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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1973
Page
4
Obituaries and funeral notices recount deaths in Danville Gretna Gretna Christian Church services for Cordie Stephens Dalton of Gretna and Irvin Wesley Jones of South Boston. Survivors include children and siblings, service times, and burial plans. Additional notes mention James Hunt of Stuart and Mae Hunt, with service at Corinth Christian Church in Chatham.
Joseph Moses Marshall will have a graveside service at Green Hill Cemetery at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev. J. C. Raper. He died Thursday in Memorial Hospital after a two year illness. Born November 2, 1895 in Surry County North Carolina, he lived in Danville since 1941 and worked for Dan River Inc. A Baptist and World War I veteran, he is survived by two sisters Mrs. Debbie Stone of Danville and Mrs. Nannie Jarvis of Petersburg, and two nieces. The body is at Townes Funeral Home and the family at 14 Elizabeth Street residence of his niece Mrs. Lucille Woodall.
Funeral rites for Mrs. Bessie Rudder Fider are set for 4 p.m. at Powell Chapel in South Boston with burial in Halifax Memorial Gardens. The 59 year old, born July 6, 1904 in Charlotte County, was a Seventh Day Adventist and is survived by her husband Lacey B. Elder of Scottsburg and brother Frank B. Rudder of Orange.
Funeral service for Mrs. Geneva Lewis will be Sunday at 1 p.m. at Mt. Sinai Glorious Church of God by Bishop H. D. Wilson with interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Tuesday in Memorial Hospital. Survived by two sons Clyde and Willie, three daughters Della Sheats, Mary Massie, and Josephine Braxton, 13 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, three sisters and many relatives. Visitation Saturday 8 to 9 p.m. at the Mt. Sinai Church of God on Dudley Street.
Virginia confusion over counting former governors heats up as acting governors from 1776 onward are reclassified. David Jameson’s eight days as acting governor shifts Holton to 72 and Godwin to 74 under a revised counting rule. aides consider counting only elected governors.
Frances Fuller Sprague of Towson Maryland died December 2. She was a reading specialist in Baltimore County Schools and wife of Carleton W. Sprague. Survived by two sons Peter and Thomas, two brothers Landon Fuller of Blacksburg Virginia and Rosenanh Fuller of San Marcos Texas, and parents Dr Louis Edward and Sallie Morrison Fuller of Danville Virginia.
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