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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1977

Page

3

Obituaries from Clarke and Warren Counties

Multiple obituaries note deaths in Manassas Berryville Front Royal and nearby towns. Ramey Newton Broy of Manassas formerly Clarke County died today in Prince William Hospital. Funeral arrangements pending with John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville. Other notices list Wilda H Shanholtz 71 Charles Town area and Alvin Franklin Strawderman 59 Winchester Memorial Hospital with services in Berryville and burial at Shanandoah Memorial Park. Edith Allen McCormick 101 formerly Charles Town died in Terra Alta. Joseph Nelson Willingham 70 Berryville died Sunday with services at Enders Funeral Home and burial in Green Hill Cemetery. Maudie Lee Forbus 62 Front Royal died yesterday with service at Maddox Funeral Home Linden Cemetery burial. Downing Lovel Williams 60 Chester Gap died Sunday night with service at Chester Gap Baptist Mission burial Williams Cemetery. Several notices include surviving relatives and funeral home arrangements.

Ramey Newton Broy Manassas Clarke County Prince William Hospital John H. Enders Berryville Wilda H. Shanholtz N. Loudoun St Jones Funeral Home Strawderman Alvin Franklin Strawderman Rt. 7 Winchester Memorial Hospital Herman M. Elam Donald M. Maxwell David Linscomb Nae Braithwaite David Locke Sidney Locke Courtney Ager Shanandoah Memorial Park Edith Allen McCormick Charles Town W.va Terra Alta McCormick Jefferson County Robert Owen Allen Edith Howard Allen Zion Episcopal Church Grayson Brothers Morganton N.C Robert C. A. McCormick Clark Lliott Gary Arnold Kenneth Strother Edgar Chilcott Ross Sirbaugh Eustace Jackson George W. Smallwood Green Hill Cemetery Maudie L. Forbus Maudie Lee Forbus Cloud St Front Royal Warren Memorial Hospital Forbus Warren County James Henry Laury Chadwell Dawson Charles E. Forbus Charles E. Forbus Jr Oxon Hill Kenneth Lynn Forbus Sadie Atchison Palls Church Lana Mumaw St. Petersburg Fla James Dawson Ben Dawson Marshall William Dawson Linden Georgia Showers Mary Pearson the Plains Maddox Funeral Home Irving Johnson Linden Cemetery Downing Lovel Williams Chester Gap Mr. Williams Sandy Cary Williams Beulah Moulden Williams Old Virginia Corp Mazie Wines Williams Lucy Williams Larry Williams Rachel Smoot Washington, Va Bonnie Williams Linwood Dalton Williams Lawrence Williams Haywood Elwood Leo Williams Horace Dulin Charles Frazier Billy Wines Chester Gap Baptist Mission Don Cox Williams Cemetery Turner Funeral Home

Gospel Sing Draws 18000 at Watermelon Park Near Berryville

More than 18 000 attendees filled Watermelon Park for a week of gospel music Bible classes amateur contests and nightly concerts. Tours to nearby Washington area and Virginia sites plus river baptisms marked the event despite a threatening forecast.

Berryville Watermelon Park Hopper Brothers Gospel Amn Gospel Sing Washington Virginia

Treaty Talks Near Endgame on Panama Canal Plan

U S and Panamanian negotiators made progress on unresolved issues in the resumed talks on a new Panama Canal treaty. A final round was anticipated with a possible early statement of conceptual agreements outlining main principles after 13 years of dialogue.

Panama City Panama U.S Sol Linowitz Ellsworth Bunker Nicolas Barletta Canal Zone

Winchester Hamfest chaired by Thomas Ashton at Shenandoah club

Thomas Ashton served as chairman of the 17th annual Hamfest in Winchester sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club. Hardee's announced plans for a drive in restaurant on Valley Ave. The International Apple Assn reported a national crop under 100 million bushels as figures continued to fall. Hiroshima bombing survivors gathered at a memorial seven years after the attack.

Thomas Ashton Winchester Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club Hardee’s Valley Ave International Apple Assn Hiroshima

Community meeting schedule across Winchester area clubs

Daily afternoon and evening events list across Winchester Frederick County. Groups include Kiwanis Federated Women’s Club Garden Club Over 50s Square Dance War Memorial Building Elks Lodge Blue Ridge Twirlers and more with venues from Wesleyan Hall to James Wood High School and Temple listings.

Stephens City United Methodist Church Lions Club Duff's Pagoda Front Royal Lions Club Virginia Jaycettes Masonic Lodge Front Royal Hiram Lodge AF & AM Masonic Temple War Memorial Building Civil Air Patrol Airport Friendship Fire Co Xi Gamma Phi Gore Fire Dept American Legion Auxiliary Alcoholics Anonymous First Baptist Church Women of the Moose Moose Lodge—Loyal Order of Moose Rebekah Lodge Doe Club Elks Club Winchester Day Nursery Odd Fellows Hall Kiwanis Duff's Federated Women’s Club Old Fredericktowne Royal Kiwanis E. Boscawen St Elks Home Gainesboro Fire Co Sisterhood of Beth-El At Temple Blue Ridge War Memorial Xi Beta Omega— American Legion Executive Board Giles B. Cook Acroholics Anonymous

Virginian Witnessed Detonation of A Bomb in 1961 Nevada Test

Edwin C. White of Norfolk witnessed a 20 megaton atomic blast in October 1961 as an army staff sergeant at a Nevada test. The article follows the blast seven miles away, the radiation badges, and the mission to study leukemia links from 1957 Smoky test. His wife Christine objects to using soldiers as guinea pigs while authorities investigate radiation exposure and cancer.

Norfolk Edwin C. White Nevada Desert Hiroshima Nagasaki Japan White Glyn Caldwell Center For Disease Control Atlanta Caldwell Virginia Beach Christine CDC Ed White

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