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LOCALSTATE 4A Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002 Battle Creek Enquirer Iona Jane (Thornton) Eggleston Iona Jane (Thornton) Eggle- Ona took four months summer ston (nee Thornton), originally leaves while with Boca Raton to Great-grandmother back in high school Associated Press JONESVILLE Junnie Kiersey is giving a whole new meaning to the term "high school senior." The 72-year-old Kiersey decided several months ago that she wanted to be able to help her two great-grandchildren, 5 and 8, with their math homework. So the Hillsdale resident enrolled in an algebra class at Jonesville High School. "I decided it was time for grandma to go back to school," Kiersey said. "I figured if I can help them I'll be there, if the good Lord sees." Kiersey's fans include Principal Andrew Parzych and her teacher, Dustin Scharer.

"I think it's great," Parzych said. "It's great to see an adult come back just to learn. It's neat she wants to do this for her great-grandchildren." Having Kiersey in the classroom has been a positive experience, said Scharer, a first-year teacher. "The kids respect her. They respect what she's doing," he said.

She works extremely hard. For anyone to just jump into algebra, it's difficult." Kiersey meets Thursdays and Fridays with a tutor. Scharer or his wife, Heather, who also teaches math at Jonesville, sometimes help her before or after class. "I feel a bit out of place," Kiersey said. "But the faculty and staff have been very nice.

They've offered all kinds of help." Kiersey's appreciation of education, and of the help she's getting along the way, isn't lost on Scharer. "If you could get an average student to put that much effort into their studies She's very determined," he said. After two months, Scharer' said, Kiersey has learned the general concepts but, like of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a government employee during WWII, executive assistant, hotel and resort manager, and entrepre -sSsS neur, passed away November 23, 2002, at the Hospice of The North Shore, Skokie, Illinois. She had been in declining health. Iona was born on April 22, 1916 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Jesse Earl Thornton, and Nellie Frances (Thomas) Thornton.

Her father was a professor of English and her mother was the main university librarian. She grew up in Ann Arbor, along with her two older siblings, Frances and Joseph. She attended Angel School and was a graduate of University High School The University of Michigan. She received her BA. from the University of Michigan, and her M.A.

from Columbia University. Iona was an active member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and was proud of her fifty-year pin. After graduation from the University of Michigan in 1937, her father was invited to spend a year at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C. and she accompanied her parents to Washington. At the beginning of WWII, she was employed by the federal government and became the assistant to Donald Nelson, head of the War Production Board.

During her tenure in Washington, she was named "Washington's Number One secretary, and a day in her life was featured in the Washington newspaper. In 1938 she recieved her masters degree from Columbia University, and earned a lifetime teaching certificate from Michigan. She left government service to become the secretary to the president of Lever Brothers, Charles Luck-man. When Mr. Luckman left the firm to join an architectural partnership, Iona was recruited to follow to Los Angeles.

Iona returned to the East Coast a year later to study fashion design, and eventually joined the New York office of Mr. Luckman as the office manager. Later Iona served as the executive secretary to the chairman of the board of a national advertising agency with offices in both New York and the Bahamas. She spent the next several years dividing her professional time between both locations. She eventually joined the Waldorf AstoriCom-pany and Hilton Hotels Corporation as an executive secretary to the general manager.

In 1965 she encountered an old friend from the Bahamas in New York City. He was riding in a cab and saw her on the street. He leapt from the cab calling her She and George Ambrose Eggleston were married in 1967. During a vacation, she and her husband purchased a small business in Pompano Beach, Florida, and she "retired" from the corporate world to enjoy her new life. While in Florida, Iona and her husband became associated with the Boca Raton Resort and Club he managing both the marina and golf course, and she providing executive assistance to the director of national sales, the president of conventions and sales, and administration.

OBITUARIES Ruth G. (Webster) Carey Battle Creek Ruth G. (Webster) Carey, 84, of Battle Creek died November 11, 2002 (date is correct) at Calhoun County Medical Care Facility. She was a formerly employed by the city of Battle Creek Housing Commission. Funeral services will be held at a later date.

Arrangements are by Royal Funeral Home. Destiny Rene'e Goins-Gibson Battle Creek I Destiny Rene'e Goins-Gibson, 3 hours old, passed away on 'November 25, 2002. A memorial service will be -Iheld at a later date. Catherine A. "Cathy" Lepper Battle Creek Catherine A.

"Cathy" Lepper, 44, of Battle Creek Friends may call at the Dowdle Funeral Home after 4 p.m. Friday. Family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday and Sunday from 2-4 6-8 p.m. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m., Monday at the funeral home. Elmer J.

Moffett Bronson Elmer J. Moffett, 79, of Bronson, died Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at the Community Health Center of Branch County- Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, November 30, 2002, at the Kolcz Funeral Home Bronson with Rev. Mona Joslyn of the First United Methodist Church in Bronson officiating. The family will receive friends at the Kolcz Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m., Friday. William E.

Penney "Bill" Battle Creek William E. "Bill" Penney, 63, Battle Creek, died Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at his residence. Arrangements are pending at Richard A. Henry Funeral Home. Kenneth B.

Puis Battle Creek Kenneth B. Puis, 69, of Battle Creek, died Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at Battle jCreek Health System. Arrangements are pending at the Richard A. Henry Funeral Home. Winifred E.

Tenney Battle Creek Winifred E. Tenney age 90 of Battle Creek, died Wednesday, November 27, 2002 at Calhoun County Medical Care Facility. Arrangements pending at Farley-Estes Dowdle Funeral Home. FUNERALS RIDAY.NOV.29 Dennis C. Callaway Jr: 1 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 29, in First Baptist Church, Bellevue. teeomia R. Dotts 11 a.m. Friday, Nov.

'29, in Second Missionary Baptist Church. Walter S. Hinkley: 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 29, in East Gilead Cemetery.

Donald C. Hess: 11 am Friday, Nov. 29. in First United Methodist Church. SATURDAY, NOV.

30 jEstella M. Bowman: 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, at Farley-Estes Dowdle iFuneral Home, Richland Chapel. Jona J.

Eggleston: Noon Saturday, Nov. 30, at Spencer Family Funeral Home, iAthens. Michael Martin: 11 a.m. Saturday, 30, at Girrbach Funeral Home, Hastings. lElmer J.

Moffett 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. at Kolcz Funeral Home, Bronson. Donna J. Wawiemia: 11 a.m.

Saturday, iNov. 30, at Pray Funeral Home, 'Charlotte. MONDAY, DEC. 1 Catherine A Lepper 1 p.m. Monday, at Farley-Estes Dowdle funeral Home.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4 Harriett A Leslie Gilt 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Lyons United Methodist Church, Boulder, 1 FRIDAY, DEC. 13: Kathtyn M.

Stridden 11 a.m Friday, 'Dec. 13, in St David's Episcopal Church, tansing. Granholm won't hold traditional inaugural ball rphirn Knmp tr the familtr homestead in Colon, Michigan. xix nit xixxix lyuu a vjwj nau become ill with chronic and wasting disease. Both continued their employment with Boca Raton and they continued to 'commute' to Michigan in the summers.

George died in 1989. Ona, though no longer wdrk-ingcontinued to live in Deer-field Beach and summer in Michigan. In November 1991, Iona was asked to help Mr. Wangeman, her old boss at the Waldorf Astoria asked Iona to organize his accumulated files and catalog his memorabilia. Iona also authored a book, "Communication in Management" and served as secretary on a Caribbean cruise conference of the Pan American Medical Society.

She is survived by her sister Frances (King T. Stutzman of Wilmette, Illinois; her nephews Peter T. Stutzman of Chicago and Timothy (Martha E. Stutzman of Wilmette; Her nephew Jesse F. Thornton of Beaver Creek, Ohio; her great-niece Molly B.

Stutzman of Boston, Massachusetts; her great-nephews Kenneth E. Stutzman and Gene M. Stutzman of Wilmette; her great-nephew Joseph Antony (Rachel) Thornton of Huber Heights, Ohio; and her great-great-niece Ruth Ann Marie also of Huber Heights. She is also survived by her sister-in-law Martha (White) Thornton; and by her step-grandson Philip Garfield of Long Island City, New York and Damascus, Pennsylvania. She was preceded in death by her parents Jesse E.

Thornton (1965) and Nellie E. Thornton (1982); by her husband George A. Eggleston (1989); and by her brother Joseph E. Thornton (1991); her great-aunts Florence Thomas Post and Jane Thomas Eichel-berger. She had been a resident of Deerfield Beach, Florida since 1966.

In 1997 declining health and the mutual desire of the sisters to live near one another occasioned her move to Wilmette, Illinois. She lived at the Bahai Home until a further decline in health necessitated her move to Hampton Plaza in Niles, Illinois. It was here that she lived until just weeks before her death. During the last eight months of her life she was faithfully attended by and received much comfort from a companion, Zaib Motiwala. An intelligent, vivacious woman with a sense of humor and an infectious laugh, Ona (as she was known to family and friends) had a wide range of interests.

In the period of her employment with the architectural firm she took a six-month leave to study clothing design in New York City. Thereafter for many years, she designed many of her clothes. She took a lively interest in learning new crafts and hobbies well into her seventies. Friends may call at the Spencer Family Funeral Home in Athens, Michigan, where the family will receive visitors on Friday, November 29, 2002 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Services will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, November 30, 2002 at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Sher wood Village Cemetery Sherwood, Michigan. in ty prosecutor in 1954 and was elected two years later to Congress, where he was instrumental in repealing the automobile excise tax. He was featured on a 1958 Time magazine cover for a story on "How to Run for Congress." After he left office, Congress named the Lansing federal building in his honor. He practiced law in Washington, D.C, and also started a Christmas tree farm.

"He was the ultimate optimist," said his son, Charles Chamberlain Jr. "He didn't think there was a problem on Earth that could not be solved with a little bit of ingenuity." Great-grandmother Junnie Kiersey High School. many students, "she just makes little mistakes." Kiersey said she's a bit frustrated by her progress but not discouraged. "All I took was business math," said Kiersey, who retired from Jonesville Products' quality control department. "Sometimes I can't comprehend the equations, but even if I don't get it I'll still be in class." Kiersey said she might continue her studies by taking geometry, trigonometry and ball in Lansing is in keeping with the next governor's promise to be more inclusive of the rest of the state.

Granholm, now the state's attorney general, will be the first Democrat to hold the office since 1990 and the state's first female governor. Republican Gov. John Engler's 1998 inauguration included 10 events in five cities during a two-week period. The events cost $1.7 million. The tab was picked up by private donors, corporations and ticket sales, as the tab for Granholm's inauguration will be.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was among four people named Tuesday to head the committee overseeing Granholm's inaugural activities. Other committee members are Debbie Dingell, vice chairwoman of the General Motors Foundation and wife of U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn; Teamsters President James P. was interrupted by World War II.

A native of France, he was forced into the Nazi army but rebelled and became a secret agent for the French Resistance, his stepdaughter, Trish Spiegel, said. Moved by his war experiences, he wrote "Do You Hear What I Hear" in 1962 as a he ASSOCIATED PRESS heads for class at Jonesville possibly calculus and a computer class. "If I get algebra, then I'll go on. But I'm not that much of a brainiac yet." Having Kiersey for a student is a "unique situation," but doesn't have to be, Parzych said. Any interested person may enroll in classes at the school in Jonesville, a village of 2400 south of Homer, he said.

"This just goes to show you're never too old to learn," he said. "It's good for the kids, too." Hoffa; and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Damon Keith. Inauguration activities planned for Jan. 1 include a morning interfaith service in Lansing before the swearing-in.

Other details for Lansing events on Jan. 1 will be announced later. The three formal inaugural evening celebrations will be: Jan. 3 at the Frederick Mei-jer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. Jan.

4 at Ford Field in Detroit. Jan. 11 at the University Club at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. The free family events are planned for Flint, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Marquette and Southfield. "We wanted to provide opportunities for everyone to participate in this historic inauguration," Dingell said.

A full schedule of inaugural events will be announced in December. poem for peace. Regney's wife, Gloria Shayne, a pianist met in New York, helped him compose the song. Bing Crosby made the song famous when he recorded it a year later. "Dominique" topped the charts in 1963 and ended its five-week run a month before the Beatles hit the pop scene.

Associated Press LANSING Breaking with tradition, Jennifer Granholm won't hold an inaugural ball in Lansing on Jan. 1, choosing instead to host a family-focused event at the Lansing Center and a receiving line. She will hold three formal inaugural evening celebrations around the state in the week-and-a-half after her swearing-in on the Capitol steps at 10:30 a.m. Those events will take place in Grand Rapids, Detroit and Marquette. It will be the first time since at least 1963 that Lansing has not played host to an inaugural ball just hours after the new governor takes office.

"It's always been tradition," Lansing political scientist and historian Jerry Roe said Wednesday. "You're inaugurated, and that night you go to the ball in the capital city." Granholm transition team spokeswoman Mary Dettloff said the decision not to have a Songwriter Noel Regney dies Obituary policy The Enquirer publishes death notice and funeral service information free of charge. Additional information, including photographs, may be published for a fee. Contact your funeral director or call the Milestones Coordinator at 966-0683 for more information. The list of funeral services on this page also is published for free.

Associated Press DANBURY, Conn. Noel Regney, 80, who wrote the holiday classic "Do You Hear What I Hear" and the 1963 No. 1 hit "Dominique," died this week after a long illness. As a young man, Regney studied classical music in Paris and Strasbourg, but his goal of becoming a composer Charles E. Chamberlain, former congressman, dies MARRIAGE LICENSES Associated Pres Charles E.

Chamberlain, 85, who represented mid-Michigan in Congress for 18 years, died Monday in Leesburg, Va. He served in the U.S. House from 1957 to 1974. "He was a steady, good Republican congressman," Jerry Roe, a Lansing Community College political science instructor active in Chamberlain's campaigns, said Wednesday. Chamberlain, a graduate of the University of Virginia, received a law degree from the University of Virginia after serving with the Coast Guard in World War II.

He was elected Ingham Coun Brandon E. O. Martinez, 29, and Debbie J. Padelt, 23. Leonard E.

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Douglas R. Blanchard, 29, and Roni Sayer, 26. Thomas A. Baker, 38, and Brenda J. Miarka, 44.

Corey L. Laroe, 22, and Melissa J. Krause, 18. John J. Dospoy, 44, and Birgit H.

Quick, 43. Brian C. McDonald, 19, and Tera E. Shelton, 18. Stephen J.

Clark, 46, and Cynthia A. Necket, 43. William C. Yother, 24, and Kery L. Ketzloff, 22.

Milton Stevens, 25, and Nicole M. Hanson, 20. David A. Banks, 37, and Tawana Y. Alexander, 29.

Terry L. Dillard, 27, and Jenny M. Emory, 24. Kelly D. Black, 38, and Paula K.

Hamilton, 41. Joseph G. Heit, 29, and Heather L. McCrimmon, 27. Rosco L.

Bentley, 31, and Angela M. Buck, 22. John D. Williams 37, and Rebecca A. Sal-cedo, 35.

Kashmir Singh, 51, and Sharon D. Burgins, 41. Robert S. Davis II, 18, and Staci N. Douglas, 20.

Adonikam M. Crumbsy, 23, and Nakisha L. Edmonds, 2L Michael G. Vogel, 33, and Susan M. Skinner, 35.

Antonia D. Mixon, 27, and Keturah T. Charles, 26. Jeffrey R. Weessies, 30, and Kathy Stamm, 29.

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