Obituary for Gid Billips of Tazwell Co & formally Washington Co, VA
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Submitted by June Barnes <junebarnes@email.msn.com>
                                 
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FALLS MILLS MAN FOUND DEAD IN CAR
     The body of a 64-year-old Falls Mills, Va., area man was discovered
Thursday night in an auto parked on a side road in the Mud Fork section of
Tazewell County.
     Preliminary police reports revealed that Gid Billips of Rt. 3, Falls
Mills, apparently died of natural causes.
     The body was found in the front seat of an auto parked near Stoney
Ridge in the Mud Fork area.   The preliminary investigation revealed that
Billips had been dead for several days.

BILLIPS RITES SLATED TODAY
     Funeral services for Lee Gid Billips, a 63-year-old resident of Rt. 1,
Bluefield Va.; who was found dead in his auto Thursday night, will be held
today at 11 a.m. at the Graham Funeral Home in Bluefield, Va., with Rev.
Arnold Miller officiating.  Burial will following in the Billips family
cemetery in the Mud fork section of Tazewell County.
     Billips’ body was discovered late Thursday in his car parked on a side
road in the Mud Fork section.  A police investigations revealed the man died
of natural causes.
     Born in Washington County, Va., he was a son of the late Ed and Sarah
Hypes Billips and was a retired coal miner.
     Surviving are two daughters; one brother, Carl Billips of Mud Fork; and
one sister, Mrs. Minnie Helmandollar of Mud Fork.
     Nephews will serve as pallbearers.