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Hawthorne Dill Battle Jr.

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Hawthorne Dill Battle Jr.

Birth
Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Death
26 Jul 1947 (aged 17)
South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Hawthorne Dill Battle, Jr., 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne D. Battle of Connell St., Loudon Heights, died yesterday in a South Charleston hospital of injuries received July 19 when an automobile he was driving turned over on Route 60, just outside St Albans.

Service will be held today in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, South Hills; Rev. T. Hudnall Harvey, rector, will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. The body is at the Simpson Mortuary.

Young Battle attended Charleston public schools, Woodbury Forest Academy, and Shadyside Academy. This summer he had been employed at the Evans Lumber Co. He was a grandson of the late Dr. Henry Wilson Battle of Charlottesville, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas of 1417 Virginia St. The paternal grandmother also survives. There are, in addition to the parents, two younger brothers, George Thomas and Henry Wilson Battle and a sister, Mollie, at home.

The family has requested that flowers be omitted. Pallbearers will be Silas Pickering III, Claude Hill. Jr., Pierce Brawner, Jr., Richard Venable. Jr., George Poffenbarger, John F. Kay, Jr., Boyd Pritchard, Tom Coyle and Charles Whited.

(The Charleston Gazette, July 27, 1947)
Hawthorne Dill Battle, Jr., 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne D. Battle of Connell St., Loudon Heights, died yesterday in a South Charleston hospital of injuries received July 19 when an automobile he was driving turned over on Route 60, just outside St Albans.

Service will be held today in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, South Hills; Rev. T. Hudnall Harvey, rector, will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery. The body is at the Simpson Mortuary.

Young Battle attended Charleston public schools, Woodbury Forest Academy, and Shadyside Academy. This summer he had been employed at the Evans Lumber Co. He was a grandson of the late Dr. Henry Wilson Battle of Charlottesville, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas of 1417 Virginia St. The paternal grandmother also survives. There are, in addition to the parents, two younger brothers, George Thomas and Henry Wilson Battle and a sister, Mollie, at home.

The family has requested that flowers be omitted. Pallbearers will be Silas Pickering III, Claude Hill. Jr., Pierce Brawner, Jr., Richard Venable. Jr., George Poffenbarger, John F. Kay, Jr., Boyd Pritchard, Tom Coyle and Charles Whited.

(The Charleston Gazette, July 27, 1947)


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