Deaths and Funerals Local notices for Kallam and Bennett
Funeral services were held for Michael Franklin Kallam five month old son of Ronald F. and Evelyn Schilling Kallam of 1445 Madison Ave. He died Thursday at 9 05 am in High Point Memorial Hospital after ill health since Saturday. Interment was Love's Methodist Church Cemetery. Charles Solomon Bennett, 78, of 1908 Franklin Street died Thursday at North Carolina Memorial Hospital Chapel Hill after eighteen hours as a patient, with services at First Baptist Church and interment in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Franklin Kallam
Sechrest Funeral Home
C. C. Herbert, Jr
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
C. W. Buckey
Love's Methodist Church
Michael Franklin
Ronald F
Evelyn Schilling Kallam
Madison Ave
High Point Memorial Hospital
Charles Solomon Bennett
First Baptist Church
J. E. Rawlinson
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
Carl Lanier
Bob Lanier
Vance Bennett
Allen Benett
Lewis Bennett
Woody Chastain
Neal Adams McNeill
John K. McNeill
Bennett
Franklin Street
North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Chapel Hill
Funeral Rites for Samuel Spoon Held at Prospect Methodist
Funeral services for Samuel Luther Spoon aged 70 were conducted Saturday at 2 PM at Prospect Methodist Church by Rev. Arthur Pearce and Rev. Neil J. Armstrong. Interment followed in Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Pallbearers were Frank Scott Reitzel Sink Allen Jones Early Kennedy Raeford Peace and Lonnie Harris. Spoon died Wednesday evening at 6 PM in High Point Memorial Hospital after a year of declining health and two and a half weeks of critical illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Luther Spoon
Prospect Methodist Church
Arthur Pearce
Neil J. Armstrong
North Main Street Baptist Church
Floral Garden Park
Frank Scott
Reitzel Sink
Allen Jones
Early Kennedy
Raeford Peace
Lonnie Harris
Mr. Spoon
Route 8
High Point
High Point Memorial Hospital
Funeral Services for Carl W. Wright Held Sunday
Funeral services for Carl W. Wright 69 will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. in Sechrest Funeral Home Chapel by Rev. Cecil E. Haworth of High Point Friends Meeting. Interment follows in Oakwood Cemetery family plot. Wright a retired Chestnut Street Extension resident died Friday morning at High Point Memorial Hospital after several months of declining health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl W. Wright
Sechrest Funeral Home
Cecil E. Haworth
High Point Friends Meeting
Oakwood
Wright
Chestnut Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Funeral services set for Lura Sheets Metters
Funeral services for Lura Sheets Metters 59 will be held at 3 p.m. in Conrad Memorial Baptist Church with Rev. James R DeLoach officiating. Interment follows in Floral Garden Cemetery. Body returned to 906 E Homestead Ave. Mrs Metters wife of W E Metters died Thursday night at High Point Memorial Hospital after an extended illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lura
Conrad Memorial Baptist Church
James R. DeLoach
Floral Garden Cemetery
E. Homestead Avenue
Metters
W. E. Metters
High Point Memorial Hospital
William H. Davis Funeral Rites Held in Greensboro
Funeral services for William Herman Davis aged 48 were conducted Saturday at a Methodist church with Pastor H. Hodges of the First Church of the Nazarene in Greensboro officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with pallbearers E. E. Bury Virgus Hamilton Marshal Beard Donald Yates Homer Von Cannon and John A. White Jr. Davis died Monday in Chicago Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Herman Davis
H. Hodges
First Church of the Nazarene
Greensboro
E. E. Bury
Virgus Hamilton
Marshal Beard
Donald Yates
Homer von Cannon
John A. White Jr
Mr. Davis
Chicago
Ill
Clarence Ward Dies After Brief Illness
Clarence Vernon Ward 77 of Thomasville died Saturday at 11 15 AM in City Memorial Hospital after a brief illness following a fall that fractured his hip. He was born February 11 1881 in Davidson County, a retired salesman, and lived with daughter Mrs Eugene Rikard. He also leaves three sons Elmer and Emmett Ward and others, and several siblings. Funeral services are set for Pine Wood Methodist Church at 3 PM Monday with Rev John William Hoyle and Dr J A Palmer officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Clarence Vernon Ward
City Memorial Hospital
Davidson County
Nathan Ward
Alice ‘Adams Ward
Eugene Rickard
Liberty Drive
Ward
Pine Woods
Ervin Berrier
Arthur Everhart, Jr
Eugene Richard
Elmer Ward
High Point
Emmett Ward
Roy Byerley
Johnsontown Road
John Ward
Baltimore
Dennis Ward
Edison
Pine Wood Methodist Church
John William Hoyle
J. A. Palmer
J. C. Green and Son Funeral
Funeral service for Luther E Tinsley held in home
Luther Ed ward Tinsley, 57, owner and operator of Clinardee, died Thursday evening at 10 o'clock. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. in the family home by Dr. J E Rawlinson and Rev Cecil Haworth. Interment in Oakwood Memorial Park. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Edward Tinsley
J. E. Rawlinson
First Baptist Church
Cecil E. Haworth
High Point
Funeral services held for Brad W Myers in Johnstonown
Brad Wil son Myers 55 resident of Johnstown Road died Thursday morning from a heart attack at his home. Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Emmanuel and Evangelical Reformed Church with Rev. Keith Sink and Rev. W N Parker officiating. Pallbearers were Alvin Ray Myers Robert Lee Myers Carlton Myers Buddy Myers Clyde Myers and Hughes Ward. Burial followed at Gecones censer porch cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brad Wilson Myers
Johnsontown Road
Emmanuel and Evangelical Reformed Church
Keith Sink
W. N. Parker
Westfield Baptist Church
Alvin Ray Myers
Robert Lee Myers
Carlton Myers
Buddy Myers
Clyde Myers
Hughes Ward
Gecones Censer Porch
Mr. Myers
Mrs Slawter Of King Dies Saturday
Mrs Susan Taylor Slawter aged 74 wife of the late J P Slawter of Route 1 King died at 445 am Saturday after a period of good health. She leaves four sons two daughters two stepsons two stepdaughters and several siblings with services set for 3 pm at Chapel Primitive Baptist Church conducted by elders Hill and Deloache. Local survivors include children in Charlotte High Point and Monroe plus relatives in Winston-Salem and Surry County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Taylor Slawter
J. P. Slawter
Route 1
King
Slawter
Austin Taylor
Elizabeth Stone Taylor
Surry County
W .S
J. W. Slawter
Charlotte
E. Alton
Jerry P. Slawter
High Point
Percy Smith
Monroe
Earn
C. A. A. Slawter
Winston-Salem
W. S. Tilley
W. A. Nelson
Wesley
Arthur Taylor
Araat
Roby
Oliver Taylor
Vernon Wall
Mary Joyce
Ararat
Ney
Bern
Chapel Primitive Baptist Church
Elders Hill
Deloache
Mrs. Effie R. Glover 91 Dies at Jamestown Home
Jamestown widow Effie Roach Glover 91 died at her Route 1 home Saturday at 10:05 am after years of declining health. Born July 20, 1867 in Davidson County to Benjamin Franklin Roach and wife, she was married to John M. Glover who died July 1, 1942. Surviving: son J H Glover Route 1 Jamestown, four grandchildren, seven great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Effie Roach Glover
John M. Glover
Route 1
Glover
Davidson County
Benjamin Franklin Roach
English Street
J. H. Glover
Greek Queen Frederika Visits General Marshalls in States
Queen Frederika of Greece spent an hour with Gen. and Mrs. George C. Marshall at Lipscomb Cottage near Pope Air Force Base. Marshall, frail and bedridden, will be 79 at year end. The visit preceded a return flight to New York, and the queen showed interest in two infants adopted in Athens by an American couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
George C. Marshall
Gen. Marshall
Lipscombe Cottage
Pope Air Force Base
Pope
New York
Frederika
Athens
Greece
Thomes A. Garneau
Carrie Frances
Andrew Girard
Garneaus
Marshalls
Prince Paul of Hanover
Two Men Hurt in Highway 62 Wreck Near Chair City
Kenneth Ray Rush of Route 4 and Howard Marrow suffered likely serious injuries when their 1950 car skidded and rolled 390 feet on Highway 62 inside Chair City city limits. A passing Asheboro woman found them bleeding in the overturned vehicle and police rushed them to City Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Kenneth Ray Rush
Route 4
Howard Marrow
City Memorial Hospital
Asheboro
Floyd R. Combs Dies Suddenly at 48 in High Point
Floyd R Reece Combs 48 of 902% W Burton St. High Point died after a heart attack at High Point Memorial Hospital Saturday at 11 30. Born April 21 1910 in Wilkes County he was married to Ruth New since 1936 and served five years in World War II. He had lived in High Point 38 years and was of the Holiness faith. He had battled illness for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Reece Combs
U.S. Army
Ruth New
Columbus Seeds Citrus in the New World Voyage
Columbus halted at the Canary Islands on his second voyage to America and carried orange lemon and lime seeds that founded the first citrus trees in the Western Hemisphere.
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Columbus
New World
Canary Islands
America
Hemisphere
Remains of Local Resident Buried in Floral Garden Park
Surviving in addition to the wife are one son Eugene Combs of the home one daughter Mrs Jean Brenman of Miami Fla one brother Truman Combs and one sister Mrs Thelma Portsmouth Ducted Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Cumby Chapel by the Rev Alvin L Brantley Interment will be in the Floral Garden Park Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Combs
Jean Brenman
Miami
Fla
Truman Combs
Thelma Portsmouth
Cumby Chapel
Alvin L. Brantley
Church of God of Prophecy
Floral Garden Park Cemetery
Graham closes Charlotte crusade in strong finish
Billy Graham wrapped up a five week revival in Charlotte drawing 439 240 attendees over 31 sermons with 16 971 converts. He cancelled the nationwide TV hookup for funding and urged churches to carry the torch to improve crime, race relations and highway safety. He planned rallies at Fort Jackson South Carolina and Australia three months later and praised Charlotte for hospitality. He stressed Christian responsibility to lead society and warned of judgment if ignored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
Ft. Jackson
S.C
Australia
Charlotte
Evangelist
Carolinas
Family ties reach six generations at Washington and Lee
In Lexington Virginia Daniel Blain Jr notes the doorway of the Washington and Lee entrance form had no space to list six generations of family attendees dating back to 1789. The piece highlights deep ties to the university and longstanding family tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Daniel Blain Jr
Washington and Lee University
Rites Today For Slain Gunman
Roy Cook, 30, an ex convict whose shotgun killings in Lincoln County left three women dead, will have a morning funeral at North Brook Baptist Church and a separate service for his wife and sister in law at Keeps Grove Methodist Church. Separate services for Mrs. George Smith, 50, are planned. The attack began Friday morning with the death of Cook’s wife Rachel 21, then his brother’s wife Jeanette Cook 18, followed by the killing of Mrs. Smith in a cotton field with Marjorie 16 wounded. A 50 man posse cornered Cook at sundown. he died from wounds after wounding prison guard Joe Godley who remained in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Cook
North Brook
North Brook Baptist Church
Keeps Grove Methodist Church
George Smith
Lincoln County
Cook
Rachel
Charlotte
Jeanette Cook
Amuck
David
Betty Jean
Judy
Smith
Marjorie
Joe Godley
Reeves Gamble Hospital
Lincolnton
Marjorie Smith
Gordon Crowell Memorial Hospital
Frank Heavener
J. D. Williams
Joe James
Thomasville Prepares For Gov Clement Visit Rally
Thom asville Democrats finalize plans for Tennessee Governor Frank Clement to speak at Thom asville High School on Tuesday Oct 28. Confirmation came Sept 6 as area Democrats hope the rally boosts support for a county sweep in the Nov 4 election with Democrats holding most offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Tennessee
Frank Clement
Thomasville High School
Clement
Register of Deeds
Clerk of Court
One Killed In Accident At Lexington
A 27 year old Winston Salem man, Tommy Haywood Duncan, was killed when the car he rode in struck a bridge abutment on the Lexington by pass. Two other passengers were critically injured and treated at Lexington Memorial and Baptist Hospitals. The crash occurred about 9 p.m. and was under investigation by State Highway Patrolman Richard Sigman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Winston-Salem
Tommy Haywood Duncan
Washington St
Winston - Salem
Winton Pollock
Pennsylvania
Lexington Memorial Hospital
Baptist Hospital
Richard Sigman
Poisoned darts still used by Sarawak tribesmen hunting wildlife
Although preferring modern firearms when available, Sarawak tribesmen continue to hunt wild boar, deer and monkeys using poisoned darts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarawak
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Michael F. Kallam
Charles
Samuel L. Spoon
William H. Davis
Clarence Ward
Luther E. Tinsley
Brad W. Myers
Pablo Casals
General Assembly
United Nations
World Organization
Casals
Spain
Floyd R. Combs
Lincolnton, N.C
Emerywood Estates
Rywood Estates
W. Green St
Realtors
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