2 BRISTOL HERALD COURIER BRISTOL VIRGINIA-TENNESSEAN Saturday, September 25, 1982 Bristol And Mountain Empire Deaths Kemper W. Robinson ST. PAUL, Va. Kemper William Robinson, 83, died Friday in Bristol Memorial Hospital. He was a former operator of a taxi service in St.
Paul for more than 50 years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Robinson; four sons, Cecil Robinson, Bristol, Billy Joe Robinson, Warner Robins, Johnny Robinson, Castlewood, and Paul Robinson, Miami, one daughter, Mrs. Gaynell Thompson, Winter Park, two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Quillen and Mrs.
Ethel Little, both of St. Paul; 18 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Huff-Cook Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Joseph E. Robinette KINGSPORT, Tenn.
Joseph E. (Joe) Robinette, 73, of 1625 Highland Kingsport, died Friday in Holston Valley Hospital and Medical' Center. He was a native of but had lived in Kingsport since the late 1920s. He was a plumber, formerly employed by Blacks, J.H. Watkins and Smith Mechanical.
He was a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, Local 538 in Johnson City, and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Kingsport. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ola Shankle Robinette; two daughters, -Mrs. James R. (Mary) Martin, Ashland, and Mrs.
Carl (Helen) Richardson, of Kingsport; three -sons, Don G. Robinette, Sam J. Robinette and Jerry D. Robinette, all of Kingsport; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Bishop and Mrs.
Mary Sowles, both of Sacro, and Mrs. Kate Dale, Vallejo, 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. BOOKER Graveside services for Mrs. Mildred Marie Booker be conducted at 2 p.m.
Saturday in Mountain View Cemetery with the Rev. John Thrasher officiating. Akard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. CARRIER Funeral services for Charles (Oscar) Carrier will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with Willard TalIman and the Rev.
Bob Spinkle officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain View Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Jim Carrier, Frank Reed, Charles Melvin, Lewis Cross, Steve Allison, Maurice L. Allison, Gene A. Carrier and Eugene Holden.
Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. FEATHERS Graveside services for William Ralph Feathers will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Glenwood Cemetery with the Rev. James A. Aldridge officiating.
Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. FLANARY Funeral services for Noah Elmo Flanary will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Roy A. Green Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Johnny Flanary officiating.
Burial will be in the American Legion Cemetery. Pallbearers will be nephews. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Saturday at the Roy A. Green Funeral Home.
HAGY Funeral services for Mrs. Pauline J. Hagy will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Akard Funeral Bristol And Area Briefs James B. Austin FLORENCE, S.C.
James Blaine Austin, 56, died here Wednesday. He was a former resident of St. Paul, Va. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Helen Austin; five sons, Jimmy Austin, Buena Vista, Randall Austin, Chicago, Larry Austin, Loring Air Force Base, Maine, Carl Austin and Mark Austin, both of Florence; two daughters, Mrs.
Annette Thames, Darlington, S.C., and Mrs. Glenda Koonce, Jackson, his mother, Mrs. Minnie Austin, St. Paul, two brothers, Roy Austin St. Paul, and Ray Austin, Kingsport, one sister, Mrs.
Ada Hale, Castlewood, and 11 grandchildren. Huff-Cook Funeral Home in St. Paul, is in charge of arrangements. Noah E. Flanary JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
Noah Elmo Flanary, 74, died Friday in the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a retired miner for Blue Diamond Coal Co. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mane Flanary; one son, Roy Flanary, Huntsville, three daughters, Mrs. Joyce Fields and Mrs.
Margie Barnett, both of Norton, and Mrs. Wanda Anderson, Johnson City; four brothers, Marguis Flanary, William Flanary and Allen Flanary, all of Appalachia, and Junior Flanary, Imboden, five sisters, Mrs. Beulah Moore, Appalachia, Mrs. Georgia Brown, Grundy, Mrs. Audrey Morris, Keokee, Mrs.
Cordie Collier, St. Charles, and Mrs. Clercie Breeding, Big Stone Gap, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Roy A. Green Funeral Home in Appalachia, is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Toby Mae Booher Mrs. Toby Mae Booher, 80, of Route 1, Bristol Tennessee, died Friday in Bristol Memorial Hospital. She was a lifelong resident of Sullivan County and a member of Weaver Union Church. Surviving are two sons, Edward Paul Booher, Port Deposit, Billy Wayne Booher, Bluff City, one daughter, Mrs.
Dorothy Jones of Pennsylvania; one brother, J.C. Hatcher, Bristol; one sister, Miss Mary E. Hatcher, Bristol; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Weaver Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs.
Pauline J. Hagy Mrs. Pauline J. Hagy, 72, of Route 1, Bristol, died Thursday night at her residence. She was a member of the Baptist Church.
She was a retired bookkeeper at Remine-Gobble. Survivors include her husband, Garland L. Hagy; one daughter, Sue Lynn of Bartlesville, one son, Richard Long of Bluff City, one sister, Mrs. Dorothy Casteel of Floyd, one brother, Tim Johnston of Bristol; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive. Akard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Charles R. Taylor CASTLEWOOD, Va. Charles R. Taylor, 79, died Friday at his home. He was a lifelong resident of Russell County and a retired employee of the Clinchfield Coal Co.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Clarice Phipps, St. Paul, Mrs. Pauline Furr, Mrs. Emma Brown and Mrs.
Betty Seabolt, all of Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Ann Stonville, Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Illa Fields, Funeral Notices- Home Chapel with the Rev. Jerry Lyons officiating. Burial will be in Shelby Hills Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Bobby Bushong, Fred Houser, David Rosenbaum, Jack Gent, Phil Booher and Allen Gross. The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. Saturday at Akard Funeral Home. HESS Funeral services for Miss Edna Mae Hess will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Tazewell County Funeral Home Chapel, Cedar Bluff, with the Rev.
Marvin W. Barber officiating. Burial will be in the Newberry Cemetery on Horton Ridge. Friends will serve as pallbearers. Tazewell County Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
MILLER Funeral services for W.C. Miller will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Akard Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Fred Williams and the Rev. Richard Hale officiating.
Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Dr. H. Necessary Ralph Dean, Bobby Shankle, Joe D. Necessary, E.F.
Wright and John Barb. Honorary pallbearers will be Jim Barb, Dr. Tom Green Dr. John Green, Arvin Rodefer, Albert Shaffer, Shirley Malone and men of the Beech Grove United Methodist Church. Akard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
PERRIGAN Funeral services for Lester Perrigan will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sunday in George's Fork Freewill Baptist Church with the Rev. Manie the Abingdon United Methodist Church, 101 East Main St. Donations can be brought to the church before Saturday. The Watauga Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will hold its annual benefit yard sale today in the shelter back of Christian Taylor Log Cabin, Jonesboro, Tenn.
American Legion Hacklerwood Post No. 145 of Bluff City, will Norton, two sons, Harold Taylor, Statesville, N.C., and Homer Taylor, Castlewood; one sister, Mrs. Mamie Burke, Castlewood; three brothers, Bill Taylor, Bulls Gap, George Taylor, Radford, and Ben Taylor, Castlewood; 29 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Russell County Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Claude Ray HONAKER, Va.
Claude Ray, 67, died Friday in a Richlands, hospital. He was a lifelong resident of Russell County, a veteran of World War II, U.S. Army, and was a retired employee of the Virginia Department of Highways. Surviviors include one daughter, Miss Geralene Ray, Honaker, one son, Jackie Lee Ray, of Honaker; one brother, Abram Ray, Honaker; two step-brothers, Claude Whited, Bluefield, W.Va., and Garnett Whited, Bluefield, Va. Honaker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Bert (Lillian) Roberts ABINGDON, Va. Mrs. Bert (Lillian) Roberts, 72, of Route 5, Bethel Community, Abingdon, died Friday in Bristol Memorial Hospital. She was a retired teacher of the Washington County School System and a member of Bethel Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are her husband, Bert A. Roberts; two daughters, Mrs. Pat (Peggy) McPherson, Lowndesboro, and Mrs. D.L. (Kay) Stout, Abingdon; one son, John B.
Roberts, Damascus, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Johnson Funeral Home in Damascus, is in charge of arrangements. ROBINSON Funeral services for Kemper William Robinson will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the HuffCook Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Roger Williams and the Rev.
Charles Ruff officiating. Burial will be in Temple Hill Memorial Park. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
SKEENS Graveside services for Mrs. Rhoda Scott Skeens will be conducted at 4 p.m. Saturday in East Hill Cemetery with Greg Hauenstein, minister officiating. Friends may call at Blevins Funeral Home at any time. The body will remain at the funeral home until 3 p.m.
Saturday. SYBERT Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Mae Sybert will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Robinette Funeral Home Chapel, Blackwater, with the Rev. Alex Willis, the Rev.
Hobart Hall and the Rev. Walter Willis officiating. Burial will be in the Bledsoe Cemetery, Jonesville, Va. The family will receive friends Saturday, evening at the Robinette Funeral Home, Blackwater, Va. TAYLOR Funeral services for Charles R.
Taylor will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the Russell County Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bobby Turner officiating. Burial will be in the Taylor family cemetery Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family.
will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the funeral home. at the YMCA Tuesday at 7 p.m. The program is designed for busy dads who want to spend more time with their kindergarten though second grade children. For information, call the 968-3133.
Bristol Tennessee Parks and Recreation Department, Senior Citizen Division, will sponsor its last trip to the World's Fair Sept. 29. The bus will leave Slater Center at 7:30 a.m. and return about 8:30 p.m. For details, call 764-9621.
the p*rno Film Star Is Arrested NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) p*rno film star Rhonda Jo Petty, billed as a Farrah Fawcett look-alike and star of "Little Orphan Dusty's," said Friday her arrest for lewd acts during a strip show was "pure harassment." Police said they arrested Miss Strouth and the Rev. Delmon Moore officiating. Burial will be in the Perrigan Cemetery on Nealy Ridge. A service will be held at 7 p.m.
Saturday at the Clintwood Funeral Home. The body will be taken to the church one hour before services. PUGH Funeral services for Robert Lee Pugh Sr. will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Konnarock Baptist Church with the Rev.
Homer Fritz and the Rev. Donald Wyatt officiating. Burial will follow in the Azen Cemetery. Johnson's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. RAY Funeral services for Claude Ray will be conducted at 2 p.m.
Monday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. T.R. Stump officiating. Burial will be in the Webb Cemetery Honaker. Friends may call at the funeral Home after 6 p.m.
Saturday. ROBERTS Funeral services for Mrs. Bert (Lillian) Roberts are incomplete. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Saturday at the Johnson Funeral Home in Damascus, Va.
ROBINETTE Funeral services for Joseph E. (Joe) Robinette will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist Church with Dr. Frank Hawkins officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The body will be taken to the church 30 minutes before the time of service. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Saturday at Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home Chapel. hold a turkey shoot each Saturday at 11 a.m. at the post grounds.
Prizes will inlcude a country ham, turkeys and a five pound canned ham. Bluff City Crewettes will sponsor a game event at 7 p.m. today at the Bluff City Rescue Squad building. All proceeds will go to the rescue squad. Bristol Family YMCA will hold an informational meeting to explain the son and daughter programs Petty, 27, of Chatsworth, following her 15-minute strip show at an adult cinema at 6 p.m.
Thursday. Also arrested was Bill French, 38, manager of the cinema. They were released from city jail Thursday night after they each Jury Acquits Woman Of Lying About Alibi ABINGDON, Va. While a federal court jury could not decide if Larce J. Ferrell lied under oath about his alleged involvement in the largest bank robbery in Virginia history, another jury said Friday that his ex-wife is not guilty of lying to provide an alibi for Ferrell.
Barbara Ferrell Blankenship, who has remarried after divorcing Ferrell, was acquitted here yesterday of a perjury charge by a U.S. District Court jury. Ferrell, 30, of Stopover, was acquitted by a jury last year of 70 60 60 701 80 80 90 100 Natonal Weather Service 90 NOAA. US Dept of Commerce Fronts: Cold ww Warm ww Occluded Stationary so WEATHER Rainy Weekend Seen For Mountain Empire If the weather forecast Sunset today will be at 7:23 Sunrise Sunday will be at 7:20 proves to be correct, Mountain Temperature at 9 p.m. Frida was 56 Empire residents are in for a Humidity at 9 p.m.
Friday was 78 Winds at 9 p.m. friday were calm rainy weekend. Barometer at 9 p.m. Friday was 30.06 According to the National and steady Record high for this date is 90 set in 1970 Weather Service at Tri-City Air- Record low for this date is 38 set in 1950 port, there is a 30 percent chance of rain today and tonight and Wednesday. more rain on Sunday.
The high today will be near The extended forecast calls 70 and the low tonight will be in for the precipitation to end on the low 50s. The high Sunday will Monday, followed by partly be in upper 60s. cloudy skies and 1 warmer tem- The high Friday was 69 and peratures on Tuesday and the low was 44. Light Showers Hit Pacific Coastal Area By The Associated Press and northern Texas. Rain from weakening Tropi- Heavier storms and thundercal Storm Olivia off the coast of storms dampened the southern Baja California spread a large area of showers into the western third of the nation Friday.
However, rainfall amounts from the storm, about 500 miles off the coast, were fairly light, generally a quarter-inch or less. The storm, 'moving northwestward at about 16 mph, kicked up high surf Thursday at some southern California beaches with occasional 10-foot breakers at San Pedro's Cabrillo Beach. But the wave action was expected to diminish over the weekend. Showers also extended from the Great Lakes through the Ohio Valley and southwestward into Arkansas, southern Oklahoma part of the Florida Peninsula. Sunny skies covered most of New England and the northern mid-Atlantic states.
Temperatures around the nation at 3 p.m. EDT ranged from 44 degrees at Houghton, to 103 at Palm Springs, Calif. For Saturday, showers and a few thundershowers were forecast from southern California across the Great Basin into the Pacific Northwest. Thundershowers were forecast over Florida, with widely scattered thunderstorms over the rest of the Southeast. Showers also were forecast from the eastern Ohio Valley into New England.
Mild Earthquakes Strike Knox County KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Two mild earthquakes hit southern Knox County and parts of four surrounding East Tennessee counties late Friday afternoon but caused no apparent property damage or injuries, authorities said. "We haven't heard of any damages," said a spokeswoman in the Knoxville Police Department's communications section. The spokeswoman said there were only a few calls about the temblors and most of them from south Knox County. She said visitors to the Knoxville World's Fair in downtown Knoxville did not feel the quakes.
Officials at the Tennessee Earthquake Information Center in Memphis said the epicenters of both quakes were about 25 miles southwest of Knoxville. "The closest fair-sized town was Lenoir City," said Dr. Arch Johnston, director of the earthquake center. He said the quakes hit about five miles south of Lenoir City. Johnston said the first quake hit at 5:57 p.m.
EDT and registered 3.2 on the Richter scale. He said the second quake occurred 22 minutes later and measured 3.5. "They are large enough to be felt widely, but are not large enough to be damaging," Johnston said. Bristol turns Slater Street, are zens dren. door able.
meet Dogwood Community Theater of will present "Broadway Reto Dogwood" tonight at 8:15 at Community Center, McDowell Bristol Tennessee. Tickets $3 for adults, $2 for senior citiand students and $1 for chilTickets will be available at the and group rates are also availFor information, call 466-3381. Again group will Sunday for movies at the Bris- tol Mall at 2 p.m. Additional information may be obtained by calling YWCA, 968-9444, or club president Tommy Ralston, 538-4346. A children's fall clothing will be held for the Margaret Blair School today from 9 a.m.
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She said she was arrested last month in Fort Wayne, and is to stand trial on indecency charges. Vice Squad officer Jerry Searcy said Miss Petty and French were arrested after a citizen's complaint. "We received a call that her show was a bit out of line too suggestive," he said. "She was putting a little more into the act than the law allows," Searcy said. "She was completely nude, lying on the stage and simulating sexual intercourse." DID YOU KNOW? Typewriter Sales Service has six Factory Trained service men and we service all makes of typewriters, cluding IBM, at less than the cost of IBM service? 764-3181 10 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT ATTEND EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH Sorry, I cannot think of a single reason why you should not attend EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH.
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After the trial, at which two other men were convicted, Ferrell, his ex-wife Barbara and another man were charged with perjury in connection with the bank robbery. A jury on Thursday could not reach a verdict in Ferrell's perjury case. A mistrial was declared and Ferrell will be retried on the charges on Nov. 18..
