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Friday, Feb. 23, 1973 'THE SHREVEPORT TIMES 49 DE DEATHS Mrs. Fannie Gorham Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Bell Gorham, 83, of 3020 Karla will be held at 10 a.m. today in Southern Funeral Home chapel in Winnfield with the Rev.

Harrison Cockerham officiating. Burial will be in the Gorhamtown Cemetery near Joyce. Mrs. Gorham died at 2:45 Wednesday in ton Hospital after an illness. She was a native of Tyler, and was a member of the East Winnfield Baptist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Sammy Reynolds A. of Blaylock Shreveport of and Lake Charles; two Mrs. P. sons, Lee Roy Gorham of New and M.

W. Gorham Jr. Orleans of Lake Charles; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mrs. Corrie Merritt Mrs.

Corrie Lee Mason Merritt, widow of Ben Merritt, died at the Mansfield Hospital yestesday after a short illness. Mrs. Merritt, member. a of family Pelican, Parpioneer the ish, attended Mansfield schemale College and Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, where she received a degree in She taught, school in Pelican and Chenier for a number of years and was in charge of the Pelican Public Library. active throughout her She was life in activities and recently retired She from was an Sunday School teaching.

active Stewards member of United Pelican of the Board of Methodist Church. She is survived by her daughter, Mildred two sisters, Mrs. F. Merritt of Baton Rouge; Tunstead and Mrs. W.

B. and J. Lunday of Pelican; one nephew and three Funeral a arrangements are being mad at Mansfield. Drewett Services Funeral Home will Constable of Pleasant Hill be conducted Brother Jim at the Drewett Funeral Home Saturday at 10 a.m. be Interment Mason family plot in graveside service will held at the the Pelican Cemetery.

Mrs. B. W. Harris W. Harris 78, of Mrs.

N.C., sister of W. C. B. 151 Egan in ShreveCandor, port, dies. Wednesday Hospital at 6:30 in Wooley of a Pines, N.C., after a p.m.

Joseph's Southern Funeral services will be Frilong illness. day Candor Miethodist. Church. Buriat (EST) in the al will be the Candor of Cemetery under the direction Harris was a native of Candor Funeral Home. Mrs.

County, N.C. She operated the Harris Motor Court Montgomery in Candor. Other survivors include three sons, Wingate Harris of Pratt Harris of Newport Candor and B. W. Harris Jr.

of News, Southern Pines; one daughter, Doris Burns of Newport News; two sisters, Mrs. Dewey Adair of Palm Harbor, and Mrs. J. C. McCaskill of Candor and three of other Asheville, brothers, N.C., Cleo Everett Wooley Wooley of Candor and Emmon Wooley of Salisbury, N.C.

LOUISIANA George M. Walker DeRIDDER Funeral services for George M. Walker, 24, were held Wednesday in the Macedonia Baptist Church officiat- with the Rev. Gerald Read ing. Burial was in the direction Cannon of Cemetery under Funeral the Home.

the Hixson Mr. Walker died Tuesday as the result of an automobile accident. Survivors include his widow; two daughters, Miss Colleen Walker and Miss Angela Denise Walker, both of Merryville; two brothers, James Davison of Beaumont, and David Davison of Merryville; parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Walker of Merryville; grandmother, Mrs.

Lavonia Gidney of Merryville. Emery D. Smith HAYNESVILLE Funeral services for Emery D. Smith, will be held at 10 a.m. 71, with Friday the Rev.

Johnny Baker in the Bailey Mortuary officiating. Burial will be in the Old Town Cemetery. Mr. Smith died Wednesday. Survivors include one son, W.

E. Smith of Natchitoches; one daughter, Mrs. Bessie sisters, Lynn Russell of Sarepta; two Mrs. Clemmie Lewis of Haynesville Mrs. Maudis Rushing of Shreveport; four grandchildren and five greatdren.

Mrs. Fannie Buckner MANSFIELD Funeral servMrs. Fannie O. Buckner, 74, will be held at 11 a.m., Friday in the Drewett Funeral Home with the Rev. Jerry Mitchell, the Rev.

Allen Dupree and the Rev. Weldon Sistrunk officiating. Burial will be in the Carroll Cemetery in Shelbyville, Tex. Mrs. Buckner died Thursday in a Mansfield hospital following a lengthy illness.

Survivors include one son, James L. Buckner, St. Louis, four daughters, Mrs. Coy English of Mansfield. Mrs.

S. J. Morris and Mrs. H. H.

Mathews, both of Shreveport, and Mrs. A. D. Downer of Houston, two brothers, Ted Oles of Houston and Asa Leggett of 12 grandchildren Joaquin, three sisters, Probe Made Into Death of Minden Man Bossier Parish deputies yesteraay were invesugaung the death of Edwin L. Hunter, 50, of Minden, who died Wednesday night of undetermined cause, Bossier Sheriff Willie Waggonner Deputies Bill Gray and Otis Allen said an autopsy is being conducted by Bossier Parish Coroner Dr.

C. H. McCuller. The officers said Hunter and two friends were visiting in a Bossier Parish lounge Wednesday night and shortly before 10 p.m. Hunter was in an altercation sustained outside the lounge.

Hunter a cut over eye and a said knot on his head. The officers two of his friends drove him home to near Dixie Inn in Webster Parish where shortly after 10 p.m. it was route. discovered he had died en A 20-year-old Minden man was being held for questioning, they said. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Rose-Neath Funeral Home.

Mrs. Gladys Green, both of Fort Worth and Mrs. Effie Farr of Azle. Mrs. Joe Wade SAN AUGUSTINE, Tex.

Funeral services for Mrs. Joe Wade, 72, of Broaddus will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday 111 the Wyman Roberts Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Broaddus Cemetery. Mrs.

Wade died Thursday. Survivors include her husband; one daugnter, Mrs. Hyburnia Husband of San Augustine; one son, Ralph Wade of Channelview; three sisters, Mrs. Lovie Jimerson of Dayton, Mrs. Angline Cox of Nacogdoches and Mrs.

Ethel Beard of Broaddus; one brother, Samson Sheard of Broaddus; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Eunice Graves PITTSBURG, Tex. Eunice Graves, 81, died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m.

Friday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. W. C. Beasley and the Rev. Bob Bradley, officiating.

Burial will be in the Queen City Cemetery in Cass County under the direction of the Smith Funeral Home. Survivors include two sons, Edwin L. Young of California and H. E. Graves Jr.

of Dallas; two daughters, Mrs. A. P. Hicks of Dallas and Mrs. J.

E. Daniel of Pittsburg; and one brother, J. B. Wells of Fairview; two sisters, Mrs. C.

H. Heth of Dallas and Mrs. N. J. Malaby of Texarkana; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Vernon Whitten LONGVIEW, Tex. Funeral services for Vernon Whitten, 55, will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday in the Welch Funeral Home with the Rev. Lowell Worthington of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in the Lakeview Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Mr.

Whitten died Thursday in a Shreveport, hospital following an extended illness. Survivors include his widow; son, Larry E. Whitten of Big Sandy; one daughter, Brenda Bailey of Carthage; two brothers, Herman Whitten of Shreveport and Chester Whitten of Menlo Park, six sisters, Mrs. L. H.

Briery, Mrs. Solon Curry and Mrs. Vigo Whitten, all of Logansport, Mrs. Opal Petty and Mrs. A.

D. Smith, both of Waco, Mrs. J. A. Baker of Fort Worth; one grandchild.

Marvin Patterson ATLANTA, Tex. Marvin Patterson, 81, of Bloomburg died in a Texarkana hospital Wednesday following a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Olive Branch Methodist Church near Bloomburg with the Rev. Lory Hildreth of Texarkana officiating.

Burial will be in the Olive Branch Cemetery. Survivors include a brother, FUNERAL SERVICES MR. EDWARD HUNTER 10:00 A.M. Saturday Minden Chapel Interment Sibley Cemetery MRS. MAGGIE ANDERSON 1:00 P.M.

Friday Minden Chapel Interment Jonesboro Cemetery MRS. MAY MILLER BATES 2:00 P.M. Friday Minden Chapel Interment Gardens of Memory MRS. JIMMIE H. WEEKS 3:00 P.M.

Friday Logansport Chapel Interment Price Cemetery MR. HENRY L. MILLER 2:00 P.M. Sunday Graveside Services Minden, Cemetery MRS. STELLA C.

McWHORTER 1:00 P.M. Saturday Antioch Baptist Church Interment Rock Springs Cemetery Lisbon, La. MR. J. W.

FANSLER Interment Rocky Springs Services and Interment Ponca City, Oklahoma MR. MILLARD MURPHY Plans Incomplete Rose- Neath FUNERAL HOME Arkansas House Unit Told Death Penalty Needed Mrs. Lonnie Kerr of Houston, MIs. Frank Johnson of Mansfield and Mrs. Mae Dell Daw of and five great grandchildren.

Henry L. Miller MINDEN Henry L. Miller, 84, died following a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Minden Cemetery with the Rev.

Paul Durbin officiating. The Green Kle negger Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include four daughtere, Mrs. Mary L. Tims of Pasadena, Mrs.

Bruce Allen of St. Louis, Mrs. Dollie McClure of Dallas, and 1 Mrs. Joe Maxwell of Shreveport; one son, Henry Preston Miller of Jacksonville, one sister, Mrs. Laura Brown of Shreveport; and 12 grandchildren.

Mrs. Stella Me Whorter MINDEN Mrs. Stella McWhorter, 74, died Wednesday. Funeral services held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Antioch Baptist Church with the Rev.

Malcolm Self and the Rev. Millard Perkins officiating. Burial will be in the Rocky Springs in Lisbon under the direction' of the Green Kleinegger Funeral Home. Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Madinee 0.

Lisbon, Mrs. Louise Pillar of San Miss Ava Neli McWhorter of Gaza, Israel, Mrs. Cowden of Denver, Colo, and Mrs. Sylvia Bates of Oklahoma City, sons, R. G.

McWhorter of San Antonio, M. Grady McWhorter of Dallas, Leland McWhorter of Houston, Eugene W. McWhorter of Montcella, and Wayne McWhorter of Jackson, Ohio; grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Roy Holloway Roy Holloway, 76, Louisiana State Highway Department employe, died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.

Friday in the Kilpatrick Funeral Home with the Rev. B. T. Milford officiating. Burial will be in the Vienna Cemetery.

Survivors include one brother, Charles Holloway of Corpus Christi, and one niece. Mrs. J. C. Anderson MINDEN Mrs.

J. C. Anderson, 87, died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Green Kleinegger Funeral Home with the Rev.

C. H. Land officiating. Burial will be in the Jonesboro Cemetery. Survivors include three sons, Eldon Anderson of Vidor, James C.

Anderson of Baton Rouge and Earl W. Anderson of Minden; two sisters, Mrs. E. A. Rogers and Mrs.

Manean Rockhold, both of Jonesboro; two brothers, John Watts of Jonesboro and George Watts of Silsbee, seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Boyd F. Smart ARCADIA Boyd F. Smart, 83, died Monday. Funeral services held Wednesday in the Conger Funeral Home in Arcadia with the Rev.

L. N. Murphy officiating. Burial was in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Survivors include his widow: one son, Sam T.

Smart of Nashville, one daughter, Mrs. Jack P. Morgan of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Amanda Durrett of Ruston and Mrs. Virgie Schaeffer of Baton Rouge; and two grandchildren.

Mrs. Jimmie Weeks LOGANSPORT -Funeral services for Mrs. Jimmie Weeks, 60, will be held at p.m., Friday in the Price-Cara-ing, way Funeral Home with the Gary Palmer officiating. Burial will be in the Price Memorial Cemetery. Mrs.

Weeks died Thursday in a Center, hospital following a lengthy illness. Survivors include two sons, Kenneth Weeks of Joaquin, and Jerry Weeks of Logansport; two sisters, Mrs. Gladys Boyd and Mrs. Olga Brown, both of Logansport; two brothers, Eugene Mares Shreveport and Reginald Mares of Logansport; four grandchildren. Mrs.

Kenneth Wilcox MANSFIELD Funeral services for Mrs. Kenneth R. Wilcox, 68, will be held at 2 Friday in St. Joseph Catholic Church with the Rev. Leger Tre dle officiating.

Burial will be in the Highland Cemeteryilcox died Wednesday in a Shreveport hospital following a short illness. She is survived by her husband; two sons, Robert H. Wilcox of Shreveport and Charles J. Wilcox of Atlanta, one daughter. Mrs.

Patricia A. Benton of Miami, three brothers. Mario Barelli of Cave Junction. Peter Barelli and Joseph Barelli, both of Rockford, seven dren. Katie Lyles RUSTON.

Thursdav. Mrs. Katie Lyles, 36. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m Fridav in the Spears Funeral with the W. M.

Stokes Jr. and Rev. H. E. Henderson officiating.

Burial will be in the Ansley Cemetery near Clary. Survivors include three sons, David Lyles, Marshall and Willie Lyles, all of Ruston; 15. grandchildren and several Finas Y. Perdue LEESVILLE Funeral services for Finas Yancy Perdue, 23, were held Thursday in the Hixson Funeral Home with the Rev. Bobby McCullough officiating.

Burial was in the Pine Hill Cemetery. Mr. Perdue died Tuesday. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs.

Arlin Thompson of Leesville; one brother, Ronnie D. Perdue of Leesville; one half brother, Charles Larry Thompson of Leesville; and three half sisters, Barbara Lynn Thompson, Deborah Diane Thompson and Mitzi Darnell Thompson, all of Leesville. Mrs. Mary C. Warren FARMERVILLE Mrs.

Mary Warren, 88, of Farmerville died Wednesday in the Junction Nursing Home in Junction City, after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Liberty Baptist Church near Spearsville with the Rev. 0. J.

Owens officiating, assisted by the Rev. Billy Rene Smith. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of the First National Funeral Home of Farmerville. Survivors include a son, Dellie E. Dison of Spearsville; two daughters, Mrs.

Lizzie Mae Holloway of Spearsville and Mary Camille Dison of Alexandria: two brothers, Theron Johnston of Monroe and William Johnston of Farmerville; a sister, Mrs. Emma Brantley of Downsville; 14 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren great-great-grandchildren. and nine 76, MANY J. P. Rains J.

P. Rains, 51, died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Perry Lassiter officiating, assisted by the Rev.

Wayne Reeves. Burial will be in the Fort Jessup Cemetery under the direction of the Warren Mealows Funeral Home. Survivors include his widow; one son, Dennis Rains of Many; one daughter, Beth Small of Many; four brothers, E. P. Rains and Donnie Rains, both of Many, Aswell Rains of Bossier City, and W.

A. Rains of San Antonio, tour sisuers, Mrs. Hattie Mae Dees of Many, Mrs. Wade Dillard of Manstiela, Mrs. Blanche Mims of Jasper, and Mr'S.

Doris Stewart of Simsboro; and two grandchilaren. Mrs. Lucy Sepulvado MANY Mrs. Lucy Sepulyado, 82, aied Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.

Friday in the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Zwolle with the Rev. Robert Friend officating. Burial will be In the St. Joseph Cemetery under the direction of the Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

Survivors include four sons, John Sepulvado, Rupert Sepulvado and J. C. Sepulvado, all Zwolle, and Elmo Sepulvado of Louisville, three daughters. Mrs. Lurline Gurr of Zwolle, Mrs.

Perry of Leesville and Myrtle, Ann Brown of Anahien, 20 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Mrs. A. O. Ritchie MARION Mrs.

A. O. Ritchie, Thursday afternoon in Marion following a long illness Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Marion Methodist Church with the Rev. Finas Corrie officiatassisted by the Rev.

Floyd Lisenby. Burial will be in the Roark Cemetery in Marion under the direction of the Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Farmerville. Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Wanda Franklin of Marion; two sons, Solan Ritchie of Tallulah and Jimmie Ritchie of Bossier City; a brother, Mont Suggs of Denning, N.M.; grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. Julian L.

Jarvis TROUP Funeral services for Julian L. Jarvis, vice president of the Arp State Bank, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Forester Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Bradford Cemeteryvis died Thursday. Survivors include his widow; one daughter, Miss Julitta Jarvis of New York, N.Y.; one Newell Jarvis of Troup; and one sister, Mrs.

Mildred Melton of Troup. TEXAS Ben Johnson TYLER, Tex. Funeral services for Tyler attorney Ben Johnson, 59, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Green Acres Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery.

Mr. Johnson died Wednesday. Survivors include his widow; one son, Jeffrey Johnson of Berkley, two daughters, 'Mrs. Catherine Bulnes of Dallas and Miss Kimberly Johnson of Tyler; two brothers, Hubert Johnson of Amarillo and Lee Johnson of Tucson, three sisters, Mrs. Jesse Cameron and LITTLE ROCK (AP) Pros.

Atty. Mahlon Gibson of ville said Thursday that "good old common logic" supported the claim that capital punishment served as a deterrent to murder. Gibson told a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Commitee that the drive to survive was the basic human instinct and that a person contemplating murder would have "second thoughts" if he knew he would be electrocuted for the act. But he said the death penalty should be applied sparingly. "It is the ultimate punishment and should be reserved for the ultimate crime, first-degree murder The an act such as hijacking," said.

The subcommittee is conducting hearings in order to make a recommendation to the full committee on whether to capital a bill punishment that would restore draft in Arkansas. The subcommittee has now held two days of hearings and is to continue the hearings at a later date, which has not been specified. Gibson said any bill to restore the death penalty in Arkansas C. D. Patterson of El Paso; al nephew Robert N.

Patterson of Hinton Minden; a niece, Mrs. Peggy of Franklinton, N.C. SALE ENDS SATURDAY 9:30 P.M.! should provide mandatory tal punishment if the proposed law is to meet standards set out by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court had held that capital Toss of Coin Determines Contractor Times Ruston Bureau RUSTON A coin toss was required here Friday before a contract was awarded for the construction of a addition to the central office the South Central Bell Telephone Company in Ruston.

Al Deville, Ruston office manager, said that the contract was awarded to Tri Con Construction Co. of Shreveport after the Shreveport firm won a coin toss with Lincoln Builders of Ruston. Both companies had submitted identical bids of $299,000 for the construction. Deville said that the over-all construction project would cost $348,206 and would be completed by Nov. 10.

The new addition will house new equipment valued at an additional $524,400. it punishment was unconstitutional as was administered. Judith Rogers, a North Little lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke against restoring the death penalty, saying "there is no place in society for collective vengeance." She said the death penalty was not a deterrent was certainly no more a deterrent than a sentence of life imprisonmentifecte said deterrent punishment only if was it was swift, but that there was no swift execution because of the safeguards built into the American law system. "If we allow this barbarity to continue, it will affect young people, affect all of us and we will become a vile society," she said. She said "an avalanche of felonies" had not followed abolition of capital punishment in other states.

'The death penalty doesn't do a damned thing for anybody not the victim, not society, not anybody," Mrs. Rogers said. Elijah Coleman, director of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, also spoke against punishment, that it discriminated against the poor and black. Coleman said that from 1913 to 1966 there were 169 persons put to death in Arkansas and woolen Your one step for discounts that all were poor and that 127 were black. Parish Health Boards Ended By Agency Times Capital Bureau BATON ROUGE Atty.

Gen. William Guste has ruled that Louisiana's new consolidated superagency for health and welfare services supercedes all parish and city boards of health. In fact, Guste said, it abolishes them. In an opinion issued at the request Pthe Charles Mary, director of superagency, Guste said the new Louisiana Health and Social Rehabilitation Services Administration (HSRSA) "abolishes all parish and municipal boards of health." Parish and local health units will continue to exist, but they will be under the administrative control of Dr. Mary's agency.

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