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Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 5

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Deaths and fu funerals Mary Grady Mary Belle Addington Grady, 46, 2028 Malvern Drive, Kingsport, died at 7 p.m. Friday at Holston Valley Community Hospital after a long illness. A native of St. Paul, she was a graduate of St. Paul High School and had attended the Assembly of God Church.

Surviving are her husband, Derwood Grady; one son, Delbert Grady, Kingsport; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Addington, St. Paul, two brothers, Ray Addington, Winston-Salem, N.C., James B. Addington, Baltimore, three sisters, Marie Sproles, Castlewood, Charlotte Frazier, Mt.

Vernon, Ohio, Margaret Shock, St. Paul, Va. Friends may call from 7-9 tonight at Huff-Cook Funeral Home. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow from St.

Paul Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Jack Carnley officiating. The body will be taken to the church one hour prior to services. Burial will follow in Temple Hill Memorial Park. Mable Davenport Mable Davenport, 69, Kingsport, died Friday at her home.

Surviving are four sons, Billy Roy Davenport, Pikeville, Ronnie Davenport, Cranks, George Eddie Davenport, Kingsport, Jerry Davenport, San Francisco, eight grandchildren; one brother, Walter Skidmore, Lenpane, two sisters, Cora Holmes, St. Clair, Lucy Hynes, Mass. Friends may call after 6 tonight at Rich Funeral Home in Harlan, Ky. Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. tomorrow from the funeral home chapel with the Rev.

Doyle Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Resthaven Cemetery. Richard Murphy Murphy, Smith Place, died at 10 p.m. Friday at Holston Valley Community Hospital after a long illness. A native of Jefferson City, he had lived in Church Hill for the past 29 years.

He was a retired farmer and member of First Presbyterian Church of Kingsport. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Murphy, Church Hill; two sisters, Agnes Murphy and Lelia Murphy, both of Jefferson City. Friends may call from 7-9 tonight at Wilson Funeral Home. Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m.

tomorrow from Oak Hill Cemetery with the Rev. William P. Wood and the Rev. Paul K. Hooker officiating.

CHURCH HILL Richard T. Jack Wilson Jack Wilson, 71, Bristol Memorial Hall Nursing Home, died at 7:15 p.m. Friday after a long illness. Born in Yancey County, N.C., he had been a resident of Sullivan County for 21 years. He was a miner and Baptist.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lona Wilson Grizzle, Kingsport; six daughters, Jean and Donna Wilson, both of Jackson, Mrs. Jackie (Helen) Davis, Blountville, Mrs. Carl (Ann) Jones, Mrs. J.R.

(Lou) Jones and Mrs. David (Nancy) Brummitt, all of Kingsport; two sons, Bill Wilson, Kingsport, Roger Dale Wilson, Coeburn; his mother, Mrs. Emmitt (Carrie) Gentry, Kingsport; three halfsisters and three half-brothers. Friends may call from 7-9 tonight at Carter's Chapel Funeral Home. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m.

tomorrow from the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Charles Bogle officiating. Burial will follow in Old Kingsport Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Charles Ely DRYDEN, Va. Charles Michael Ely, 23, died Friday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

He was a construction employee. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Ely, Dryden; one brother, Tony Ely, Pennington Gap; two sisters, Donna Gail Combs and Beverly E.

Crews, both of Goldsboro, N.C.; his grandmother, Mrs. Hazel Ely Stwert, Dryden. Friends may call from 6-9 tonight at Sturgill Funeral Home in Pennington Gap, Va. Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. tomorrow from the funeral home chapel with the Rev.

Kenneth Ellis officiating. Burial will follow in Powell Valley Cemetery. Services for Charles Lee Dolen, 73, Route 2, Fall Branch, who died Friday, will i be conducted at 2 p.m. today from Fall Branch Chapel of Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home with the Rev. Victor Wallace and the Rev.

W.R. Grimm officiating. Burial will follow in Fall Branch United Methodist Church Cemetery. Falin services Dolen services Services for James Falin, 85, Clinchport, who died Thursday, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today from the Gene Falin Memorial Chapel of the Gate City Funeral Home with the Rev.

Paul Martin and the Rev. Claude Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in the Falin family cemetery. William Beall Sr. William Ruffin Beall, 75, 1737 Jefferson Kingsport, died at 2:30 p.m.

Friday from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Chattanooga. A native of Alma, he had been an employee of Tennessee Eastman Co. before retiring in 1971 and for the past several years had been employed by Anderson Ford Co. He was a member of First Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Ila W. Beall; one daughter, Mrs. Champe (Karen) Bachelder, Kingsport; two grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Ralph (Francis) Leverette, Fitzgerald, Mrs. E.T.

(Lucille) Watkins, Coal talks recess for elections WASHINGTON (UPI) Negotiations to end the 44-day nationwide strike by 160,000 soft coal miners recessed for three days yesterday so that miners in key areas of Appalachia can concentrate on union elections that could have an impact. on the talks. Both United Mine Workers President Sam Church, Jr. and chief industry negotiator Bobby R. Brown continued their virtual silence on the second round of bargaining since rank-andfile miners rejected an tenta.tive agreement by a 2-1 margin.

"We're still talking. We're still talking," was all Church would say as he and the fivemember union negotiating team left the bargaining suite after a three-hour session in a downtown hotel. Brown, asked for an assessment of the industry's position, replied sharply, "No, I won't comment on it at all." He said the second-round meetings which began Thursday were "all good sessions." Striking miners in West. Virgnia and eastern Kentucky turned their attention to UMW district elections next Tuesday. One of the union's negotiators, Walter Suba, was defeated Should the Casket Be Open or Closed? Your friends at HamlettDobson Funeral Home suggest that this is a matter for the family and their clergyman to decide.

Experts tell us that the open casket, especially during visitation hours, allows friends to acknowledge the finality of death, an important part of the grief resolution process. No matter what your preference, we will comply. And if you have further questions about this or any other aspect of funeral service, call or visit Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home this week. HAMLETT-DOBSON FUNERAL HOMES KINGSPORT CHAPEL FALL BRANCH CHAPEL COLONIAL HEIGHTS CHAPEL Business Phone 245-3134 International Order of the Golden Rule Member the National Selected Morticians Sunday, May 10, Douglas, Mrs. James (Dorothy) Ray, Jacksonville, three brothers, Clifford Beall and Marion Beall, both of Fitzgerald, Robert Beall, Orlando, Fla.

Friends may call from 7-9 tonight at East Lawn Funeral Home. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the funeral home chapel with Dr. Frank Hawkins officiating. burial will follow in East Lawn Memorial Park.

William Denton BLOUNTVILLE William Benjamin (Will) Denton, 96, of Route 6, Blountville, died 10:30 a.m. yesterday at his home. A native and lifelong resident of Sullivan County, he was a retired farmer. He was a member of Gardner's Chapel Primitive 1981 Kingsport Times-News 5A Baptist Church and Independent Order of Oddfellows, having been the oldest member in the area. He is preceded in death by his wife, Mrs.

Virgie Denton, in September of 1980. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Carmel (Bonnie) Stevens, Blountville; three sons, John H. Denton, W.C. (Shorty) Denton and Herbert J.

Denton, all of Blountville; 10 grandchildren and 22 -grandchildren. Friends may call from 7-9 tonight at Blountville Funeral Home or at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Stevens, Route 5, Blountville. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow from Gardner's Chapel Primitive Baptist Church with Elders Basil Freeman and C.J.

Baker officiating. Burial will follow in East Lawn Memorial Park. ELECT PATSY GARRIOTT: KINGSPORT BOARD OF EDUCATION Paid political adv. by elect Garriott Committee Janet Barnes, Treas. by a more than 7-1 week in a bid for representative on tional Executive District 4 in western nia.

Nevertheless, tinued Suba on the team. Another negotiator, margin last northern West Virginia's Dis- tlement, especially a $1.90 a ton re-election as trict 31. royalty for the pension and welthe Interna- UMW negotiators are striving fare funds for union miners Board from to restore provisions to the con- processing coal mined by nonPennsylva- tract that caused rank-and-file union employees of other comrejection of the initial set- panies. conShip fire injures crewman NORFOLK (UPI) A fire in the engine room of a Spanish cargo ship yesterday severely burned one crewman and crippled the vessel, which remained disabled about 40 miles north of the port of Hampton Roads, the Coast Guard said. Lt.

Richard Goodchild said the fire was reported about 8 a.m. aboard the 601-foot Lujua, which was carrying grain from Baltimore to Spain. The fire disabled the ship and severely burned crewman Eduardo Rios. Matheu, 42, who was reported in serious condition last night at a Norfolk hospital with burns over 30 percent of his body. "When we picked him up he was in severe shock," Goodchild said.

The ship had not yet been towed into port last night. Heavy fog and rain forecast overnight meant the vessel WHERE MEMORY LIVES IN Serving all area Cemeteries We honor all Burial Policies East Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park, Inc. 4987 MEMORIAL BLVD KINGSPORT, TENN. PHONE 615-288-2081 1 EN 1 CONCERN in time of need There is no way we can diminish the sense of loss that comes with a death in the family. But our caring and support can help you through the crisis period.

Carter's Chapel KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE 245-4101 ANDERSON HEALTH CARE CENTER Tri-Cities newest and most modern nursing home located in Gray, Tennessee is now taking applications for residents. FOR APPOINTMENT CALL Medicaid Approved Visiting Hours Unlimited Physician on call Physical Therapist Special Diets Beauty Barber Shop 24 Hour Professional T.V. Telephone Nursing Connections in each room WE INVITE YOUR PERSONAL INSPECTION Per- ry, president of District 17 in the Charleston, W. area, is being opposed by two miners in Tuesday's elections and observers are looking to those results to see if a coalfield rebellion is emerging against Church's leadership in the bargaining. When asked after yesterday's talks about the scheduling of resumed negotiations with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association on the same day as Perry's election, Church, replied: "That's Jack's business.

That doesn't enter into negotiations." In other key district elections, International Executive Board representative J. B. Trout and district president Bob Carter are being opposed by rank-andfile miners in eastern Kentucky's District 30 and incumbent president Burdette Crowe in seeking to unseat IEB representative Dick Weaver in could be a navigation hazard, he said. "She is lighted with an emergency generator and we have a broadcast notice out to mariners to alert others she is anchored and disabled," Goodchild said. He said the fire, which was possibly started by fuel in the engine room, was reported out by noon.

It was extinguished by an automatic carbon dioxide system, so no firefighters were on the scene. "But the fire managed to completely disable the ship, because it destroyed a lot of equipment," Goodchild said. The Coast Guard advised the ship's agent, Kerr Steamship and the grain agent, Ramsay Scarlett and Co. of Baltimore, that the vessel was a hazard to navigation sitting in Chesapeake Bay, Goodchild. -Congratulations- The Winner of the Lucky Mom of the Year Contest Is: MRS.

CORBIN LANE 300 DENEEN LANE KINGSPORT Sponsored by: Downtown Kingsport Association FAMILY PICTURES WIN PRIZES! Enter yours! There's still plenty of time to enter. family gathering of Macaques in the Seattle Zoo won $100 in KINSA '80. Enter your prints of slides right away! Turn to page 10B for full details. Kingsport Times-News A newspaper you can be proud of Call 246-8121 for home delivery.

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