Last Chore Ends in Tragic Home Fire of Mrs Baldwin
Reconstructions detail the final hours of 85 year old Mrs Willetta Baldwin of Valley Mill Road. Her routine morning included a telephone call after 8:50 a.m. and washing curtains in the kitchen. A hip injury and cane made back door use difficult. she locked it and later hung curtains on the line before preparing to pack for a Texas visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willetta Blanche Baldwin
Frederick County
Jim Ackley
Mrs. Baldwin
Kenneth E. Schuller
Valley Mill Rd
Schuller
Blanche Baldwin
Valley Mill Road
Baldwin
Hatchet Murder Shocks Virginia Community
Phyllis Schuller found Mrs. Willetta Baldwin dead in her home. The hatchet from the kitchen was the murder weapon and the back door had been broken. Authorities report no suspects or motive yet and await autopsy results and lab findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Boy Dies in Freak Garden Accident
Nathan Pugh an eight year old of Hayfield died last night from chest wounds after a bottle of apple juice exploded while his brother painted a grape arbor at their home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Winchester Memorial Hospital at 8 45. An autopsy was planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Douglass Hill
Outside investigator to probe Winchester jail soon
The Winchester Freder ick County Jail will be investigated almost immediately by an outside specialist from the State Department of Corrections. The probe stems from a June 20 request by the Joint Winchester Frederick County Jail Committee amid inmate complaints of mistreatment and unsanitary conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fran Coombs
Winchester - Frederick County
State Dept. of Corrections
the Star Today
Robert B. Jenkins
Corrections Dept.’s Bureau of Institutional Services
Winchester
Frederick County
Board of Supervisors
Wendell L. Seldon
J.C. Ronalds III
Jenkins
Bureau of Institutional Services
Bureau
Joint Committee
Robert P. Mason
Mason
John D. Jenkins Jr
Stephens City
Council
Seldon and
Renalds
Dept. of Corrections
C.E. Lillard
Lillard
Longtime Frederick County farmer and public servant Harry McCann
Harry L McCann 77 continues farming near Red Bud Road while living at 315 Jefferson St Winchester since 1946. He runs 175 to 200 Polled Shorthorn cattle and grows about 15000 bushels of processing apples annually. He served as sheriff in the 1930s and long as county treasurer for three decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doug O’connell
Harry L. McCann
Red Bud Road
Jefferson St
Winchester
Mrs. McCann
McCann
Frederick
Harry McCann
Philip Williams
Sherff
Jefferson County
W.va
Charles R. McCann
Isabel Metz
Frederick County
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
V.P.I
James K. McCann
Virginia House of Delegates
Robert S. Smith
Smith
Virginia
South
First Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
American Legion
Virginia Sheriff's Assn
Virginia Treasurers Assn
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Winchester Evening Star
Phyllis Schuller
Phyllis
Willetta Blace Baldwin
Richards
F.B.I
Virginia State Police
Boy
SAYS
Luther
Boss) Pannett
Winchester City High School
John Kerr
Florence Keen
Loudoun County
Gainesboro
Gore
Stonewall
James Wood High School
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