Pocahontas Times
  • News Sections
    • Local
    • Sports
    • A&E
  • Obituaries
  • Community
  • Magistrate News
    • Circuit Court News
  • Compass
  • Spiritual
    • Parabola
    • Transcendental Meditation
    • Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
    • Southern Baptist
  • etimes
  • Classifieds
  • National News
  • State News
  • Pocahontas County Veterans
  • Contact Us
  • My Account
  • Login
Subscribe For $2.50/Month
No Result
View All Result
Pocahontas Times
  • News Sections
    • Local
    • Sports
    • A&E
  • Obituaries
  • Community
  • Magistrate News
    • Circuit Court News
  • Compass
  • Spiritual
    • Parabola
    • Transcendental Meditation
    • Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
    • Southern Baptist
  • etimes
  • Classifieds
No Result
View All Result
Pocahontas Times
No Result
View All Result
  • National News
  • WV State News
  • VA State News
  • Contact Us
Home Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Dear Editor;

I was so happy to see the picture of Ruth Blackhurst in your September 10th edition of The Pocahontas Times.

I am the daughter of Dorie and Dovie Powers, and we lived in the last house shown in the picture.

Ruth boarded with our family and was also my second grade school teacher. We loved her. She was just like one of the family.

Her father would come up from Cass on Friday afternoon with a motor car to take her home for the weekend, then bring her back up on Sunday evening.

My mother always made homemade bread and always had a loaf ready for Ruth to give to her dad. He loved it.

Sometimes, Ruth would take me and my sister, Wanda, home with her for the weekend.

We thought we were in a big city – cars, stores and everything, since we didn’t have any of that in Spruce.

I was five years old when we moved to Spruce and 12 years old when we moved out to Slaty Fork.

My dad was a trackman and worked for the Western Maryland Railroad.

The last contact we had with Ruth was in 2000 when my mother passed away. She wrote a letter to my sister to find out where everyone was.

That picture brought back so many good memories.

Thank you so much for printing it.

I love The Pocahontas Times.

Okareta Powers Blake
Linden, VA

Previous Post

Jamie McCray

Next Post

How Much?

Join Our Newsletter

  • News Sections
  • Obituaries
  • Community
  • Magistrate News
  • Compass
  • Spiritual
  • etimes
  • Classifieds

© 2021 Mountain Media, LLC

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Fifty Years Ago in The Pocahontas Times
  • 75 Years Ago
  • 100 Years Ago
  • 125-Years-Ago
  • Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 – 2021
  • A&E
  • Community
  • Compass
  • Education
  • etimes
  • Legal Notices
  • Obituaries
  • Columns
  • Preserving Pocahontas
  • Sports
  • Contact Us
  • My account
  • Subscribe to The Pocahontas Times

© 2021 Mountain Media, LLC

Forgot your password?

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive mail with link to set new password.

Back to login