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19 February 2014
Uncle Carl
Obituary from Clinch Valley News (Tazewell, Va. newspaper) that appeared on 11 April 1973: William Carl Kimbel, 66, of North Tazewell, died Tuesday, April 3, in a Bluefield Hospital following a short illness. He was a son of the late William E. and Lula Mae Lewis Kimbel and was a veteran of World War II. He was a member of Tazewell Presbyterian Church. Survivors include his widow, Margaret Howery Kimbel; one son, Carl Eugene Kimbel of Woodbridge, four brothers, Oscar Kimbel of Tazewell, Raymond Kimbel of Richlands, James Kimbel of Silver Springs, Md., and William Kimbel of Mt. Home, Tenn.; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Armstrong of Staunton, Mrs. Bing Baker of Houston; and two grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Thursday in Tazewell Presbyterian Church with Dr. W. F. Wadsworth officiating. Burial followed in Grandview Memory Gardens, Bluefield-Tazewell Road. Pallbearers were Raymond Lewis Kimble, Dan Howerty [sic], Howard Eldreth, Ernest Whittaker, Walter Howery, Sam Jones and Dee Wilson. Honorary pallbearers were Clifford Hoops, Cecil Patterson, P.I. Yates, Robert Hall, Melvin Akers and Ralph Mulky. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars were pallbearers.
(This photo is not from the obituary, but from my uncle Fred, Carl's nephew)
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