Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 7

Gates Dies Here; Rites Today Coast Guard Frank Perry Gates, 79, instrumental in the Jackson and Rescues Five obtaining Boys Blub prominent Jackson architect first law geverning the prac- designed and built the first NEW ORLEANS (AP) and resident of 4911 Old tice of architecture club in The Coast Guard rescued in 1937 and the new Canton Road, died early Mississippi. in 1956. He five crewman from the facility was a Thursday afternoon at Bap- member of the Jackson Ex- tugboat Connie after the tist Hospital after a long il- Active in the civic and the American tug sank in the Gulf of Mexchange Club; Iness. church life of Jackson, he Legion; the State Board of ico, a spokesman said ThurFuneral: 4:30 p.m. Friday was an active member of the Professional Engineers; the sday.

in the Wright Ferguson First Presbyterian Church; Rose and the The Coast Guard said it Society Chapel with Dr. John Reed was an organizer of the Camellia Society. received a call shortly before Miller and Dr. W. Douglas dawn Thursday from the Hudgins officiating.

Inter- Mrs. Cooper Rites Friday Gulfport State Dock, saying ment services will be at 1 that the Connie DV was sinkp.m. Saturday in Forest Hill Mrs. I. W.

(Annie Lee) daughter, Mrs. Gene A. ing with five crewmen Cemetery in Memphis. Cooper, of 519 Taylor Street, (Peggy) Wilkinson; one aboard about 3.5 miles south Survivors include: his died Thursday at Baptist grandson, Lee Alan Wilkin- of Pass Christian, Miss. wife, the former Ruby Hospital, after a lengthy il- son, all of Jackson.

All five crewmen were Nichols of Canton; a brother, Iness. Mrs. Cooper was a native found sitting uninjured in a Granville Gates of Memphis; Funeral services: 3:30 of Pontotoc County, and had lifeloat, picked up by a cutter two sisters Mrs. Charlotte p.m. Friday, from Wright made her home in Jackson and brought back in to Gulf- Prescott of Memphis and Ferguson Mrs.

Robert Mosby of Hickory, N. and a number of nieces and Capt. nephews. Gates was a native of Tennessee and moved to Clarksdale in 1917. After service in World War Mrs.

he returned there and Mrs. reopened his office for prac- of tice of architecture. He opened his office in Jackson in the home, early 1930s, and for a time from was associated with Ray- with mond Birchett. Building projects for which Howard he served as architect one include the Clarksdale Woods neices Hospital, 18 buildings at the Mrs. University of Mississippi, the Science Building at Jackson Sullivan, school State University, a dor- County.

mitory at Alcorn University, teacher the Jackson City Hall and jail Copiah home renovation and a number of member fine residences. He played an important role in the establishment of the Mrs. Mississippi Association of Mrs. Architects and was ACT NOW! UNBELIEVABLE Ferguson Chapel: Interment, Cedarlawn Cemetery. Survivors: her husband, Capt.

I. W. Cooper; one for the past 50 years. She was a member of Woodland Hills Baptist Church and the Fidelis Sunday School Class. OBITUARIES Mrs.

Jack Sullivan Jack A. (Edith) Sullivan, 80, 224 Lexington Street, died Wednesday, night in a local nursing after a lengthy illness. Funeral services: 11 a.m. Friday, Wright Ferguson Chapel, Dr. Bill Causey, officiating.

Interment, Hazlehurst Cemetery. Survivors: one daughter, Mrs. (Shirley) Woods of Clinton; granddaughter, Miss Edie of Clinton; and a number of and nephews. Sullivan was a native of Hazlehurst, and widow of Jack A. former legislator and superintendent of Copiah She was a former school in Covington, Lincoln and counties.

She had made her in Jackson since 1935, was a of Parkway Baptist Church, and member of the Magnolia Chapter, Daughter of American Revolution. Ethel Hodge Ethel Ola Hodge, 72, 158 Culpepper Drive, died late Wednes- GIANT January PRICES! STORE $249 $179 $249 $169 $149 $399 $59 $99 $119 $99 $199 $79 Door $59 $99 $129 $399 $189 $59 $88 $149 IN MAIN STORE $140 Quilt Top Full Size Mattress Box Springs Set port. They were identified as tug owner Walton Dardar; C. J. Gisclar, both of Marerro; Tom Peterson of Slidell; Tom Slack of Baton Rouge; and Larry Watkins of Pearlington, Miss.

sister, Mrs. William T. Burdette, Jacksonville, one brother, John Conrad, Laurel; a half brother, Michael W. Merrell, Laurel; a half sister, Mrs. Frances Hanby, Anaheim, two stepbrothers, James Harold Merrell and Charles Shelton Merrell, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.

Mrs. Lamira Weddell CLARKSDALE Mrs. Lamira Carothers Weddell, 93, a resident of Clarksdale for the past 25 years, died Friday afternoon at the Greenbough Nursing Home where she had been a patient for seven years. Funeral: held Sunday afternoon in Starkville. Burial: Oddfellows' Cemetery there.

Mrs. Weddell came here after the death of her husband. Fitz-John Weddell, who was Dean of the Academic Department and head of the English Department at Mississippi State University for many years. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.

Rose Weddell Scherck of Clarksdale; two sons, Col. William Andrew Weddell. of Merritt Island, and Fitz-John Weddell of San Luis Obispo, and two grandchildren, R. Paul Weddell of San Diego, and Mrs. J.

C. Hopkins of Germantown, and two greatgrandchildren. CLEARANCE AT ITEMS! SOME TEL KROEHLER! of leftover sofas some soiled or damhalf price some example: The Kroehshown a $300 as Iday evening in the Baptist Hospital following a lengthy illness. Funeral: 1. p.m.

Friday, First Pentecostal Church. Interment: Friendship Cemetery, Taylorsville. Baldwin Funeral Home, Robinson Road, is in charge of arrangements. Survivors: her husband, William Hodge, Jackson; three sons, William Earl ha Hodge, H. A.

James Hodge, all of Jackson; four daughters, Mrs. Harvie Jordan, Winnfield, Mrs. V. D. Sullivan, Mrs.

Bertha Merten, and Mrs. Billy Jo Hart, all of Jackson; 24 grandchildren, and 11 greatgrandchildren. Yvonne Blackledge Yvonne Blackledge LAUREL Services were held at 2 p. m. Thursday from the chapel of Thompson Funeral Home for Mrs.

Yvonne Blackledge, and burial in Hickory Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Blackledge, 40, vice president of MCB Services, Laurel, died unexpectedly Monday at her residence, 527 North Eighth Avenue. Survivors: two daughters, Mrs. Jeffrey Johnson, Laurel and Mrs.

Doug Williamson, Anaheim, her mother, Mrs. James S. Merrell, Laurel; father, Henry Curtis Conrad, Memphis, one JANUARY MANY UNLISTED FREE DELIVERY! One large group famous brands aged many at even less for ler Plus-Built sofa value damaged OTHER $300 SOFAS. $150 ME MURRY INC. SUPER furniture MARKET 1125 OLD BRANDON RD.

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$120 Statesville Decorative Accent Chair. $130 Western-Stickley Pecan Style Cocktail Table 360 $140 Jacaman Spanish Mobile Server Cart $180 Montclair Better Quality Wing Chairs 477 $500 Gem "LaFrance" Velvet Sofa $320 Weiman Oval, Burl Finished, French Cocktail $100 Wrought Iron Wood 3-Shelf Wall System $250 Craft Alpine Brick Tub Chair 3749 $220 Montclair Loveseat 6803 IN ANNEX $139 Spanish Lounge Chair by Kroehler 70'77 WAREHOUSE PIECES ONE OF A KIND! ALL NOW IN HOUR 29th YEAR! 95 IN ANNEX $100 Modern Wood Chrome Hexagon Drum Table 49 1974 I LEFTOVERS MUST GO! IN ANNEX $40 Headboard $19 $120 Lounge Kroehler Chair. Pillow Back $60 $260 Love Seat in Royal Melon Print $130 $300 Sofa Johnson-Carper 3 Cushion $150 $140 Horizon Sling Chair by $69 $69 Hexagon Drum $33 $150 Room Bernhardt Dining $89 and 4 Chairs $400 Mediterranean Dining Table $199 $70 Plexiglass $39 $59 Night Two Stands. Door Mediterranean $29 $100 Early American Cabinet Style Cocktail Table $49 $130 Marble Top Cocktail Table $65 $70 Commode Style $39 $90 Dining Room Chairs $35 $150 Chest on Montezuma Style Spanish $49 $500 Single Bedroom Suite $250 $100 Stands Commode Style Night $49 $60 Mediterranean Solid Oak Night Stand $29 $130 Glass Top $65 $90 Maple $40 $45 End Table. $13 IN MAIN STORE $140 All Wood 5 Piece Dinette Set with Formica Top U-Haul 99 ANNEX NOW OPEN! MANY ITEMS HALF PRICE! OPEN WEEK NIGHTS TIL IN ANNEX $49 Two Drawer Night Stand 24 IN MAIN STORE $160 Aqua-LightUnique Lighting Idea 79.