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Newspaper

Danville Register

Location

Danville, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Feb 23, 1969

Page

8

Former Local Weaver Helps Poor Teaches Them To Sew

A former Danville woman Mary Meeks now Mary Meeks Martell works as a VISTA volunteer in St. George DC teaching sewing to women facing dispossession as job gains rise. Stan Martell teaches men to build homes as they work with eight Dorchester families. They plan another VISTA tour in Florida.

VISTA Mary Mary Martell UWIS Stan Martell Men of St. George Danville Mary Meeks Dan River Mills Mary Meeks Martell Service To America D.C Martell N. C Miami Stan Dorchester County Self-Help Housing Association Farmers Home Administration FHA Florida

Mrs. Mary Baggett Funeral Rites Held

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Baggett were held Saturday afternoon in the Chapel of Swicegood Funeral Home with Rev. R. J. Barber Jr and Rev. E. E. Byrum officiating. Interment followed in Higland Burial Park. Pallbearers included Willard Burnett James Burnett Melvin Burnett Wayne Baggett Ronnie Baggett Kenneth Baggett Thomas Chaney and Marvin Chaney.

Mary E. Baggett Chapel of Swicegood Funeral Home R. J. Barber, Jr E. E. Byrum Higland Burial Park Willard Burnett James Burnett Melvin Burnett Wayne Baggett Ronnie Baggett Kenneth Baggett Thomas Chaney Marvin Chaney

Graveside Rites Slated Today For A. H. Taylor

Ar mand Harry Taylor age 81 will have graveside services today at 3 p.m. in Green Hill Cemetery Greenville. He died on arrival last Thursday at a Greenville hospital. Born February 22 1887 in Berkley he was a son of Ar mand H. Taylor and Agnes Hathaway Taylor. He lived in Danville and Norfolk previously and settled in Greenville in 1913. He attended Bum combe St Methodist Church and was retired as chief.

Armand Harry Taylor Green Hill Cemetery Taylor Greenville S.C Berkley Armand H Agnes Hathaway Taylor Danville Norfolk Bumcombe St. Methodist Church

Jessie Eugene Davis Funeral Rites Held

Funeral services for Jessie Eugene Davis were conducted Saturday afternoon from the graveside in Shockoe Baptist Church Cemetery by Reverends Gerald K. Grubb and C. L. Woodall. Davis, a retired farmer, died Thursday night in Memorial Hospital.

Jessie Eugene Davis Shockoe Baptist Church Gerald K. Grubb C. L. Woodall Mr. Davis Memorial Hospital

Obituary notice for Maude Epperson Taylor family ties

The clerk to the sept of Southern Railway in Greenville is survived by his wife Maude Epperson Taylor of Greenville one sister Mia Beatrice Taylor Doxey of Norfolk and one brother George H Taylor of Norfolk. The body is at Townes Funeral Home.

Sept. of Southern Railway Greenville Maude Epperson Taylor Mia Beatrice Taylor Doxey Norfolk George H. Taylor Townes Funeral Home

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