deaths and funerals 6C Independent- Daily Mail, April 11, 1976 Luther Gillespie CARNESVILLE, Ga. Luther Carswell Gillespie, 79, of Rt. 1, died Saturday at Cobb Memorial Hospital after a short illness. He was a member of Cross Roads Baptist Church. Surviving are widow, Mrs.
Bolina Gillespie; sons, Loren and Charles Gillespie of Carnesville; sister, Mrs. 0.M. Coffee of Lithia Springs; brothers, Belton Gillespie of Carnesville and J.D. Gillespie of Annapolis, four grandchildren, four greatgrandchildren. Services at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday at Cross Roads Baptist Church by the Rev. E. Cardin. Burial in the church cemetery. Ginn Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Lucy Strother -Mrs. Lucy Perrin Strother, 78, of 109 Standpipe died Saturday at Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. A native of Abbeville, she was a daughter of the late Isom Geraldine Coleman Perrin and widow of Lemuel Strother. She was a member of the Washington Street Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are sons, George P. Strother of Abbeville, Ernest L. Strother of Philadelphia, Robert H. Strother of Yeadon, daughter, Mrs. Essie M.
Patterson of Abbeville; sisters, Mrs. Cleora Oliver of Philadelphia, Mrs. Mabelle Pikintin of New York City; nine grandchildren, six great-grandchildren. The body is at the funeral home. The family is at the home of her daughter, 519 Langley Abbeville.
Plans will be announced by Richie Funeral Home. Ross 3 LIBERTY-Ross Harvey Howe, 71, of Rt. 1, Flat Rock Community, a retired roofing contractor, died Friday in Greenville. He was a native of Roslin, a son of the late Thomas C. and Alice Robinson Howe.
He lived the greater part of his life in Springfield, before moving to Liberty two years ago, where he made his home with a nephew, Glen H. Howe. He was the last member of his immediate family, and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Services and burial will be in Springfield, Ill.
Arrangements in Illinois will be announced by Bisch Funeral Home. B.F. Eads Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements. Northeast Georgia Hospitals Hart ADMISSION 810 Janet Heaton Anderson, S.C. Lord Bowers Hartwell DISCHARGES Catherine Harper Elberton McCord Dewey Rose Betty Alewine Hartwell Marlene Moore Hartwell Grace Hill Canon Mary Wright Canon Roberta Baker Hartwell Barbara Crowe Fair Play, S.C.
Nettie Vickory Hartwell Josephine Bratcher Lavonia Marie Curie Curry Bowersville Cobb DISCHARGES Raymond Fulbright Lavonia Boyd Finley Royston Gordon Vaughn Royston Deboray Brafford Franklin Spreings Annette Wheeler Carnesville Linda Mason Royston Steve Yearwood Carnesville Linda Masdon Royston Daisy Dove Canon Katie Miller Comer Myrte Hunt Canon Angela Lowe Lavonia Evelyn Dockery Dewey Rose DISCHARGES Mary Foster Bowersville Virgil Bennett Canon Albert King Carnesville James Burgess Royston Willie McIntosh Omer Lee Carey Jr. Royston Wesley Bryant KOySIUI Edna Fann Danielsville James Kay Royston Oneal Brown Canon James Lindsey Royston Henry Cromer Hartwell Stanley Bray Anderson, S.C. J.W. Maxwell Bowman Elvie Griffin Bowman BJC ADMISSIONS Millie Perry Hull Lisa Hartline Homer Jennie Hardy Commerce Wayne Minish Commerce Homer Owensby Commerce Melinda Carson Gillsvilie Hannah Dell DISCHARGES Stacy McDonald Michael McDonald Johnny Luster Junior Roach Sally Grindle Grindle Baby Boy Juanita Shipley Sarah Jones Ernest Boots Stephens ADMISSIONS Minerva Hosea Toccoa Earl Hosea Toccoa Toccoa Ruth Barrett Cornelia Jamie Martin Toccoa Lucille Simpson Eastanollee J.W. Vaughn Toccoa Bessve Wiley Lavonia Janie Burns Lavonia Smith baby boy Demorest bowman baby buy Carpenter baby girl Toccoa James Walsh Toccoa Herbert Kinsey Toccoa Cecilia Hall Baldwin May Head Toccoa Ruth Smith Demorest DISCHARGES Patrick Pulliam Eastanollee William Rumsey Toccoa Linda Cowart Clarksville Nellie Carnes Clayton Frances Clark Cornelia Roy Dickerson Lavonia Mrs.
Mary Madden Loving Memory of Jewell P. DeFoor Who Passed Away 1 Year Ago April 11, 1975 A million times we have needed you; A million times we have cried. If love alone could have spared you You never would have died. If all the world was mine to give, I'd give it yes, and more. A heart of gold stopped beating, Two smiling eyes at rest, God broke our hearts to prove to us He only takes the best.
IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM And since that day, less happy times, Our days have been more dim, But we feel the Angels are still smiling To have her with them. Love Leon Sr. Leon Jr. Jeanie Jamey Grover Merck COMMERCE, C. Merck, 86, of Rt.
1, died Friday night at BJC Hospital in Commerce after an extended illness. He was a native of Jackson County, a son of the late Asbury and Julia Aiken Merck. He was a retired farmer and a member of Bethany Christian Church. His wife was the late Laura Shubert Merck. Surviving are sons, Albert Merck of Homer and Hoyt Merck of Athens; daughters, Mrs.
Lola Allen' and Mrs. Pauline Lewallen, both of Commerce, and Mrs. Jesse Mooney of Winder; 14 grandchildren; 18 greatgrandchildren. Services at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Tommy Conn Memorial Chapel of Little-Ward Funeral Home by the Rev.
Joe Slocum. Burial in Grove Level Baptist Church cemetery. The body is at the funeral home, and will be placed in the chapel at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The family is at the home of a daughter, Mrs.
Pauline Lewallen, Rt. 1, Commerce. James H. Hughes GREENWOOD James Harold "Dunk" Hughes, 51, died Saturday morning at his home, 1501 E. Laurel following a brief illness.
He was born in Greenville County, a son of Ben M. and Mattie Waits Hughes of Greenwood. He was a retired employe of Abney Mills Grendel plant a veteran of World War II and a member of Laurel Baptist Church. Surviving are parents; sister, Mrs. C.E.
Davis of Greenwood; brother, Clyde Edward Hughes of Seattle, Wash. Services at 4 p.m. Sunday at Blyth Funeral Home by the Revs. Allen Senn and J. Allen Smith.
Burial in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The body is at the funeral home. The family is at the home of his parents, 1501 E. Laurel Ave. Services George A.
Brown ROYSTON, Ga. Services for George A. Brown, 62, of Rt. 2 Goldmine Community, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hall Funeral Home chapel by the Revs.
Doug Lott and Hoyt Dove. Burial in Rose Hill cemetery. Whitt Owens ABBEVILLE Services for Whitt Owens will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Peter AME Church by the Rev.
Guy Andersoh. Burial in the church cemetery. The body is at Richie Funeral Home and will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Sunday. Mrs.
Cleo Todd LIBERTY- for Mrs. Cleo Bowen Todd, 56, of Rt. 2, will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at Gap Hill Baptist Church. Burial in the church cemetery.
B.F. Eads Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Mary Childs Services for Mrs. Mary Whitten Childs, 55, of35 Lyons will be at 3 p.m.
Sunday at McDougald's North Chapel by the Revs. U.C. Neill, J. Wendell Rhodes and Dr. Lewis E.
Greene. Russell B. Jones NORRIS- Services for Russell B. Jones, 64, of Jamison will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Norris First Baptist Church.
Burial in Memory Gardens of Clemson. B.F. Eads Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. James Grady Nixon CLAYTON, for James Grady Nixon, 62, of Rt. 2, will be at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday at Mize Mortuary Chapel by the Rev. A.J. Skelton. Burial in Rabun Memory Park in Tiger. GREENWOOD Mrs.
Mary Rice Madden, 66, of 210 New Market widow of Henry Madden, died Saturday morning at Self Memorial Hospital. A native of Laurens County, she was a daughter of the late Jim and Leona Lee Rice. She was a retired Licensed Practical Nurse and a Baptist. Surviving are brother, Paul Rice of Greenwood. Services at 3 p.m.
Monday at Lakeside Pentecostal Holiness Church by the Revs. James Young Paul Borden. Burial in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The body is at Harley Funeral Home and will be placed in the church Monday at 2 p.m. The family is at the home of her brother, Paul Rice, 112 McDowell and will receive friends at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m.
Sunday. NINETY SIX Miss Neta Moore, 91, retired teacher, died Friday morning at her home, 208 W. Main following a brief illness. She was a native of Ninety Six, a daughter of the late John A. and Elizabeth Kinard Moore.
She was a member of the Ninety Six Presbyterian Church and the D.A.R. She was a graduate of Chicora College. Prior to her retirement, she taught in Florida and Ninety' Six for 52 years. member of her family. Graveside services at 3 p.m.
Sunday at Elmwood Cemetery the Rev. W.R. Parvin. The body is at Blyth Funeral Home. The family is at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Curtis Ouzts, 208 W. Main Ninety Six. Mrs. Anna Poats Miss Neta Moore CLEMSON-Mrs.
Anna Laura Mell Poats, 90, widow of the late Thomas Grayson Poats, died Saturday after a long illness. A native of Athens, she was a daughter of the late George Anderson and Bessie Rutherford Mell. She was a graduate of Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Ga. Surviving are daughters, Mrs. John D.
Lane of Clemson and Miss Ella Poats of Spartanburg; son, Rutherford Mell Poats of -Falls Church, sister, Mrs. D. Mildred Rutherford Mell of Decatur, eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. Graveside services at 11 a.m. Monday at Old Stone Church Cemetery in Clemson by the Rev.
Tom Davis. The body is at Duckett Funeral Home in Central. Rufus Davis us Davis, 62, of I Saturday. A native of Abbeville, he was a son of the late Lene Davis and a member of Dunn's Creek Baptist Church. Surviving are sister, Mrs.
Deborah Middleton of the home. Plans will be announced by Johnson and Stewart Funeral Home of Honea Path. Isom Gibson SENECA Isom McCurry Gibson, 90, of Rt. 3 Cross Roads Community, died Friday at Anderson Memorial Hospital. A native of Oconee County, he was a son of the late John and Mandy Mason Gibson.
He was a retired farmer and the oldest member of Cross Roads Baptist Church. Surviving are sons, Lewis Gibson of Westminster, Roy Gibson of Cross Roads, John and Dennis Gibson of Sandy Springs and Coyt Gibson of Pendleton; daughters, Mrs. Lou Edgar and Mrs. Sarah Blakely of Seneca; brother, Press Gibson of Seneca; half-brothers, Frank Gibson of Seneca and Jack Gibson of Westminster; halfsister, Mrs. Faye Williams of Seneca; 14 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren.
Services at 11 a.m. Monday at Cross Roads Baptist Church the Revs. Howard Fuller, A.A. Williams and Guy Overcash. Burial in the church cemetery.
The body is at the Seneca Mortuary where the family will receive friends from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. The family is at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Lewis Edgar, Pine Grove Rd. Hayes Infant WESTMINSTER-Rodger Scott Hayes, infant son of Rodger Clyde and Connie Dickerson Hayes, of the Oak Grove Community, died Saturday afternoon in Oconee Memorial Hospital.
Surviving are parents; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Clyde Hayes of Greenville and Mr. and Mrs.
J.W. Dickerson of Westminster. Plans will be announced by Sandifer Funeral Home. The body is at the funeral home. The family is at the home of grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. J.W. Dickerson in Westminster. Mrs. Plume Whitten Mrs.
Plume H. Whitten, 53, of 4007. South Main died Friday at Anderson Memorial Hospital after a short illness. A native of Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Beulah O'Barr Leopard. She was a housewife and of the Holiness faith.
Surviving are husband, Cliff 0. Whitten of the home; sons, Mack Furman, James Walter and David Whitten of Anderson; daughters, Mrs. Sylvia Jean Heller, Mrs. Joyce Gambrell, Mrs. Nancy Lee Allen and Mrs.
Pricella Faye Williamson of Anderson; sisters, Mrs. Gertha Simpson of Atlanta, Mrs. Dallas Thrasher and Mrs. Oretha Whitten of Anderson and Mrs. Hayward Hawthorne of Piedmont.
Services at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at McDougalds North Chapel by the Revs. J. Wendell Rhodes, Ralph Carter and Ace Lee Allen. Burial in New Silver Brook Cemetery.
The is at the home of a son, Mack F. Whitten, 3801 S. Main St. and will be placed in the chapel at 4 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Lou Ramey CORNELIA, Ga. Mrs. Lou Ramey, 91, of 9 Berry Cornelia, died Friday night at the Habersham County Hospital following an extended illness. A native of White County, she was a daughter of the 1 late George and Theresa Soseby.
Shubert. She was a member the Cornelia United Methodist Church. Surviving are husband, Joe B. Ramey of the home; sons, J.C. Ramey of Cornelia and Roy W.
Ramey of Marietta; daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Crumley of Wiley; nine grandchildren; 15. great grandchildren; one Services at 2 p.m. Sunday at the McGahee-Griffin Funeral Home chapel by the Revs. Frank Dorris and L.B.
Gibbs. Burial in the Crumley family cemetery at Wiley. The body is at the funeral home and the family is at the residence. Carsie Baumgarner WEST UNION Carsie A. Baumgarner, 62, of Rt.
1, Ebenezer Community, died at Oconee Memorial Hospital Saturday morning following an extended illness. He was a native of Jackson County, N.C., a son of the late John Carsie and Emily Kirby Baumbarner. He was a veteran of World War II, member of the V.F.W., and of the late Lewis E. Blanchett Post of the American Legion. He attended Welcome Wesleyan Church.
Surviving are widow, Mrs. Eunice McKee Baumgarner of the home; Dennis Baumgarner of Westminster, Gary Baumgarner of West Union and Terry Baumgarner of Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter; brothers, Kay Baumgarner of Six Mile and Dryman Baumgarner, of Walhalla; Nerrilla Dillard of Cashiers, Mrs. Leila McCall of Atlanta and Mrs. Pearl Smith of Columbia; two grandchildren. Services at 2 p.m.
Monday at Davenport Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Ray Barnwell. Burial in Oconee Memorial Park. The body is at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Sunday.
The family is at the residence. The family of Mrs. Anna Poats respectfully requests that flowers be omitted. Harvey Stephens COLBERT, Stephens, 82, of Rt. 2, Colbert, died Saturday at his residence following an extended illness.
He was a lifelong resident of Madison County, a son of the late Charlie and Molly Kirk Stephens. He was of the Baptist faith. Surviving are widow, Mrs. Eunice McLain Stephens of Colbert; sons, Harvey Stephens Jr. and Robert Lee Stephens of Colbert; stepson, Albert Glenn Williams of Hull; brothers, Doc Stephens of Atlanta, Buster Stephens of Bethlehem and Richard Stephens of Monroe; sisters, Mrs.
Annie Mae Dixon of Watkinsville and Mrs. Pinky Coleman of Griffin; eight grandchildren. Services at 3 p.m. Monday at Colbert Congregational Holiness Church by the Rev. Roland Arrowood.
Burial in the Kirk family cemetery. Brown's Funeral Home of Danielsville in charge of arrangements. WEEKEND REVIVAL Weekend revival services will be held at New Hope Emmanuel Holiness Church, 33 Evergreen at7 p.m. nightly through Sunday. Guest pastor will be the Rev.
James Hopkins of Greenville. Sentenced To Die James C. Lawson is led from a courthouse in Columbia Friday after being sentenced to die in the electric chair. He was convicted of murder in the slaying of Emily Moyer. (AP Wirephoto) Even Notorious Criminals 'Finding God' In Prison By RUSSELL CHANDLER said Chaplain Ray Hoekstra, Cleaver about his spiritual life, cording to Morrison, including L.A.
Times- Washington Post Syndicate 63, a 10-year veteran of an "and it progressed from Timothy Earl Dudley, 29, who independent nation-wide prison was convicted of strangling Guards and heavy steel ministry which has been in- theferrison, who also has Robert Willard Liberty, the sodoors bar inmates in the fluential in the lives of the unusual clearance to visit called "Candlelight Killer," in nation's prisons and jails from Manson clan. Death Row convicts at San his jail cell in 1971. the outside world, but not from "I find 1 much encouragement Quentin, has been in close Morrison said he baptized religion. There is mounting evidence that a wave of spiritual revival is sweeping through the cells, reaching even some of the most notorious criminals. An increasing number of prisoners refer to their experiences as "conversions" or "finding God," though many grew up in only nominally Christian homes.
Among those who have recently professed faith in Jesus Christ as "personal Savior" are three of the five members of the Manson clan who originally were sentenced to death (later modified to life imprisonment) for their part in the grisly 1969 Tate-LaBianca and Hinman slayings in Southern California. According to their own statements and those of prison chaplains, Susan Atkins at the California Institution for Women in Frontera, Bruce Davis at Folsom State Prison and Charles (Tex) Watson at the California Men's Colony East in San Luis Obispo have been "born again" since their incarceration. Miss Atkins, 27, was baptized in the prison yard on Feb. 23, 1975, in a 2-foot-deep cattle trough supplied by a cattleman. News of the event did not leak out until early this year, however.
Even cult leader Charles M. Manson, at Folsom, may be softening in his attitude toward Christianity, according to chaplains. One of the most recent conversion accounts former Black Panther revolutionary Eldridge Cleaver "accepted Christ" in his cell at the Oakland, Courthouse jail in January. There are skeptical observers, of course, who say that such "jailhouse conversions" are calculated to win favor with parole boards, chaplains and wardens, and even to cover up drug passing. One prosecutor in Arlington, for example, recalled two cases in which the defendants "found God" as soon as they were booked.
But chaplains and prison workers many of whom are -convicts insist the wave ex of religion is real. "There is far more Christian action in prisons today than in the entire (200 year) history of the American prison Fire Report The Anderson City Fire Department answered the following call Saturday: 1:54 p.m. Answered a call to a car fire on McDuffie Street. The Anderson County Fire Department answered the following calls Saturday: 10:46 a.m. Station No.
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Double Springs Station No. 5 answered a call to a grass fire on Hatton Ford Road. 6:09 p.m. Ebenezer Station No. 3 answered a call to a grass fire on Highway 1-85.
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Dial 225-1033 from the recent interest that has been expressed towards faith in Christ," said Thomas Plummer, relating how many inmates read personal copies of the Bible and "carry them everywhere to work, to mealtimes, as well as to chapel services." Meanwhile, assorted prison ministeries bringing religion most of it the evangelical Christian variety behind prison walls are spring up across the country. One of most innovative and newest is a nationwide network of evangelist convicts "on a commission for Jesus Christ." The man behind the program is Charles (Chuck) Colson, once known as the White House "hatchet man" during the Watergate era. "Miracles are happening," Colson said. "Lives are being changed on a lasting basis." News of the Cleaver conversion the outside world friend who reached, visited the former Panther in his Oakland jail cell at Cleaver's request. Sources close to Cleaver say he does not want to say anything public about his spiritual experience now because he does not want to use it as a lever to secure favors, or to appear that he is doing so.
But a chaplain who works with inmates in Alameda County jails said he met Cleaver in the Oakland jail in January, where he had been "placed in a tank with a strong Christian convict who had once been his (Cleaver's enemy" when the two men did time at San Quentin. (Cleaver, 40, was paroled in 1966 after serving nine years on a rape charge.) chaplain, Glenn L. Morrison of Follow Up Ministries, headquartered in Hayward, said Cleaver told him that his cellmate had "witnessed" to him and encouraged Cleaver to read the Bible daily. One day when Morrison was making regular calls inside the Oakland jail, "Eldridge lingered behind and asked to have a personal interview with me," Morrison told The Los Angeles Times. Morrison said he counseled touch with Manson.
Morrison said Manson had asked him for a Bible. Staff Chaplain Harry Howard of San Quentin's Garden Chapel agreed that Manson, who was moved last week to Folsom, appeared the open to the Christian faith, though he cautioned against saying that he had undergone any kind of Howard said Manson had recently told him: "Everybody must come to the Cross either voluntarily or they will be drugged to the Cross" (in judgment). Morrison, whose organization, nicknamed "The her God has trained 100 volunteers in techniques of prison visitation, also said that Clifford (Death Row Jeff) Jefferson, who has been associated with the Symbionese Liberation Army while in prison, had been converted to Christ last December. Morrison said Jefferson, who also claimed he ordered the assassination of Oakland School Supt. Marcus Foster, had agreed to tell of his spiritual experience in response to a Times inquiry.
Jefferson, a convicted murderer, is serving a life sentence at Vacaville State Prison. Other recent converts, ac- Dudley at San Quentin last August. Another independent chaplain, Ray Hoekstra, whose daily "prison broadcasts" are carried on 102 radio stations, was apparently a catalyst in the conversion of Davis, the Manson member jailed in the murders of Malibu musician Bruce Hinman and ranch hand Shorty Shea. Davis, apparently the first Manson member to convert, wrote Miss Atkins at Frontera, telling her of his experience. That, and "Chaplain Ray's" broadcasts, influenced her to turn her life over to the Lord in her cell in September, 1974, she wrote later.
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