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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1956
Page
1
A coal miner named Amos Sexton, 58, of Fayetteville, suffered chest injuries after a slate fall at the Brooklyn Coal Co. mine on Monday. Attendants at Oak Hill hospital reported the injury was serious but the full condition remained undetermined.
Funeral services for Lacy Bryant Archer will be held at Memorial Funeral Directory Chapel Princeton at 11 am Wednesday under Rev. Ben Cox. Burial follows in Resthaven Cemetery Princeton. Archer, 33, of Tralee, died Sunday night in a Princeton hospital from diabetes. Body remains at the funeral directory. Cousins will serve as pallbearers.
In a weekly census at Wyoming General Hospital, fifty one admissions were recorded. The list covers patients across Mullens, Oceana, Amigo, Ren Junction and surrounding areas with names including Erskine Whitt Bud Cathy Jones and Patricia Sullins among others.
Four people were treated at local hospitals after accidents. Tom J. King of Shrewsbury Lumber Co. suffered chest bruises and potential rib fractures when a horse fell on him and stepped on his leg. Ozena Shrewsbury, 41, Mullens, arrived for arm injury examinations from Saturday incident. William Ross III, Mullens, received follow up for Thanksgiving day cuts from a china closet collapse. Joey Cook, two, Itmann, fell from a dresser causing foot and ankle injuries. X-rays were conducted.
Ervin F. Epperly 47, Oak Hill businessman, died at 4 pm Monday in a Montgomery hospital from skull chest and pelvis fractures after an early Sunday wreck on Route 60 east of Glasgow. Passengers Ralph Lafon and Thomas Mulligan were injured. charges expected. Epperly co owned Belle Furniture with George Elton. member of White Oak Country Club and Oak Hill Rotary. Survivors include wife Maude, three sons and five daughters. Body at Thomas Funeral Home. Also note birth of Carol Sue Godley in Albany Georgia where Air Force husband is stationed.
Funeral services for Ronaie Franklin Arritt 17 of Meadow Bridge will be held at Meadow Bridge Methodist Church at 2 pan with Rev. Homer Elkins officiating. Arritt died in a Clifton Forge Virginia hospital from leukemia, son of Frank land and Celeste Bough Arritt, a Meadow Bridge High School senior and lifelong resident. Surviving family includes sister Carolyn and brother Michael at home, paternal grandmother Mrs. B F Arrit of Oak Hid, maternal grandmother Mrs. A R Jones of Lansing, and maternal grandfather W H Brugh of Wildwood Florida. The body is at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home East Rainelle and will be moved to the church an hour before services.
OAK HILL RNS A combined birthday and Christmas dinner will be held December 3 at 6 p.m. at Pythian Sisters Temple No. 132. The meeting will honor past chiefs and nominate officers for the new year. Members voted to donate $1 toward fruit baskets for the needy and shut-ins. Sally James was named Life-member. numerous members attended the session with Mrs Mabel Kincaid and Mrs Alina Blake among them.
A preliminary hearing for Homer Stable Jr. was postponed in Oceana pending State Police consultation with Willis Blankenship, a patient at Man Memorial Hospital. Stable is accused in a Saturday tavern shooting that killed Luther Lambert Jr., 28, of Lynco, after a dispute over a refused drink. Blankenship was shot during the tavern fight.
Francis Jennings Backus 73 of Oak Hill died at 1 15 pm Monday from complications of an extended illness. A retired employee of New Silver and Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co Min den he belonged to Oneida Methodist Church and IOOF Lodge No 206. Survived by wife Simmons four sisters Lilly James C A Mankin Erma Salgado Annie Crews Rainelle and a daughter Thelma Burgees.
An inexact Charleston diary fragment notes events such as buying a new car at 2:30 pm and insuring it and applying for licenses. It also mentions a 3:00 pm event involving a pole and a wrecked car. The text is fragmented and unreadable in places but signals routine personal notes.
Elkhart Indiana obituary notice states funeral services will be conducted at 2 p m Wednesday at Oak Hill Methodist Church by Dr C G Eastwood. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill line.
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