The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Saturday, February 18, 1984 Deaths- ARKANSAS JOINER Roger W. 58, a farmer, died yesterday at Osceola Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 3 p.m. today alt Citizens Funeral Home in West Memphis with burial in Bassett Cemetery. He leaves his wife, Mrs.
Virgie Yerbey; five daughters, Mrs. Joyce Ann Smithey of West Memphis, Mrs. Linda Marie Jones of Paducah, Mrs. Judy Kech of Batesville, Miss Dorothy Bell Yerbey of Joiner and Mrs. Nora K.
Allensworth of Bassett; two sons, Robert J. Yerbey and Jimmy Earl Yerbey, both of Joiner; a sister, Mrs. Geneva Denton of Chicago; two brothers, Willie Lee Yerbey of Savannah, and Paul Yerbey of Tennessee, and 10 grandchildren. LAKE CITY Lecel Ernest Mize, 77, retired timberman, died Thursday at Arkansas Methodist Hospital in Paragould. Services will be at 1:30 p.m.
today at Mitchell Funeral Home with burial in Bowman Cemetery. Mitchell Funeral Home in Paragould has charge. He leaves five daughters, Mrs. Alpha Mae Marshall of Lake City, Mrs. Judy Passmore of Dixie, Mrs.
Easterly of Missouri, Mrs. Pierce Ford of Hawaii and Mrs. Douglas of Manila; five sons, Freddie R. Mize and Andrew Mize, both of Lake City, Edward Mize of Illinois, Lannie Mize of Kentucky and Donnie Mize of Mis- souri; a sister, Mrs. Ersie Martin of Little Rock; a brother, Ray Mize of Berryville, 39 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
OSCEOLA Mrs. Brenda Joyce Brownlee, 34, died Wednesday at Osceola Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Swift Funeral Home with burial in Mississippi County Memorial Gardens. She leaves her mother, Marytrude Davis; two sisters, Mrs.
Linda Hopper and Mrs. Betty Rinehart, and two brothers, 1 B. C. Davis and Beau Davis, all of Osceola. PARAGOULD Mrs.
Vivian Nooner Brewer, 78, widow of Amos A. Brewer, died Thursday at Arkansas Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Mitchell Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Gardens. She leaves two daughters, Mrs.
Lindel Hooper of Paragould and Mrs. Bette Leonard of St. Louis; a son, Frankie P. Ellis of Hesperia, six grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. PARAGOULD- Mrs.
Eula Odell Hinton, 74, widow of Maurice Hinton, died Thursday at Arkansas Methodist Hospital in Paragould. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Gregg Funeral Home in Monette with burial in Akins Cemetery near Cherry Valley. She leaves four sisters, Mazie Gardner of Monette, Mrs. Verbyl Belch and Mrs.
Mabel Barrett, both of Paragould, and Mrs. Lillie Wilson of Thida, and three brothers, Albert Woods of Paragould, Leonard Woods of Manhattan, and Craig Woods of Junction City, Kan. WIDENER J. C. Nold, 58, owner of Nold Grocery, died yesterday at Baptist Hospital of Forrest City.
Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Stevens Funeral Home with burial in Forrest Park Cemetery. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Lillie Mae Nold; his father, Charlie Earl Nold of Widener; a sister, Mrs. Eloise Graves of Forrest City, and three brothers, Hubert Nold of South Elgin, Eugene Nold of Widener and Robert Nold of St.
Charles, Ill. MISSISSIPPI Walden, 69, retired grocery clerk, died Thursday at Golden Triangle Regional Medical Center in Columbus. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Lann Memorial Funeral Home with burial in Greenbriar Cemetery near Aberdeen. He leaves his wife, Mrs.
Bernice Moon Walden; a daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Dendy, and a son, Danny Walden, both of Aberdeen; two brothers, Cecil Walden of Aberdeen and Hal Walden of Pensacola, and two grandchildren. ARTESIA Mrs. Agnes Gertrude Honsinger, 86, widow of Harvey Grant Honsinger, died Thursday at Columbus Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.
today at Artesia United Methodist Church with burial in Knights of Pythis Cemetery. Memorial Funeral Home in Columbus has charge. She leaves two sons, Bob Honsinger singer of Artesia and Harbey N.Y; HonChittenango, sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Clark and Gunhin Partridge, both of Earlville, N.Y.; a brother, Carl Svenson of New York City, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. BATESVILLE Mrs.
Emma Frances 0'Quinn, 61, wife of Louis 0'Quinn, died Thursday at Bolivar County Hospital in Cleveland. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Sardis Lake Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Wells Funeral Home has charge. She also leaves five daughters, Mrs.
Joyce Johnson Texas, Mrs. Sue Wilson of Horn Lake, Mrs. Kay Shields and Mrs. Fay Green, both of Batesville, and Mrs. Sandra Tutor of Holcomb; her mother, Mrs.
Mertie Mae Bullard, and her father, Tommy Lee Franks, both of Pontotoc; two sisters, Ms. Betty Mae Prichett of Naylor, and Mrs. Opal Stroud of Tupelo; two brothers, Curtis Lee Franks of Kentucky and Robert Louis Franks of Sherman, and nine grandchildren. BYHALIA Mrs. Anner Anthony, 61, wife of Perry Anthony, ABERDEEN James Yancey died Thursday at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Newell Chapel CME Church in Byhalia with burial in the church cemetery. Gillespie Funeral Home of Olive Branch has charge. She also leaves three daughters, Miss Bobbie Anthony of Memphis and Miss Angela Anthony and Miss Marie Anthony, both of Byhalia; 11 sons, Robert Gatewood, James Anthony, Perry Anthony Charles Anthony and Phillip Anthony, all of Byhalia, Willie Anthony of Holly Springs, Oliver Anthony, S. T.
Anthony, Frank Anthony and Theodis Anthony, all of Memphis, and Clarence Anthony of Fort Hood, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Gatewood of Cayce; 29 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. CLEVELAND Mrs. Essie 1 Tindell Hobgood, 79, widow of Johnston Hobgood, died yesterday at Bolivar County Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.
tomorrow at Immanuel Baptist Church, where she was a member, with graveside services and burial at 10 a.m. Monday in Woodlawn Cemetery in Columbia. Thweatt-King Funeral Home has charge. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Culbertson of El Paso, Texas, and Mrs.
Mary A. Whetstone of Port Lavaca, Texas; two sons, John Hobgood of Cleveland and William J. Hobgood of Jacksonville, a sister, Mrs. Johnnie Spencer, and a brother, John Tindell, both of Bogalusa, 21 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. COLUMBUS William Raymond Guckert, 75, retired sales manager of Belknap, died Thursday at Columbus Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Memorial Funeral Home with burial in Friendship Cemetery. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Ann Guckert; four daughters, Mrs. Anna Katherine Hood of Germantown, and Mrs.
Suzanne Cooper, Mrs. Edith Wharton and Miss Lorene Moody, all of Columbus; a son, William Guckert Jr. of Grenada, two sisters, Mrs. Walter Rosenquist of Lantana, and Miss Alberta Guckert of Louisville, a brother, George Guckert of Columbus, and four grandchildren. CORINTH Carl James Bennett, 62, of Memphis, formerly Corinth, carpenter, died Thursday at St.
Francis Hospital. Services will be at 4 p.m. today at McPeters Funeral Home with burial in Corinth National Cemetery. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Marie Bennett, and a sister, Mrs.
Mary Alice Vanderford of Somerville, Tenn. CORINTH Edward G. Dobbins, 82, retired painter, died yesterday at Magnolia Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at McPeters Funeral Home with burial in Henry Cemetery.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Myrtle B. Dobbins; a daughter, Mrs. Bobbie D. Smith of Selmer, a son, Charles Lee Dobbins; two sisters, Mrs.
Nell Payne and Mrs. Emma Tyson, two brothers, Earl Dobbins and Elmer Dobbins, all of Corinth, five grandchildren and a greatgrandchild. CORINTH Mrs. Willard Elam Purvis, 56, nurse for Whitfield Nursing Home and wife of Wilbur Lee Purvis, died yesterday at Magnolia Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.
tomorrow at McPeters Funeral Home with burial in Forrest Memorial Park. She also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Carol Helms, and a son, Duran Elam, both of Tupelo; a sister, Mrs. Ruby Tabor of Trumann, and two grandchildren. DREW Mrs.
Nannie Pearl Waldrup, 79, wife of Daniel Leslie Waldrup, died Thursday at North Sunflower County Hospital in Ruleville. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Williams Lord Funeral Home in Ruleville with burial in Drew Cemetery. She also leaves four daughters, Mrs. Doris Faye Bain Mrs.
Darlene Willingham, both of Drew, Mrs. Syble S. Orman of Jackson and Mrs. Barbara Ann Topper of Rena Lara; two sons, Delender L. Waldrup of Columbia, S.C., and Daniel Glen Waldrup of Houston, Texas; a brother, Ellis Steele of Bastrop, 18 grandchildren and three great- -grandchildren.
EUPORA Mrs. Ethel Peeples Herndon, 92, widow of William Thomas Herndon, died Thursday at Grandview Nursing Home in Grenada. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church near Eupora with burial Memphis deaths Charlie Bass, 60, of 854 Barbara Drive, retired forklift operator with Firestone Tire Rubber Co. Mrs.
Alberta Brooks, 102, of 1688 Walsh Cove in Millington, widow Louis Brooks. Mrs. Katherine Curtis, 72, of 2863 Julius Lewis, widow of Lake Curtis. Raymond Dillard, 61, of 2415 Rozelle, retired postal employee. William R.
Dixon, 80, of 2584 Malone, retired employee of Dover Elevator Corp. Tom H. Lloyd, 76, of Marion, retired construction worker for Nickey Brothers Inc. Robert W. Marotti, 22, of West Memphis.
Mrs. Jessie Lee Greer McCall, 99, of Wesley-Highland Manor, widow of James T. McCall. James M. 'Mike' Moore, 37, of 203 Bonita, postal employee.
Jeff W. Newbill, 91, retired salesman, of Care Inn in Raleigh. James Minor O'Neal, 76, of Southaven, formerly of Senatobia, retired farmer. Furman on G. 'Pat' Patmore, 86, of 2770 Iroquois.
Mrs. Mary Louise Saffold, 58, of 1311 McMillan, Apt. 9, widow of Willie Frank Saffold. Marvin T. Sanford, 82, of 1240 Knox, retired sales representative for Dabney Hoover Supply Co.
Inc. Mrs. Mae P. Shaw, 69, of 1512 Madison, Apt. 2, retired nurse's aide at Baptist Hospital, widow of Clinton C.
Shaw. Mrs. Shirley Holden Stanford, 43, of Nesbit, employee of Sacred Heart Southern Mission and wife of Graylin Stanford. Mrs. Mary L.
Welch, 66, of 899 Rustwood in Southaven, widow of James Welch. Mid-South deaths TENNESSEE DUKEDOM Russell E. Sheron, 19, of Cedartown, formerly of Dukedom. SOUTH FULTON Mrs. Myra Estelle Kimberlin, 75, widow of Karl Kimberlin.
in Embry Cemetery. Wise Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a sister, Miss Alma Peeples of Eupora. ETHEL Elmer Woodrow Rone, 57, U.S. Navy retiree, died Tuesday at his home.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Tabernacle United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko has charge. He leaves six brothers, William L. of Hernando, Josh C.
Rone of Melbourne, Dr. Robert Riley Rone of Crystal Springs, Paul Rone of Ethel, Audley Rone of Madison and Ned Rone of Helena, Ark. GREENVILLE John Edward Sapen, 61, employee of Washington County, died Thursday at Delta Medical Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. today Fat National Funeral Home with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Florence Ramsey Sapen; a sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Podesta of New Fairfield, two brothers, Steven Sapen of Steubenville, Ohio, and Andrew Sapen of Salem, Ohio, and three grandchildren. GREENWOOD Mrs. Lenore Kimbrough McLean, 66, wife of G.
Hite McLean, died Thursday at Greenwood-Leflore Hospital. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today at Oakwood Cemetery in Winona. Wilson Knight Funeral Home has charge. She also leaves a daughter, Mrs.
Lenore McLean Spencer of Lexington Park, son, Hite McLean Jr. of Memphis; her mother, Mrs. Orman Lanier Kimbrough; three sisters, R. Cunliff McBee, Southworth K. Himes and Mrs.
Hilliard M. Harper, and a brother, Orman L. Kimbrough, all of Greenwood, and four grandchildren. LEXINGTON Mrs. Effie Sanders Rodgers, 79, widow of Carl Rodgers, died Thursday at St.
Dominic Hospital in Jackson. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Southern Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a daughter, Mrs.
Rachael O'Kelley of Lexington; three sons, Carl Rodgers Jr. and Billy Rodgers, both of Lexington and Wayne Rodgers of Pascagoula, 16 grandchildren and 14 RIPLEY Mrs. Florence Altha Pigner, 85, widow of Frank Pigner, died yesterday at Tippah County Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Fellowship Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
McBride Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Opal Hogue of Ripley; two sons, Marsh Pigner of Memphis and Roy Pigner of Ripley; two brothers, Oliver Stanford and Ben Stanford, both of Ripley, 11 grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. RIPLEY Mrs. Estella Braddock Robinson, 72, widow of Verdie Robinson, died Thursday at Tippah County Hospital.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Falkner with burial in Ruckersville Cemetery. McBride Funeral Home has charge. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas of Chicago; a son, William V.
Robinson of Jackson, a sister, Mrs. Katie Lofton of Magee; a brother, Vernon Braddock of Ripley, 11 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. Radio leader, E. O. Roden, is dead at 65 BOONEVILLE, Miss.
(UPI) Veteran Mississippi broadcaster E. O. Roden of Booneville died Thursday night at a hospital in Clearwater, Fla. He was 65. Mr.
Roden, a native of Fulton, had been a leader in Mississippi's broadcasting industry since he founded station WBIP at Booneville in 1950. He organized the Skyline Radio network, which at one point had stations in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and Texas. Mr. Roden still was a major stockholder in WBIP AM and FM in Booneville; two stations in Gulfport, WGCM and WTAM; two Jackson stations, WOKJ WJMI, and two stations in Pensacola, WTKX and WBOP. He died at Mease General Hospital in Clearwater, where he was admitted following a stroke last week at his winter home in Dunedin.
Mr. Roden was on the board of directors of the Bank of Missisippi in Tupelo and was a member of the executive committee of the board. He was a recipient of the Silver Beaver award from the Boy Scouts of America and was active in mental health organizations in Northeast Mississippi. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at McMillan Funeral Home with burial in East Fulton Baptist Church Cemetery.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Ruby Senter Roden; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Banvard and Mrs. Inez 0gg, both of Okolona; four brothers, Zane Roden and Guy Roden, both of Jackson, T. M.
Roden of Birmingham and Paul Roden of Las Vegas. Free course aims at curbing drugs Prom The Commercial Appeal Forrest City, Bureau FORREST CITY, Ark. Crowley's Ridge Development Council will present a free program designed to help parents prevent drug and alcohol abuse by their children. "The Early Intervention Program," a noncredit, community service course, will be offered Tuesday and Thursday nights from Feb. 28 to March 8 at East Arkansas Community College.
Woods searched again in missing -woman case By a Staff Reporter NESBIT, Miss. DeSoto County authorities continued to search yesterday for clues to the disappearance of an 81-year-old Memphis woman whose car was found abandoned on a dirt road near here. Jack Bartholomew, investigator for the county sheriff's department, said officers and jail trustees searched the woods again yesnear where the car was abandoned and questioned area residents. Although they found no physical clues, Bartholomew said Hoyle Bethune told authorities that he spotted the 1972 Pontiac on Bridgforth Road on the night of Feb. 8, about seven hours after Mrs.
Daisy Kelley was reported missing. Bartholomew said Bethune, who was running his hunting dogs, saw the car again the next morning and told officers yesterday that he thought the car had been moved about 20 feet from where he saw it the night before. The car was not reported to law- Leftists get death ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) A military court sentenced to death seven leftists convicted of trying to establish a Communist dictatorship and gave 41 other leftists jail terms ranging from three to 20 years, the semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported. men until Wednesday night by another area resident. The Pontiac was locked and its keys were gone.
Memphis police, who towed the car to their city for processing, would not say whether they found any clues to Mrs. Kelley's disappearence. But they said they did not think she carrying a large amount of money. They continued to interview Mrs. Kelley's friends and relatives yesterday, and said the last time she was seen was 10 a.m.
Feb. 8. Exhaust fumes likely as cause of death BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (UPI) A 31-year-old Illinois man found inside his parked vehicle are a roadside park in South Mississippi may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said yesterday. An autopsy was underway at Kings Daughters Hospital to determine the cause of death of Anthony L.
Theodore of Glen Ellyn, Ill. Highway Patrol spokesman Edd Jussely said Theodore apparently was on his way back to Illinois after visiting relatives in Louisiana. A passing motorist found the body inside the locked vehicle at a roadside park on Interstate 55 near the Pike-Lincoln county line Thursday. The windows were rolled up and the engine was running, Jussely said. Antique and ROLEX Estate MEDNIKOW Jewelry 474 PERKINS 38117 I MEDNIKOW 38117 Funny face Preston Crawford puts his face together as he gets ready to clown around for a Ringling Bros.
circus performance in Birmingham. Crawford, 4-8 and 29 years old, became a clown in 1982 after becoming bored as a businessman. Board will seek school annexation LINWOOD, Ark. (AP) The Linwood School Board has voted to seek annexation of the district with the Pine Bluff School District because of Linwood's declining enrollment and stiffer education standards being set by the state. In approving the annexation Thursday night, members of the Linwood School Board said the district could not remain intact much longer.
About 185 students attend Linwood schools, about 20 miles from Pine Bluff, and 24 teachers work there, Supt. Peter Daniels said. Board members met in January with the Grady School Board to discuss a possible merger. Grady schools are about five miles from Linwood. Board president Dearthur Grice recommended annexation by Pine Bluff on Thursday night without saying why he preferred it to the Grady district.
At earlier Victim of shooting is on critical list From The Commercial Appeal year-old Madison man was in critical condition yesterday after being shot in the chest. Aaron Williams Jr. was in the intensive care unit of the Elvis Presley Trauma at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, where he was taken after a Thursday night shooting here. Troy Lee Sparkman, 27, was arrested at his Forrest City home after the shooting and charged with first-degree battery. Sparkman was bound over to St.
Francis County Circuit Court yesterday and is being held in the county jail in lieu of $2,500 bond. Forrest City, Bureau FORREST CITY, Ark. A 32- meetings, Daniels said the Pine Bluff district had a broader curriculum and a more secure future than Grady because of its size. Pine Bluff also has a vocational training shop and Grady does not, he said. Daniels said he had talked casually about annexation with Pine, Bluff Supt.
Jack Robey, and he believed Robey would favor hiring qualified Linwood teachers when vacancies arise. The next steps toward annexation are approval by the Pine Bluff School Board and approval by petition from Linwood district patrons. Daniels said a public meeting allow comments on Linwood's possible annexation would be held, probably after a decision was made by the Pine Bluff School Board. UPI includes the northern townships in St. Francis County and about two-thirds of the county's population, has announced plans to seek re-election.
Flanagin first won as a write-in candidate in 1976. Board member Rufus Swopes asked before the vote if Linwood could remain intact by sending high school students to another district but keeping the elementary school in the Daniels said the district would lose too much state aid with 1 the transfer of its older students and would be no better off than now. Even if the district's property taxes were raised, he said, "All you'd be doing is buying about two or three years." Flanagin to run From The Commercial Appeal Forrest City, Bureau FORREST CITY, Ark. State Rep. Pat Flanagin, whose district Velma McLemore dies at 79; served LeMoyne-Owen 27 years Mrs.
of 1847 emeritus ment and the more, Velma Ribbins McLemore Netherwood, chairman of the English departat LeMoyne-Owen College wife of Theodore R. McLedied of an apparent stroke at 8:15 p.m. Thursday at her home. She was 79. Services will be at 1 p.m.
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She earned her master's degree at Northwestern University and did other postgraduate study at New York University, the University of Chicago and the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Bridgeport in. Connecticut. She began her career in education as an English teacher at Booker T. Washington High School where she taught for 13: years before joining the faculty at LeMoyne-Owen. She taught at LeMoyne-Owen College for 27 years until her retirement in 1972.
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