10/15/2026
to this undated photograph of Charles Monroe Fravel.
In 1940 Charles was listed as an assistant to local mortician V.L. Dellinger of Woodstock. He served in that capacity until being drafted into the US Army in 1942. After the war he worked for, and eventually managed, Murphy's Funeral Home in Arlington Virginia.
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