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Longview News- Journal, Saturday, July 26, 2003 7C -winning film director Schlesinger dies It's important to get people to care a little for someone else. That's why I'm more interested in the failures of this world than the successes." The gay theme of "Midnight Cowboy" was regarded as scandalous, and it was originally rated X. But the tale of outcasts trying to survive in a merciless metropolis was embraced by critics and Hollywood despite its shocking sequences. Based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, "Midnight Cowboy" was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won three best director, best picture and best adapted screenplay. It was the only X-rated film ever to win the Oscar for best picture; later, reflecting changing standards, the rating was lowered to "Shakespeare said it best in Hamlet, 'We will never see the likes of him Hoffman said.

Richard Gere, who starred as an American GI in Schlesinger's 1979 World War II romance "Yanks," described the filmmaker as "an original." "John's string of films in the Bobby Gipson GLADEWATER Services for Bobby Gipson, 51, of Gladewater are set for 3 p.m. today a at Progressive Church of God in Christ with burial in Red Rock Community Cemetery, directed by McCauley Son. He died Tuesday. Survivors are his mother, Maelene Gipson; a sister, Kathryn Dickens; and three brothers, Kinnard Gipson, Allen Gipson and Mark Gipson. Funerals Eric Lynn GLADEWATER Services for Eric Lynn, 38, of Ore City, 11 a.m.

today, First Assembly of God Church, U.S. 271 North, Gilmer. Burial, Crossroad Cemetery, Gilmer. Arrangements, Dearion Davis Funeral Parlor, Gladewater. Ann Klerekoper Memorial service for Ann Klerekoper of Longview, 2 p.m.

today, Brookwood Bible Chapel, 1411 McCann Road, Longview, Grady Dollar officiating. Paul R. Howard HENDERSON Services for Paul R. Howard, 82, of henderson, 10 a.m. Saturday, Crawford-Crim-Bryan Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev.

Mike Blake. Delbert Gray and the Rev. George Maronge officiating. Burial, Lakewood Memorial Park. Bowie Sellers Services for Bowie Sellers, 85, of Longview, noon Saturday, Rader Funeral Home Chapel, Longview, Gerald Pinson officiating.

Burial, Lakeview Cemetery. Mollie Jane Hardin HENDERSON Services for Mollie Jane Hardin, 2 p.m. today, CrawfordCrim-Bryan Funeral Home Chapel. Burial, Rusk County Memorial Gardens. James Lee Hammonds Services for James Lee Hammonds, 16, 10 a.m.

today, Welch Funeral Memorial Garden Court, Dr. Keith Rothra officiating. Burial, Bear Cemetery, Linden. Juanita Milligan Mathis ROANOKE, Va. Memorial service for Juanita Milligan Mathis, 91, of Roanoke, formerly of Longview and Pittsburg, 3 p.m.

Sunday, First United Methodist Church, Pittsburg, Steve Darr officiating. Roanoke arrangements, Oakey's South Chapel Crematory. Adain Blain Woods Services for infant Adain Blain Woods, son of Derrick Wayne Woods and Christi Leei Parker of Longview, 1 p.m. today, Welch Funeral Memorial Center. Graveside services, Gladewater Memorial Cemetery.

Suscelia Lucas Services for Suscelia Lucas of Longview, 11 a.m. Monday, Post Oak C.M.E. Church on Easton Highway, the Rev. C.E. Mitchell officiating.

Arrangements, Knighton-Citizens Funeral Home. Burial, Prothro Cemetery, Easton. Viewing at funeral home, 1-9 p.m. Sunday. James Velton Bell Sr.

Services for James Velton Bell 78, of Hallsville, 11 a.m. today, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, 742 Mount Pleasant Road, Hallsville, the Rev. John W. Givens officiating. Burial, Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Arrangements, Bigham Mortuary of Longview. Pending Marion Burton Services for Marion Burton, 35, of Longview are pending with Craig Funeral Home. Mr. Burton died Wednesday night at a Longview medical center. Arletha Carodine Services for Arletha Carodine, 85, of Longview are pending with Craig Funeral Home.

Mrs. Carrodine died Wednesday at a Longview nursing home. Donnie Gale Washington Services for Donnie Gale Washington of Kilgore are pending with Stanmore Funeral Home in Longview. Ms. Washington died in a Longview hospital.

Mavanee Bedsole Services for Mavanee Bedsole, 75, of White Oak are pending with Rader Funeral Home of Longview. Mrs. Bedsole died Thursday evening at a local nursing center. Caleb Jones DIANA Services for Caleb Jones, 17, of Longview are pending with Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home in Diana. Caleb died Thursday in Longview.

Clara Lou Myers HUGHES SPRINGS Services for Clara Lou Myers, 62, of Hughes Springs are pending with Reeder-Davis Funeral Home. Ms. Myers died Friday in a Linden hospital. Arthur L. 'Toby' Brown MOUNT PLEASANT Services for Arthur L.

"Toby" Brown, 61, of Mount Pleasant are pending with Tumey Mortuary. Mr. Brown died Friday at a Tyler medical center. Daniel Rae Services for Daniel Rae, 21, of Longview are pending with Rader Funeral Home of Longview. Mr.

Rae died Friday in a Longview hospital. Grady Melton Services for Grady Melton 83, of Longview are pending with Rader Funeral Home of Longview. Mr. Melton died Friday morning at his residence. Mickey M.

Marshall KILGORE Services for Mickey M. Marshall, 84, of Kilgore are pending with Rader Funeral Home of Kilgore. Mr. Marshall died Friday at a Longview medical center. James King TYLER Services for James King of Longview are pending with BrooksSterling Garrett Funeral Directors in Tyler.

Mr. King died Friday. Navy secretary nominee Colin McMillan found dead LOS ANGELES (AP) Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger, who daringly brought gay characters into mainstream cinema with "Midnight Cowboy" and tapped into nightmares with the teethdrilling torture of "Marathon Man," "died Friday at 77. The British-born filmmaker had a debilitating stroke in December 2000, and his condition had deteriorated significantly in recent weeks. On Thursday, he was taken off life support at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs.

He died about 5:30 a.m., hospital spokeswoman Eva Saltonstall said. Schlesinger broke ground in 1969 with his first American film, "Midnight Cowboy." It starred Jon Voight as a naive Texan who turns to prostitution to survive in New York and Dustin Hoffman as the scuzzy, ailing vagrant Ratso Rizzo. The stocky, baldheaded filmmaker who was gay said in 1970: "I'm only interested in one thing that is tolerance. I'm terribly concerned about people and the limitation of freedom. Louie Edwin Barron CANTON Memorial services for Louie Edwin Barron, pastor of Baptist churches in East Texas for 50 years, will be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Canton. Officiating will be his son, Joe Barron, and grandson, Donnie. Pastor Barron retired from the active pastorate in 1989 and began serving with Eubank funeral Home of Canton in 1994. 85 AP File Photo Filmmaker John Schlesinger, shown in age 77 in Palm Springs, Calif. '60s and '70s are as astonishingly good as any films made anytime, anywhere," Gere said.

After "Midnight Cowboy," Schlesinger explored homosexuality again in his next project with 1971's "Sunday Bloody Sunday," which starred Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson as acquaintances who each reluctantly share a love for the same young man. The director received another Oscar Margaret Louise Harrison Services for Margaret Louise Harrison will be held at 10 a.m. today, July 26, 2003, at Trinity Episcopal Church with the Rev. Michael C. Macey officiating.

Mrs. Harrison was born June 18, 1917, in Williston, N.D. She died July 24. 2003. after a brief illness.

Mrs. Harrison was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Longview and a graduate of North Dakota State University and Stephen F. Austin State University. She cherished her friends and fellow members of the Camellia Garden Club, the Capt. William Young Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Heritage Bible Study Club and American Red Cross Overseas Association.

During World War II, she served in the American Red Cross in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands. Mrs. Harrison was preceded in death by her husband, Guy F. Harrison, with whom she shared a deep love of Texas the Deep East Texas Club and anything "Aggie." She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Gay and Kenneth Kirkland; her son and daughter-in-law Guy N. and Lucy Harrison; and her son Kim D.

Harrison. All are of Longview. Survivors also include eight grandchildren, Bud Summers, Gif Summers, Charlie Mack Summers, Parker Harrison, Worth Harrison, Anna Harrison, Clay Kirkland and Kay Kirkland, and six great grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Trinity Episcopal Church of Longview or a charity of choice. An online memorial guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com Rader FUNERAL HOME Family Owned and Operated 1617 Judson Rd.

Longview www.raderth.com 903.753.3373 Our sympathies in the loss of a loved one. Nelus- Journal ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Oilman Colin McMillan, who was awaiting Senate confirmation as Navy secretary, died at his ranch from an apparent gunshot wound, and investigators said Friday it might have been self inflicted. "All indications are it could be suicide, but we're not going to reach that conclusion until the investigation is over," District Attorney Scot Key of Alamogordo said. McMillan "had a recurrence of cancer," but "everybody thought he was recovered, recuperating quite well," Sen.

Pete Domenici, said Friday on the Senate floor. McMillan, 67, died around lunch time Thursday, and his body was found by two employees on his Three Rivers ranch in southern New Mexico, said Roswell Mayor Bill Owen, a family spokesman and longtime McMillan employee. The state medical investigator's office was conducting an autopsy Friday to determine a Roy Louis Reiland Jr. KILGORE A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated for Roy Louis Reiland 80, of Kilgore at 11 a.m. Monday, July 28, 2003, at St.

Mary's Catholic Church in Longview. The family will receive friends 6-7 p.m. Sunday, July 27, 2003, at Rader Funeral Home of Kilgore, followed by a wake service in Rader's chapel. Burial sevices will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 29, in Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston.

Mr. Reiland passed away Thursday, July 24, 2003, at Hospice of East Texas in Tyler. Roy Reiland was born Dec. 24, 1922, in Palacios, the son of Roy Louis Reiland Sr. and Myra Katherine Smith Reiland.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church of Longview and a 4th Degree member of the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Reiland served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

He and wife Dorothy were residents of Houston for many years. They moved to Kilgore in 1987, following his retirement from Hughes Tool where he had worked for 42 years. Mr. Reiland is survived by his wife of 55 years, Dorothy Ryan Reiland of Kilgore; two sons and daughters-in-law, Craig and Sharon Reiland of Tyler and Doug and Rhonda Reiland of Friendswood; two daughters and sons-in-law, Karen and Roger Yancy of League City and Donna and Ross McFarland of Pagosa Springs, 12 grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; and a host of other family members and friends. Please sign online memorial book at raderfuneralhome.com Rader FUNERAL HOME KILGORE 401 N.

Martin 984-2525 www.RaderFuneralHome.com And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love. Kelus-Bournal. -William Blake cause of death, said Tim Stepetic, the office's associate director. Domenici called McMillan "someone who succeeded at everything he tried and everything he did, and yet he was about as humble as anyone you will ever meet." McMillian had run Permian Exploration Corp. in Roswell, chaired President Bush's New Mexico presidential campaign in 2000 and served as an assistant defense secretary under Bush's father.

The son nominated McMillan in May for the Navy which had been vacant since Gordon England left in January to become deputy secretary of the new Homeland Security Department. President Bush said he and his wife were "saddened by the death of our good friend." "Colin was a public servant and patriot," Bush said. McMillan was a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 1971 to 1982 and ran for U.S. Senate in 1994. this undated photo, died Friday at nomination for the film.

The characters in Schlesinger's films often struggled with their place in the world, and he depicted them as lonely, disenchanted and sometimes forgotten. In 1975, he directed an adaptation of the Nathanael West novel "The Day of the Locust," about young wannabe-stars who find only disappointment in Hollywood. James Lee Hammonds Services for James Lee Hammonds, 16, will be held at 10 a.m. today, July 26, 2003, at Welch Funeral Memorial Garden Court with Dr. Keith Rothra officiating.

Burial will follow in Bear Creek Cemetery in Linden. The family received friends 5-7 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the funeral memorial center. Welch Funeral Memorial Center "Family Owned and Operated Since 1914" 4619 Judson Rd. Longview, Tr www.welchfuneral.com 903.663.3737 Charles 'Chuck' Crowson HUGHES SPRINGS Services for Charles "Chuck" Crowson, 45, of Hughes Springs are set for 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 27, 2003, at Hughes Springs Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Larry Neeley and the Rev. Ricky Vestal officiating. Burial will follow in Sardis Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of ReederDavis Funeral Home.

Mr. Crowson died Thursday, July 24, 2003, in a Longview hospital. He was born April 5, 1958, in Shreveport. He worked for Kansas City Southern Railroad and was a Baptist and a member of the Future Farmers of America Booster Club. He is survived by his wife, Mitzi Crowson; one son, Charles Jeb Crowson; and one daughter, Kaitlen Faith Crowson.

All are of Hughes Springs. Survivors also include his parents, James Arnold and Jean Crowson of Shreveport; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Sara Harville of Shreveport and Peggy and Lenny Cash of San Antonio; two brothers and one sister-in-law, James Arnold Crowson III of Shreveport and Ronald Lamar and Gail Crowson, also of Shreveport; his father-in-law and mother-inlaw, Loyd and Betty Cockerham of Hughes Springs; a brother-inlaw and sister-in-law, James and Diana Cockerham of Hughes Springs; three nieces; four nephews; and numerous other relatives and friends. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. today, July 26, at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Chuck Crowson Scholarship Fund for the FFA Booster Club, Jim Mashaw, P.O.

Box 398, Hughes Springs. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. Congaidu -George Herbert Evelyn Brown Summers MARSHALL Services for Evelyn Brown Summers, 79, of Marshall are set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Travis Street Chapel of Sullivan Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Houston and the Rev.

Bob McCarty officiating. Burial will be in Colonial Gardens. Mrs. Summers, a member of Fairview Baptist Church, died Thursday. Visitation is 5-7 p.m.

today at the funeral home. the Sullivan Family Marshall (903) 938-7777 Robert Duncan Parish ALVIN Robert Duncan Parish, 64, of Alvin passed away Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at his residence. Robert was born Feb. 14, 1939, in Marshall and had been a resident of Alvin for 33 years. He was a salesman in the floor covering industry and a member of the Fellowship Bible Church in Pearland.

Robert was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Doris Parish, and a brother, Bill Parish. Survivors include his wife, Agnes Parish of Alvin; his daughters and sons-in-law, Diana and Curt Mowery of Rosharon and Sharon and James Friday of Bedford; one son and daughter-in-law, Ray and Cheryl Parish of Friendswood; six grandchildren; and numerous other relatives and friends. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today, July 26, at Scott Funeral Home Chapel. Services are set for 3 p.m.

Sunday, July 27, at Fellowship Bible Church, 1720 Broadway in Pearland, with Pastor Bill Himmel officiating. Pallbearers are Larry Rhoads, Loyd Spencer Curt Mowery, James Friday, Todd Parish, Joe Dalmolin, James R. Rose and David James. Interment is set for 1 p.m. Monday, July 28, in Tatum Cemetery in Tatum.

Arrangements are under the direction of The Scott Family, 1421 E. Hwy. 6, Alvin, TX 77511, phone (281) 585-1000. Truth does not blush. -Tertullian C'ongairlo Nelus-Bournal.

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