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THE TENNESSEAH, Soturdoy, Dttwnb 31, 1977 23 Clyde W. Murrell EATON. Mrs. Nancv Bigg RIVERS, Mr. Pat-Of 4215 Cash buyers are looking for boats and marine equipment in today's Want Ads.

Is your offer there? Dial 254-1031 Vamell L. Sheets MURFREESBORO-Ser-vices for Varnell L. Sheets. Varnal L. Sheets, 71, a retired research chemist of Mur-freesboro, will be at 1:30 p.m.

today at Woodfin Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Sheets died Thursday in Rutherford Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Frances Sheets; a daughter.

Mrs. W. Glen Emery, Murfreesboro; two brothers. Rowan Highland, and Clifton 11. Sheets, Hebron, two sisters, Eileen Cornish, Hebron, James R.

Baker COLUMBIA, Robert Baker, 70, of Columbia, a retired city employee, died yesterday in Maury County Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home. Burial will be in Williamsport Cemetery. SurviYors include his wife, Mrs.

Beula Baker- three daughters, Mrs. Viola Cunningham and Mrs. Donald Campbell, Columbia, and Mrs. Eunice Ellis, Denver; two sons, Charles and Robert Baker, Columbia; two stepsons, Sam and Harold Roberts, Columbia; two sisters, Mrs. Luella Cates, Nashville, and Mrs.

Dewey Cates, Columbia; five brothers, Ernest, Centerville, Tommy. Nashville, Clyde, Walter and Johnny Baker, Columbia; 17 grandchildren, nine step-grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. Arch W. Cooley CENTERVILLE, Tenn Arch W. Cooley, 51, of Dickson, a retired steel worker and a veteran of World War II, died yesterday in Veterans Hospital, Nashville.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at McDonald Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hilltop Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bernice Stringer Cooley; three sons, Roger and John, Detroit, and Rickey Cooley, Muskogee, a daughter, Mrs.

Pat Toney, Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. Martha Stages, Centerville, Mrs. Helen Gardner. Lvles, In Memoriam ST0NER In loving memory of JACK O. SlUNtK Remembered end Loved Every Day Mother, Dad.

Sliter and Brother! Legals ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIOS Project Number 04-51-21772 Princeton Caldwell County Park Board. Owner Separate sealed bids for Princeton Caldwell County Park for Construction of .1 Swimming Pool and Batn- Vt ouse will be received by ft Princeton Caldwell County 7 Park Board at the Prince- Hi ton, Kentucky City Hall untilfti- 'A P.M.. r.S.T.J- January 11, 1978. and then Smyrna. Tn COOPER, Winston-Of Route 2.

Murfreesboro. Ace 64 December 30, 1977. Survived by wife, Mrs. Ruby batey cooper; Dromer, Bert Cooperi Dyersburg; sister, Mrs. Edith Webber, Clinton.

Remains are at Walter King Hoover Funer al Home, where funeral services will be held Sunday, January 1, 1978, 2:30 PM, conducted by Hev Woodrow Medlock. Honorary Pallbearers. John Gibbs, Jim Maston, Charles Foster, Charlie and Jim Tucker, Stanley Pitts, Elmer Jackson, Joe Lane, Robert Gwynne, Al mond Chaney. Dr. Free borne.

Dr. Workman, Gor don Summers, Eugene Norris and Dick Hyde. Active, Military VFW. Interment Mapleview Ceme tery. WALTER KING HOOVER, Funeral Home, Smyrna.

459-3410 Waverly, Tn Nashville. Tn BATES, Alvin Wesley-Age 84, at Nautilus Memorial Hospital in Waverly, Thursday uecemDer za. Survived dv daughter. Mrs. JaneRychen; three grandsons, John Wesley, Michael and Charles E.

Rychen, all of Waverly; one great grandson, John Wesley Rychen, Waverly; two brothers, Herbert M. Bates, Mt. Juliet and H.P. Bates, St. Petersburg, three sisters, Mrs.

Lillian Gam ble, Columbia, Mrs. Charles Hicks, St. Petersburg, Fla. and Mrs. J.T.

Mims. Tallahassee. Fla. Mr. Bates was a native of Columbia, Tenn.

and active with the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company in Davidson County tor titty years. He was a member of the Board of Trusts of Columbia Military Academy, a fifty year member of the Columbia Masonic Lodge, and active in the Sunday School of Woodmont Baptist Church for thirty years. Remains are at the Hermitage Chapel on Shute Lane, Roesch Patton Dorris Charlton where services will be conducted Saturday December 31 at 11 AM by Dr. William Sherman. Emtombment in Hermitage Mausoleum.

Pallbearers will be grandsons and nephews. J.W. Rychen, Michael S. Rychen, Charles E. Rychen, S.M.

Ford, E.J. Wrenn, Robert E. Wrenn. Herbert M. Bates, Jr.

and Herbert M. Bates, III. Honorary pallbearers are General Agents and Agents of New England Mutual Life Insur- ance Company and E.R. McMillm and William Rainey Insurance Companies, Faculty and Board of Trust of Columbia Military Academy, members of the Columbia Masonic Lodge, the Wallace Green Sunday School Class of Woodmont Baptist Church, C.E. Feld-kircher, J.

Andrew Stumb, R.D. Fulcher, David S. Morse, John H. Hollin-shead, Ed Friedli, Seymour Samuels, Kenneth Hus-sey, Dr. Gerald Halperen.

Dr. James Anderson, all of Nashville, Herman Forrest, Homer Adams, Dr. Joe McClure, of Waverly, Steve Lee, Mose Sharpe, Fairview, Theodore Marsh, Naples, Hugh Berry, of Memphis, Tenn. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Humphreys County Nursing Home, in Waverly. Family will receive friends Friday afternoon and evening at Hermitage Chapel, Shute Lane.

Roesch Patton Dorris Charlton. Arrangements by LUFF-BOWEN FUNERAL HOME, in Waverly. 6 Special Notices Friday morning December 30, 1977 at a local infirmary. Survived by sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence E. Lulley Nephew; jonn weal cui lev both of Nashville. Cous ins; Mrs. Ophie Bauman Timberlake, Lexington, 1 Mrs. Mildred Palmer, In diana.

Her remains are at the Chapel of Martin Bracey-Welsh, 209 Louise Ave. Family and friends will meet at the gravesite for graveside service ana interment. Mt. Olivet Cemetery Rev. John Neal Cuiley oinciating Saturday morning al MARTIN BRACEY-WELSCH INC 327-1032 DENSON, Henry Miller-J Suddenly December 29, 1977 at Franklin County Hospital.

Survived by wife Mrs. Mary uenson; sisters Mrs. Sadie Belle Stephens Mrs. Lena Mai Stephens Mrs. Margaret Kuhn, Mrs Elizabeth Hipps: brother, Eddie Denson.

Remains are at the Madison Funeral Home, 219 Old Hickory Blvd. Complete arrange ments wui be announced later. MADISON FUNER AL HOME DIRECTORS, 868-9020. Mt. Juliet, Tenn, COOK, Miss Celestia Marie Age 89.

Died December 29, 1977 at McKendree Manor, Survived by sister, Mrs, Palatka, several nieces and nepnews. She was a bockKeeper and ute time member of Vine St, Christian Church. Graveside services will be at Spring Hill Cemetery, Mon day, January 2 at 10:00 a.m. witn ur. U.K.

McCOlI officiating. Friends will serve as pallbearers. MT. JULIET FUNERAL HOME, 758-5459. Auburn, Ky COKE, Mr.

W. Gaston-Died at the Auburn Nursing Center Friday morning, December 30 at of a lengthy illness. Funeral will be conducted at 2 o'clock Saturday at the U.S.A. Presbyterian Church in Auburn, Ky, the Rev. Boyd Jordan officiating.

Burial in the McCut-chen Coke Meadows. Mr. Coke is survived bv his wife, Mrs. Esther Under-, wood Coke of Auburn- two sons, Mr. James J.

Coke, III. of Kent, Ohio and Mr. William Gaston Coke of Nashville: one daughter, Miss Esther W. Coke of Verona, New Jersey; seven grandchildren; one great grandchild; one sister, Mrs. Mary Bush, of Auburn.

YOUNG FUNERAL HOME, in charge of arrangements. PIPKIN, Mrs. Clera Mae- Age 69 years. December 29, 1977 at a local infirmary. Survived by husband; Dewey L.

Pipkin, Nashville. Daughters; Mrs. Mary Johnston, Mrs. Carolyn Deal, Nashville. Step Daughter Mrs.

Juanita Jones, Nashville. Stepson Richard L. Pipkin, Indianapolis, In-' diana. Brothers; Emerson T. Keaton and John N.Kea-ton both of Nashville.

Seven Grandchildren. The remains are at the Woodbine Funeral Home 3620 Nolens-ville Rd. Where services will be conducted Saturday morning December 31, 1977 at 10:00 A.M. by Reverend Hubert Covington. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery.

Pallbearers' J. Vaul Jones, George D. Jack R. Johnston, David L. Johnston, Jack Mayfield, Bill Garett and Ken WOODBINE FUNERAL HOME Directors 832-1948 i Special Notices said office publicly opened anri read aloud.

The Information for Bidders, Form of Bid, Form of Contract, Plans, Specifications, and Forms of Bid Performance and I Payment Bond, and other contract documents may be 1 examined at the following: Miller, Wihry Lee, Landward Court, 2U7 Bel-court Avenue. Nashville, Tennessee, 37212 Miller, Wihry Lee, Landward House, 1387 South Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40208 Princeton City Hall, Princeton, Kentucky Pennyrile Area Development District, Hammond Plaza, Building 609, Fort Campbell Boulevard, Hop-kinsvllle, Kentucky. Copies may be obtained at the offices of Miller, Lee, located at Nashville, Tennessee and the Princeton City Hall upon payment of SI 00.00 for each set. Any unsuccessful bidder, WANT AD INFORMATION Clniilied Hour, on Mandoy through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Soruroov 7:30 m.

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An ad cannot bt concilltd btfort publication, it must ap-poor al least 1 day. SORRY but no ods, corrections or conciliations accepted Saturday lor tht Sunday paper btcouM oi mechanical restrictions. Daily Clatsilied ads ore published in Tht ttnnitltan end will bt published again an tht torn day in tht Nashville tamer. Doily rates quoted include insertion in both The Temossean morning paper and the Nosh, ville Banner evening publication. The Sunday Temesstan is counted as one day.

Right ii reserved la classify and rndei Classihed ods according lo rules governing Ckssilied pages. The Nashville tanner and The Tomsttan also reserve the right to revise or reject ot option, orry advertising which ii deemed obieclionabli either sufcfKt motter or i phraseology Newspaper Printing Corporation Agent For The Tennessean Moming-Sundoy Nashville Banner Evenina 6 Special Notices Soviets To Help Build Projects in Turkey ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey and the Soviet Union have signed agreements for projects to be out with Soviet 'economic and technical 'aid in Turkey. The money value was not given. The agreements cover the expansion of three installations built with previous Soviet credits an oil refinery on the Aegean coast, an iron and steel plant on the eastern Mediterranean coast and an aluminum plant in central --Turkey. They also call for Soviet credits in the construction two thermal power plants and an oil refinery on the Black Sea coast, and laboratory and technical work for realization of an iron ore extraction project.

Paul Bailey TULLAHOMA Paul L. Edward) Bailey, 59, a Tulla-homa city employee and a veteran of World War II, died yesterday in Harton Memori- al Hospital. I Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home. Burial will in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hollie Elizabeth Bailey; two brothers, Durward and Jeff Bailey, Tullahoma; and five sisters, Mrs. Pearline Mines. Mrs. Minnie Tankers-ley, Mrs.

Margeret Smith, Mrs. Lorene Miles and Mrs. Eunice Eslick, Tullahoma. Cruise SPARTA, for Haskell Cruise, 54, of Don-elson, an economist for the U.S. Department of Agricul- ture, will be at 1:30 p.m.

today at Tnurman Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mount Gi- lead Cemetery. Cruise, a veteran of World War II, died Thursday in Parkview Hospital, Nashville. Survivors include his wife, Jessie Gross Cruise: a son, Robert Cruise, Clarks-" ville; a daughter, Judy Ko-vach, Dover, and his mother, Mrs. Kenneth Cruise, Sparta.

Forrest L. Inman LINDEN, for Forrest Lee Inman, 80, of Linden, a retired public works employee here, will be at 10 a.m. today at McDonald Funeral Home. Burial will be Culp Chapel Cemetery. Inman died Thursday in Wayne County Hospital Hos- pital, Waynesboro.

There were no immediate survivors. Mrs. lovie Dinning PORTLAND, Lovie Dinning, 81, of Portland, died yesterday in Franklin Simpson Memorial Hospital, Franklin, Ky. Services will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Wilkinson and Wiseman Funeral Home here.

Burial will be in Mequire Cemetery. Survivors include a daugh-. ter, Mrs. Tom Keith. four sisters, Mrs.

Ola Hinton and Mrs. Maudie Harper, Portland, Mrs. Ruth Stamps. Franklin, and Mrs. Mildred Beard, Bucyrus, Ohio; four sons, Hubert, Indianapolis, Everett, Artie, Franklin, and Horace Dunn, Akron, Ohio; grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.

Xorroll G. Tidwell DICKSON-Carroll Glen Tidwell, 53, a retired farmer of Bon Aqua, died yes- '--terday at his home. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Dickson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Tidwell New Hope Baptist Church cemetery in Hickman County.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bessie Lee Tidwell; a son, James Carroll Tidwell, Bon Aqua; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Pendergrass, Bon Aqua, and Mrs. Hester Tid- well, Ferndale, and a grandchild. Mrs.

Lena Riley CAMDEN, for Mrs. Lena Rivers Riley, I 76, of Camden, will be at 11 a.m.todavatStockdale-Malin Funeral Home. I Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens, Jackson, I Tenn. Mrs. Riley died Thursday in Care Inn Nursing Home here.

Survivors include a daugn-' ter, Mrs. Ann Horne.Cam-: den; a son, William T. Williamson, Jackson, three sisters, Mrs. Lois Fox, Mrs. Claiborne Hall, and Mrs.

Kinslow, Memphis. DICKSON-Services for Clvde Wilson Murrell, 57, of Dickson, a clerk at Jackson Drue Store here for 31 years will be at 2 p.m. today at Dickson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Union Cemeterv. Murrell died Thursday in Dickson General Hospital Survivors include his mother, Mrs.

Hubert Altha Miller. Dickson; his stepfa ther. Hubert Miller. Dickson; a brother, James Thomas Murrell, Dickson, and two sisters. Miss Marv Murrell Stewart, Tenn.

and Mrs. Neta Choate, Wngley, Tenn. ptxttfpatxitB SWEENEY, Robert Franklin Jr. Thursday bveinmg, Dec. 29, 1977, at his resi dence.

Survived by wife, Mrs. Marie Orand Sweeney; son. Charles David Sweeney: 2 Granddaugh ters. Erin and Shannon Sweeney; sister, Mrs. Beech (Sadie Bell) Tar Dlev: brother.

James Sweeney, Sr. Remains are at the Broadway tnapel, 1715 Broadway, where funeral services will be con ducted Saturday at 11:00 A.M. Dy fcugene men. in terment Woodlawn Ceme (prv Honorary Pallbear ers, Elders ana Deacons of Hillsboro Church of Christ. Active.

Paul Hassee, J.R. Sweeney, Warner Wil liams, Herman uwnes, Ralph Beard, Ray Frizzell, Jim Corder, Henry Ward. David Johnston and Charles Beasley. ROESCH PATTON DORRIS CHARLTON, Broadway Chapel, 1715 Broadway, 244-6480 BAKER, Miss Maudie Old Hickory, Thursday evening December 29 at Madison Hospital. Survived by one sister, Mrs.

Hettie Jarratt of Old Hickory: three nieces, Mrs. Carl Gardner, of Santa Fe. Mrs. Roy Hunt, of Hollow Rock, Mrs. Ruby Miller of Old Hickory; two nephews, Robert Vincent Jarratt ot Goodlettsville.

Marion Baker, of Knoxville; and several great nieces and nephews. The remains are at Madison Funeral Home, 219 Old Hickory Blvd. where funeral services will be conduct1 ed Saturday December 31 at 2 o'clock, by Bro. Winfred Ritter and Bro. Grady Scott.

Interment Spring Hill Cemetery. MADISON FUNERAL HOME, Directors. 868-9020. TROXLER, Robert Thom asAge 33. Memorial ser vice Saturday 12:00 noon at Smith Boat Dock.

Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville conducted Rev. David Graybill. Survived by two sons.Lwing Erwing, 1 enn. mother and father, Broadus C. Troxler.

Greeneboro, N.C.; one brother, John Troxler, Flowing Rock, N.C.; three sisters, Gale Scott Troxler, St. Paul, Rosemary R. Pharr, Nashville and Kimbely C. Troxler, Greeneboro; grandmother, Mrs. Gale Scott Reed.

Long Beach, Calif. THE FAMILY WISHES MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE MADE TO THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. Cookeville, Term. ALLEN, Vada Fri day Dec. 30, 1977 at Cookeville General Hospital.

Survived by three daughters, Mrs. Lou McCormick, Liv-ington, Mrs. Vallie Newman, Huntsville Mrs. Clarissa McDaniel, Nashville one son, Harlan Allen, Morristown, eight; grandchildren; four great grandchildren. Her remains are at Hooper and Huddleston Funeral Home where funeral services will be conducted Saturday Dec.

31 at 2 PM with Rev. Logan Tilghman officiating. Pallbearers, John, Donald and Paskel Allen. Millard Pippin, Jack Crab-tree, Norman Conner. Interment Morgan Pippin Cemetery.

HOPPER AND HUDDLESTON FUNERAL HOME in charge of arrangements. Nashville, Tn Manchester. Tn McMAHAN, Ruth Stokman-Friday. December 30, 1977, of Nashville. Survived by husband, James Thurston McMahan; son, James Thurston McMahan, step mother, Mrs.

Irene Stokman Pettus, Hendersonville; sister, Mrs. Frances Sonnenskein, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. McMa-han's body will be a the funeral home of Phillips-Robinson 2707 Gallatin Rd.

Saturday and will be transferred on Sunday to Manchester Funeral Home, Manchester, Tenn. where services are to be held Monday, January 2, 1978 at 1:00 PM with burial at Shady Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers: Jack McMahan, Richard Brown, Doyle Brown. Doug Brown, Steve Goforth and Howard Go-forth. MANCHESTER FU-NERAL HOME, in charge.

Harding Road, Nashville, Thursday. December 29 1977. Survived by wife, Mrs Frances Ball Rivers Nashville; son, Dale Bat Rivers, of Blacksburg.Va daugher, Judith Lynn Shupe of Boston, Mass. sisters, Mrs. Ethel Edison and Mrs.

Pearl cotton, Dotn of Worchcster. also survived by two children Cremation. Arrangements by WOODLAWN FUNER AL HUME, 383-4754. BRINKLEY, Mrs. Bessie Patton Age 66 years, sud denly Thursday mormng December 29, at her home Survived by daughters Mrs.

Jessie Bender, Good- lettsville, Miss LaSalle Allen, Madison; son, Robert L. Brinkley, Goodletts- ville; seven grandchildren eieht ereat grandchildren daughter in law, Mrs Mvmie Brinkley sisters Mrs. Hattie Stanton, Mrs Fannie Lou Cornell brother in law. Webb Stan ton; one step grandson; a host of nieces, nephews. cousins, and friends; dear friends, Mr.

and Mrs. Alvin Johnson. Remains" are at the First Baptist Church Cafe Street. Goodlettsville where family will receive inenas irom until rm Saturday evening Decem ber 31. Funeral services will be conducted from the above church Sunday after noon January 1 at 1 o'clock by Rev.

Herbert Kutner ford and Rev. Floyd Phil lips. Pallbearers will be her nepnews ana cousins. Flowerladies will be select ed from her friends. Inter ment.

Benevolent Ceme tery. COLE AND GARRETT, Goodlettsville. LYELL. Master Set. Re tired James William Lyell.

December 29. in Greenville, South Carolina. Survived by wife: Mrs. ChiyoYoshida (Kay) Lyell. Two sisters: Mrs.

Dorothy Wood and Mrs. Elizabeth Compton both of Nashville. Remains will arrive in Nashville at 9:33 p.m. Fri dav Dec. 30 will be con veyed to the Ellis Funeral Home where memorial ser vices will be conducted 2:30 cm.

Sunday by the Rev. Hubert Covington. In lieu of iiowersmane contriDuuons to the Heart Fund. ELLIS FUNERAL HOME Direc tors, 255-5412 CLARK, W.M. (Bill) Age 63 years, Thursday evening, December 29, at Nashville Memorial Hospital.

Survived by wife, Mrs. Helen Holloway Clark; daughter, Mrs. Jere (Beverly) Clark; Buddie, and Tere Clark, all of Goodlettsville; sister, Mrs. Minnie May Greer. Pegram brothers, Edward Clark, Kingston springs, Hay Clark, Pegram.

Remains are at the Cole and Garrett Funeral Home, Goodlettsville where services w'll be conducted Saturday aKernoon December 31 at 1:30 o'clock by Ray Frizzell. Honorary Pall bearer: Llders ot Goodlettsville Church of Christ. Jimmy Martin, Lyle Ro- nerson, Mason Hamiett, Dr. G.S. Po, W.M.

Ketring, Glenn Garrett, E.E. Alley, Ollie Jones, E.E. Hinkle, Tom N. Cox, W.O. Barnett, DuPont Stores Employees.

Active Pallbearers: Ker-mit Draper, Ty. C. Draper, Leon Bolding. Earl D. Bil-brey, D.C.

McGavoc, Cle-more Tidwell, Homer Huddleston, Bob Batey, Spence Talley. Interment Spring Hill Cemetery. COLE It GARRETT, Goodlettsville. JOHNSON, Robert (Rob)-Of Nashville, Thursday morning December 29, 1977. Survived by wife, Mrs.

Mary Krantz Johnson, Nashville daughter, Ernestine Johnson, Chicago; sons, Vernon R. Johnson. Madison, Jimmy W. Johnson, White House, Harold E. Johnson, Old Hickory, Tony M.

Johnson, Nashville; eleven grandchildren; sisters, Mrs. Sadie Norman, Mrs. Jessie Brown, Nashville; brother, Silas Johnson, Ashland City. Remains are at Anderson Garrett Funeral Home, Joelton where services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock by Rev. Fred John-son.

Interment Krantz Cemetery. ANDERSON GARRETT FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Joelton. Gordonsville, Tn WATTS, Mrs. Irene Parker-Wednesday December 28, 1977 at a Carthage Hospital. Survivors, husband, Cecil G.

Watts, of Gordonsville: son, Kenneth G. Watts, of Lebanon; daughter, Mrs. Reba Korman, of Tom's River, New Jersey; sisters, Mrs. Carrie Paty, of Nashville, Mrs. Lassie Oakley, of Lebanon; six grandchildren; two great grandchildren.

Remains are at J.L. Bass Funeral Home, Gordonsville, Tenn. where services will be conducted from the chapel Saturday morning December 31 at 11 AM. Interment Gordonsville Cemetery. J.L.

BASS FUNERAL HOME, INC. 683-8212. and Mabel Winder, Los Angeles, and two grandchildren. Miss Florance Gafford DICKSON-Miss Florance Gafford, 75, of Dickson, died yesterday in Dickson General Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.

tomorrow at Oak Avenue Church of Christ. Burial will be in Cumberland Furnace Cemetery. The body is at Taylor Funeral Home. There were no immediate survivors. George Williams CLARKSVILLE Services for George Williams, 74, of Clarksville, a retired farmer and a veteran of World War II, will be at 2 p.m.

today at McReynolds-Nave Funeral Home. Burial will be in Dotsonville Cemetery. Williams died Thursday in arksville Memorial Hospi tal. Survivors include five step daughters, Mrs. Mai Shelton Mrs.

Louise aneiton, Mrs Lois Smith, Mrs. Edna Fletcher, Mrs. Ellen Benton, Clarksville: tour sisters, Mrs Mollie Howard, Mrs. Mildred Shelton, Mrs. Alene Shelton and Mrs.

Sadie Kingsmill, uiarKsviiie; two nan brothers, Jessie, Clarksville and Edward Sanders, Hous ton. Texas, and 24 stepgrand- chiidren. W. Gaston Coke AUBURN, Gaston Coke, 82, of Auburn, a prominent Logan County business man, died yesterday in Au burn Nursing center. Services will be at 2 p.m.

today at U.S.A. Presbyterian Church Burial will be in McCutchen-Coke Meadows Cemetery, Coke is the former owner of Coke Chevrolet Company. Auburn, and was the owner of Auburn Farm Center and Russellvule, Ky Farm Center. He was a founder of the Western Kentucky branch of Production Credit Association and was a member of the PCh board of directors. He was also co-founder of Logan County Telephone Cooperative and served as its president from 1964 until 1976.

Survivors include his wife. Mrs. Esther Scotl Underwood Coke: Uo sons, William G. Nashville, and Dr. James i.

Coke ill, Kent, Ohio; Verona, N.J. a sister, Mis. Benjamin j. tsusn, AUDurn; seven grandchildren and great-grandcnud. Emerson M.

Smith LAWRENCEBURG, Tenn. Services for Emerson Milton Smith, 78, a retired farmer of Summertown, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at North Funeral Home. Burial will be in SgSum-mertown Cemetery. Smith died Thursday in Maury County Hospital, Columbia, Tenn.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ethel Glass Smith; two daughters, Mrs. J.B. Mitchell, Summertown, and Mrs. JanemBeJames Bennett, Nashville; a son, William L.

(Billy) Smith, Summertown: a sister, Mrs. Charlie Butler, Nashville: five brothers, Aimer. Dennie and Robert, Nashville, Clarence. Chatta nooga, and Connie Smith, Fayetteville, 10 grandchildren, and 11 greatgrandchildren. GUT1IER1E, John 29, 1977.

Survived by niece. Mrs. Josephine Heplin, Ohio and Mrs. Betty Allen of Nashville; one brother. Earl R.

Gutherie of Nashville. Remains rest at the funeral home of Phillips-Robinson 2707 Gallatin Road. Graveside services are to be held at 1:30 PM at Spring Hill Cemetery, Saturday. December 31, 1977. Friends will serve as pallbearers.

PHILLIPS-ROBINSON Directors. i. Florals from $12.50 24 Hour Phone i 327-0202 Order and say it" ml and Mrs. Wilma Stewart, Columbia, and eight grandchildren. Mrs.

Effie E. Crawford SPRINGFIELD, for Mrs. Effie Elizabeth Crawford, 81, of Springfield, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at First United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Robertson County Memorial Gardens.

The body is at Associated Funeral Home. Survivors include two sons, George Edward and Rodney S. Crawford, Greenbrier; a daughter, Mrs. Edward Car-nell, Springfield- two sisters, Mrs. Glennie Hooks, Nashville, and Mrs.

Roy Warren, Greenbrier; seven grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. Phinis W. Shepherd GAINESBORO, for Phinis W. Shepherd, a retired employee of Buddd Wheels Co. of Detroit, will be at 1 p.m.

today at Anderson Funeral Home. Burial will be in John L. Clark Memorial Cemetery. Shepherd died Wednesday at his home in Detroit. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Marie Godsey Shepherd; a son, Danny Shepherd, Detroit; a brother, Dewey Shepherd, Gainesboro; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Dudney, Gainesboro, Mrs. Naomi Greenwood, Cookeville, and Mrs. Emily Lackey, Mount Juliet, Tenn. Mrs.

Ada A. Tankersley LEWISBURG, for Mrs. Ada Allen Tankersley, 78, of Lewisburg, will be at 10:30 a.m. today at London Funeral Home. Burial will be in Lone Oak Cemetery.

Mrs. Tankersley died Thursday in Community Hospital. Survivors include three sons, James, Bells, Douglas, Lewisburg, and Allen Tankersley, Nashville; a sister, Miss Rose Evans, Lewisburg; 15 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Eunice Dean LEWISBURG, Eunice Dean, 68, of Lewis- burg, died yesterday in Merr- hill Nursing Home.

services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at London Funeral Home. Burial will be in Whor-ley Cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Donnis Little, Lewisburg; two sons, Carl Cozart, Cornersville.

and Teddy Cozart, Lewisburg; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Bell Cozart and Mrs. Ethel Lewisburg; a brother, Earl Rodgers, Lewisburg; 13 grandchildren, and live great-grandchildren. John Ed Crutcher CHAPEL HILL, Tenn John Ed Crutcher, 83, of Chapel Hill, a retired died yesterday in Lewisbu-Community Hospital, Lewisburg. Services will be at 1 p.m.

today at Lawrence Funeral home. Burial will be in Swan-son Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Agnes Hazelwood; two daughters, Mrs. Elbert Burrow, Flat Creek community, and Mrs.

Wayne Arrington, Franklin, six sons, Glenn Spring Hill, A.C. and William, Lewisburg, J.D. and Marvin, Chapel Hill, and Clyde Crutcher, Cornersville, 17randchil-dren. and two If nx in THANKS TO YOU OUR CUSTOMERS FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO BE CLOSED DEC. 31st AND JAN.

1st 3 The Classified Depa tment will be closed on December 31 and January 1. For your convenience, the front counter will be open from 9 am til 8 pm on Dec. 3 1 and 4 pm til 8 pm on Jan. 1 The Classified Department will be open Monday, Jan. 2 from 7:30 am til 10:30 am for your convenience.

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