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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1998
Page
6
Multiple brief notices list deaths on May 7 8 9 1998 across Ansted Rainelle Oak Hill Leivasy Whitesville Bluefield Akron Ohio. Names include Rainelle Bennett Ansted Bragg Holstein Losch Meador Miller Smith and Taylor with ages 57 to 92. Arrangements and burial details span Pivont Wallace Tyree Cravens and other local funeral homes with church services graveside rites and memorial foundations noted.
Merle Harrah Forren, 87, of Beckley died May 8 1998. Committal at Garden of Rev with Lusk and File. Emma Ruth Grubb, 76, Beckley died May 7 1998. Service at Blue Ridge Chapel with Parker. entombment at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Sarah R Harvey 90, Columbia SC, formerly Oak Hill died May 7 1998. Service at Tyree Funeral Home Oak Hill. William Bill Meador 67 Oak Hill died May 7 1998. Service at Oak Hill Baptist Church. burial at High Lawn Memorial Park. Lee Miles Quesenberry 86 Beckley died May 7 1998. Service at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel. entombment at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens Chapel of Faith. Goldie Mae Thly 83 Louisville died May 7 1998. Service at Caffee Funeral Service Pineville. burial at Palm Memorial Gardens Matheny. Ethelida Vernatt 93 Midway died May 7 1998. Service details incomplete.
Hershel Lee Sherman 82 of La nark died Saturday May 9 1998 at a Beckley hospital following a illness. Arrangements are by Blue Ridge Funeral Home Beckley.
Winners of the Beckley Kennel Club Fun Match include Best adult in match ACOB cocker spaniel He lens Legacy To Car-Paz owned by Carol Pascuzzi Newton NC. Best puppy Chow Sylvan Height April Love owned by Barbara and Bill Boggs and R Edward Harbart Salem. High scoring dog Labrador retriever Brown Sugar owned by Willard Hunter Huntington score 195.2. Best junior handler 12 year old Leslie Shaffer Charleston with golden retriever High Flyer Sky is the Limit. Best in show English fox hound CH Whipperinns Virgil J owned by Dr W Newman A Johnson and C Stewart Winchester TN. Best junior handler 17 year old Erin Kerrett Vinton VA with springer spaniel CH Showtimes One in a Million. High scoring dog OTCH Brush Run Have Mercy on Me golden retriever owned by Amy Schlasser-Ewah Cincinnati score 197 out of 200. Best in show adult standard poodle CH Lake Cove Thats My Boy owned by Mrs Alan Robson Glenmoore PA. Best in show puppy German shorthaired pointer Von Eugen's Glitzenne Stern owned by Marie and Chris Ziegler Flat Top year old Paul Class Thurmond MD with Portuguese water dog CH Penneico Knollkrest Kobis. High scoring dog OTCH by Amy Schlanser-Ewah.
Adam Dorsey of Summersville Elementary Stuart Godwin of Bluefield Middle School and Paul Broyles of Princeton Junior High were among 250 state students in grades five through eight honored Saturday in the Johns Hopkins University Talent Search ceremonies at West Virginia State College. They earned certificates of merit and special awards for above grade level verbal and math skills with Dorsey recognized for verbal, Gowdin for math, and Broyles for the combined SAT I.
Alice Faye, beloved 1930s and 1940s Fox musical star, died of cancer at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. She was 83 and had recently undergone surgery for stomach tumors. Born Alice Jeanne Leppert on May 5, 1915, she led the Fox lot from 1935 to 1944, starring in Sing Baby Sing In Old Chicago Alexander's Ragtime Band and Tin Pan Alley.
Lewis Stewart Via 87 of Beckley died Friday May 8 1998 at an Oak Hill care center from natural causes. Born October 14 1910 in Richlands Virginia he was a son of William and Naomi Jackson Via. A former United States Postal Service employee he was preceded in death by his wife Opal Montgomery Via. Survived by son Robert Lewis Via and Pam of Greensboro Georgia and sister Jenny Braden of Lehigh, Florida. Services 2 pm Monday at Caffee Funeral Home Chapel Beckley with Rev Daniel B. Johnson officiating. Burial Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Memorials to Big Green Scholarship Foundation Huntington West Virginia. Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home Beckley.
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