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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1989
Page
12
Ten term Mayor O Bee Boothe of Oakvale praises the community’s unity. He recalls early nomination by Grover Davis in 1947 and notes residents’ readiness to pitch in when needed and defend the town together. Boothe emphasizes collective resilience.
Boothe recalls 20 years in Oakvale since 1969 and shared views on voting and community participation. She arrived in 1938 at age 22, noting her father Ahab McGhee had 20 siblings. She links the 100th Oakvale Train Depot anniversary in 1988 to the Independence Limited excursion tracing Norfolk and Western’s 100th anniversary, with a stop in Oakvale on June 20 and final Roanoke arrival at 2 15 p.m. June 20.
Myrtle Boggess, 92, recalls moving to Oakvale in 1917 and being the town’s oldest resident. She notes neighbors’ aging, church attendance, and a slower, closer community life, contrasting with today’s busier, more transient times. Lifelong resident Lafayette Turley, born 1924, echoes mixed certainty about knowing the town.
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