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Lonnie McKinley Pennington

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Lonnie McKinley Pennington

Birth
Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
15 Dec 1971 (aged 73)
Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Bluewell, Mercer County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Married Louise Cheer 1919
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Lonnie M. Pennington, 73, of Rt. 4 Bluefield, died in a Bluefield hospital Wednesday afternoon following an illness of six months.

Born in Ashe County, N.C., he was a son of the late A. B. Pennington and Cellie Haggie Pennington. He had lived in Bluefield for the past 25 years. A retired coal miner, he was a member of the U.M.W.A., Local 5997 of Welch and a member and trustee of the Bluewell Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by four brothers.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Louise Cheer Pennington of Bluefield; two daughter, Mrs. William (Lucille) Shupe of Madison, N.C. and Mrs. Jess (Hazel) Hurley of Rockridge, Fla.; two brothers, W.L. Pennington of Bluewell and T.V. Pennington of Powhatan; one half-brother, Gaither Pennington of Northfork; his stepmother, Mrs. A.B. Pennington of Northfork; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Bluewell Baptist Church with rev. Millard Williams and Rev. T.F. Herndon officiating. Entombment will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home, Bluewell, today form 5 to 9 p.m. The body will be taken to the church one hour before the service.

Published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph 12/17/1971
(PRA Group 30 - Published PP 2013 Vol. 45 No. 1, pg. 34)
Married Louise Cheer 1919
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Lonnie M. Pennington, 73, of Rt. 4 Bluefield, died in a Bluefield hospital Wednesday afternoon following an illness of six months.

Born in Ashe County, N.C., he was a son of the late A. B. Pennington and Cellie Haggie Pennington. He had lived in Bluefield for the past 25 years. A retired coal miner, he was a member of the U.M.W.A., Local 5997 of Welch and a member and trustee of the Bluewell Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by four brothers.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Louise Cheer Pennington of Bluefield; two daughter, Mrs. William (Lucille) Shupe of Madison, N.C. and Mrs. Jess (Hazel) Hurley of Rockridge, Fla.; two brothers, W.L. Pennington of Bluewell and T.V. Pennington of Powhatan; one half-brother, Gaither Pennington of Northfork; his stepmother, Mrs. A.B. Pennington of Northfork; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Bluewell Baptist Church with rev. Millard Williams and Rev. T.F. Herndon officiating. Entombment will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home, Bluewell, today form 5 to 9 p.m. The body will be taken to the church one hour before the service.

Published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph 12/17/1971
(PRA Group 30 - Published PP 2013 Vol. 45 No. 1, pg. 34)


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