Deaths and Funerals in High Point Area
Obituaries list Boyd J. Dawson 75 and Florence Keller Johnson both died Saturday. Services set for Monday at West Park Baptist Church Salisbury and Marlboro Friends Meeting High Point. Burial Floral Garden Cemetery High Point and church cemetery. The deceased include Zeb V Johnson family survivors and Connie Elizabeth Davis 83. Bodies at Cumby Mortuary and Lyerly Funeral Home.
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Boyd J. Dawson
Proctor St
Lamb’s Nursing Home
Cumby Mortuary
Zeb V. Johnson Salisbury
Zeb Vence Johnson
Florence Keller
Rt. 3
Rowan Memorial Hospital
Zeb V. Johnson
Everett C. Christy
High Point
Beatrice Kelly
Claude B. Johnson
Rt. 1
Rockwell. L. Roy Johnson
Kannapolis
Jack B. Johnson
Granite Quarry
Edie B. Johnson
Rt. 7
Salisbury
Ray Fisher
Mt. Pleasant
Betty Deskin
Greensboro
Bertha Smith
Mooresville
West Park Baptist Church
Floral Garden
Lyerly Funeral Home
Miss Pearl Payne Rites Held in Greensboro
Miss Pearl Payne 66 of Rt 9 Greensboro died at 2 10 a m Saturday at Wesley Long Hospital after a short illness. Born Sept 24 1905 in Davidson County she daughter of John Barnabus Payne and Laura Victoria Metsinger Payne. Survived by one brother Paul Pleasant Payne Funeral at 3 p m Monday in Sechrest Chapel with Elder J A Langhorn burial in Abbotts Creek Cemetery. Body at Sechrest Funeral Home. family at home tonight 7 to 9.
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Miss Pearl Payne
Rt. 9
Greensboro
Wesley Long Hospital
Miss Payne
Davidson County
John Barnabus
Laura Victoria Metsinger Payne
High Point College
Paul Pleasant Payne
Sechrest Chapel
J. A. Langhorn
Abbotts Creek Cemetery
Sechrest Funeral Home
Mild area weather forecast for Point area
Area residents can expect mild temperatures today and on Monday with partly cloudy skies. Highs will reach the upper 70s to lower 80s, tonight’s low in the 50s, and a 10 percent chance of precipitation through tonight.
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High Point Area
Friendship Airport
Eighteen Dwellings Amid Sixty-Seven Building Permits
High Point's Inspection Division issued 70 permits totaling 569 708 in recent days. Eighteen dwellings valued at 182 497 plus a 12 unit apartment at 106 000 lead the housing permits.
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High Point
W. H. Grady
Steel Street
High Point Industrial Leasing Co
West Fairfield
Glenn Steel
Westchester Dr
Brentwood Street
Revinco, Inc
North Main Street
Cloverdale Dye Works
Greer Ave
Harry L. Hill
Dogwood Ct
Brady R. Watts
Springview Drive
Paul G. Nash
East Parkway
William R. Cochrane
Pegram Ave
Westminster Company
Miriam Avenue
Miriam Ct
Obituary of Sadie Sisk Wilkins Kernersville
Sadie Sisk Wilkins 78 of Rt 3 Kernersville died Friday night in Forsyth Memorial Hospital Winston-Salem. Born June 10 1894 in Stokes County she was a member of Wilson Primitive Baptist Church. Survived by her husband Elder Len Anderson Wilkins five daughters two sons three sisters one brother and 16 grandchildren. Funeral 3 p.m. Sunday at Wilson Primitive Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Body at Lain Funeral Home Kernersville.
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Kernersville
Sadie Sisk Wilkins
Rt. 3
Forsyth Memorial Hospital
Winston-Salem
Stokes County
John
Caroline Reid Sisk
Wilson Primitive Baptist Church
Len Anderson Wilkins
Nancy Parker
High Point
Hildred Ward
Walnut Cove
Dorothy Bailey
Stokesdale
Magdeline Temples
Delphine Black
R. J. Wilkins
Bobby Wilkins
Winston- Salem
Claudie Sheppard
Alvin Sisk
Minie Wilkins
Hobart Sisk
Sandy Ridge
Weldon Joyce
West Pyrtle
Lain Funeral Home
Four High Point youths arrested on drug charges
Four youths including Thomas Quick 16 Jeffrey Burton 18 William Blackwelder 17 and Charles McGee 18 were charged with felonious possession of marijuana with intent to distribute after police found more than five grams in a car at Broadway Billiards. Quick Burton and Blackwelder posted bonds of 2000 each and were released McGee remains jailed with a July 25 trial date.
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High Point
Thomas Michael Quick
Boulevard
Jeffrey Alan Burton
Everett Lane
William Kent Blackwelder
Lindsay Street
Charles Edward McGee
Rolling Road
Broadway Billiards
Quick
Burton
Blackwelder
McGee
Greensboro and Vermont Recruits Die in Ft Jackson Crash
Two Army recruits from Greensboro North Carolina and Springfield Vermont were killed in a truck rollover at Ft Jackson. Pvt Carter R. Cutler of Greensboro and Pvt Roger D. Watkins of Springfield were among 29 soldiers hurt when a truck veered off a road into a ditch while en route to a rifle range.
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Columbia
Army
Ft. Jackson
North Carolina
Vermont
Army Recruit Training Post
Pvts
Carter R. Cutler
Greensboro
N. C
Roger D. Watkins
Springfield, Vt
Rankin 53 Dies While Vacationing in Linville
John W. Rankin former director of Charlotte Memorial Hospital died at 53 during a Linville vacation. He had suffered a heart attack last September and led the hospital from 350 beds to 885 beds, expanding to multiple facilities. He was a Concord native, survived by his wife and five children. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Linville
N. C
John W. Rankin
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Rankin
Concord
Charlotte Memorial
Charlotte Rehabilitation Hospital
Charlotte Community Hospital
Huntersville Hospital
Samuel W. Rankin
Mecklenburg County
Rankin Health Center
Watson
North Carolina
Divorcee Shoots Announcer Then Kills Herself Near Fayetteville
In Fayetteville North Carolina a 40 year old divorcee Mary K Howard shot 36 year old radio announcer Curtis Odell Nunnery in a roadside restaurant parking lot and then shot herself. Nunnery was taken to Cape Fear Valley Hospital with a head wound described as good and faced surgery for bullet removal. The incident occurred as the two sat in the woman's car. Nunnery had recently remarried.
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Fayetteville, N. C
Fayetteville
Cumberland County
Dick Washburn
Mary K. Howard
Curtis Odell Nunnery
Cape Fear Valley Hospital
Washburn
Nunnery
Connally says British pound sound during world tour
John B. Connally described Britain's economy as sound and said a floating pound would not have a serious international impact. As Nixon's special envoy on a 30 day trip to five continents he added he does not expect floating the pound to affect the Smithsonian agreement or the U.S. dollar much.
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Singapore
Treasury
John B. Connally
Britain
Connally
Five Continents
Nixon
U.S
Raleigh Attorney Heads Bar for North Carolina
Raleigh attorney Joseph C. Moore Jr. was elected presidentelect of the North Carolina Bar Association to succeed Harold K. Bennett of Asheville, who was inducted as president. Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. urged the lawyers that the space program supports the economy, noting 190 000 jobs. The association also opposed a national no fault automobile insurance system. William M. Storey was reelected vice president and treasurer, Fred Parker reelected executive secretary.
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Myrtle Beach
S.C
Joseph C. Moore Jr
Raleigh
North Carolina Bar Association
Harold K. Bennett
Asheville
Bennett
Charles M. Duke Jr
Earth
North Carolina
William M. Storey
Fred Parker
None Hurt Raleigh Gunman Shoots In Crowd
A 49 year old man fired several rifle shots into the Union Bus Station crowd in Raleigh North Carolina before his gun jammed. Officer Patrick McCann Jr exchanged fire and arrested Warren G. Stephenson without further incident.
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Raleigh
Raleigh, N.C
Union
Patrick McCann Jr
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High Point Enterprise
Mr. Dawson
Connie Davis
Connie Elizabeth Davis
High Point Memorial Hospital
Miss Davis
Randolph County
Cyrus
Ruth Wheeler Davis
Marlboro Friends Meeting
Don Osborne
Ralph Holcomb
Cumby
L. A. Wilkins
Cutler
Mrs
William Cutler
Watkins
Emma M. Watkins
Eee
Lexington Ave
Fred Maston
Chestnut Drive
Broad Ave
Clefton Lee Bowers
Hazel Eberhardt Payne
Can Fenwm
Bunker Hill United Methodist Church
Zenith
Stis
Piedmont Hearing Aid Center
Main ST
Sheraton Hotel
Nash Jewelry & Loan
N. Main
Nash
Charlotte
Warren G. Stephenson
Sta
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First Wesleyan
Pune Ee & Qpust
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Floral Garden Park
High Point, N.C
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