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OBITUARIES ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES C4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2006 More Obituaries on Page CS FUNERALS TODAY McMahan's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. WINNIE POPE GOFORTH MOORESBORO Winnie Pope Goforth, 79, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at McMahan's Funeral Home Chapel.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. AGNES WALLIN METCALF MARS HILL Agnes Wal-lin Metcalf, 86, of 4564 Paint Fork Road, died Wednesday, Namo, Roaldnn Time Location J. Terry Bencivonga, Fletcher 2 p.m. Oak Forest Baptist, Fletcher Edward Benclvenga, Fletcher 2 p.m.

Oak Forest Baptist, Fletcher Kenneth Bradley, Hayesville 1p.m. Townson Rose, Hayesville Gladys Cogburn, Canton 2 p.m. Cogburn Family Cemetery Grace Fisher, Florest City 2 p.m. Crowe's Claude Fortner, Spruce Pine 2 p.m. Pino Branch Baptist Church Cometery, Spruce Pine Lewis Greene, Asheville 11 a.m.

Grace, Patton Avenue David Hoxit, Hendersonvllle 1 p.m. Shuler Nell Hudgins, Black Mountain 11 a.m. Ashelawn Gardens of Memory Gail Johnson, Nebo 3 p.m. Westmoreland Helen Kaylor, Marion 1 1 :30 a.m. Garden Creek Baptist Trula Lawson, Hot Springs 7:30 p.m.

Blue Ridge, Mars Hill Mary Lyda, Asheville 3 p.m. Fairview Baptist Dorcas Philbeck, Ellenboro 11a.m. Corinth Baptist Oma Smith, Brevard 8 p.m. Moody-Connolly Blanche Walker, Nebo 2 p.m. Kirksey, Marion Queen Young, Asheville noon Nazareth First Baptist INUV.

UUO, III Mission HosDit- I r' A I a I Memorial i. i Campus. A .9 a County, P.O. Box 1572, Marion, NC 28752. Westmoreland Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.

An online register is available under "Obituaries" at www.westmorelandfuneralho me.com. GRACE SMITH FISHER FOREST CITY Grace Al-menda Smith Fisher, 82, of Forest City, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006, at her home. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Crowe's Funeral Chapel.

Visitation will held one hour prior to the funeral service. CLAUDE FORTNER SPRUCE PINE Claude Fortner, 82, a native of Mitchell County, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Pine Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, Spruce Pine.

Webb Funeral Home is assisting the Fortner family. DONALD FRED GILBERT MILL SPRING Donald Fred Gilbert, 66, died Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. The graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Coopers Gap Baptist Church Cemetery, with visitation following the service.

died Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, at his home. The funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Townson Rose, Frank Rose Sr. Memorial Chapel in Hayesville.

RITA THOMAS DOCKERY MURPHY Rita Thomas Dockery, 61, of Murphy, died Tuesday, Nov. 21,2006. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Townson Rose Funeral Home Chapel in Murphy. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday at the funeral home. MICHAEL LINDSAY FIELDS MARION Michael Lindsay Fields, 56, of Marion, died Thursday, Nov. 23, bbv 2006, at his resi-BJVn dence. A native of ville, Mike was born Sept. 7, 1950, to the late James A.

Fields and Ruthanna Lindsay Fields. A member of Providence United Methodist Church, he was retired from Ethan Allen in Old Fort. A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, he served during the Vietnam War. Mike's memory will live on within the family he loved so dearly and the many friends he leaves behind, all of whom would attest that Mike never met a stranger.

Surviving are his wife of 35 years, Gail Baker Fields; four children, Maria Fields Low-ery of Rutherfordton, Elizabeth Fields Gilliland and her husband, Michael, of Marion, Megan Lindsay Webster and her husband, Chris, of Swan-nanoa, and Angie Fields Lane and her husband, Dean, of Knoxville; three brothers, Jerry Fields of Boise, Idaho, and James "Butch" Fields and Bobby Fields, both of Knoxville; four sisters, Barbara Jean Voight of Seymour, Sandy Watkins of Wilmington, Kathy Roberts of Corryton, and Ruthie Garner of Sevierville, six grandchildren, Ashley, Clay, Deklan, Dustin, Anthony and Joshua; and numerous nieces and nephews. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Providence United Methodist Church with the Revs. Carroll Flack and David Miner officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. The U. S. Marine Corps will provide military graveside rites. Memorials may be made to Hospice House of Rutherford County, 374 Hudlow Road, Forest City, NC 28043; or Family Services of McDowell 1 1 vv a a daughter of the late Dewey and Esta Anderson Wallin.

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For a prlmable, keepsake version of each obituary, please go to www.cltlzen-tlmes.comobltuarles. For "In Memory Of" or "Card of Thanks" Information, please contact Kelly Allen at (828) 232-5925. also preceded by her son, John Dwight Metcalf; two sisters, Mary Tweed and Daisy Franklin; brother, J.D. Wallin. Mrs.

Metcalf was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and was a devout Christian. She was a retired school teacher, having taught for 42 years, and was a devoted member of Paint Gap Baptist Church, where she was a former Sunday school teacher and choir director. JONATHAN D. ANDERSON ROBBINSVILLE Jonathan Drew Anderson, 28, passed away Monday, Nov. 20, 2006.

The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Robbin-sville First Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. Saturday until the service hour. KENNETH DEE BRADLEY HAYESVILLE Kenneth Dee Bradley, 76, of East Vineyard Road, Hayesville, Former Orioles pitcher Pat Dobson dies 'Jezebel of Jazz' O'Day dies The team didn't immediately know the cause of death.

Dobson went 20-8 with a 2.90 ERA for the AL champion Orioles in 1971, rounding out a famous rotation that also included Hall of Famer Jim Palmer (20-9), Dave McNally (21-5) and Mike Cuellar (20-9). The 1920 Chicago White Sox are the only other team in major league history to have four 20-game winners. An All-Star with Baltimore in 1972, Dobson was 122-129 with a 3.54 ERA in major league seasons and won a World Series ring with the 1968 Detroit Tigers. He also pitched for San Diego, Atlanta, the New York Yankees and Cleveland. Dobson spent eight seasons as a big league pitching coach for Milwaukee (1982-84), San Diego (1988-90), Kansas City (1991) and Baltimore (1996).

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO Pat Dobson, one of four pitchers to win 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, has died. He was 64. Dobson died Wednesday night in the San Diego area, the San Francisco Giants said Thursday. He was a special assistant to Giants general manager Brian Sabean this year, his ninth with the club. "I Ex-Globetrotters player dies in crash in Finland the associated press Finland, police said.

He was 27. HELSINKI, Finland Chris Sandy, from New York, lost Sandy, a former Fresno State control of his car and collided and Harlem Globetrotters with a vehicle going in the player, died Thursday in a car opposite direction, police said, accident in southeastern Sandy, in his first season in Europe, played for one of the top Finnish teams, Kouvot of Kouvola. The 6-foot-2 guard averaged 18 points and was third in the league with 3.9 assists per game. I I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Anita O'Day belts out a Jazz song with her trio, Jim DeJullo on the upright bass, Marry Harris on the piano and jack Le CompTe on the drums, at the Atlas Club In Los Angeles, In 1999. O'Day, whose renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other standards made her one of the most respected azz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died.

Price 1 11 nifi mi i nut nrm ii-n'-fr-ifititiigT-it 1 BEDROOMS By Allison Hoffman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Anita O'Day, whose sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, has died. She was 87. O'Day died in her sleep early Thursday morning at a convalescent hospital in Los Angeles where she was recovering from a bout with pneumonia, said her manager Robbie Cavolina. "On Tuesday night, she said to me, get me out of here," Cavolina said. "But it didn't happen." Once known as the "Jezebel of Jazz" for her reckless, drug-induced lifestyle, O'Day lived to sing and she did so from her teen years until this year when she released "Indestructible!" "All I ever wanted to do is perform," she said in a June 1999 interview with The Associated Press.

"When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life." Cavolina recently completed a feature film about O'Day and accompanied her to shows and on tours. "She got to see how many people really loved her at the shows we did, in New York, in London," Cavolina said. "She had come back after all of this time. She really lived a very full and exciting life." O'Day was born in Chicago.

She left home at age 12 and often bragged about being "self-made" and never having a singing lesson. She began her career in her teens and later recorded hits with Stan Kenton and Gene Krupa. Her highly stylized performance of songs like "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine," I'Let Me Off Uptown," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" made her famous the world over. YOUR CHOICE FINANCING Vosturepedic home after a drinking binge. She was admitted to a hospital with a broken arm but ended up with severe food poisoning and pneumonia.

She survived the ordeal but her recovery both physical and 'emotional was painful. She left the hospital in a wheelchair and didn't walk for nearly a year. Her right hand was paralyzed but worst of all, she said, she had lost her singing voice. Although she blamed the complications on poor hospital care, the near-death experience persuaded O'Day to give up alcohol. It took nearly a year to get her voice back and start singing again.

But once she did, she was right back on stage. She received a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1997. For the last years of her life, O'Day performed at various Los Angeles night spots. O'Day had no children and no immediate family, Cavolina said. In her prime, O'Day was described as a scat singer and a natural improviser whose unique interpretations energized the most familiar songs.

She inspired many singers, including June Christy and Chris Connor. Her fame came at a price. She suffered from a 16-year heroin addiction and an even longer alcohol problem. Wild, drug-related behavior and occasional stints in jail on drug charges earned her the nickname "Jezebel of Jazz," a term she hated. "I tried everything," she once said.

"Curiosity will make you go your own way." She overdosed many times and on one occasion in the late 1940s, it was almost fatal. The experience shocked her into giving up drugs, but she continued to drink. Her 1981 memoir "High Times Hard Times" tells of her long struggle with drug addiction and her romance with drummer John Poole. In late 1996, O'Day fell down the stairs of her Hemet, Reams Luxury Pillowtop pt Brandish Extra Firm Was $999 ROLLBACK SALE PRICE 'r Honored WI vet dies at 111 1 v. twin Set Tull KingSetJ 1 4 1 1 A A''" Stearns Foster r'-l SealyHarvel Deluxe Firm 1 Sale Price Koyal Harks Sale Price $399 A black-and-white photo of the battleship hung on the wall of his trailer near a framed letter of congratulations from President Bush, and the president's brother added the glass -encased medal to a table near Pusey's recliner.

Pusey was born in 1895 in Washington. He joined the Navy in 1917 and spent much of the war patrolling the sea lanes around the British Isles. He later worked for General Motors in Flint, before moving to Florida in i960. He tried living in a nursing home but preferred living in his trailer with the help of a caretaker. He loved fishing and going out for a scallop dinner on Sundays, his family said.

Pusey's longevity was a marvel to many. "I don't know if he had a secret," grandson Craig Pusey said. "If he did, he never told anyone." Pusey is survived by a daughter-in-law, four grandchildren and 10 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRADENT0N, Fla. Ernest Charles Pusey, one of the nation's longest living World War I veterans, died a little more than a week after he was honored with a medal for his service to the country, family members said. He was 111.

Pusey's death Sunday left fewer than 25 living U.S. veterans of World War I out of nearly 5 million who served, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. "I was deeply saddened to learn that Mr. Pusey had passed away. It was my privilege to meet with him," Gov.

Jeb Bush said in a news release. "We should not forget him, and other veterans, who sacrificed so much for this country." The governor had presented Pusey with a World War I Victory Medal on Nov. 10, the day before Veterans Day. Pusey didn't recall receiving a medal after the war, and nobody could find any evidence that he had. the ceremony at Pusey's trailer, the veteran iueen set Twin Set Full Set King Set $199 $349 $599 Queen Set Twin Set Full Set King Set $799 $949 $1499 f'r-- TEARNS fOSTI-R' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ernest Pusey sits for a portrait In May In his Bradenton, home.

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