Children's Theater Opens At Langston On Nov. 17
The 1973 74 season begins with a zany adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk by Prince Street Players Ltd at John M Langston junior high school on Nov 17. Tickets for three spring shows are $3 and go on sale at city elementary schools. A new Magic Window Theatre series for upper elementary students starts Nov 10 with Pocahontas and continues Feb 16 with Swiss Family Robinson and March 16 with Proposition Circus. All shows begin at 1 pm or 3 pm at Langston. Funeral services for Lula Miller of Java are Tuesday at 2 pm at Riceville Baptist Church, burial in the church cemetery. The body lies in state at Miller's Funeral Home in Gretna prior to the service.
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Children’s Theatre of Danville Inc
John M. Langston
The
Prince Street Players Ltd
All City
Langston
Children’s Theatre
Magic Window Theatre
Part
Proposition Circus
Java
Lula Miller
Rt. 1
Riceville Baptist Church
H. L. Brooks
Miller
Gretna
Funeral Rites Set Monday For Mr. Brown
Funeral rites for William Cabell Brown Jr. will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from Barker Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. James M. McGhee officiating. Interment follows at Mountain View Cemetery. Mr. Brown, 57, died Friday at the VA Hospital in Salem after inpatient care since April 7. He was a WWII Navy veteran and a Woodberry Hills Baptist Church member. Survivors include his wife, a daughter in New York, a brother in Hampton, three sisters, and three grandchildren.
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William Cabell Brown, Jr
Barker
James M. McGhee
Mountain View Cmetery
Girard St
Mr. Brown
Veterans Administration Hospital
Salem
Walter Cabell Brown Sr
Byrd Powers Brown
Pittsylvania County
Linnie Seymore
American Legion Post 325
Woodberry Hills
Woodberry Hills Baptist Church and Belonged To the Morotock Lodge of Masons
Danville
Betty B. Clewell
Liverpool
N.Y
Kenneth Brown
Hampton
Wynona Reynolds
Margaret, Hill
Decatur
Cornelia Sheldon
Minneapolis
Minn
E C Scearce Dies At Sister's Home In Danville Area
Elisha Coleman Scearce of Rt. 1 Dry Fork died Saturday night at 6 15 at the home of his sister Mrs Myrtle Michaels 925 Green Street Danville. Born December 29 1888 in Pittsylvania County he was a longtime Whitmell farmer and a member of Old Mountain Primitive Baptist Church Surviving are one brother and seven sisters including Trotter Scearce Miss Mayme Scearce Mrs Hattie Perkins Mrs Myrtle Michaels Mrs Bessie Grogan Mrs Nannie Bradner and Mrs Estelle Scearce Funeral services will be Monday at 2 00 from Old Mountain Primitive Baptist Church conducted by Elder Haywood Wray Elder Wallace Smith and Elder Raymond Payne Interment in the family cemetery at Whitmell The body will lie at Wrenn Yeatts Funeral Home and the family will be at Mrs Michaels residence.
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Elisha
Coleman Scearce
Rt. 1
Dry Fork
Myrtle Michaels
Green Street
Mr. Scearce
Pittsylvania County
James David Scearce
Mary Beck Scearce
Whitmell
Scearce
Old Mountain
Rites Slated Monday For Mrs. Harvey
Graveside rites for Mrs. Ethel Robertson Harvey will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Highland Burial Park led by Rev. James C. Brackett. The Dry Fork resident, widow of Edward P. Harvey, died unexpectedly at her home. Born August 13, 1895 in Pittsylvania County, she was a Hermon Baptist Church member active in Sunday school. Survivors include a brother, two sisters, three stepchildren, and several nieces and nephews. The body is at Townes Funeral Home and the family at the Ryland Harper residence.
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Ethel Robertson Harvey
Highland Burial Park
James C. Brackett
C. Paige Robertson
Sierra Madre
Calif
Cathryn R. Church
Danville
G. Ryland Harper
Dry Fork
Florence Mitchell
James E. Harvey
Reuben C.™ .Harvey
Townes Funeral Home
Ryland Harper
Crowder’s Career Across Media and Public Relations
Crowder has a diverse media background including advertising and business management at The Commonwealth Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, public relations work, and trade association leadership. He served as local NYT correspondent and a broadcaster on three stations, helped found the Press Club of Virginia, and held leadership roles at Beacon Press and Richmond newspapers before moving to Winston-Salem in August 1972. He is married to Joyce Jean Sparks and has two sons.
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The
Commonwealth
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
New York Times
Beacon Press
Richmond
Media General
Richmond Times-Dispatch
News Leader
Winston-Salem
Virginia
Joyce Jean Sparks
Clarks Win Outstanding Young Farm Family Award
Wallace and Beth Clark of Route 2 Ringgold Virginia win the 1973 Outstanding Young Farm Family award from the Dan River Young Farmers Association. Clark raised tobacco corn barley oats wheat hay and cared for Angus cattle while expanding his farm equity with machinery. He has served as Forestry judge and officer in the Blue Ridge Area Young Farmers. The banquet was at King of the Sea Restaurant on October 27, 1973.
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Wallace Clark
Beth
Route 2
Ringgold
Virginia
Dan River Young Farmers Association
Wallace
Dan River High School
V.P.1
Dan River Young Farmers Club
Clark
Young Farmers Association
Blue Ridge Area
Wallace and
Dan River Club
King of the Sea
Clarence Edmonds
Burma
Colonel Edmonds
Final Rites for Thomas S. Wright Set Monday
Funeral services for Thomas S. Wright are scheduled for Monday at 2 p.m. at Hocutt Baptist Church in Burlington, North Carolina. Mrs. Wright is noted as father of Rev. T. E. Wright of Keen Street Baptist Church. The family will receive visitors at 1603 Woodland Drive in Burlington before the service.
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Thomas S. Wright
Hocutt Baptist Church
Burlington
N.C
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Children’s Theater
Mrs. Miller
the Register
Danville, Va
J.W. Ramsey
Chatham
Ray
E. C. Scearce
Mrs. Harvey
Press Club of Virginia
Clarks
Dan River Group
Beth Clark
Dan
S Wright
Buid
Gregory General
Maudeia Wilson
Cunningham and Hughes Funeral Home
Register & Beer
Dan River Cotton Mills
Harvey
Shaw
Stephen D. Saunders
N. First Street
Yanceyville, N.C
C. C. Yeatts
Wreni
Perpetual Care Trust
Danville “Memorial Gardens
Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International
Mary's Diner
Phil W. Brady
Calvin Fowler
Danville Community College
House of Delegates
Hosea E. Wilson, SR
Calvin W. Fowler
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