Deaths and Funerals
Multiple obituaries note funeral services for Mrs. Elon Barnes 66 at Albertson Road Baptist Church with interment at Floral Garden Park Cemetery Pallbearers listed. Nellie White Taylor 81 of High Point near Springfield Funeral at Sechrest Chapel Interment in Springfield Cemetery. Carl Lindsay Williams 57 of 14 Mock St. services at Liberty Baptist Church with multiple ministers and interment. Hammet E. Ward 66 Fair Grove Forest building contractor funeral at J C Green & Sons Chapel with interment at Holly Hills Cemetery. Ward died after a heart attack Tuesday morning.
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Elon Barnes
Joe Barnes
Albertson Road Baptist Church
J. J. Thornburg
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
Billy Perdue
Creed Presswood
Bobby Hyatt
Bill Barnes
Charles Barnes
Dwane Griffith
Nellie White Taylor
Route 4
High Point
Sechrest Chapel
Jesse A. Stanfield
Springfield
Carl Williams
Thomasville
Carl Lindsay Williams
Mock St
Liberty Baptist Church
Kenneth A. Miller
Raymond E. Crow
Greenwood Baptist Church
Robert L. Taylor
Center Grove Baptist Church
Clemimons
Brady ‘Leonard
Alton Deberry
Kenneth Williams
Fred Williams
Albert ‘Williams
Woyd Alford
Church
Hammet Ward
Hammet E. Ward
Hillcrest
Fair Grove Forest
J. C. Green & Sons
Jack E. Smith
Grace Lutheran Church
F. Stanley Hardee
First Baptist Church
J. Frank Snyder
Pilgrim Evangelical & Reformed Church
Holly Hills
Ward
I. F. Craven Ramseur Leader Rites Held Today
Funeral services for I. F. Craven of Ramseur were to be held at 4 p.m. at Jordan Memorial Methodist Church with burial in Ramseur City Cemetery. Craven, 86, died in an Asheboro hospital after five years of declining health. He led civic, business and educational life, chaired Ramseur School Board, helped build the school gym and athletic field, and served as a hospital board member and Methodist lay leader.
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Asheboro
I. F. Cravn
Ramseur
Jordan Memorial Methodist Church
Worth Sweet
Ernest Page
Craven
Columbia Manufacturing Co
Coleridge
Ramseur Academy
Parks Cross Roads School
Old Trinity College
Duke University
I. F. Craven
Mariet- McC
C L Mann Dies At 76 In High Point Hospital
Charlie Lee Mann aged 76 died at High Point Memorial Hospital Tuesday morning at 9 15 he had been ill two years and a patient since June 10 He came to High Point from Norfolk Virginia fourteen years ago and lived at the High Point Tourist Home for twelve years His body was taken to Wrights Funeral Home in Damascus Virginia
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Charlie Lee Mann
High Point Memorial Hospital
Mr. Mann
High Point
Norfolk
Washington St
Wright
Damascus
Rites Tomorrow For Hobbs Infant Debra Dean Hobbs
Five month old Debra Dean Hobbs, daughter of Mrs. Geraldine Bital, died Monday after birth at 12 45 am. Born March 4 1959 in Guilford County, she is survived by her mother and a grandmother and step grandfather Solly Wall of 210 West Davis Street. Graveside services will be Thursday at 10 am from Oak Wood Park Pugh pastor Cloverdale Church of God. Body at Cumby Mortuary until service.
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Debra Dean Hobbs
Geraldine Bital
Guilford County
Solly Wall
West Davis St
Oak Wood Park
Mrs. Leonard of Lexington Dies at 74
Mrs Fallie Walser Leonard 74 of Route 4 Lexington died Monday after a three month illness. She was a Davidson County native and Shiloh Methodist Church member. Surviving include stepmother, daughter, two sons, brothers and sisters, 23 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Funeral services 4 p.m. today at Beulah Reformed Church with burial in the church cemetery.
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Lexington
Fallie Walster Leonard
Route 4
Leonard
Davidson County
Shiloh Methodist Church
Addie Walser
George Shoaf
Palmer Leonard
Norman Leonard
0. R. Walser
Artis Walser
Avery Walser
Giles Walser
Sammy Grubb
N. L. Evans
Wayne
N. J
Beulah Reformed Church
J. Max Brandon Jr
Herman Weavil 35 dies after heart attack in Winston-Salem
Herman Maurice Weavil 35, of Route 6 Winston-Salem, died at 6 30 p m Tuesday in a local hospital after a morning heart attack. Born August 31 1923 in Forsyth County he lived in Union Cross his entire life. Survived by his father stepmother two sisters and two stepsisters. Funeral at 2 p m Thursday at the home and 3 p m at Saint's Delight Primitive Baptist Church burial in the church cemetery.
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Winston - Salem
Herman Maurice Weavil
Winston-Salem
Mr. Weavil
Forsyth County
E. B
Nan Smith Weavil
Union Cross
St. Garden
Archie Fells
Route 6
Raeford Kirkman
Guyer St
High Point
Walter Young
Homer Freeze
Saint's Delight Primitive Baptist Church
Bernie Leonard
Brooklyn Willard
Mark McLellan Passes At 2 Rites Today
Mark Aubrey McLellan two year old son of Rev Charles A McLellan died in Smithfield Hospital Monday at 11 15 pm after illness since October. Born April 30 1957 in Jackson Mississippi he is survived by his parents route 1 Selma paternal grandparents Charles McLellan Durant Mississippi and maternal grandparents W P Davis Route 2 High Point. Funeral services were held in Smithfield Wednesday at 11 am and graveside services followed at Abbott's Creek Baptist Church Cemetery High Point.
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Mark Aubrey McLellan
Charles A. McLellan
Smithfield Hospital
Smithfield
Jackson
Miss
Route 1
Selma
Charles McLellan
Durant
W. P. Davis
Route 2
High Point
Abbott's Creek
Baptist Church
Lightning Strikes Building in St Louis, Nurse Mildly Shocked
A bolt of lightning hit a building in St Louis as a downpour drove people inside. Virgin ia Sherer, a Globe-Democrat nurse, was standing nearby and received a severe shock running down her arm but was treated for mild shock and no one else was hurt.
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ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Virginia Sherer
Knight Ties Political Career to TV Commentator Role
Former California Governor Goodwin Knight becomes television news commentator in Los Angeles. Knight, a Republican, starts a five minute air segment as part of his post office transition into media.
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Los Angeles
California
Goodwin J. Knight
Knight
State GOP Head Sees Party Growth in North Carolina
William E. Cobb, GOP chairman from Morganton, predicted two thirds of the state's counties will feature Republican tickets in 1960. Speaking before the High Point Civitan Club, he argued one party rule breeds complacency and district misalignment, urging citizen participation in politics.
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North Carolina
GOP
High Point Civitan Club
William E. Cobb
Morganton
South
Cobb
Newlin ‘Haworth
KCOP Plans Local Show for National Distribution
KCOP broadcasts indicate it will reshape a local program for national reach. The move signals expanded distribution and potential shifts in local staffing and programming strategy.
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KCOP
County Highway Clash Escalates Between Davidson County and Commission
Davidson County Commissioner Harry Cunningham accused the State Highway Commission of bias in a dispute over the point system for road paving. Harold Makepeace called the commissioners headline hunters, while the highway body defended its policy as a long studied system.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Harry Cunningham
State Highway Commission
Cunningham
Highway Commission
Raleigh
Harold Makepeace
Makepeace
J. Melville Broughton
Commission
Highway Department
Boards of County Com
Davidson County group, NC Highway Dept in ongoing dispute
The commissioners are sometimes consulted and their suggestions followed if they meet North Carolina law. Since an Aug 10 meeting the Davidson County group and the Highway Department have traded charges with no area of agreement reached.
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North Carolina
Davidson County
Highways Department
Taft Born in Ohio, First President of 48 States
Ohio born William Howard Taft became, by birth, the first president to lead the then 48 United States. The note marks his origin as a key fact in presidential history.
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Ohio
United States
William Howard Taft
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