Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Oral Norval Gines
Washington Daily Times
10 July 1962,p1
ORAL GINES, GROCER, DIES IN VINCENNES
Oral Norval Gines, 67, well-known grocer of this city at 1418 McCormick
Avenue, died this morning at 6:50 o'clock at the Good Samaritan Hospital.
He had been seriously ill for a week. He was a member of the Free Methodist
Church, the American Legion, B.P.O. Elks and the Indiana Retail Grocers'
Association. MR. Gines was born in Sumner, IL, September 2, 1894, the
son of the late John W. and Ida M. Burgett Gines. He was educated in
schools at Sumner and Vincennes and was a veteran of WW I. Survivors
include a son, Don Gines of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Larry (Carolyn)
Flynn, Bedford; four grandchildren; three brothers, Rolla Gines, city;
Raymond Gines, Bloomington; Harold Gines, city; and a sister, Mrs.
John (Dorothy) Riggs of Los Angeles, California. Two sisters preceded
him in death. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the
Free Methodist Church with burial in Oak Grove cemetery. Rev. Donald
Riggs of Vincennes will officiate. Friends may call at the Gill Chapel
after 7 o'clock this evening. Members of the Elks will conduct special
rites at Gills tonight at 8:30 o'clock. The American Legion will accord
military honors at the graveside..
Contributed by: Sandra Hedrick Allen