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THE GREENVILLE NEWS GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1969 PAGE SIX ducted at 4 p.m. Saturday at OBITUARIES 34-Year-Old Man Drowns In Hartwell By SARA V. LIVERANCE Anderson Bureau Mrs. Reece Johnson LANCASTER Mrs. Willie Mae Johnson, wife 'Of Reece Johnson, died in a Columbia hospital Thursday.

She was a native of Laurens County but lived in Lancaster stitutional amendment proposals that would allow President Chung Kee Park to seek a third term in office. (AP Wirephoto by radio from Seoul) ON THE RUN South Korean riot police jump out of truck in pursuit of fleeing Korea University student demonstrators in Seoul Friday. Protests are against con ANDERSON A 34-year-old Negro man was drowned Friday at the Hartwell Dam recreation area park in Anderson County, Perry Mason Bolding, Rt. 8, Anderson, who had spent the night with a friend on the lake to insure getting a picnic table for their party Friday, fell from an air mattress about 12:15 p.m His body was recovered about 1:15 p.m. in seven feet of water, about 25 to 30 yards from shore.

Coroner Wesley Page said Bolding and Willie Thompson of Rt. 1, Anderson, went to the lake Thursday and spent the night to be sure of securing a table for the Fourth of July. Others the park told Coroner Page that Bolding saw a floating beer can out in the water and went out on the raft to pick up the can. They said he fell from the raft about the time he reached the can. The body was recovered by scuba divers Al Gundry and Larry Swilling of the Anderson Rescue Squad.

Investigating officers included deputies Jack Cann, Grady Burgess, Homer Cox, and joe Simmons. Page said there will not be an inquest. June Wreck Victim Dies The death of an automobile wreck victim who had remained in critical condition since June 20 was reported by Greenville County acting coroner George W. McCoy Friday. The victim was identified as Raymond Reynolds, 43, of 10 Main Gate Trailer Park, injured in a two-car collision on Mills Avenue, Greenville.

Decision Repaint Upper Stage Of Apollo 11 CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) Space officials decided Friday to repaint the upper stage of Apollo ll's Saturn 5 rocket after the old coating needed to help protect super-cold fuel from the sun was discovered to be peeling. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the task could be completed without affecting the July 16 launch date for man's first landing on the moon. A space agency spokesman said laboratory tests were conducted on paint samples that peeled off a one-by-two foot area of the rocket's exterior and that there was speculation that the wrong kind of primer was used. The thermal paint on the outside of the Saturn 5's upper stage is used to reflect the sun's heat and help keep cool super-cold hydrogen fuels stored inside the tank at temperatures of for several years.

Surviving also are a brother, J. C. Carwyle of Clinton. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Mt.

Zion AME Church, Cross Anchor, by the Rev. L. E. Carter. Burial will be in Spr-inghill Cemetery, Union County.

The body is at Thompson Mortuary, Clinton, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Tommy Downs Tommy Downs, 50, of 11 Lindberg Ave. died Sunday at a local hospital. He was a son of the late Austin and Ella Hendricks Downs.

Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Bertha Campbell of Greenville; and a brother, Miller Downs of Spartanburg. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at Pleasant View Baptist Church, Gray Court, by the Rev. Robert Ware.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at the Watkins, Arnold and Sheppard Mortuary where the family will receive friends from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday. The family is at the home of the sister, Mrs. Campbell, 104 Douthit St.

Willie Neal Willie Neal, 73, of 205 W. Easley, died Wednesday in a Columbia He was a son of the late gf served in the S. Army 30 years before retiring. Surviving are two sisters, "rr. a brother, Scott Neal of Easley.

Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 5 p.m. at True Light Holiness Church in Easley by' the Rev. J. R. Ashmore and the Rev.

L. B. Burial will be in Mauldin Cemetery. The body is at J. C.

Moore Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Harry J. Jones Jr. Harry J.

Jones Jr. of 15 Hollywood Circle died Monday at an Oteen, N. hospital. He was born in Greenville County, son of the late Harry and Curley Mattison Jones. He was a member of Springfield Baptist Church.

He was a veteran "of the Korean War and a former employe of VC Chemical Co. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Jenell Wilson of the home; and a brother, Timothy Jones of Greenville. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Webb's Funeral Home by the Rev.

Auston Brown. Burial will be in Hill Crest cemetery. The body is at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Anita Lynn Brown LIBERTY Anita Lynn Brown, infant daughter of Irby and Betty Joan Daniel Brown of Rt.

2, Liberty, Flat Rock community, died at a local hospital Friday morning. The parents are employed at Utica-Mohawk in Clemson and are members of Flat Rock Baptist Church. Westminster Wreck Is Fatal To Georgian Made To minus 423 degrees Fahrenheit. The paint would be especially critical during a Vk hour period Apollo 11 is to be in earth orbit, still attached to the Saturn 5's upper stage. At the end of that period, high over the mid-Pacific just south of the equator, the stage must restart to kick Apollo 11 out of earth orbit and toward the moon.

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin spent the holiday with their families at their homes near the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, Tex. Friday and Sunday will be their last days off before rocketing away July 16. Saturday, Armstrong and Aldrin are to spend time in the morning in a trainer spacecraft at the spacecraft center practicing how to remove a docking mechanism from the tunnel that links the Apollo command ship They will study the background of suicide prevention centers, theories of crisis intervention, suicidology, and the "role and function of community agencies.

This will be the first group to receive on-the-job training. It is the first class to begin since the program was started in June. When the altar call was given, many responded and surged to the front of the assembly. Saturday is youth worship day at the camp meeting. Morning service will begin at 7:15, the afternoon service will begin at 2 p.m.

and the evening service will be at 6:15, The series will end Sunday evening. Suicide Prevention Volunteers To Receive On-The-Job Training Robert O. Woodward ENOREE Funeral services for Robert 0. Woodward, 18, of Camariilo, who died June 27, will be conducted at 4 p.m. Saturday at Enoree Baptist Church.

Burial will be in Grenhaven Memorial Garden. The body is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wesson, Rt.

2, Woodruff. Lanford-Boyter Mortuary, Woodruff, is in charge. John Dodds Jr. Funeral services for John Dodds 50, of 2202 E. North Street, will be conducted Saturday at 4 p.m.

at The Mackey Mortuary. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be James M. Bright, Guy Harris, J. W.

Crenshaw, Walter James Guest, Eugene E. Jeter and William C. Wampole. The body is at the home and will be returned to the mortuary Saturday at 2 p.m. Mrs.

Pearl E. Adams Mrs. Pearl E. Adams, 84, of 114 Webster St. died Sunday at a local hospital.

-She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at Watkins, Arnold and Sheppard Mortuary by the Rev. Robert Ware. Burial will be in Burton Town Cemetery.

The body is at the mortuary, where the family will receive friends Saturday from 7 to 8 p.m. )i Mrs. Vemer Haynes for Mrs. Ella Mae Masters Haynes, 52, who died Thursday, widow of Verner Haynes, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Pickens View Wesleyan Church by the Rev.

Earl Hucks and the Rev. Garland Sentell. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Wallace, Ray, Ollice, Ralph, Leonard and Harold Haynes. The body is at Clayton-Dillard Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Mrs. Earl Lee Moore Funeral services for Mrs. Fronie Ellenberg Moore, of Rt. 1, Piedmont, Simpsonville community, widow of Earl Lee Moore, will be conducted Saturday at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Piedmont by Dr.

Thomas A. DeVenny and the Rev. Charles Davis. Burial will be in Greenville Memorial Gardens. The body is Thomas McAfee Funeral Home and will be placed in the church Saturday at 2 p.m.

The family requests that any memorials be made to the Boys Home of the South, Rt. 3, Box 115, Belton, S. 29627. Mrs. Ella K.

Crawford UNION Mrs. Ella Keisler Crawford, 79, of 2716 S. Fifth Harts ville, died Thursday at a Hartsville hospital. She was born in Union County, daughter of the late Jack and Peggy Ann Trammell Keisler. She lived in Union County most of her life and was a member of Second Presbyterian Church.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Paul Greer and Mrs. Jake Vaughan of Union, Mrs. Fred Belue of Hartsville and Mrs. Thomas H.

Wingo of New ington; a son, Herod S. "Jack" Crawford of Bergenfield, N.J.; a sister, Mrs. Ruth Davis of Old Ford, N.C.; two brothers, Boyd Keisler of Union and Tom Keisler of Hendersonville, N.C.; 10 grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted Saturday at 4 p.m. at Second Presbyterian Church by the Rev.

Hugh D. Pollard, the Rev. Goodloe Love and the Rev. Calvin Chestnut. Burial will be in Hebron Baptist Church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Dwight Belue and Roy, John Berry, Coley, Billy and Tommie Keisler Jr. The body is at S. R. Holcombe Funeral Home and will be placed in the church Saturday at 3 p.m. The family is at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

Paul Greer, 207 Catherine St. FUNERAL INVITATIONS The relatives end friends of Mr. and Mrs, Roy F. King, Mrs. Willie Mae Smith, Mrs.

Lester Gault, Mrs. Wilton W. Mayfield, Mr. Harley S. King, Mr.

Charles U. King and Mr. Florence P. King are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services of Mr. Roy F.

King at 4 p.m. today at Clear Springs Baptist Church. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery. The Jones Mortu-ary, Funeral Directors. The friends and relatives of Mr.

and irs. jonn ueaas, Mrs. Jean Godfrey. Mr. John G.

Dodds, Mr. Robert L. Dodds, Mr. William Dodds and Mrs. Jean Lockerbie Brooks are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services for Mr.

John Dodds, Saturday at 4 p.m. at The Mackey Mortuary. Burial will be In Woodlawn Memorial Park. The Mackey morTuary, runcrai Directors. the friends and relatives of Mrs.

tan tee Moore, Mrs. Brooks cmespie, Mrs. Joe Spearman, Mrs. Harry Bryson, Mrs. Jack Clevenger, Mrs.

Edward Smith, Mrs. Sybil Stewart, Mr. W. T. Moore, Mr.

Curtis E. Moore, Mrs. P. W. Moore.

Mrs. Mason Elrod and Mr Tom Roger are respectfully invited to attnd the funeral services for Mrs. Earl Lee Moore to be conducted Saturday at 3:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Piedmont. Interment will be In Greenville Memorial Gardens.

Thomas McAfee, Funeral Director. Crossroads Baptist Church by Dr. S. H. Jones and the Rev.

Randall Baker. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Donald L. Ferguson, Leroy Tucker, Grover Dacus, James n. Kogers, treraia Clemmets and Ray Boroughs.

The body is at Robinson Funeral Home and will be plac ed in the church at 3 p.m. Saturday. The family requests that memorials be made to the American Cancer Society. The family is at the home of his parents. Belton Scott Lawson WOODRUFF Funeral services for Belton Scott Lawson, 5, who died Thursday, son of John L.

and Jean Peace Lawson of 334 Poole will be conducted at 5:30 p.m. Satur day at West End Baptist Church by the Rev. Hobart Hunter and the Rev. Guy Boggs. Burial will be in Greenhaven Memorial Gardens.

Pallbearers will be Raymond Smith, Russell Easier, Bobby Lawson and Fred Grubbs. The body is at Lanford-Boyter Mortuary. Roy E. King SIMPSONVILLE Funeral services for Roy F. King of E.

Georgia Road, Rt. 2 SimDsonville. who died Thurs day, will be conducted Saturday at 4 p.m. at Clear bprings Baptist Church by Rev. L.

W. Pace and Rev. D. B. Webber, uunai will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be uan, Wilton, Dan and Lynn King, Hoyt Thackston and William Mayfield. The body is at the Jones Mortuary and will' be placed in the church at 3 p.m. Saturday Mrs. Victoria Behney CLEMSON Funeral services for Mrs. Victoria Parks Behney, of the Clemson House, who died Thursday, will be con ducted at 11 a.m.

Monday at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church by the Kev. Jonn w. Arringron III. Burial will be in Cemetery Hill. Pallbearers' will be Dr.

Claude Green, Frank Burtner, Edward Hutcheson, Joseph Young, Jack Goodman, Manning Garren and M. M. Georgian. The body will be at Duckett's Clemson Chapel, after 4 p.m. Saturday.

The familly will receive friends at the Clemson House from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. George Thrift CLINTON George Thrift died in a local hospital Friday. He was a native of Clinton. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Hazel Thrift; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Carolyn Smith of Philadelphia, and two stepsons, Sgt. Ronald Simpson of Ft. Jackson and Pvt. Albert Smith, U.

S. Army, Vietnam. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at Hebron Baptist Church by the Rev. W.

D. Coker. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at Thompson Mortuary, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Johnny Wade BROOKLYN, N.Y. Johnny Wade died in Brooklyn June 30. He was a native of Cross Hill, S.C. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Mamie Wade of Cross Hill; a daughter, Mrs.

Annie Ruth Cathy of Charlotte, N.C.; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be con- rlniln1 Cnriflntt nt A rv of Hill, by the Rev. W. E. Byrd and the Rev.

James Gray. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at Thompson Mortuary, Clinton, S.C, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Joel Downey Box SPARTANBURG Joel Downey Box 63, of 205 Gordon died Thursday in a local hospital.

He was a native of Spartanburg County and was a city sanitation department employe until his recent retirement. He was a member of the board of directors of the S. C. Credit Union League for city employes, president of the Spartanburg Credit Union League and formerly worked as a registered pharmacist at Ligon's Drug Co. He was graduated from old Wof-ford Fitting School and Spartanburg High SchooL He was a son of the late Irby and Lillie Downey Box.

Surviving are a son, Joel Box Jr. of the home; and a brother, Thomas Box of Spartan- burg. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 'p. m. Saturday at J.

F. Floyd Mortuary by Dr. E. Gibson Davis and the Rev. John Drake.

Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Brantie B. McAbee SPARTANBURG Brantie Bryan McAbee, 56, of 870 Whitlock died Friday at a local hospital. He was a native of Landrum, son Cf the late George Elford and Betty Blassingame McAbee. He was a retired grocer and a member of Victor Baptist Church, Greer.

He was a Mason. Surviving are his wife, MrsJ Volunteers for emergency mental health service crisis intervention and suicide preven tion will begin attending training classes July 16 at 7 p.m. at the Marshall I. Pickens Hospital. The group will use films, records, literature and video tapes on suicidology and crisis intervention during five four-hour sessions.

Mauldin Newberry Student Dies In Car Wreck FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) A 21-year-old North Carolina man, Richard F. Eich, was killed Friday when he lost control of his car and struck a post on a bridge on Interstate 75 just south of Forsyth. Eich, of Charlotte, was a ministerial student at Newberry College at Newberry, S. C.

GERMAN TV FAVORED MADRID When Spain begins televising in color next year it is expected to employ the German system rather than the French or American. Durham said Murray was an occupant of a 1965 Ford station wagon which apparently went out of control and crashed over a steep embankment. He said another occupant of the car, Bill Taylor, 36, also of Toccoa, is in critical condition at' the Georgia hospital with a broken back. Durham said the car was registered to Taylor's wife. Thfr coroner said the driver of the vehicle at the time of the accident has not been determined.

Also investigating is State Highway Patrol Sgt. J. E. Robinson and Patrolman P. R.

Ayers. Mrs. D. L. Lamb, Evangelist, Dies The Rev.

Annie Mae Fredericks Lamb, 57, of 15 Fletcher City View, wife of D. L. Lamb, died Friday at her home. A daughter of Mrs. Annie Pierce Fredericks of Greenville and the late Thomas Fredericks, she was born in Seneca, but moved to Greenville in 1918.

She had lived in the City View community 2 0 years. Before her retirement, she was employed by White Horse Mill. The Rev. Mrs. Lamb was a member of the Gospel Lighthouse.

She was a Holiness evangelist and was widely known for her evangelistic work in revivals in several states. i Surviving also are a step daughter, Mrs. Paul (Imogene) Pridemore of Sandusky, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. J. D.

(Ruby) Vess of Greenville; a brother, Thomas Franklin Fredericks of Una, four grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Funeral services will be con ducted by the Rev. Bob Inman, the Rev. Bruce Mahaffey and the Rev. L.

C. Heaston at the Calvary Assembly of God on River Road Sunday at an hour to be announced. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Odell Scarbrough, O. Edwin Brown, B.

L. Peele, Charlie Thomson, Maxie McNeely and Clinton Dobbins. After 9:30 a. m. Saturday the body will be at the home.

The body will be placed in the church an hour before the service. Thomas McAfee Funeral Home is in charge. Largest Crowd Goes To Meeting with its lunar module LM landing craft. Collins, meanwhile, will spend time in a command ship simulator at the center rehearsing critical phases of the flight. The pilots will hold a news conference later Saturday at Houston, be with their families again Sunday and return to Cape Kennedy Monday.

Elsewhere at the Saturn-Apollo launch pad Friday, technicians began replacing the prime component in the guidance system of Apollo ll's landing craft. Called an inertia! measuring unit, the component showed signs during testing earlier this week which indicated it could fail in flight. The new unit-which tells the rest of the guidance system the spacecraft's attitude, velocity and acceleration will be installed by Sunday evening, NASA said. Thursday the first group of volunteers presented a plaque to Dr. Kenneth Warren, original coordinator of the new program here.

A former chief psychologist at the Greenville Mental Health Center, Warren has accepted the directorship of the Montgomery Area Mental Health Center in Alabama. Hunting Guides May Be Stopped BHOPAL, India (AP) The Madhya Pradesh government will set up a "Shikar (Hunting) Corporation" to cater to the needs of the foreign big" game hunters. The 171000 square mile state in central India is a hunters' Saradise. Many private agencies ave been accused of demanding exhorbitapt prices from foreign ers. One tourist was charged 10,000 rupees ($1,333) just for spotting a tiger.

The proposed public cor poration also will check large- I scale poaching in I preserves. the game ical Examiners but specifies that he may examine applicants for osteopathic licenses only. An amendment inserted by the Senate and later concurred in by the House provides that no more than 170 osteopaths can be issued certificates to practice during the first five years of the act. At the present time thert are only four osteopaths practicing in South Carolina. Their number had dwindled because of the bar on prescribing drugs.

He was a member of Cooper Masonic Lodge and was employed by Davis Electrical Contractors. Surviving also are his wife, Mrs. Emma Beam Johnson; two sons, Raymond L. Johnson of Greer and Johnny B. Johnson of Travelers Rest; and two grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Thomas McAfee Funeral Home. FLOWERS BY CLYDE SATTERFIELD FLORAL INC. Dial 235-9671 2301 AUGUSTA RD. Oconee-Pickens Bureau WESTMINSTER A 44-year- old Toccoa, man was killed about 6 p. Friday in a one- car accident on U.

S. 123 near the Georgia line, west of Westminster. Oconee Coroner Theron E. Durham said John D. Murray was dead on arrival at Stephens County Hospital in Georgia from a crushed chest and multiple head injuries.

Court To Receive Portrait Of Judge SPARTANBURG (AP) A portrait of the late U.S. District judge C. C. Wyche will be pre sented to the federal court in Spartanburg July 8. The occasion will be memo rial exercises for the late jurist, arranged by the South Carolina Bar Association.

Wyche was district attorney for four years before being ap pointed judge in 1937. He died in 1966. Beachboys Wash Group Of Hippies DURBAN, South Africa (AP) Four hippies living in the rocks near Durban's north pier were given an impromptu scrubbing in the sea by a bunch of beachboys who considered they were not clean enough. The beachboys threw the long haired youths into the breakers but did not give similar treatment to a girl with them. Mildred Hawkins McAbee; a daughter, Mrs.

Glenda Parrott of Fort Myers. four brothers, a twin Rantie W. McAbee of Spartanburg, Theodore McAbee of Salisbury, N. Carl McAbee of Columbia and Ira McAbee of Arcadia; four sisters, Mrs. Bessie Craig of Inman, Mrs.

Marie McAber of Columbia, Mrs. Pearl Kan-nangh of Miami, and Mrs. Eloise Pritchett of Durham, N. and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted Sunday at 4 p.m.

at J. F. Floyd Mortuary by the Rev. M. L.

Parker and the Rev. Billy Bagwell. Pallbearers will be Jesse and Junior Brady, Charles Blalock, Nathan Holbrook, Carl Smith i and Bob Curtis. The body is at the mortuary, where the family will receive friends Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. Surviving also are threezion ffiU Ba Jst churchj Cross Full Medical Privileges Granted To Osteopaths COLUMBIA (AP) The South Carolina Legislature has finally granted osteopaths full medical privileges.

Three bills got final legislative approval Thursday just before the General Assembly wound up statewide business for the year. One bill gives osteopaths the right to perform major surgery and prescribe drugs on the same basis as physicians. A second bill stipulates the requirements for licenses. A third bill places an osteopath on the state Board of Med MAULDIN An overflow crowd of 5,000 attended the Friday evening service of the South Carolina Camp Meeting of the Church of God. It was the largest crowd yet in the week-long series.

Special guest at tfte service was Dr. unaries w. conn, general overseer of the Churches of God. "We are experiencing across the Church of God a great camp meeting season," Conn told the crowd. "In every place I have been I have seen the hand of God moving us onward and moving us upward." The overseer reported "forward thrusts" made by the church in the inner city areas, among American Indians, among the college campuses, in the Congo, Korea and Indonesia.

He also praised the work of tte Pioneers for Christ and the Youth for Missions groups of the Church of God. He told the congergation of the general executive com mittee's Project '70 to may plans for the decade ahead. Special singing during the service moved the congregation with a spontaneous response to worship. Nearly everyone in the outdoor tabernacle at the state campground was shouting and leaping. Guest evangelist Danny Drake used Matt.

24:41 for the text of his message: "Two women shall be grinding at the mill. The one shall be taken and the other left." Drake preached on the church as the bride of Christ. He quoted from Revelations, Chapter 19, which celebrates the marriage of the lamb to the wife: "To her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen." "The linen is the righteousness of the saints of God," the evangelist emphasized. "We had better not put off our garment of he warned the congregation. He repeated his text during the sermqn, adding that the church needs to make itself really for the coming of the JonofMan.

Someone is going to be left upon this earth when the Lord comes, he emphasized. I Man Is Electrocuted Working Under House sisters, Linda, Diane and Margaret Brown of the home; four brothers, Jimmy, Mark, Billy and Bobby Brown of the home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. I. R.

Brown of Liberty and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Darnel of Anderson; great- grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Daniel of Anderson; and step- grandmother, Mrs.

1 i Glayner of Greenville, Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Flat Rock Baptist Church cemetery by the Rev. Robert Magee and the Rev. Robert Wheeler. The body 'is at Robinson Funeral Home in Easley.

James A. Ferguson EASLEY James Albert Ferguson Sr 38, of Rt. 5, Easley, Dacusville community, died at his home Friday. He was born in Easley, son of Furman and a 1 Boroughs Ferguson of Rt. 5, Easley.

He lived in Greenville 14 years and in Albany, three years before returning to Easley two months ago. He was employed by General Electrical Supply in Albany and was formerly an employe of Davis Electrical Construction Inc. He was a veteran of the Korean war, a graduate of Dacusville High School and a member of the Union Bleachery Baptist Church. Surviving also are his wife, Mrs. Carolyn Craven Ferguson; two sons, Edward Barry and James Albert Ferguson Jr.

of the home; four daughters, Judith Elizabeth, Melynda Ann, Andrea Camile' and Gerry Kay Ferguson of the home; two brothers, Charles Brown Ferguson of Greenville and Horace Earl Ferguson of Rt. 5, Easley. Funeral will be con- DEATH LIST An electrician for 30 years was electrocuted while working under his own house Friday, marring an otherwise quiet Fourth of July in Greenville. George W. McCoy, acting cor oner," said that Walter E.

Johnson 47, of 103 Mills Kenfrow Bleachery, was underneath his house moving washing machine connections when he came in contact with an electrical line about 4:30 p.m; McCoy said Johnson had drained a water heater and the ground was water-soaked where Johnson was working. A native of Charlotte, N. Johnson was a son of Walter Elmer Johnson of Travelers Rest and the late Inez Carter Johnson. He formerly lived at Rt. 2, Marietta.

He was a member of Renfrew Baptist Church.where he was a trustee. ADAMS, Mrs. Pearl Greenville BOLDING, Perry Mason, Rt. 8, Anderson BOX, Joel Downey Spartanburg BROWN, Anita Lynn, Rt. 2, Liberty CRAWFORD, Mrs.

Ella Keisler, Union FERGUSON, James Albert Rt. 5, Easley FORTESCUE, Calvin Dalton, Rt. 2, Liberty JOHNSON, Mrs. Reece, Lancaster JOHNSON, Walter Elmer Travelers Rest Harry J. Greenville LAMB, Rev.

City View McABEE, Brantie Bryan, Spartanburg MURRAY, John Toccoa, Ga. NEAL, Willie, Easley THRIFT, George, Clinton WADE, Johnny, Brooklyn, N. Y. The friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs Winnie Lee Whitworth, Mrs.

James Richards, Mrs. B. F. Weit, Mr. William Drfle JWhitworth, Sgt.

Billy Joe Whitworth, Mr. James Richard Whitworth, Mr, Larry Edwin Whitworth, Mrs. Eva L. Webb, Mr. Earl Lollis and Mr.

Arthur Lollis art respectfully invited to attend the funeral services for Mrs. Winnie Lee Whitworth to be conducted Saturday at 11:00 em. at Washington Avenue Bap. fist Church. Interment will be in Grace-lnd Cemetery.

Thomas McAfee, Funeral Director..

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