Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield Area Obituaries
Death notices list W B Johnson 65 of 706 Highland Ave who died at Bluefield sanitarium after three weeks illness. Survived by wife Florence White Johnson two sons Edwin and William both of Baltimore sisters Myrtle Robinette and brothers Walter Hartwell Emery Princeton. Funeral pending. Elijah Lloyd Bailey 79 of Bluefield Princeton road died of a heart attack. Farmer and former county farm superintendent survived by wife Harriet Saunders four children and siblings. funeral arrangements pending. John Temple Bagwell nephew of Mrs Douglas Bailey died in Indianapolis. services to be conducted in Ironton Ohio. John B Harless 76 of Boissevain Va died at home. service at Boissevain Baptist church with interment in nearby cemetery. Survived by four daughters three sons and extended family. two sons preceded him. Funeral dates to be announced.
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William B. Johnson
Highland Avenue
Bluefield
Johnson
Norfolk and Western Railway
Pocahontas
Plorence White Johnson
Edwin W
Baltimore
Myrtle Robinette
Raven, Va
Walter Johnson
Hartwell
Emery Johnson
Princeton
Elijah L. Bailey
Elijah Lioyd Bailey
Leftridge Bailey
Mercer County
Mr. Bailey
Harriet Saunders
E. E. Bailey
W. J. Bailey
W. J. Wimmer
W. A. Comer
Glen Lyn
John C
Johnson Bailey
Zed Winfrey
Memorial Funeral Directory
John Temple Bagwell
Douglas Bailey
Ironton
Ohio
John B. Harless
Abbs Valley
Boissevain
Boissevain Baptist Church
Sore Cemetery
Tip Top
Harles
Springville
Tazewell County
J. H. Rye
Nemours
L. F. Groseclcse
J. M Baker
J. W. Higgenbotham
Isevain
A. L. Harless
RC. Harless
Peesevain
J B. Harless, Jr
Camp Blandine
Germans Press In 9th Day Of Invasion Amid Allied Gains
German panzer divisions and elite units attacked along a 20 mile front from Troarn to Tilly sur Beuvres as Allied forces under Lt. Gen. Bradley pushed forward. Despite heavy offensives, the 21st Army Group said the Allies held the initiative with gains near Carentan and St Lo while German forces claimed St Lo was aflame.
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Troarn
Tilly Sur- Beulles
Panzer
SS . Ae 12Th
Hitler Jugend
Lehr Panzers
Baranal
Erwin
21St Panzer
21St Army Group
Army
Carentan
Omar N. Bradley
Bettie Front
Cerisy
St. Lo
Villers
St Lo
Service Men Club Event Supports Needy Area Women
Ninety service men from fifteen states attended the Service Men's Club event yesterday with five accompanied by wives. Donations included 1.50 from a friend and 1 from Mrs. Rosita Bailey, 25 pounds of ice cream from the American Ice Cream Company, and flowers by Mrs. C Lavender and Mrs. Lula Plaster. Breakfast was chaired by Mrs W A Honeycutt and Mrs Hush Spangler with help from Mrs D T Whitlock and several other local ladies assisting throughout the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Service Men's Club
Rosita Bailey
American Ice Cream Company
C. Lavender
Lula Plaster
W. A. Honeycutt
Hush Spangler
D. T. Whitlock
George Evans
Eugene Wright
R. A. Kersey
Ethel Linkous
John Cooke
Nannie Thompson C. Presley
Kariise “Tan Victor Duncan
Hayes Porterfield
Lee Thompson
Paten Thompson
Josie Ae
Moone's Emerald Oil Promise for Foot Relief
A druggist advertises Moone's Emerald Oil as a fast acting antiseptic for foot troubles. The claim says the first application provides relief and a few treatments prove long term comfort with faithful use. The product is marketed as non staining and non greasy with money back satisfaction.
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Moone
Kelley and Moyer in Coal and Coke Building History
Patrick J. Kelley, a Pennsylvania immigrant who entered tailoring and later partnered with J. H. Moyer to form Kelley and Moyer. They built a landmark building later housing Kresge's store. Kelley was an Elk exalted ruler three times and served two terms on Bluefield city council. He supported Sacred Heart church and helped found the Bluefield Country Club.
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Pennsylvania
J. H
Jim) Moyer
Kelley and Moyer
Coal and Coke
Kresge
Kelley
Elks
Culer
Sacred Heart Church
Bluefield
Three Virginians Killed In Action Lined From Mediterranea
The war department lists 32 Virginians killed in action in the Mediterranean area. The three from this region are Pvt. Douglas R. Moyers, husband of Mrs Ann Duke Moyers of Pulaski. Pvt. Clifford B. Rector Jr., husband of Mrs Amy Rector of Saltville. and Pvt. Albert J. Tabor, son of Mrs Dora Tabor of Pulaski.
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Douglas R. Moyer
Ann Duke Moyers
Pulaski
Clifford B. Rector, Jr
Amy T. Rector
Saltville
Albert J. Tabor
Dora W. Tabor
Mediterranean
War Department
Public notice in Mercer County chancery case
At Mercer County Circuit Court in 1944 Ruth Tesece seeks an absolute divorce from Virgil Milton Prince. Prince is a West Virginia non resident. he must respond within one month to protect his interests. Attest Clerk L T Reynolds. Harold F Porterfield P Q.
Elks Observe Flag Day with Local Program
Elks club on Biand Street held a Flag Day observance with a patriotic program. The American Legion Drum and Bugle corps paraded on Princeton Avenue. Durrell spoke on flag history and recent discoveries, followed by musical selections and the singing of America.
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Elks Club
Biand
American Legion
Princeton Avenue
F. P. Roberts
Tom Shawver
R. Cravens
George J. Burke
A. A. Angrist
Au Syne
Cravens
P. B. Durrell
Durrell
Henry Portune
Fortune
Assembly
America
BE. W. Hughes
The
Elk Lodge
Selectee Group To Leave Today For Pre Induction
A Mercer county local board No 1 selectee group will depart Bluefield for Huntington today for pre induction physical exams before entering the armed services. This marks the second monthly call. a colored registrant was sent to Huntington Tuesday for final induction in the U S navy. Six more induction calls are planned for June 17 for white registrants and June 28 for a colored registrant. Inductions will occur at Fort Benjamin Harrison, not Fort Thomas, Ky. The group will meet at the Fleet National Bank building draft board offices and travel by train.
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Mercer County Selective Service
Bluefield
Huntington
Armed Services
US. Navy
Fort Benjamin Har
Fort Thomas, Ky
Draft Board
Fieet National Bank
De Gaulle Returns to a Turbulent Welcome in Free French Town
Citizens, exhausted and ragged, crowded the rubble strewn streets as General Charles de Gaulle appeared from a jeep. They shouted Vive De Gaulle and Vive La France while singing La Marseillaise, the crowd breaching police lines to shake his hand under a shell-dented street lamp in the battered square.
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de Gaulle
France
Vive
L'Amerique
B'nai B'rith Holds Meeting Report on Boys' State
Philip Effron and Billy Greenspon reported at a B'nai B'rith lodge meeting on Commerce streets about their attendance at Boys' State at Jackson's Mill. They described learning duties of public officers in West Virginia and gaining information to become better citizens.
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Philip Effron
Billy Greenspon
Jackson's Mill
B’nai B'rith Lodge
Commerce Streets
Bnai B'rith Iudge
American Legion Post No. 9
West Virginia
Meetings and notices from local churches and groups
Various church and mission society meetings are scheduled or cancelled. Activities include Edwards Memorial Presbyterian church 4 p.m. today, John Stewart church Circle 3 indoor carnival Friday at Florence's Hall, Eureka Temple 339 5 30 p.m. today, and Edwards Memorial church Sunday at 11 a.m. with Mrs. W F Nowlin as speaker.
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The
Women's Missionary Society of the
Edwards Memorial Presbyterian Church
Circle 3
John Stewart Church
Florence's Hall
Wilwon Street
Eureka Temple
Jones Street Hall
Edwards Memorial Church
the Missionary Society
W. F. Nowlin
West Virginia Divorce Case in Mercer County Chancery
Stella Altizer Wolf sues Wade H. Wolf in Mercer County to obtain an absolute divorce. The defendant is a non resident of West Virginia, requiring appearance at the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court within a month after the first publication to protect his interest. Attest: B. Reynolds Clerk. Porterfield.
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West Virginia
Circuit Court
County of
Mercer
Stella Altizer Wolf
Wade H. Wolf
Wade H. Vit
Mercer County
T. Reynolds
Porterfield
Bluefield Casualties Reported In European Theater
Bluefield area men are listed as casualties in the European theatre. Staff Sgt Jack A Fletcher was wounded in action on June 5 while with the 337th bombardment squadron Eighth Air Force in England. Pvt Vernon Pletcher and Staff Sgt Ellwood Farmer are reported missing. Sgt Paul D Dickerson has been in action over Belgium since May 20. Sergeant Parmer is missing after a raid over Austria Hungary and is credited with air corps service.
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Bluefield
Arés
War Department
Jack A. Fletcher
A. J. Fletcher
Bland Street
Fletcher
Eighth Air Force
England
France
Bea
O Ae
Vernon Pletcher
Northern Ireland
Quartermaster Corps
R. C. Daniels
Paul Douglas Dickerson
L. H. Meredith
Anawalt
Belgium
Set
Dickerson
Port Knox
Army Air Force
Army Air Corps
Bowen Field
Sweetwater
Texas
Garden City
Kansas
Wendover
Utah
Salt Lake City
Mores Lake
Washington
Walla Walla
Avon Park
Fila
Pocahontas
Knoxville
Austria-Hungary
Atlantic City
N. J
Italy
Zella Cook
Maybeury
Laura Frances
Brenda Joyce
Elkhorn
Palmer
Tasquel Company
Roof collapses at Welch Motor repairs injures none
Heavy rain caused the Welch Motor service shop roof on Wyoming street to cave in Tuesday evening. Three workers escaped harm as six trucks and four cars were damaged, with about 2000 dollars of vehicle damage and 1000 dollars to equipment. The space was rented from I Kat zen and Tony Iafolla.
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Welch Motor Service
Wyoming Street
Marin Hook
Ad Thompson
Thompson
Hh Cable
Lester Privettrom
I. Katzen
Tony Iafolla
Cable
Pastor Celebrates Silver Jubilee in Gary
The Rev. Father Michael Glee is honored in Gary with a 10 oclock solemn high mass at Our Lady of Victory Catholic church. Celebrants include Rev. Mr. Gleeson and Rev. James Hickey, with sub-deacon Rev. Emmett Gleeson and Very Rev. George Burke. Father Gleeson, ordained June 15, 1919, has served in Gary since 1934.
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Michael Gleeson
Gary
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church
Gleeson
James Hickey
Bristol
Emmett Gleeson
Chicago
George Burke
Sacred Heart Church
Bluefield
Center Named Happy Hall at Welch Youth Center
A committee chose Happy Hall as the center name, submitted by Alan Higginbotham of 219 Riverside Drive. He won $5 in war stamps. A meeting next Tuesday will plan a recreation center for children under 14.
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Welch Youth Center
Happy Hall
Alan Higginbotham
Riverside Drive
Canning Center to Open July 1 in McDowell County
McDowell county's canning center will be opened by July 1 after a meeting led by H N Hunsucker of Morgantown and P K Martin, assistant superintendents of vocational agriculture and county services in West Virginia.
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McDowell County
H. N. Hunsucker
Morgantown
West Virginia
P. K. Martin
Coun
Center to Open in Law Building Near School Field
The center will be located in the Law building beside the athletic field and open soon. Most equipment should arrive next week with costs covered by state and federal funds. Tin cans will be provided so visitors may bring only the products they want.
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Ty Schools
Laeger
Law Building
Roosevelt nomination talk in Democratic meeting
President Roosevelt was discussed by Robert E. Hannegan as a personal opinion in a New York speech. The 45 minute conference was called a purely social visit and Hannegan declined to comment on his stance. He then headed to Chicago for a Democratic conven tion meeting.
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Roosevelt
Robert E. Hannegan
New York
Mr. Roosevelt
Hannegan
Chicago
Piano Tuned Roanoke Roanoke Man Seeks Monthly Service
City and Coalfield Items note piano tuning by Harry Haffen of Roanoke with monthly service options. Also text mentions Mercer Lodge No 160 A F and A M holding a 7:30 pm election and installation of officers, inviting all members to attend.
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Mercer Lodge No
Buon
Ralph Saneaie
Indiana and Georgia Democratic Activities Note Tensions
Indiana holds a Democratic convention to nominate candidates for senate and governor and to select a 26 member national convention delegation. In Georgia, Atlanta NAACP leaders urge black voters to participate in the July 4 Democratic primary but warn against disturbances while the state party restricts the primary to white electors and directs county chairs to bar Negro participation.
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Indiana
Senate
Georgia
Atlanta
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
All State Democratic Executive Committee
De Gaulle Faces Rising Strains Over Allied Role
London reports say De Gaulle in Normandy but his visit to Britain worsens ties with Washington and London. Military and diplomatic experts note a steady decline in British American cooperation since his arrival ten days ago seeking greater influence in allied councils.
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de Gaulle
Normandy
London
Prospects for French-American Conference Stir Debates
The article discusses hopes for a high level talk between the French National Committee head and President Roosevelt late this month or in July. It notes cooperation from Eisenhower but De Gaulle’s refusal, highlighting strains in Anglo American invasion army relations and French public sentiment.
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French National Committee
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
de Gaulle
France
Allied push nears Italian targets and Munich raid noted
Allied forces push toward Terni and Orevieto near Lake Polsena with a fall of Terni believed imminent. German resistance from the west at Orbetello may be cut off by flanking move while RAF night bombing follows a daytime heavy bomber raid on Munich.
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Terni
Orevieto
Lake Polsena
Fifth Army
Orbetello
Italy
Munich
Cafe Man Hurt In Knifing Spree
Alex Kears, cafe operator, was admitted to Grace hospital with three knife wounds after a fight near a taxi stand on McDowell Street. Virgil A Bailey, about 45, Havace, was arrested on drunkenness and wounding charges. Kearns is in very good condition.
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Alex Kears
Grace Hospital
Tommy Gray
An Giley
McDowell Street
Virgil
A. Bailey
Havace
Gray
Kearns
Bailey
Defendant Wins Suit Over Damaged Laundry Losses
In Mc Dowell circuit court a jury returned a verdict for the defendant in Bernie Belcher versus Sam Fong over clothes damaged by fire after cleaning at Peerless Cleaners. Also, Maxine Jones versus Pred Woolum, involving injuries from a January 1943 shooting, is docketed for trial.
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McDowell
Bernie Belcher
Sam Fong
Fong
Peerless Cleaners
Maxine Jones
Near Bradshaw
Pred Woolum
Mighty Aerial Attacks Hit Multiple European Targets
The British air fleet dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on six air fields at night. An additional strike hit the Emmerich oil refinery in the Rhineland, ten miles inside Germany. Italian bombers hit the largest refinery near Budapest, Hungary, while southern attacks increased pressure on German fuel supplies.
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Britain
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Joan B. Harless
SMC
J.w.waters.co
the Reliable Jeweleerrs
Patrick J. Kelley
WFST
Virginia
RUTH _—T Tesece
Alnat Virgil Milton
Prince
Milton Prince
Ait Court
L. T. Reynolds
Harold F. Porterfield
B‘nai B'rith
News of the Colored People Co
W. Fiffany
Women’s Home and
Foreign Missionary Society of
Gate City Lodge
A. W. Brown
Williams Street
Farmville
Jones
St Joseph Maylil
Bluefielder
Sgt
Paul D. Dickerson
Sgt. Ellwood Farmer
Welch News
Brigker
Harry Haffen
Roanoke
Wilce
Roanoke Va
Bailey Lumber Company
Norwich
Leeshefield, Piniete
Alan Baxter
Erie
Cafe
Eddie Cantor
George Murphy
Joan Davis
Wandy Kelly
Constance Moor
leGang
Smwarz
Servi Oreif
USS 4
Disney
Bill Henry
Gail Patrick
Nancy Kelly
Grace George Marjorie Main
Marjorie Lord Hattie McDaniel
Edward McNamara
Lad Be Ee Reg
George Zucco
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