Deaths and Funerals Notice
Graveside rites for infant Sarl Antonio Sunday in Florida Garden Park Cemetery are announced by Rev Milton Widenhouse. The child died last Monday in Cayey Puerto Rico. Funeral services for Joseph Hiram Carter 72 are set for today at 4 p.m. from 300 Ridgeway Ave. with Rev W H Barker officiating. Mr Carter died en route to High Point Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. He was Baptist, employed by Pickett Cotton Mill until retirement six years ago. He married Lillie Belle Dunn who died in 1954.
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Dobey
Antonio
Milton Widenhouse
Welch Memorial Methodist Church
Floral Garden Park
Cayey
Puerto Rico
Joseph Hiram Carter
Ridgeway Ave
W. H. Barker
Southside Baptist Church
Carter
High Point Memorial Hospital
Pickett Cotton Mill
Lillie Belle Dunn
Albert S. Bean of Thomasville Dies In Hospital
Albert Shelly Bean 63 of 303 Worrell Thomasville died in a hospital after ill health since December 1953. Born November 5 1893 in Davidson County he worked at Standard Chair Co. Survived by wife Mary Kindley. brother Clay Bean High Point. sisters Mrs. Tom Kindley Mrs. Tildon Harrelson and Mrs. Will Carter all Thomasville. many nieces and nephews. Funeral at Clarksbury Methodist Church Wednesday at noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Albert Shelly Bean
Worrell
Mr. Bean
Davidson County
William Franklin and
Landy Carrick Bean
Standard Chair Co
Mary Kindley
Clay Bean
High Point
Tom Kindley
Tildon Harrelson
Will Carter
Thomasvile
Clarksbury Methodist Church
Frances Smith Dies at 47 Music Teacher
Frances Smith, a Ramseur music teacher, died after a short illness at her home. A Greensboro College and Combs Conservatory alumna, she taught at Ramseur and Coleridge High Schools and Hamilton Square until her death. Survived by her mother and sister, services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at Jordan Memorial Methodist Church with burial in Ramseur City Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramseur
Miss Frances
Miss Smith
Greensboro College
Greensboro
Combs Conservatory of Music
Philadelphia
Coleridge High School
Hamilton Square
Charles B. Smith
James A. Parsons
Jordan Memorial Methodist Church
Ernest Page
Ramseur City Cemetery
Y W C A News Monday Schedule and Tidbits
The notice lists a day camp Monday from 9 to 3 and a Tuesday pre beginning swimming class for girls at 3. It notes a 7 30 p m plunge period and a Wednesday slim gym class at 7 30 p m The text adds a travel line about Marco Polo and a remark that Shrove Tuesday is the last day of Mardi Gras.
Parked car crashes into Hughes Tire Co window
A parked car with engine running accelerated and backed into Hughes Tire Co on N Main Street damaging the plate glass window about $100. The owner was listed as Alex Wade Marsh of High Point. The other vehicle collision on W Green Street involved Eddie Lee Jackson and Daniel S Mashburn with Jackson cited for failure to yield. Mashburn's car sustained about $200 in damage.
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Alex Wade Marsh
High Point
W. Green Street
Eddie Lee Jackson
Daniel S. Mashburn
Teas 1
Jamestown
Jackson
Mashburn
Funeral Held For Relative Of Local Man W E Prater
Funeral services were held today for W E Prater of Jackow Point a longtime Seaboard Railroad employee. A Methodist and a Mason he died after months of illness. Survivors include his wife Bennie Lou Charping and daughter Norma Jean Prater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Prater
Jackow Point
Prater
Seaboard Railroad
Bennie Lou Charping
Norma Jean Prater
Ketchikan Alaska Sits Closer to Orient Than Any U S Point
Ketchikan Alaska lies about 500 miles nearer to the Orient than the rest of the continental United States, highlighting its strategic Pacific location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ketchikan
Alaska
Orient
Continental
United States
Adventists To Build School In Deep River Township
Seventh Day Adventist Church members held ground breaking for a new consolidated school on Clinard Road near Highway 68. The private coeducational campus will serve grades 1 through 10, open to any student meeting school standards, with 70 pupils expected and transport by four buses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventh- Day Adventist Church
Clinard Road
Highway 68
Deep River Township
High Point
Winston - Salem
Greensboro
Asheboro
Lexington
Kernersville
Charles C. Cress
Maple Street
Springdale Avenue
North Carolina
Charles C Cress
State Board of Education
F. E. Speiss
Winston- Salem
A. D. Bowers
Parent - Teachers Association
M. P. Woodall
R. B. Peatross
Red Cross Bloodmobile seeks 300 pint quota at Armory
The Red Cross bloodmobile targets 300 pints from High Point donors Wednesday and Thursday at the Armory under co chairs Lindsay and Kinney. Donors 18 to 89 may participate with conditions for 18 to 21. Free ball game passes, transportation help, and hospital charges clarifications accompany the drive. A physician will supervise donations, with limits of one donation per eight weeks and up to five per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Bloodmobile
High Point
Armory
BND
Lindsay
Guy Kin
Red Cross Office
Hi-Toma
Danville
Lindsay and Kinney
Red Cross
High Point Memorial Hospital
Red Cross Regional
Gun Blast Fatal To Woman On Centennial Avenue
A 61 year old Centennial Avenue resident, Mrs. Lillian S Walton, was found dead in her bed from a single shotgun blast to the neck. Police said the gun was discharged once and the neighbor reported the death as a possible suicide. Funeral services set for the Walton home chapel with interment at Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
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Centennial Avenue
Lillian S. Walton
Centennial Ave
Walton
High Point
Lexington
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Wtmae Teel
Richardson's
Harllee's
Chapel of Koonce
Neil Armstrong
North Main Street Baptist Church
Floral Garden Park
Koonce Funeral Home
Calvin Vanhoy Yadkin Native Dies at 61
Calvin Vanhoy 61 a Yadkin County native and High Point resident for 33 years died at his home Sunday at 3 10 am after several years of declining health He was born February 12 1996 in Yadkin County son of the late James David and Nancy Hudspeth Vanhoy He married Mary Elizabeth Bullard on November 10 1917 Survivors include his wife three children Leroy Van hoy Route 5 High Point McCoy Vanhoy Harvey Odell Vanhoy Monaca Pennsylvania one brother John Vanhoy Route 5 High Point three sisters Mandy Jane Adams Statesville Merty … The body was taken to the residence Sunday afternoon at 6 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin 0. Vanhoy
Proctor St
Yadkin County
James David
Nancy Hudspeth Vanhoy
Vanhoy
High Point
Highland Cotton Mill
U. S. Army
Ee Church of the Living
Mary Elizabeth Bullard
McCoy Vanhoy
Leroy Vanhoy
Wien Point
Harvey Odell Vanhoy
Monaca
John Vanhoy
Mandy Jane Adams
Statesville
M Tery
Brake failure causes car fire on highway
Fire destroyed an automobile after the right rear brake locked on the highway last night. Driver Bill Grant and passenger Betsey Watkins, both of Durham, were aboard. Patrolman Dave Mount said the fire began when the rear brake locked and extinguishers were ineffective due to the location. The vehicle, said to be owned by a woman named Walking, was reported around 5 pm with fire units arriving as two departments refused to respond because of distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Grant
Betsey Watkins
Durham
Dave Mount
P. F. Strong
Seatae
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles Cress
Joseph H. Carter
Albert S. Bean
Frances Smith
Marco Polo
China
Flowers Grace Flower Shop
Hughes Tire Co
N. Main Street
Merit Shoes
Main ST
Treadles
Glenn
S. Main Se
Bloodmobile
Jeweles Lvbrepith
S. Main St
Daet Dewsend
Calvin Vanhoy
Yadkin
Coston Quick DuPont
Monark Shade Co
Leonard
Grn
N. Wrenn St
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