Deaths and Funerals in Bluefield and Nearby Areas
Multiple obituary notices detail Hanna Stanley and others from Haysi to Bluefield, listing survivors, church affiliations, and funeral arrangements. The notices include Jeff J. Brooks, Samuel Grant Austin, Lawrence L. Dennis, Ivory Mae Lee, Mary Helen Dakin, Henry Aubry Harrison, Vernon L. Cooke Sr., Muriel L. Lewis, Kenneth Ray Brown, Grace Wasco, and related service details at local chapels and cemeteries. The Springfield Illinois AP item notes LaRouche convention exclusion.
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Hanna Stanley
Haysi
Norton
H.B. Stanley
Regular Baptist Church
Maxie Fletcher
June Mullins
Tennessee Yates
Dorothy Newberry
Clintwood
Delma Yates
Cain Willis
Bartlick Old Regular Baptist Church
Ralph Mullins
Freddie Ramey
Buster Mullins
David Hill
Colley Cemetery
Brooks
Haysi Funeral Home
Jeff J. Brooks
Edgemont Drive
Bluefield
Lebanon
William S
Victoria Young Brooks
Calvary Baptist Church
Ethel Arnold Brooks
Jeff Brooks
Sulphur Springs
Ohio
Dan Brooks
Russ Brooks
Winfield
Marvin J. Brooks
Andrea Breckenridge
Moriarity
N.M
Riss Whittaker
Salem
Corbin Brooks
Baltimore
Virginia Yearout
Mercer Funeral Chapel
Harold Louks
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton
Samuel Grant Austin
Taylor St
Welch
Mary Helen Dakin
Rogers St
Wilcoe
William A
Alberta Niswander Williams
West Virginia Amusement Co
Raymond T. Dakin
Gertrude Dennison
Alice M. Williams
Margaret Perdue
Roanoke
Jim Denney
Saeger Memorial Cemetery
Roderfield
Arnold Husk
Henry Aubry Harrison
Tazewell
Guy and
Mae Harmon Harrison
UMWA
Ethel Mae Cox Harrison
Clyde Harrison
Brushfork
Clifford
Ruth) Beavers
Famed lyricist Jay Lerner dies at 67 in New York
Oscar and Tony winning lyricist Alan Jay Lerner died of lung cancer at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. He aged 67 after a five month illness. Lerner co created Broadway hits with Frederick Loewe including Brigadoon and My Fair Lady.
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New York
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Loewe
Lerner
Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center
Sally Benjamin Young
Sydney Gruson
New York Times
London
Burton Lane
New York Drama Critics Circle
Paris
Borges Dies In Geneva At 86 After Liver Cancer
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges died in Geneva at age 86 from liver cancer. Critics compared him to Poe and Kafka, and he was a frequent Nobel Prize contender. His works total more than 35 volumes translated into over 20 languages.
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Geneva
Jorge Luis Borges
Borges
Edgar Allan Poe
Franz Kafka
Perkins Dies at 81, A Lifelong Naturalist and TV Host
R Marlin Perkins, noted zoologist and host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom for 23 years, died at 81 after two years of cancer. He directed the St Louis Zoo until 1970 and later hosted Nature Newsbreak. The longtime TV figure helped shape wildlife programming after a career spanning decades.
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ST. Louis
R. Marlin Perkins
Wild Animal Kingdom
Perkins
Mutual of Omaha
Wild Kingdom
Nature Newsbreak
Wildlife Kingdom
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
St. Louis Zoo
Shortage of foreign language instructors hits southern West Virginia
The program offering bachelor degrees in teacher education for French and Spanish ended due to low enrollment. Statewide and in Mercer and McDowell counties the lack of qualified foreign language teachers persists. West Virginia colleges with language degrees are not in the southern region. Bluefield Princeton Athens high schools report high demand for French with limited teachers. Tazewell County struggles to fill multiple foreign language positions as turnover remains high.
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West Virginia
Marshall University
West Virginia University
Fairmont State
West Liberty
Bethany
Davis and Elkins
Wesleyan
University of Charleston
National Education Committee
Bettye F. Evans
Mercer County
Bluefield
Princeton
Athens
Mount View High School
McDowell County
Jack Katona
Tazewell County
Edward Fortune
Bombings in Pretoria Mark South Africa’s May 1983 Crises
A car bombing in downtown Pretoria in May 1983 left 19 dead and over 200 wounded. Prominent lawyers signaled challenges to a Thursday state of emergency declaration. Youths clashed with police at a first black funeral under new restrictions as four blacks died in unrest, raising post emergency deaths to 12 excluding Durban.
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South Africa
Pretoria
Durban
Infants Awake After Heart Transplants and Mechanical Support
Several infants in critical condition display improving status after heart transplants and mechanical support. Three-week-old Robert Dean Cardin in Louisville remains on life support to gain strength, while Baby Calvin’s parents protect anonymity as he stabilizes post surgery. Jesse Dean Sepulveda at Loma Linda shows no change, and a Pennsylvania man awaits a transplant with a mechanical heart sustaining him.
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Pennsylvania
Robert Dean Cardin
Louisville
Baby Calvin
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Charlotte Tharp
Jesse
Joyce McClintock
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda
Calif
Jesse Dean Sepulveda
Blind pastor leads faith through guide dog and radio ministry
Reverend James Jackson, blind for nine years, heads Trinity Assembly Church in Yukon and preaches six days a week on Richlands Va station. He lost sight after a career as a coal miner and now travels with wife Hazel, uses a guide dog and cane, and has expanded church programs and a harvest fundraiser march to aid the hungry.
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Trinity Assembly
Yukon
Richlands
Oak Hill
Jackson
Johns Hopkins
Ohio State
Hazel
Bristol
Abraham
McDowell County
Bartley
James Jackson
Olga
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Lawrence L. Dennis
Northfork
Richardson Funeral Home
Keystone
Ivary Mae Lee
Ivory Mae Lee
Box 81
Matoaka
Durham
N.C
George W. Seaver
Vernon L. Cooke
Vernon L. Cooke Sr
Route 3
Cravens Shires
Bluewell
Muriel L. Lewis
Park Ave
Brown
Kenneth Ray
Horsepen
Horsepen Church of Christ
Charles M. Sublett
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield-Tazewell Road
WASCO
Grace M
Bramwell
Bramwell Presbyterian Church
C.H. Patterson
Cravens-Shires
LaRouche
Springfield, Ill
Lyndon LaRouche
Bluefield Baily Telegraph
Bluefield Ave
W.va
Princeton Bureau
Edwin M. Freakley
Thomas A. Colley
Jim Terry
Linda M. Osborne
Lewis B. Spence
Patsy P. Malamisura
Mike Blanton
Carl H. Meade, Jr
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
National Advertising Rep
London Associates
D&i
Jay Lerner
Jorge Borges
Marlin Perkins
Mitchell
Senate
House
Flowers
Grundy
Harman Vansant
FTD Florist
Parker
Everlasting Monument CO. Bird
Petn
Tena Een
Constantine Mavroudis
Wendell
Patricia Cardin
Glendale
Hardin County
Kevin Granger
Gerald Cardin
Wendell Cardin
Guide Dog
Gayee
Bluefield Monument Company
Sheryl R. Ezell
M.B.A. Benefits
Social Security
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