Deaths and Funerals in South Boston and Rocky Mount
M rs Marion A Rowland Powell 40 of South Boston died yesterday in a local hospital. Survived by mother Martha Rowland son Marty Powell and three brothers. Funeral 2 p.m. tomorrow at Powell Funeral Home Chapel with burial at First Baptist Church Republican Grove cemetery. Gus M Law Jr 65 of Rocky Mount died yesterday at home. He was a farmer and former Glade Hill Elementary principal. Survived by wife Letlie Law a daughter Cynthia Law three step-sons a sister and three grandchildren. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday at Lynch Chapel with Masonic rites at Mountain View Memorial Park. Body at Lynch Funeral Home after 1 p.m. today.
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South Boston
Marion Alesse Rowland Powell
Halifax County
Martha Lee Terry Rowland
William Jack Rowland
Powell
Marty Powel
Jack Rowland
Marshall Rowland
Nathalie
Gordon Rowland
Halifax
Powell Funeral Home
First Baptist Church
Republican Grove
South
Boston
Rocky Mount
Gus M. Law Jr
Lynch Chapel
Edwin Vaughn
Mountain View Memorial Park
Snow Creek
Lynch Funeral Home
Mrs. Tharpe Dies At Age 80 In Danville
Minnie Ware Fowlkes Tharpe 80 of Starling Avenue died yesterday at Danville Memorial Hospital from a heart attack after a year of declining health. Born in Caswell County North Carolina she lived in Ringgold area 30 years and was a Rivermont Baptist Church member. Survived by four sons two step sons three daughters a brother two sisters 15 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Body at Barker Funeral Home with viewing 7 30 to 9 p m today.
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Minnie Ware Fowlkes ‘Tharpe
Starling Avenue
Danville Memorial Hospital
Tharpe
Caswell County
N.C
David Allen
Sarah Leah Sales Ware
Ringgold
Robert Fowlkes
Yanceyville
Keister Fowlkes
Steubenville
Ohio
Kelina Brandon
Ruby Thacker
Danville
Mildred Fowlkes
Will Ware
Providence
George W. Lovel
Jizzie Neal
Providence, N.C
Barker Funeral Home
Paul C Durham Funeral Today in Reidsville NC
A funeral for Paul C Durham aged 49 of Reidsville will be held today at 3 pm at Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church. Elder Donald Smith will officiate and burial will follow in the church cemetery. Durham died Monday at Memorial Hospital in Danville Virginia. He was born in Pittsylvania County Virginia and was a merchant and farmer. He is survived by his mother Laura Strader Durham wife Linnie Walker Durham stepson James A Foster sister Helen Ferris and four brothers Roy Durham Dewey Durham Lowery Durham Floyd Durham and five step grandchildren. The body is at Wilkerson Funeral Home.
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Reidsville
Paul C. Durham
Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church
Donald Smith
Durham
Danville
Memorial Hospital
Pittsylvania County
Laura Strader Durham
Dewey J. Durham
Pleasant Grove
Caswell County
Richard Mills Rites Tomorrow
Funeral for Richard Mills will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Beavers Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the family cemetery in West Fork. Mills died Sunday at his Lincoln Street home. he was a son of Isaac and Fannie Mills and survived by two sisters Mrs Rosa Millner West Fork and Mrs Sadie Truesdale Charlotte NC and one brother Henry Mills Bluefield WV. The body is at Beavers Funeral Home and the family at Mrs Millner's home in West Fork.
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Richard Mills
Tomorrmy
Beavers Funeral Home
West Fork
Mills
Lincoln Street
Pittsylvania County
Isaac
Fannie Mills
Rosa Millner
Sadie Truesdale
Charlotte
Henry Mills
Bluefield
W. V
Beavers Pureral
Mrs Alfred Hill Dies at 43 in Durham Hospital
Funeral today for Mrs. Alfred D Hill 43 of Ruffin North Carolina will be held at 2 p m at Afton Road Primitive Church Danville Virginia. Elders Danny Parker and Ray Spier will conduct the service Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Gardens Reidsville. She died Monday after a week in a Durham hospital.
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Reidsville
Alfred D. Hill
Afton Road Primitive Church
Danville
Danny Parker
Ray Spier
Evergreen Memorial Gardens
Hill
Durham
Percy Walker Dies At Age 77
Percy Elson Walker, 77, of Hurt Ru County, a retired farmer and Motley United Methodist Church member, died yesterday at his home. He is survived by his wife Ida Perkins Walker, two sons Major Forrest Walker and Rodney Walker, a daughter Mrs. Danny Shelton, a brother John Walker, Petersburg, two sisters Mrs. James J. Scruggs and Mrs. Edmund Shelton, both of Hurt, and three grandchildren. Body at Finch and Finch Funeral Home pending.
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Hurt
Percy Elson Walker
Hurt Ru
Pittsylvania County
Rufus
Dollie Roark Walker
Walker
Motley
Grayson enters race for 1st District Democratic nod
George W. Grayson of Williamsburg announced Tuesday his bid for the 1st District Democratic nomination to succeed Rep. Thomas Downing. The three way race includes Newport News council member Jessie M. Rattley and Del. Robert F. E. Quinn. Grayson vows a shoe leather campaign to connect with working families and critiques monopolies and utilities. Rattley notes the high cost of primaries and says race could test race and gender dynamics in southern Virginia. Downing had announced he would not seek re election.
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Wachapreague
George W. Grayson
Williamsburg
Thomas N. Downing
Grayson
Hampton
Newport News
Providence Forge
Jessie M. Rattley
Robert FE. Quinn
Legis Ature
Vember
House of Delegates
Tom Downing
Virginia
Downing
Virginia Welfare Programs Cut Payment Errors, but Still Far From Federal Goals
Virginia welfare officials report improvements in error rates for welfare payments but say current levels remain above federally required targets. The second half 1975 sampling shows 5.2 percent ineligible, 11.6 percent overpaid, and 4.4 percent underpaid errors, totaling 21.9 percent versus 24.8 percent previously. Federal rules demand 3 percent for ineligibles, 5 percent for overpayments, and 5 percent for underpayments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Virginia
State Welfare Board
William L. Lukhard
Peale to Speak at Dan River Scout Dinner
Dr Norman Vincent Peale author and religious leader will be guest speaker at the Dan River District Boy Scouts annual dinner Friday at 7 25 p m at the King of the Sea restaurant. The banquet will award volunteers and present the national Medal of Merit to a local scout for the first time in Blue Ridge Mountain Council history. A limited number of tickets are available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Vincent Peale
Dan River District
Boy Scouts of America
King of the Sea
Blue Ridge Mountain Council
Big Brothers Officers Named for 1976 Danville Area
The Big Brothers of Danville Area board installed officers for 1976. New officers are Phil Jones president C G Hairston vice president Darby Whitlow secretary and Patton Evans treasurer. New directors include Paul Harris Don Hill Gene Lewis and J P Rogers. The group plans two year terms and will boost volunteers while Paul Reavis, executive director, announces camping trips to Natural Bridge and participation in the Festival in the Park May 34-16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Brothers
Danville Area
Phil Jones
C. G. Hairston
Darby Whitlow
Patton Evans
Paul Harris
Don Hill
Gene Lewis
J.P. Rogers
Paul Reavis
Natural Bridge
Crafts Workshop At Danville Senior Center Today
The Danville Parks and Recreation Department will host a craft workshop today from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center featuring dough flowers decorative match boxes and jewelry boxes. A cancer film will be shown Friday at 3 20 p.m. on Main Street. Seniors will visit the Chatham planetarium on Tuesday April 13 with a bus departing at 1 20 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Wrestling and ballet classes start at JW Squire Armory
A boys wrestling class for ages nine to fifteen begins today at the JW Squire Armory from 4 to 3 p.m. A ballet class follows today from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. A drawing class for beginners starts Tuesday, April 13 at 7:08 p.m. Brian Stoneburg, a commercial design student at Danville Community College, will instruct.
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JW. Squire Armory
the Armory
Brian Stoneburg
Danville Community College
Henry Named Liberty Baptist Vice President for Academic Affairs
Henry G James G Henry former Averett College instructor and Liberty Baptist College dean of academic affairs since 1972 is named vice president in charge of academic affairs at Liberty Baptist. He has served three terms as Virginia Higher Education treasurer and holds degrees from Berea Eastern Kentucky and Kentucky. He is pastor of Pleasant View Baptist Church and has studied at Duke and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynchburg
James G. Henry
Averett College
Danville
Liberty Baptist College
Liberty Baptist
Department of Higher Education
Virginia
Berea College
Eastern Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Duke University
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Pleasant View Baptist Church
Richmond Stations Must Reveal Kepone Files
A federal judge ruled WLEE radio and WXEX-TV need not disclose confidential Kepone sources but must hand over all other Kepone related files to Allied Chemical Co. Lawyers for Allied sought full access to station files to move civil trials out of Richmond, arguing publicity hinders a fair trial due to the Kepone poisoning case at Life Science Products Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Richmond Area
Life Science Products Co
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Wlee Radio
Wxex-Tv
Allied Chemical Co
Informa
Tion
Kepone
Allied
Suport
Richmars
Judge Continues R Y Smith Case In District Court
Robert V. Smith Jr. faced two counts of grand larceny and the case was continued in Den ville General District Court until April 30. Judge William E. Land kept hearings for several defendants including Thomas W. McCain for felonious assault and others for possession of controlled substances, with James R. Newsome found guilty on assault, drunkenness, and resisting arrest after pleading not guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert V. Smith Jr
Denville General District Court
William E. Land
Thomas W. McCain
George ,. Haynes
Rebecca F. Comer
Harry E. DeJarnette
John W. Rigsby
James R. Newsome
Three Secretaries Sue Campbell School Board
Three Campbell County school secretaries sue the school board in Rustburg Circuit Court for back pay after an arbitration panel ruled the 1974 78 salaries were computed incorrectly. The suit, funded by the Virginia Education Association, names Elaine Bell Linda Purvis and Christine Wright and follows a 1975 grievance backed by the county education association claiming inequitable pay under a 250 day schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hichmond AP
Schol
Campbell County School Board
Virginia Education Association
Rustburg
VEA
Elaine Bell
Linda Purvis
Christine Wright
Campbell School System
County Education Association
Six of seven defendants plead guilty in Wilmington marijuana case
Six of the remaining ten defendants in the Wilmington federal marijuana smuggling case pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to import marijuana and possession with intent to distribute. Defendants named include John David Steele Sr and Jr, George Pappas, Ernest Mayo, Gary Mayo, and Johnny Armstrong. Graydon Lupton and Daniel Engler accepted other charges or faced trial. several charges were dismissed. The case covers 22 tons of marijuana worth about 25 million dollars seized last January along North Carolina coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
N.C
North Carolina
John David Steele Sr
Hallandale
Fla
John David Steele
George Brent Pappas
Miami
Frs
Ernest Hugh Mayo
Mesic
Gary 5. Mara
Johnny Burt Armstrong
Lian B
Graydon Lewis Lupton
John A. MacKenzie
Michael Rowe
Baybora
Danny Isenhart
Daniel E., Engler
Hollywood
MacKenzie
Steele
Pappas
John David Steele Jr
Gary 5
Mayo
Armstrong
John Dolan
U.S. Customs Service Office
Iso
Negotiations Unsteady Between CenTel and Union
In Charlottesville, CenTel spokesperson Claude Clitorne said the utility will "play it by ear" after Trembers Local 1337 members rejected the latest contract offer. Negotiations with Local 1337 may resume. no immediate strike threat seen. Local 1337 covers operators and office staff while Local 1181, which covers repair workers and linemen, had approved a 14 percent wage boost over three years. CenTel, the third largest state telecom, serves Martinsville to Front Royal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Central Telephone Co
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
CenTer
Claude Clitorne
Becky
Timberlake
Local
Cen- Tel
Ibew Local
CenTel
Martinsville
Front Royal
Also Mentioned on This Page
G. M. Law Jr
A. D. Hill
Percy Walker
Ist
Demo
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Rattley
Newport News Council
America
Commonwealth
U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Dr. Peale
Henry
R.Y. Smith
Sue Campbell School Board
American Arbitration Association
James P. Wythe
Schol Board
Union
Dennison
Haunsudath
Memorial Drive
Danville, Virginia
Keen Street Baptist Church
Kirk Lashley
Berryman Avenue
Walter Mann
Austin E. Jones, JR
Austin E. Jones
Sherwood Banville, Va
Townes
H. Michael Parrish
Michael
Tunstall High School
Averett
Gupton Jones College of Mortuary Science
Atlante
James H. Parrish
Westover Drive
Fairview Methodist Church
Danville Life Saving Crew
Danville Marin Lions Chub
West Main Street
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