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Beckley Woman of Year Named for BPW Service Record
Mrs Bessie Carroll of Beckley is named Woman of the Year by the Beckley Business and Professional Woman's Club completing National Business Women's Week honors. The long time civic and church volunteer is noted for Red Cross, Polio Fund, Crippled Children, Salvation Army work and weekly prenatal clinic aid. She is past secretary and former president of local BPW, active in Ladies Auxiliary, Moose, League of Women Voters, and American Legion Auxiliary. Her daughter, Rosiland Funk, has held gubernatorial staff roles in West Virginia. Her late husband Harry Carroll aided her as she built a business career from a family store to sole owner of a venture in Beckley.
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Madge Richardson
Academy of Jor
BPW
Friendship
College of Rethe Snuffer Apts
Yents
Civic
Beckley Bpw Club
Church and Home Fife
Carr
legislWorl
Anty
Frater
Order of Eagles
Women of Theled
Moose
Focal
League of Women Voters
Royal Neighbors of America
American Red Cross
American Legion Auxiliary
Red Cross
Polio Fund
Crippled Children
Salvation Army
VAVS
Beckley Administration Hospital
First Baptist Church
Philathea
Clay County
George
Mary Wilson
Elkins
Richwood
Rosiland Funk
West Virginia
W. Va
Kanawha Valley Real Estate Co
St. Petersburg
Fla
Keith
Beckley
Nathan Pickus
Royal Fur Co
Carroll