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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1977
Page
2
Funeral services and burials are listed for John Pete Chaney Paris H Pugh Pamela Susan Easter Beatrice Faye Johnson Richard Meredith Thomas Wesley Seal Eugene Thomas and related survivors across Ferrum Martinsville Mount Airy Stuart and Danville. The long notice details family members residences and affiliations.
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs Low Ella Chaney of Stuart Virginia with burial in Boonville Cemetery. Also remembered were Isaac Shobert Baity 8 of Boonville son of Isaac S and Mallie Baity and Merlie Caudle Baity of the home with two daughters and a son. Monroe Bledsoe 56 of Siloam and Vera Galyean Bledsoe with three daughters two sons and one adopted daughter.
Obituaries for Mrs Ella George Ella Mae King George of Pinnacle and Mrs Ruby Hall Gilbert of Concord California recount family ties and survivors including children grandchildren and siblings. An NC Highway Patrol weekly accident summary notes speeding as leading cause in Surry County with eight injuries and seven fatalities totals and cites a 16 mile detour for U S 421 and NC 16 bridge work to complete within four weeks.
Wytheville Community College plans its tenth annual commencement for Wednesday June 15 at 7 p.m. with a rain plan to move outdoor ceremonies to 8 p.m. in George Wythe High School gym. The event features graduates and dignitaries in a formal outdoor setting if weather cooperates.
Doug Slate named manager of line haul for Spector Freight System Southeastern Division with over-the-road duties based in Winston-Salem Spartanburg and Roanoke overseeing Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia routes and Midwest Northeast traffic. Amburn named Eden district plant manager for Central Telephone Hickory. B Ragan Inc announces semiannual dividend of five cents per share payable June 29 to shareholders of record June 14.
Conley Lee Umstead aged 19 sustained multiple abrasions after a 12:32 p.m. collision on Riverside Drive when a Virginia driver Ralph Phillip Shelton failed to yield at a stop sign. Umstead was treated at Northern Surry Hospital and released. Shelton faced a charge of failure to yield right of way at a stop sign.
Susan Lynn Slough a 2 year old Wytheville resident was arrested in Galax after forging a prescription at a local drug store and attempting to forge another. She is free on bond pending two felony charges from the Galax Police Department.
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