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Arnold ECKDAHL, of Pocahontas, police officer and deputy sheriff for Tazewell county for the last sixteen years, died Sunday morning at Bluefield sanitarium. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday morning at the Methodist church in Pocahontas. The Rev. J. A.
CROSIER, pastor of the Pocahontas Baptist church, officiated. He was assisted by the Rev. Edward W.
HUGHES. Mr. ECKDAHL was born in DuBois Pa. He is survived by his wife and two sons: Andrew, of Lexington, Kentucky and Edward, of Pocahontas.
Last rites for S. Sergeant George Burley HOUCHINS, Jr. son of Burley and Emma Jones
HOUCHINS, of Richlands, were held Wednesday afternoon at the Christian church in Richlands. Military services at the grave were conducted by the Richlands Legion post. Sergeant
HOUCHINS enlisted in the Air Corp division as a radio man in 1942 and took his training at Scott Field, Illinois. He went overseas in February of 1944 and was killed in an airplane explosion in April, 1944, in England. He was 21 years of age at the time of his death.
H.K. MATTHEWS, 91, died in a Richmond hospital on July 22nd. He was born in Hillsville on June 23, 1857 and was the son of Nancy and William
MATTHEWS. He lived for a time in Tazewell and made his home with his niece, Mrs. V.L
STEVENSON. He was a member of the Baptist church and had a splendid reputation in the community. He is survived by two brothers, Emmett who lives in Tennessee and Wesley Matthews, of Bluefield Va. who recently celebrated his 100th birthday. He was buried in Riverview cemetery, Richmond.
Mrs. Chapman REMINES died Sat. at her home in North Tazewell. Funeral services were conducted Tue. afternoon from the Assemblies of God
Church in North Tazewell. Mrs. REMINES is survived by her husband, section man for the N & W railroad; six children; Mrs. Clarence
DANNER, of Seaboard; Misses Blanche, Pauline and Virginia REMINES, Ernest and Kenneth
REMINES, and two adopted children, Misses Jean and Alice REMINES of North Tazewell.
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