Funeral Set Saturday For Ermel R. Dunfree
Funeral services for Ermel Ray Dunfree, 41, Robson, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Christ in Robson with burial in Highlawn Memorial Park. Dunfree died at 12:40 a.m. Wednesday at a Bluefield hospital from injuries after being shot in the head May 2 near the Page Depot during an argument with George Massey, a Kanawha County parolee charged with felonious assault. Massey faces a murder charge to be presented to the next grand jury. Surviving are his wife Louise and son Donny of Detroit, along with parents and siblings. The body was moved from Tyree Funeral Home to the Robson residence of his sister before services.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Ermel Ray Dunfree
Church of Christ
Robson
Highlawn Memorial Park
Dunfree
Bluefield
George Massey
Page
Page Depot
Massey
Kanawha County
Fayette County
J. Zane Summerfield
C. S. Brown Construction, Co
Lottie Adkins
Ezra Dunfree
Louise Dunfree
Donny
Detroit
Mich
Bobby
Wilmington
Del
Billy
St. Louis
Virginia Bandy
Louella Kelly
Arlene Kelly
Lorraine
Ohio
Tyree
Bandy
73rd Birthday Event Honors Mrs. Bradley
GLEN ROGERS RNS Mr. Herbert Graham entertained in Mullens on Saturday honoring Mrs. Rose Bradley on her 73rd birthday. Prizes were won by Mrs. Happy Mankin Mrs. Minnie Lusk and Mrs. Jean Brown. Performers included Mrs. Mona Ann English and Mrs. Margaret Lou Hypes with piano accompaniment by Mrs. English.
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Bradley
Glen Rogers
RNS
Herbert Graham
Mullens
Rose Bradley
Happy Mankin
Minnie Lusk
Jean Brown
Mona Ann English
Margaret Lou Hypes
Margaret Hypes
Margaret Taraczkozy
Donnie Nuckols
Nina Evelyn Cook
Irene Graham
Gertie Brown
Joyce Halsy
Pat Dooley
Beaverly Graham
Judy Kay Graham
Yolanda Lee Graham
Floyd Graham
Willard Graham
Dennis Graham
Billy Graham
Jimmie Taraczkozy
Ricky Hypes
Cindy Hypes
Mount Hope Personalities on July Fourth Weekend Visits
Mrs Marian Jenkins Painter Philippi spends July Fourth weekend with her brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs John Jenkins. Mr Bert Hall and Mrs Marvin Davis visited Boy Scout Camp McClintic Williamsburg for a special ceremony Tuesday. Mrs Mary McCool Stover underwent an operation at Oak Hill Hospital Monday. Mrs Effie Dower and daughter Mrs Margaret Marchio were in Charleston Tuesday. Mrs Harry Salmon, a patient at Oak Hill Hospital, is reported improving. Mrs Rachel Heffner Beard was weekend guest of Mr and Mrs Denver Arnold. Mr and Mrs Charles Bergen Dahl and children Sarah and Eddie returned from a visit with his brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs J E Bergen Dahl Huntington.
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Mount Hope
Rns
Marian Jenkins
Philippi
John Jenkins
Bert Hall
Marvin Davis
Camp McClintic
Williamsburg
Mary McCool Stover
Oak Hil Hospital
Effie Dower
Margaret Marchio
Charleston
Harry Salmon
Oak Hill Hospital
Rachel Heffner
Beard
Denver Arnold
Charles Bergendahl
Sarah
Eddie
J. E. Bergendahl
Huntington
Linda Tyree Weds Thurman Tincher in East Kingston
Linda Tyree and Thurman Tincher exchanged wedding vows at Fairview Methodist Church East Kingston in a 8 p m double ring ceremony. The couple will reside in East Oak Hill with families and friends attending the reception at Friendship Hall.
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Debbie Caudill
Fred Caudill
William Lafferty
Ruel Dunlap
John Lafferty
Friendship Hall
Orval Wriston
B. J. Wriston
Emmett Wriston
Naomi Wriston
de Sota Evans
East Oak Hill
Basil Gill Dies Funeral Friday
Basil Hobart Gill, 55, died after a short illness in a Montgomery hospital. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Friday at Lansing Baptist Church with Rev. John Bragg officiating. Burial will follow in Lansing Cemetery. Gill was a miner, World War II veteran, and member of Lansing Baptist Church. Survivors include wife Georgia Belle Gill. five sons Max Gilboa Keith Ashland Ohio Lawrence Michael and Richard at home. five daughters Annabelle Nelson Ross Elizabeth Gill Faye Wilson Mary Jo Bolding. mother Myrtle McNeil. four sisters W L Carter Bessie Mann Lessie Sexton Ann Wilson. four grandchildren. Body at Dodd-Payne Funeral Home, Fayetteville.
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Victor
RNS
Basil Hobart Gill
Lansing
Annabelle Nelson
Robert Ross
Mise Elizabeth Gill
Mansfield
Ohio
Faye Wilson
Ashland
Mary Jo Bolding
Nova
Myrtle McNeil
W. L. Carter
Wilmington
Bessie Mann
Scarbro
Lessie Sexton
North Kenova
Ann Wilson
Smithers
Dodd-Payne Funeral Home
Fayetteville
Rites Incomplete For J. Warwick
James B. Warwick 54 of Red Star near Oak Hill died in a Parkersburg hospital after being burned about 80 percent of his body while repairing a slip under pavement on West Virginia Route 2 north of Parkersburg. Warwick, a State Road Commission employee, reportedly threw gasoline on a fire leading to a beer ignited container. His body lies at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill.
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Oak Hill
RNS
James B. Warwick
Red Star
Fayette County
Parkersburg
Warwick
State Road Commission
W. Va. 2
Tyree
Mrs. Eunice B. Spencer Funeral Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Eunice B. Spencer, 89, of Mullens formerly of Hinton, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the E. M. Meadows Funeral Home Chapel, Hinton, with Rev. C. H. Martin officiating. Burial follows at Woodrum Town Cemetery near Hinton. Mrs. Spencer died in a Mullens hospital after breaking her hip in a fall at her granddaughter’s West Mullens residence. She was born May 8, 1870 in Raleigh County, daughter of the late L. M. and Louisa Adkins, and lived most of her life in Summers County. Survivors include one daughter, Sadie Jeffries, Mullens. one foster son, Owen F. Burdette, Front Royal, Va.. three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The body will remain at the funeral home.
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Raymond Surface
Raleigh County
L. M
Louisa Hager Adkins
Summers County
Mullens
Mike Spencer
Spencer
Neff Methodist Church
Hinton
July Activities Set By Rebels Rec Board
The Rebels Rec governing council approved July events at Mullens center with closures July 4 and 7 due to director absence. Junior and senior high groups meet July 3, junior high on July 17 and 31, senior high on July 10, plus a Rock-a-billy Hop on July 24 with admission 50 cents members 75 cents guests.
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Mullens
RNS
Rec
Lloyd Bright
Kathy Jo D’antoni
Jo Ann Short
David Humphrey
Joyce Akers
Cassell Memorial Methodist Church
Itmann
Kaiser appoints Charles D. Smith Ravenswood manager
Charles D. Smith is named manager of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp Ravenswood works. He comes from Tentwood Washington where he was works manager. Smith succeeds Lloyd A. Amos who is transferred to Kaiser headquarters in Oakland California to assume expanded duties in a new executive assignment.
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Ravenswood
W. Va
Charles D. Smith
Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation
Smith
Tentwood, Wash
Lloyd A. Amos
Amos
Kaiser
Oakland
Cal
NEA renews demand for federal aid to education
The National Education Assn and the American Assn. of School Administrators urged a massive federal education aid program. They warned that inadequate funding worsens poverty and ignorance, calling for an annual per pupil expenditure of at least 540 dollars and noting wide state disparities.
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ST. Louis
National Education Assn
Education Policies Commission
The
NEA
American Assn
Mississippi
New York
Emergency Appeal For Funds Expected By Area Polio Group
Fay ette County leaders warn of a growing deficit in the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis chapter treas ury and plan an emergency drive to raise funds for polio hospital and medical care in Fayette County. New campaign director Otho Ray will lead 1959 60 efforts while remaining funds stay for polio only.
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Oak Hill
ANS
Bob Prowse
Fayette County
The
National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis
City Hall
Treas
Ury
Prowse
Otho Ray
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
National Foundation
Pay Increase Vote At Union Carbide Plant
Union workers at Union Carbide Metals Co in Alley Fayette County vote today on a 13 cent per hour raise. Local 1089 OCWU wrapped up talks, re opening a three year contract in its last year. About 1600 hourly employees are eligible. union urges acceptance.
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Montgomery
Union Carbide Metals Co
Alley
Fayette County
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Mrs. Dora Cales Robinson Rites Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Cales Robinson will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the residence of her son Walter in Hilldale with Rev. H. P. Hackney officiating. Burial follows in King Cemetery near Sandstone. Mrs. Robinson, 980 Hinton, died Wednesday night in a Weston hospital after two years as a patient. She was born in Raleigh County, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Meadows, and spent most of her life in Summers County, living in Hinton for 50 years. Survivors include six sons Houston, Ray both of Hinton Walter of Hilldale Oliver George and Taylor Cales of Cleveland Ohio. two daughters Mrs. Clifford Kirtley of Huntington and Mrs. Clifford Darby of Mount Hope. a brother L. Wilson Meadows of Hinton. 25 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Funeral Parlor personnel from Ronald Meadows in Hinton will deliver to the son’s residence at 4 p.m. today. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
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Summers County
Hinton
Houston
Ray
Walter
Hilldale
Oliver
George
Taylor Cales
Cleveland
Ohio
Clifford Kirtley
Huntington
Clifford Darby
Mount Hope
L. Wilson Meadows
Ronald Meadows
Air Force family departs Wyoming County for California base
Sgt. William Robert Shannon and Mrs Mary Faye Shannon with children Pat and Larry left Baileysville after visiting relatives. They traveled from Formosa via San Francisco arriving May 29 and will report to Mather Air Force Base, California. Shannon has an extensive overseas career in Germany Japan Korea and Formosa with multiple re enlistments and radar radio training. Mrs. Shannon, formerly Miss Mary Faye Pritchard of Eagle Springs, NC, accompanies him.
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Baileysville
RNS
William Robert Billy
Shannon
Pat
Larry
K. E. Shannon
Wyoming County
San Francisco
Formosa
United States Air Force
Delitha Pritchard
Eagle Springs
N. C
Math
Japan
Europe
Asia
England
Scotland
France
Belgium
Norway
Holland
Switzerland
Korea
Mary Faye Pritchard
Girl Scout Day Camp Planned at Camp Collins
A Wyoming District Girl Scouts day camp will run June 13 to 17 at Camp Collins near Pineville with an overnight on Thursday. Open to girls aged seven to 14, registration is 4 dollars covering insurance and meals. Activities include nature study hikes cookouts crafts folklore and campcraft. A staff training course led by Mrs Clyde Browder was held June 24.
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Clyde Browder
Appalachian Council
Reductions Listed By Boone Education Board
Madison RNS Boone County Board of Education lists cost cuts to run the 1959 60 school year without a bond or levy. Plan includes axing band allotments coaches nine period teaching load limits clerk support nine month only, cessation of summer recreation and health gifts, free textbooks ending, and asking some students to buy books.
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Boone County
SRC Truck Wrecks Damages At $3,000
A State Road Commission soil mechanics department truck wrecked near Oak Hill when brakes failed while turning a compressor. The vehicle plunged over a %-foot embankment into a ditch. the driver fled unharmed. Official details were unavailable and must come from Charleston.
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Oak Hill
RNS
Soil Mechanics Department
State Road Commision
SAC
Charleston
Anniversary of Frank and Trilby Tyree
Mr and Mrs Frank Tyree celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary with an open house. They were married June 27 1928 in Fayetteville by Rev T J Hopson. Attendants were Mayme Treadway and J Will Lively. Mrs Tyree was Trilby Humphrey, daughter of Mrs Lou Ella Humphrey and the late Frank Humphrey. Tyree is the son of Mrs Dellie Tyree and the late Jeff Tyree. They have three children Leonard Indianapolis Indiana Larry a medical student in Winston Salem NC and Elaine at home. They have one granddaughter Kimberley Ann. Tyree is a bookkeeper at Milburn.
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PAX
ANS
Frank Tyree
Tyrees
Fayetteville
T. J. Hopson
Mayme Treadway
J. Will Lively
Tyree
Trilby Humphrey
Lou Ella Humphrey
Frank Humphrey
Dellie Tree
Jeff Tyree
Leonard
Indianapolis
Ind
Larry
Winston-Salem
N. C
Elaine
Kimberley Ann
Milburn
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Grahams
Mrs. Bradley
Peete
Neville St
Charley
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T. Tincher
East Kingston
Thurman Tincher
Fairview Methodist Church
Leonard Stanley
Hollie Tyree
Jess Tincher
Co. D. Walker
Naomi Winston
Billy Faye Caudill
Blaine Tyree
Barbara Gray
Basil Gill
J. Warwick
Mrs. E. Spencer
Rec Board
First Christian Church of
First Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
Mullens and
Herndon
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John Wayne
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Chuck Conners
John Smith
Debbie Reynolds
Tony Randall
Paul Douglas
Richard Meee
Cobb - Louise
Pyrg
King Solomon's Mines
George Montgomery
Taina Elg
David Farrar
Glen Jean
Julius LaRosa
Vista Vision
Shirley Booth
Anthony Perkins
Area Polio Group
Ollie Blake
Mike Hyre
Marmet
American Medical Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of General Medicine
Mrs. Robinson
Pineville Drive-In
Tee de Montgomery Clift
Elizabeth Taylor
Eva Marie Saint
Raintree County
Nigel Patrick
Lee Marvin
Boone Education Board
SRC
Beckley
Open Air Theatre
Stamford Rd
Gene Evans
Scott Marlowe
Lus
Trent
Corey Allen
Rebecca Welles
Andrt Worell
Walter Fitzgeraldo
BCI
Shelley
Michael Goodlett
Gine Snorkel
DE Luke
Ion Rand
Ry Air
Errys
John Pau
Steckier
Jereews
Hal Wallis
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