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Beckley Post-Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 6

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SIX BDCKLEY P08T-HBRALD, BBCKLEY, W.VA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8 1977 Deaths And Funerals Harve Bonds ARNETT (RNS) Services for Harve Bonds, 86, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Free Will Baptist Church at Naoma with the Revs. Wade Webb and George Smith Jr. in charge. Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery at Pineknob.

He died Wednesday afternoon in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. Born Sept. 5, 1890, at Pineknob, he was a son of the late Ballard and Susan Ellen Martin Bonds. A retired employe of the Armco Steel Mines at Montcoal, Bonds was a member of the United Mine Workers and the Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Sarah; three daughters, Mrs.

Loraine Quarles of Stickney, Mrs. Mamie L. Peters of Orlando, and Mrs. Elsie Breeding of Wilmington, one stepdaughter, Mrs. Ivory Allen of Glen Daniel; two stepsons, Vence and Lawrence Dillon, both of Arnett; one sister, Mrs.

Launa Alderman of Titusville, 21 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; 12 step-grandchildren and 9 step-great- grandchildren. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Friday. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Mrs.

Lydia Burton PRINCETON (RNS) Funeral services for Mrs. Lydia B. Burton, 82, of the Beckley Road, Princeton will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Burns-Wornal Chapel of Memorial Funeral Directory at Princeton with the Rev. Tony Reed in charge.

Burial will be in Shumate Cemetery at Bluefield. Mrs. Burton died Wednesday morning in a Lynch Station, hospital after a short illness. Born at Hardy, she was a daughter of the late Richard L. and Julia Reed Brown.

Her husband, Lawrence, preceded in death. Survivors include six sons, L. E. of Princeton, Dennis of Bluefield, John of Bluefield. Donald and Russell, both of Alta Vista, and Orville Shorter of Ingleside; a daughter, Mrs.

Gordon (Frances) Keath of Alta Vista; a brother, John Brown of Parkersburg; 32 grandchildren and 16 great- grandchildren Eunice Coffman LEWISBURG (RNS) Services for Mrs. Eunice Coffman, 90, of LaFayette Street will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Lewisburg United Methodist Church with the Rev. Harold Elmore in charge. Burial will be in Rosewood Cemetery.

She died Tuesday in a Bluefield nursing home. The body will be taken to the church at 10 a.m. Friday from Jack K. Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg. Lynell Collins LONDON (RNS) Services for Lynell Wilson Collins, 85, will be at 1:30 p.m.

Friday in the First Baptist Church at London with the Revs. W. H. Hairston and Thomas Murray in charge. Burial will be in Kanawha Valley Memorial Gardens at Glasgow.

Collins died Sunday at home after a long illness The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to services from Anderson-Hairston Funeral Home at Montgomery. Robert J. Copney Funeral services for Robert Copney will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday in St. Matthews A.M.E.

Church in Beckley. The Revs. Abner Wright and Eric Tyree will officiate. Copney, 34, died Wednesday in a local hospital of gunshot wounds after a long hospital stay. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park in Beckley.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to the service. George Craddock MOUNT HOPE (RNS) Funeral services for George McKinley Craddock, 80, of Route 1, Mount Hope will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Maple Valley Baptist Church at Maple Fork with the Revs.

Steve Davis and L. A. Garten in charge. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens at Prosperity. Craddock died Wednesday in a Beckley hospital of natural causes.

A member of the Maple VaUey Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, Craddock was a retired employe of the New River Coal having worked at the Garden Ground Mine, was a veteran of World War I and a member of the United Mine Workers. Born at Cirtsville, Oct. 10, 1896, he was a son of the late Alex and Isabelle Humphrey Craddock. Survivors include his wife, Macil Lake Craddock: two sons, David of Beckley and Donald of Merritt Island, one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Corners of Richmond, one brother, Bill Craddock of Chelan, 16 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope and at the church one hour prior to services. Services for Mrs. Dula Belle Day of Freeman will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday in the Bluestone Baptist Church at Bramwell with the Rev. Perry Slaughter in charge. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Gardens in Littlesburg. Mrs. Day died Wednesday in a Bluefield hospital after a long illness.

Born in Powhatan, she was a daughter of the late Willis G. and Rosa Cooper. She had been a resident of Freeman for 22 years and was a member of the Bluestone Baptist Church, the Bramwell Queen Court of Calanthes No. 63 of Bramwell. Survivors include her husband, John Day of Freeman: two sisters, Mrs.

Martha C. Wright and Mrs. Helen C. Jones, both of Beckley. Pallbearers and flower bearers will be friends of the family.

Friends may call at Slnkford and Richardson Funeral Home in Bluefield 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and at the church one hour prior to services. VICTORY COAT VEST JEANS Lee's great line-up of separates means 16 or more fashion combinations-with just two colors of each. Team up the Lee Victory Coat with matching or contrasting color jeans and vest. MEM'S SHOP BECKLEY PLAZA MALL 10 A.M.-9 P.M.

Roy E. Fanaitt MONTGOMERY (RNS) Funeral services for Roy Early Fannin, 7Z, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in B. C. Hooper Funeral Home at Montgomery with the Rev.

Bobby Wood in charge. Burial will be in Montgomery Memorial Park at London. Fannin died Wednesday in a Montgomery hospital after a long illness. A i resident of the Montgomery area, he was a retired merchant and a member of the First Christian Church, Rotary Club and Odd Fellows Lodge. Survivors unclude his wife, Ethel a son, Robert; at home, and a sister, Mrs.

Ivory Mahaffey of Hollywood, Calif. Mrs. Stella Foster Mrs. Stella Agnes Kiger Foster, 203 French died early Thursday in a local hospital after a long illness. She was born in Rural Hall, N.

the daughter of the late Julius Adam and Reginia Westmoreland Kiger. She was educated in North Carolina schools before her marriage to Gordon E. Foster, who survives. Long active in the United Methodist Temple on South Kanawha her services include work with the United Methodist Women, of which she was a life member, and was serving as Good Cheer Chairman at the time of her illness and death. She was a member of Circle No.

8 of the United Methodist Women and had previously been a circle leader for a four-year period. Sht afco meted with the Sunday School program at the church and wat secretary of the Intermediate Department for four yews. Mrs. Foster held in Bethlehem Chapter No. 71, Order of Eastern Star.

Other survivors include a son, Era- mett J. Poster, Marietta, a daughter, Mrs. Kyle M. (Betty Gordon) Jarrell Beckley; five brothers, Earl, Edgar, Everett, Albert and Norman Kiger, all of Rural Hall, N. four sisters, Mrs.

P. L. Harvey, and Mrs. Herbert Baker, both of Rural Roswell Phelps, Winston-Satem, N.C. and Mrs, Gray Mock, Lewisvilk, N.

and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at the Keyser-Biyant Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Ross M. Evans officiating.

Entombment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum. There will be no visitation. Martin V. Hunter SETH (RNS) Services for Martin V. Hunter, 64, will be at 2 p.m.

Friday in Armstrong Funeral Home at Whitesville with the Revs. Hansel Parsons and Raymond Stewart in charge. Burial will be in Drawdy Cemetery at Peytona. He died Monday in Houston, after a long illness. He was a retired coal miner and a Free Will Baptist minister.

Survivors include his wife, Stollie; two sons, James and Claude, both of Houston, one sister, Mrs. Clara Justice of Racine; three brothers, Bryson of Racine, Frank of Delbarton and Homer of Big Creek, and nine grandchildren. Friends may call Friday. MULLENS (RN8) Funeral services for Anna Dudley Jeffries of SpriMfitU, Otto, of Mullens, were held Frkiay to Bprtnfflekl. Jeffries died March at home after a start A former teacher at Mullens High School, the was engaged in the real buriness in Springfield.

Miss Jeffries was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. Jeffries A brother, Murrell, preceded her in death. Survivors unclude three brothers, Lewis, Robert and Andy, and one, sister, Charlotte.

Vella Lavinder FAYETTEVILLE (RNS) Funeral services for Mrs. Vella Lavinder, 81, of Charleson will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Dodd-Payne Funeral Home at Fayetteville with the Rev. Billy Reed Wickline in charge. Burial will be in High Lawn Memorial Park at Oak Hill.

Mrs. Lavinder died Wednesday at the home of her son, Billy G. (Jiggs) Lavinder of Charleston. Born March 30, 1896, at Red Ash, Fayette County, her husband, George, died July 22, 1963. Other survivors include eight grandchildren.

Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. BEARDS FORK (RN8) In Medley died Wednesday in a Montgomery hospital after a short illneas. fie body to at Andtrson-Hainton Funeral Home in Montgomery. Maggie Miter WfflPPLE (RNS) Funeral services for Mrs.

Maggie L. Miller, 8S, will be at i p.m. Saturday in the Glorious Church of God at Scarbro with Elders Manuel Perry and Jackie in charge. Burial will be hi Greenwood Memorial Park at Beckley Mrs. Miller died Thursday In art Oak Hill hospital after a long ilmest.

Born Oct. 26,1888, in Nelson County, she was the daughter of the late Ed and Mary Cook. A member of the Glorious Church of God in Scarbro, Mrs. Miller had lived with a niece, Mrs. Ruby Green of Whippie.

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