guesses Fork with multiple ministers officiating. Burial in Riffe Cemetery Ball Creek. Body to be moved from Fanning Funeral Home Jaeger to the residence at 10 a.m. today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett W. Wilson
Emmett William Wilson
Peterstown
Pearisburg
Richlands
James M
Matilda Willis Wilson
American Black Co
Lindside Christian Church
Elsie Wilson
Elose Hill
Vinton
Shirley Ann Robertson
Earl Wilson
Lindside
Clarence Wilson
Beckley
Sarah McCallum
Catherine Brown
Helen Quesenberry
Obie Chambers
Ann Devasher
Juanita Ward
Roanoke
Ruth McDonald
Rich Creek
Alice Rasler
Broyles Funeral Home Chapel
Burgess Reed
Panther
Mike
Polly Reed
Old Regular Baptist Church
Fannie Lester Reed
Larry Reed
Teddy Reed
Ronald Reed
Stella Reed
Teresa Reed
Della Riffe
Martha Smith
Elvie Reed
Burl Estep
Julius Estep
Ararat
Little Dove Church
Guesses Fork
Delbert Justice
Hershel Hurley
Johnny Cline
Claude Conn
Riffe
Ball Creek
Fanning Funeral Home
Jaeger
Funeral services for Mrs Carrie Byers of Anawalt
Mrs Carrie Byers dies after long illness in Welch hospital. Funeral set for Saturday at 1 p.m. at St Marys Pentecostal Holiness Church Anawalt with Elder Jessie Penn and Elder Willie McGhee presiding. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Bluewell. Survived by husband Raymond and numerous stepchildren and grandchildren. Pallbearers named. calling hours at Linkford Richardson Funeral Home and at church before services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Byers
Anawalt
Welch
St. Mary’s Pentecostal Holiness Church
Jessie Penn
Willie McGhee
Oak Grove
Bluewell
Saul
Julia Dotson
McDowell County
Virginia
Raymond Byers
Lois Obey
Jenkin Jones
Ida Mae Woods
Columbus
Ohio
Carolyn Ewings
Lillie Williams
Billie Brand
Cleveland
Ruby Cameron
Detroit
Mich
Willie Byers
Frank Byers
Roy Spriggs
Frank Stigger
Pedro Witten
Alex Stigger
Elijah Pinkard
Henry Dickerson
Harvey Brooks
Missionary Society of the Church
Linkford and Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Mrs Ocie Bailey Rites Held In Bluefield
Mrs. Ocie M. Bailey of Rt. 5 Bluefield died Thursday in a Bluefield hospital after a short illness. Born in Bluefield she was the daughter of Thomas Snow and Willie Oyler Stinson. She was a Greenview United Methodist Church member WSCS. Surviving: husband J Ed Bailey daughter Agatha Worley Jr of Vienna son Gene Edward Bailey Parkersburg two brothers Alton Stinson Orlando Fla Joe Stinson Bluefield Va one sister Mrs Karl Belcher Ingleside five grandchildren three great grandchildren. Services 3 30 p m Saturday at Bluefield Monte Vista Park Cemetery on the old Bluefield Princeton Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred E. Counts
Bartley
Counts
Ezra V
Chloe Grizzle Counts
Aily
West Virginia
McDowell County
Methodist Church
Berwind Lodge
AF & AM
Windhan Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Welch Commandery
Dante
Ina Counts
Goldie Ball
Gearing-Witten
Welch
Chester Hurst
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Berwind Masonic Lodge
Faye Deyerle
Faye Butler Deyerle
Fulton
Silver Spring
Federal Aviation Administration
First Methodist Church
Washington, D. C
Summers County
William K
Ida Butler Peters
Arch
Mary) Hodge
George W. Seaver
Ocie Bailey
Ocie M. Bailey
Rt. 5
Bluefield
Ceres
Thomas Snow
Willie Oyler Stinson
Greenview
Vienna
Gene Edward Bailey
Parkersburg
Alton Stinson
Orlando
Fla
Joe Stinson
Karl Belcher
Ingleside
Hawkins Funeral
Bill Price
Monte Vista Park
Violet S. Pruett 84 Bluefield widow dies after brief illness
Funeral services for Violet S. Pruett 84 of Bluefield are held at 2 p.m. at Greever Funeral Home Tazewell Va with Rev. John Hunt officiating. Burial at Grandview Memorial Gardens Bluefield. Survived by daughter Cecila Margaret Brookman Centerbury Ohio sisters Kitty Linkous and Ida Mae Hall five grandchildren 14 great grandchildren three great great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Violet S. Pruett
Bluefield
Greever Funeral Home
Tazewell
John Hunt
Grandview Memo Gardens
Bluefield-Tazew Road
Cecila Margaret Brookman
Elliston
Kitty Linkous
Centerbury
Ohio
Ida Mae Hall
North Tazewell
Jesse L East obituary notice from Abbs Valley
Jesse Leslie East aged 66 of Abbs Valley Virginia died Thursday in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Rodriguez Home in Pocahontas Virginia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse L. East
Jesse Leslie East
Abbs Valley
Bluefield
Rodriguez Pocahontas Union
Pocahontas
Lawrence S. Penn Rites Set in Philadelphia
Lawrence S. Penn 50 of Philadelphia and formerly of Bluefield died in Philadelphia after a long illness. Survived by Juanita Jackson Penn and three children Thomas L. Penn La verne Penn and Shirley Penn with Otis Penn of Dover as brother. Services 1 p.m. Saturday at G Frank Page Funeral Home Philadelphia with Rev Frank Johnson officiating. Burial Mount Lawn Cemetery Philadelphia. Funeral home tonight.
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Lawrence S. Penn
Philadelphia
Bluefield
Thomas and
Agnes Payne Penn
Mercer County
Juanita Jackson Penn
Thomas L. Penn
Laverne Penn
Shirley Penn
Otis Penn
Dover
Del
G. Frank Page
Frank Johnson
Mount Lawn
Mrs. Cynthia T. Evans, 88, dies in Annapolis visit
Mrs. Cynthia T. Evans of Bluefield, age 88, died Thursday at a granddaughter's home in Annapolis Maryland. Her body remained at Hawkins Funeral Home in Bluefield awaiting services.
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Cynthia T. Evans
Bluefield
Annapolis
Hawkins Funeral Home
Columbia Gas To Cut Service Amid Winter Shortfalls
Columbia Gas System plans curtailment for 15 large industrial customers in the Charleston Huntington area over about 15 days in January and an 18 percent cut for 47 Wheeling area users. The company cites colder weather depleting reserves and aims to protect residential supplies.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Columbia Gas System
leston-Huntington
Wheeling
Statue honors John Henry at tunnel site in Beckley area
Halstead notes delays over John Henry statue completion while Hillsdale Talcott Raritan Club raised 7500 dollars including 500 from Johnny Cash and 3000 from Jim Beam Distillery. The pedestal was built by Halstead in native stone, and locals recall the legend of John Henry drilling the Greenbrier tunnel finished in 1872.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halstead
Hillsdale-Talcott Raritan Club
Johnny Cash
Cash
Big Bend Tunnel
Beckley
Jim Beam Distillery
John Henry
Henry
Big
Greenbrier
Talcott
State Rt. 12
C&o
Soldiers Recall Fallout as Looting Suppressed in Crisis
Spec Steve Buchanan from Fort Hood described aiding a wounded man and evacuating him by helicopter after a gunfight in a city under siege. He also mentioned a boy with three gunshot wounds and expressed resolve to remain. Somoza ordered troops to shoot looters as Nicaraguan forces evacuated civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steve Buchanan
Fort Hood
Sterling, Colo
Booth
Anastasio Somoza
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Junkers
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Samuel L. Mitchem
Samuel Lewis Mitchem
Falls Mills
Rodriguez Pocahontas Union Funeral Home
Ted R. Cook
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield- Tazewell Road
Pageton
Emanuel
Margaret Day Mitchem
Pageton Coal Co
UMW
Irene Griggs Mitchem
Oliver Mitchem
James R. Mitchem
Morgan, Pa
Tunis
Howard
Douglas
Roger Mitchem
Rt. 1
Bobby Mitchem
Roy Mitchem
Penn
Carl Billips
Henry Hartley
Johnny Holleman
Fred Carter
Leon Crockett
Leon Bokish
Brenda Baldwin
Brenda Eugenia Linkford Baldwin
Gary
James Sinkford
Mount Zion Baptist Church
Richardo Antonio Baldwin
Lieguita Maria Baldwin
Dennis Ann Baldwin
Marquinette Ferrell
Richmond
Shellia Hairston
Hartford
C. H. Jackson
H. L. Wade
J. Matthew Coleman
Mozelle Scruggs
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg
Carl Brown
Herbert Brown Jr
William Steptoe
Loyal Brown
James Brown
Raymond M. Banks
Raymond Mansfield Banks Sr
Randolph Terrace
William Lawrence
Minnie Kesner Banks
Streetmann Biscuit Company
Rural Retreat
Grace United Methodist Church
C. Franklin Banks
New York City
Raymond M. Banks Jr
Falls Church
Hawkins Funeral Chapel
Homer Stewart
Speedwell
Albany
Clr
Albu’que
Asheville
Anchorage
Elr
Atlanta
Bismarck
Birmingham
Boston
Buffalo
Charlotte
Chicago
Cincinnati
Denver
Des Moines
Duluth
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Green Bay
Helena
Honolulu
Edy
Houston
Ind
Apolis
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Ed Spokane
Tampa
Washington
Cromer
Lyle Mae
Watertown
Mass
Bramwell
Mercer Funeral Home
William Rhodes
Don Pierce
Richard Painter
Emmett Painter
Don Anello
Paul Gregory
Louis Shelton
Elswick
Calvin
Rt. 4
Cravens-Shires
Millard Williams
Bluefield-Princeton Road
Jimmy Goff
Bobby Sparks
Billy Elswick
Danny Elswick
Angelo Moretto
Kenneth Thompson
Love
Pearl
Big Creek Road
Richlands Presbyterian Church
J. B. Hollenhead
Charles A. Vaughn
Greenhills
A. F. DeBusk
T.E.L
Columbia Gas
Mozinge
Osborne
J. W. and
Matilda Coleman Ratliff
John Henry Osborne
Allen Osborne
Marion, Ky
Larry Osborne
Ralph Osborne
D. J. Abbatello
Virginia Beach
Leona Foreman
Edith Puffenbarger
Robert
Doris) Blackwell
Edward Ratliff
James Ratliff
Indianapolis
Sleep Russell
Veterans Administration
Huntington
Kaiser Aluminum
Ravenswood
Weirton Steel
Weirton
duPont
Belle
Moundsville
Fostoria Glass Co
Cooper
Sis
U.S
Russell Stover Candies
NEW Graham
Virginia Ave
Door Buster
West Bend
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