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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1947
Page
7
Classified notices show multiple wanted ads for housing near Winchester Virginia. Entries include a refined widow seeking a driveable apartment or small house, a childless ex Marine and spouse seeking unfurnished two-bedroom near Winchester, and a couple without children seeking house or apartment with emphasis on two bedrooms and no pets or children.
Help wanted ad seeks young man with high school education to learn a trade in Winchester. Must have car, be 30 to 40, active and eager to learn. Positions include building material, plumbing and heating, farm equipment, major appliance sales, and appliance service. Apply in handwriting to Box 117 care of Winchester Evening Star.
Five dollars reward for information leading to renting housekeeping rooms or a small house to two adults and a child. Inn open for guests north of city on U S Highway 11. Rat control at Solenberger's Hardware. Truss fitting at Berlin's Apothecary. All Around Workmen seek carpenter. Framed pictures service by Barr's Studio. Lost black and white Boston Terrier male 5175.
Funeral services for Mrs Francis E Cather wife of Mah lon E Cather were held yesterday afternoon at 2 from 309 Highland Avenue with Rev Stanley Mc Farland and Rev John Blye officiating The Jones Funeral Home Quartet provided music Interment followed at Mount Hebron Cemetery Pallbearers included Elizabeth Harrison Lorraine Buhl Audrey Buhl Marganerite Matthews Barbara Buhl and Betty Pond Honorary pallbearers were Metropolitan Police Department No 8 Precinct members J O Riley W H Hosteller J A Carroll D P Dungan I W Carroll I T Headley and H W Ritter Out of town attendees included Mr and Mrs Allen of Anderson Alabama.
Mrs Ida Lupton Shryock widow of Walter R. Shryock of Berryville and longtime Winchester resident died yesterday at 5 45 PM in Winchester Memorial Hospital after ten days as a patient. She was born in Capon Bridge W Va daughter of the late Jonathan and Elizabeth Lupton and had lived in Berryville for 20 years before moving to Winchester with her nephew and niece. She was active in Braddock Street Methodist Church and survived by two brothers John W and Arthur B Lupton of Winchester and numerous nieces and nephews in West Virginia Maryland Virginia and Kentucky. Funeral services will be held in Winchester.
Funeral rites conducted tomorrow afternoon at 4 from Braddock Street Methodist Church led by Rev. Thomas J. Hawkins D D. Interment will follow in the family lot at Green Hill Cemetery Ber- Often Mispronounced: Oceanie ic. Pronounce o she an ikk, ned o si an ik nor o shn ik.
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