James.Virgil.1970.Pike.OBIT VIRGIL JAMES ELKHORN CITY - Funeral services for Virgil James, 42, of Elkhorn City, a mine foreman for the Kentland Elkhorn Coal Company at Biggs, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Church of God on the Pikeville By-Pass Road. Curt Justice, Kenneth Owens and others will officiate. Burial will follow in the Anne E. Young Cemetery at East Shelbiana under direction of the Justice Funeral Home. James died about 8:30 p.m. Sunday at his home after an apparent heart attack, a funeral home attendant said. He was stricken while working on plumbing under his house, it was reported. The Pike County Emergency & Rescue Squad went to the scene after it was reported that he had been electrocuted. James was born in Pike County. He was a son of Jesse James, of Route Two, Pikeville, and the late Laura Belcher James. He was formerly employed by the Justice Funeral Home and was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge No. 294 of Pikeville. Survivors include his father, his wife, Mrs. Laura James; a son, Bobby Ray James of Lexington VA., three step-sons, Charles H. Hawkins, Bruce Morgan Hawkins and Scott Allen Hawkins, all of the home; four daughters, Mrs. Patsy Ruth Phillips and Miss Roberta James, both of Rt. 2, Pikeville; Miss Diane James and Miss Lora James, both of the home; two brothers, Geroid and Troy James, both of Rt. 2, Pikeville; and a sister, Mrs. Vernie Justice of Garden Village. The body will be at the church tonight. Contributed by Glenna 22 May 1997