Obituary notices from Orgas Boone County and Charleston area
Obituaries list Roy Anderson 71 of Orgas Boone County who died after a long illness at Raleigh Boone Medical Center Whitesville. Survived by wife Jessie Coffee Clemons Anderson, daughters June Withrow and Ruth Jarrett, stepsons Floyd Clemons and Roy Clemons, sisters Leona Stapelton and Ruth Sellards, eight grandchildren. Service set 1 p.m. Thursday Armstrong Funeral Home Whitesville, burial Montgomery Memorial Park London. Spencer Dawkins 75 of 1319 Lee Terrace died Tuesday at St. Francis Hospital after a long illness. World War I veteran, former Charleston Housing Authority employee and miner. Survived by wife Ida, son Robert, stepdaughters Doris Booker and Marion Jackson, sisters Rosetta Jeter and Henrietta Sanders, brother Foster, five grandchildren, five great grandchildren. Body at Harden-Harden Funeral Home. Mrs. Maxine H. McAllister 48 of South Charleston died Monday in Charleston General Hospital after a long illness. Former GMAC employee and American Business Women's Association member. Survives: husband Ernest B. McAllister, brother Clifton E. Butch Haynes, sisters Thelma Eroyle Hammack and Georgia Syble Quay. Service 1 p.m. Thursday Cunningham Funeral Home, burial Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens.
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Orgas
Roy Anderson
Boone County
Raleigh-Boone Medical Center
Whitesville
Boomer
Union Carbide
Alloy
Jessie Coffee Clemons Anderson
June Withrow
Ruth Jarrett
Ravenswood
Floyd Clemons
Dayton
Ohio
Roy Clemors
West Haven
Conn
Leona Stapelton
Cabin Creek
Ruth Sellards
Eccles
Armstrong Funeral Home
James C. Workman
Montgomery Memorial Park
London
Spencer Dawkins
Lee Terrace
St. Francis Hospital
Charleston
Dawkins
Charleston Housing Authority
Ida
Robert
Doris Booker
San Fernando
Calif
Marion Jackson
Rosetta Jeter
Gaffney
S. C
Henrietta Sanders
Ashville
N.C
Foster
Wilmington
Del
Harden-Harden Funeral Home
Maxine H. McAllister
South Charleston
Charleston General Hospital
GMAC
American Business Women's Association
Ernest
McAllister
Clifton E. “Butch” Haynes
Thelma Eroyle Hammack
Georgia Syble Quay
McAllisterpel
Bonnie Jeffrey Thenlawson
Bonnie| Jeffrey
Henlawson
Logan County
Logan General Hospital
Arnold Jeffrey
Charles. Slone
Sufolk
Clarence Slone
Washington
Lula Smith
Cindia Hall
Leburn
May Adkins
Dingess Williams
Sam Williams
Joe Williams
James Funeral Home
Logan
Wayne Damron
Highland Memory Gardens
Alfred Long
Beechwood
Wyoming County
New Jersey
Ai Ling
Mount Grove Baptist Church
Wycoast
Long
Masonic Lodge
Alma Jackson
Orange
N.J
Virginia Brookins
Hampstead
N.Y
N. C. Lewis
Greenwood Memorial Park
Beckley
Ritchie-Johnson Funeral Home
Gallion
Ruby G
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Henry Fletcher
Sunset Memorial Park
Iowa St
Obits and Deaths From West Virginia Notices
Multiple death notices from West Virginia detail deaths in Charleston and surrounding areas. Entries cover Donald Fraser Precious Clay County 84 veteran and former Charleston Daily Mail pressman. Dallas Raines Kenna 71 retired dairy farmer. Benjamin Herbert Gregory Webster Springs 77 heart attack. Lorain Stogdon Charleston linked to World War I service. Bonnie Jeffrey Henlawson 49. Alfred Long Beechwood 66 WWII veteran. Basil Matthews San Jose 72 with survivors and burial. Service details and funeral homes listed.
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Donald Fraser
Donald G. Fraser
Precious
Clay County
Huntington V. A
Charleston Daily Mail
West Virginia Pressman’s Union
The
Elks
Neal
Charleston
Barlow-Bonsall Funeral Home
J. Harrell Harper
Sunset Memorial Park
Rush McCormick Quinland obituary in Quinland area
Rush F McCormick 57 of Quinland Boone County died on arrival at Boone Memorial Hospital Madison He was a 16 year Armco Steel retiree Surviving wife Dennie Scott McCormick daughter Janet Mascola Columbus Ohio son Charles Columbus sisters Virginia Mayhorn Louella Ramey Clothier Zumal Perdue Cleveland Ohio brother Shelby Foster Services 11 am Thursday Quinland Freewill Baptist Church burial Memory Gardens Madison calling after 2 pm today Handley Funeral Home Danville
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Rush McCormick
Rush F. McCormick
Quinland
Boone County
Boone Memorial Hospital
Madison
Armco Steel
Dennie Scott McCormick
Janet Mascola
Columbus
Ohio
Charles
Virginia Mayhorn
Louella Ramey
Clothier
Zumal ‘Perdue
Cleveland
Shelby
Foster
Funeral notices from multiple West Virginia towns
The body is at Parsons Funeral Home in Ripley with service at 2 p.m. Thursday led by Rev. Bobby L. Woods and burial in Plain Cemetery, Fairplain. Rufus B. Sowards 84 of Hurricane died after a long illness. survivors include wife Anna and several children. Burial at Valley View Memorial Park. Mary Pearl Weikle 68 of Caldwell died in Clifton Forge. funeral in Caldwell Pentecostal Holiness Church with burial in Adwell Cemetery. Nina Rose West 63 of Eskdale died Tuesday. she was a member of Eskdale Missionary Baptist Church. survived by sister Myrtle Crawford of Quincy.
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Parsons Fneral Home
Ripley
Thursiday
Bobby L. Woods
Fairplain Cemetery
Fairplain
Rufus B. Sowards
Huntington
Anna Sowards
M. L
Otis
Eugene
Charles Wayne
Hurricane
Carrie Cummings
George Parker
Cortland
N. Y
Allen
Valley View Memorial Park
Mary Weikle Caldwell
Mary Pearl Weikle
Caldwell
Greenbrier County
Emmett Memorial Hospital
Clifton Forge
Greenbrier
Caldwell Pentecostal Holiness Church
Claude
Anna Mae Guy
Camp Springs
Julia Hayden
Callaway
Mary Morgan
Ronceverte
Dorothy Martin
Luetta Brant
Lewisburg
Eskdale Missionary Baptist Church
Myrtle
Mildred Owens
Cincinnati
Ohio
Carl
Ohley
Cliffford Tucker
Jee Ferrell
Marmet Cemetery
Pryor Funeral Home
East Bank
Nitro council factions clash over city vehicle insurance bid
Nitro council deadlocked over awarding a 3834 contract for city fleet insurance to Insurance Exchange Inc, amid conflicts of interest and abstentions. The body also faced controversy on a 2841 air conditioning bid, favoring Kerstein Engineering while local businessman Landers urged Nitro firm preference.
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Nitro
Insurance Exchange, Inc
W. W. Alexander
William Gibson
Thomas Lilly
Mayors
Kerstein Engineering Co
Charleston
Hill
Kerstein
Casebolt
Landers Plumbing and Heating
Obituary notices from West Virginia communities
Multiple obituaries list survivors and funeral details for Rondell Armstrong Ruby Gallion Naomi Hall Granvil Kincaid Daisy Inez Painter Anna Ruth Robertson Mary Virginia Stewart Joe Lawton Wilson and more. Services are planned at various churches and funeral homes with burials in Greenwood Memorial Park Ridgeway Cemetery and other local sites.
Legislature eyes supplemental funds for rising institution food costs
West Virginia deliberations warn of a likely 1974 supplemental appropriation to cover climbing food costs at state institutions. Bruce Haddix of the West Virginia Children's Home reports budgeting adjustments and stockpiled goods while noting eggs at 1.02 per dozen and local sources supplying meat and milk.
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Haddix
Louise Leonard
R-Jefferson
Huttonsville Correctional Center
Rock concert ban upheld in West Virginia
Hancock County Circuit Court Judge Callie Tsapis denied a motion to dissolve an injunction blocking Ogden Enterprises of Boston from holding a rock concert on August 12 at Waterford Park in Chester. State Supreme Court Justice Sprouse declined a writ of prohibition. An earlier July 8 concert at Waterford Park drew about 40,000 attendees.
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New Cumberland
W.va
Hancock County
Callie Tsapis
Chester
Waterford Park
Tsapis
Ogden Enterprises
Boston
State Supreme Court
James M. Sprouse
Ogden
Commissioner appoints J Gaines Means to South Charleston police panel
South Charleston Mayor J Alfred Poe named J Gaines Means to the police civil service commission replacing the Rev John Connelly who left the city for Texas. Means is a lifelong resident and former councilman active in church and community.
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South Charleston
J. Alfred Poe
J. Gaines Means
Police Civil Service Commission
Means
John Connelly
Fifth Avenue
Tractor trailer crash kills driver in West Virginia
James Freeland aged 32 of Wellsburg died Tuesday when his tractor trailer overturned on U S 250 in Marion County West Virginia. Police said the incident occurred early morning, investigation underway as wreckage blocked the highway.
Prison Band Seeks Former Inmate Guitarists After Escape
In Heber Springs Arkansas AP reports Cummins Prison Farm inmates Harold Stone 27 and James Rayburn 34 who played lead and bass with the Ball and Chain Gang fled during a 10 minute break while on an outside job at Thunderbird Club Greers Ferry Lake. Stone 21 year sentence for rape and Rayburn 10 year sentence for grand larceny. Reunion Mount Hermon Church Sunday in Roane County.
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Heber Springs
Ark
Greers Ferry Lake
Stone
Rayburn
Reporter Who Wrote Of Fatal Ill Dies in Lewiston Maine
Lewiston journalist Richard Kisonak, famed for a national AP feature on living with ALS and a terminal prognosis, died Tuesday at 44 after a two month battle with the disease. He published a personal account in 1972 and defied his doctors’ one year forecast by surviving beyond Christmas 1972 with his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Maine
Chard Kisonak
Kisonak
Lou Gehrig
Associated Press
Government to Intervene In Housing Project Suit
Federal government to intervene in a $6 million civil case over the Hanna Drive Housing Project. The suit targets Theodore D. Morlang and Buckeye Union Insurance Co. for at least $1 million, alleging repayment for funds advanced after Morlang’s default on FHA insured contracts.
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Michdall
White
U. S
K. K. Hall
Theodore D. Morlang
Buckeye Union Insurance .Co
Atty
John A. Field II
Buckeye Union
Prudential Insurance Co
Morlang
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Hanna Drive
Charleston
Price T. Ballard
Fred M. Wilmoth
Vienna Insurance
James Frederick Haught
St. Paul
Wedge Hall
Miner Killed In Rock Fall
A rock fall at Consolidation Coal Company's No 20 mine in Four States West Virginia killed Lloyd E Shaw 30 of Wallace in Harrison County Officials said Shaw had worked at the Marion County shaft mine for two months
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W. Va
Consolidation Coal Company
Lloyd E. Shaw
Wallace
Harrison County
Shaw
Marion County
FDA To Inspect State Bakeries And Bottlers
West Virginia Health Department signs a contract with the FDA to supplement inspections of state bakeries and bottling plants. Dr. N H Dyer states inspections will be semiannual or more often if sanitation levels require follow-up.
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Associated Press
West Virginia Department of Health
Federal Food and Drug Administration
N. H. Dyer
Dyer
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San Jose
Ine McAllister
Dallas Raines
Kenna
Jackson County
Charleston Memorial Hospital
Warren Chapel United Methodists Church
Benjamin Gregory
Webster Springs
Benjamin Herbert Gregory
Webster County Memorial Hospital
Stae Perrisle
Lorain ‘Stogdon
South
Carol“McKe
Ava Rhodes
Raines
Lee
Sissonville
Donald
West Richfield
Curtis
Basil Matthews
Alexian Brothers Hospital
Ruth
Barbara Vargo
Ohie
Patsy Beaupre
Florida
Stéphanie Hardie
Basil
David
Obie
Stephen
New Mexico
Mark
da Q
Edward
Oak Hill Memorial Park
Rufus Sowards
Nina West
Nina Rose West
Eskdale
City Vehicle
Martha Smith Steff
Sbe
Andi
Keith’ Priddy
Lilly and Paul
Vernon Casebolt
Hugo Tidquist
Tom Melton
Roy Allen
Ison
Nitro Busnessmen
Sanders
Tidquist
Melton
Gibson
James Kessinger
Council
Middle Department Inspection Agency
Appalachian Power Co
Ridenour Memorial Park
Blakes Creek
Lilly
State Department of Highways
Kanawha Avenue
SDH
Dewey W. Mann
21St St
First Ward
James White
Mann
Planning Commission
Keith Priddy
Boyd Hart
Armstrong
Rondell Bay
Wallace-Wallace
J Rainelle
Parker Cemetery
Meadow Bridge
Mr. Armstrong
Spring Dale
Fayette County
Painter
Daisy Inez
Good Shepherd Funeral Home
Daniel Light
Ridgeway Cemetery
Wellston
Oscar Shepherd
Stewart
Mary Virginia
Keller Funeral Home
Dunbar
George Pauley
Grandview Memorial Park
Tewart
Stewart Dunbar
Wilson
Joe Lawton
Tsree Funeral Home
Oak Hill
David A. Sneed
Jack Logan
Huse Memorial Park
Fayetteville
Akron
Ansted
Lucy Parsons
Cunningham Chapel
Hansford
Maxine Mallister
Holiday Inn
Virginia
Reynolds
Quarrier Streets
Elk River
Holiday Inn Civic Center
Hermon
Roane
County
Haught
Ballard
Wilmoth
Rock Fall
FDA
FAD
Velma V. Smith
Brea
Th Ave
Valley
Pee Wee Sutton
Guner Wot
Wasel ST
West
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