Tazewell County, Virginia

 

 

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Clinch Valley News Folder - 1962

 

 

 

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1962

Oct 11 1962 --

JOHN Q. WIMMER -- John Quincy Wimmer, 75, died last Tuesday night at his home at Route 1,
Tazewell, Va. He was the son of the late Jessie and Sarah Shrader Wimmer. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Cora Lee Meredith Wimmer; four sons, Gratton and Ray Wimmer of Tazewell, Cecil Wimmer of Hyattsville, Md. and J. J. Wimmer, Jr. of Cedar Bluff, Va. Two daughters, Mrs. Raymond Catron of Seabrook, Md. and Mrs. John Sheets of Riverdale, Md. Also surviving are 23 grand children and 34 great grand children, a brother, Dennis Wimmer of North Tazewell; and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Kinder of Aberdeen, Md. and Mrs. John Morehead of Tazewell.  Funeral services were conducted Friday at 2pm in Fincastle Baptist Church, with Rev. L.A. Talbert officiating.  Burial was in Maplewood cemetery.

HENRY T. RINGSTAFF -- Henry Thomas Ringstaff, 82, of Pounding Mill, Va. died Saturday morning in a Richlands Va. hospital following a lingering illness.  An employee of
Norfolk and Western Railway, maintenance of way department for more then 40 years, he retired 10 years ago.  He was a member of the Christian church.  Surviving are four daughters, four sons, 23 grand children and 15 great grand children.  Funeral services were conducted Monday at 2PM in Pounding Mill Union Church with Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay and Rev. Max Allison Officating.

MRS. INEZ HUTCHINSON THOMPSON -- Mrs. Inex Hutchinson Thompson, 76, of
Thompson Valley, widow of Mr. W.E. Thompson died Sunday in a Richlands Hospital.  Funeral services were Monday afternoon from the Main Street Methodist church with the REv. W.J. Carter and the Rev. W.E. Mustard officiating.  Burial followed in Maplewood Cemetery.  Survivors include two daughters: Mrs. J.E. Lewis of Beaufort, NC. and Mrs. Carl Pridgen of Thompson Valley; three sisters;  Mrs. J.M. Pollard of Ashland, Va., Mrs. H.W. Taylor of Hanover, Va. and Mrs. E.S. Blodgett of Pinehurst, NC., One brother, W. C. Hutchinson of King William County, Va. and five grandchildren;  She was preceded in death by one son.

MRS. FLORA GILLESPIE GREEAR -- Funeral services for Mrs. Flora Gillespie Greear, 85, of cliffield were held Tuesday afternoon at the Cliffield Union Church.  The Rev. W. E. Mustard officiated and burial followed in the
Maplewood cemetery. Mrs. Greear died Sunday in St. Lukes Hospital.  She was well known in Tazewell County and particularly noted as an outstanding student of the Bible.  She is survived by a son, W.B. Greear, Jr. of Cliffield and five grandchildren.  Pallbearers were T.D. Gillespie, Jim Sam Gillespie, Carl Gillespie, Robert Carner, Roy White, Richard Greear, R. C. Allison and Garland Hess.