Deaths And Funerals In Chatham And Vicinity
Death notices from Chatham and nearby areas report Mary Rigney Rigney 79 of Chatham Rt 4 died at home. Survived by a son, four daughters, seven half-sisters, eight grandchildren, and 142 great grandchildren. Funeral at Mathews Memorial Presbyterian Church with burial there. Also listed are memorials for Eugene Nedley 25 of Yanceyville killed at Walter Kidd Corp plant, Mrs Willie Garcia of Danville area, Mildred Bradley Hobbs of Danville, and Mr. Watkins of Reidsville with funeral plans pending.
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Chatham
Mary Rigney Rigney
Chatham Rt
Pittsylvania County
Gilmer Rigney
Clary Griggs Rigney
Rigney
Samuel Lee Rigney
Sue
Tabernacle Christian Church
Woodrow W. Rigney
Rocky Mount
Percy T. Rigney
Willard
Matherly
Ben
Kenneth L. Wilmusherr
J.C Kunt Ll
Scott Funeral Home
Yanceyville
N.C
Eugene
Buddy" Nedley
Yanceyville Ai. 1
Walter Kidd Corp
Mebane
Hooper Funeral Home
Willie Mae Tiller Garcia
Bradley Road
Danville Memorial Hospital
Sims
Edna Elliott Tifler
Frank Tiler
Avery C. Watkins
Reidsville
Rosa Adams
Elkins
Bessie Lilly
Abingdon
Okey Sayars
Danville
Robert Archie
Ada Cox
Virginia Peters
Mozelle Cary
Roanoke
Valley Johnson
Dorothy Joseph
California
Wilkerson Chapel
Rev
Harrelson
Greenview Cemetery
Wilkerson Funeral Home
Chatham Town Candidates Enter Race in 1970s Era Note
Numerous local contenders in Pittsylvania and Chatham file for town council and mayoral seats. Profiles include Crider, Hall, Arey, Saunders, Arty, Roach, and Sanders with church and civic ties, work histories, and family details. One obituary reports the death of John Robert Allen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arey
Michael R. Saunders
Chatham Council
Saunders
Martinsville
Chatham
Saunders Lumber Co
Betty
Jean
Rogers
Hurt Council
Pittsylvania
Roach
Hurt
Kippman Mills
Altavista Life Saving Crew
New Prospect Baptist Church
Geneva Whitlow
Wile
City Recreation Schedules Offer Wide Week of Classes
A cluttered list shows Thursday offerings from 10 30 to noon with women s badminton and a clogging class Friday evening. Saturday features beginner tennis youth and adults plus nature crafts and swimming with special flight training ground school horseback riding archery. Preschool activity runs 9 to noon at the armory Monday through Friday. New city auditorium courses include creative drama bowling radio announcing Monday beginning clarinet and martial arts Tuesday advanced bead making and sign language Wednesday music appreciation Thursday and beginner guitar Saturday. Green Street Center posts new times for preschool to adult classes including weight lifting creative drawing and arts and crafts with afternoons 2 30 to 5 general center notes.
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Green Street Center
Buddy Banks Funeral Today
Funeral for Buddy Raymond Banks of New Rochelle New York set for 2 p.m. at Triumph Baptist Church. He died Thursday at his residence and is survived by his wife, siblings, and several relatives. Body at Cunningham and Hughes Funeral Home.
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Gretna Town
Elba Baptist Church
Smith
Veola Davis
John Robert Allen
Lincoln St
Mr. Allen
Pittslvania County
Jack
Jennie Ann Allen
Liberty Hill
Buddy Raymond Banks
New Rochelle
N.Y
Triumph Baptist Church
4. G. McGee
Mr.Banks
New York
Banks
Nwo
Carol Banks
Danville
Phillip C. Banks
X.Y
Ethel James Buffalo
Flossie Banks
Agnes Banks
Vernon
Tina Waller
Landover
Essie. Robertson
Lynchburg
Pearl Walker
Cunningham and Hughes
Mary Elizabeth Nelms Stone Rites Held at Grove United Methodists
A Radford funeral for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Nelms Stone was held yesterday at Grove United Methodist Church at 1 30 p m. She lived in Radford and was affiliated with Gulf Oil Corporation. She is survived by her husband and three sons Lewis Vaughan Stone Jr Jeffery Campbell Stone and William B Stone and two sisters Mrs Moffett Bowman and Miss Silvia Nelms of Roanoke.
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Haywood
Crider
Chatham
Hairston
Tire
Pittsylvania County
Hazel Aros Crider
Virginia R. Sanders
Richmond
Pittsylvania County General District Court
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Elvis Hall Jr
Chatham Town Council
Ennis Business Forms Inc
Watson Membria) United Methodist Church
Chatham Lions Club
Masonic Lodge No. 24
Hall
Florine Hardie
Chatham Council
Richard W. Arty
Independence
Kansas
Radford
Mary
Elizabeth Nelms
Grove United Methods Church
An Stone
Ing
Stone
Gulf OW Corporation
Lewis Vaughan Stone Jr
Jeffery Campbell Stone
William B. Stone
Moffett Bowman
Silvia Nelms
Roanoke
Rites Thursday For Mrs. Betsy Moore
Funeral services for Betsy Roach Moore will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at Fair Funeral Home Chapel. Burial follows at Overlook Cemetery. Friends may call today from 7 to 9 p.m. at Fair Funeral Home. Mrs. Moore, 76, of Eden, died Monday in a Brookbridge Florida nursing home.
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Eden. N.C
Betsy Roach Moore
Fair Funeral Home
Overlook Cemetery
Moore
Eden
Borkbridge
Fla
93 Year Old Champion Putter Travels On Cue
Edith Siter, 93, of Hot Springs, says she can travel anywhere at will with her putting skills. At Woodrum Airport she shows a practiced stroke and recalls winning a Breakers Palm Beach contest. She recalls a long golf life, a hip break twelve years ago, and still plays in memory of the game.
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Edith Siter
Hot Springs
Palm Springs
Fla
Roanoke
Woodrum
Palm Beach
Breakers
Siter
East Hampton
Long Island
Landscape Exhibit at DCC Campus March 11 12
A Virginia Museum art mobile brings The Nature of Landscape to Danville Community College March 11 and 12. The display runs 9 am to noon and 1 to 5 pm at the Kemper Road South Main Street intersection, featuring 12 artists from France England America and the Netherlands. All works are on loan from the Virginia Museum. curator Charles Worsham selected pieces exploring God and nature manifest destiny and nature as backdrop to human activity and technological change.
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DCC
Virginia Museum
Danville Community College
Kemper Road
South Main Street
France
England
America
Netherlands
Charles Worsham
Hackett Handed 85 Years On Stabbing Death Conviction
MANASSAS Va AP Marine Pfc Reginald Lee Hackett 21 of Washington DC was sentenced to 85 years after being found guilty in the December 31 stabbing death of Pfc Helen Wheat 19 of Frankfort KY Both stationed at Quantico Wheat died after surgery from wounds and Hackett testified he found her wounded and fled leaping from a window during the incident The jury of five women seven men deliberated two hours to reach the verdict Hackett received 80 years for first degree murder and five years for robbery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manassas
Reginald Lee Hackett
Washington, D. C
Prince Willian County
Hackett
Helen Wheat
Frankfort
Miss Wheat
Quantico Marine Corps Base
Quantico
Jobin Johnson
Johnson
Reggie
Wheat
John Soil
Huskins
Alford
Carter
Anson
Rozell
Oxendine Hunt
Joe Hunt
Brenda Jacobs
Hunts
Seniors Plan Bus Trip and Activities At Center
The Senior Citizens Center schedules a Sourstock pendalogy clinic with Danville Public Library tomorrow at 2 p.m. Other activities include a 9 45 a m walking tour and a bowling outing 2 to 4 p.m. A Friday March 3 driver safety class begins eight weeks later. The Council on Aging meets Monday at p m to elect officers. A bus trip to Barn Dinner Theater Greensboro NC is set for March 14. Planetarium hosts Glorious Easter programs Tuesdays at 7 20 p m in March and April with Easter Sunday date variability explained by Director Calabrisi. Reservations for private showings are accepted. programs are free.
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Danville Public Library
Oes Thirreday
Ta Ge
Main
The
Council On Aging
Barn Dinner
Greensboro
N.C
Ats
Chatham
Pittsylvania County Schools’ Planetarium
Pam Planetarium
John A. Calabrisi
Planetarium
ESEA
Barry Herndon Wins Pittsylvania FFA Public Speaking Contest
Barry Herndon of Tunstall High School won the Pittsylvania County FFA Federation Public Speaking Contest held Monday in the Tunstall High School auditorium. His speech titled Is There Really a World Food Shortage. A judges questions segment followed the talk.
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Barry Nerndon
Tunstall High School
Pittsylvania County
FFA Federation
Herndon
White Case to Grand Jury in Danville Drug Case
Danville judge William E. Land certified William G. White's case to the grand jury for distributing a controlled drug on Oct 9 last year. Mark R. Scott was found guilty of drunken driving on Nov 23, license suspended for three years and 30 days at the City Farm.
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Danville General District
William E. Land
William G. White
Danville
Mark R. Scott
City Farm
Peggy Martin Named to Ferrum College Honors List
Peggy L. Martin of Danville has been named to Ferrum College semester honors list. The recognition goes to students maintaining at least a B average for the term, reflecting strong academic performance.
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Ferrum
Peggy L. Martin
Mamie A Martin
Danville
Ferrum College
New Trial Ordered In N. C. Murder Case
The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a Charlotte man, John Thomas Alford, in the 1974 killing of Gregory Leonard, while upholding related death sentences and life terms in other cases. The decision allows Alford to use a confession tied to co-defendant Carter and may lead to acquittal despite eyewitness identifications.
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Alford
Waddell
Leonard
Carter
Frank Huskins
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Eugene Nedley
Chatham High School
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness
Semora
Robert and
Kelly Netiey
W. R. Stanley, Elkin
Garcia
Mrs. Hobbs
Mildred Allison Bradley Hobbs
Wyllie Ave
Memorial Hospital
Hobbs
Virginia Mann Harris
Plum St
Otis Henry Bradley
Dan Riverino
Willie Preston Hobbs
Sheldon Baptist Churh
Danny Wayne Carmichael
James Luther Bradley
Newport, News
Otis Henry Bradley Jr
Rochester
Miss
William Freddie Bradley
Pittman
N.J
Patricia Bradley Burnell
Dennis Lee Doss Jr
Columbia
5.C
Sheldon Baptist Church
Roy L. Hall
Wrenn-Yeatts
V. Watkins
Ny Rage
J. R. Alien
8. Navy
Patricia Kane Arey
Buddy Banks
Brady May Fitzgerald Banks
Jobin Banks
Mary Stone
Mrs. Moore
Kenneth S. Tyler, SR
Lester Bond
Glenm Bond
Chapman Brown
Cobert-Moron Funeral Home
Dennis Strader
Esther Scearce
Lavon
Barry Herndon
Grand
Peggy Martin
Wednescat
Mallow Park
Jerry Dees
Maes
N. C
McKinely Williams
Halifax County
George Herbert Johnson
Williams
Mecklenburg County
Rudolph Nolly
Donald Hendrix
Hendrix
Marion Cox
Jesus
Edmonds Street
Church of the Living God
Jesse Highfill
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