Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 4

4AL0CALSTATE SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1990 BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER Shanghai flu hits Olbittuaries nursing homes More obit information. 4C A lira nauie The Associated Press outbreak of the Shanghai flu hit hard and fast at 50111116111 Michigan nursing homes, resulting in some deaths, Michigan health officials said Friday. '4This is a a115 ness, and when it occurs in up to sn neoDle in a single nurci home it nnito i -i- to the Doint of deaths." said Dr. Norman Havner with if 1 BJ.

ejssp- lf'k wfcff: -sit rki the Michigan Public Health Department in Lansing. Hayner said he wasn't certain all the reported deaths were attributable to the influenza virus and he declined to give the number of deaths. In Ingham County, five people have died since the outbreak began in December, said Robin Roach with the county health department One nursing home closed its doors to visitors when about half its patients and staff became sick, she said. The county is surveying all nursing homes every day, visitation is restricted and some patients and home staff are taking amanti-dine, a medication that helps prevent flu, she said. Hayner said 18 nursing homes in nine counties report influenza-like outbreaks "and there may be ka a nraHiiQtiAn rmltir waiuaiiu, xxuiLUIIl- VII UVIUHUUI I Ull Lo i.i i many more that are unreported.

ti Mn.u ixoiaiiiaw, iviaiuiuu, wrutan, a uo, 3 home outbreaks, he said. Antes' and A Applegate look over Battle Creek Urban League's Focus on Readiness 'Rosie's' diner will be rebuilt in Michigan Hundreds take a final look at eatery ml A1- C4.in nr aiwS Megan and formerly of Battle xr y' 1 Pine Oaks Nursing Home, Alle- She was bom in Eaton County and had attended Olivet College where she studied music. Before coming to Battle Creek, she owned a dress-making shop in Detroit. She lived in Battle Creek from 1922-1975 and was self-employed as a seamstress for many large department stores in Battle Creek. She lived in Hastings for some time before moving to Allegan.

She enjoyed people, pets, education, food and serving her children. Surviving are a son, Richard Da- vis ot Burke. a daughter Eve- ii lyn mgmire ot Allegan: three children. Cremation has taken place. No services are scheduled.

Arrangements are by Cremation Society of Michigan, Kalamazoo. Helen P. Campbell QUINCY Helen Pauline Campbell, 68, of 7574 Lakeside died Wednesday, Jan. 17, at Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, after a long illness. She was born in Chicago and came to the Quincy area in 1977.

She attended Salem (111.) High School, graduated from Alton (111.) Community Hospital School of Nursing and did post graduate work at Jersey Ciry Medical Center, Jersey City, N.J. She was a former assistant director of nursing at Annapolis Hospital, Wayne. Surviving are her husband, Forrest; a daughter, Paula Ann Biol-chini of Coldwater; sens, Theodore Lee Campbell of Garden City and Douglas Brian Campbell of Coldwater; seven grandchildren; a sister, Mamie Cenko of Phoenix; and a brother, John T. Lee of Minneola, Fla. Services will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday at the Diedrich-White Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to the American Diabetes Association. Vincent M. Elizondo Vincent Michael Elizondo, three-day old son of Federico and Peggy Sue (Ludlow) Elizondo died Friday, Jan. 19, at Bronson Methodist Hospital.

He was bom in Kalamazoo. In addition to his parents, surviving are atwin brother, Derek Christopher Elizondo; maternal grandfather and step-grandmother, Donald G. and Norma Ludlow of Battle Creek; maternal grandmother and step-grandfather, Joyce and Louis Ramsdell of Battle Creek; and paternal grandparents, Federico and Josephine Elizondo of Battle Creek. Family services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Fort Custer National Cemetery.

Arrangements are by Richard A. Henry Funeral Home. Mabel I. Hanchett wADCUATI wuit ft oc rbi? (Eberkng) Hanchett, 95, of Dosca Home in Battle Creek died at Community Hospital in Battle Creek alter a long illness. She was born in Marengo Township and lived in the Wilder Creek area all her life until 1966 when she moved to Marshall.

She moved to Battle Creek in 1986 to live with her grandaughter and then to the Dosca Home in 1987. She and her husband sold berries ana nonev irom tneir home Wilder Creek for many years Surviving are her daughter, Na nmi Thmnln'nc of rvrmV.o Tsj ji fmVr ZKrTin rlot" tOUr grandchildren, 10 great- grandchildren and four great-great granacniidren. Her husband, Howard G. Hanchett died Feb. 11, 1971.

Services will be 3:30 p.m. Monday at Craig K. Kempf Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the charity of choice Compiled by staff writers Mark Glubke and Trace Christenson Velma M. DeVore Velma M.

(Messner) DeVore, 81, of 944 Lakeview died Wednesday, Jan. 1 7, at Community Hospital. She was born in Middlebury, and came to Battle Creek with her family as a youngster. She had worked as a clerk at the old Gamble Store and Hughes Dress Shop. She was a member of the Valentine Center.

Her husband, Carl L. De- Velma M. DeVore Vore, died in 1 976. A stepson, Carl DeVore died in 1975. Surviving are a son, Richard Lewis of Battle Creek; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one stepgrandchild; and two step-great-grandchildren.

Serv ices will be at 1 1 a.m. Monday at Richard A. Henry Funeral Home. Florence E. Griffin ALLEN Florence E.

(Mason) Griffin, 77, of 5251 Thompson, died Friday, Jan. 19, at Bronson 'Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo. She had been ill one month. She was born in Paulding, Ohio, and came to Coldwater in the late 1940s from Kentucky. She had lived in the Englewood Apartments, Coldwater, before moving to Allen.

Her husband, Albert Griffin, died in 1 98 1 A. son, Richard Griffin, died in 1984. Surviving are sons, Larry' J. Griffin of Coldwater, Joe J. Griffin of Quincy, Glenn Griffin of Peoria.

and Bernard Cosier of Coldwater, daughters, Ellen Butler of Coldwater, Betty Lewis of Allen and Bonnie Musgrove of Coldwater, 24 grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; sisters, Ethel Cuyler of Union City, Stella Vaughn of Battle Creek and Viola Rose, Phyllis Martin. Bertha Harold and Ruby Oberhuser, all of Coldwater, and brothers, LeRoy Mason of Quincy and Junior Mason of Coldwater. if Services will be at 1 :30 p.m. Monday at Putnam Funeral Home, Coldwater. Everett Chapman ALBION Everett Chapman, 71.

of Ann Arbor, and formerly of Albion, died Friday, Jan. 1 9, at Albion Community Hospital after a two-year illness. He was born in Pike County, and came to Michigan in the early I i 950s. He worked for several com- panies as a security guard and was currently with Wells Fargo in Ann Arbor. He was a member of the Moose Ixxige and Eagles Lodge in Albion.

He attended Christ Apostolic Church. Surviving are daughters, Wanda Draughn of Bellville, Brenda Grambrell of Westland and Linda Constante of Flat Rock; sons, Richard Chapman of Parkersburg, W.Va., and Roger Chapman of Ypsilanti; 13 grandchildren; brothers, Clarence and Garland Chapman of Williamson. W.Va.. and James Chapman of Battle Creek; and sisters, Mabel Otto and Opal Wellman, both of Albion, Louise Kimble of Homer and Ruth Chap- man nf Oninrv 1988 3 in 1988 Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the Albion Chapel of Tidd-Williams Funeral Chapels.

Ivan D. Tenney MARSHALL Ivan D. Tenney, 90, of 600 Hill Road, died Friday, Jan. 19, at Oaklawn Hospital after a long illness. He was born in Melbourne, Aus tralia, and came to Michigan with his family at the age of five.

He i uvea in ine Marshall and Battle Creek areas the majority of his life. He has been associated with the search for oil and gas since he was 1 6. He was the leaseholder and investor in the original well in the Scipio Fields in Hillsdale County in 1956. With the discovery of oil, a field was opened which extended to the Marshall and Albion areas. In 1975 he reopened an oil field in Ohio.

Survivors include daughters, joan uaumgaraner ot Prospect, Janice Camp of Hastings, Judy Tenney of Marshall, Jane In-graham of Portage and Jean Tenney of Grand Haven; three sons, I. David Tenney of Okemus, John K. Tinney of Grand Haven and Michael Tenny of Marshall; 16 grandchildren, 11 greatchildren. a brother, George E. Tenney of Ojai, Calif.

His wife, Gladys N. Louie died in 1975 and his son, Stewart L. Tenney died in 1980. Graveside services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Oakridge Cemetery.

'Arrangements by Craig K. Kempf Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to the Visitine Nursp Service of Michigan or Good Samaritan Hos- Pital. Photo by Neil Drake diplomas and dictionaries they and for Employment program. sieged by nostalgia-seekers since announcing plans to sell the classic 1940s-era eatery.

He said he's been interviewed on radio shows from as far away as Boise, Idaho. The diner, which Corrado ran for 30 years, achieved fame between 1970 and 1975, when Procter Gamble featured it in four commercials for Bounty paper towels. In the ads, actress Nancy Walker portrayed a waitress named Rosie, who wields "the quicker picker upper" against the counter spills of clumsy truck drivers. Corrado eventually renamed the diner, formerly known as the Farmland Diner, for Rosie. On Sunday, a chapter of diner history ended for hundreds of area residents who still remember Rosie's.

Truck driver Joseph Nord-lander drove 260 miles from his farm in Vanetten, N.Y., with his wife, four children, and a family friend to crowd into a booth for one last meal. "I used to come with my father, who was also a trucker," said-Nordlander, 47, as he finished a plate of scrambled eggs. Corrado said business has been off in recent years, largely because of fast-food restaurants springing up. domestic dispute sion of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Police said they had not recovered the weapon used.

The woman also suffered a head injury, police said. The suspect was arrested with- out incident while he was walking on oanieia direei, ponce saia. Man with gun arrested: a Detroit man was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and possession of cocaine after a traffic stop about 6 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Brook Street and Garfield Avenue. The suspect, 22.

was a passenger in a car stopped by officers of the Battle Creek Police oincers oi ine came reeK ronce Department's Neighborhood En- forcement Team. Police found a iorcemem ieam. roiice iouna handgun and vial con taining trace amounts of suspected cocaine in the man's possession. Ahnnt 704 oacVi olcr mac ci-raA by police. The suspect, also wanted in connection with an assualt in Detroit, is being held in city jail ycnuui icvicw uv inc vaulOUn r.t rrr.

Compiled by Schwerin Staff Writer Mark LDOODOIrVl Police and Fire AP Photo Ronald Brownlee caresses one of his 19 remaining snakes. Slippery thief steals couple's exotic snakes By ANN LEVIN The Associated Press LITTLE FERRY, N.J. Well-wishers from as far as 260 miles away came to Rosie's Diner to snap pictures and eat a final meal at the blue-collar greasy spoon immortalized in television paper towel commercials. This week, a moving crew will saw the diner in half and hoist it onto flatbed trucks so it can be transported to Michigan. The new owner, Jerry Berta, a ceramic sculptor who bought it for about 1 0,000, says he plans to open the restaurant by summer in his hometown of Rock-ford.

Longtime owner Ralph Cor-rado, sporting a pink carnation, perched on a counter stool Sunday as hundreds of people squeezed through the glass-bricked entrance. And amid clicking cameras and the booming sounds of a New York City radio station broadcasting live outside, Cor-rado noted one difference between television and real life. "You'd go broke if you used paper towels to wipe up every spill," Corrado confided, as he motioned to a dirty dish rag at the end of the long formica counter. Corrado, 57, has been be Woman shot in A Battle Creek woman was shot once in the chest Friday night in i wnai pouce saiu was a domestic stable condition at Community nospiiai laxe rnaay nignt alter tne i shooting at her home. A Battle Creek man was arrested about five minutes after the incident, reported at 7:45 p.m., and was being held by Battle Creek police on charges of assault with intent to commit murder and posses- Thousands apply fnr esA umn for State home program i-iNoiiu More man have applied and 1,000 have asked oK, a LANSING More than 5,000 about hliildino Hnwn tvivmpnt tor then- first home through a new stfltp nrnpram dnv lamcc Rlan- chard says.

Blanchard said that be- cause of the strong response to the Home Ownership Savings Trust, 1: "ww" ucgoii jail, appuuauuiia win Ka t-un in 1 1 Compiled from The Associated Press he said, sitting among the overturned cages, boxes and pine chips in the "snake room" of his home. Kent County Sheriffs Detective John Orange said the thief or theives broke a door window Tues- Aw tv ti 1 snakes, including gray bandit, rat, aisPule-king and desert king snakes. Some of them are from as far Earlean Johnson, 34, of 35a away as Africa, others from Mexi- Parkwav Drive, was renorted in The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS Police are searching for a thief who slithered away with 157 exotic snakes from the home of a pet store owner. "Empty memories is all that I have," snake lover Ronald Brownlee said Thursday from his Caledonia Township home. "They meant everything in the world to me." Brownlee said the stolen snakes, almost all of them albinos, are worth about 1 5,000 and were uninsured.

The 10-inch- to 4-foot-long snakes are non-poisonous. Brownlee said the thief must have been knowledgeable in herpe-tology, the study of reptiles, because four pythons he's been treating for colds were left. "They knew what they wanted," Mayor Young delays police layoffs DETROIT Layoff notices to uuuws mailed Friday t0 500 Deaoit nnlirP nffWrc nfhhA 0w police officers were withheld after Mayor Coleman Young agreed to meet with union officials to discuss other ways to reduce the Police Department budget. Young announced the layoffs Tuesday as part of efforts to reduce the city budget deficit for 1989-90. In a re vised estimate presented Friday to the City Council, Budget Director witr Qtw ciH th.

noKri- Walter Stecher said the deficit could reach $81.5 million is gay, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot he had blessed same-sex unions, which is forbidden under Episcopal rules, Chad P. Noble, senior warden of the vestry, said the board discussed Sherwood's actions decided no action was appropriate. co and Texas, Brownlee said. that he had planned to sell the off "7 "vi Fvio, uui nt hf nan. nlannAi tr coll iUa nff spring at his store.

Brownlee and his wife, Debra, also have lizards, seven dogs and four cats in their yellow, two-story home. Brownlee has offered a $500 reward to anyone who can track down his slippery pets. BriefeState Ford worker sentenced on mail fraud case -hi vmw man ac- cused of receiving more toan $2.64 millinn in IrirlrharW frnm cunnli. DETROIT An Ohio man ac ci iu a rura moior o. piani was sentenced 10 live years lmpnson- mem on man iraua cnarges, me government said Friday.

U.S. Dis- tnct Judge Julian A. Cook De- troit also ordered Thursdav that a ci r- Luawig A. Schafer serve five vears probation following completion of pnf.n u.b. Attorney Me Phen Markman said.

Cook or his prison term, U.S. Attorney Ste- dered Schafer, 61, of Stow, Ohio, to pay $2.5 million in restitution to Ford, which had employed him as a material handling engineer. 'Heritage road' plan will publicize routes LANSING State officials are developing a "heritage road" system in Michigan to publicize routes rich in scenic, recreational or historic value. The Heritage Route system will use new signs to take the mystery out of finding a Gay marriages concern church A yj of Battle Creek 968-1600 LOCATED IN mfiifr MIUM1 BUT tYtLAbbtb as low as TYPE BIFOCALS asiowas 74 Your choice includes: Frames and lenses (Glass or Plastic). Eve exam nn included.

Prices apply with exam only. 1 exam 001 The Associated Press JACKSON The lay govern aJacn refused to dismiss an interim priest in charge after parishioners expressed concern that the priest was blessing unions between gay couples. The 11 -member vestrv of St. Paul's EoiscoDal Church voted tn keen the Rev. Zalmon Sher- wood as its interim priest in charge of the church.

Sherwood, 33, who $20 EYE EXAM Coupon must be presented at time of service. Not valid toward contact lensl exam or insurance programs- FREE TINT With puiwmsg qj tramp-plastic lenses. es EXPIRES Jan. 31st and I special road, state Transportation The parish has been searching Director James Pitz said in a state-for a new rector since the Jan. 1 ment released Wednesday.

The retirement of the Rev. Robert olan will be announced formallv in- EXPIRES Jan. 31 St McDougall. Traverse City on Monday..