Deaths and Funerals in Deity Telegraph Region
Walter Cobb Jr. 43, McDowell County teacher of Elkhorn died of natural causes in Welch. Services at Gospel Tabernacle United Holy Church Keystone Tuesday 1 p.m. Burial Restlawn Memorial Gardens Littlesburg Road. Survivors include widow Sandra Cobb and children, mother Rosa Proffitt, several siblings. Vietnam veteran, Baptist, former Excelsior HS graduate. William Wilson Fink 69, retired miner of Summerlee died at Oak Hill medical center after long illness. Survived by wife Christina and 5 children, siblings and grandchildren. services at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill. Burial Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Prosperity. Ruth Mae Brooks 84 Princeton died after long illness. Funeral plans incomplete at Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield. Linnie Lindsey 60 Gilliam died in Beckley after long illness. Services incomplete at Richardson Funeral Home Keystone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Cobb Jr
McDowell County
Elkhorn
Welch
Gospel Tabernacle United Holy Church
Keystone
LeRoy C. Parson
Aluester McConnel
Barry Early
John Faucett
Virginia Johnson
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg Road
Caretta
Rosa Lee Cobb Proffitt
Coalwood
Walter Cobb Sr
Excelsior High School
McDowell County Vocational School
Welch Junior High
Sandra K. Cobb
Gerald Cunningham Jr
Reginald Cunningham
Rocille Nina Cobb
Candace Irene Cobb
James Proffett
Coolwood
Larvain Cobb
Wheeling
Joseph Cobb
Bronx
N.Y
Harry Cobb
Evergreen
Ala
Novella Cobb
Richardson Funeral Home
William Wilson Fink
Summerlee
Oak Hill
Raleigh County
William S
Lydia Allen Fink
New River Company
Mount Hope
UMWA
Christina Thompson Fink
William S. Fink
Mullens
Fred Fink
New Waterford
Ohio
Janet Samuels
Hampton
Kathy Fink
Somerlee
Margaret Tatlock
McGuire Air Force Base
N.J
Nora Lundy
Kimberly
Mary Johnston
Calloway Heights
Tyree
David Shaffer
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Charles Brooks
Charles M
Ruth Mae) Brooks
South Wickham Ave
Princeton
Mercer Funeral Home
Bluefield
Linnie Lindsey
Gilliam
Beckley
John Taylor
John Warneke Taylor
Lynn Haven Lane
St. Louis
Howard Jarrett
Washington St
Monte Vista Park
Jimmy Hill
Buffalo
William and
Clarabelle Warneke Taylor
General Foods
Nancy Jane Hagerman Pruitt
Jolo
Grundy
Old Samaria Regular
H. Clinton Sutherland
Johnson City
Dickenson County
Richard D
Unicy Powers Sutherland
Ben Franklin
Western Auto
Shady Valley Lodge Afam No. 17
Verna Bowman
Dayton
Buchanan First Presbyterian Church
Murphy Miller
Robert F. Baxter
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Grundy Funeral Home
Obituary notices for Bluefield area residents
Obituaries list several Bluefield area deaths including Mrs. William Deatherage 77 of 332 Union St. and Mrs. John Clyde Proffitt Hicks 65 of Cedar Bluff. Services set at Mercer Funeral Home and Tazewell County Funeral Home with burial in Roselawn Memorial Gardens and Greenhills Memory Gardens. Other notices include many local funeral arrangements and graveside rites for area families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Clyde
Mary Lucy Proffitt
John
Ellie Brown Proffitt
Jeffie
Steve Hicks
Cedar Bluff
Randy Hicks
Chicago
Ill
Fred Hicks
Statesville
N.C
Doug Hicks
Pennsylvania
Johnny Hicks
Roanoke
Opal Ramey
Randy, Va
Johnny Proffitt
Pounding Mill
Israelis Capture Large Collection of Weapons
At a northern Israel army base soldiers organize what may be one of the largest captures of Soviet arms outside the bloc. Loot from Lebanon includes 130 millimeter artillery, 516 heavy weapons, 15,000 small arms, tanks, rocket launchers and more. Officers say discoveries widen estimates of guerrilla strength as they catalog arms from PLO strongholds and Syrian camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Lebanon
Jezzine
PLO
Meir Nitzan
Nitzan
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Italy
China
Vietnam
Poland
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Gluefield Daily Telegraph Notice Ledger
Local telegraph announces its establishment year and mailing details, listing address 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia and subscriber rates. It notes Associated Press membership and post office box for address changes, with representation by Landon Associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Tele Printing Co
Bland Street
W. Va
Associated Press
W.va
West Virginia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
P.O. Box 208
Bluefield
Landon Associates
We Want Your Help for Bluefield Daily Telegraph Readers
Readers are invited to submit story tips and suggestions to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph city desk after 2 pm. Call Garret Mathews or Ward Morgan at 327-6111 ext 230. The paper also seeks photographer suggestions via the same number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield Daily Telegraph City Desk
Garret Mathews
Ward Morgan
Bluefield Man Found Dead From Suspected Overdose
Wesley H. Yost aged 59 was found dead at his Bluefield home early Sunday by his wife in what police say was an apparent overdose on seconal a barbiturate. Dr Radha K Krishnan pronounced him dead at the scene the body moved to Bluefield Community Hospital for transfer to the State Medical Examiner in Roanoke for autopsy funeral arrangements at Dudley Memorial Mortuary are incomplete
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Jack Asbury
Wesley H
Jack) Yost
Virginia Ave
Radha K. Krishnan
Bluefield Community Hospital
Roanoke
Dudley Memorial Mortuary
Columbia Orbiter Return and Space Policy Preview
Columbia is set to return from orbit next Sunday to a July 4 welcome at Edwards Air Force Base with President Reagan expected to unveil a new national space policy. The crew includes Mattingly and Hartsfield aboard with six international cosmonauts aboard Salyut 7, as the mission nears ideal turnarounds for future flights and potential commercial payloads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Edwards Air Force Base
Reagan
Mattingly
Hartsfield
Soviet Union
America
O'Hara
Space
Mission Control
Florida
Atlantic Ocean
NASA
Mark Hess
Defense Department
Pentagon
Navy
Air Force
Space Agency
Contact lenses rest on a thin tear layer
The natural tear film keeps the eye moist and supplies oxygen to corneal tissue as you blink. Modern contact lenses are ultra thin and lightweight, placing minimal pressure on the eye while floating on the tear layer.
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William Fink
The
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
William
William M
Virgie Bell
Union St
Stewart
Felix
Mary Hagy Halloway
Robert
Lucille Marie) Hamill
Norfolk
Eilene Kessinger
Jess Halloway
Maybeury
George Stamper
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
John Hicks
Canterbury
Onnie
Sarah
Shopview Avenue
Bailey Funeral Home
Paul Hall
Graham
Joseph
Bethel Lee
Hobert St
Eckman
Bennett-Fanning Funeral Home
Northfork
Harold Simpson
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Bluewell
Nancy Pruitt
Roy Asbury
Roy Elbert Asbury
Abbs Valley
Gratton
John and
Mary Sawyers Asbury
Jenkin Jones
Helen Cartwright Asbury
Paul Asbury
Pocahontas
James
Joyce) Powers
William S. Asbury
Belle Sopthin
Maryland
Georgia Short
Rodriguez-Pocahontas Union
John Buck
Maplewood Cemetery
Tarnewell
Beirut-Damascus
Grundy Merchant
Donovan
Page One
Schiavone
Labor Department
New Jersey
White House
Silverman
Long Island City
Louis Sanzo
Blasters Union
Mario Montuoro
Montuore
Schiavone Company
FBI
la Cosa Nostra
Senate Labor Committee
Anthony Adamski Jr
Gluefield
American Cancer Society
Warrenizing Cleaners
Bluefield, Va
Fairmont Hearing Aid
East Cumberland RD
Tramaeaiaees
Cape
Shultz
Middle East
Bechtel
U.S
Europe
Latin America
Haig
NATO
Treasury
Nixon
Great Britain
Falkland Islands
South Atlantic
Organization of American States
Argentina
Washington
Margaret Thatcher
Danforth Insurance Agency
William Esosom
Andal
Edmondson
William Edmondson II
Linda L. Edmondson
D.D
Lowe Street
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