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Deaths i Funerals Page4B' ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES Monday, May 23, 1994 RIDLEY HUTCHINSON III Ridley Ecta Hutchinson III, formerly of Weaverville, died at home in Fairfield, Iowa, Sunday, May 22, 1994, after a long illness with leukemia. Survivors in BOBBY W. SMILEY Bobby Winston Smiley, 50, of Princess Pearl Manor, died Saturday, May 21, 1994. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. ELIZABETH HENSLEY Elizabeth Haynes Hensley, 72, of 573 Swannanoa River Road, died Saturday, May 21. 1994. She was a native of Rutherford County and was a resident of Buncombe County most of her life.

She owned the Big Apple and Beachwood Restaurants along with Hensles Produce in Asheville. She is a daughter Is 1 s. of Rosa Ledbet-ter Haynes of Asheville and the late Huey Haynes. She was the Wife of the late Rev. Grant Hensley, who died in 1957.

Surviving, in addition to her mother, are a daughter, Sandra H. Coates of Asheville; a sis- MARY MILLER Mary Theresa Miller, 91, of 1 Main died Sunday, May 22, 1994, in a local hospital. A native of Davidson County, she was a daughter of the late John L. Miller and Mary E. Stoner.

She graduated in 1920 from Bilt-more High School and in 1924 received her B.A. degree at NCCW, now UNC-Greensboro. She did graduate work at Columbia University one summer, beginning work in Romance Languages, Spanish and French. She attended three summer schools at the University of Mexico in Mexico City, followed by Middlebury College in Vermont, where she earned her M.A. in Spanish.

Her teaching career spanned 42 years. She taught Spanish and French four years at Gastonia High School, followed by 18 years at Tubman High School for Girls in Augusta, Ga. In 1947, she came to Asheville and taught 20 years at Asheville-Bilt-more College, from which she retired in 1987. She was a member of Oakley United Methodist Church. Surviving are a sister, Grace Hollweg of Asheville; a brother, Archie Miller of Asheville; and two nephews.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Williams Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jim Calloway will officiate. Burial will be in Lewis Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road, Asheville 28803. FUNERALS TODAY Name, Residence Time Location, Millie Smith, Marion 2 p.m. Henline-Hughes James Killian, Swannanoa 11a.m.

Henshaw's 4 Lowee Hampton, Balsam Grove 4 p.m. Shoal Creek Baptist Jessie Ferguson, Clyde 2 p.m. Wells, Waynesville i Gertrude Campbell, Canton 2 p.m. St Andrews Episcopal Jettie Warren, Candler 2 p.m. Browns View United Methodist Lawrence Suttie, Swannanoa 2 p.m.

Christian Creek Baptist i Daisy Wooten, Asheville 11 a.m. Groce i Gilmer Bagwell, Bumsville 2 p.m. Pensacola United Methodist I Duke Whitley, Murphy 4 p.m. Murphy First United Methodist Alice Dills, Topton 11a.m. Union Hill Baptist j.

ys Edna Long, Bryson City 11a.m. Holly Springs Cemetery No. 2 'ft i REGIONAL DEATHS I Hester Lassie Sanders Klmsey Carpenter, 87, of Franklin, died Saturday, May 21; services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. III Duke Whitley, 80, of Murphy, died Saturday, May 21; services 4 p.m.

Monday, Murphy First United Methodist Church. if Opal F. Dalley, 71, of Hayesville, died Friday, May 20; services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Ivie Funeral Home, Hayesville. 1 Alice Dills, 87, of Topton, died Saturday, May 21; services 11 a.m.

Monday, Union Hill Baptist Edna Minnie Long of Bryson City, died Saturday, May 21; graveside services 1 1 a.m. Monday, Holly Springs Cemetery No. 2. Lester R. Garland, 81, of Bumsville, died Saturday.

May 21; arrangements incomplete. Geneva E. Ledford, 87, of Bakersville, died Sunday, May 22; services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Hensons Creek Baptist Church. Francis Lynn Campbell, 58, of Titusville, died Saturday, May 21; arrangements incomplete.

THAD McCURRY Oliver North blasts gun control in clude his parents, R.E. and Lyn Hutchinson; brother, Gaelyrt Hutchinson of Fairfield, Iowa; grandparents, R.E. and Eva Hutchinson of Weaverville and Ervin Ball Sr. of Asheville; great-grandmotrw er, Mrs. R.H, Ridley Hutchinson LTZ uncles, Mr.

and Mrs. Ervin Ball Thomas Ball, Laura Ball, Judy Ball of Asheville, Truly Ball of Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. Virginia Bass of Wilson, N.C.; and cousins, Sarah Easterling "Of Iowa, Benjamin of Asheville, Mrs. Steve Picket of London, England, Brian Bass, Leigh Bass of Wilson, N.C. GRADY HARDIN SR.

RUTHERFORDTON Grady A. Hardin 70, died Sunday, May 22, 1994. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Second Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Monday at McMahan's Funeral Home. campaign one survey identified themselves as evangelical, born-again Chri. tians. They also are a substantial part of the Republican delegates, who will pick the party nominee. North has secured the support of Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson, but he does not have the group's rank and file on board, said coalition member Ron Schu- maker of Chesapeake, Va.

"Col. North is not a person to be trusted," said Schumaker, who has defected to support North's chief opponent for the nomination former Reagan administration budget director James Miller. A North campaign letter sent to potential contributors states that he was "exonerated" by thfc courts, which is untrue: North's convictions were thrown out on technicality. North, in an interview, defended himself against the charge that he misled Congress on Iran-Contra. "They know in their hearts ,1 told the whole truth and nothing but the truth," he said.

The public discontent may draw two others into the senatorial race former Gov. Doug Wilder, la Democrat, and Republican Mar-, shall Coleman. Both would be for-- midable candidates, said Brad Co-ker of the Mason-Dixon polling group. Locally Owned Groce Funeral Home Prearrangements Funerals Cremation Shipping Service 4 R.D. McCurry of Marion; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Crabtree Baptist Church, of which he was a lifelong member. The Revs. Tim Lewis, Philip Garland and Scot Garland will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Holcombe Bros. Funeral Home, where the body will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes before the services. ROBERT Z. PARHAM Robert Parham, 74, of 105 Dryman Valley Road, died Sunday, May 22, 1994, in an Asheville hospital.

Wells Funeral Home, Canton, is in charge of arrangements. WOODROW CHANDLER BURNSVILLE Woodrow Chandler, 81, of the Swiss Community, died Saturday, May 21, 1994, at his home. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of the late Goldman and Betsy Ledford Chandler. He was a retired farmer. Surviving are his wife, Pauline Shepherd Chandler; a son, Doyle Chamber of Bumsvilje; sisters, Thel-ma McNeill of Bumsville and Gladys Franklin of Weaverville; brothers, Jay and Leonard Chandler, both of Bumsville, and Cameron Chandler of Williamsburg, grandchildren, Jerry Chandler and Sandra Doan of Bumsville; and four great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, of which he was a deacon and Adult Men's Sunday School teacher. The Revs. Lee Boggs, Elbert Jenkins and Terry Brooks will officiate. Burial will be in Gibbs Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Holcombe Bros. Funeral Home, where the body, will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes before the services. "Theyknow in their hearts I told the whole truth and nothing but the truth." OLIVER NORTH ON IRAN-CONTRA CONVICTION tiatives, and he has been tarred by allegations that he had affairs and was present at cocaine parties in Virginia Beach. The rumors were exacerbated by Robb's bizarre statement in March that he, as alleged, had sexual contact with women other than his wife but that he hadn't actually "slept" with them.

"People are just looking for a way out of this terrible dilemma. They don't want Robb or North," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "It's a nightmare race. The two leading candidates are so reprehensible." Many Virginians including Republican Sen. John Warner -are horrified at the notion of sending a convicted felon to the Senate.

But the growing power of the state's fundamentalist Christians and conservatives gives North a good shot of winning. In Virginia's last statewide election, 40 percent of voters in FOREST LAWN FUNERAL HOME Professional Service With a Personal Touch VS. 19-23 Hwy. EnkfrCandW 667471 BURNSVILLE Thad "Tater Bug" McCurry, 86, of Cane Branch, died Sunday, May 22, 1994, In Yancey Nursing Center. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of the late Walt and Daisy Allen McCurry and the husband of Maude Young McCurry, who died in 1990.

He was a retired farmer and livestock dealer. 1 Surviving are a daughter, Louise Shaw of Cheraw, S.C.; a son, Max McCurry of Bumsville; a sister, Queen Stephens of Bumsville; a half brother, PERCY HOWARD BLACK MOUNTAIN Percy Howard of 509 Craigmont Road, died Saturday, May 21, 1994, In a local health care center. Allen Associates Mortuary is In charge of arrangements. REVIEW KNIGHT-RIDDER LEESBURG, Va. Retired Lt Col.

Oliver North is back in the trenches, appealing to his troops to defend him against his arch enemies: the media and the liberals. "Politics is very much like combat," North told Virginia Republicans recently, standing at the head of a room where the walls were covered with rows of guns. To win his battle for the state's U.S. Senate seat, he needs "total dedication to the task at hand, good troops and plenty of ammunition," North Oliver North said at a breakfast at Johnson's Charcoal House of Beef, in a speech filled with military metaphors. North doesn't look much different now than he did in the summer of 1987, when the stiff-postured then-Marine testified in full dress uniform before Congress about the Iran-Contra affair.

North was convicted on three counts, for his role in the arms-for-hostages scandal, but the felony convictions were thrown out on appeal. A little older and gray at the temples, North still has the 1987 look and rhetoric of the true believer, his passionate diatribe against gun control, "the imperial 687-0108 Always Use DON DAVIES, A Pianist Geiger treats audience in benefit for chamber festival Elizabeth Hensley Jf Sue Hodge of Ruther- fordton; and two grandchildren, Greg Coates and Steffani Coates, both of Asheville. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Forest Lawn Memorial Park with the Rev. G.A.

McCurry officiating. i The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at West Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Bent Creek Baptist Church Building Fund, Brevard Road, Asheville 28806. Congress" and President Clinton's "socialized medicine" plan occasionally interrupted by his trademark gap-toothed grin.

"The United Nations isn't worth a drop of American blood," North said, criticizing Clinton's Bosnia policy. The nation's military forces also are being tarnished, North said, by Clinton and Democratic Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia. Robb "has been a rubber stamp on this administration's plans to turn the American military into a radical social experiment," North bellowed, referring to Robb's support for gays in the military. North is running as an outsider and frequently berates the "liberal media" such as the "Washington Compost" and the "Jane' Fonda Network" (presumably CNN) for allegedly trying to kill his candidacy.

He also rails against creeping gun control, drawing derisive laughs when he sarcastically called the rifles displayed on the diner's walls "assault weapons" the Clinton administration wants banned. The arch-conservative message is selling well in Virginia, where North is favored to win the Republican nomination for Senate at the convention June 3 and 4. The general election expected to be against Robb will be tougher for North, although he does benefit from Robb's political baggage. The incumbent senator has alienated conservative voters with his support for several Clinton ini- GUI, CRS 800 Tunnel Road Asheville 298-0298 EXCLUSIVE BUYERS BROKER MLS WORKING FOR A CLEAN GREEN yCOMMUNITY PROGRESSIVE CONCEPTS REALTY By John Bridget SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN-TIMES Pianist Ruth Geiger's scholarship and unfailing musicality treated a near-capacity audience Friday night at the Unitarian Universalist Church. The recital was a benefit for the Swannanoa Chamber Festival in which Geiger will participate again this summer.

Those who came early heard Geiger comment on the music in her program. She mentioned style, technical aspects, and pointed out particular measures to listen for. Geiger began with JJ3. Bach's "Italian Concerto with strongly articulated rhythms underlying the sustained sense of line. Even while maintaining the formal structure of the piece, Geiger animated her playing with imagination and spontaneity.

Three of Beethoven's "Bagatelles" from opus 119 and 33 were presented with care, precision, and a leavening of wit Although the bagatelles are miniature in scope, Geiger never let them become triv- iaL Even in these short pieces, Geiger found bits of drama on the same level of intensity as some of Beethoven's big sonatas. Geiger brought grace and an elegant flowing style to Mozart's "Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310" without neglecting the dramatic pose Mozart takes in the minor. Geiger's intellectual conviction about the sonata enabled her to endow the andante cantabfle with great feeling without in any way Brothers write home Your Real Estate Consumer Advocate making it precious.

Geiger's integrity about rhythm always informs her playing of music of the classical era and this solidity enables her to bring unusual personal statements to the music. After intermission Geiger gave a demonstration of the great range of color' she can produce when she played seven preludes from Debusss "Preludes, Book Each of the seven became a tone poem with an individual character. A persistent sense of the atmosphere and poetry of the pieces was matched by Geiger's large scale brilliance when the preludes required it The virtuoso elements of "The Hills of Anacapri" were contrasted with the lustiness and legato of "Sounds and Perfumes Turn in the Evening Air." The recital concluded with the original version of Prokofieffs "Sonata No. 5 in Major." Geiger chose to tone down some of the sardonic, mocking qualities in the music and went for the eloquent expressive facets with momentary intrusions of brittleness. The andante movement with its ostinato accompaniment and finely spun melody was particularly pleasing.

After the agitated final movement, Geiger chose a "soothing" encore: Gershwin's Prelude." during Civil War The book was published last month by Oxford University Press after editing by Clcmson University graduate student Guy Everson. He researched information mentioned in the letters and put the material into historical context for his master's thesis. "You probably couldnl have written novel with as good a plot as yoti find In those letters," Everson slid. I QAlW AR 5 Have you bought a car, a mower, a carpet, a jacket, a newspaper lately? Did it contain recycled material? TilUf I ACCESSORY SALE TRUCK COVERS TRUCK RAILS SLIDING WINDOWS BED LINERS ROCKER PANELS RUNNING BOARDS BED MATS SUN VISORS TOOL BOXES Yoti re really recycling when you BUY RECYCLED! I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEMSON, S.C. Two brothers' letters to their families during the Civil War have been pieced together Li a new book that tells of their courage during the bitter time.

In the book "Far, Far from Home," Dick and Tally Simpson's letters weave story that puts the war in a personal context not often seen in other history bookk.