Memorial services postponed by weather at First Baptist Princeton
Obituary notices list multiple deaths with Jan 27 to Jan 28 dates including James Hanks 47 of Princeton Dolores Hawthorne 83 Morgantown Claude Piercy 65 Princeton Frances Poff 77 Princeton Tackett 65 Bluefield and Emory White 87 Mullens. Funeral arrangements vary with incomplete details. services announced or pending at Cravens Shires Duglas Mortuary Seaver Funeral Home and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Edward Robertson
First Baptist Church
Princeton
James Hanks
Rt. 6
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Pauline Hawthorne
Morgantown
Welch
Mon Pointe
Duglas Mortuary
Claude M. Piercy
Hummingbird Ave
Princeton Community Hospital
Memorial
Frances Ruth Poff
Thornton Ave
Patton Franklin Tackett
Bluefield
McDowell County
Columbia St. Lukes Hospital
Douglas
Funerals Today Include Six Services Across Princetons and Pearisburg
Funeral services are scheduled for Faye McClung Allen at George W. Seaver Chapel Princeton at 1 p.m. and Eva McKenzie Brown at 11 a.m. with entombment at Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Jean Casey will be laid to rest at Greenhills Memory Gardens in Claypool Hill at 2 p.m. Emma Bell Collier hosts a 11 a.m. service at Mercer Funeral Home in Bluefield with burial at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, and Stella Morehead Elmore holds a 4 p.m. service at Givens Funeral Home Pearisburg. Burial at Resthaven Park Cemetery for Richard C. Bearre in Welch follows his 1 p.m. service. Burial for Ruth Cooper at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Princeton also at 1 p.m. Burial details for George W. Seaver and others appear in local notices.
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William H. Bowyer
Bluefield
Union
Heaven's Angels
Jesus
Mary Catherine
Links Grove
Earnest Shields
Julia Ratliff Bowyer
United States Army
Charleston
S.C
Smiley Barracks
Karlshrue
Germany
New Lebanon A. R. P
Helen Wilson
Dennis
Christopher Fisher
Mary Catherine Brooks Bowyer
Sheila Fisher Kline
Barry
Linda Caywood
Princeton
William H. Bowyer Jr
Bremerton
Wash
Jerry Fisher
Hope
Wilkes-Barre
Jay Caywood
Jeff Caywood
Romy
Leslie Marie Bowyer
James Bowyer
Fairlea
Richard Bowyer
Hoover Bowyer
Lewisburg
George Bowyer
Austin
Texas
Mabel Tolley
Gap Mills
Mary Brooks
Ruth Tuzzolino
Schenectady
Wis
Eva Reed
Peterstown
Margaret Roach
Rainelle
Adel Qualls
Alderson
John N. Caywood
Lori Gadd Bowyer
Gerald R. Fisher
Wilkes- Barre
Nellie Jane Kirk
Elizabethton
Tenn
Nellie Jane Pate Kirk
Gap Creek Road
Tazewell
Sprint
Pinecrest Baptist Church
Beryl Pate Jr
Bobby Pate
Donald Kirk
Jeffrey Reed
Johnson City
Randy Kirk
Gallatin
Fla
Margaret Manning
Ruth Stephens
Jonesborough
Hazel van Huss
Mamie Pate
Memorial Funeral Chapel
Grant Long
Hugh Hatfield
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Vernella Jane Knea
Bennett- Widener Funeral Home
Kimball
Ryan Patrick Overstreet
Church of God
Wilcoe
Gary
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Bluewell
Alfred “Rabbit” Ramsey
West and Sons Funeral Home
White Gate
Mt. Field Cemetery
Hollybrook
Mary Elizabeth Roberts
Fanning Funeral Home
Saeger
Saeger Memorial Cemetery
Roderfield
Edith J
Rodriguez Pocahontas Funeral Home
Pocahontas
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Mausoleum
Evelyn Amerson Tutwiler
First Baptist Church
Welch
Faye McClung Allen
George W. Seaver
Seaver
Resthaven Park
Richard C. Bearre
Fanning
Jean Casey
Honaker
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Emma Bell Collier
Mercer Funeral Home
Virginia Ruth Cooper
Burns Wornal
Stella Morehead Elmore
Givens
Pearisburg
Underwood plan to tap tobacco funds meets Senate challenge
West Virginia state Sen. John Pat Fanning calls Gov. Cecil H. Underwood’s plan to use tobacco settlement proceeds as supplemental funding for Welch Emergency Hospital a scheme. He warns it risks hospital services in McDowell County while the administration calls it a proposal for debate in the budget process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WELCH
Cecil H. Underwood
John Pat Fanning
McDowell
Fanning
Joe Markus
Underwood
McDowell County
Rod Blackstone
Blackstone
Sen
Senator Fanning
West Virginia
Parks & Recreation to Meet at Gary City Hall
Gary McDowell Board of Parks and Recreation will hold its annual county fair vendors meeting at the Gary City Hall Community Room at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Vendors who wish to participate should attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parks & Recreation
Gary City Hall
Gary — McDowell
Bluefield College to hold used computer sale
Bluefield College in Virginia will host a two day sale of used PC compatible hardware in Shott Hall Rooms A and B. Items include 486 CPUs monitors boards memory and drives and cost ten dollars or less each. Sale runs Friday Feb 4 from 5 to 9 pm and Saturday Feb 5 from 8 am to noon with as is no refunds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Bluefield College
Shott Hall
BC Office of Public Relations
Mount Rogers Planning District Meeting Set for Thursday
MARION Va The Mount Rogers Planning District Commission Executive Committee will convene at 7 p.m. Thursday in the MRPDC conference room at 1021 Terrace Drive. BLUEFIELD The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the Youth Center on Stadium Drive Thursday from noon to 6 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Mount Rogers Planning District Commission Executive Committee
MRPDC
Terrace Drive
Youth Center
Bluefield
American Red Cross
Stadium Drive
Candidates file in Mercer County races and statewide primary pacts
Primary candidates must file by midnight. Anita Skeens Caldwell posted her candidacy in Charleston for the four county race. Homer Ball and Norris Kantor already filed for the Democratic nomination for District 10 Senate. Mercer County Circuit Clerk’s Office offers Saturday hours for on-site filings. State offices remain open for regional and national delegate filings. Six West Virginia primary contenders filed for president, including Bill Bradley, Al Gore, and John McCain. Byrd seeks re-election with no challengers on the Democratic side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Mercer County Board of Education
Secretary of State
Charleston
Mercer County
Anita Skeens Caldwell
Daily Telegraph
Homer Ball
Athens
Bluefield
Norris Kantor
Circuit Clerk
Timm Boggess
House of Delegates
Michael McReynolds
Richard “Rick” Fowler
Board of Education
Lynn White
John Pat Fanning
D McDowell
Rick Staton
Joe Sparks
Wyoming
Eustace Frederick
Phil Hancock
District
Mark Wills
D-Mercer
Boggess
Richard Flanigan
Wayne
U.S. Senate
House of Representatives
Bob Wise
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Ozella H. Sims
Hinton
Pleasant St. Hinton
Bailey, Va
Rufus E. and
Cordilla Robertson French
Hinton Hospital
Riverview Chapel
Summers County
Barshel H. Sims
Samuel H. Humphreys
Tina Sims
Curtis W. Sims
Nimitz
Frank A. Sims
Linda
South Charleston
Stephen
Delda) Farrow
Frank
Freda) Humphreys
Powhatan
Pivont Funeral Home Chapel
Harry Pilkington
Oak Grove Cemetery
Ballengee
Christopher Farrow
Jimmy
Michael
Timmy Sims
Kenneth
Stevie Humphreys
Greg Thomas
Michael Dunivan
Greenbrier Memorial Gardens
Tim Boyd
US Army
Fort Knox
Union Gospel Mission
Cravens-Shires Funeral Home
Timothy Blake Elam
Daytona Beach
Daytona Hospital
Gwendolyn Johnson Yost
Richard S. Elam
Elizabeth Town
Bankers Systems
Bluefield Elks Lodge
Gene T. Johnson
Hugh C. Johnson
Grandview Mausoleum Chapel
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
Tom Conley
Rick Spell
Dudley
Bluefield, Va
Tony Barbery
Courthouse Players
Charles Pace
Pam Hawkins
News
Advertiser
Steve Smith
Tom Colley
Terri Hale
Bobby English
Wade Watson
Henry Meade
Jim Terry
Arbara Hawkins
Bill Archer
Teddy Paynter
Samantha Perry
Tammy Cook
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations, Associated Press
WV Press Assn
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sunda
Princeton News
Ation
Mail Daily
Frank Wood
Frank Sayles Jr
Jon Hart
Rhonda Watson
Charles Owens
The
Mount Rogers
Barbara Hawkins
LS Cros
Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners
Alicia
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