Death notices and funerals sweep Bluefield area
Multiple obituaries from Bluefield Princeton and nearby breaks detail deaths of Claude Basil Wall Lester Goelz Bertie Childress Bruce Bailey Jackie Grose Clarence Hilbert Polly Hicks James Sparks Ruby Champ and others with service times at Cravens Shires Hurst Scott and Bennett Widener. Burial plans and visiting hours listed along with survivor names and affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Jackie Ray Grose
Bluewell
Crumpler
Ruth Poe Grose
Paul Ray Grose
Northfork High School
Concord College
Athens
West Virginia College of Graduates
Carl
Evelyn) Adkins
Oak Hill
Cravens- Shires Funeral Home
William Wilson
Woodlawn Memorial Park
American Heart Association
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home
Funeral rites for six Virginians held today
Roscoe Ernest Sparks 76 of Narrows Va Kermit E McGuire 77 of Wardell Va Victor Milton Joe Fletcher of Bristol Tenn Lloyd Meador 26 of Peytona Charlie E Johnson 80 of Jolo and Maudie Presley Owens 67 of Thaxton Va observed with services at various chapels and churches. burials planned at Bradley Cemetery Lindside Greenhills Memory Gardens Lebanon Lone Oak Cemetery Three Forks Presley Family Cemetery and other local plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Lester F. Goelz
Chestnut Street
Chicago
Ill
Christopher and
Elizabeth Goelz
Immanuel Lutheran Church of
Men of Immanuel Lutheran Church
Boy Scouts of America
Bluefield Lions Club
Anna Laura Walker Goelz
Albert Goelz
Sebastian, Fla
Don
Eunice) Cooper
Raymond
Lois) Harmon
Beckley
Joe
Mary) Pruett
Tazewell
Edwin
Mercer Funeral Home
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Sparks
Roscoe Ernest
Narrows
Wolf Creek
McGuire, Kermit E
Wardell
Hurst-Scott Funeral
Richlands
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Fletcher
Victor Milton
Bristol, Tenn
Honaker Funeral Home
Honaker
Russell Memorial Cemetery
Lebanon
Johnson
Charlie E
Jolo
Jesus Church
Bartley
Lone Oak Cemetery
Three Forks
Stamp Act repeal and Mexican oil nationalization in history
Britain repealed the Stamp Act in 1766. In 1938 Mexico asserted control over foreign oil properties on its soil. Caspian seals migrate from the Caspian Sea to colder southern waters in summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Mexico
Caspian Sea
GOP candidates train sights on Terry at Virginia GOP Advance
GOP hopefuls for governor attorney general and lieutenant governor addressed about 1 000 activists at the Republican Advance in Reston focusing attacks on Democratic incumbent Mary Sue Terry. Speakers touted contrasts with Terry and Wilder while outlining agendas on crime education and business policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reston
Mary Sue Terry
Virginia
George Allen
Earle Williams
Northern Virginia
Terry
del. G. Steven Agee
Salem
General Assembly
Henrico County
James Gilmore
L. Douglas Wilder
Wilder
Virginia Retirement System Board
Pension Fund
Williams
Allen
del. Clinton Miller
Shenandoah County
GOP
Republican Party
Miller
Robbie Kilberg
Bush
Donald S. Beyer Jr
Don Beyer
Commonwealth
Mike Farris
Ms. Kilberg
Beyer
Farris
The
Home School Legal Defense Association
Mammotest new weapon in cancer battle
Dr Frederick W Barker promotes Bluefield WV as the first city in the state to offer Mammotest stereotactic needle core biopsy for breast cancer. An open house January 14 at Good Samaritan Surgical Service showcases the new procedure and local expertise to treat breast cancer at home.
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Bluefield
Frederick W. Barker
West Virginia
United States
Barker
Good Samaritan Surgical Service
Cherry Street
Windy Mountain Learning Center In Bluefield
Windy Mountain Learning Center helps high school dropouts earn a GED and work skills in Bluefield. The non profit program, housed in the former Daily Telegraph building, serves 16 to 21 year olds with GED prep, pre employment and lunch programs funded by federal grants and private donations. Civic support funds meals and activities as the center plans to grow from 28 to 85 students this year.
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Bluefield
United States
Windy Mountain Learning Center
Daily Telegraph
Windy Mountain
JPTA
Sandra Graham
Graham
Green Thumb
Kentucky
NAACP Plans Martin Luther King Jr Birthday Celebration in Bluefield
Mercer County NAACP Branch invites the community to a January 16 banquet at 6 p.m. at Greater Mount Zion Pentecostal Church honoring Dr. King. Local youth will lead the program with music and speeches, tickets are 12 dollars with youth tickets at the door.
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Bluefield
Mercer County
NAACP
Martin Luther King, Jr
Ted Curtis
King
Greater Mount Zion
Wright
Naacp Branch
Webster Gil
Also Mentioned on This Page
Claude Basil Wall
Claude Basil
Sonny) Wall
Box
Lorton Lick Road
Princeton
Montcalm
John M. Wall Sr
Ida Bell Brown Wall
General Motors Hydramatic Division
Toledo
Ohio
Sylvania
United Auto Workers
U.S. Army
Jack Wall
John
Ben) Wall Jr
Roy Wall
Sam Wall
Henry
Chick) Wall
Hilda Cleary
Annie Margaret
Sis) Mullin
Lula Mae Cleary Wall
Cheri Louise Wall Zydorczyk
Ruby Barnes
Wilson
N.C
Frances Corner
Bramwell
Mary Gaither
Anita Murphy
Wytheville
Alex Zydorczyk
Cassandra Zydorczyk
Mildred Bleyer
Wall Family Cemetery
Bertie Jean Childress
Breaks
Elkhorn City
Glen and
Easter L. Cantrell Taylor
Breaks Church of Christ
Sammy Childress
Cynthia Swiney
Tammy Childress
Wesley Childress
Vansant
Jeffery Childress
Michael Childress
Roger Taylor
Stacey
Jane Stansbury
Tiffin
Rita Hutchinson
Zetta Looney
Debbie Owens
Harmon
Sam Casebolt
Jerry Edwards
Rick Stiltner
N.B. Col
Bruce C. Bailey
Pinoak
Jamison
Virginia Bailey
Lamar Collier Coal Company
UMWA
Rich Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Tollis Bailey
London Bailey
Bernard Bailey
Clayton Bailey
Thurmond Bailey
Levi
Bailey Funeral Home
Clarence Drayton Hilbert
Newhall
Whitewood
Julia Christian Hilbert
Bandy
Hartwell Church of God
Hartwell
Pocahontas Fuel Corp
Berwind
Walls Creek
Ralph Hilbert
Venus ‘Bea’ Brewster Hilbert
Julia Hilbert Stevens
Abingdon
Daniel Brewster
Bishop, Va
Holiday Altizer
Wayne, Mich
Wilburn Altizer
North Tazewell
Carlie Altizer
Gladys Altizer
Manassas
Lucy Duncan
Cedar Bluff
Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel
Arey Bandy
James Tunnell
Grandview Memory Gardens
Hurst-Scott Funeral Home
Polly Jane Hicks
Maybeury
Oakvale
Bennett-Widener Funeral Home
Northfork
James Edward Sparks
Joseph F
Mary Godbey Sparks
Pansy Armstrong
Middletown
N.Y
Spurgeon Sparks
Greenwood Lake
Jack Sparks
Dale Sparks
Little Ferry
N.J
Joseph F. Sparks
Leroy Sparks
Andy Sparks
Raymond Sparks
Hurst- Scott Funeral Chapel
Bernard Shrader
Sparks-Godbey Family
Raven Nest Branch
Ruby E. Champ
Gayle St
Claude Enicks
Violet Glass Enicks Whittaker
Church of Christ
East Main Street
James E. Champ Sr
James E. Champ Jr
Winston Salem
Mary Ann Hall
Nancy June Champ
Virginia Duncan
Bernard Ericks
Pearisburg
George Erwin
Gary Durham
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
George W. Seaver
West Virginia Daily
Daily
Virginia Pick
Everlasting Monument Co
Courthouse
Peterstown
Colonial Theater
Downtown
Charles Owens
American College of Surgeons
New Orleans
Joy Steele
ANOK
Bluefield Monument
Compan Pany
Danny Lee Blankenship
Yau
Patty & the Blankenship
William H. Peters
Roger Rose
Bellowe
Vineyard Street
W.va
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