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Attorney's Wife Dies in Fire at Roanoke Hotel
Mrs. Margaret Harty Barnes wife of a Roanoke attorney was killed when a fire gutted the living room of the sixth floor apartment in the Patrick Henry Hotel Roanoke Firefighters said her body lay in the room center near a couch as the blaze began in a corner. Raymond P. Barnes her husband was aboard a pleasure cruise midway between Jacksonville Florida and Casablanca Morocco at the time.
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Margaret Harty Barnes
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Patrick Henry
Raymond P. Barnes
Jacksonville
Fla
Casa Blanca
Morocco