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of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of Jackson Sun Six plead guilty to killing family Young Kentuckians admit to slaying couple and their daughter. Associated Press GREENEVILLE A teenager who has said she's the daughter of Satan and five other young people from Kentucky pleaded guilty Friday 1 to murdering a Knox County couple and their 6-year-old daughter. Under the agreement with prosecutors, none of the six will the death penalty, but all could be imprisoned the rest of their lives without chance of parole. Prosecutor Berkeley Bell said the deal was supported by the relatives of Vidar and Delfina Lillelid, who were shot to death with their daughter Tabitha. Their 2-year-old son Peter survived a bullet through his eye and is living with relatives in Sweden.

Ar "I'm happy that the families and the people who cared about the Lillelids are happy. That means a great deal to us," Bell said. A gag order remained in effect for the defense lawyers so they could not comment. The pleas came three days before the start of jury selection and were accepted by Criminal Court Judge James DEATHS Sylvesta B. Barnett, 79, retired abet Services for Sylvesta B.

Barnett, 79, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Berean Baptist Church. Burial will be in St. John 1 Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs.

Barnett, a retired emfor the Jackson-Madison Schools system, died Monday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital of cancer. She is survived by four sons, d. Zelner Barnett Jr. of Texarkana, Herbert Earnest Barnett of Chattanooga, Barnett of Midwest City, and Larry Barnett of Aurora, four daughters, Rosa Marie Robinson of Aurora, Carolyn Leverne Bonner of Mesa, Shirley Ann Jackson of Decatur, and Shelia Barnett of Fort Worth, Texas; a brother, John Walker of Muskagoa, and four sisters, Careathar Jacobs of Cleveland, Ohio, and Lillie Mae Jones, Charlene Lewis and Kay Frances Tomlinson, all of Jackson. For more information, call Bledsoe Funeral Home at 427- .1521.

Bateman, 93, retired SELMER Services for Bateman, 93, will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Shackelford Funeral Home. Burial will in Lake Hill Memorial Gardens near Bethel Springs. Mr. Bateman, a retired professional photographer with his own business, died Thursday at his residence in Selmer of heart failure.

He is survived by his wife, Motes Bateman of Selmer; two daughters and a son, Doris Wallace of Montgomery, Lyndall Goff of Parsons and Dr. Jim Bateman of Nashville; and a sister, Yvonne Moss of Corinth, Miss. For more information, call the funeral home at 645-3481. Carolyn Beard, 70, retired DRESDEN Services for Carolyn Brannon Beard, 70, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Bowlin Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Tansil Cemetery near Sharon. Mrs. Beard, retired legal secretary and homemaker, died Thursday in Dresden of congestive heart failure. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert M. Beard Jr.

She is survived by two sons, Macon Beard of Vidalia, and Brian Beard of Atlanta; and two sisters, Mary Ann Wilson of Gleason and Gloria Holt of Maryville. For more information, call the funeral home at 364-3101. Hollis Jerome Bond, 21 BROWNSVILLE Services for Hollis Jerome Bond, 21, will be at 1 p.m. today at First Bap- Beckner, who asked each of the six defendants, "Are you pleading guilty because you are in fact guilty?" Each answered, "Yes." None showed any emotion. The six are: Jason Blake Bryant, 15, of Marrowbone, Natasha Cornett, 19, and Crystal Sturgill, 18, both of Betsy Layne, Karen Howell, 18, and Dean Mullins, 20, both of Toler, and Joe Risner, 21, of Paintsville, Ky.

Cornett, the reputed ringleader, told her first lawyer she is the daughter of Satan. Others in the group are interested in the occult, and prosecutors say two days before the killings they held a bizarre ritual in a Pikeville, motel room that included self-mutilation and bloodletting. The Lillelids were headed home from a Jehovah's Witnesses conference in Johnson City on April 6 when they stopped at an Interstate 81 rest stop near Baileyton, in northeast Tennessee. They were found in a muddy ditch along a gravel road several miles away. Vidar and Delfina, shot six and eight times respectively, died with their children in their laps.

The couple's legs were run over by their own van, according to prosecutors. Two guns were used to shoot tist Church. Burial will be in Hickory Grove Cemetery. Mr. Bond died Feb.

14 in Brownsville of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He is survived by five daughters and a son, Holli Nicole Bond, Jamecia Bond, Alexia Shardae' Bond and Jamari Bond, all of Brownsville, Derrise Kinney Bond of Milwaukee, and Imani McAboy Bond of Lansing, two sisters and four brothers, Nikki Carlis Bond and Jarvis Bond, all of Brownsville, Paula Bond of Toledo, Ohio, and Michael Anderson of Memphis; and his grandfather, Hayes Anderson of Brownsville. For more information, call Rawls Funeral Home at 772- 1472. Bob Adams Carlton, 83, farmer TRENTON Services for Bob Adams Carlton, 83, will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Springhill Baptist Church.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Carlton, a farmer, died Thursday at his home of respiratory failure. He is survived by his wife, Helen Carlton of Trenton; two daughters and a son, Patsy Hickerson of Trenton, Tammie Ayers of Jackson and Bob A. Carlton II of Gadsden; and two brothers, Larry Carlton and Ralph Carlton, both of Trenton.

For more information, call Shelton Funeral Home at 855- 1621. Lou Willie Howard, 80, homemaker MEDON Services for Lou Willie Howard, 80, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Howard, a homemaker, died Wednesday at JacksonMadison County General Hospital of heart failure. She is survived by her husband, James Howard of Medon; three daughters and three sons, Charlene Reeves, Brenda Gray, Janice Washington, Samuel G. Newbern, the Rev. Jerry Howard and Marvin Howard, all of Jackson; and two sisters and two brothers, Imogene Thomas of Jackson, Elizabeth Fisher of Jackson, Fred Newbern of Terre Haute, and Curtis Newbern of Paducah, Ky.

For more information, call Stephenson-Shaw Funeral Home at 427-7411. Donald Malvern Jones, 68, retired Services for Donald Malvern Jones, 68, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Pafford Funeral Home in Lexington. Burial will be in Lexington Cemetery. Mr.

Jones, retired factory worker for Brown Shoe Company, died Friday at Alvin C. Medical Center in Murfreesboro of cancer. He is survived by his mother, Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998 Nashville Banner prints its true 'final edition' 122-year-old migrant family, published the early the first issue. During newspaper closes years, the newspaper had the due to decline in largest circulation in the at state, more than 100,000 one circulation.

point. The Associated Press After more than nine decades, the Stahlmans sold the NASHVILLE Tears glis- Banner to Gannett Co. The Tonnya Kennedy's publishing giant sold it tened seven eyes Friday morning as she years later to three Nashville stood in the pressroom holding businessman Gannett when the true "final edition" of the Nashville Banner. bought the The competing Tennessean, morning But Kennedy the after- now Nashville's newspaper, only daily noon newspaper's managing editor put on a brave smile as paper. Two of those held the paper up for all kins and Brownlee men, O.

Irby Currey Simpshe the gathered reporters and bought out the third in Banner employees to see. 1981 and owned the paper There were hugs and tears, until its demise. looks of shell-shock and a Since 1937, the Banner and scramble for copies as they The Tennessean have shared a came off the press. Two hours building, press time and adverlater, those presses slowed to a tising and circulation duties, stop and the 122-year-old news- but the reporters, editors and paper was out of business a owners were fierce competitors. victim of declining circulation.

The Banner's circulation The headline read "End of began declining in the 70s and Story." was down to 39,838 this month, It was a long and proud story as opposed to 63,000 a decade of a scrappy newspaper that ago. Projections showed that in began on April 10, 1876, when two years, the number would the Stahlmans, a German im- drop to 25,000. The Associated Press An undated family photo of Vidar Lillelid, his wife, Delfina and their children, Tabitha and Peter. The Lillelids, of Knox County, were carjacked in April 1997 and shot. Only Peter, then 2, survived.

Six Kentuckians have pleaded guilty in the slayings. the family and Bryant, who was 14 at the time, was one of the killers, Bell said. Investigators were unable to determine who else pulled the trigger. Bell offered the plea agreement to defense lawyers Wednesday after learning a key Cynthia Wallace Jones of Selmer; a son and daughter, Marty D. Jones of Lexington and Donna Williams of Murfreesboro; and a sister, Opal Huggins of Selmer.

For more information, call the funeral home at 968-2544. Lillie L. Jones, 82, homemaker BROWNSVILLE Services for Lillie L. Jones, 82, will be at noon today at Brown Creek M.B. Church.

Burial will be in Brown Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Jones, a homemaker, died Tuesday at MethodistHaywood Park Hospital in Brownsville of respiratory failure. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis T. Jones.

She is survived by three daughters and two sons, Mary Perkins, Ann Bond and L.C. Jones, all of Brownsville, Margaret Jones Sweeney Louis, and Joe Thomas Jones of Jackson. For more information, call Rawls Funeral Home at 772- 1472. Kenny Wayne Kemp Kenny Wayne Kemp died Thursday at JacksonCounty General Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete.

For more information, call George A. Smith and Sons Main Street Chapel at 427- 5555. Bishop C.A. Kirkendoll, 83, retired Bishop Bishop Chester Arthur Kirkendoll, 83, died Friday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete.

For more information, call Ford Funeral Home at 427-5585. Cassie McCullough, 87, homemaker Services for Cassie Lee Robinson McCullough, 87, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bible Hill Baptist Church in Cedar Grove. Burial will be in Bible Hill Cemetery in Cedar Grove. Mrs.

McCullough, a homemaker, died Wednesday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital of cancer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Juge McCullough. She is survived by five daughters, Helen Pate and Janice McCullough, both of Cedar Grove, Melba McCullough of Nashville, Curtis Lester of Chattanooga, and Linda Bowers of Freeport, and three brothers, J.D. Arnold of Jackson, Vernell Arnold Lexington and Adell Arnold of Detroit. For more information, call Parham Mortuary at 968-5882.

Mary Sorrelle Maher, 55, homemaker BROWNSVILLE Memo- rial services for Mary Sorrelle Woodson Maher, 55, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tabernacle witness, jailer Shawn Farrell, has a felony record. The suspects were arrested two days after the murders in Douglas, driving the Lillelids' van. The group had been turned away at the Mexican border because two people in the van were juveniles. United Methodist Church.

Mrs. Maher, a homemaker, died Friday at her residence of cancer. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, Patrick Maher and Woodson Maher, both of Brownsville, and Mary Bradford Williams of Memphis. For more information, call Brownsville Funeral Home at 772-1551. Viola Reed, 90, homemaker Services for Viola Reed, 90, will be at 1 p.m.

Sunday at Progressive Baptist Church. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Reed, a homemaker, did Tuesday at West Tennessee Skilled Nursing Center of heart failure. She is survived by three daughters, Willie Eva Monie and Willie Mae Lewis, both of Jackson, and Evelyn Jean Phillips of St.

Louis; a brother, Jimmy Rivers of Somerville; and five sisters, Christine Rivers and Josephine Selby, both of Somerville, Ogia Campbell of Nashville, and Katie Williamson and Gertie Taylor, both of Memphis. more information, call Bledsoe Funeral Home at 427- 1521. Bonnie Traylor Stutts, 70, retired Services for Bonnie Traylor Stutts, 70, will be at 1 p.m. today at Dyersburg Funeral Home. Burial will be in Dyer County Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Stutts, retired data reviewer for the Social Security Administration, died Thursday Jackson-Madison County General Hospital of cardiac arrest. She is survived by her husband, Eugene Stutts; a daughter, Sherry Turner of Milan; and three sisters and a brother, Margaret Combs Nashville, Ann Mehaffey Denver, Bettye Sheffield of Biloxi, and Marvin Traylor of Trenton. For more information, call the funeral home at 285-3021. Lester Thaxton, 87, retired farmer BROWNSVILLE Services for Lester Thaxton, 87, will be at 2 p.m.

today at Brown Creek M.B. Church. Burial will be in Brown Creek Cemetery. Mr. Thaxton, a retired farmer, died Monday at Methodist-Haywood Park Hospital of heart disease.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Louise Bond Thaxton. He is survived by two daughters, Lela M. Holloway of Louisville, and Lavada Weddle of Denmark; and three sons, Louis Frank Thaxton of Gary, Harvey Thaxton of Brownsville, and Willie N. Thaxton of Louisville, Ky. For more information, call Rawls Funeral Home at 772- 1472.

PAID ANNOUNCEMENT Obituaries Information supplied by West Tennessee Funeral Directors James W. Sowell Sowell, 79, will be 2:00 Services for Mr. James, W. p.m. Sunday from the South Chapel of George A.

Smith and Sons with the Rev. Kent Bailey officiating. Burial will follow in Ebenezer Cemetery. Mr. Sowell died Thursday evening at his residence.

A lifelong resident of Madison County, he was the son of the late Luther and Berdie Lee Morris Sowell. Mr. Sowell was a veteran of the U. S. Army serving in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Central Europe and Ardennes.

He had received the Ribbon with five bronze stars, the Bronze Arrowhead, the Defense Service Medal, and the Good Conduct Ribbon. Mr. Sowell was a retired employee of the Madison County School Department with over thirty years service. wife, Sowell of JackMr. Sorellis survived by his son; one daughter, Barbara Jean King and husband Joe of Jackson; two grandchildren, Lisa Carnal and husband Robin and Cheryl Rogers and husband Eric; three greatgrandchildren, Ashley Rogers, Amanda Carnal and Bethany Carnal; three sisters, Rebecca Terry of Jackson, Margaret Thompson of Jackson and Virginia Hefley of Humboldt, TN.

The family will receive friends at the South Chapel of George A. Smith and Sons today from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. George A. Smith and Sons South Chapel 423-2212 Death Notice Policy: The Jackson Sun provides free death notices for families in area.

However, those desiring more than basic information provided in the death notice may purchase a paid obituary through their funeral home or the classified advertisement department of The Sun. The Jackson Sun Classifieds 423-0300 or 1-800-372-3922 Joe W. Miller Graveside services for Joe W. Miller will be Monday at 10:00 AM in Calvary Cemetery with Father William Parham officiating. LawrenceSorensen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Miller died Friday morning at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was the son of the late Fred W. Ruth S. Miller, who were from Mobile, AL.

He moved to Jackson with his parents at an early age and attended St. Mary's School Jackson High School. He attended Vocational Agriculture School after the war for 4 years. He served in the US Army Infantry in World War I for 4 years and served in the European Theatre. Mr.

Miller was a communicant of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Miller was formerly with Sumner Williams, Inc. of Jackson for 18 years was general manager of Julian Townsend Enterprises for 8 years. Survivors include his wife, Doris Miller of Jackson; two daughters, Cindy Piechorowski husband Frank of Germantown Jana Miller of Jackson; a brother, Richard Miller of Savannah, Tn.

Mr. Miller was preceded in death by a son, Joey Miller. There will be no visitation at the funeral home. Lawrence Home 424-2424 Mr. John D.

Chambers Graveside services for Mr. John D. Chambers are scheduled for 2:00 pm, Sunday, February 22 at Spring Hill Cemetery in Sardis with Rev. Greg Stanford officiating. Pafford Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Chambers was born in Decatur, Illinois on April 18, 1948 to Mrs. Helen Stone Chambers and the late Thomas G. Chambers. He retired after 25 years of service as a New Orleans Police Officer, and was a U.

S. Army Veteran, serving 2 tours in Vietnam. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Helen Chambers of Lexington, one son, John Douglas Chambers of McAllen, TX, one sister, Sally D. Boyd of Lexington, and one brother, Thomas Gene Chambers 11 of New Orleans, LA.

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