Deaths and funerals feature legions in coal region
Walter Marcum 61 of Grundy Va died at Mountain Home Tenn veterans hospital after a long illness. Survived by wife Bessie, three daughters, one son, sisters, brother and five grandchildren. Funeral Saturday 11 a.m. at Virginia Funeral Home with burial in Mountain Valley Memorial Park Big Rock. Frances Martin Patterson 70 Wytheville Va died at home after long illness. Survived by wife Josephine, daughter Miss Mary Frances Patterson, son Martin W Patterson, sisters Maude Patterson and Marie P Myers, brother J Lloyd Patterson. Burial at West End Cemetery after 2 p.m. Saturday at St Paul United Methodist Church. Lora Pine 93 Athens Ohio dies after short illness. Survived by four sisters. Burial in Pine Cemetery Princeton after Burns-Vorna Chapel service. Mrs Ales Hagerman 65 Jolo died at Welch hospital after long illness. Survived by husband three sons and two daughters among others. Burial at Groundhog church with Roosevelt-Hagerman Cemetery. Mrs Luther V Hunt 90 Biggs Ky died in Grundy Va hospital after long illness. Survived by husband and children. burial in Jones Family Cemetery. Carl Owen Sizemore 73 Grundy Va died in Lexington Ky after long illness. Survived by wife Virginia, children and eight grandchildren. burial at Mountain Valley Memorial Park Grundy. Roger Lee Patrick 40 Davy died from fall injuries at Welch hospital. Survived by wife Patricia and three children among others. funeral at Big Jenny church. Herman Moore 64 Squire died at Welch hospital from natural causes. Burial at Hartwell Cemetery after services at Mount Calvary United Holy Church. Multiple notices list mourners and pallbearers.
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Walter Marcum
Rt. 1
Grundy
Mountain Home
Tenn
Veterans Hospital
Wayne County
Taylor and
Effie Copley Marcum
Bessie Marcum
Virgil Owns
Honaker
Dewey Hopson
Jackson Lester
Big Rock
Frances Patterson Francis Martin Patterson
Wytheville
Josephine A. Patterson
Mary Frances Patterson
Martin W. Patterson
Salem
Maude Patterson
Max Meadows
Marie P. Myers
Titusville
Fla
J. Lloyd Patterson
Pulaski
St. Paul United Methodist Church
Robert Smith
Wallace Fowler
Richard J. Patterson
West End
American Legion Post No. 9
A.L.S. Society of America
P.O
Sherman Oaks
Calif
Grubb
Ules Hagerman
Ales (Fannie Cooper) Hagerman
Jolo
Welch Hospital
Paynesville
Clark
Alice Roberts Cooper
Ole Regular Baptist Church
Groundhog
Dorothy Campbell
Hubert Hagerman
Crockett Hagerman
Elkton
Curtis Hagerman
Troy Flossie Payne
Arnold (Thelma ) Blankenship
Roderfied
Jim Cooper
Walker Cooper
Nashville
Ole Samaria
Luther Hunt
Luther V
Phoebe) Hunt
Biggs
Steel
William and
Sarah Jones
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Ennis Kidd
Garness Rowe
Mabel J. Hunt
Feds Creek
Asper Puskas
Ohio
Clinard Hunt
Navarre
Milard Hunt
Edwin Hunt
E.J. Miller
Dunnellon
Biggs Church
Carl O. Sizemore
Carl Owen Sizemore
Rt. 2
Lexington
Mercer County
Owen
Nancy Sizemore
Mount Card Baptist Church
Virginia Repass Sizemore
Earl Sizemore
Phyllis
Caroline Trabant
Berkley, Mich
Barbara Ratliff
Mary Jane Dodson
Wheaton
Mouth Card Baptist Church
Sam Lowder
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Jerry Ratlff
Deck Ratliff
David Ratliff
Ronnie Sliger
Bill Minckley
Danny Justus
Grundy Funeral Home
Roger L. Patrick
Roger Lee Patrick
Davy
Brooksie Patrick
Patricia Patrick
Gallion
Teresa Ann Arnett
Teddy D. Patrick
Roger Lee Patrick Jr
Debra Craft
Mt. Airy
N.C
Mary Deskins
Welch
Nancy Shelton
Clifford Patrick
Houston
Tex
Brooks Patrick Jr
Freewill Baptist Church
Big Jenny
Virgil Akers
New Community Cemetery
Asco
Fanning Funeral Home
White Funeral Rites Planned
Funeral services for Grover Cleveland White 58 of Athens Road Princeton will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at George W Seaver Funeral Home Chapel Princeton with Rev James H Cyphers officiating Burial will follow in Athens He was born in Athens son of the late N L and Mary Lou Belle Griffith White a retired lumberman and member of Burke Memorial Baptist Church Princeton A lifelong Mercer County resident He is survived by daughters Serita K White of McLean Va and Mrs Vicki Manning of Columbus Ga one son Grover C White Jr of Baltimore Md four sisters Mrs O J Andessa Wright of Beckley Mrs William Helen Harvey Mrs J Lewis Edith Wood and Mrs Lacy Agnes Skeens all of Princeton one brother Garland White of Princeton and three grandchildren Pallbearers Charlie Alfred Wade Hurt Herbert Morris Mike Hogan Larry Skeens and Eugene Hazelwood funeral home today from 7 to 9 m
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Lora Pine
North State St
Athens
Princeton
Mercer County
James R
Polly White Pine
Bluefield
Concord College
Masonic
Elks Lodges
First Christian Church
Ruth Day
Geneva Green
the Fork
Ida Pine
Vernie Pine
Burns-Vorna
Orville Harvey
Pine Cemetery
Rt. 3
Grover Cleveland White
Athens Road
George W. Seaver
Serita K. White
McLean
Garland White
Charlie Alfred
Wade Hurt
Herbert Morris
Mike Hogan
Larry Skeens
Eugene Hazelwood
Public Aid Leader Dies in Florida at 85
Former Keystone resident Pauline C. Elliott, once an area administrator for the State Department of Public Assistance, died March 6 in Orlando, Florida, at age 85. She helped launch a national pilot for food stamps Medicare and welfare under President Kennedy and retired in 1964. Born in Glenville, she was the daughter of Joe N. Craddock and Virginia Wodell Craddock. Surviving siblings include J Thelma Cruse of Clarksburg. daughter Beverly Baylor of Keystone, formerly Orlando. son Joe C. Elliott of Charlotte. one granddaughter and one great grandchild. Memorial services are Sunday at 2 p.m. at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Bluewell.
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Keystone
Pauline C. Elliott
State Department of Public Assistance
Orlando
Fla
Elliott
John Kennedy
Department
Glenville
Joe N
Virginia Wodell Craddock
Charles Earnest Elliott
Dantz W. Craddock
Wininford Ewing
Eula Ewing
Cecil Starand
J. Thelma Cruse
Clarksburg
Thomas
Beverly) Baylor
Joe C. Elliott
Charlotte
N.C
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Bluewell
Bank Robbery Sparks Victory Empty Vault and Fleeing Bandits
Two men in ski masks raided a bank vault taking 311000 dollars in minutes and fled in a stolen red pickup. One suspect, Lockhart, later boarded a 1971 Oldsmobile from Kentucky. the other continued in the truck later abandoned. Investigators say money was split and some spent while a third suspect remains under investigation. Bond set at 311000 for Lockhart and Blankenship with a Monday preliminary hearing in Pikeville. Science confirms the bank minimized security until after the robbery. Hurley lies near the border of Kentucky and West Virginia.
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Lockhart
Kentucky
Edwards
U.S
Pikeville
Blankenship
U.S. District Court
Hurley
Virginia
West Virginia
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Masthead and Rate Card
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph established 1893 is published daily by the Daily Byretched Printing Co. at 412 Bland Street Bluefield West Virginia 24701. It is a member of the Associated Press with exclusive rights to local and credited news. Subscription rates list West Virginia rates at 56.80 yearly and home delivery at 4.90 per month. Address changes go to P O Box 206 Bluefield WV 24701. Representative Landon Associates.
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Byretched
Bland Street
Associated Press
Bluefield
W.va
West Virginia
P.O Bor
W Va
Landon Associates
Green Berets Sent to El Salvador in Training Role
The Reagan administration plans to dispatch 15 Army Special Forces troopers to El Salvador to train Salvadoran units in guerrilla warfare techniques. A $140 million aid package, including $63.5 million U.S. funds, is being assembled with IMF support as the administration shifts to a more restrained approach and scales back initial expansion hopes. 42 U.S. military personnel are already there, with the total rising to 54 after the Green Berets arrive.
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Washington
Reagan
Green Beret
el Salvador
U.S
Pentagon
Panal Canal Zone
State Department
International Monetary Fund
Salvador
Radom Strike Threat Tests Solidarity Demands in Poland
In central Poland, Solidarity officials from 340 Radom area factories threaten a warning strike next Wednesday and plan to mobilize over 300 plants unless the government negotiates 17 demands. Lech Walesa urged restraint amid ongoing government pressure on dissidents.
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Warsaw
Poland
Radom
Solidarity Independent Union
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Lodz
Canadians Press EPA Over Acid Rain Emissions
Ontario officials urged the U S Environmental Protection Agency to reject a bid to relax air standards that would allow 660 000 tons more sulfur dioxide annually from 18 coal fired plants across West Virginia Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and Tennessee The province argues for enforcement of existing rules and a right to participate in decisions affecting Ontario and cites past agreements and international law as justification.
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Conoco Coal Development Co
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Conoco
Consolidation Coal Co
Consolidation
New York
Ontario
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Tennessee
Graham W.S. Scott
Canada
Ontario Hydro
New York State
Scott
Anne Gorsuch
Washington
Dorset
Edward Piche
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Birmingham
Eddie Daniels
Chicago
Ill
Mount Calvary United Holy Church
J.W. Wallace
Hartwell Cemetery
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Estelle R
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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Mae Alvis
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Richard Flowers
Resthaven Park
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Betty M
Cravens-Shires
Harold Goins
Dequine
Kathryn Reynolds
Kathryn Frances Reynolds
Dayton
Hardy
Harry H
Susan Folden Ide
Burke Memorial Baptist Church
Ide
Lillian Martin
Brookville
Dorothy Gwinn
Helena Payne
Springboro
Virginia Popp
Dena Buchman
Canton
Burns-Wornal Chapel of Memorial Funeral Directory
George Kelly
Roselawn Memorial Gardens
Drosick
Buchanan
Buchanan County
Wanda McCoy
Gene Duff
Virginia State Police
Grundy Police
Duff
Randy Jackson
Jackson
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Warlick
RCA
Prof Baarwremt
Spring ST. Bluefield
Pakistan
Frederick Hubbell
Des Moines
Iowa
Craig Richard Clymore
Wake Forest
Lawrence Clifton Mangum
New York City
Spain
Islamabad
CIA
Washington, D.C
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Adam Michnik
Committee For Social Self-Defense
KOR
Michnik
Communist Party
Trybuna Ludu
Roger Street
James R. Thompson Jr
Davis S. Mandeville
Mandeville
Debra K. White
Thompson
F.E. Thomas
Elliot Trudeau
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