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William M. Battaile.
William "Bill" Battaile, 91, of Winchester,
died Saturday, June 5, 2004, at the
Winchester Medical Center.
Mr. Battaile was born Jan. 7, 1913, in
Westmoreland County, and was the son of the
late Lawrence Cosmos and Blanche McCauley
Battaile.
He was the owner of B&M Chevrolet in
Winchester for 39 years. He was a member of
Christ Episcopal Church, of which he was a
former junior warden. He was a member and
former President of Winchester Host Lions
Club, the Fraternal Order of Police, and a
former member and president of the
Winchester/Frederick County Chamber of
Commerce.
Mr. Battaile served on the city council from
1960 to 1964. He was a member and former
governor of Winchester Moose Lodge No. 1283.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M.
He was a former member and president of
Winchester/Frederick County Jaycees, a
former member of Izaak Walton League, and
former board member and chairman of First
American Bank. He had served as a member of
the Handley Board of Trustees and the
Shenandoah University Board of Trustees. He
was a veteran of World War II, having served
with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Arizona
and in the Coast Guard. He was a founder of
the Industrial Development Commission and
was mayor of the City of Winchester from
1964 to 1972.
On June 5, 1941, he married Virginia Frances
Burke, who preceded him in death Feb. 17,
2003.
Surviving are two sons, John William
Battaile of Stanardsville, and Lawrence
Gordon Battaile of Nags Head, N.C.; two
daughters, Janet White Battaile of Chevy
Chase, Md. and Jeannie Burke Battaile of
Winchester; seven grandchildren and four
great- grandchildren.
The Rev. Douglas McCaleb will conduct the
funeral noon Monday at Christ Episcopal
Church. Burial will be at Mount Hebron
Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7
p.m. Sunday at Omps Funeral Home, Amherst
Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be made to Christ
Episcopal Church, Restoration of the
Sanctuary Fund, 134 W. Boscawen St.,
Winchester, Va. 22601 or Ephesus Christian
Church, 364 Horners Mill Road, Foneswood,
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Mrs. Hazel Taylor Carden
CARDEN Mrs. Hazel Taylor Carden, of
Sandy Point, Va., passed away April 2,
2000. She is survived by her loving family:
four children, William Taylor Carden,
Herbert Wade Carden, Robert Clinton Carden
III and Nancy Carden Sanders; two
daughters-in-law; one son-in-law; one niece,
Hazel Ellen Celis; 11 grandchildren; nine
great-grandchildren; one great-nephew, and
two great-nieces. Mrs. Carden, along with
her late husband, Mr. Robert C. Carden Jr.,
co-founded Potomac Supply Corporation in
Kinsale, Va. She succeeded her late husband
as Chairman of the Board until 1995. Mrs.
Carden was born in Lockport, New York and
later became a Powers model in New York
City. She moved to Virginia in 1938 after
her marriage to her late husband. They
lived in Richmond for ten years before
settling permanently in Sandy Point, on the
Northern Neck. Mrs. Carden was active as a
parishioner and former vestry member of
Cople Parish and was a charter member of The
Garden Club of The Northern Neck.
The funeral service will be held at
Yeocomico Episcopal Church on Wednesday,
April 5, 2000 at 11 a.m. in Tucker Hill.
The family will receive friends at the home
of Mrs. Carden at 3324 Skipjack Road, Sandy
Point, Va. on Tuesday, April 4 from 12 Noon
until 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family
requests that donations be sent to the
Westmoreland County Rescue Squad, P.O. Box
37, Mt. Holly, Va. 22524. Funeral
arrangements are being handled by Welch
Funeral Home in Montross, Va. |
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RITE SET FOR MRS. SANFORD, EX-OWNER OF
COATES STORE
A funeral for Mrs. Thelma Lewis Coates
Sanford, former owner of Coates Store
here, will be held tomorrow at 1 p.m. at
Beulah Baptist Church in Lyells. Burial will
follow in Bethany Baptist Church cemetery in
Callao.
Mrs. Sanford, 84, died Tuesday at the home
of a daughter in Finleyville, Pa. She had
been in poor health for several years and
alternately had lived with her daughter and
returned to her own home. Born in Callao in
Northumberland County, she was educated in
Northumberland schools and took piano and
voice lessons.
In 1922, she married Adaler Bliss Coates Sr.
and with him operated Coates Store, a
general merchandise store here.
"She had gas pumps. She sold hardware,
canned goods, meats, rolls of bologna, fresh
groceries when they were available,
vegetable seeds. She had clothes. She had
kegs of molasses -- the children had to go
pump up the molasses on cold mornings," a
family spokesman said.
"One side of the store was for dry goods --
she had shoes and all kinds of toilet
articles."
The store burned about 1933 and Mr. Coates
died in 1934, leaving his wife with three
children and the debt from rebuilding the
store.
"She was a very strong-willed person; she
had to be. She ran the store, and her
children walked home at lunchtime (from
school) and helped. But all of her children
had college educations," the spokesman said.
She married William George Sanford in 1950
and operated the store about two more years
before she retired.
Mr. Sanford died in the late 1960s.
Mrs. Sanford was a former member of the
Westmoreland County Garden Club. She
was a member of Beulah Baptist Church in
Lyells and of Betty Lewis Chapter 107, Order
of the Eastern Star. She was known for
growing flowers indoors and out.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Laura Lee
McClain of Finleyville, Pa.; a son, Ellwood
L. Coates of Springfield; a brother, W. Erie
Lewis of Callao; two stepsons, George
William and Robert E. Sanford, both of
Oldhams; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Garland
Woodson; and 10 grandchildren, some
stepgrandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren. |
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GEORGE W. HART
DIES AT 82 IN COLONIAL BEACH
George W. Hart, a retired federal
worker and a former Town Council member,
died Monday after a lengthy illness. He was
82. A native of Alexandria, Mr. Hart moved
to Colonial Beach in 1949, retiring 16 years
later as an operating engineer at the U.S.
Capitol power plant in Washington.
He became a member of St. Mary's Episcopal
Church in Colonial Beach and held numerous
lay church offices. Last month, a building
at the church was dedicated and named in his
honor.
Mr. Hart was a member of the Town Council in
Colonial Beach for four years, ending in
June 1972, and again for another nine years
beginning in July 1973.
He was active on the board of the
Westmoreland County Area Office on Aging. He
was a former president of Colonial Beach
Chapter 595 of the National Association of
Retired Federal Employees.
Mr. Hart is survived by two daughters, Anna
M. Payne of Springfield and Margaret E. Peck
of Alexandria. Also surviving are 11
grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
There will be a funeral service at 10 a.m.
tomorrow at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in
Colonial Beach. Burial will be at Bethel
Cemetery in Alexandria. |
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