Thursday, January 16, 1975
John Matheny, of Denmar, was 92 years old on Monday, January 13, 1975. On Tuesday, he was taken to Emmett Memorial Hospital at Clifton Forge, Virginia, and had his leg amputated above the knee.
Pocahontas Foodland Opens
Pocahontas Foodland opened Wednesday morning with a flourish. Customers poured in to claim “early-come” free bread, and drawings were held for baskets of groceries. Two TV sets and six radios will be given away February 1.
Taking part in the ribbon cutting ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Denzil Totten, Charles Fisher, owners; Jim Kelley, building engineer for Foodland; Ted Hammond, a vice-president of Foodland; Robert Woods, Bank of Marlinton; Steve Hunter, Marlinton Mayor Guy Fultz, Fred Burns, Sr., Bill Simmons from the Hinton Foodland, and William Harper, president of the Marlinton Chamber of Commerce. Raymond Shrader and Beulah Moore of the First National Bank had to leave before the official cutting of the ribbon.
DEATHS
Mrs. A. W. Arbuckle, of Maxwelton, wife of Alex Arbuckle. Service was held from the Clifton Presbyterian Church.
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Mrs. Nila Bruffey Clutter, 66, of Lobelia, a daughter of the late Remus and Ellen Bruffey.
Service was held from the Hillsboro United Methodist Church with burial in Emmanuel Cemetery.
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Bernard Francis McLaughlin, 68, of Rochester, New York; born at Hillsboro a son of the late Edgar and Lillian McElwee McLaughlin. Graveside service was held in the Clifton Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Maxwelton.
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Dr. Ligon Price, 80, of Aspen, Colorado; born at Clover Lick a son of the late John Calvin and Mary Ann Williams Price. He was recently awarded his 50-year pin as a physician by the Colorado Medical Society; and he was well-known as a taxidermist and an ornithologist… Dr. Price, with a very few others including his wife, undertook the actual founding of a church, the Christ Episcopal Church, and knowing Aspen in the late 1950s, it was a monumental task.
The skill of a surgeon and the devotion of a beloved physician carried over into his life helping to build this church not only physically, but spiritually, as well…
His life was an inspiration – his memory a benediction.
