Deaths and Funeral Notices From Bivefield Daily Telegraph
Obituary notices list C. Noble from Mullens now Jacksonville resident Mrs Lula Mae Hill Noble widow of James B Noble daughter Geraldine Shumaker son James B Noble two West Virginia brothers plus three grandchildren. Services at Giddens-Griffith Funeral Home Riverside Memorial Park. Also notices for Minnie Reynolds Sims of Princeton and Marvin B Parks Sr of Roanoke with multiple survivors and Oakey's Roanoke Chapel service details. Includes Joseph Franklin Sawyers and Carolyne Ann Shrewsbury obituaries with funeral arrangements and memorials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Cleff
Virginia Farley Noble
Noble
Jacksonville
Mullens
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Thomas
Annie Sims
Sims
Princeton
Minnie Reynolds Sims
Marshal Harris
Lenius Harris
Bluefield
Aileen Rozzel
Emanuel Blake
Oakwood
Ernest Gilliard
Lawrence Gilliard
Henry Marshall
James Hill
Ernest Hill
Marvin
Linkford & Richardson
Marvin B. Parks
Roanoke
Virginian
Norfolk and Western Railway
Kazim Temple of the Shrine
Sadie Sisson Parks
Marvin B. Parks Jr
Seaford
Del
Paul W. Parks
George Parks
Charlie Parks
Rubye Shewey
Hazel Burris
Oakey's
Roanoke Chapel
Bernard S
Oakey
Carolyne Ann Shrewsbury
Mount Ranier
Cheverly
Shewsbury
James L. Shrewsbury
Julie
Glen
Lorrie Shrewsbury
Earl Collins, Jr
Slyvania
Garlin Shrewsbury
Gasch
Hyattsville
John Wilkins
Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Brentwood
National Childrens Medical Center
Washington D.C
Tragic Levisa River Crash Claims Grundy Couple
A Grundy Virginia couple Mary Frances Elswick Justus and Henry Ellis Justus died when their car plunged into the Levisa River two miles west of Grundy after a trailer jackknifed and struck the vehicle. The driver’s body was recovered the next day downstream. Robbie Ann Justus was treated at a local hospital. Funeral services were set for Wednesday with burial at Mountain Valley Memorial Park.
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McMurray
Grundy
Justus
U.S
Robbie Ann Justus
Mary Frances
Roseann
Elswick Justus
Henry Ellis Justus
Rt. 1
Levisa River
Horne Creek
Delbert Justus
Paul McClachanan
Herbert Mays
Arville Collins
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Ad Rates and Address Details
Bluefield Daily Telegraph lists subscription and home delivery rates, zones, and advertising representation. The notice cites publication by Daily Telegraph Printing Co at 412 Bland Street Bluefield and notes AP membership with dispatch credit.
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Daily Telegrah Printing Co
Bland Screet
Bluefield
Associated Press
Thes
OPEC pressure builds for higher Saudi price talk
In Geneva pressure mounts on Saudi Arabia to join OPEC in boosting crude prices. Most members favor a base around $20 a barrel, which would lift U.S. gas and heating oil by about five cents per gallon. OPEC officials plan a formal meeting to align price structures as world leaders, including President Carter, discuss energy crisis steps in Tokyo.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Saudi Arabia
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
United States
OPEC
Sur- Arabia
Carter
Tokyo
Statue of Liberty Opens as Symbol of Freedom in New York
The Statue of Liberty has stood in New York Harbor since 1886 as a symbol of freedom. It commemorates French American friendship, a gift from the people of France designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.
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New York Harbor
France
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Independent truckers vow broadened protest and end fears
The Associated Press reports independent truckers in Chicago pledge to expand blockades to dramatize inflation pain while other regions see mixed outcomes. Violence persists in some areas as blockades reemerge at western Michigan stops. Bucks County prepares possible curfew. Rhode Island says anti-protest activity dwindles. Atlanta area drivers near exhaustion and may return to work.
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Chicago
Ted Bates
Coalition
Bucks County
Levittown
Lower Bucks
John Mitchell
Michigan
Providence
R.I
Flynn
Atlanta
State Dealers Feeling Pinch in West Virginia
Short lines at service stations and widespread closings marked the first weekend of a thirsty summer in West Virginia. Officials warned of tighter supplies and end of month shortages as stations exhaust monthly allocations. The AAA spotted no open stations on Sunday along Interstate 79, while officials stressed emergency fuel requests rising and plans to mobilize full reserves.
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Charleston
W.va
Jeff Herholdt
State Fuel and Office
State
American Automobile Association
Interstate 79
Ficult
Sharon Aaron
AAA
West Virginia
Herholdt
Maryland
Virginia
Kantor Elected President of West Virginia Trial Lawyers Assoc
Bluefield attorney Norris Kantor was elected president of the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association at the annual education seminar in Charleston. Other officers include Jeremy McCamb of Wheeling as vice president Monty Presser of Charleston as treasurer Richard Cardot of Elkins as secretary and Mike Farrell of Huntington as parliamentarian.
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Charleston
W.va
Bluefield
Norris Kantor
West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
Betsy Burka
Kantor
Jeremy McCamb
Wheeling
Monty Presser
Richard Cardot
Elkins
Mike Farrell
Huntington
Eastern Shore Farmers Face Economic Disaster Amid Truckers' Strike
Virginia farmers in Northampton and Accomack warn of $34 million in crop losses as truckers refuse to haul potatoes beans and cucumbers over strike fear. Preston Kellam calls it a blood bath and Eugene Taylor warns of hard times unless the situation changes.
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Virginia
Northampton
Accomack
Preston Kellam
Eugene Taylor
Accomack County
Taylor
Kellam
Park Board Urges Land Sale To Finance Center
The Princeton Park Board rejects a 2.7 acre sale proposal to fund a new community center and dedicates 1.7 acres for a nursing home by Princeton Community Hospital. A 425000 center is planned with 15000 square feet funded by city budgets, grants, and bank loans, while a trade for Civitan playground land is set for July.
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Park Board
Jim Gilreath
Princeton
Jay Rockefeller
Scotia Indictment Handed Down in Coal Mine Disaster
A grand jury indicted Scotia Coal Co and parent Blue Diamond Coal Co on six counts related to the March 9 1976 twin methane explosions at Scotia No 1 mine Owen Fork Letcher County Kentucky that killed 26. The indictment accuses failures to adopt ventilation and dust control plans and alleges false reports submitted during the investigation.
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Catlettsburg
Kentucky
Scotia Coal Co
Blue Diamond Coal Co
Knoxville
U.S
Pat Malloy
U.S. Interior Dept
Federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
Mine Health Safety Ad- Sen Ace
Bluefield Council Ends GRTA Funding and Talks Rail Crossings
Bluefield Virginia town council ended funding for the Gateway Regional Transit Authority after previously granting interim support. The meeting also addressed whistle blowing at crossings, a denied antique shop request in a residential zone, Line of Duty Act protections for firemen, and ongoing drainage complaints from resident Jim Puckett with engineers tasked to find a solution.
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Bluefield
Gateway Regional Transit Authority
GRTA
N & W Railway
Council
Jim Puckett
Sedgewood
Council On Drainage
Jack Gilbert
Lane Rites Set Wednesday at Palm Memorial Gardens
Lane Rites set for Wednesday at Palm Memorial Gardens Mathena. Roger Lane born December 3 1955 Grundy Virginia son of Lee and Credith Justus Lane Brenton. He died in a car accident returning from a date with Orpha Ann Hunt. Survivors include five sisters and four brothers. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday Calfee Funeral Home Pineville.
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Palm Memorial Gardens
Mathena
Grundy
Lee
Credith Justus Lane
Brenton
Roger
Iville High School
Orpha Ann Hunt
Roderfield
Ashland Oil Company
Hurley
Christine Milam
Darlene Lane
Nadine Lane
Thelma Jean Lane
Wenedith Lane
Carl Lane
Eddie Lane
Billy Ray Lane
Harold Lane
Calfee Funeral
Pineville
Three Escapees Arrested in West Virginia Breakout
HUTTONSVILLE West Virginia AP Three inmates who escaped last week from the Huttonsville Correctional Center were arrested over the weekend. Corrections Commissioner Joseph McCoy said the trio was apprehended without incident and an investigation to determine officer negligence is underway. The escape occurred late June 20 and involved Steven John Key, 28, among others.
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Huttonsville
W.va
Huttonsville Correctional Center
Joseph McCoy
Steven John Key
Four Bluefield men arrested for strong arm robberies
Four Bluefield men were arrested early Sunday morning and charged with strong arm robbery in connection with weekend robberies of two women in the Kroger parking lot on Cumberland Road. Arrests followed after witnesses provided a license plate. Elder James W. Dennis obituary note corrects church listing to Church of the Living God, 207 Halifax St. Bluefield.
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Bluefield
Bluefield City
Jim Dent
Kroger Co
Cumberland Road
Russell Pauley
Mark Clendenin
Danny Gilley
Dent
Jackie Walters Dennis
Walters
James W. Dennis
Church of the Living God
Halifax St
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Bivefield Daily Telegraph
Wooly
Joseph F.sawyers
Joseph Franklin Sawyers
Reservoir St
Mercer Funeral Home
Athens Road
Mrs
Carolyn Ann
Mary E. Daniels
Mary E
Mary Eliza) Daniels
Keystone
Sinkford & Richardson Funeral Home
Joe Torrico
Beckley
Blue Ridge Funeral Home
Walthan
Buria
Sunset Memorial Park
Darnell
Stanley C. Darnell
Littesburg
Earl Lovell
Frank Meadows
Reed Cemetery
Spanishburg
Ed Duncan
James Moses
Michael Norman
Tride Norman
Tride Waldecker
Frank Marcie
Ledford
Dennis F ., Sr
the Mills Mobile Home Park
New Hope Road
First Church of God
Mahood Ave
Clarence Dillon
Ralph Hubble
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Princeton Road
Robert
Sarah Jane Justus Rash
Hassell Elswick
Big Rock Pentecostal Holiness Church
Barbara Hunt
Danny Elswick
Robert Lewis Elswick
Tex Rash
Carl Rash
Frank Rash
Russell Rash
Vansant
Delmer Rash
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Regular Baptist Church
Lula Jutus
Paris E
Lydia Stacey Justus
Gertrude Blankenship
Joyce Ann Owens
Haysi
Carol Sue Matney
John Henry Justus
McArthur Justus
Clifton Justus
Bobby Stanley Justus
Kirby Justus
Cletis Justus
Dollie Mae Charles
Edna Matney
Hayes Justus
Stacy, Va
Hassell Justus
Welch
Burl Justus
Clayton Justus
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Landon Associates
Statue of Liberty
The
Bailey
Danny Jackson
Oliver and Kee Streets
Civitan
Caperton Ave
Thomas Steel Fabricators, Inc
Jackson
Oliver-Kee
Scotia
Puckett
Arlick
Furniture
Stepp Flowers Inc
Bland Street
Homas Bunding
ST. Muefild
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