Marie Miller

Marie Miller

Marie F. Miller of Alexandria died on Saturday, July 13.

Mrs. Miller was born Sept. 14, 1929, in Rappahannock County. She was raised in the county.

, She was predeceased by her husband, Roy F. Miller, Sr.

She is survived by two daughters, Mary Coldwell of Woodbridge and Linda McGeary of Arlington; one son, Roy F. Miller, Jr. of Alexandria; three sisters, Helen Gray of Washington, Ada Jenkins of Westernport, Md. and Honeybee Rishell of Baltimore, Md.; one brother, James Fincham of Front Royal; one niece, Brenda Troth of Linden and a number of other relatives.

Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday, July 16 at Mt. Comfort Cemetery in Arlington.

Col. C. Cawthon

Retired U.S. Army Colonel Charles Cawthon, one-time editor of the Murfreesboro, Tenn., Daily NewsJournal and the Charlottesville, Va., Daily Progress, died Thursday, July 11 at his country home in Woodville. He resided at Goodwin House, a retirement home in Alexandria.

Col. Cawthon, 84, was stricken with a heart attack at his country home and taken to Culpeper Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Son of the late Charles and Mrs. Sally 'Mai Tuely Cawthon of Murfreesboro, the former newsman and soldier was graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1934. He then worked as a newspaperman until 1940 when he enlisted in the Virginia National Guard.

During World War II, he served with the 2nd Battalion. 116th Infantry Regiment, a part of the famous 29th Infantry Division, made up of elements from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The 116th traces its origins to the colonial militia and a brigade which fought under the command of Confederate General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson during the Civil War.

Commanded an infantry company during the bloody fighting from Omaha Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, through the hedgerows inland. He suffered two shrapnel wounds in the face.