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Newspaper
The Valley Banner
Location
Elkton, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 2012
Page
2
The Elkton Area Community Center will host an adult 8 ball pool tournament at 5 30 p m on Friday March 30. Registration closes March 29 with a 5 donation to support the center. Trophies will be awarded for first and second place. Call 298-8730 for details.
A benefit for Nancy Meadows is planned for 6 p.m. Friday April 6 at the Avis O Comer VFW Post 8613 in Shenandoah. The event features live music a cake wheel an auction and food including barbecue green beans cole slaw hot dogs baked beans and chips. A freewill offering will be collected at the door. Call 435-8008 for details.
An Easter egg hunt for ages 1 through 12 will be held 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday March 31 at the Avis 0 Comer VFW Post 8613 in Shenandoah. Rain or shine, games and prizes, bring baskets, snacks and refreshments provided. Call Debbie Burton at 652-1555 for details.
A benefit for Vicky Davis begins 2 p.m. Saturday March 31 at the Gooden Brothers VFW Post 9292 in Elkton. Live music by Greg Lam and Friends Heart Strings Wayne Turner and Friends and Just a Little Grass. Auction includes a Shenandoah Crossing weekend and items from Longaberger P Buckley Moss Fenton and Lisa Gelliam. Proceeds aid Davis medical expenses. Call for details.
A gospel benefit is planned for Jeff and Judy Sites at Ray of Hope Church on Reservoir Street in Harrisonburg. New Vision Southern Hospitality and the Kite Family will perform with a cake auction. Proceeds support the Sites medical expenses. Bible Holiness Church hosts a nighttime Easter egg hunt April 6 at 127 Pine St Elkton. Age range 2 to 12. Food games prizes skits puppets. Wanda Hodges Herring, 68, McGaheysville, died March 24 2012 at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. Survived by husband Roger and children Angela Kyger Andrea Freeland Ryan Herring, nine grandchildren, a sister and a brother. Funeral Tuesday Kyger Funeral Home Harrisonburg. Burial Mount Olivet Cemetery. Memorials to McGaheysville UM Clothes Closet. Online condolences to kygers.com.
Lighthouse Gospel Church will hold a revival with 10 30 a m and 7 p m services on Sunday April 1, continuing nightly 7 p m through Wednesday April 24. Retired Pastor Boyd Osborn and wife Cindy from Edinburg will speak on the Spirit of Truth at 137 Mattie View Drive Stanley. Elkton Ladies Fellowship bake sale on Friday April 6 at Food Lion with chicken barbecue at Elkton Fire Hall pit and Shenandoah Pharmacy. chicken halves 3 50 ready by 9 a m.
Leona G Meadows Dean 76 of Elkton died March 22 2012 at UVa Medical Center Charlottesville Born November 18 1935 she was daughter of the late Carl Jefferson and Artie Melissa Sam Meadows Married Theodore Ted Dean on September 28 2002 who preceded her in death Survived by two daughters Glenda Breden Brenda Comer two sons Gary Meadows Wade Meadows eleven grandchildren twelve great grandchildren six sisters and one brother Funeral held March 25 2012 at Kgger Funeral Home Elkton with Pastor Alva Hurley officiating Burial in Jollett Cemetery Memorials to Jollett Hollow Bible Mission Church or Elkton Rescue Squad Online condolences at kygers com
Mount Paran Baptist Church schedules a sunrise service at 6 49 a m on Sunday April 8 with breakfast then Sunday school at 9 a m and worship at 10 a m New Hope Baptist hosts a spring revival nightly April 24 at 7 p m with guests from Waynesboro Shenandoah and local churches The Upper Room Church plans an East er revival with evangelist Doug Gochenour Good Friday screening of The Passion of the Christ at 7 p m on April 6 The Elkton church address is 14890 Rockingham Pike plus obituary notice for Rudolph Wayne Zeb Breeden age 63 of Elkton who died March 23 2012 burial at Samuel Cemetery Kyger Funeral Home officiated
Obituaries list several local deaths with details including Clarendia A Knighton Reule, 69, of Hayes Virginia, and Leroy W. McDonaldson, 71, of Grottoes. Also noted are Carolyn Reid of Mount Sidney, Dallas E Meadows of Elkton, and others with service times, survivors, and memorial gifts to local churches or associations. The notices reference Page County and nearby towns, funeral homes, and memorials.
Grace Fellowship Church at 205 N Fourth St Shenandoah presents Good Friday Holy Communion at 730 p.m. and a cross procession at 11 a.m. Friday with a 1230 p.m. park service at Big Gem Park. Easter services offered plus a Praise evening. Evangelical Presbyterian Church Elkton at 2580 Panorama Dr lists Palm Sunday program on April 1 and Maundy Thursday service on April 5 at 7 p.m. Sunrise service April 8 at 7 a.m. with breakfast and 11 a.m. worship. Call 433-1928 or 298-2120 for details.
Mt Paran Baptist Church will celebrate its 127th anniversary at 3 p.m. Sunday April 15. Pastor Hodari Hamilton and the choir from First Baptist Church Charlottesville will be the guests. Dinner will follow.
A hymn sing by Heart Strings is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday March 30 at Hensley United Methodist Church seven miles east of Elkton on Thoroughfare Road. Call 298-1888 for details.
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