The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 7

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1993 A GRAND GRADUATE Woman earns her diploma at age 87 i 4 ft i A7 But she hesitated only briefly. "Opportunity came my way, and I latched on to it. If you don't try, you never know what you can do." The David School, a privately financed alternative school, educates dropouts and youngsters having trouble in conventional schools. It also offers adult education. Stapleton attended classes two days a week, relying on friends and family to drive her across the county.

She chose regular classes instead of seeking a General Educational Development, or GED, certificate. Being around young students was "an uplift," she said, and she hopes she's a good example. "That's one of the reasons I went: Maybe it will encourage some child who's about to give up not to drop out." of her new diploma, but "some of the children" will have to hang it because of her arthritis. Stapleton makes as few concessions as possible to age. Her attitude toward life is a lot like her attitude toward her aching bones: "You can't lay down and give up." She still grows a big garden and fills her freezer and shelves with produce every summer.

She's been a widow almost eight years. She married a mule driver who worked for a gas-pipeline company, and together they raised eight children in Floyd County. "It's a great big job to take care of a family," she said. In August, a friend at church told Stapleton she had signed her up at the David School. "I thought, 'My It had been so long, I thought my memory wouldn't hold up." 4WM STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL HAYMAN HOW MUCH Tom Damln Sr.

carried a saw horse that he needed to return to his grandson after stacking wood last Friday. Greg Peter had cut the wood his grandfather uses for heating In his home about 10 miles north of Tell City, Ind. Thomas A. Dorsey, who blended genres to create gospel music, dies Associated Press CHICAGO Thomas A. Dorsey, who blended blues, ragtime and church songs into a creation he called gospel music, is dead at age 93.

The writer of such gospel classics as "Peace in the Valley" and "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," died at home Saturday of Alzheimer's disease. Dorsey was a successful blues-man at an early age and a pioneer in black music publishing. But his invention of gospel in the early 1920s "went on to have a tremendous influence, not only in black churches but in all churches," entertainment attorney J.B. Ross said yesterday. Dorsey wrote more than 2,000 blues songs, including the 1928 hit "It's Tight Like That," which sold more than 7 million copies.

But his main love was gospel, said his niece Lena McLin, and he contributed about 1,000 songs to the genre he created. KENTUCKY DEATHS Visitation after 4:30 p.m. Monday. LEITCHFIELD Jesse Joseph Morgan Campbell, 38, died Wednesday in Madisonville. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Monday, Watkins Funeral Home. LONDON Russell James Hansel, 44, died here Friday. Funeral, noon Monday, Bowling Funeral Home. Visitation after 8 a.m. Monday.

MARTIN Billy Ray Castle, 47, McDowell, died Sunday at his residence. His wife, Dotty, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Hall Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Monday. MORELAND Olga Mae Our- ham, 88, Stanford, died there Saturday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, W. L.

Pruitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Monday. OWENSBORO Zula Boling Boyd, 96, died here Sunday. Funeral, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, Glenn Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m. Monday. OWENSBORO Dorothy L. Brown Colley, 90, Fort Lauderdale, formerly of Owensboro, died Saturday in Fort Lauderdale.

Funeral, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, James H. Davis Funeral Home. Visitation after 10 a.m. Tuesday.

OWENSBORO Stephen C. "Bill" Wood, 87, died here Saturday. His wife, Elizabeth, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Tuesday, James H.

Davis Funeral Home. Visitation after 2 p.m. Monday. OWENTON Martha Ursula Roach, 64, died here Sunday. Memorial service, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, First Baptist Church. Arrangements: McDonald Funeral Home. PADUCAH Frances Hayes, 69, died here Friday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Monday, Roth Funeral Home.

Visitation after 9 a.m. Monday. PADUCAH Raymond Skees, 77, died here Saturday. His wife, Barbara, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, St. Francis deSales Catholic Church. Visitation at Lindsey Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Monday. PIKEVILLE William E.

Wheeler, 94, died here Saturday. His wife, Helena, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Call Funeral Home. Visitation after 10 a.m.

Lawmaker wants academic rules added to Indiana grant program Associated Press DAVID, Ky. Mollie Stapleton attended one-room schools in the Eastern Kentucky mountains until Circumstances forced her to drop but when she was 18. She was less than two credits shy of graduating, and she didn't want give up. "I never was plumb satisfied with quitting," Stapleton said. "I just wanted my diploma." And that's what she got, Friday night, at the age of 87.

Her family and friends went to (he David School in Floyd County for the ceremony. All five of her surviving children were there, along With bunches of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and half the congregation of the Freewill Baptist Church of Betsy Layne. Stapleton says she's really proud BEREA James Robert Sampson, 74, Mount Vernon, died here Saturday. His wife, Wanda, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Lakes Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Monday. BOWLING GREEN Jewell Anderson, 60, died here Saturday. Her husband, David, survives.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Johnson-Vaughn Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m. Monday. CAMPBELLSBURG Joseph E.

Chilton, 69, died Sunday in La Grange. His wife, Letha, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Ransdell Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m.

Monday. COLUMBIA Ray Stone, 51, died Sunday in Paoli, Ind. Arrangements: Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home. CORBIN Howard Ray Law- son, 44, died here Sunday after an illness. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Vankirk Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Monday. DANVILLE William J. Martin, 64, died here Sunday.

His wife, Pat, survives. Funeral, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Preston-Prewitt Funeral Home. Visitation after 5 p.m. Monday.

FRANKFORT Lenora Con- quest, 80, died here Sunday. Funeral, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Harrod Bros. Funeral Home, Visitation after 1 p.m. Monday.

FRANKFORT Larry James Petrey, 45, died Sunday in Lexington after an illness. Funeral, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Harrod Bros. Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Monday and after 1 p.m. Tuesday. FRANKFORT Betty Hutcher- son, 53, died here Saturday. Graveside service, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Arrangements: Harrod Bros. Funeral Home. FRANKLIN Thelma Clay-bum, 70, died Saturday in Bowling Green. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Crafton Funeral Home.

Visitation after 11 a.m. Monday. GREENSBURG Hazel Irene Vaughn, 76, died here Sunday. Her husband, William, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Cowherd Par-rott Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday. HARLAN Jerusha Browning, 81, Tway, died Saturday in New Tazewell, Tenn. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday. HARLAN Hulbert Farmer, 79, Cawood, died Friday in Middles-boro. Graveside service, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Farmer Cemetery, Neff. Arrangements: Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. HARLAN Linda Lou Lawson Jones, 43, San Antonio, formerly of Wallins Creek, died Thursday in San Antonio after an illness. Her husband, Grant, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Thursday, Mount Pleasant Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Wednesday. HAZARD Effie Cornett, 73, died here Saturday. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Engle Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday. HAZARD The Rev. Jesse Porter, 75, Ary, died Saturday in Morehead.

His wife, Virginia, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Glenn Maggard Memorial Chapel. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday.

HODGENVILLE Doris McCubben Williams, 72, died Sunday in Elizabethtown. Her husband, Virgil, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Brownfield Funeral Home. Visitation after 1 p.m.

Monday. HYDEN Chelsie Paige Hos- kins, infant daughter of James and Theresa Bowling Hoskins, died Saturday in Lexington. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Hyden Church of God. Visitation at the church after 11 a.m.

Monday. Arrangements; Dewayne Walker Funeral Home. IRVINE Mary Nell Noe McCarty, 80, Ravenna, died here Sunday. Her husband, Omer, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Warren F. Toler Funeral Home. Dorsey began experimenting with gospel to reconcile an inner conflict over his religious upbringing and his early love of the blues. Dorsey was born in Villa Rica, in 1899. He was playing the piano and the blues profes 1978 FILE PHOTO Thomas Dorsey's music had a great Impact on churches.

sionally by age 12, sometimes working in bordellos, to help support his family. Eventually he adopted the stage name "Georgia Tom" and toured with singer Ma Rainey. He moved north to attend Chicago Music College, and it was in Chicago, he said, that he coined the phrase "gospel songs" after hearing a group singing one Sunday. In 1926, Dorsey composed his ances that these kids are, in fact, drug-free and they are, in fact, scholars," Bauer said. He said the details of his plans aren't final yet, including whether the conditions would apply to students already in the program.

But another senator said the grade requirement might cut out potentially good students. Sen. Earline S. Rogers, D-Gary, said the scholarship program is popular in the Gary schools, where many children come from poor homes. "I think it's one that we cannot backpedal on," Rogers said.

"I think when you talk of a average, you're putting this out of the reach of many of your average students, many of whom ultimately do well in college." Clyde Ingle, commissioner of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, said 5,700 eighth-grade students signed up in the 1990-91 peroni or deluxe pizza in three minutes. Southern Bowl in Greenwood was chosen as one of about 1,000 places nationwide where the machine will be tested. It was created by Pacific Bay Technologies a Canadian company. The machine is manufactured at Sani-Serv in Indianapolis. Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS A Northern Indiana lawmaker is calling for academic requirements to be added to Gov.

Evan Bayh's scholarship program for needy students. In his 1990 State of the State address, Bayh said the state would pay full tuition to any state university or Indiana Vocational Technical College for eighth-graders who pledge to stay away from drugs, alcohol and crime and apply for financial aid in their senior year in high school. There was no mention of a grade-point requirement. But Rep. B.

Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, said either a bill or an amendment will be filed to attach conditions to the scholarship program requiring drug testing of participants and a grade average above during high school. "There have to be some assur PINEVILLE Vantoy "Mills" Taylor, 63, Middlesboro, formerly of Arjay, died Saturday in Middlesboro. Funeral, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Durham Funeral Home. Visitation after 3 p.m.

Monday. SCIENCE HILL Reuben Blan- ton, 84, Woodstock, died Saturday in Somerset. Funeral, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Morris Hislope Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Monday. SCOTTSVILLE Arnold J. Heath, 61, died Saturday in Cross-ville, Tenn. His wife, Virginia, survives. Funeral, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Goad Funeral Home. SOMERSET Harry Jeffery Chltwood, 74, died here Sunday. His wife, Pauline, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Pulaski Funeral Home.

Visitation after 5 p.m. Monday. TAYLORSVILLE Bernard Edward Lilly 95, died Sunday in Shelbyville. His wife, Eleanor, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Wednesday, All Saints Catholic Church. Visitation at the Greenwell Funeral Home after noon Tuesday. TRENTON William Oscar Watts 78, died here Sunday. His wife, Ruby, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Maddux-Pembroke Funeral Home. Visitation after 4 p.m. Monday. WALTON Eddie R. Nelms, 51, died Saturday in Edgewood.

His wife, Karen, survives. Funeral, 11 a.m. Wednesday, Hamilton-Stanley Funeral Home, Verona. Visitation after 5 p.m. Tuesday.

WAYNESBURG Helen Estes Roberts, 76, died Sunday in Stanford. Her husband, Thomas, survives. Funeral, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Bar-nett Demrow Funeral Home. Visitation after 6 p.m.

Monday. WHITESVILLE Willis Marvin Burdette, 84, died Friday in Owensboro. Funeral, 2 p.m. Monday, Old Panther Creek Baptist Church. Visitation at Cecil Funeral Home after 10 a.m.

Monday. WHITLEY CITY Flora Moses, 86, died Friday in Somerset. Funeral, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Davis Hill Church of God. Visitation at the church after 5 p.m.

Monday. Arrangements: McCreary County Funeral Home. Agnes Lorena O'Bryan, a native of Madisonville. Funeral: 9 a.m. Tuesday, St.

Louis Bertrand Catholic Church, 1104 S. Sixth St. Visitation: Ratterman's-Bardstown Road, 3800 Bardstown Road, 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Monday. Robert W.

Pedlgo, 80. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, St. Bernard Catholic Church, 7500 Tangelo Drive. Arrangements: McAfee Funeral Home.

Kevin Price Russell, 33, of 8113 Sprint Court. Funeral: 2 p.m. Tuesday, Winn Funeral Home, Horse Cave. Gertrude Upsey Tlmberlake, 89, a native of Hart County. Funer al: noon Monday, W.G.

Hardy bravely funeral Home, 4101 Dixie Highway. Mattle Lou Wald, 99, a native of Alliston. Funeral: 2:30 p.m. Mon day, Ratterman's, 3711 Lexington Road. William Earl West, 80, a native of Anderson County.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Monday, Willhite-Ballard-Heady Funeral Home, 11507 Main Middle-town. Mrs. Albln H. Wunderllch, 86, Jager Avenue.

Funeral: 1 p.m. Tuesday, St. Albert the Great Catholic Church, 1405 Techny Lane. Visitation: Barrett Funeral Home, 1230 Bardstown Road, 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Monday.

Mary E. Yancey, 72, Harrisburg, formerly of Louisville. Memorial service: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Capital Presbyterian' Church, Harris burg. Visitation: at the church after the memoriaf service.

first gospel hit, "If You See My Savior, Tell Him That You Saw Me." The music wasn't immediately accepted by the church, but by 1968 things had changed. That year'tiis greatest hit, "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," was sung at the Rev, Martin Luther King funeral. Dorsey wrote it in 1931 after his first wife died during childbirth and their baby died a day later. In 1932 the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago hired him to direct its choir. That same year he filled the church for the first Gospel Singer Convention, and the organization has endured as the nation's foremost gospel group.

In 1992 Dorsey was honored with the National Academy of Recording Arts Sciences National Trustees Award. His explanation for gospel remained simple: "Down through the ages, the gospel was good news." Dorsey is survived by his second wife, Kathryn, his daughter, Doris, his son, Mickey, and four grandchildren. school year, 6,300 signed up in 1991-92 and as many as 6,500 may enroll this year. There has been criticism that state leaders want to impose restrictions on the program to save money since the time to pay the tuition of the first group of students is near-ing. But Bayh spokesman Fred Nation said the administration hasn't backed off its commitment to the 21st Century Scholars Program.

"It would be inconceivable to me to imagine that this administration would not carry out our commitment to the program," Nation said. He said the Bayh administration supports a $483,000 budget item for the coming fiscal year for the 21st Century Scholars to support students as they prepare for post-secondary education. The program is estimated to cost an estimated $20 million to $30 million per year when implemented. machine pizza The American Pizza Kitchen, is about the size of an ordinary snack machine. Frozen pizzas are stacked on a carousel, and when pizza is ordered, it is lifted into the oven to be cooked with ihfra red light.

"It makes good pizza," said Jason Riseling, who works at the food counter near the machine. day! LOUISVILLE AREA FUNERALS The latest in snacking: vending Harold E. Brown, 58, South Louisville, a native of Gleanings. Funeral: 1 p.m. Tuesday, Joseph E.

Ratterman Son South End Funeral Home, 7330 Southside Drive. Visitation: 2-9 p.m. Monday and after 11 a.m. Tuesday. Lacy DeWItt, 74.

Funeral: 11 a.m. Tuesday, A. D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, 1300 W. Chestnut St.

Visitation: after 6 p.m. Monday. Mildred Dold, 81. Funeral: 11 a.m. Monday, Owen Funeral Home, 5317 Dixie Highway.

Delia Mae Goldsmith, 88, of 316 N. Birchwood Ave. Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday, Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road. C.

R. "Red" Jenkins, 59, formerly of Louisville. Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Madison.

Arrangements: Laughlin Service Funeral Home, Huntsville, Ala. Delia Sennlnger Letson, 72. Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday, McAfee Funeral Home, 4501 Bardstown Road. Alma Laura Beck Mann, 89, formerly of Louisville.

Committal service: 2:30 p.m. Monday, Rest-haven Chapel, 4400 Bardstown Road. Visitation: Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, p.m. Monday. Ollle Mae Dawson Mann, 78, Shepherdsville, a native of Bullitt County.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Hardy-Close Funeral Home, Shepherdsville. Visitation: 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday and after 9 a.m. Associated Press GREENWOOD, Ind.

When bowlers at the Southern Bowl crave a hot slice of pepperoni pizza, they don't look for a telephone they look for a vending machine. For about $2, the American Pizza Kitchen will heat a 6-inch pep We deliver, every 582-2211 l-8f2211.