The News and Advance from Lynchburg, Virginia (2024)

THE NEWS: LYNCHBURG. mother, his wife, the former Florence Johnson; three sons, Sgt. C. W. Bryant, Jr.

USA, Japan; William Richard and Bobby Bryant; daughter, Miss Jean Bryant; brother, Otis M. Bryant; sister, Mrs. Archie Ford, all of Lynchburg and two adopted sisters, Mrs. Clinton Hamilton of Lynchburg and Mrs. P.

W. Nelson of Norfolk. Funeral service will be conducted at the home and burial will be in Presbyterian Cemetery at a time to be announced. Mrs. G.

W. Tolley Mrs. Sally Martha Tolley, 54, of Big Island, died Tuesday afternoon after an illness of two weeks. Born in Bedford County, July 30 1893, she was the daughter of Silas and Amanda Tolley Goff. She was a member of "Big Island Baptist Church.

Mrs. Tolley is survived by her husband, G. W. Tolley; two sons, Gordon and Wheeler Tolley, both of Big Island; five daughters, Mrs. Thomas J.

Brooks of Lynchburg, Mrs. Roy Mason of Hampton, Mrs Donald Brown, Mrs. T. T. Farley and Mrs.

Frank A. Brown, all of Big Island: sister, Mrs. Robert Ozie Goff of Big Island, Henry Goff Simpson Faber; three brothers, of Glasgow and Dabney Goff of Faber. Also 22 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral service will be held today at 3 o'clock in Big Island Baptist Church and burial will be in the church cemetery.

Daniel Walker Nick Walker, 1422 Nineteenth street, has been notified of the death Wednesday of his uncle, Daniel Walker, which occurred in Cozad4, dale, 1860, O. in Mr. Walker was born May Gretna, son of Robert and Louisa Mitchell Walker. and He is survived by six daughters two sons, all of Ohio and sister, Mrs. Emily Walker of Long a Island.

Quizzed On School Break Police were continuing to question seven school boys ranging between 12 and 17 years in age arrested yesterday by Detective Sergeants J. T. Jacobs and C. M. Harvey on charges of entering White Rock School.

Local police were quizzing the suspects on several other breaks and Sheriff Jack Miles said the group was wanted for questioning in connection with a filling station break on Route Limits 460 just beyond the City in Campbell County. PRETTY EASTER MILLINERY VA. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH Vital Statistics have Forty births -23 boys and 19 girls been recorded at the Bureau of Health during the week which ended yesterday, White Births March 16-Howell Allen and Maxine Patterson Osborne, Church street, boy. March 10-- Edward Ashby and Janie McDonald Petticrew. 1504 Russell street, girl.

March 8- Jessie Asbury and Virginia Shields Long, 314. Chestnut street, girl. Brown March Foster, 15 Edwin Owen and Frances 307 Washington street, boy. March 10-Ernest Gilmore and Mildred Coleman Maddox, 704 Thomas road. a March 10-Russell Oliver and Thelma Ford Dunn, 1118 Tolley's lane.

boy. tor March Stinson, 11-Ernest Route 2, Levi boy. and Flosste Tay March 12- George Washington and Mamie Wilkerson Smoot, 390 Buena Vista street, a boy. March 13 -Raymond Hatcher and Marie Pennington Evans, 308 Sussex street, boy. March 10- George McKinzie and Mari DeJarnett Hubbard, Clarkton, boy.

March 15- Carl Ray ano Myrtle Har ris Smythers, 1414 Ninth street, a girl. March 16 -Russell Twyman and Lucy Langford Gilbert, 514 Franklin street, girl. March 15. -James Edward and Beulah Hall Carr, 3142 Maryland avenue, girl March 16 James Edward and Rut! Ayres Robinson, 402 Apartment Fourti lane, a girl. March 16-James David and Corinne Jesse Spencer, 301 Wadsworth street, girl.

March 18-Braswell Diuguid and Pearl Lane Brandt, Rustburg, girl. March 15 -Walter Morris and Selma Crane Yeatts, Rusburg, a girl. March 10- George Preston and Mary Parrish Tyree, Arrington, boy. March 6-Warren Monroe and Esther Almond Foster, 3738 Campbell avenue, girl. March 4-William Thomas Hendricks, Christine Mathews Hendricks, 818 Centerdale street, a boy.

March 2-Robert McClanaham and Venice Dodson Stump, 3650 Fort avenue, boy. March 11-Roy Clark and Melita Mitchell Tucker, 2 Green street, a boy, Eisman 8- -Marvin Chapman and Lorine Cash, Gait's Mill, a boy. Meadows March 13 Taylor, Richard 235 Squire Warwick and Faulting boy. March 15- -Eugene Randolph and Dorothy March Tyree Gowin, Madison Heights, a boy. Keesee 13- -Carol Dodge and Frances Gosdey, Concord Depota boy.

March 6- Thomas Claude and Doris Doss Robertson, 1760 Gordon street, girl. March 16 -Jessie Moyd and Helen How. ard Woodford, Forest, a boy. March 2-Andrew Peyton Seay, and Frances Gowen Seay, Evergreen, boy. March 8- Nathan Hamlett and Hilda Watson Deaner, 1101 East Grand avenue, boy.

March 9-Dwight Moore and Christine Goff Babco*ck, Rustburg, girl. March 12- George Lycurgus and Dorothy Helms Fulks, 1205 Brandon road, girl. March 12-Elwood James and Elsie Buley Keatts, Lynch Station, girl. -March 1-James Franklin Wilson, and Arnie Bryant Wilson, Route girl. March 4-Ira Henry and Dorothy Johnson Pote, 209 Wadsworth street, a boy.

March 6-Robert Holland and Margaret Sprouse Day, 1514 Taylor street, a boy. March 8- Swanson and Christine Maddox Hammock, 239 Alleghany avenue, boy. March 12- James Valentine and Tunis Knowles Harman, 821 Federal street, boy. March 9 -Calvin Alton and Frances LaForce Baber, 410 Church street, a girl. March.

4-Willis Hudson and Jad Curd Driskill, Rustburg, girl. March 2--Henry Kenneith and Mary Jackson Dodson, Route 2, girl. Negro Births: March 10-James Henry and Marian Brown Miller, Monroe, boy. Army And Navy A small shipment of EuropeanAfrican, Asiatic-Pacific and American Theater service medals have arived at the Lynchburg Army and Army Air Force Recruiting Station GOOD FRIDAY "OLIVET to CALVARY" (Maunder) St. PAUL'S CHURCH 12:00 1:00 P.M.

HELEN HOWELL Organist and Director 26, 1948. II THREE Dr. Raymon T. Johnson, Fire Victim At Lexington Death Of Washington And Lee Law Professor AsSigned To Suffocation; Funeral Today Lee Dr. Raymond T.

Johnson, University, died early interior of a faculty apartment death was assigned to suffocation Counter, coroner. services will be held 4 P. M. today at the graveside Lexington Cemetery. Dr.

J. J. ray, Church pastor here of the Presbyterian will read service. Pallbearers will be eight of Johnson's students. Dr.

Johnson occupied the second floor apartment, and the fire parently started in the living room. Notified by Mrs. C. A. Bryant, neighbor, that the house was Dr.

John Baxter, chemistry able fessor at Washington and Lee, to remove his wife and children from the blazing The fire gained such headway structure. that the fighters could not Dr. access to the second ment Baxter and the fire departstory, trying vainly to reach its cupant. A third family, Mr. Mrs.

John E. Husted and their small child, who lived in the ment apartment, escaped. Fire Caused Undetermined ton Chief W. L. Hess of the LexingFire Department had not termined the cause of the fire late yesterday, and damage to residence had not been timated.

Johnson, a native of Minorsville, joined the Washington and Lee Law School' staff in 1925. formerly practiced law in Louisville, Ky. He was graduated from the University of Kentucky and the University of Chicago where was awarded a doctor of jurisprudence degree. His wife, the former Mary Lee Coleman, was injured fatally in an automobile accident near here in 1940. He is survived by one son, Charles Abbott Johnson, 16, a patient at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond.

President Francis P. Gaines canceled the annual public exercises of Phi Beta Kappa, scheduled for yesterday with an address by Dr. Meta Glass, president emeritus of Sweet Briar College. Dr. Gaines said "Dr.

Johnson was liant in a small group of truly briiteachers. His students without exception had the highest admiration for his mind, his command of the field, and his powers of Funeral Of Mr. Burch Funeral services for Steven Marshall Burch were conducted yesterdas afternoon at the grave in Gilbert family cemetery near Buena Vista by the Rev. R. M.

Figers. Pallbearers were E. C. Stinnette, C. L.

Stinnette, Frank Stinnette, Wallace Steel, Richard Nuckles and William Nuckles. W. L. Chapman South Boston, March 25-Willie L. Chapman, 87, of Halifax County, died Wednesday, near Durham, N.

visiting. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Mount Cana Methodist Church, at Omega. Burial will be in the family cemetery there. Surviving Joine, are two daughters, Mrs. W.

D. of Morrisville, N. Mrs. R. L.

Wade of near South Boston, and two sons, C. L. Chap- MASONIC NOTICE There will be a called convocation of Lynchburg Chapter No. 10, R. A.

in the Masonic Temple, corner Church Ninth streets, this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Council and Most Excellent Masters Degrees All Royal Arch Masons in good standing are fraternally invited. By order of the P. G. L.

WINGFIELD, Secretary. EASTER LILLIES So symbolic of this glorious holiday--the Lily. We've the finest in plant and fresh cut varieties. FINEST QUALITY PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT "The Home of 722 Main St. Phone 1636 and plans to distribute them to Lynchburg Veterans in public monies Army Day, April 6, have been announced by Captain William H.

Crews, officer in charge. O. R. Hackworth, seaman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs.

0. R. Hackworth, 2018 Georgia ave nue, and Elbert F. Dowdy, fireman, first class, USN, son of Mr. Mrs.

E. H. Dowdy of Shipman, are serving aboard the light cruiser USS Little Rock, which recently returned to the United States upon completion of fourmonths cruise in the Mediterranean area. Deadline Set May 5 For August Primaries deadline Richmond, for March 25 (AP)-The for Virginia's candidates to qualify August Democratic primaries this year was set as May 5. today After checking his Levin Nock Davis, secretary calendar, of the State Board of Elections, said that all qualifications must be filed on or before that date.

State law provides that primary candidates for Congress or statewide offices must file not later than 90 days before election day. This year's primaries for the House of Representatives and one seat in the United States Senate are sched. uled for August 3. General Ike On Scout Body Dwight D. Eisenhower became a co-worker with three Lynchburgers this week when he accepted membership on the National Scouts Executive Board of the Boy of America, Scout Execu tive H.

F. Cotey announced day. The National Council la made yester: up of representatives of the 500- odd councils throughout the nation. are C. Representatives from Lynchburg R.

Pettyjohn, Earl A. Gerhardt and F. L. Showalter. 50, professor of law at Washington and yesterday in a fire which destroyed the house on the university campus.

His by Dr. E. P. Tompkins, Rockbridge at man and Richard Chapman, both of Omega. He leaves also seven Funeral services for William Thomas Goff were conducted yesterday afternoon at o'clock in Memorial Chapel by the Rev.

Marshall F. Mauney of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and the Rev. H. S. Cullen of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Burial was in Presbyterian Cemetery. Pallbearers were Vernon Simmons, R. H. Mahanes, C. R.

Covington, A. Lee Beasley, G. E. Storey and Carl Ludwick. Miss Ruth Dowell sang and Mrs.

J. L. Staples was organist for the funeral. Funeral Of Mr. Goff Howard Funeral Funeral service for Willie C.

Howard were conducted yesterday morning in Whitten Funeral Home by the Rev. Eugene B. Wright. Mrs. Maurice Overstreet and Mrs.

Evan Marshall sang and Mrs. Marshall played piano accompaniment, Burial was in Boonsboro Cemetery. Active pallbearers were J. C. Harvey, Jesse Page Webber, J.

H. Gaddy. Howard, John and Lovelace Daniel. C. W.

W. Bryant Clarence Wilson Woodsie Bryant, 42, painting contractor, died early yesterday at his home, 126 Cabell street, after an illness of 18 months. December Born in Madison Heights, 14, 1905, he was the son of Mrs. Betty Hughes Bryant and the late William B. Bryant.

He was a member of First Baptist Church and was a member of Home Guard 11 years. Lynchburg Mr. Bryant is survived by his We Invite You! HOLY WEEK SERVICES Memorial Methodist Church NINTH and FLOYD STREETS 7:30 Each Evening March 22nd 26th Special Music at Each Service Tonight P. WATKINS Raleigh Court Church, Roanoke Sunday. Easter Service 11 A.

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SALON STREET FLOOR Soft suede pump in the season's two smartest shades Grey or Balenciago. 14.95 Forbes Candies VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA EASTER CANDY FAVORITES Smart hostesses will want of our delicious Forbes candies on a supply hand for the Easter holidays. They're all dressed up in pretty Easter packages grand for gifts! We also have an attractive line of Forbes Easter novelty candies Easter eggs, bunnies and jelly beans. Buy them separately or in attractive Easter baskets! The prettiest part of the Spring picture you in our vastly becoming Easter bonnets. Bonnets, sailors, profile types in the prettiest collection of straws ever! Youthful, gay, flattering in colors to match any outfit.

A becoming style for everybody in our flower. brimming collection. 5.98 to 18.50 MILLINERY SECOND FLOOR EASTER BASKETS filled with sorted Easter candies. Jelly Beans, molded chocolate bunnies and chickens and cream-filled chocolate Eggs with decorations. 1.59 to 3.75 HAND-DIPPED CHOCOLATES in attractive Easter boxes.

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