Obituary Notices of Bailey Banks Carpenter Clawson and More
Obituaries list Williame Bailey of Dunbar a 27 year WV Water Co. employee and World War II Korean War veteran, widow Millie M., son Michael, foster daughter Kay, siblings and relatives. Other notices include Florence Gladys Banks 69 of Dunbar, Prudie Carpenter of Mansfield Ohio, Charles Williams Clawson of Fayetteville, Early Coleman of Charleston, Daisy Yates Jackson of Frankford, Mary Susan Keeney of Malden and many others with service details and survivors.
West Virginia Ranks 26th in Prime Defense Contracts
West Virginia now stands 26th among states in prime defense contracts planned, with figures indicating a rise from 46th in 1960 and 30th in 1962. The data appears in a context tied to KEITH, Eart Lowe-Service, and events involving Rep. Ken Hebe. A funeral in Ripley is noted for Keith, 6, of Ripley, age 46.
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Washington
West Virginia
Keith
Eart Lowe
Ken Hebbe
Vaitler
D-W
Ripley
Funerals Today List With Times and Cemeteries
Multiple obituaries from Huntersville to Colcord list funeral times. Margaret Herold at Martinton Presbyterian 2 pm. Clare Haupt at Tyree Oak Hill 2 30 pm. Rebecca Hoff at Vandale Spencer 1 pm. Robert Rawson 85 Elk Hills. Agnes Roth 70 Beckley St Anthony’s church and Cunningham Park. Hobart Russell 84 Albans 2 pm. Maude Scott 80 Dawes East Bank 6 pm. Lucille Spessard Huntington 2 pm Highlawn church. Ann Thomson Beckley 2 pm First Christian. Victor Versey Pratt 1 pm Pratt Cemetery. Matejine Williams Colcord 2 30 pm Arctic Church of God. others listed with times and burial places.
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Herold
Margaret
Huntersville
Pocahontas County
Martinton Presbyterian Church
W. E. Pierce
Robert Ray
Mountain View
Haupt
Clare Braucher
Glen Jean
Fayette County
Russell Or
Albans
Alley
Caldorph Funeral Home
J. W. Snodgrass
Teays Hill
Spessard
Lucille M
Huntington
Highlawn Presbyterian Church
Waller W. White
Woodmere
Homson
Ann Robertson
Park St. Beckley
First Christian Church
Beckley
James W. Witherspoon
Wildwood
Versey
Victor Stockton
Pratt
Combs
Montgomery
McDonald
Williams
Tie Matejine
Colcord
Raleigh County
Artic Church of God
Barnes Barley
Hodge Cemetery
Edith Piaf Dies at 47 in Paris After Illness
Paris reports the death of Edith Piaf a frail famed French singer 47 after a final Paris hospital hour long vigil following an internal hemorrhage. Piaf known for La Vie en Rose rose to fame in music halls with a stark black dress and stark stage presence. She spent the Riviera nights seeking a miracle before passing in the capital.
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Paris
Edith Piaf
Miss Piaf
Riviera
Deann
Miss Pial
Jean Cocteau Dies Giant of Art World at 74
Paris obituary notes Jean Cocteau died Friday at age 74 after a career as poet playwright novelist painter and filmmaker. He collaborated with Picasso Milhaud and Stravinsky and faced fame and controversy as an avant garde figure. His death followed heart issues and he left a legacy in theatre cinema and visual art.
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Jean Cocteau
Paris
Cocteau
Asa
Edith Piaf
Edmond Rostand
Marcel Proust
Anna de Noailles
Pablo Picasso
Darius Milhaud
Igor Stravinsky
Merger urged for 3 Lincoln Mason Battle high schools
A county planning committee proposes consolidating Guyan Valley Hamlin and Duval high schools into one new school near the farm mile from here, with Harts High unaffected. The plan asks a Dec 3 special levy election to raise 1 121 000 to sustain salaries transport and textbooks. The three current high schools would become junior highs housing about 1200 students in grades 10 12. four year enrollments total about 1500.
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Hamlin
Lincoln County
County Board of Education
Guyan Valley
Duval
Harts High School
Merrill Clark
Pt Pleasant Strike Talks Fruitless
Representatives of Marietta Manufacturing Co and machinists Local 1538 discussed a new contract for an hour in Pt. Pleasant but made no progress. Federal Mediator Howard Stelter of Parkersburg recessed the talks and will notify parties of a future meeting. Talks Tuesday about the shipyard walkout sparked Oct. 1 were recessed until next week. Contracts covering about 600 striking workers expired last Tuesday.
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Point Pleasant
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Machinists Local 1538
Howard Steeler
Parkersburg
Milton Boy Drowns in Partially Drained Pool
Five year old Bobby Kinnard son of Mr and Mrs Harold Kinnard of Milton drowned Friday in a partially drained pool behind the home of Dr L C Richmond Jr a Milton physician Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful The drowning occurred while the boy played with Dr Richmonds son Survivors include his parents grandparents Emalene Kinnard Homer and Mrs Homer McCallister and great grandmother Lena Chapman The body is at Heck Funeral Home.
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Milton
Bobby Kinnard
Harold Benjamin Kinnard
L. C. Richmond Jr
Richmond
Kinnard
Emalene Kinnard
Huntington
Homer McCallister
Charleston
Lena Chapman
Heck Funeral Home
Dudding Ex Official of UFG Dies at 69 in South Charleston
Byron T. Dudding, longtime United Fuel Gas Co. official, died at his South Charleston home at 4023 Kirby Street. A former meter reader rising to assistant vice president, he retired in 1959. He leaves a widow Alma Martin Dudding and sister Eva McGhee. Funeral at First Presbyterian Church, burial Winfield Cemetery. Contributions to church welfare fund requested.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Abbie Sears
Richwood
Earl
Evelyn Segel
Shady Spring
Gertrude Shelton
Calloway Heights
Gallipolis Medical Center
Fola Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge
Keith
Paul Beal
Ravenswood Cemetery
Mildred
Barbara Kyre
South Charleston
Starcher
Harriett
First Baptist Church
Webster Springs
Denmar State Hospital
Sampson Miller
Lloyd Cosby
Miller Cemetery
Eva Payne
Cowen
Nettie Dodrill
Bertha Gillespie
Lil
Byron T. Dudding
United Fuel Gas Co
Kirby St
Mr. Dudding
Nitro
Spencer and Clendenin
UFG Properties
UFG
West Virginia
Kentucky
Winfield
Capital City Commercial College
First Presbyterian Church
Knights of Pythias
Khorassan
Thomas Memorial Hospital
Alma Martin Dudding
Eva McGhee
John Wilcox
Winfield Cemetery
Snodgrass Funeral
Ex Evangelist and Boxer Tiz Jones Revoked Parole
Clarence Jones known as Tiz Jones, a Charleston born former heavyweight, is ordered back to the state penitentiary to serve the remainder of his sentence after a second parole revocation. He previously carried a long criminal record including break and enter convictions and a boxing career halted by prison terms. His latest revocation requires him to serve until 1968, with past parolees reflecting multiple incarcerations and periods in California and Ohio.
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Clarence
Tigi Jates
Statege Board of Probation and Parole
Jones
Charleston
Moundsville
Monroe County
Summersey
California
New Martinsville
Fairmont
Akron
Ohio
Wreck Kills Upshur Girl
Onila Jean Hyre seventeen of Wilsontown Upshur County was killed when a car left state route 4 near Hinkleville and crashed into an embankment. Two other teenagers Roger G McKish nineteen of Crawford and Lea Bell Marley of Gaines were injured in the same crash.
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Buckhannon
Onila Jean Hyre
Wilsontown
Upshur County
Hinkleville
Roger G. McKish
Crawford
Lea Bell Marley
Gaines
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Fayetteville
Elizabeth Rutherford
Richmond, Va
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West Point
Faye Rose
Madge Homes
St. Petersburg
Fla
Coleman
Crescent Road
Kanawha County
New York Central Railroad
Lula
Earl L
Virginia Beach
Rosemary Saddier
Germany
Betty Farber
Harmony
Bertha Dunn
Buffalo
Elk Funeral Home
Gore
Charlie
Raven Drive
Rand
St. Francis Hospital
Church of God At
Lovern
Mercer County
Eugene
Dannie
Indianapolis
Ind
Arthelia Walker
Viola Jackson
Ella Walker
Preston Funeral Home
The
Gaselie
Lanier
Georgia
Sweet Springs
Welch General Hospital
Lottie Lanier
Hilda Poss
St. Albans
Cunningham Funeral Home
McClung
Norris Delano
Dodd-Payne
Ralph Parsons
Treadway
Beckwith
Wallowa
Ore
Enterprise
Ruth
Bradley
Pamela Sue
Anita Jean
Aubrey McClung
Delbarton
James
8.C
Joyce McClung
Nasales, Ariz
Elizabeth Maynard
Elizabethtown
Katherine Runion
Carl
Air Force
Swan
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Mount Lookout
Nicholas County
Theodore Carte
Congo
Lanham
Delaware
Europe
Bonnadean
Connie
Debra
Isse Evans
Mount. Lookout
Clyde
Summersville
Stover
Cyrus
Virgie
Fulton
Ameagle
Ernest Barley
Ameagie
Mr. Stover
Eliza
Carlin
Richard
Bull
Barbara Johnson
Lottie Hodge
Belva Huffman
Elkview
Elijah
Valley Funeral Home
Willesville
Scott
Maude
Dawes
Eskdale
Pryor Funeral Home
East Bank
Carl E. Burrows
Montgomery Memoral Park
London
Faria Selr
Orpheus
France
Lincoln Mason Battle High
Tiendiewie Park
Daughters of the American Revolution
Andrew Lewis
Cornstalk
Thunderbird
Apécio
EL Rancho
Milton Boy
B.T. Dudding
Byrea T. Dedding
Zin
ATLAS
Tiz’ Jones
Becline
Upshur
Penn. Avenue
United
Hand
the United Way
West Virginia Water Company
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