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CARD OP THANKS DEATHS 20 Morning Newt Wilmington, Dtl. April Obituaries of Delaware and the surrounding area graduate of Cornell College of Point until he retirement four years ago. After retirement he Miss Catherine M. Ford Dr. Roman Nestorovich JOHNSON We wish to thank relatives, friends, neighbors end Staff of the Memorial Hospital end Doctors for their many expressions of sympathy shown during the Illness and death of my Wife and our Mother, Bessie F.

Johnson. Husband and Daughter) IN MEMORIAM THOMPSON In loving memory of our nusDana, tamer, and granaramer, Norman O. Thompson, who passed away a year ago today, April 10, 1964. sadly missed by Wife, Children 4 Grandchildren WEAVER In loving memory of Leora M. Weaver who passed away April 10, 1964.

Sadly missed by Husband Harry and Children WEAVER In loving memory of our Grandmother Leora M. Weaver who passed away three years ago today, April 10, 1964. Sadly missed but never forootten 16 Grandchildren great grandchild DEATHS AYARS In Wilmington General Division on Apr. 1967. William husband of Nellie V.

Ayars of 2 State Tuxedo Park. Aged 82 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the services at the ROBERT T. JONES AND SON FUNERAL HOME, Newark, on Tues. afternoon, April 11, at 2:00 o'clock Interment at Silverbrook Cemetery, Friends may call at Funeral Home from 12 noon until 2:00 Tues.

BLANKENSHIP Johns Hopkins Hospital, lace A. husband of Mae Blankenship of Baltimore. Md. on adn 7, 1967. wa kton.

Md. Father of Wa ace Mrs, Dolly Loon, Michael, Berlin, Bonita and William Joseph Bankenship Aged 43 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the service at the HICKS home for FUNERALS, Bow and Stock ton Elkton. Md. on Wednesday at ternoon, April 12 at 2 o'clock.

Interment at Gilpin Manor Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday evening after 7 o'clock. BUSCH In this city on Apr. 8, 1967. William F.

Busch. husband of Dorothy Hannlgan Busch of 1131 Wagner Woodland Heights. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the MEALEY FUNERAL HOME, 703 N. Broom on Wed. morning, April 12, at 9:00 o'clock.

Requiem Mass at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Centerville Road, at 9:30 o'clock. Interment at Ca thedral Cemetery. Friends may call at tne r-unerai Home on Tuesday eve. ati.

7. CASSIDY In this city on April 7, 1967. Marv wife of the late James E. Cassidy of 1522 Sycamore St. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the MEALEY FUNERAL HOME, 703 N.

Broom on Tues. morning, Apr. 11, at 9:30 o'clock. Solemn Reauiem Mass at St. Elizabeth's R.C.

Church, at 10:00 o'clock. Interment at tatnedrai cemetery. Friends may call at the Funeral Home on Monday eve. after 7. COOPER In Baltimore, Maryland, on April 4, 1967.

James M. Cooper of Smyrna, Del. Aged 56 years. Relatives, friends and members of Smyrna Presbyterian Church, Dover Elks, Harrison Post 14, American Legion, and the Rotary Club of Smyrna are Invited to attend the funeral services at the MATTHEWS FUNERAL HOME, Smyrna, on Monday morning, April 10, at 10:00 o-ciock. interment at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

DABSON In the Delaware Division on Aor 8. 1967. Marv Martha Dabson wife of the late Harvey L. Dabson of W. 29th St.

Aged 93 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the services at the NICHOLS FUNERAL HOME, 210 N. James St. Newport on Monday morning, April 10 at 10 o'clock. Interment at Greensboro, Md.

There will be no view be omitted. ing, ine ram reauests that flowers DeSTAFNEY In this city on April 7, Naudain Helnel DeStafney of Yorklyn, Delaware. Aged 72 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the service. at the St.

James Episcopal Church, 2106 St. James Church Road, Hill Creek Hundred Street, on Tuesday morning, April 11 at 11 o'clock. Interment at Ad orning enurenvard cemetery. Frends may call at the McCRERY FUNERAL HOME, 3010 Kirkwood Highway, Prices Corner on Monday evening after 7. DOUGHERTY In Wilmington General Hospital on April 6, 1967.

Florence C. wife of J. Earl oougherty, of 228 Beverly Newark, Dei. Aged 72 years. Relatives and friends c- to attend tne services at the Fa rwnds Commun tv Church, Falrwlnds, Del.

on Mon. after noon, April 10 at 2 o'clock. Interment in will be no viewing. Arrangements by union Hi cemetery. Kennett sa.

There KUbtm i. juncs son, Newark, Dei. DRABKOWSKI In this city on April 7, 1967. John P. husband of the late Leokadva Drabkowskl of 1125 W.

4th St. Aged 76 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from the J. J. KARPINSKI FUNERAL HOME, 741 S.

Broom St. on Monday morning, April 10 at 8 o'clock. Requiem Mass at St. Hedwigs Church at 9 a.m. o'clock.

Penna. Cemetery. Arranaements bv the interment at mmacu ate Heart, Linwood JOHN F. YASIK FUNERAL HOME. DWYER At the Delaware Division on April 9, 1967.

Joseph Thomas Dwver. husband of Dorothy E. Dwyer, father of Joanne-Donna Lee, Marie, Jane Dwyer and Lillian Kunitz, brother of Mrs. Herbert Eastburn, Mrs. Louis Maisar, Mrs.

Daniel P. Madonna. Aged 60 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services from the CHANDLER FUNERAL HOME. Delaware Ave.

Jefferson on Wed. afternoon, Apr. 12, at 2:00 o'clock, interment at Grace-lawn Memorial Park. Friends may call at Chandler' Tuesday eve. EMMONS In Methodist Country Home of the late Frank and Lucy Emmons, on Apr.

8, 1967. corinne dauahter aunt or Mrs, Herbert c. Dillman of 4830 Kennett Pike. Aaed 87 vears. Services will be private from the McCRERY fu neral HOME, 3010 Kirkwood Prices Corner, on A Dr.

11. Inter ment at Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery. There will be no viewing. FORD In this city on Apr. 8, 1967, late Thomas F.

and Theresa Carroll Ford, and sister of Thomas J. Ford of 406 Grove Bellefonte. Aged 72 vears. catnerine M. horo, oauanter of the Relatives add trienos are invited to attend the funeral from the DOHERTY BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME.

1900 Delaware on Wed. morninq, Apr. 12, at 8:30 o'clock. Requiem Mass at St. Helena's R.C.

Church, Bellefonte, at 9:30 o'clock. Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. Friends may call at the uonerry urotners huneral Home on Tues. eve. aft.

7. FRENCH In Kent General Hospital, French Jr. husband of Catherine French, Dover, De on Aor 3. 1967. cec T.

55 Moore's Drive, Woodside, Del. Aged 43 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the TORBERT FUNERAL CHAPEL, Bradford Reed Dover. on Monday afternoon, April 10 at 1:00 o'clock. Interment at Gracelawn Memorial Park, Wilmington, Del.

On Monday, April 10 at 2:30 o'clock friends may call at the Gracelawn Memorial Chapel, Wilmington for a viewing and service prior to the interment in the adjoining cemetery. GRANT In West Chester, on Apr. late John A. Grant, of Chadd.Ford, Pa. Relatives and friends are invited to iva.

Mary c. Grant, wife of the attend the funeral services from the MEALEY FUNERAL HOME, 703 N. Broom Street, on Thurs. morning, Apr. 13, at 9:30 o'clock.

Requiem Mass at St. Cornelius R.C. Church, Ridge Concordsvllle, at 10:30 o'clock. interment at cathedra Cemeterv. Friends may call at the Mealey Funeral Home on weo.

eve. atter j. HAGUE In Morgan Nursing Home, Chesapeake City, on Apr. 6, 1967. ckina Ann Ulanua nf Flk inn.

mother of. John W. Hague and Mrs. KOSe n. INICMC, iaicr vi junn r.

Finn, Mrs. Charles Heath, Mrs. John Crouch. Aged 79 years. Requiem Mass rnnrenfinn fhnrrh.

Flk. ton, on Mon. morning, Apr. 10, at IrOO OCIOCK. imermeni hi auiuminy Cemetery.

Arrangements by the HICKS HUME run rvnennu. HOPE-ln this city on Apr. 8, 1967. Arthur husband of the late Ethel Sparks Hope of Delaware City. Aged 70 years.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the SPICER-MULLIKIN FUNERAL HOME, Delaware City, on Tues. morning, Apr. 11, at 11:00 o'clock. Interment at St. George's Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home on Mon. eve. arier services Jackson Lodge No. 19, AF AM at 7:30. LAKE At his residence Leeds, Mary.

land on April 7, 1967. Elmer H. husband of Helen Jane Lake father of Mrs. vi.Ia MHmlnntrtn fta! William iiaiaic Mrs. Richard Devonshire Elkton, Md.

r. .7 n.i..t.,. I- Aycu 3, yed-fs. Relatives anu HICMU3 are Invited to attend the funeral services at the Leeds Methodist Church on Tuesday morning, April 11 at 11 o'clock. Interment at Union Cemetery, Union Maryland.

The family will receive friends at the HICKS HOME for FUNERALS, Bow and Stockton Elkton, Md. on Monday evening after 7. LOEFFEL In this City on April 7, 1967. Marlon wife of Fremont Loeffel of Walthers Newark, Del. Aged 69 years.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the services at the McCRERY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, 3924 Concord Pike, Talleyville, on Mon. after, noon, Apr. 10, at 1:00 o'clock. Interment at Gracelawn Memorial Park. There will be no viewing.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that contributions be made to the First Church of Christ Scientist, 1201 Van Buren Del. MIDDLETON In this city on April 9, 1967. Elsie Elizabeth Middleton, of 224 W. 25th St. Aged 84 years.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend tha funeral services. AT CHANDLER'S new location, 2506 Concord Pike, on wed. afternoon, Apr. 12, at 2:00 o'clock. Interment at Mt.

Salem Cemetery. Frlendi may call at Chandler's Tues. eve. MOORE Suddenly In Dunllnden Acres on April 6, 1967. Peggy Susan daughter of Raymond E.

Sr. Marilyn Baldwin Moore of 67 St. John's Dunllnden Acres. Aged 3 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral from the McCRERY FUNERAL HOME, 3010 Kirkwood Hwy, Prices Corner on Monday morning, April 10 at 8:30 o'clock.

Mass of the Angels at St. Johns the Beloved R.C. Church, at 9:30 o'clock. Interment at All Saints Cemetery. NAUMAN In this city on April 7, 1967.

James L. husband of Estelle S. Nauman of 113 Glenslde Ave. Carrcroft. Aged 59 years.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the Memorial Services at Friends Meeting House, 4th West on Monday afternoon, April 10 at 2 o'clock. Interment Private. In lieu flowers, please make contributions to The Wilmington Friends Meeting. Arrangements by the McCRERY FUNERAL HOMES. O'CONNER In this city on April 1967.

Hugh J. husband of Theresa E. O'Conner of 401 Bancroft Parkway. Aged 58 years. Relatives, friends members of St.

Thomas's Holy Name are invited to attend the funeral from the MEALEY FUNERAL HOME, 703 N. Broom Street, on Monday morning, April 10 at 9:09 o'clock. Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Thomas's Church, at 9:30 o'clock. Interment at Cathedral Cemetery.

PARIS In Memorial Division on April 5, 1967. Mae, wife of the late Holland Paris of 403 W. 6th St. Aged 83 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services at tha NICHOLAS J.

CORLETO FUNERAL HOME. SOB N. Union St. On Tuesday morning, April 11 at 10 o'clock. Interment In Gracelawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Monday evening after 7. PARKER In this city on Apr. 9, 1967. Reverend Richard Parker, husband of the late Eva Parker, father of Audrey Knlaht, grandfather of Joseph and Rich ard Parker. Relatives, friends and members of New Calvary Baptist Church are invited to attend tne services at tne new Mount Bethel Baptist Church, 504 W.

5th on Sat. afternoon, Apr. 15, at 1:00 o'clock. Interment at Mt. Zion Ceme tery.

Friends may call at New Calvary Baptist Church Frl. eve. after o. Ar rangements by the GRAY FUNERAL HOME, PRESS-ln Vietnam on April 1, 1967. S.

P. 4 Victor husband of Elizabeth Weyl Press of 212 Clinton Del. City. Aged 25 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from the SPICER MULLIKIN FUNERAL HOME, Delaware City, on Mon.

morn ing, Apr. to, ar 8:45 o'clock. Requiem Mass at St. Paul's Church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment at St.

Paul's Cemetery. STEPTOE At Havre de Grace, Md In the Hartford Memorial on April 8, 1967. Mary A. Steptoe, widow of James Garfield Steptoe of 1701 N. Lincoln Mother of Myrtle S.

Mitchell, Garrett S. Steptoe, Pauline R. Lawrence, Charlotte L. Pleper, Lewis J. Steptoe Winifred S.

Dowd, sister of Jennie Whlteman. Aged 82 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services from the CHANDLER FUNERAL HOME, Delaware Ave. Jefferson on Tues. morning, Apr.

11, at 11:00 o'clock. Interment at Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call at Chandler's Monday evening. TAYLOR In Smyrna, Delaware on April 7, 1967. Samuel husband of the late Clara Taylor.

Formerly of Wilmington Area. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Requiem Mass on Monday morning, April 10 at 10 o'clock. At St. Mary's Church, 6th Pine Sts. There will be no viewing.

Arrangements by the MEALEY FUNERAL HOME. TEDOSSEJEW-ln this city on Apr. 8, 1967. serge, husband of the late Sofia I. Tedosseiew of Smvrna.

formerly of Wilmington. Aged 74 years. Requiem Mass at St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Church Wed. morning, April 12 at 8:00.

interment at Riverview cemeterv. There will be no viewing. Arrangements by the McCRERY FUNERAL HOME. THOMAS In this City on April 1967. Joseph father of Joseph C.

Thomas brother of Arthur Isaac E. Raymond 0. Thomas of 1138 Poplar St. Stepfather of Mary A. Dobson, Laura Bantum, and June Anderson.

Aged 82 years. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services from the Chippey Chapel A.U. Church, Hockessin, on Monday afternoon, April 10, at 1 o'clock. Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Arrangements by EDWARD R. BELL FUNERAL HOME. VIETRI-ln Memorial Div. this city on Apr 6, 1967. ra, fe of Anthony Vietrl Sr.

of 2611 Baxter Faulkland Heights. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from the NICHOLAS J. CORLETO FUNERAL HOME, 808 N. Union Street, on Mon. morning, Aor.

10. at 8:30 clock. Solemn Requiem Mass at St. Anthony's R.C. Church at 9:30 o'clock.

Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. WAGNER In this city on Apr. 9, 1967. Grace wife of Auaust C. Waaner of 123 Carlie Lynnfield, Wilminqton.

Aged 58 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the services at the St. James Episcopal Church, 2104 St. James Church Millcreek Hundred, on Wed. morning, Apr.

12, at 11:00 o'clock. Interment at Gracelawn Memorial Park. Friends may call at McCRERY FUNERAL HOME, 2700 Washington on Tues. eve after 7. Call 732-6871 10, 167 1...

Dr. Edwin Cameron health ojjicial Dr. Edwin Cameron dies at 67 Dr. Edwin Cameron, 67, a formor executive secretary of the Delaware State Board of Health, died Thursday in Clay Cily, Ky. At the time of his death, Dr.

Cameron was health officer for Wolfe, Powell and Menifee Counties in Kentucky. He was Delaware's chief public health officer from 1940 to 1949. A native of Nova Scotia, Canada, he received a degree in medicine from Dalhousie University in Halifax. He also held a master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. For two years after leaving Delaware, Dr.

Cameron served the Connecticut health department. Before taking the Kentucky post he had a tour of service in India for the World Health Organization, spent a year in Syria working for the U.S. State Department and practiced for a time in West Virginia. Dr. Cameron was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, and a member of the American Public Health Association and Kentucky Public Health Association.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Molly Cameron; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Dowd of Seaford and Mrs. Ann Burke of Cam den; a son, Dr. Donald Cameron, Wilmington, and 13 grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the Torbert Fu neral Home, Dover. Interment will be in Odd Fellows Ceme tery, Camden Friends may call at the funeral home from noon tomor row until funeral time. The fanv ily requests that flowers be omitted. Veteran of Spanish War dies Set. Harry W.

Connelly, 86, one of the area's few living SpanisH-American War veter ans, died Friday in the Veter ans Administration tenter in Martinsburg, W. where he had been a patient 10 years Sgt. Connelly, a native of Cen- treville, lived in Wilming ton most of his life. His home was at 1210 Lorrain Mar- shallton Heights A career soldier, he retired from the Army about 38 years ago, after 30 years of active service. He served in France in World War re-enlisting in the Army before the outbreak of that conflict.

Before going to the Martins- burg Center he was a guest at the Soldiers Home, Washington, for 18 years. He was a member of the Joseph P. Stahl Post 30 VFW, Wilmington. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Merle W.

Kemske of the Mar shall ton Heights address; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. His wife was the late Mrs. Mary P. Connelly. Private military services and Interment in Arlington National; Cemetery will be held at the convenience of the family.

Miss Corinne D. Emmons Miss Corinne D. Emmons, 87 if 1 --1 viti! -is -si Mrs. Harvey L. Dabson Mrs.

Mary M. Dabson, 93, widow of Harvey L. Dabson, ormcrly of 8 W. 29th died Saturday in Delaware Division after a long illness. She was a member of the Eastlake Methodist Church.

She was a native of Wilmington and spent most of her life in this area except for some early years in Greensboro, Md. Her late husband was a re tired Pennsylvania Railroad trainmaster. Sle is survived by a son, How ard L. Dabson Sr. of 307 Becker Woodcrest; three grand children, and a great-grand child.

Services will be at the Nichols Funeral Home, 210 N. James Newport, this morning at 10 with interment in Greensboro Cemetery. There will be no viewing, and the family asks that flowers bo omitted. Miss Nellie M. Hiestand PENNS GROVE, N.J.

Miss Nellie M. Hiestand, 74, of 712 Stale died Friday in the Salem County Memorial Hospi tal after a short illness. She was a retired employe of the Pcnns Grove Record and a member of Emmanuel Methodist Church here. Miss Hiestand is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Vander Beek of Phialdelphia.

Services will be Wednesday at noon in the Adams Funeral Home, 131 S. Broad Penns Grove, where friends may call an hour before the service. In torment will be in Lawnsidc Cemetery, Woodstown. Mrs. John J.

Myers PENNS GROVE, N.J. Mrs. Lillian A. Myers, 57, of 69 6th Ave. was pronounced dead on arrival at Salem County Memo rial Hospital Friday after being stricken at home with an appar ent heart attack.

She is survived by her hus band, John J. Myers; a son, Warren W. Smith here, and a daughter, Mrs. Leon Fertig, Lewisburg, both by a previous marriage; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a brother, Harry Kern of Baltimore, and three sisters, Mrs. Irene Kelly, Kennett Square, Mrs.

Violet Klingman, Mif- flinburg, and Mrs. Florence Flory, Baltimore. Services will be this morning at 9 in the Adams Funeral Home, 131 S. Broad Penns Grove. Graveside rites and In terment will be in Paradise Church Cemetery, Mill Hall, Pa.

Wallace A. Blankenship ELKTON, A. Blankenship, 43, of near Elkton died Friday in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, after a short illness. He was employed at the Chrysler Corp. Assembly Plant, Newark, He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Mae Blankenship; three sons, Wallace Elkton, Mi chael, Berlin, and William at home; two daughters, Mrs. Dol ly Loon, Elkton, and Bonita at home; two brothers, Charles E. of Wilford, and Berlin of Hurley, a sister, Mrs. Myr tle Spalding, New Castle, and a grandchild. Services will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 at the Hicks Home for Funerals, Bow and Stockton Elkton, where friends may call tomorrow night.

Interment will be in Gil pin Manor Memorial Park. Mrs. William C. Hicks Mrs. Catherine E.

Hicks, 77, of Portland, a former resident of Wilmington, died Friday at Portland Hospital after long illness. She moved to Portland from here 12 years ago, The widow of William C. Hicks, she is survived by seven children, William J. and James both of Portland, Charles A. and Mrs.

Eva M. Hoffman, both of Ebensburg, and Mrs. Mary Jane Garber, Mrs. Catherine Riley and Mrs. Mar- jorie Spear, all of Newark; 39 grandchildren and 22 great- grandchildren.

Services and be in Indiana. interment will James L. Nauman James L. Nauman, 59, of 113 Parei" neart alwCK He was a research chemist employed by the Delaware Re search and Development a trustee of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends and a director of the Brandywine-Mechanics Savings and Loan Association. Mr.

Nauman, a native of Iowa, had lived in the Wilming-j ton area for 27 years. He was a Iowa and received his Ph.D degree in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Before joining the research firm five years ago, Mr. Nau man was employed by Joseph Bancroft and Sons. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Estelle S.

Nauman; two daughters, Mrs. John P. Dough erty of Pleasantville, N.J., and Miss Carol W. Nauman, at home; a son, George a student at Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C., and a broth er, Graydon Nauman of Park Ridge, 111. Memorial services will be this afternoon at 2 in the Friends Meeting House, 4th and West Sts.

Interment will be pri vate. The family suggests that in lieu of flowers contributions be sent to the Friends Meeting House. William H. Ayars William II. Ayars, 82, of 2 States Tuxedo Park, died Saturday en route to Wilmington General Division from his home after an apparent heart attack.

Mr. Ayars retired 12 years ago from the Delaware Hospital pharmacy. Prior to the hospital employment, he worked for the Wilmington Abrasive Co. He was a member of the Penicl Methodist Church in Newport. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Nellie V. Ayars; two sons, William H. Ayars Jr. of Woodland Heights and Edward V. Ayars, at home; a brother, Clif ford J.

Ayars of Milford Cross roads, and two grandchildren. Services will be tomorrow aft ernoon at 2 at the Robert T. Jones Funeral Home, 122 W. Main Newark, where friends may call tomorrow afternoon before the funeral. Interment will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Lancaster Ave.

and Du Pont Road. James A. DeStafney James A. DeStafney, 72, of Yorklyn, died Friday at Me morial Division after a long illness. He was born in Wilmington and was a lifelong resident of the area.

He was a farmer. He was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, Del-park Manor. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margery Naudain Heine! De Stafney, and five brothers, Louis of Avondale, Frank of Ken nett Square, Charles of Elkton, and Joseph and Peter, both of Yorklyn.

Services will be tomorrow morning at 11 at St. James Episcopal Church, 2106 St. James Church Road, Delpark Manor. Interment will be in the adjoining churchyard. Friends may call tonight at the McCrery Funeral Home, 3010 Kirkwood Highway, Prices Corner.

Mrs. James G. Steptoe Mrs. Mary A. Steptoe, 82, of 1701 N.

Lincoln St. died Satur day in Harford Memorial Hos pital, Havre de Grace, after a long illness. She was the widow of James Garfield Steptoe, who died in 1951. Mrs. Steptoe Is survived by four daughters, Mrs.

Myrtle S. Mitchell, Aberdeen, Mrs. Pauline R. Lawrence, Chester- town, Mrs. Charlotte L.

Piepcr. Abingdon, and Mrs. Winifred S. Dowd, with whom she lived here; two sons, Garrett S. and Lewis J.

Steptoe, both of Wilmington; 14 grand children; 14 great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Jennie White-man of Wilmington. Services will be tomorrow morning at 11 at the Chandler Funeral Home, 1011 Jefferson where friends may call to night. Interment will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Mrs.

August C. Wagner Mrs. Grace V. Wagner, 58, of 123 Carlie Road, Lynnfield, died yesterday in Memorial Division after a short illness. Mrs.

Wagner was a member of the Florence Bailey Lodge 13 IOOF and St. James Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband, August C. Wagner; a son, Charles W. Conner of Wilming ton; a daughter, Miss Florence Helen Conner, at home; a brother, William Harry Wabtrum of Tarpon Springs, three sis ters, Mrs.

Stephen Gruber of Claymont, Mrs. Crawford Toul- son of Longwood, and Mrs. James O'Neill of Philadelphia, and four grandchildren. Services will be Wednesday morning at 11 at St. James Episcopal Church, 2106 St.

James Church Road, Mill Creek Hundred. Interment will be in Gracelawn Memorial Park. Friends may call at the McCrery Funeral Home, 2700 Washington tomorrow night. became a security guard at Gov, Bacon Health Center. Mr.

Hope helped to organize the Delaware City Volunteer Fire Company. He was honored in 1963 after being chief of the fire company for 20 years. He was president of the Delaware City Building and Loan Associa tion, a member of the Delaware State Fire Chiefs Association, a member of the Delaware City Presbyterian Church, a member of Jackson Lodge No. 19, and an honorary mem ber of the Port Penn and Delaware City Fire Companies. Mr.

Hope's wife, Mrs. Ethel Sparks Hope, died in January 1961. He has no immediate survivors. Services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 at the Spicer- Mullikin Funeral Home, Clinton Delaware City, where friends may call tonight. Jack son Lodge will hold a memorial service tonight at 7:30.

Interment will be in St. Georges Cemetery, Clarksville. Joseph T. Dwyer Joseph Thomas Dwyer, 60, a groundskeeper at the Wilming ton Country Club, died yester day in Delaware Division. He lived at 1416 N.

Lincoln St. He entered the hospital the day before Easter with an ill ness diagnosed as bronchial pneumonia. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death, his family said, Mr. Dwyer was born in Hockessin and worked for the Cavaliers Country Club before taking his last position. He is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Dorothy E. Dwyer; four daughters, the Misses Joanne, Donna Lee and Marie Jane, all at home, and Mrs. Lillian Kun- itz, Gloucester, N.J.; three sis ters, Mrs. Herbert Eastburn, Long Island, N.Y., and Mrs. Daniel P.

Madonna 'and Mrs, Louis Massar, both of Kennett Square, and five grandchil dren. Services will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 in the Chandler Funeral Home, 1011 Jefferson where friends may call tomorrow night. Interment will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Elmer H. Lake LEEDS, II.

Lake, 57, died at his home Friday aft ernoon after an apparent heart attack. He was a retured em ploye of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He was a member of Union Lodge No. 48, Elkton. Mr.

Lake is survived by his widow, Mrs. Helen Jane Lake; two daughters, Mrs. William Natale, Wilmington, and Mrs. Richard Devonshire of Elkton, and a granddaughter. Services will be tomorrow morning at 11 at the Leeds Methodist Church.

Interment will be in Union (Md.) Cemetery. Friends may call tonight at the Hicks Home for Funerals, Bow and Stockton where Masonic services will be held at 8. Md. man drowns, brother rescued QUEENSTOWN, Md. A Catonsville, man drowned while his brother was rescued after their 10-foot boat capsized in the Chester River, just off Blakeford Point, Saturday morning.

Maryland State Police at Easton identified the victim as David P. Meade, 49, of 310 Thackery Ave. His brother, Robert B. Meade, 47, of 4637 Wilkins Baltimore, was rescued by two Queenstown boys who saw the boat overturn State police said a two and a half hour search starting at 9 a.m. ended when the victim's body was found in eight feet of water about 50 feet from shore.

The two brothers had been fishing in a 10-foot aluminum skow, police said. Robert Meade was taken to Easton Memorial Hospital, treated for shock and exposure and released. Deaths elsewhere NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. IB William J. Landauer, presi dent of the Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania, eastern division, and a Newtown Township justice of the peace, died at home Saturday.

He was 63. CAMDEN, N.J. (At Dr. Robert P. Davey, a dentist and mayor of nearby Clementon from 1937 to 1941, died yesterday at Cooper Hospital.

He was 69 and lived in Collingswood. KINGSTON, Jamaica U) -Howard Bell, retired executive of the Bell Telephone Co. of the United States and director of other companies, died at Mon-tego Bay Friday at the age of 74. Dr. Roman Nestorovich, 66, of Delaware City died Saturday in Delaware Division after a short illness.

Dr. Nestorovich was born in the Ukraine. He studied in Prague, Czechoslovakia, receiv ing his medical degree there. He practiced medicine for 15 years in Peremysl, Czechoslovakia. After coming to this country in 1949, he was on the staff at the Dixon Hospital, Dixon, 111.

He had been on the staff of the Gov. Bacon Health Center, Delaware City, for the past year and a half. From 1917 to 1918, Dr. Nesto rovich served in the Sichovi Strilci Army in the Ukraine. He was a member of the Ukraman Scouts, the Ukrainian National Association, the American Medical Association, and the Ameri can-Ukrainian Medical Asocia- tion, a subsidary of the AMA.

Surviving Dr. Nestorovich are his widow, Mrs. Jaroslava Nestorovich; a daughter, Irene of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. Slava Mandiuk of the Uk raine. Divine liturgy will be offered in St.

Nicholas' Ukrainian Cath olic Church, 610 S. Heald Thursday morning at 9. Interment will be in Boundbrook Ukrainian Cemetery, New Brunswick, N.J. Parastas serv ices will be held at the Karpin- ski Funeral Home, 741 S. Broom Wednesday night at 7:30.

Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday night. Miss Elsie E. Middleton Miss Elsie Elizabeth Middle-ton, 80, a retired Delmarva Power Light Co. employe, died yesterday at her home, 224 W. 25th St.

On July 1, 1910, Miss Middle- ton went to work for what was then called the Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction Co. and, although divested itself of its street transportation busi ness in 1944, she continued with the power company until Dec. 31, 1952, at which time she was in the customer billing department. Services will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 in the Chandler Funeral Home, 2506 Concord Pike, Talleyville, where friends may call tomorrow night. Inter ment will be in Mt.

Salem Cemetery. Gene D. Walker WOODSTOWN, N.J. Gene D. Walker, 60, of 49 W.

Grant St. here, for many years a resident of Carneys Point, died Saturday in Ancora State Hospital, Hammonton. A former shipping clerk at the Du Pont Co. Chambers Works, Mr. Walker retired in 1957 because of a disability after 33 years of service.

He was a member of the Du Pont Veterans Association, Penns Grove Lodge of Moose, St. James Catholic Church and the Holy Name Society of that church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Irwina Walker; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Riker of Woods-town; two sons, Arthur E.

and Eugene, both at home; a grandchild; a brother, James of Pauls-boro, and a sister, Mrs. Delores Fennimore of Brigantine, N.J. Requiem Mass will be offered Thursday morning at 10 in St. James Catholic Church, Beach Avenue, Penns Grove. Interment will be in St.

Mary's Cemetery, Salem. Friends may call at the Adams Funeral Home, 131 S. Broad Penns Grove, Wednesday night. William F. Busch William F.

Busch, 50, of 1131 Wagner Drive, Woodland Heights, died Saturday of a heart attack while en route to Wilmington General Division. He was stricken at home. Mr. Busch was a veteran of World War II. He worked for the General Baking Co.

in Wilming ton for the past 20 years. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Hannagan Busch; a son, William at home; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Adams of Newark and Miss Laraine Busch, at home; a brother, Charles of Bear; a sister, Mrs. Margaret Ryan of Pittsburgh, and two grandchildren.

Requiem Mass will be offered at St. Catherine of Siena Church, 2505 Centerville Road, Wednesday morning at 9:30. Friends may call at the Mealey Funeral Home, 703 N. Broom tomorrow night. Arthur B.

Hope Arthur B. Hope, 70, died Satur day at the home of Mrs. Win-field Weingarten, 2006 Baynard after a short illness. Though he maintained a home in Delaware City, Mr. Hope had boarded at the Baynard Boulevard address for the past four years.

He was a native of the Delaware City area. Mr. Hope was a bridge tender at Reedy Miss Catherine M. Ford, 72, died Saturday at the Delaware State Hospital, south of Wilm ington, after a long illness. She had been a patient there for the past seven weeks.

Miss Ford was born in Wilm ington. She retired from the John Wanamaker store in 1962 after 10 years of service. She also had worked in the shoe departments in Kennard's and Crosby and Hill. She is survived by a brother, Thomas J. Ford of 406 Grove Bellefont, with whom she had lived.

Requiem Mass will be offered at St. Helena's Catholic Church, 602 Philadelphia Pike, Belle- fonte, Wednesday morning at 9:30. Interment will be in Cathe dral Cemetery. Friends may call at the Doherty Brothers Funeral Home, 1900 Delaware tomorrow night. Mrs.

John A. Grant Mrs. Mary C. Grant, 81, of Chadds Ford, died en route to the Chester County Hospital Saturday. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at her home.

She was the widow of John Grant of Wilmington. He died in 1944. Mrs. Grant is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Margaret McCarthy of Philadelphia, Mrs.

Grace Halliday of Glen Farms, and Mrs. Therese Bender of Chadds Ford, five grand- children and two great grandchildren. Services will be Thursday morning at 10:30 at St. Cornelius Catholic Church, Ridge Road, Concordville, Pa. Interment will be in Cathedral Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Mealey Funeral Home, 703 N. Broom Wednesday night. Sergej Tedossejew Sergei Tedossejew, 74, died Saturday in Riverside Hospital after a long illness. He had been a patient at the State Home at Smyrna since September 1966. Mr.

Tedossejew was born in Russia and worked there as an engineer. In 1949, he and his wife, Mrs. Sofia I. Tedossejew, came to this His wife died in 1966. Requiem Mass will be offered at St.

Michael's Russian Orthodox Church, 431 Claymont Wednesday morning at 10, In terment will be In Riverview Cemetery. There will be no viewing. Mrs. Joseph Doldan PENNS GROVE, N.J. Mrs.

Antonia Doldan, 76, of 90 Harold St. died Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Anna Napoleon of 20 Marsden after a long illness. A native of Barcelona, Spain, Mrs. Doldan had lived in the Penns Grove area for 48 years.

Her husband, Joseph, died in 1952. Mrs. Dolan is survived by Mrs. Napoleon and a son, Joseph An drews, Penns Grove, both by a previous marriage; by two other sons, Emmanuel Doldan, at home, and Nick Doldan of Penns Grove; seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Requiem Mass will be offered Wednesday morning at 9 in St.

James Catholic Church on Beach Avenue here. Interment will be at the convenience of the family. Friends may call at the Adams Funeral Home, 13j Broad Penns Grove, to morrow night. Jack Schillinger OCEAN CITY, N.J. -Jack Schillinger, 48, of 213 Seaspray Road, Ocean City, N.J., died Saturday in Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point, N.J., after an illness of six months.

Mr. Schillinger was born in Philadelphia and had lived in Ocean City for 10 years. For seven years he has been manager of the Ellis Drive-in Theater near Wilmington. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Schillinger, and a daughter, Mrs.

William Hen-singer of New London, Conn. Services will be tomorrow morning at 11 at the Wetzel and Sons Funeral Home, 4710 N. 5th Philadelphia. Interment will be in the Mount Vernon Cemetery, Ridge and W. Lehigh Philadelphia.

There will be no viewing. Ellis Murphy GREENSBORO, Md. Ellis Murphy, 75, a retired farmer of near Greensboro, died Thursday in the Memorial Hospital, Easton, after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lilly Murphy; a daughter, Mrs.

Foster Hopkins of Camp Hill, a son, George, Arling ton Heights, two grandchildren and a brother, Charles Murphy of Wilmington. Services were held yesterday. Interment was in the Greensboro Cemetery. WATSON and GRAY MELSON, INC. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Millsboro, Delaware Frankford, Delaware Call 934-7952 cyflc diedSaturday at 'the MettodistGlenside Carrcroft, died Country Home.

4830 hls home. an aP" Albert J. McCrery President JuiWioL dlomsLL 2700 WASHINGTON STREET 3010 KIRKWOOD HIGHWAY (AT PRICES CORNER) McCRERY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME 3924 CONCORD PIKE Phone 762-4930 Staff Licensed In Delaware, Maryland Pennsylvania Pik whoro she had been a guest for the past seven years. She had been ill a short time. Miss Emmons was a life-long resident of Wilmington.

She was a retired schoolteacher. There are no immediate survi-Tors. Private services will be held tomorrow. Interment will be in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery..