Gretna Jean Williams Weds Elmer L. Adkins
CIRTSVILLE RNS The wedding of Gretna Jean Williams and Pfc Elmer Lenard Adkins took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams. The ceremony at 3 pm featured an orchid lace dress for the bride and a reception followed. The couple will honeymoon in Oscoda Michigan before Adkins leaves for overseas duty in Germany. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Madeline Aliff and H. E. Scott Jr. The groom is the son of Mrs. Ida Adkins. Out-of-town guests included numerous Aliffs and Masseys from Switzer and Price Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cirtsville
RNS
Ray Williams
Gretna Jean Williams
Pfc
Elmer Lenard Adkins
Madeline Aliff
Switzer
H. E. Scott Jr
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Ida Adkins
Oscoda Mich
Gale Stewart
Long Branch Methodist Church
Martha Moore
Tim Massey
Price Hill
Williams
Oscoda
Mich
Pax High School
Fayetteville School
Marines
Camp Lejeune
N. C
U. S. Army
Fort Dix
N. J
Germany
Woodrow Aliff
Anita
Kesele
Vennetta
Debra Aliff
Pete Mobley
Karen Mobley
Tommy
Pete
Jackie
Richie
Russella Mobley
Bertie Massey
Freddie
Massey
Tim
Charles
Jeanie Massey
Jessie Lay
Bradley
Jack Moore
Josie Moore
Johnnie
Donald Moore
Pax
George Maynor
Tommy Vass
Weldon
Tony Bowyer
Mamie Berry
Glen Rogers High names head majorette for 1959-60
Charmin North is named head majorette of Glen Rogers High School Band for 1959-60. A junior and daughter of Mr and Mrs Hal North, she plays coronet and has seven years in the band. She is in Tri-Hi-Y Glee Club and Future Homemakers of America where she serves as historian. Others named as majorettes include Linda Eller Ruth Ayers Elaine Vince Karen Kelly and Mary Jane Gabany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal North
Glen Rogers
Miss North
Tri-Hi-Y
Glee Club
Future
Homemakers of America
Louis Kemnan
Linda Eller
Ruth Ayers
Elaine Vince
Karen Kelly
Mary Jane Gabany
Tyree Funeral Set On Tuesday
Henry Tyree 70 of Kilsyth will have funeral services at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Maple Valley Missionary Baptist Church in Maple Fork led by Rev. Clarence Figgett and Rev. Cecil Combs. Burial follows at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity. Tyree died Sunday noon at his Kilsyth home after an extended illness. He was a retired New River Coal Co. employee at Oswald and connected with multiple Masonic and Eastern Star bodies. Survivors include his wife Tive Jenkins Tyree, two brothers Andy and Clete, a daughter Mrs. John Shumate, and two grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kilsyth
RNS
Henry Tyree
Maple Valley Missionary Baptist Church
Maple Fork
Clarence Figgett
Cecil Combs
Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens
Prosperity
Tyree
New River Coal Co
Oswald
Louden
Lona Bowyer Tyree
Freewill Baptist Church
McDonald Lodge 103
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
Mount Hope
Sewell
Royal Arch Masons
Oak Hill
Knights Templar
Winola
Order of Eastern Star
United Mine Workers of America
Tive Jenkins Tyree
Andy
Route 1
Clete
Glen Rogers
John Shumate
Masonic Lodge No. 103
J Parker Dies Rites Tuesday
Mullens West Virginia John D Parker 62 longtime machinist at Semet Solvay Tralee mine dies Sunday in Mullens hospital from cerebral attack Funeral services set for Corinne Advent Christian Church Damascus Virginia with burial at Sunset Memorial Park Damascus. survived by wife Ennis three sons Wilton John Elwood three daughters Darrell Blevins George Chabot Bert Owens and siblings
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crandall
Tenn
Parker
Corinne
Tralee
Hemphill
Burgess family visits kin before air base trip
Mrs Gil ford Burgess returns home from visiting son and daughter in Colcord. Delmar Joe Stover and Larry B Stover, Dallas, Texas, stay with grandparents Cyrus Stover and Buitt Stover. Larry heads to McGuire AFB before Iceland tour. Abe Harris recovers at home after Beckley Memorial Hospital stay. Mrs Ashford Hodge of Detroit visits her parents Cyrus Stover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Iceland
Air Force
Abe Harris
Beckley Memorial Hospital
Ashford Hodge
Detroit
Mich
Cyrus Stover
Prosser Rites Slated Tuesday
Funeral services for William Prosser, 82, will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in his Peterstown home by Rev. J. E. Ferrell. Burial in Peterstown Cemetery. Prosser died Sunday at 10:30 a.m. after a two year illness. Born Oct. 18, 1877 in Minersville Pennsylvania, he worked in mines as a teenager and served as fire boss and foreman in West Virginia. He lived in Peterstown since 1906 after retiring in 1942. He helped lay out the Carlisle mine air system and was a Methodist. Survived by Nancy Runyon Prosser. son William Bud Prosser. daughters Elizabth Clark and Janet Taylor. six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Seven siblings preceded him. Body to be moved from William S. Broyles Mortuary to his home at 4 p.m. Pallbearers listed as H. C. Dunn, Herbert White, Roscoe Taylor, Charles Clark, and Frank Mann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterstown
RNS
William Prosser
J. E. Ferrell
Prosser
Minersville
William
Elizabeth Davis Prosser
West Virginia
Eccles
Glen Morgan
Scarbro
Glen Rogers
Carlisle
Methodist Church
Nancy Runyon Prosser
Bud) Prosser
Elizabh Clark
Detroit
Mich
Janet Taylor
William S. Broyles Mortuary
Melingeimay
H. C. Dunn
Herbert White
Roscoe Taylor
Charles Clark
Frank Mann
Pitzer services held for death by own action victim
John Andrew Pitzer 36 of Greenville died at home from a personal safety related gunshot wound. Funeral at Greenville Presbyterian Church at 2 p m conducted by Rev J K Fleming with Broyles Funeral Home in charge. Survived by wife Martha Bowles Pitzer, two children Shirley and John, three sisters Margaret Ruth and Nancy, four brothers Robert George Frank, mother Edna Ballard Pitzer. Pallbearers named Paul Copeland Maurice Mann Isaac Mann Eddie Jackson James Garvin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
RNS
John Andrew Pitzer
Greenville Presbyterian Church
J. K. Fleming
Keaton
Pitzer
Moorfield
Martha Bowles Pitzer
Shirley
John
Robert
George
Frank
Herbert
Lindside
Nancy Ford
Margaret
Ruth
Aberdeen
Edna Ballard Pitzer
Broyles
Peterstown
Paul Copeland
Miller Thomas
Maurice Mann
Isaac Mann
Eddie Jackson
James Garvin
Picnic Outing Held at Hilltop Methodist Church
A Friday picnic on the Hilltop Methodist Church lawn saw attendees Rev and Mrs Homer Elkins Mr and Mrs J E Fowler Mrs Frances Harrell Carlile Elkins and Judy and Kathy Fowler in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Hill
RNS
Hilltop Methodist Church
Homer Elkins
J. E. Fowler
Frances Harrell
Carlile Elkins
Judy
Kathy Fowler
Belcher Couple Welcome Son at Grace Hospital Welch
Clear Fork residents Mr and Mrs Johnny Belcher are parents to a son born Thursday at Grace Hospital Welch weighing four pounds eight ounces at 6 24 a m. The newborn joins the Belcher family in Welch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clear Fork
RNS
Johnny Belcher
Grace Hospital
Welch
Basil Shumate Rites Tuesday
Funeral services for Basil Leroy Roy Shumate will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Church of Christ Pax with burial in Pax Community Cemetery. Shumate 45 died from a heart attack at his father in law B A Wright's home. He lived with the Wrights and worked as a mechanic for Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates at Keystone. He belonged to several veterans and fraternal groups and was a World War II veteran. He is survived by his wife Oleta, his parents N S and Mrs Shumate, two brothers James and Darrel, a sister Thelma Penland, two daughters Shirley Mitchem and Janet Thompson, and two grandchildren. The body will be taken to the church from Tyree Funeral Home one hour before the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates
Keystone
Veterans of Foreign War
Key Stone
American Legion
Gary
Odd Fellows Lodge
United Mine Workers of America
Pageton
Shumate
N. S. Shumate
Anawalt
James
Funeral Notices From Area Cemeteries And Churches
Obituaries report the deaths of Harry B. Jordon 73 of Piney View Walter Smith 66 of Glen White Carl Clifford Stover 62 of Bedford Virginia and Helen M Sharbaugh 52 of St Albans. Funeral details note services at Rose Quesenberry Calfee and Shady Grove Baptist Church with burials at Greenwood Sunset Memorial Park and Calfee Chapel.
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Elmer L. Adkins
Glen Rogers High
Glen Rogers High School
Charmin North
J. Parker
Coal River Personals
Suicide Victim Services Today
Basil Shumate
Jordon Jordon
Harry B
Piney View
Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home
South Kanawha Street
Rose & Quesenberry Funeral Home
Smith Smith
Walter
Glen White
Shady Grove Baptist Church
A. W. Wood
Greenwood Memorial Park
Ritchie and Johnson Funeral
Ritchie & Johnson Funeral Home
Stover Stover
Carl Clifford
Bedford
Virginia
Beckley
Calfee Funeral Home
Sunset Memorial Park
Ross Stover
Ray Stover
Cecil Stover
Virgil Stover
Sharbaugh Sharbaugh
Helen M
St. Albans
A. H. Wilson
Caffee Funeral Home Florists
Oakwood
Dial Floral CO
City Ave
Richard’s
Shady Springs
Snow Thornton
Funeral Home Phone
South Oakwood Ave
F Bank OF Raleigh
F. D. Photographers & Printers
Buckley Photo Service
Church Street
Art Instruction Inc
Charles M. Schultz
Raleigh Register
W. Va
Royal Oak Press & Office Supply
Neville St
Main St
Wright
C. Rogers Plumbing & Heating
Temple St
Pickup & Delivery
Ashworth Firestone
Prince St. Ph
John W. Eye
Ashworth & Sparks, Inc
DIAL
Prince St. Beckley
West
Lovitz
Aea
Ann
Wonder Jewelry ‘Co
Heber St
Lewis Transfer Co
Jan Campbell _ Music Co
Ph. Hinton
P.O. Box
White Pine Gray Lumber CO
Crab Orchard
San Diego
California
William Wisen
Mabscott
Mr. Hunt
Hunt
Jim Green
Raleigh Insurance Agency
Ralph
Vi-Lee) Allenbaugh
Omer J. Wright
Rev. Clower
Avon
A-1
Hempstead
Long Island
Baker Lumber Sales
Byus-Mankin Lumber Co
N. Kanawha St
Elko Mfg
Fairfax
Los Angeles
Calif
Beckley Newspapers
Harry
Rev. O. T. Moore
Geneva Craddock
New York
Bon Bon Domestic Agency
Neville Street
Town and Country Drive Inn
New York Area
Huntington
Broadway Huntington Station
Liberty Long Life Lamp Corporation
Freeport
Prince _ Street
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
J. L. Ridinger
Charleston
Bluefield
Maryland
F. T. White
East Church Street
Frederick
Monument
J. J. Lennon
President Hotel
J. H. Stinson
East Beckley
Semur
Bibb Snyder
R. E. Bare
B . Jones
Roy A. Jones
AKC
Turnpike
Harper Road
Harold Hanks
Pikeview Drive
Beckley Ice & Feed
Lacy Griffith
B. Earl Mann
Service
Joe Hunt
Westinghouse
Nathan Street
Herbert Hanson
Glen View
Sublett
Chesapeake
BY Pass
Blaine P. Renfro
Klaus Office
McCreery St
Wilson’s
South Kanawha
K. M. Walker
Carpon m Mattresses
Don Cole
Danese
Rainelle
Studebaker
Frigidaire
Will Deiver
Rt. 3
Union
B. M. Atkins & Sons Keenan
J. L. Mills
Sophia
Hall Furniture Co
Electrolux Corp
Temple St. Beckley
Clifford
NEW & Used
Dowdy Sewing Center
Ter
J. W. Huddle
Clyde Street
Phone
Belle Fence CO
Belle
W. v
Dag Appliances
TV Valley Drive
Grandview
EASY
Jack’s Trading Post
New Raleigh Road
Homesite
FORD
Dearing Bros. Prosperity
Smith
Corona
Remington
Cape Cod
Roy S Coe
JAN Campbell Music CO
Beckley Music Prince St. Ph
Cook’s
Sevice
North Oakwood Ave
Beckley Dial
Baldwin
JAN Campbell Music Company
Wayland Redden
NEW Lowman Music CO
Leeds
Raines & Raines Landscaping Dial
Spruce Price Brothers
Beaver Block CO
Beaver
W.va
Foley Construction Co
Wood Brothers MacArthur
Beckley Redi-Mix CO
Bettina Coast. Co
Wipperman Coast. Co
Todd Construction Co
Eac Ae
Red Dog
Akers
Taylor
J. R. Bennett
Daniels
Martina Tile Co
Vance Dr
D. B. Stover
Tipple
Fire Creek
Firecreek R. O. M
James Logan
Dial OV
No. 2
Kanawha
Granville Avenue
Johnstown Road
Burgess St
N. _ Kanawha
Beckley College
Auto Parts Service, Inc
Bath
Ann Street
Church S&t
Raleigh
Stansbury Street
Calloway Heights
Maplewood — Lane
Shady Spring
High School
College Ave
Hill Street
Apply Jim's
Piney Avenue
Charter Service
Raleigh CO
Amos E. Quesenberry
Laurel Run
Neola
Robert L. Amick
Todd's Grocery and Hardware
E. J. Shrewsbury
Gray Lumber Co
Sander
Montgomery Ward Beckley
Fha
Edward Snuffer
McCulloch
Remington Clinton
Basham
White Oak
Hinton-Beckley Road
Maytag
Ivered
THE
Beckley Livestock
Beckley, W. Va
Lewis Stuart
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