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John Norvell Law

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John Norvell Law

Birth
Bertha, Summers County, West Virginia, USA
Death
7 Jan 1996 (aged 82)
Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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John Norvell “Not” Law, 82, of RR 01 Box 513 (Maple Acres Community) died Sunday, Jan. 7, 1996 in a Princeton hospital. Born Oct. 26, 1913, at Bertha, he was the son of the late John T. and Willie Webb Law.
Mr. Law was a graduate of Lerona High School and the Concord Normal School at Athens. He taught school for a few years at Indian Meadows near Lerona. Mr. Law was the general foreman and sawyer for Giles French’s Saw Mills for many years and retired from the West Virginia Department of Highways as a mechanic with 10 years of service. He was a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church on the New Hope Road in Princeton.
He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Ruth Goodall Law; three sons, William T. “W.T.” Law of Florahome, Fla., Jimmie Law of San Antonio, Texas and Prince Eugene Law of Bluefield; two daughters, Mrs. Tommy (Dixie) Sisk and Mrs. David (Sandra) Bolton, both of Princeton; a sister, Mrs. Ruby Goodall of Princeton; a brother, J.B. Law of Princeton; 14 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the Bums Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on Athens Road in Princeton with Rev. John King officiating. Entombment will follow in the Chapel of the Wildwood Mausoleum, Roselawn Memorial Gardens on the Courthouse Road in Princeton. Friends may call 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Arrangements by Memorial Funeral Directory, Princeton.
John Norvell “Not” Law, 82, of RR 01 Box 513 (Maple Acres Community) died Sunday, Jan. 7, 1996 in a Princeton hospital. Born Oct. 26, 1913, at Bertha, he was the son of the late John T. and Willie Webb Law.
Mr. Law was a graduate of Lerona High School and the Concord Normal School at Athens. He taught school for a few years at Indian Meadows near Lerona. Mr. Law was the general foreman and sawyer for Giles French’s Saw Mills for many years and retired from the West Virginia Department of Highways as a mechanic with 10 years of service. He was a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church on the New Hope Road in Princeton.
He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Ruth Goodall Law; three sons, William T. “W.T.” Law of Florahome, Fla., Jimmie Law of San Antonio, Texas and Prince Eugene Law of Bluefield; two daughters, Mrs. Tommy (Dixie) Sisk and Mrs. David (Sandra) Bolton, both of Princeton; a sister, Mrs. Ruby Goodall of Princeton; a brother, J.B. Law of Princeton; 14 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the Bums Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on Athens Road in Princeton with Rev. John King officiating. Entombment will follow in the Chapel of the Wildwood Mausoleum, Roselawn Memorial Gardens on the Courthouse Road in Princeton. Friends may call 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Arrangements by Memorial Funeral Directory, Princeton.


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198604208/john_norvell-law: accessed ), memorial page for John Norvell Law (26 Oct 1913–7 Jan 1996), Find a Grave Memorial ID 198604208, citing Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA; Maintained by wvguy (contributor 49085577).