Deaths and Funerals in Mount Hope Area
Obituaries list multiple local deaths and funeral arrangements. John William Kody of Mount Hope dies after a short illness. services set at Tyree Funeral Home with burial at Highlawn Memorial Park. Other notices cover Mrs. Ritter Anne Austin and Bead Hillard among cremations and burials in Oak Hill, Birmingham, and nearby towns, with full survivor details and service times.
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John W. Kody
John William Kody
Mount Hope
Tyree
Leo Werner
Highlawn Memorial Park
Oak Hill
Kody
Beckley Hospital
Jean Flemming
Richmond
Betty
Hambrick
Dickerson
Tex
Sue Seagraves
Greensboro
N. Y
Bead Hillard
Obituary for Beulah Beverly Beulah Beverly
Mrs Beulah Beverly 58 of Brenton dies after long illness in Mullens Hospital A graveside service is planned at Brenton Church of God where she was a member The Rev Stellie Parsons and Rev James Hite to lead She is survived by husband Okley four sons and four daughters including Richard Brownsville N J Ray Marianne Hubert Baltimore Md Johnny Brenton and Ruth Carter Chicago D Mary Coe Iroquois Nora Baldwin Brownaville Mildred Patrick Glover Also four brothers and a sister and 23 grandchildren six great grandchildren Remaining details note residence transfer and funeral home Robertson Foglesong Pineville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Beverly
Brenton
Brenton Church of God
Stellie Parsons
James Hite
Beverly
Mullens Hospital
Wise County
John
Mary Bolden Mullins
Okley
Richard
Brownsville
N. J
Ray
Marianne
Hubert
Baltimore
Johnny
Ruth Carter
Chicago
Mary Coe
Iroquois
Nora Baldwin
Brownaville
Mildred Patrick
Glover
Carl
Pennsylvania
Thurston
Bill
Troy Mullins
Rhodesfield
Shirley Daniels
Annie Daniels
Wolf Penl
Jim Daniels
Welch Hospital
Beckley
Reedy Creek Methodist Church
Jess Cline
Long Branch
James
Gary
Rosemary
Albert Morgan
Simon
Okey Daniels
Saxton
Robertson-Foglesong Funeral Home
Pineville
Obituaries and funeral notices from Mount Hope and surrounding areas
Obituaries and funeral notices list deaths in Mount Hope and surrounding towns. Remily Woolwine of Mount Hope dies at Sweet Springs Funeral Home with incomplete arrangements. Shirley Daniels of Wolf Pen Lane dies in Welch hospital. service at Reedy Creek Methodist Church with burial at Long Branch Cemetery. Harry McLain of Mount Hope dies. arrangements pending. Mrs Linda Thomas of Mullens dies in Mullens hospital. services at Sam Foglesong Nease and Neely Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Bell Cemetery Macajah.
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Remily Woolwine
Woolwine of
Mount Hope
Sweet Springs
Tyree
Linda Thomas
Bnd
Mullens Hospital
Navy
Basin
Floyd
Victoria Milam
Frank Thomas
Qozie Byers
Herndon Heights
Laura Green
Bridgeville
Del
Lucy Jones
Venton
Zell Taylor
Maybeury
Floyd Milam
Rockview
Della Sizemore
Herndon
Rebecca Lane
Keystone
Sam Foglesong
Nease and Neely Funeral Home
Mullens
Jim Howers
John Bowers
Sherman Sizemore
Bell Cemetery
Macajah
Wrongful Arrest Trial Opens In Circuit Court
Mrs Sally V Manns 81 of Mullens dies Sunday at Butt ington hospital after long illness. Jury hears Raleigh County Circuit Court case seeking 10000 for wrongful arrest and 10000 for punitive damages from Rhodell Police Officer Irvin Simmons. Separate suit by Orlando Dailey of Mabscott against Noah Adkins Beckley Cab Co and driver Donald Brooks also to proceed. Jurors hear Phipps case alleging arrest interference and assault by Simmons. Trial overseen by Judge Lilly with jurors cautioned not to read accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodell
Irvinji ‘Simmong
Raleigh
Orlando Dailey
Mabscott
Noah Adkins
Beckley Cab Co
Donald Brooks
C. Berkley Lilly
Billie ‘Joe Phipps
Amigo
Simmons
Luchini
Mayer McPeake
L. L. Biggers
George Steffey
Pam Xeyser
James A. Shaver
Mike Warcinko
Barbara Lopez
Alvin G. Bowles
George ¥. Sparks
Sherman Akers
Aubie Rutland
Lilly
Raleigh County
Obituaries for Edna Payne and Ernest Dragon in Beckley area
Edna B Payne 81 of 307 G St died Sunday at 1 30 pm after a long illness. Born Oct 19 1888 in Lomo Va she was a nurse and church member. Survived by two daughters Anna Washington and Rosetta Payne. Funeral at Ritchie and Johnson pending. Ernest R Dragon 55 of Barger Springs died noon Sunday at home of apparent heart attack. WWII veteran and former coal miner. Survived by Flora Dragon and several siblings. Body at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna B. Payne
Lomo
C. G. Butler
Central Street Baptist Church
Women’s Improvement League
East Beckley
cUnera
Ernest Robert Dragon
Barger Springs
St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church
United Mineworker District
New River Company
Garden Grounds
Sprague
Steve
Annie Dragon
Flora (Clemons) Dragon
Hubert
Maple Fork
John
Pennsylvania
Ardena McGoskey
Beckley
Enina Perkins
Calloway
Willie W Evans obituary in Minden long illness
Willie W Evans 48 of Minden died at home Saturday after a long illness. Born June 11 1921 in East Gulf he was a World War II veteran and Southern Valley Baptists Church member. He is survived by wife Inez five daughters Marie Linda Sandra Chelitha and Rosiland one son Willie Jr a mother Comeral Evans and siblings among others. The body is at Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor pending arrangements.
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Willie W. Evans
Minden
East Gulf
Jordan Evans
Southern Valley Baptists Church of
Inez E. Evans
Willie Jr
Marie E
Linda E
Sandra
Chelitha
Rosiland
Jordan E
Clarence
Gilbert
New York
N. Y
Juanita Austin
Clara Lee
Amelia Evans
Hill Top
Comeral Evans
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Legislature Deliberations on Budget, Gambling, and Labor Bills
The Senate considered amendments to a budget bill limiting the Board of Public Works powers and requiring legislative approval to shift funds. Sun day racing was discussed but not amended. The chamber also moved on cloud seeding controls, fire and police bargaining in large cities, and abolition of the Department of Personnel. A conference committee was requested over a modern definition of gambling devices within a municipal code rewrite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Board of Public Works
BPW
House
State Department of Personnel
Traveling classroom van aims to aid preschool study in West Virginia
A mobile classroom van equipped with modern teaching aids and a visiting teacher will tour Beckley at 8:30 p.m. to showcase an experimental program for preschoolers in eight southern counties. Legal agreements cover Raleigh Mercer Fayette Summers. project director Dr. Robert Childers said success may expand to four more counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woay-Tv
Channel 4
Beckley
West Virginia
AEL
South Kanawha St
Cmmulee
Childers
Mercer
Raleigh
Fayette
Summers
Childerg
Four Die On State Roads In West Virginia
United Press International reports four deaths on West Virginia highways over the weekend. Among the victims, a Salem College football player with one arm, Donahue High School alumnus, and three others in separate crashes. The weekend toll lifts the 1989 highway death total to 70, with incidents including a two car crash on West Virginia 5 near Elizabeth and a Harrison County youth killed in a motorbike collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Salem
McMechen
Donahue High School
West Virginia
Richard R. Kerwood
Benwood
Oglebay Park
Wheeling
W. Va
Elizabeth
Bobbie Hall
Burning Springs
Wirt County
James C. Taylor
Charleston
Harrison County
Jerry Minnix
Haywood
Kerwood
Robert Wysocki
Wysocki
Ohioo
Eisenhower Mission: Surgeon Reports Successful Operation
General Eisenhower underwent intestinal obstruction surgery at Walter Reed. The procedure began at 9:10 p.m. and ended at 11:30 p.m. with two adhesive bands from past surgeries found to cause the blockage. Eisenhower, aged and with a cardiac history, was described as doing fine and recovering in the VIP suite as Mamie Eisenhower and family visited.
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Mamie
Frederick, J. Hughes Jr
Walter Reed Medical Center
Eisenhower
Hughes
Gen. Eisenhower
Walter Reed
John
Nixon
Belgium
Barbara
Milton Eisenhower
White House
Nixon in Brussels Lunch as NATO Visit Unfolds
President Nixon rode in a limousine through Brussels to King Baudouin's palace for a 100 guest lunch. Gendarmes on horseback and six crystal chandeliers marked a formal scene as reporters noted modest crowds and a deliberate display to deter big turnouts. Nixon held late meetings with Belgian officials on NATO and East West tensions while stressing a work over ceremony approach and signaling future talks with the Soviet Union.
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Brussels
King
Baudouin
Nixon
London
Harold Wilson
Royal Palace
Versailles Palace
Paris
Fabiola
NATO
Brussels/ Hilton
White House
South Vietnam
NATO Council
Local Postmaster Lilly remembered as Elks member and church supporter
Funeral services for Postmaster Lilly of Beckley recall a career as a partner in Lilly's Grocery on South Eisenhower Drive and the Green Bank Motel. A Republican activist who ran for City Council in 1951 and Raleigh County Assessor in 1952, he died aged 25 and leaves widow Pearl Bibb Lilly son Gerald Lilly and two grandchildren. Services were to be held at St Marys Methodist Church with burial at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens after calling hours at Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson High School
Pearl Bibb Lilly
Gerald
Jerry) Lilly
Stanford, Conn
St. Mary’s Methodist Church
B. L. Moss
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
Six Spanish teachers identified by Raleigh County Board of Education
The Raleigh County Board of Education employs six Spanish teachers at Beckley area schools. Names include Sue Wyatt at Packsville and Marsh Fork High, Fred Woodrum at Daniels and Shady Spring schools, Regina Williams at Sophia High, Sara Spinelli at Stoco High, Josephine Midkiff at Woodrow Wilson High, and Ruinella Mitchell at Park Junior High. Contact details list addresses and assignments for each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
Raleigh County
C-O Pinecrest Sanitarium Laboratory
Woodrow Wilson High School
Ruinella Mitchell
Beckley, Park Junior High School
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Mrs. Ritter Ann Austin
Ritter Anne
Austin
Brighton
Ala
Smith Gaston
Birmingham
Cato
Joseph
Urvivors
Winding Gulf
Edward
Fueco
Nathanial
California
Aaron
Brichton
Tinkie Underwood
Fred Blevins
Santa Ana
Calif
Henry
Blevins
Hillard
Robert Junior Hobbs
Highstown
Dorothy King
East Lake
Ohio
Stella Smith
Fayetteville
Mary Lucas
Normal
Tony
J. Goff Cook
Turkey Creek Baptist Church
Marianna
Roy Lester
Palm Memorial Gardens
Matheny
Raleigh W
Margaret Cooper Cook
Wyoming County
Turkey Creek
Violet Belcher Cook
Noel ¥ V
Algie
Richard R. Cook
Bel Air
Myrtle Cline
Ruth McKinney
Naoma Wyles
Audie Bottomley
Garnett Hatfield
Grace Cook
Freeman
H. Wade
Wendell
Fred
Lynco
Raleigh Cook
Jesse
Ella Widener
Bristol
Tenn
Leola Alien
Fairdale
Robertson and Foglesone Funeral
Parma Hawkins
Parma Jane Legg Hawkins
Offico
Montgomery
Wallace and Wallace
Ramsey
Helen Brandon
Maralee Rogers
Sarahlene Delp
Santusky
Jackalene Terry
Bacil
Hico
Bilbert Casstown
Glenn
Moundsville
Dennis Legg
Olympia
Wash
James H. Davis
James Harvey Davis
Summerlee
Nancy Powers Davis
Dorothy Blake Davis
Pat
Melbourne
Fla
William
Ferndale
Mich
Jack
Norwalk
Jennings
Athelene) Moses
Peninsula
George
Tampa
Omer Bowyer
Carl Pittman
John Cattlett
Mary Payne
Jacksonville
Mrs. Beulah Beverly
Robert Hall
Robert
Carrie) Hall
Robertson- Foglesong Funeral Home
Harry McLain
Mrs
Dry Services
Sanitone
Richn Mond
Rede
Conmenice
Castanos
Sally V. Manns
Buttington Hospital
Ernest R. Dragon
Raleigh County Bar Association
Harry L. McCreery
Negro College
Jeacher
Stillmanilations
Stillman College
University of Pennsys
Ivania
Tuscaloosa
Penn
University of Californ
Harold Stinson
Nia
Berkeley
University
Regents
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Roger Heyns
Ysidro Macias
University of Pennsula
University of Wisconsin
Kenneth Williamson
Williamson
Oshkosh State University Becaues Afaialanns
Emoe WA
Coral Gables, Fla
Police
Kimbrough
University of Miami
Students For A Democratic Society
Willia
Britain
Bonn
Berlin
Rome
Vatican
Soviet Union
Park Junior High School
Thomas Evans
PTA
Evan
State Tax Department
Mike Wenger
Raleigh County Community Action Association
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