Raleigh Register, Beckley, W.Va. Thursday Afternoon, March 22, 1962 John Dell Stanley Funeral services for John Dell (J.D.) Stanley, 78, Mount Tabor, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the Mount Tabor Baptist Church with the Rev. Albert Ostrander in charge. Burial will be in the Mount Tabor Cemetery. Stanley died at his home at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday after a long illness. Born at Mount Tabor, Feb. 18, 1894, he was a son of the late Charles and Liza Patton Stanley. He was a life-long resident of Raleigh County. He had been employed for 41 years by the Crab Orchard Improvement Co. at Eccles as a hoisting engineer. He was a member of the Mount Tabor Baptist Church, and the UMWA Local 5770 at Eccles. His wife, Mrs. Dora Snuffer Stanley, preceded him in death in 1947. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Geraldine Patton, Mount Tabor, Mrs. Rheda Christian, Mrs. Rilla Mann and Mrs. Georgia Mann, all of Beckley; three sons, Robert, Charles and Boyd all of Mount Tabor; three brothers, Frank Stanley and Waymon Stanley of Beckley, and Monis of Warren, Ohio; four sisters, Mrs. Ada Christian, Mrs. Maud Toney, Mrs. Stella Lively, Miss Celo Stanley, all of Beckley; 20 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. The body will be taken from the Calfee Funeral Home to the church one hour before the service. Pallbearers will be John Harper, Hobert Harper, Jack Stanley, Dennis Stanley, Edward Phipps and W. C. Stanley Jr.