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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1963
Page
8
The Rev. Danford Slagie of Bristol Virginia will speak Sunday at 11 with the Campbell Singers. In the evening at 7 50 the Rev. Glenn Blake of Mount Airy will deliver the message.
The Barker descendants gather for a reunion hosted by Mrs. Betty Barker at Crutchfield. Attendees from Haywood J E Barker Cance Derice and Poore families are invited to bring a picnic basket.
Dave Griffith of Griffith Ac counting Co is the official delegate of the local Sertoma Club to the Sertoma National Convention in Minneapolis this week. He brings a Proctor Silex toaster as the area product for display.
Max A. Brown named commercial manager of Duke Power Company's Elkin district office serving Elkin North Wilkesboro Mount Airy and Yadkinville. Yadkin County native and Air Force veteran, Brown is married with three children.
George A Cheek is named new manager of McLellan's Mount Airy store replacing Lynn Jeffries who transferred to Greensboro. Cheek, a Abbeville South Carolina native and U S Army Reserve member, arrived with wife Margaret Campbell and children Kelly and John and will lead store operations from Cherry Street quarters.
Mrs Pauline Elizabeth Becraft Draughn 58 of route 2 Dobson died Tuesday at Northern Surry Hospital after four day admission. Funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Salem Baptist Church with Rev. Hodges and Rev. Macemore officiating. She leaves husband Vance, three sons Paul Ralph Draughn Columbus Ohio Robert William Draughn Yorktown Indiana Vance M Draughn Jr Dobson one daughter Mrs Oswald Schmidt Mount Airy 13 grandchildren two brothers Oscar Recraft Wytheville Va Ralph Recraft Welch W Va and one sister Mrs John Miller Wytheville Va. The body lies at Moody Funeral Home and will be taken to the church at 1:50 p.m. Saturday. Burial in Salem Church cemetery.
Wayne D. Johnston, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas W Johnston of Mount Airy, was assigned in early June to the Armed Forces Police Detachment in Brooklyn New York. Johnston is a military member of the detachment.
Rose's Department Store names Thomas Tyler from Pinetown North Carolina as manager of the Mount Airy store replacing J T Bailey who led the shop for several years Tyler is a U S Army veteran with eight years of service and joined the Rose chain in 1955 at Ocean View Virginia He has managed stores in Hamlet North Carolina and Danville Virginia and arrives from Danville to assume duty Mrs Shirley Calhoun formerly of Hamlet is noted and the Taylors have a daughter Sandy nine They plan to relocate to Mount Airy once housing is secured and the family attends the Christian church Bailey will transfer to the Lincolnton chain store.
Jonas Franklin Collins aged 50 of Dobson died after a heart attack at Chatham Memorial Hospital Elkin. The funeral will be held at Salem Fork Baptist Church near Dobson at 2 PM with Reverends Glenn Dobbins Jess Woodruff and Gilmer Denny officiating. He was a native of Stokes County and survived by his wife Venice White Collins and a daughter.
Brenda Faye and her son Franklin Collins are noted in a family obituary. They resided with relatives and are linked to Nina Cook of route 1 Dobson and Onie Clifton of Mount Airy. Brothers Thomas Collins of Mount Airy route 4 and Noah Collins of Mount Airy route 1 are named. The body was taken to the Moody Funeral home yesterday for arrangements.
Clinton Tesh named manager of the local hardware company owned by Ed Lewis. Tesh is a Mount Airy native and Salem Fork High School alumnus who played football for the school.
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