Browns Halleck wins third in COMBET with $300 award
L S Singley of Monongahela Power Co presented Browns Halleck with a 300 check for third place in the 1970 COMBET population category during a ceremony at the Browns Halleck Community Building. The event highlighted community improvement across 21 West Virginia towns sponsored by the WV Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browns-Halleck Community Association
Combet
L. S
L. S. Singley
Monongahela Power Co
Browns-Halleck
Penced
Community Association
West Virginia
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce
Browns- Hall
Browns- Halleck
Pecenenies Over Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Columbia Gas of
Consolidated Gas Supply Corp
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Mutual Fire Insurance Compene
Potomac Edison Co
West Virginia Bankers Association
West Virginia Coal Association
West Virginia Garden Clubs, Inc
Kentucky Power Company
Washington Gas Light Company
Washington
Mountain Heights
Monongalia County
Obituaries Honor Local Residents Across Morgantown Area
A series of death notices and funeral details honor Mrs. Mary Rose Szarka Troxell 54 of 492 Wisconsin Ave. and other local figures. The week’s notices cover services at St Theresa Catholic Church East Oak Grove Cemetery and Morgantown area churches with calls for prayers and dates for funerals. Notes mention Dr Festus Summers WVU historian and Oda Liston of Tunnelton among the deceased with burial plans and survivor lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Rose
Szarka
Edward Troxell
Mary Ellen Troxell
Gabriel Szarka
Westover
Ethel Bakker
Agnes Propst
Nerces
Williams Home
Columbo Bandiera
East Oak Grove
Festus Paul Summers
West Virginia University
Hastings
Joseph C. Gluck
Summers
WVU
St. Vincent Pallotti Hospital
Harry B. Heflin
Mortimer Levine
E.M. Steele
WVU Foundation
Oda Vinitia Liston
Tunnelton
Preston County
Asbury Liston
Ida Liston
Willie J. Liston
Mildred Liston
Valley Point
Evelyn Seal
Bruceton Mills
Dorothy Sanders
Alexandria
Virginia Lawing
Charlotte
N.C
Jane MclInville
Florence
S.C
Wade
Albright
Webb
Morgantown
Fred
Silver Springs
Marsh
Harold
Atlanta
Robert Jones
Mt. Mo
Stewart
Bessie
Fairmont
Frey
Eugene Brown
Maple Grove
Fairmont Troxell
Mary Rose (Szarka
Wisconsin Ave
Hungary
St. Theresa’s Catholic Church
Car Crash Damages $200 in Uniontown Area
Uniontown report shows Sandra L. Kahl 21 of Uniontown struck a vehicle halted for a left turn on Route 119 one and a half miles north of Uniontown. The other driver was Joe Mateoski 80 of Uniontown Pa.
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Uniontown
Sandra L. Kahl
Fayette County
Joe Mateoski
Woman Injured When Car Hits Concrete Divider on Rt 119
Charistine Tressler, 21, of South Connellsville was injured early Saturday when a car driven by her husband lost control after a flat tire and struck a concrete medial divider on Route 119, about 210 miles north of Connellsville. She was treated at Connellsville Hospital.
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Uniontown
Wilhelmine McManus
Dunbar
Uniontown Hospital
Rt. 119
Connellsville
Fayette County
Grant McManus
Robert Keay
Erwin
Charistine Tressler
South
Connelleville Hospital
Memorial Day ceremony set at Grafton
Grafton hosts the 104th Memorial Day ceremony next Monday at Grafton National Cemetery after a 9 am parade through the business district. Dozens of groups join the procession to the cemetery, the state’s only national cemetery. Herbert M. Huston will speak. Chester E. Goodwin is parade marshal.
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Grafton
Grafton National Cemetery
Herbert M. Huston
Chester E. Goodwin
National Cemetery
Philadelphia
Cloudy Cool Weather With Showers Ahead
A weather forecast calls for cloudy cool conditions today with a rising chance of showers toward night. Highs will be mid 60s to low 70s and a chilly 40 as overnight low. Similar conditions expected tomorrow with slightly more shower chances. Hourly readings from Morgantown Municipal Airport Flight Service Station are listed for yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Southland
Morgantown Municipal Airport
Man Arrested in Burglary Charged in Greene County
Kenneth Eugene Cumberledge 24 of Holbrook Pa was arrested Saturday and arraigned before Justice John Daly on burglary larceny and receiving stolen property charges. He is jailed in Greene County with $1000 bond for allegedly stealing tires worth 50 dollars from Roy F Rhodes Waynesburg garage that was unlocked according to state police.
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Uniontown
Jerry E., Temple
Jones Mill
Fayette County
Belcrest, A
Waynesburg
Kenneth Eugene Cumberledge
Holbrook
Justice of the Peace
John Daly
Greene County
Cumberledge
Roy F. Rhodes
Karen Workman Wins Miss Grafton Pageant Title
Twenty-year-old Karen Workman was named Miss Grafton after a bathing suit and evening gown competition in the seventh annual pageant sponsored by the Jaycees. She earns a scholarship and a shot at Miss West Virginia. First runner up Pam Poling and Miss Congeniality Jane Stipe were also named. Six contestants competed in Grafton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grafton
Karen Workman
Funeral Notices from Tunnelton to Mooresville Area
Obituaries list multiple local residents with death dates between May 21 and May 22 1971. Details include names Oda Vinitia Liston Charles E Murray Bessie Stewart Mary Rose Szarka Minnie F Warner John A Williams and associated funeral homes calls and burial sites in Kingwood Reedsville Fairmont Morgantown Mooresville and Preston County. References mention churches graves and memorial services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miranda Matthews Jeffers
Mary Wallace
Fairmont
Thelma Austin
Cleveland
Ohio
Arthur
Chester
Whittier
Calif
Lola Downey
Rt. 9
Morgantown
Virginia Hall
Sistersville
Charles Jeffers
Elkins
Orvill Stewart
Freys
Eugene Brown
Maple Grove
Charles E. Murray
Reedsville
Fairmont General Hospital
Denislow
Robert
Eliza Lewis Murray
Burns Chapel
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Valley Lodge No. 97
Harry
Harold
Jack
Agnes Hall
Edna Satterfield
Audrey Myers
Gardner, Ill
Murray
Charles E
Henri Jones Jr
Masontown
Morgan Funeral Home
1.C.C.F. Vailey Lodge
Elks
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W.va
Area ‘Co-Op
Tyrone
Cheat Lake
Easton
Browns
Halleck
John Gutta
Joe Zaccagnini
Gutta
Zaccagnini
Sents
Good Counsel
Tyrone Road
Jean Ling
Cheat
Richard Cenedella
O Zers
William Branigan
Mary Jane Konchesky
Bonnie Calarie
Helen Quarrick
Joan Johnson
Thelma Willard
Cenedelia
Bernard Donahue
Cenedella
Burgie
Edna French
Edna Cumming French
Shack
Ann Arbor
Mich
Port Huron
Matilda Robertson
David Canerench
J. Leslie French
French
Morgantown High School
Presbyterian Women
James C. French
David G. French
Bangkok
Thailand
John G
Elizabeth) Young
Bessie Stewart
Clinton Furnace
Ron Rittenhouse
Gary W. Klitti
West Leisenry
Fayette
Boston
San Francisco
Denver
Santa
University-Dominion-Post
Esterday
Miss Grafton
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