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JL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1993 Other deaths, pages 9A and 1 PC 8A GREENVILLE UPSTATE OTHER SERVICES ANDERSON COUNTY Slaton, Cleo, Gregg Shoals Road, Iva PICKENS COUNTY Allen, Cecil of Six Mile Culbertson, Ervin, 1 1 1 Smith Grove Road, Easley Garrett, 311 Lee Liberty Nations, Bobby Joe, 733 Belle Shoals Road, Pickens OCONEE COUNTY Cooke, T. Sanford 32 Beacon Ridge Circle, Salem GREENVILLE COUNTY Blanton, O. Harry, formerly of 112 E. Belvedere Road, Greenville Ferrell, Nellie formerly of 421 Rutherford Road, Greenville Flick, Russell 404 Cherokee Drive, Greenville Garrett, Janie 1421 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville Goldin, Kenneth A. 1360 Camp Creek Road, Taylors Honeycutt, Thomas 101 Wintergreen Lane, Taylors Johnson, James, 48 Thomas Greenville Kemp, Wayman 523 Batesville Road, Greer Ketchem, Bessie 112 Sandhurst Drive, Simpsonville Kidd, James Sulphur Springs Road, Greenville King, Dennis 44 Fenwick Lane, Greenville Laws, Robert 717 Richbourg Road, Greenville Morgan, Whitt, 37 Mush Creek Road, Travelers Rest Rider, Eunice 1509 Geer Highway, Travelers Rest Robinson, Callie 3020 State Park Road, Greenville Schultz, Marie 106 Shetland Way, Greer Taylor, Margaret Ann 401 Gorze Road, Travelers Rest Armenia United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Barron Funeral Home, Chester. Nations, Bobby Joe Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Dillard Memorial Funeral Home Chapel, Pickens. Peeler, Troy Funeral arrangements will be announced by Shuford-Hatcher Funeral Home, Gaffney. Reel, 'Randy' Services: 4 p.m.

Saturday at Johnston First Baptist Church. Bland Funeral Home, Johnston. Rider, Eunice H. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Pleasant View Welcome Church.

The Howze Mortuary, Travelers Rest. Robinson, Callie F. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at The Mackey Mortuary. Rogers, Charlie W.

Services: 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown. Schultz, Marie V. Memorial services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Taylors.

The Wood Mortuary, Greer. Smith, Katherine Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Gethsemane Baptist Church, Starr. The McDougald Funeral Home, Anderson. Smith, Mary Frances Memorial services: 7 p.m.

Wednesday at Community Baptist Church, Taylors. -Courtesy of The Mackey Mortuary. Stephens, Walton M. Graveside services: 10 a.m. Saturday in Melrose Cemetery.

Harris Funeral Home, Abbeville. Stewart, Gustavus Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at Pisgah United Methodist Church. Waters-Powell Funeral Home, Florence. Suber, Jon R.

Jr. Memorial services: 11 a.m. Saturday at Whitmire United Methodist Church. Gray Funeral Home, Whitmire. Williams, John G.

Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Whitmire First Baptist Church. Gray Funeral Home, Bell, Mrs. Samuel N. Services: 3 p.m.

Saturday at Mon-Aetna Baptist Church. S.R. Holcombe Funeral Home, Union. Brank, Stella W. Services: 2 p.m.

Saturday at The Wood Mortuary, Greer. Crisp, Rev. William E. Jr. Memorial services: 2 p.m.

Sunday at Mountville Presbyterian Church. Gray Funeral Home, Clinton. Crocker, Lucy G. Services: 3 p.m. Saturday at Sullivan-King Mortuary Chapel, Anderson.

Culbertson, Ervin Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Robinson Funeral Home Chapel, Easley. Ferrell, Nellie G. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Mountain View Baptist Church.

Watkins, Garrett, Woods Mortuary. Gaines, Anna B. Services: 3 p.m. Sunday at New Poplar Springs Baptist Church. Adams Mortuary, Seneca.

Garrett, Janle M. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Mauldin First Baptist Church. Jones-Brashier Funeral Home, Downtown Chapel. Gay, Jeanette N.

Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at he Mackey Mortuary. Glover, Dorothy B. Graveside services: 10 a.m. Saturday at North Fork Baptist Church Cemetery.

The Howze Mortuary, Travelers Rest. Hill, Walter B. Sr. Graveside services: 2 p.m. Saturday in Oakland Cemetery.

Shuford-Hatcher Funeral Home, Gaf fney. Jones, Maudle Mae Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at David N. and Jeanette H. Goins Memorial Chapel, Laurens.

Goins Funeral Home, Laurens. Kessler, Marjorie W. Services and burial will be in Rutledge Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y. The Mackey Mortuary. King, Dennis C.

Services: 3:30 p.m. Saturday at The Mackey Mortuary. McBrlde, Archibald Graveside services: 1 p.m. Saturday in INMAN Evington, Janie Lee F. LAURENS Jones, Andrew J.

Pinson, Powers, Sara B. LOCKHART Crocker, Mrs. Charlie MEMPHIS, Tenn. Rockholt, Mary N. MOUNT PLEASANT Cormany, Judge Frank H.

NEWBERRY Ruff, Ray L. NINETY SIX Eddy, 'Buddy' Details Incomplete 0. Harry Blanton Olin Harry Blanton, 71, formerly of 112 E. Belvedere Road, died Feb. 4, 1993, at the Veterans Admi-! nistration Medical Center in Au-j gusta.Ga.

He was general manager at Al-! bany Chemical Co. in Albany, before he retired. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and IT a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mary Jane Goldsmith Blanton; three daughters, Beverly Ann Goldsmith of Seattle, and Pamela Mar-7. ie Cook and Barbara Mercer, both of Mauldin; two sons, Gary Blan- ton of Greenville and Paul Blanton of Aiken two sisters, Floride Brun-t, son of Nicholls and Vivian Putnam of Greenville; and three brothers, James Blanton of Nicholls, Arland Blanton of Little Rock, and Wilbert Blanton of Conway. Graveside services: 3 p.m. Saturday in Greenville Memorial Gar- dens. Visitation: 1 to 2 p.m.

Saturday at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Downtown. Memorials may be made to St. Mary's Catholic Church, Campaign Fund, 111 Hampton Greensville, S.C. 29611. The family is at the residence.

11 Nellie G. Ferrell 2 Nellie G. Ferrell, 86, formerly of 421 Rutherford Road, died Feb. 3, 1993, at the home of her daughter. She was a retired homemaker and a member of Mountain View Baptist Church, where she was on the Deaconess Board and a Sunday School teacher.

Surviving are five daughters, tZ Juanita Dial of the home, Hazel F. Little, Barbara F. Cox, Betty F. Williams and Ann F. Young, all of IJ! Greenville; and four foster daughters, Linda Smith of Alexandria, Darlene Walker of Maryland, Sharon Hood of Nashville, and Deborah Smith of Greenville.

Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Mountain View Baptist Church with burial in Resthaven Memorial Gardens. The family is at the home of Jua-Tnita Dial, 8 Pasadena Ave. Wat- kins, Garrett, Woods Mortuary. Russell E.

Flick Russell Earl Flick, 66, of 404 Che-l rokee Drive, died Feb. 4, 1993. He retired from Phillips Fibers, was president of Plant Engineering Design Services, and also was I president of Landmark Hall Inc. He was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. I He was a graduate of Purdue University.

Surviving are his wife, Martha Lord Flick of the home; and three daughters, Mrs. Randy (Susan) Hutchins of Phoenix, and Mrs. Barry (Nancy) Benson and Barbara Edwards, both of Green- ville. Graveside services: 2 p.m. Sun-day in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Section BB.

died Feb. 3, 1993, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. She was a former employee of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and a retired employee of Kellett Oil Co. She was a member of Mauldin First Baptist Church." Surviving are her husband, Joe Garrett of the home; a daughter, Mrs.

Henry (Pat) Sutherland of Greenville; and a sister, Lorena Mullinex of Greenville. Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Mauldin First Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Greenville County Cancer Society, 8 Aberdeen Drive, Greenville, S.C. 29605, or to the American Lung Association, 300 E.

Coffee Greenville, S.C. 29605. The family will be at the residence. Jones-Brashier Funeral Home, Downtown Chapel. Kenneth A.

Goldln Sr. TAYLORS Kenneth Andrew Goldin 88, of 1360 Camp Creek Road, died Feb. 5, 1993, at Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was a retired employee of Chautaqua Hardware. Surviving are three daughters, Eva Margaret Deal of Taylors, Shirley Jean Johnston of Whitmire, and Janice Coy of Bradford, and two sons, Kenneth A.

Goldin Jr. and Gilbert A. Goldin, both of Salisbury, N.C. Entombment will be at Rowan Memorial Park, Salisbury, N.C. The Wood Mortuary, Greer, was in charge of local arrangements.

James Johnson James Johnson, 67, of 48 Thomas died Feb. 4, 1993, at Piedmont Nursing Center. He was a retired textile employee. Surviving are six daughters, Annie R. Easterling of Mount Vemon, N.Y., Linda Haney and Evelyn Johnson, both of Spartanburg, and Helen Harris, Diane Butler and Karen Jefferson, all of Greenville; a son, Willie James Johnson of Columbia; and three brothers, Willie Johnson of Anderson and Willie J.

Johnson and Wilbert Martin, both of Greenville. Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at Wat-kins, Garrett, Woods Mortuary with burial in John Wesley United Methodist Church Cemetery, Anderson County. Visitation: 7 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the mortuary.

The family is at the home of Diane Butler, 5-A Mountain View Homes. Wayman J. Kemp GREER Wayman Jerome Kemp, 89, of 523 Batesville Road, died Feb. 5, 1993, at Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital in Hen-dersonville, N.C, after a period of declining health.

He was a retired farmer and was a Baptist. Surviving are a brother, Thomas Madison Kemp of Greer; and a sister, Mattie Lou Simmons of Greer. Graveside services: 3 p.m. Sunday in Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m.

Saturday at The Wood Mortuary, Greer. The family is at the residence. Bessie R. Ketchem SIMPSONVILLE Bessie Lee Hollifield Rolen Ketchem, 87, of 112 Sandhurst Drive, died Feb. 4, 1993, at Allen Bennett Memorial Hospit- Abercrombie and Louise Atkins, both of Greer, and Frances Marshall of Lancaster.

Services: 3 p.m. Sunday at Mount Page Baptist Church, Saluda, N.C, with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Johnson Funeral Home, Travelers Rest. The families will be at their respective homes.

Eunice H. Rider TRAVELERS REST Eunice Hall Rider, 65, of 1509 Geer Highway, died Feb. 3, 1993, at Greenville Memorial Medical Center. She was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant View Welcome Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, Avery Rider of Travelers Rest; five sons, Claude Rider, Carl Rider, Clayton Rider, Calvin Rider and Melvin Rider, all of Travelers Rest; three daughters, Diane Cow-art, Linda Rider and Charlotte Harrison, all of Travelers Rest; a brother, Lee Alvin Hall of Piedmont; and a sister, Irene Ballew of Greenville.

Services: 2 p.m. Saturday at Pleasant View Welcome Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. The family is at the residence. -The Howze Mortuary, Travelers Rest. Callie F.

Robinson Callie Fortner Robinson, 86, of 3020 State Park Road, died Feb. 4, 1993. She was a seamstress in the Greenville area for many years and was a foster parent to many local children. She was a member of Parkwood Baptist Church. Surviving are a daughter, Dianne Robinson of Greenville; and a ABBEVILLE Prince, Clawson BISHOPVILLE Hancock, W.O.

Jr. DURHAM, N.C. Downer, J.B. Sr. EDGEFIELD Nixon, Rev.

Kenneth W. FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Murphy, Wade C. Jr. GREENWOOD Bain, Verna S.

Murrah, Willie R. GREER White, Sam al. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. Surviving are two sons, Jesse Rolen of Taylors and George Ketchem of Columbia; two daughters, Mildred Ketchem of the home and Aretta Starkey of Concord, and a sister, Fannie Campbell of Knoxville, Tenn. Services: 11 a.m.

Saturday at The Wood Mortuary, Greer, with burial in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. The families are at their respective homes. James C. Kldd James Calvin Kidd, 56, of Springfield Apartments, Sulphur Springs Road, formerly of Whitmire, died Feb. 5, 1993.

He was an employee of Carolina PRIME in Greenville. Surviving are a daughter, Susan Kidd Steele of Clinton; a brother, William Richard Kidd of Greenville; and two sisters, Dianne Stroud and Daisy Kidd, both of Whitmire. Services: 3 p.m. Saturday at Clinton Road Wesleyan Church with burial in Whitmire Cemetery. The family is at the home of Dianne Stroud, Route 1, Newberry Highway, Whitmire.

Gray Funeral Home, Whitmire. Robert W. Laws Robert Walter Laws, 73, of 717 Richbourg Road, died Feb. 5, 1993. He retired from Prudential Insurance Co.

and was a member of Trinity Bible Church. He was U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World UPSTATE of McClellanville; two daughters, Christine Smithart of Marietta and Betty Jean McCombs of Travelers Rest; and a sister, Edna Marsh of Simpsonville. Services: 3 p.m. Sunday at The Howze Mortuary Chapel, Travelers Rest, with burial in Grand View Memorial Gardens.

Visitation: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the mortuary. The family will be at the home of Betty Jean McCombs, 26 Lorraine Drive, Travelers Rest. T. Sanford Cooke Jr.

SALEM T. Sanford Cooke 70, of 32 Beacon Ridge Circle, died Feb. 4, 1993, at his home. He was retired vice president of Ortner Freight Car Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was a 1944 graduate of V.M.I, and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of The Episcopal Church of the Ascension, where he was a vestryman and a member of the Building Committee. Surviving are his wife, Cynthia Knight Cooke; three sons, Dr. Thomas S.

Cooke of Richmond, Wm. Spady Cooke of Memphis, and Cecil R. Cooke of Charlotte, N.C; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Abercrombie of Simpsonville; and a sister, Mrs. John E.

Conant of Harpers Ferry, W.Va. Memorial services: 2 p.m. Sunday at The Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Visitation: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Seneca Mortuary, Seneca.

The family wille at the resi urday at The Mackey Mortuary. i ne iamny is at tne residence. Memorials may be made to Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children, 950 W. Faris Road, Greenville, S.C. 29605.

Janle M. Garrett Janie Mildred Mullinex Garrett, 75, of No. 357, Stoneledge Apartments, 1421 Roper Mountain Road, son, James G. Bowman of Greenville. Services: 11 a.m.

Saturday at The Mackey Mortuary with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Section Q. The family is at the residence. -The Mackey Mortuary. Marie V. Schultz GREER Marie Henriette Val-lez Schultz, 77, of 106 Shetland Way, River Downs, died Feb.

4, 1993, at Greenville Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. A graduate of Michigan State University, she was a retired real estate broker and ia member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church. Surviving are her husband, George Samuel Schultz of the home; a daughter, Gretchen Binsted of Greer; five sons, Peter Schultz of Rock Hill, Samuel Schultz II of Napierville, 111., Paul Schultz of Fairfield, Eric Schultz of Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., and Christopher Schultz of San Francisco, two brothers, Francis H. Vallez of Southfield, and Andre Vallee of Phoenix, a sister, Helene Berger of Las Vegas, and two half sisters, Alice Sayles of Tawas City, and Marguerite Hoxie of Palo Alto, Calif. Memorial services: 2 p.m.

Saturday at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Taylors. Memorials may be made to Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Building Fund, 1209 Brushy Creek Road, Taylors, S.C. 29687. The Wood Mortuary, Greer. was a former member of St.

Thad-deus in Aiken, where he was junior warden and vestryman. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943-46. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Toole Cormany of Mount Pleasant; a daughter, Mary Louise C. Coleman of Aiken; five sons, Frank Harold Cormany David Carroll Cormany and Robert Daniel Cormany, all of Aiken, James Richard Cormany of Savannah, and Neal Bennett Cormany of Greenville; and two stepdaughters, De-bra U.

Randolph of Augusta, and Carol U. Baxter of Charleston. Services: 3 p.m. Sunday at The Episcopal Church of The Holy Communion, Charleston, with burial in Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to The Episcopal Church of The Holy Communion, 218 Ashley Charleston, S.C.

29403. J. Henry Stuhr, Downtown Chapel, Charleston. ville; and a brother, Furman Culbertson of Cullman, Ala. Services: 2 p.m.

Saturday at Robinson Funeral Home Chapel, Easley, with burial in Enon Baptist Church Cemetery. The family isat the residence. War II. Surviving are his wife, Geraldine Bond Laws of the home; his mother, Hazel Beck Pastorius of East Lake, Ohio; two daughters, Gale Laws Wright of Greenville and Susan Laws Mininger of Quakertown, a son, Robert Howard Laws of Charlotte, N.C; a sister, Jean Laws Jones of Chesterland, Ohio; and a brother, Charlie Squire of Chardon, Ohio. Services and burial will be conducted by Gattozzi Sons Funeral Home, 12524 Chillicothe, Chester-land, Ohio.

Visitation: 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday at The Mackey Mortuary. The family is at the residence. In lieu or flowers, memorials may be made to Trinity Bible Church, 205 N. Suber Road, Greer, S.C 29650.

Whitt Morgan TRAVELERS REST Grady Whitt Morgan 84, of 37 Mush Creek Road, died Feb. 4, 1993, at Greenville Memorial Medical Center. He was a retired employee of the state Highway Department and a member of North Fork Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Howard Morgan of the home; a son, Grady Morgan Jr. of Marietta; four daughters, Lucille Rhodes of Fort Lauderdale, Mary Lee Mills of Travelers Rest, Marjorie Fowler of Scotland, and Lois Hyder of Marietta; a stepson, James Melton Sr.

of McCormick; a brother, John L. Morgan of Taylors; and three sisters, Larrett DEATHS dence. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of The Foothills, P.O. Box 245, Seneca, S.C. 29679, or The Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Memorial Garden Fund, P.O.

Box 1096, Seneca, S.C. 29679. Mrs. Charlie Crocker LOCKHART Esther Kitchens Crocker, 81, died Feb. 5, 1993, at Valley Falls Terrace Nursing Home in Spartanburg.

She was a member of Lockhart First Baptist Church and retired from Milliken Lockhart plant, and also from Hope Hospital. Surviving are two daughters, Esther Sue Eaves of Union and Nancy C. Hill of Spartanburg; three sons, Charles and Henry Crocker, both of Union, and William Thomas Crocker of Spartanburg; and a sister, Grace K. Little of Union. Services: 3 p.m.

Sunday at Lockhart First Baptist Church with burial in Union Memorial Gardens. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at S.R. Holcombe Funeral Home, Union. The family is at the home of Esther Sue Eaves, Route 5, Mount Tabor Church Road, Union.

Ervin 'Shorty' Culbertson EASLEY Ervin "Shorty" Culbertson, 84, of 111 Smith Grove Road, died Feb. 4, 1993, at his home following several years of declining health. He was a retired employee of Union Bleachery and a ijiember of Sam White was 111 Judge Cormany was 68 GREER Sam Uhita ukno nnyac long life took him from a share-. cropper farm to work on the railroad, died Feb. 2, 1993, at his home.

He was 111. A resident of 122 Will he was a retired sec- A yi MOUNT PLEASANT Frank Harold Cormany, administrative law judge and resident of 1056 Cot-tingham Drive, died Feb. 4, 1993, at a Charleston hospital. He was 68. He was a 1948 graduate of The Citadel and a 1951 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School.

In 1952, he was admitted to the South Carolina Bar and was in private practice until 1954. From 1954 to 1961, he was assistant U.S. District Attorney. He returned to private practice in 1961 and was solicitor for Aiken and city attorney for North Augusta. He was appointed administrative law judge by the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Charleston in 1971 and in 1973 was appointed chief administrative law judge.

He resigned as chief in 1980, but continued to serve as a judge. He was a member of The Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, where he was vestryman, Sunday School teacher and charter member of Home Bible Study. He Enon Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Viola Rogers Culbertson of the home; two sons, James "Jim" Culbertson of Pickens and Wayne L. Culbertson of Easley; a daughter, Mrs.

Roy M. (Juanita) Rei(J of Green attributed his long life to "clean living." "He said to try to treat my fellow man right and do good to others, and that was his motto," Mrs. Mills said. "He did for people. As long as he was able to get around, he was all over these hills and hollows trying to do something for somebody." He was a member of The United House of Prayer, where he was former superintendent of the Sunday School and a trustee.

Surviving in addition to Mrs. Mills of the home are: another daughter, Martha McGee of Greer; and a sister, Josie Mackins of Concord, N.C Services: 3 p.m. Sunday at The United House of Prayer with burial in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. -Gilmore Mortuary, Greer. Cecil C.

Allen SIX MILE Cecil Cannon Allen, 80, formerly of Conway, died Feb. 5, 1993, at Harvey's Loving Care Nursing Home. She was a homemaker and a member of Peters Creek Baptist Church. Surviving are five sons, Ray Cannon of Easley, Charles Cannon of Travelers Rest, Harold Cannon of Marietta, Barney Cannon of Six Mile and Haywarjl "Mack" Allen White EJsoX ern Railway. He was a native of Maysville, worked for a few years as a sharecropper, then moved to Greer in 1924 to take a job with the railroad, putting down rails and cross ties.

The oldest of 10 children, he had quit school in the second grade to help raise his brothers and sisters, according to his daughter, Kathleen Mills, 72, who cared for White in his later years. She described her father as an "energetic man" who trimmed his own hedges, cut the lawn and tended the garden until he was 105. In a 1989 article in The Greenville News, his daughter said White.

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