(Standard Observer Feb. 29, 1969)
CHESTER J. LUKE
Friends will be received after 7 p.m. tonight for Chester J. Luke at the Vincent V, Rodgers Funeral Home, 805 Pennsylvania ave., Irwin. Services will be conducted at the chapel of the home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. George Shults officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Luke, 56, of Wood st., Big Stone Gap, Va., formerly of Irwin, was killed when the helicopter in which he was being moved from one mine to another crashed into a mountain.
Born Dec. 26, 1912 in McCullough, he was a son of the late John and Kathrine Chapla Luke. He was a controller for Westmoreland Coal Company. Mr. Luke was secretary of the Shriners’ Club, charter member and past president of Kiwanis Club, a member of the First Methodist Church of Big Stone Gap, and official member of the board and of the Men’s Club of the church, past treasurer of the Lonesome Pine Hospital Board, chairman of the Red Cross and a member of the King’s Sport BPOE. He was also a veteran of WW II with the U. S. Navy.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Good Luke; and four brothers, Frank Lukavich of Irwin RD 6, Steve and Joseph Rudick of McCullough and Walter Rudick with the US Army.
CHESTER J. LUKE
Friends will be received after 7 p.m. tonight for Chester J. Luke at the Vincent V, Rodgers Funeral Home, 805 Pennsylvania ave., Irwin. Services will be conducted at the chapel of the home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. George Shults officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Luke, 56, of Wood st., Big Stone Gap, Va., formerly of Irwin, was killed when the helicopter in which he was being moved from one mine to another crashed into a mountain.
Born Dec. 26, 1912 in McCullough, he was a son of the late John and Kathrine Chapla Luke. He was a controller for Westmoreland Coal Company. Mr. Luke was secretary of the Shriners’ Club, charter member and past president of Kiwanis Club, a member of the First Methodist Church of Big Stone Gap, and official member of the board and of the Men’s Club of the church, past treasurer of the Lonesome Pine Hospital Board, chairman of the Red Cross and a member of the King’s Sport BPOE. He was also a veteran of WW II with the U. S. Navy.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Good Luke; and four brothers, Frank Lukavich of Irwin RD 6, Steve and Joseph Rudick of McCullough and Walter Rudick with the US Army.
(Standard Observer Feb. 29, 1969)
CHESTER J. LUKE
Friends will be received after 7 p.m. tonight for Chester J. Luke at the Vincent V, Rodgers Funeral Home, 805 Pennsylvania ave., Irwin. Services will be conducted at the chapel of the home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. George Shults officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Luke, 56, of Wood st., Big Stone Gap, Va., formerly of Irwin, was killed when the helicopter in which he was being moved from one mine to another crashed into a mountain.
Born Dec. 26, 1912 in McCullough, he was a son of the late John and Kathrine Chapla Luke. He was a controller for Westmoreland Coal Company. Mr. Luke was secretary of the Shriners’ Club, charter member and past president of Kiwanis Club, a member of the First Methodist Church of Big Stone Gap, and official member of the board and of the Men’s Club of the church, past treasurer of the Lonesome Pine Hospital Board, chairman of the Red Cross and a member of the King’s Sport BPOE. He was also a veteran of WW II with the U. S. Navy.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Good Luke; and four brothers, Frank Lukavich of Irwin RD 6, Steve and Joseph Rudick of McCullough and Walter Rudick with the US Army.
CHESTER J. LUKE
Friends will be received after 7 p.m. tonight for Chester J. Luke at the Vincent V, Rodgers Funeral Home, 805 Pennsylvania ave., Irwin. Services will be conducted at the chapel of the home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. George Shults officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Mr. Luke, 56, of Wood st., Big Stone Gap, Va., formerly of Irwin, was killed when the helicopter in which he was being moved from one mine to another crashed into a mountain.
Born Dec. 26, 1912 in McCullough, he was a son of the late John and Kathrine Chapla Luke. He was a controller for Westmoreland Coal Company. Mr. Luke was secretary of the Shriners’ Club, charter member and past president of Kiwanis Club, a member of the First Methodist Church of Big Stone Gap, and official member of the board and of the Men’s Club of the church, past treasurer of the Lonesome Pine Hospital Board, chairman of the Red Cross and a member of the King’s Sport BPOE. He was also a veteran of WW II with the U. S. Navy.
Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Good Luke; and four brothers, Frank Lukavich of Irwin RD 6, Steve and Joseph Rudick of McCullough and Walter Rudick with the US Army.
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