Obituaries from Martinsburg and surrounding areas
Infant Naomi Whit tington of Martinsburg died in Charles Town General Hospital. Graveside service set for Thursday in Green Hill Cemetery Berryville conducted by Rev Donald Scruggs. Body at John H Enders Funeral Home Berryville. Alphia John Moreland of Paw Paw died at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Ada Alma Sager 69 of Middletown died at home. Funeral Friday at Center Street United Methodist Edinburg. Burial Cedarwood Cemetery Edinburg. Pearl Lavern Hughes 49 Martinsburg died in City Hospital. Services Friday at Brown Funeral Home Martinsburg. Lena B Welsh died. service Friday at John H Berryville. Burial Meade Memorial Churchyard White Post. Lois Winslow Green 50 Rt 3 Martinsburg died in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Body at Jones Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi Lee Whittington
Jonathan Matthew
Beulah Lee Locke Whittington
Martinsburg
W. Va
Charles Town General Hospital
Jonathan M. Whittington, Jr
Wendell Whittington
Rippon
Arthur Lock
Summit Point
Agnes Nicodemus
Harry Craig
Maurice Locke
Susie Huff
Green Hill Cemetery
Berryville
Donald Scruggs
John H. Enders
Alphia John Moreland
Paw Paw
Winchester Memorial Hospital
McKee
Augusta
Ada Alma Sager
Rt. 1
Middletown
Sager
Edinburg
John H
Mary E. Clinehinst Rush
Romanus Sager
J.L. (Vann) Thompson
Stephens City
Rachel Wallace
Alexandria
Geneva Butler
York
James Rush
Center Street United Methodist Church
EUB
Gene Williams
Lester Miller
Harold Walters
Grover Keeler
Robert Brumback
Paul Flowers
Danny Steele
Cedarwood
Dellinger Funeral Home
Woodstock
Pearl Lavern Hughes
W. Race
W.va
City Hospital
Hughes
Samuel W
Nellie Ranels Bivens
Inwood
C.H. Mussellman Division
Pet Milk Co
National Fruit Products Co
Stacey H. Hughes
Carl Dunlap
Stephen, Yates
John Grimm
Samuel Taylor
Winchester
Walter M. Hughes
Berkeley Station
Stacey L
Bernard A. Hughes
Ethel M. Clem
Virginia B. Miller
Union Bridge
Betty L. Foster
Jacksonville
Fla
Charles E
Claude E. Bivens
Carl R. Bivens
Hedgesville
Larry E. Hughes
Nellie Keyton
Kathryn Wetzel
Brown Funeral Home
Charles Henshew
Rosedale Cemetery
Lena B. Welsh
Kern St
Jesse E. Tate, Jr
Danny Cunningham
George Jewell
Charles Mercer
John Wilson
Wilbur Smallwood
James Wilson
Raymond Wilson, Jr
Allen Smallwood
Meade Memorial
White Post
Lois Winslow Green
Rt. 3
Jones Funeral Home
Missionary Reginald Stone Speaks Tonight At Elm Street
The Rev Reginald Stone missionary to Uruguay will speak at Elm Street Full Gospel Assembly of God Church at 7 45 PM The pastor Rev L L Stonesifer says Stone formerly pastored in North Carolina Virginia and Pennsylvania and led the Assemblies of God work in Uruguay He will show a colored slide illustrated message reflecting his ministry
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Reginald Stone
Uruguay
Elm Street
Full Gospel Assembly of God
L.L. Stonesifer
Stone
North Carolina
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Assemblies of God
Penn-Weslyan College
Allentown
Northeast Bible Institute
Green Lane
Spanish Language Institute
Guadalajara
Mexico
Appalachian State University
Boone
N.C
Full Gospel
Chaplin Rests In Bermuda Before New York Appearances
Comedian Charlie Chaplin, aged 83 next month, is staying at a Bermuda hotel with his wife Oona before heading to New York for April appearances. He arrived from London late Monday and plans sightseeing later this week.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Charlie Chaplin
New York
London
Oona
Funeral services and burial notices for two individuals
Funeral service for Robert P. Lewis of Berryville will be held tomorrow at 11 in St. Marys Episcopal Church with burial in Culpeper National Cemetery at 1 30. A graveside service for Virginia Evans Sunderlin of Seabrook South Carolina will be held Friday at 10 30 at Johnston Funeral Home Paw Paw with burial in Allen Hill Cemetery.
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Robert P. Lewis
Berryville
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
William V. Brook
National Cemetery
Culpepper
Cartwright Funeral Home
Virginia Evans Sunderlin
Seabrook
S.C
Johnston Funeral Home
Paw Paw
W. Va
John N. van Voorhis
Theodore
David
Charles
Homer Sanderlin
Carl
Theodore Evans
Buria
Allen Hill Cemetery
Chihuahua Declared World Smallest Dog Breed
The Chihuahua from Mexico is identified as the world’s smallest breed with some fully grown specimens weighing as little as 16 ounces.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
FDA Reveals Filth Tolerances in Food After 61 Years
Washington AP report: the FDA releases an eight page list of tolerances for filth in food, detailing allowable counts of insect fragments mold and animal debris in products such as wheat eggs hops and jams. Officials say contaminants pose no health hazard and seldom reach consumers.
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Washington
FDA
Peter Hutt
United States
John T. Walden
Frederick County Democrats to Name Delegates April 8 Meeting
A mass meeting of Frederick County Democrats will be held Saturday at noon in the Frederick County Courthouse to select delegates to the District and State conventions in Roanoke June 9 and 10. Delegates and alternates must file with Richard G. Dick by April 7.
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Frederick County
Roanoke
Richard G. Dick
Democratic Committee
Virginia
Miami
Rt. 6
Winchester
Sacred Oratorio At Shenandoah For Benefit
A benefit performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt will be presented by Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music on Sunday April 16 at 3 p.m. Proceeds support Shenandoah Parents Association stage improvement project. Tickets on sale at G and M Music Cooper's Jewelers Winchester locations and through the Conservatory office.
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Israel
Egypt
Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music
Shenandoah
Parents Association
G and M Music
Cooper’s Jewelers
Winchester
Conservatory
Sues Partner For $5 Million In Beverly Hills
Los Angeles AP Bob Maurice producer of Woodstock filed a $5 million breach of contract suit against partner Michael Wadleigh in Superior Court alleging Wadleigh failed to deliver a script for a George Washington biography and is diverting the project to himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Bob Maurice
Woodstock
Michael Wadleigh
Maurice
Wadleigh
George Washington
Wadleigh-Maurice Productions
Thhat Wadleigh
Cowboys Drownings Outpace Gunfights in Cowboys Book
The National Geographic Society notes that drowning while fording swollen rivers killed more cowboys than gunfights in the era covered by The American Cowboy in Life and Legend.
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National Geographic Society
Rawlings Renews Plea To Liberal Democrats in Virginia
Richmond Virginia George C Rawlings Jr renews call for liberal Democrats to boost turnout at April 8 local mass meetings to seize control of the state party. He aims to send delegates to Roanoke for the state convention and to back Lt Gov Henry E Howell Jr as a possible governor nominee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
George C. Rawlings Jr
Virginia
Fredericksburg
Roanoke
Henry E. Howell Jr
National Democratic Party
Rawlings
U.S. Senate
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Howell
National Party
Miami Beach
Hunter B. Andrews
Hampton
Strasburg Men Charged by Authorities
Two Strasburg men jailed in Moorefield West Virginia were charged by the Frederick County Sheriff with breaking into the C and H Market on March 2. Jerry Lee Fisher 20 and Ray Palmer 19 were found with a .22 Derringer identified as the market theft weapon. Lt. Charles McIlwee and Chief Deputy Osborne Renner lead the investigation.
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Strasburg
Moorefield
W.va
Wardensville High School
Frederick County
Weather Outlook For Northern Valley And Virginia
Cloudy skies with likely rain tonight and Thursday. Northern Valley highs near 50 Thursday, lows in upper 30s to low 40s. Virginia shows rain tonight and Thursday, with mountain areas reaching near 50 Thursday and other areas in the 50s. Extended outlook through Sunday shows rain Friday and Saturday, clearing Sunday with seasonable 50s to 60s daytime highs and 30s to 40s nights. Yesterday’s high hit 54. Winchester skies note: sunset 6 33 p.m. sunrise 6 00 a.m. Full moon rising 6 45 p.m.
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Winchester
Longtime Boulder Journalist Maurice Frank Dies at 76
Maurice Frank, 76, longtime newspaperman, died late Saturday in Boulder Colorado. He spent 38 years at the Elkhart Truth and 1951 onward lectured in journalism at the University of Colorado for three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Frank
Boulder
Colo
Frank
Elkhart Truth
University of Colorado
Wall Street Downgrade Amid Glamour Pull On Stocks
Wall Street opened soft as glamour issues weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 2.56 to 934.45 at 10:30 a.m. The NYSE saw more declines than advances as analysts predicted a cautious market without fresh buying. IBM led losses with a drop to 383 1/4, while RCA and General Motors posted gains amid mixed prices across listed stocks. Film news notes England will shoot a May production A Bequest To The Nation starring Glenda Jackson as Lady Emma Hamilton during Nelson's era.
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New York
Dow Jones
New York Stock Exchange
IBM
Polaroid
Xerox
Jersey Standard
American Motors
Dorsey Corp
RCA
General Motors
Bethlehem Steel
International Telephone
Travelers
England
Glenda Jackson
Emma Hamilton
Lord Nelson
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Whittington Infant
Alphia
J. Moreland
Mrs. Romanas Sager
Welsh Service
Lois W. Green
Rev
Chaplin
Sunderlin Service
Omds Funeral Home
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St. Vitus
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