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Newspaper
Danville Register
Location
Danville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1966
Page
11
A listing of graduates across programs at Temple University includes Data Processing, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Auto Body and Fender, Auto Mechanics, Drafting and Design, Electronics, Machine Shop, and Offset Printing. The speaker emphasizes national issues must be addressed for meaningful achievement. Notable names appear in each program, highlighting the cohort’s diverse fields and affiliations.
Mrs Etta Joseph Evans 57 died yesterday at her sister Gracie Robertson's Danville home. She lived in Baltimore four years and worked at Dan River Mills. Survived by mother Melissa Ricketts sister Gracie Robertson two sons Jesse and John Evans daughter Margaret Odessa Evans brother William Ricketts seven grandchildren. Body at Wrent Yeatts Funeral Home.
Funeral rites for Mrs Lanna Bennett were held Friday afternoon at the Scott Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev W D Mull and the Rev L F Gayton officiated. Burial followed in the Mill Creek Baptist Church cemetery with pallbearers A E Walker Roy Roach Charles Windley Harry Harris Turner Oakes James Robertson and W J Harris.
Graveside rites for Mrs Bes sie Moorefield, 69, will be held Monday at 11 a.m. in Highland Burial Park. She died Thursday night at her home, 1201 Claiborne Street, after a long illness spanning 15 years.
Final rites for Miss Pauline Lena Hodnett were conducted yesterday afternoon from Townes Memorial Chapel by the Rev C C Crawford and Dr Paul W Hodge. Interment followed at Leemont Cemetery with pallbearers Hughes Motley Watson Motley Richard Nolan Milton Perry L G Mize and Thomas Smith.
Last rites for Mrs Bertha Mae Pruitt Arnold were conducted yesterday afternoon at Wrenn Yeatts chapel by Rev Carl Burger. Interment followed in Mountain View Cemetery with pallbearers Richard Moore Rev J B Arthur Wylie Hudgins Joseph Haymore Oscar Bray Willard Franklin and Herman Grant assisting.
Carrying on in Lincoln County, NL, the incumbent Republican county central committee chairman is set for his 15th year in the post. Joe Sapp is noted as a committee member for 31 years.
Graveside services for Mrs Grace Gilbreath Thornton will be held at Mountain View Cemetery at 2 p.m. with Dr Howard Lee officiating. She died yesterday at Memorial Hospital after a month long illness. Born November 16 1893 in Wilhassee College Tenn she was the daughter of Sidney G and Norma Gilbreath. She lived in Danville for four years and was survived by son Gordon Thornton of New York sisters Mrs Paul Viall and Mrs Duncan Cobb and brother Sidney Gilbreath. She was active in a Raleigh Methodist church and DAR and UDC. Her husband Walter E Thornton died June 29.
A 19 year old Pelham resident Paul Linwood Heffinger sustained multiple abrasions and a deep laceration after his scooter collided with a car at Broad and Randolph streets. Driver Samuel Davis Kent was charged with failure to obey a stop sign. Police report car damage estimated at 200 dollars. A separate hit and run left Evelyn Roberta Wilson with neck injuries after her car was struck near Riverside Center by a North Carolina registered vehicle.
A gospel music program by the Klaudt Indian Family from the Dakota Badlands is set for 8 pm at the First Pentecostal Holiness on N Main St. The family presents in Indian costumes and performs quartets trios duets solos and group arrangements with pianist Mack Evans.
Funeral services for Joe Albert Wood age 10 are planned for Sunday at 4 p m at Sandy Level Baptist Church with burial in Gretna Burial Park. A Gretna native son of Mr and Mrs William A Wood of Titusville Florida, he died in a Wednesday bicycle accident. The body will arrive at Colbert Funeral Home late Saturday night and the family will receive friends at the Meadows home Gretna Route 1.
Leroy Richard McBride, 40, claims his rights were violated after confessing to Baltimore police. He is bound over for grand jury on a murder charge stemming from the December 19 death of Joe Yeatts at a Cliff Street home during a canned-heat drinking party. McBride testified he signed the statement only to end the ordeal and said he was not advised of rights. police testified he volunteered the information. He recounts Yeatts fell and struck a mantel, disputing the officers’ version of events.
Col Beverley C. Snow Jr of the Wilmington District U S Army Corps of Engineers warned swimmers and boaters to follow water safety rules near Kerr and Philpott lakes. He noted drownings occurred outside designated areas and urged life jackets and use of buoyed zones marked by project personnel. Parents should discuss water safety with children as efforts to reduce fatalities continue.
Final services for David L. Setliff were conducted yesterday from Swicegood Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Smith officiating. Burial followed at Schoolfield Cemetery with Masonic rites by Ramah Lodge of Masons. Pallbearers were Ronald Fargis Alvin Meade Micky Ingram Herman Vaden John Ingram Harold Ingram Eddie Vaden and Carl Ingram.
James William Beggerty filed in Corporation Court for 25000 dollars against James Jefferson Martin. Beggerty, passenger, was thrown from a truck last March 23 in Floydane High Street parking lot when the door opened. He alleges the hatch was faulty while he held automobile glass.
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