Norma McKinney Weds Jimmy Lester Sunday
Norma McKinney and Jimmy Lester wed at Toneda Baptist Church in Kopperston. The bride, daughter of Jimmy Ray Lester Sunday and Mrs Wint McKinney, wore a white satin ballerina gown with Chantilly lace, a tiara, and carried a Bible with red rosebuds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kopperston
Toneda Baptist Church
Norma Jean
McKinney
Vernon Cook
Jimmy Ray Lester
Wint McKinney
Koppa
Perston
Roy Lester
Pineville wedding initiations mark Eastern Star event
Mrs. Billie Ledford was initiated into Pineville Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at the Sonic Temple in Pineville. Miss Charlotte Fleenor served as maid of honor and Airman Second Class Bob Johnson was best man. The ceremony was conducted by Elizabeth Williams and C.C. Tucker, with officers and visitors from several chapters attending. The couple will reside in New York City area where the groom is stationed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Fleenor
Bob Johnson
Pineville
Wilson
Billie
Newford
Burgh
Stewart Air Force’ Base
Sonic Temple
Elizabeth Williams
Oceana
C.C. Tucker
Jessie Hager
Arnold ‘Hager
Gladys Stone
Virginia Pomeroy
Helen McClung
Virginia Price
Edythe Ross
Janet Hendrick
Latha McDermitt
Adah
Helena Cline
Esther
Faye Grosse
Martha
Dortha
Paynter
Neva Jo Adams
Sentinel
Mac
Cook
Helen McNemar
Logan
Evelyn’ Witt
Kanawha
Valeria Reed
Fayetteville
Glenna Young
Oak Hill
Worthy Grand Matron Visit Planned by WV Freemasons
Edith Browning and a long list of local names attend plans for the visitation of Mrs Leila Ball the Worthy grand matron of the Grand Jurisdiction of West Virginia. A banquet precedes the special meeting on Nov 7 with service by the Woman's Society of Christian Service at the First Methodist dining hall in the Masonic Temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith 'Browning
Robert Browning
Viola Day
Sybil Chiser
Edith Thompson
Brooke Cook
Ruth Childress
Minnie Bowyer
Louise Foster
Ann G. Cook
Bétha Shannon
Fred H. Shannon
Phyllis Cozorl
Toney Cline
Marvin Bowyer
Wanda Gray
Edith Williams
Garnette Dowdy
Grand Jurisdiction
West Virginia
Leila Ball
Woman's Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
Masonic Temple
Fayetteville land transfers show many parcels bought
Deeds filed in Fayette County record numerous transfers by C and Phelon Co and others. Purchases include Frank Bergendahl, Bert Hall, and many others with prices from about 1000 to 17,000, plus grave lots at High Lawn Memorial Park. In Whitesville, Keen appointed grand deputy by Kanawha lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
RNS
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Mt. Hope
Fayette County
Frank W
Lena B. Bergendahl
Bert Ty
Ida
Frank K
Virginia D. Cline
Virginian Railway Co
Allie M. Dodd
Maple Deepwater
Ap Stoon
George E
Myrtle D. Teel
James
Reba Stuch Jr
Lés Ann
Billy J
Margaret L
High Lawn Memorial Park
Knight
Harry Wilmer
Annas John
Jennie Vargo
Donachy
Oak Hill
Ola 'V
Howard Ayers
Ray Gentry
Sewell
Dis
Peece
Winton T
Eloise Pennington
R. L. Legg
Vernon Alfred
Ruby Spangler
Sally Ann Bloxton
Red Star
Faymoor Heights
Charles E
Kathleen Mahan
Letcher Cook
Mary Hash
Lloyd
Bernice Martin
Hilda Basil
Mable Rogers
T. E. Myles
B. C.madison
Lansing
Ethel Crutchfield Bobbitt
Lacy A. Garten
Coalfield Land Co
Clara’ Wright
Elkridge
Kermit and
Vernel Holcomb
MacDunn
Algie
Mace Lovejoy
Whitesville
Jonas Melba
Grady Smith
Keen
Seth
Esther
Isabel Campbell
Lot
Whipple
Odd Fellows Lodge
A. Roller
Charleston
Kanawha High Lawn Memorial Park
Dorothy Zastawniak
Frank
Huntington
Tonita Tolli
William
Donale Yaquinta
Roller
Hate
Elmer L. Conway
Daniel T. Myles
Winona
Grand
A. H
Caldwell
District Moose Meet Slated Friday Night
The Sixth District of the West Virginia State Moose Association will meet at Layland Moose Home at 7 30 p m Friday. The session includes new member enrollment a business meeting and a dance with Whitesville Beckley Montgomery Oak Hill Richwood Rainelle White Sulphur Springs Hinton and Layland lodges represented. Presiding will be D B Shumate of Beckley with guests Major Warren T Lenhart and T Sgt Ralph C Paterson of the Ground Observers Corp Charleston. Accompanying them is Charles W Leible of Charleston past District Four president with Cather Jones state conservation chairman. Members and ladies are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
RNS
West Virginia
State ‘Moose Association
Layladd Moose Home
Whitesville
Beckley
Montgomery
Richwood
Rainelle
White Sulphur
Springs
Hinton
Layland
D. ‘B. Shumate
Pumas
Ground Observers Corp
Warren T. Lenhart J
Ralph C. Paterson
GOC
Charleston
Charles W. jLeible
District Four
Cather Jones
State Conservation
Fayetteville Personal News and Unusual Accidents Reported
Fayetteville items recount three unusual accidents hospitalizing youths, plus scattered social notices. A 13 year old fell from a bed injuring his right leg, a three year old was injured by a nut lodged in her nose, and others undergo hospital stays or travel notices including visits and medical updates with local residents appearing as patients or guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullens
Unusua
Tathé
Wyoming General’ Hospital
Hubert Shrewsbury
Sherven Lee Estes
Bud
Judy Coomes
Cave
Fayette County Farm Bureau Opposes State Tax Amendment
Willis Wellman, president of the Fayette County Farm Bureau, announced the local group will join a statewide push against the Taxation and Finance Amendment. The bureau is informing residents and distributing a West Virginia Farm Bureau folder titled Why.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
Willis’ Wellman
Fayette “County
Wellman
Fayette County
West Virginia Farm Bureau
Jon
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
West Virginia Education Association
Farm Bureau
Smeltzer Rites Conducted Today
Funeral services for Goff Richardson Smeltzer were held at 2 p.m. at Fanny Church in Indian Creek with burial in Lester Cemetery near Wyoming. Smeltzer, 56, a retired miner and timberman, died at Welch hospital after living on a mountain near Wyoming. He was born November 25, 1899 in Charleston, survived by wife Dorcas, eight children Bobby, Carmel, Joe, John, Geraldine, Judy, Jane, Naoma, a stepson Staff Sgt. Walter Johnson in Germany, a half-brother Claude Sawyers and three grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby
Carmel
Joe
John
Geraldine
Judy
Jane
Naoma
Walter Johnson
Germany
Claude Sawyers
Kimball
Rites for Rev Beal Held at Glenville Church
Funeral services for Rev. W. H. Beal were held at the Glenville Methodist Church on Tuesday. He died Saturday and was a longtime West Virginia Methodist minister based in Glenville. Surviving are his wife Linda, four daughters including Mrs. Elva Cooper and Mrs. Maude Davis, three sons Marvin Hobart and Paul R., one sister Allie E. Hinkle, several grandchildren and one great grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gauley Bridge
RNS
W. H. Beal
Glenville Methodist Church
Beal
Hobart Vaught Gauley Bridge
Glenville
Gilmer County
West Virginia
The
Methodist Church
Vaught
Linda
Elva Cooper
Fairmont
Maude Davis
Orond
Marie
Monta’ Beate
Charleston
Mae Beal
Marvin
Columbus
Ohio
Hobart
Paul R. Beal
Shinnston
Births Recorded At Oak Hill Hospital
Oak Hill Hospital logged twenty births in a two week span with listed infants including Patricia Diane, Joan Elizabeth, Bonnie Lynn, and John Raymond among others. The report names families from Oak Hill, Fayetteville, Minden, Mullens, Lochgelly and nearby areas with both boys and girls born in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
Oak Hill Hospital
David Arthur
Olis- Arthur’ Halstead
Kincaid
Sherrie’ Lee
Billy Lee Wendell
Ferris Andrew Aide
Patricia Diane
Carlos Randolph Coleman
Earl Sylvester Woodson
Harvey
Clarence Blackwell
James Wesley Turner
Fayetteville
John Raymond
Lowell
Raymond Kincaid
Lansing
Larry Maurice
Mack Span
Carliste
Bonnie Lynn
Bergis Grant
James Bennett Compton
Oak Hills
Juanella
Fred Ferri
Glen Jean
Stanley Michael
Grabosky
Joan
Elizabeth
Robert John Frazier
Robson
John
Edward
Columbus Issac Harris
Minden
Charlie Edward Jr
Charlie Edward Dews
Red Star
Pamela Mae
Mullens
James
Perkins
Jim Maynard
Johnson
Glenda Louise
Elijah
Largie James
Lochgelly
Robell
Roller
Deerfield
Joey Wayne
Wyo
William Joseph Donnell
Iming General
J.C
Williams
Andy Carey
Yankees
Roger ‘Isible
Craig
Sal Mag
Aliié
Clem
Sabine
Carl Er Rug
Homie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Norma McKinney
Jimmy Lester
B. Ledford
Ces
C and Phelon Co
George V. Flannagan
Damon Cody
Barbara
Raymond B. Ayers
Sewell Mt
Ralph M
Nina F. Copeland
Eugene
Marcella Copeland
Laura Lawson
Bela Kappa Chi House Association
Mae Scarbro
William Bernard
Dorothy Blake
J. A. Moore
Lorena M. Parker
Scrabble Creek
New River Company
Charles B., Collins
Thurmond
Jasper E
F. Verda Tread- Ann Naylor
Fayette Heights
Everett
Radie Price
Idon H
Ethel L. Wehrle
Falls Dist
Herbert A
Gladys Bragg
Samuel T
Cora Louise Gilkeson
Meadow Bridge
Ames Mining Company
Arthur
Nona Mae Pack
Ames Heights
Clyde
Evelyn Shee
Ralph
Glenna A. Whittington
Harry David
Helen Pritt
M. B
Bessie Adkins
Hessel Fox
Quinnimont District
R. E
Martha Rogers
Jim
Lucille D'Angelo
Derrydale
Ben and
Stella Kurzyna
Moose
Seth Man
IOOF
Fayettevile
A.knorr
D.A. Newhall
Philadelphia
Williagh
R. Laird
U. S. Senate
Washington, D. C
Leslie D. Lucas
J. White
Basking Ridge
N.J
John Helis
John Dickinson
Waite
Clifford Allen
Church of Bluestone Presbytery
Allen
E. M. Darnall
Thomas’ Memorial Hospital
Bert Allen
Georgetown
H. F. Frazier
W. H. Haynes
W.C. Neal
Gastonia
N.C
Fayetteville Presbyterian’ Church
G. W. Bennell
Bureau
Pbama Luluul
Avis
Lev. Nui
James Maynard
Wyoming
Tates
Sports Commissionse
Fas. Cenroningck A
United States
Sports Commission
Fairlane
Verily
Mads
Chile
Ari Ifriston
Brike
Ford
United States Auto Club
Federation Internationale de Automobile
Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
Ford Dealers
Salt Flats
Bonneville
Grady Whitlock
W. Neville Street
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