Roanoke Times

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Virginia: Tuesday, January 2, 1996

• BABY ARRIVES AS FIREWORKS HERALD 1996
• DRIVER NEEDS A WARM-UP; CAR DOESN'T
• COUNTY WANTS ANNEXATION BAN
• COOPERATION BETWEEN LOCALITIES FALLS SHORT OF AIMS
• A HECKUVA HOKIE HURRAH
• STEPFATHER KILLED IN STRUGGLE FOR SON'S GUN BOY CHARGED WITH 2ND-DEGREE MURDER AND WOUNDING OF GIRLFRIEND
• RETIRED HIGH COURT JUSTICE SITS ON RICHMOND BENCH
• OBIT - LATE NOTICES
• FOG GROUNDS FLYING FANS; MOST HAVE TO TAKE BUS HOME
• KIDS FREE AN EXTRA DAY - SUGAR LAG, PERHAPS?
• OPEN RECORDS OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST LAWYERS, REPORT SAYS
• PALMER WILLIAMS, TV PIONEER, DIES
• 14-YEAR-OLD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, KILLED
• ASHE'S WIDOW OBJECTS TO SITE PLANNED FOR HUSBAND'S STATUE
• OBIT BARR, ALMA MAE, 85, OF HILLSVILLE, PASSED AWAY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31,1995 IN ELDER CARE OF HILLSVILLE, VA. BORN OCTOBER 10, 1910 IN CARROLL COUNTY, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MARION THOMAS AND TEKOA BELL LIGHT THOMAS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SON SONS AND DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW, DORLESS AND SHELBY BARR, HILLSVILLE, JOSEPH DANIEL BARR, MT. AIRY, N .C., CARMIE AND ANNIE RUTH BARR, HILLSVILLE; ONE SISTER, MYRTIS COX, HILLSVILLE; ONE BROTHER, CLAUDE THOMAS, HILLSVILLE; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; ELEVEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND ONE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON. FUNERAL SERVICES 11 A.M. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1995 AT GLADESBORO LUTHERAN CHURCH, WITH THE REV. DUANE STEELE OFFICIATING. BURIAL IN GLADESBORO CEMETERY. THE FAMILY WILL RECEIVE FRIENDS FROM 7 TO 9 P.M. TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1996 AT VAUGHAN-GUYNN-MCGRADY CHAPEL, HILLSVILLE, VA BOLLING, ERNESTINE WATKINS, OF BIG ISLAND, DIED SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1995 IN ROANOKE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE TOM AND EVA WATKINS, THE WIFE OF THE LATE GEORGE W. BOLLING. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER,THOMAS PAIGE WATKINS, BIG ISLAND; SIX SISTERS, INEZ DAVIS, LYNCHBURG, KATHLEEN DAVIS, BEDFORD, FANNIE LOU PARR, ELIZABETH MORTON, ELLEN JOHNSON, ALL OF WASHINGTON, D.C., RACHEL HURT OF MARYLAN D. FUNERAL SERVICES 1 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT THE BEDFORD FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL. INTERMENT IN REED CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, BIG ISLAND. EULOGY BY THE REV. LORENZA OTEY; PRESIDING IS THE REV. CURTIS MOORE. THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL BE AT THE HOME OF BECKY AND CHARLES JOHNSON IN BIG ISLAND. ARRANGEMENTS BY BEDFORD FUNERAL HOME