21 Year Old Korean Native Scheduled As Speaker for Homecoming Program
Mt Hope Presbyterian Church plans a homecoming program on December 21 featuring 21 year old Coo Lee of Seoul as special speaker. Lee, a Davis and Elkins College sophomore, will be a three day guest, delivering an address Thursday night at 8:30. He came to the United States in 1949 with Lt. Col. John P. King and has ties to the Presbyterian Church. His family background includes the deaths of both parents from cholera and tuberculosis in the sister, who taught at church, passing away in North Korea since August.
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MT. Hope
Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church
Coo Lee
Seoul
Korea
Davis and Eilkins College
United States
John P. King
Judge Advocate
Department of National Defense
King
Whi Moon High School
Junior Grammar School
Tong Yang Foreign Language College of
Whi Moon
Davis ‘and Elkins College
Perkins Funeral Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Harvey Clarence Perkins age 48 will be held at 2 p m Wednesday in Narrows Methodist Church with Rev C E Wilson officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery Narrows. He is survived by daughter Peggy Joyce Perkins and son Arlen Clarence Perkins both of Mullens, father C M Perkins of Narrows and brothers and sisters J E Perkins Rhodell L L Perkins Pineville J D Perkins Narrows Hayden Perkins Crab Orchard Effie Jackson Narrows Mamie Crowder Summerlee Lola King Miamisburg Ohio and Mrs Brookman.
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Peterstown
Harvey Clarence Perkins
Narrows
J. P. Brookman
Narrows Methodist Church
C. E. Wilson
Fairview
Peggy Joyce Perkins
Arlen Clarence Perkins
Mullens
C. M. Perkins
J. E. Perkins
Rhodell
L. L. Perkins
Pineville
J. D. Perkins
Hayden Perkins
Crab Orchard
Effie Jackson
Mamie Crowder
Summerlee
Lola King
Miamisburg
Brookman
Toler Funeral Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Isaac Edward Toler age 68 of Simon will be held at 2 p m Wednesday. He died en route to a hospital after a heart attack Monday morning. Burial will be in Long Branch Cemetery at Simon. He is survived by son Finley Toler of Matoaka and a daughter of Matoaka. Body to be moved from Evans Funeral Home to the Goodman residence this evening.
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Oceana
Isaac Edward Toler
Simon
Thomas Goodman
Long Branch
Finley Toler
Matoaka
Evans Funeral
Goodman
Death notice for H A Nuckels 56 Oak Hill
Herbert Ashby Nuckels 56 of Oak Hill died Monday at 3 a m from a heart condition. Funeral at 2 p m Wednesday at Oak Hill Methodist Church officiated by Revs Eastwood and Rose. Burial High Lawn Memorial Park. Survived by wife Myrtle daughter Mildred Lewis son Harold in Navy three half brothers and one half sister. Body to be moved to home Tuesday 4 30 p m and to church an hour before service.
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Oak Hill
Herbert Ashby Nuckels
Oak Hill Methodist Church
C. G. Eastwood
Smith Rose
High Lawn Memorial Park
Nuckels
Mary Frances Coal Company
Virginia
May Jones
Richmond
Cars Collide With Trains Injure One In Mullens
In Mullens on Saturday a 1950 sedan hit a west Mullens road crossing and caused a severe brain concussion for Kenneth Snyder, the driver, while another car occupant escaped injury after an earlier collision with a Virginian Railway coal train at Stephenson. Murray Waldo and his wife were briefly hurt but not seriously in the New Richmond crash. Dallas Mullins, the other driver, was en route to work when his car collided with the coal train.
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Kenneth Snyder
Mullens General Hospital
West Mullens Road
Snyder
Otsego
Ward Wylie
New Richmond
Murray Waldo
Lusk Avenue
Stephenson
Dallas Mullins
Doris Jean Smith to Wed Don Walsh in California
Miss Dorothy Jean Smith of Oak Hill travels by bus from Beckley to Fairfield California to wed Pfc. Don Walsh of the United States Air Force stationed at Travis Air Field Base. The ceremony will be in the base chapel with relatives visited in Phoenix en route.
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Doris Jean Smith
Don Walsh
California
Dorothy Jean Smith
Oak Hill
Everette Smith
Beckley
Fairfield
Calif
Pfc
Walsh
Lillian Rapp
Woodlawn Avenue
Travis Air Field Base
Air Police
United States Air Force
Phoenix
Ariz
Miss Smith
Oak Hill High School
Beckley College
West Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Car Collision Near Black Eagle Causes Train Warning
A driver escaped unharmed when his car collided with an approaching train near Black Eagle. Damages to his 1949 sedan were estimated at $250. The other driver Mullens also did not see the oncoming train.
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Black Eagle
Mullens
Oak Hill Man John Whitehead Seriously Ill in Hospital
John Whitehead of Oak Hill is confined to Oak Hill Hospital and reported to be seriously ill.
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Oak Hill
John Whitehead
Oak Hill Hospital
Kessinger Rites Slated Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Oleva Pauline Kessinger 82 of Ronceverte will be at 10 a m Wednesday in St John s Church near Salt Sulphur Springs Rev O F Sureface to officiate Burial will be in the church cemetery Surviving are two sons William B Kessinger of Portsmouth Ohio and O K Kessinger of Ronceverte a daughter Mrs O D Bostic of Beckley eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren
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Ronceverte
Oleva Pauline Kessinger
St. John’s Church
Salt Sulphur Springs
O. F
William B. Kessinger
Portsmouth
O. K. Kessinger
O. D. Bostic
Beckley
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