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The Raleigh Register from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 13

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10--Raleigh Register. Beckley. W. Wednesday Afternoon. August 3.

1977 Deaths: Mrs. Nannie Callahan Alfred W. Flanagan Funeral services for Mrs. Nannie Wade Callahan, 87, of Shady Spring, will held Thursday at 2 p.ni at the Blue Ridge Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Conrad.

Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. She died at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday at a' Beckley hospital after a short illness. She was a housewife. She was bom at Mount, Nov.

24. 1888, a daughter of the late Joseph Pickett and Sally Patteson Wade. She was preceded in death by her husband, W.F. Callahan, July 1, 1974. She is survived by two sons, Ned of Shady Spring and Warren Jr.

of Dallas, four daughters, Mrs. James Johnson and Mrs. Ruth Gal- 'lagher, both of St. Albans, Mrs. Elizabeth Newland of Shady Spring and "Mrs.

Mildred Ricketts of Glen Morgan; two half brothers, Woodrpw Wade and Walter Wade, both of Charleston, S.C.; a sister, Mrs. Adelia Wade of Norfolk, 13 grandchildren and 30 great- grandchildren and one great great Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. Pallbearers will be James Cassity, BiU Crum, Clifford Lively, James Huf- fman.

Gene Billups and Jack Stewart. Honorary pallbearers will be Tom Ricketts, Bob Gallagher, Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Thompson. Mrs. Settle Yeager Services for Mrs. Settle Yeager, 82, of Page, will be Thursday at 2 p.m.

in Tyree Funeral Home chapel at Oak Hill with the Revs. Charles Wilson and Richard Wriston officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens at Prosperity. Mrs Yeager died Monday in a Beckley hospital after a short illness. Born June 25, ,1895, at Blue Sulphur Springs she was a daughter of the late George and Virginia Piercy Fleshman.

Mrs. Yeager was a member of the Kincaid United Methodist-Church at 'Kincaid and United Methodist Women. Survivors include one son, G. Robert tYeager of Oak Hill; three daughters, Miss Cleo Yeager of Page, Mrs. Julia McGirmes of Charleston and Mrs.

Mary of Prosperity, and four grandchildren. Friends may call from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. 300 Police SearchFor Sam's Son Press International New York Three hundred police officers are hunting for "Son of Sam" in one of thS largest York City's history but the department admits the next move is up to the gunman who has slam six persons and wounded seven Bothers; 'The ball is in said Frank McLoughlin, deputy 'sioner for public information.

"He decides what to do." McLoughlin said Tuesday police had nothing fresh" in their search for the killer whose most recent attack Sunday in Brooklyn left 20 year old Stacy dead and her date, Robert Violante, 20, nearly blind. Violante's father, Pasquale, however, 'revealed his son told him the couple to the park where they were snot earlier in the evening-and that while -there, they Were stalked by a man. According to Violante, his son "paid no more attention to him," and the cou- left to go to a movie. description, of the man given to police by the younger Violante reportedly matched previous eyewitness accounts of the killer. Police, meanwhile, renewed appeals to the public information.

Reward offers" so far total $25,000 for information leading to the killer's deputy commissioner said police have so-far checked about 1,500 of the 5,000 leads that have come in from as 'far away as Japan. The FBI and police the country are also helping out 'in the manhunt. There was one change in the police department's attitude in the aftermath of the latest killing, however. Police had spoken freely about their preparations the anniversary weekend of the killer's first.attack. Tuesday, they were no more- McLoughlin did not dispute that press might have helped the gunman Svoid police who focused mostly on the and Queens where Sam had con-fined his first seven attacks; The eighth time he hit in Brooklyn, shooting the young woman and Violante in the head.

Osteopaths Join WVU Faculty ss Inttnmioni! iLewisburg Assistant professors from New York, Louisiana and Kansas have been added to the the faculty at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. The four year school, designed to provide family physicians for rural Ap- p'alachia, expects to graduate its first of 32 in 1978. Dr. James Wells, assistant professor of osteopathic principles and practice, formerly taught anatomical at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He now Urn in a restored log cabin near Lewisburg.

The Maryland native earned his degrees at the Universitia of Maryland and MasMchusem, Ha has pubUshed Kientific several national.symposia,, and is preparing books on human osteology and Services for Alfred Warren Flanagan, 76. of Winona will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in Wallace and'Wallace Funeral Home chapel at Ansted with the Rev. Larry Gawthrop in charge. Burial will be in Rest Lawn Memory Gardens at Flanagan died Tuesday morning in a Beckley hospital after a short illness.

Born Aug. 29. 1900, in Fayette County, he was a son of the late George and Ida Miller Flanagan A lifelong resident of Fayette County, Flanagan was a member of Longdale Lodge 14, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Lookout and a retired coal miner. Survivors include his wife, Hannah; two daughters, Nancy Flanagan of Columbus, Ohio and Mrs. Patsy Malay; one son, Robert, and two sisters, Mrs.

Margie Small, all of Winona, and Mrs. Thelma Peters of Lynchburg, two brothers, Richard of Clifftop and Ralph of Beauty Mountain, and one grandchild. Friends may call after'7 today. Longdale Lodge members will conduct graveside services. Mrs.

Annie June Martin Funeral services for Mrs. Annie June Martin, 52, of Lanark, will be held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Funeral Home Chapel with Bishop Alvin Brentley, the Rev. Jack Stewart and the Rev. Joseph Wilson officiating.

Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. She was pronounced dead on arrival at a Beckley hospital Tuesday at 12:50 a.m. Baiter an extended illness. She was a housewife and a member of tKe Church of God of Prophecy at Crab Orchard. She was born at Blue Jay August 11,1925, a daughter of the late Gordon Redden.

She, is survived by her. husband, Leonard of Lanark; her mother, Mrs. Verlie Angle Redden of Lanark; four sons, Joseph Alartin of MacArthur. Gordon Wade Martin of BecUey, Jerry L. of Lanark and Rodney Dale of Crab Orchard, three brothers, Russel G.

Redden of Pembertpn. Houston Redden of Crab Orchard, Clayton Redden of Oak Hill; three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Jeffries of Minden, Mrs. Goldie Jeffries of Oak Hill, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of Lanark; two stepbrothers, Cleo Gill of Beckley and Claude Gill of Piney View; a stepsister, Mrs.

Mildred Berry of i i arid three grandchildren. i Friends may iCall from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. Orie Martin One E.

Martin, 77, of Coal City died Tuesday evening in a local hospital after an illness. The body is at Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home. Mrs. Ada Pruess Funeral services for Mrs. Ada V.

Mays Pruess, 86, of Stanaford, will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Blue Ridge Funeral Home with the Rev. Phillip Lilly in charge. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. She died at 1:30 a.m.

Monday in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. She was a housewife and a member of the Stanaford Missionary Baptist Church. Born at Amerest County, June 10,1891, shewas a daughter of the 'late Nathaniel and Olivia Rose Evans Cash. She was preceded in death by her husband. George Pniess.

in 1968, and by a son, John Mays, in 1975. She'is survived-by two Mays of'Madison Heights, and Bryon Mays of Placerville, two daughters. Mrs. Kate Dolby of Federalsburg. and Mrs'.

Jcsie Aliff of Stanaford; two step daughters, Mrs. Earles Fitzgerald of Suffolk, and Mrs. Bessie Kirby of Norfolk. nine, grandchildren, 14 great granilchilren and four great great grandchildren. Friends may call from 6 p.m.

to 9 p.m. today. Pallbearers will be Bill Smith, Alex Smith, Sammy Sutile, Ira Hurt, Fred Sparks and Steve" Machumis. Tamara Shuman Funeral services for Tamara Sue Shuman, 16, of Lexington, were held today at 10 a.m. at Musselmans 'Funeral Home with the Rev.

Phillip Merrill in charge. Burial was in Lexington cemetery, v. She was killed in an automobile accident. Born in Normal, June "23, 1961, she was a daughter of John Shuman and Diane Qowns. She was a member of the Methodist Church in Lexington and was a junior at Lexington High She is also survived by a brother, Jack, her maternal grandmother, Mrs.

Leah Downs, of Bloomingtpn, ID. and paternal grandparents and Mrs. Paul Shuman, of El Paso, III, Mrs. Alma Sleboda Services 'for Alma Filzpatr'ick Sleboda. 66.

of Charleston, were to have been held today at 11 a.m. in the Barlow Bonsall Funeral Honffr.in Charleston, with Revi Harrell Harper in Burial mil be in'the Sunset Memorial Park, Becktey, today at 1 p.m., She died a Charleston hospital after a long illness. Born June ll was 'the daughter of the late Michael C. and Virgie Save Fitzpatrick; Mrs. Sleboda wasafeu'veof Dofhan and had lived in Beckley several years where she served as a legal secretary to J.

W. Maxwell. Beckley attorney, before moving to Charleston. In 1957 she was appointed executive secretary to Gov. Cecil Underwood, in 1961 served as appointment secretary to Gov.

W. W. Barron and in 1958 she was appointed --editor of the Senate-Journal until 1975, when she retired due to illness. She was active in the Kanawha County Republican Woman's Club, the West Virginia Federation of Republican. Women-, the a a a liepublican Executive Committee and a' member of the Kanawha'United Church.

Survivors include her C. five Oda. E. Biggs' of Beckley, Mrs. 'Eva Cox and L.

Starr, both of Cleveland," Ohio. Mrs. Elizabeth Hawks, of Charlotte. N. C.

and. Mrs. Marion of Charleston and one brother. Richard C. Kilzpairick of Cottageville.

Roy E. Vance Roy E. Vance, 59, of Brenton, died in a Beckley hospital this morning follow- ing a long illness. body is at Calfee Funeral Services. Pineville pending completion of arrangements.

Mrs. Rebecca Worrell Mrs. Rebecca C. Worrell, 63. of Lilly Grove Addition, Princeton, died at a Princeton hospital Monday night after a long Born in Princeton.

March 18, 1914. she was a daughter of the late Zed and Elizabeth Duncan Hill. She is survived by her husband James Paul Worrell. one son, J. P.

Worrell, Jr. of Spanishburg, four daughters, Gene Sumrell, Chevy Chase, Mrs. Nelson Keyton, Roanoke, Mrs. Walter Clark. Rockville, Md.

and Miss Marlene Worrell, Princeton: 20 grandchildren and three great- Funeral- services will Thursday at 2 p.m. Burris Wornal Princeton, with interment, to be in Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from to 9 p.m. todav at the funeral home. Frank Kelly Frank Kelly, 87, of MacArthur died at 7 p.m.

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