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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1947

Page

8

Rev Carl Davis to Give Address at Elks Memorial Service

The Rev P Carl Davis of First Presbyterian will deliver the featured address at the fifty second Gratton Lodge memorial service at 2 30 pm at the Elks Home auditorium. Vocal music by Community Chorus quartet Richard Leonard Meritt Feather Bill Beall and Ralph Redinger. Kenneth Daugherty to preside during Harold Kemple’s illness and ritual. Members to be commemorated include W P Kimmell M A Gleason H H Williamson Lee B Bennett Earl G Haymond A P Lavelle and E J Shaughnessy. Chaplin Richard Bord to offer the prayer. C H Shingletor will read the roll call of absent brothers.

Quartette Richard Leonard Meritt Feather I Bill Beall Ralph Redinger Kenneth Daugherty Harold Kemple W. P. Kimmell M.A. Gleason H. H. Williamson Lee B. Bennett Earl G. Haymond A. P. Lavelle E. J. Shaughnessy Chaplin Richard B. Bord C. H. Shingletor

Ritualist service leads names of honored church figures

Richard Williams and Randall McKinney and Howard Lawson are listed as prominent figures with Paul E. Malone serving as Memorial committee chairman. The wording presents a ceremonial roster detailing roles among esteemed church leaders and supporters.

Richard Williams Randall McKinney Howard Lawson Paul E. Malone

Rites Today For Claude Vincent Interment Here

Last rites for Claude E. Vincent a prominent Fairmont music leader who died suddenly Wednesday were held at his Locust Ave residence with burial at Bluemont cemetery. He led orchestras and choirs in Fairmont and Pruntytown and directed a music school in Grafton noted for a top state brass band. His wife was Martha May Jones. daughter Mrs W G Fowler, deputy clerk in Federal court, survives with two brothers and a sister.

Claude E. Vincent Fairmont Locust Avenue Bluemont Professor Vincent Marion County Enoch Emily Malott Vincent Taylor County First Baptist Church Industrial School For Pruntytown Grafton West Virginia Martha May Jones Nathan H. Jones Jamima Robinson Jones

Services Saturday For Mrs. Alice L. Mayle

Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Louise Mayle of Montville route 3 will be held Saturday at 2 p m from the Pritchard church. The Rev. Fred DeCost will lead the service and interment will be in Pritchard cemetery under Bartlett Funeral home direction. The body was taken to the late home this afternoon for calling hours.

Alice Louise Mayle Montville Roue Pritchard Church Fred DeCost Pritchard Cemetery Bartlett Funeral Home

Funeral Saturday for W B Horner

Funeral services will be held at 2 30 p m Saturday at the Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd Parkersburg for William Bax ter Horner 73 longtime Baltimore and Ohio railroad employee He died Tuesday night at 9 30 oclock of a heart attack while attending a Mt Olivet Lodge session in the Masonic Temple in Parkersburg Horner a veteran of the Spanish American War commanded Camp No 6 of the Veterans organization He was born November 22 1874 in Tyler County to the late Leander and Sarah J Horner He volunteered early in the Spanish American War serving in Company F First Regiment West Virginia and was honorably discharged February 4.

William Baxter Horner Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Mt. Olivet Lodge No. 3 Masonic Temple Parkersburg Memorial Church of the Good Shepperd Horner Tyler County Mr. Horner Leander and Sarah J. Horner McKinley West Virginia

Parkersburg man retires after 42 years with B&O

After serving in World War II era, the Parkersburg resident worked for Baltimore and Ohio for 42 years until retiring May 31, 1940. A Mason with 32nd degree Scottish Rite, he belonged to Spanish American War Veterans chapter No. 6, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Veteran Employees association. He attended Good Shepherd Episcopal Church as a vestryman. Survived by four children, a second wife, three brothers and two sisters.

Parkersburg Baltimore and Ohio Masonic Lodge Scottish Rite Lodge Brotherhood of Railroad B.&o Parkersburgs Good Shepherd ‘Episcopal Church

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