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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 2003
Page
10
Fallen leaves blanket the forest floor while fog drifts through damp trails at Pinnacle Rock State Park on a cold Monday afternoon. The scene covers Bluefield and Princeton as mist and wet conditions persist.
The forecast shows a sequence of partly cloudy days from Tuesday through Friday with increasing temperatures. Saturday and Sunday also appear mostly cloudy with highs in the upper 60s and mid 60s alongside cool nights in the 30s to 40s.
Mrs Thelma Keene Smith 72 of Oakwood Va died Oct 26 2003 in a Buchanan County hospital after a lengthy illness. She was born in Buchanan County daughter of the late Ervin and Belry Keene and a Holiness believer. She was preceded in death by her husband Emmit Smith a daughter Beverly Ann Smith four infant siblings. Survived by three sons Jerry Rowe Delmar and Harold Smith three sisters Ruth Anderson Ruby Rife Darlene Bostic and three brothers Millard Eugene Hansel eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral 1 pm Wednesday at Buchanan Funeral Service Chapel Keen Mountain with Rev Ancil Childress officiating Burial Noah Stewart Cemetery Compton Mountain. Grandsons and nephews pallbearers. Friends may call 6-9 pm today with service at 7 pm at Buchanan Funeral Service Keen Mountain. Email condolences to singleton net scape.net.
Funeral services are set for Dennis Franklin Dodson at 11 a.m. at Burns Wornal Chapel Princeton with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Marlin Henry Honaker will be at 1 p.m. at Rowe Pentecostal Holiness Church Garden Creek with burial at Richard and Nancy Coleman Cemetery Vansant. Ruth M. Drummond Wolfe has a 2 p.m. service at A. West & Sons White Gate with burial in Mechanicsburg Cemetery.
Giles County investigators cite a 7-year-old's testimony about time spent with Holcomb. A Sept. 3 interview notes Holcomb’s admission of applying Vaseline to the child as transcripts are read in court.
Transcripts from a two hour interview show investigator Mark Gordon recounting Holcomb’s statements about a child touching him and his claim he was a trained paramedic. Witnesses from four other children and their mothers described testimony leading to the certification of 11 of the original 15 charges for presentation to the Giles County grand jury in January 2004. Holcomb remains jailed in Dublin, Virginia.
During a daylong visit Governor Wise and staff visited Welch Community Hospital and the new DMV office in Welch, attended ribbon cuttings for Premier Learning Center and toured Indian Village Industrial Park. Seven grants totaling 838,443 were announced for McDowell projects including pumps in Keystone and a new DMV parking lot.
Gaither, Bluefield High School basketball coach since 1997, announces retirement from coaching while remaining as a driver education teacher. He led Bluefield to Class AA titles in 1994 and 1995 and state runner-up finishes in 1997 and 1999 with son on two title teams. He plans more family time and will oversee a coaching vacancy, with principal and county officials handling the search.
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