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Orlando Sentinel, Saturday, July 28, 1984 FLORIDA, AVARO AOIROJI Effie Evelyn Fry, 70, South Michigan Avenue, St. Cloud, died Friday. Born in Indian Head, she moved to St. Cloud from Santa Ana, in 1957. She was a homemaker and attended the Narcoossee Baptist Church.

Survivors: husband, Philip daughter, Nancy Tindall, Narcoossee; sons, Philip H. Daytona Beach, Ronald St. Cloud; sisters, Mrs. Betty Rummell, Kathleen Wyatt, both of St. Cloud, Mrs.

Becky Van Dusen, Okeechobee, Mrs. Peggy Jetton, Orlando, Jean Larson, Orlando, Mrs. Margaret Golden, New Canton, five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Fisk Funeral Home, St. Cloud.

Margaret F. Hodges, 82, 2384 Old Samsula Road, Daytona Beach, died Thursday. Born in Baltimore, she moved to Daytona Beach from Lakeland in 1966. She was a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Daytona Beach.

Survivors: daughter, Shirley Wadsworth, Daytona Beach; three grandchildren; four great grandchildren. Cardwell Funeral Home, Port Orange. Paul N. Ilgenfritz, 63, 2500 S. Atlantic Daytona Beach Shores, died Wednesday.

Born in Turtle Creek, he moved to the area in 1982 from Tallmadge, Ohio. He was a retired tool and die maker and an Air Force veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife, Mary; daughters, Shirley Galko, Columbus, Ohio, Joan Pierce, Los Alamos, N.M.; son, Paul, Tallmadge; five grandchildren. Halifax Cremation Society, New Smyrna Beach. Emily Barta, 81, a former New Smyrna Beach resident, died Thursday.

Born in Rockford, Iowa, she moved to Illinois in 1975 from New Smyrna Beach, where she had lived for 10 years. She was a member of the South Park Presbyterian Church, Rock Island, Ill. Survivors: daughter, Mrs. Ronald Olsen, East Moline; two grandchildren; one great-grandchildren. Dudley Funeral Home, New Smyrna Beach.

Kenneth Caruthers, 72, Houston Street, Kilgore, Texas, died Wednesday. Born in Oxford, he moved to Kilgore after retiring from the Navy in 1960. He was a retired Navy chief petty officer and a Baptist. Survivors: wife, Tommie; brothers, J.P., Ocala, B.G., Sanford; sister, Helen Thomas, Wildwood. Banks Funeral Home, Wildwood.

Wendell T. Powell, 73, Florabunda Circle, John Orange City, died Friday. Born in Cedarville, N.J., he moved to Orange City from Winter Park in 1981. He was a retired accountant for a supply company and a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Orlando.

Survivors: wife, Ruth; son, Wendell Kenneth, Orlando; daughter, Louise P. Deaths elsewhere GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas Floyd Garland Hamilton, 76, a "Public Enemy No. 1" in the late 1930s and a close friend of notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, died Tuesday. In his autobiography Public Enemy No. 1, Hamilton said he became friends with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow when they were all elementary school children in West Dallas.

When the two were on the run, Hamilton smuggled them food and arranged meetings. On Feb. 6, 1935, he was convicted of helping them and sentenced to two years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Hamilton said in his book that he refused an offer of $5,000 in 1933 from the Dallas County sheriff and an assistant district attorney to turn in Bonnie and Clyde because he had promised to keep their whereabouts a secret. Hamilton spent more than 20 years in state and federal prisons on bank robbery and other charges before being paroled in 1958.

3. His work in the International Prison Ministry and efforts to find ex-convicts jobs won him pardons from Gov. John Connally and President John F. Kennedy. LOS ANGELES Willie Mae Thornton, 57, a minister's daughter- turned blues singer who inspired Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin with gutsy renderings of "Hound Dog" and "Ball and Chain," died of a heart attack Wednesday.

In declining health after a debilitating car crash, "Big Mama" Thornton was so weak she could barely walk on stage at a festival five years ago. She drew her nickname from her girth. From 1941 to 1948 she toured the South with Sammy Green's Hot Harlem Review, working as a Funerals can be simple, yet dignified. All charges are itemized clearly explained. Mamerium Funeral Home Memorial Park 293-1361 Cremation $295 Call 331-1910 Immediate Need or Pre arrangement Plans Direct Cremation No Casket No Viewing No Embalming ALL FAITHS MEMORIAL PARK Obituaries Blosch, Longwood; sisters, Mrs.

Morris Romano, Mrs. Mathilda Grietz, Clara, all of New Jersey; three grandchildren. Allen-Summerhill Funeral Home, Orange City. Helen Conboy, 82, 2810 Ruleme Eustis, died Friday. Born in Baxter Springs County, she moved to Eustis from Oregon City, in 1962.

She was a retired nurse and a Presbyterian. Survivor: sister, Mrs. Florence Brinks, Santa Barbara, Calif. Rehbaum-Harden Funeral Home, Mount Dora. A.T.

Leland, 76, 478 Clear Lake Drive, Eustis, died Thursday. Born in Gardner, he moved to Eustis from Edgewood, in 1963. He was a retired military officer and a Protestant. He was a member of the Bahia Shrine Temple, Orlando. Survivors: sons, Alanson Ismir, Turkey, Wayne Longwood, Stephen Eustis; sister, Phyrne Ganunn, New Rochelle, N.Y.; two granddaughters.

Beyers Funeral Home, Umatilla. Robert P. Vogt, 73, 20 Columbia Sorrento, died Thursday. Born in Oklahoma, he moved to Sorrento from Garden City, in 1982. He retired electrician and a Lutheran.

He was a member of the Moose Lodge 1271, Leesburg. Survivors: daughters, Patricia Ann Wilson, Sorrento, Beverly Aton, Dearborn Heights, Linda Meyers, Jackson, Mrs. Jane Hale, Garden City; sisters, Mrs. Claribelle Held, Ormond Beach, Mrs. Ellen Gillispie, Lake Station, nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.

Harden-Pauli Funeral Home, Eustis. Harold M. Moore, 71, 65 Lois Drive, Tavares, died Wednesday. Born in Hart, he moved to Tavares from Ashland, Ohio in 1981. He was a retired methods engineer and a member of Christ United Methodist Church, Ashland.

Survivors: wife, Vera; sons, Donald, Peabody, James, Santa Monica, brother, Arthur, Wadsworth, Ohio; two grandchildren. Steverson Funeral Home, Tavares. Bessie B. Tomlinson, 86, 640 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, died Thursday.

Born in Pittsburgh, she moved to Ormond Beach from Maitland in 1978. She was a retired motel owner-operator and a member of The Community United Methodist Church, Casselberry. Survivors: husband, Clarence; sisters, Martha Blyston, Crescent City, Louise Croll, Satsuma. Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home, Forest City. John Edwin Welsh, 71, 203 Flagler Edgewater, died Thursday.

Born in New York City, he moved to Edgewater in 1969 from Ramapo, N.Y. He was a retired security guard and an Air Force singer, dancer and comedian. In 1953, she became the first person to record "Hound Dog," a song by Jerry Lieber and Bob Stoller that later was a hit for Presley. Thornton's version topped the rhythm and blues charts for 14 weeks. She wrote and recorded "Ball and which Joplin later sang on an album.

Thornton's concert appearances continued through the late 1970s and included visits to New York's Apollo Theater, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Newport Folk Festival and tours in Europe. She also sang in a 1967 public television special, Black, White and Blue. NEW YORK Vincent Beck, 56, an actor and an official of two actors unions, died of cancer Tuesday. Beck appeared in television commercials, films and several Broadway and off-Broadway productions. He made his stage debut in A Flag Is Born on Broadway in 1946.

He also appeared in Peter Pan, The World of Sholom Aleichem, The Merchant of Venice, Oliver, Irma la Douce, Gypsy, and Bells Are Ringing. He had been president of the New York branch of the Screen Actors Guild since 1983 and third vice president of Actors Equity since 1982. BARCELONA, Spain Guillermo Diaz Plaza, 75, Spanish intellectual and author of more than 150 books, died Friday of cancer. Diaz Plaza, the brother of writer Fernando Diaz Plaza, wrote in Castillian and in Catalan, a language native to the Catalonian region in northeast Spain. He wrote poetry and essays, edited major works and taught language and literature at the University of Barcelona.

BIG PARTY DANCE! SUNDAY 8 P.M. HILTON INN Hundreds 3200 291-4936 W. of for INGLES all COLONIAL info ages DRIVE message attend! James E. Gabel, DDS D'Arcy D. Howe, DMD 2200 Lee Winter Park (305) 628-9877 DENTURES COMPLETE SET) $146 $194 $465 Temp.

Reg. Deluxe EXTRACTIONS $12 Denture Related Same day service Insurance plans welcome Complete general dentistry Boy hit by lightning in June still in coma veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Christian Life Center, New Smyrna Beach, and the New Smyrna Beach Disabled American Veterans Post 53. Survivors: wife, Alberta daughter, Cynthia, Edgewater; sons, John Kenneth, both of Edgewater. Dudley Funeral Home, New Smyrna Beach.

Laura Lou Douglas Wilson, 72, 242 E. Seventh Apopka, died Thursday. Born in Cairo, she moved to Apopka from there in 1942. She was a homemaker and a member of House of God The Church of the Living God and Truth Pillar. Survivors: daughters, Mrs.

Erma Lee Peterson, Apopka, Mrs. Willie Mae George, Johnnie Mae Riley, both of Orlando; sons, Herbert Carey, Crescent City, Addison Carey New Orleans, Dowell Carey, Hawthorne; brothers, James Dowdell, Crescent City, Grant Dowdell Allentown, N.J., Loron Dowdell, Dania; sisters, Katrine Bentley, Crescent City, Talitha Anderson, Sanford, Thelma Collins, Tampa, Mrs. Bertha Lee Noble, Orlando; 33 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren. Starks Funeral Home, Orlando. Stella R.

Seyda, 88, 431 E. Central Orlando, died Thursday. Born in Pittsburgh, she moved to Orlando from Langeloth, in 1955. She was a homemaker member of St. James Catholic Cathedral.

Survivors: son, Joseph Plantation; daughters, Annette Orlando, Mary Ann Kessler, Lakeland, Theresa Hines, Springfield, two granddaughters. Woodlawn Funeral Home, Orlando. Funeral notices JOHNSON, CHARLES LAWRENCE- Memorial services for Mr. Charles Lawrence Johnson, age 66, of 8108 Hatteras Orlando, will be held Tuesday 1pm at the Pine Castle Memorial Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Montgomery officiating.

Mr. Johnson was a native of St. Paul, Mn. and had been a local resident since 1983 coming from Ft. Lauderdale.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the American Lung 2737 S. Fern Creek, Orlando. Arrangements by PINE CASTLE MEMORIAL CHAPEL FUNERAL HOME, 5800 Hansel 855-5800. CHILDERS, CLAUDE Funeral services will be held Monday, July 30th at 2:00 P.M. from the Livingston Street Church of God with Rev.

T.E. Chenault, officiating. The body will lie in state at the Winter Garden Chapel from 1:00 P.M. Sunday until 10:00 P.M. and Monday morning at the Church from 10:00 A.M.

until funeral time. There will be no viewing after the eulogy. Interment will follow in Winter Garden Cemetery, Winter Garden. "A Zanders Apopka. ORANGE PARK A 12-year-old whose love of baseball had him on a practice field June 21 when a lightning bolt hit nearby still is in a coma.

Doctors at Memorial Medical Center in Jacksonville said B.J, Lakin may recover one day. His parents talk with B.J. about the Atlanta Braves, his favorite team, and other things even though they don't know if he can hear them. "I believe he's hearing us," his father, William Lakin said. "At least some of it anyway." Doctors have told the Lakins to talk to B.J.

when they visit. "We talk with him. We work with him. We tell, him what happened at home, what friend called, what his dog is doing. the general everyday goingson," Lakin said Thursday.

B.J. was playing ball with 11 boys and three coaches when the lightning struck at Lakeside Middie School. "You've got to prepare yourself for the worst, and then hope for the best and be satisfied with whatever comes in between," Lakin said. He said the family has received tremendous support from the community. "Believe me, there is a whole world of beautiful people out there," he said.

ASSOCIATED PRESS BIANCHI, KATHERINE HELEN- Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Helen Bianchi, age 65, of Orlando, who passed away Thursday, will be conducted Sunday at 4:00 P.M. at the Lake Ivanhoe Chapel of the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home. Father John McCormick of St. James Catholic Cathedral will officiate.

Visitation for friends will be at the Funeral Home Sunday from 2:00 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD FUNERAL HOME, Orlando. SCANTLEBURY, ALVIRA BARRYFuneral services for Mrs. Alvira Barry Scantlebury, age 64, of Longwood, who passed away Thursday, will be conducted Monday at 2:00 p.m.

at the Altamonte Springs Chapei of the Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Home with Reverend Walter Feagins officiating. Mrs. Scantlebury is survived by a son, Edwin W. Scantlebury; daughter, Judith S. Schultz and grandson, Michael Bradley Coolidge.

In lieu of flowers those who wish may make donations to the American Heart Association, 237 E. Marks, Orlando 32803. BALDWINFAIRCHILD FUNERAL HOME, Altamonte Springs. ERGAS, MRS. ROBBIE NEAL- Fun- KNIGHT, DOROTHY age 80, eral services will be at 10am Mon- 1617 W.

Central Blvd. Memorial serday in the Chapel of Brisson Funeral vice will be held at MILLER MEMOHome, Sanford. Viewing will be from RIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, 4236 John 2-6pm Sunday. Interment will be in Young Parkway, Sunday July 29 at Oaklawn Memorial Park. BRISSON 11am.

Dorothy went to be with the FUNERAL HOME, A GUARDIAN Lord July 11, 1984. CHAPEL, Sanford in charge. TOMLINSON, BESSIE Funeral services for Bessie B. Tomlinson, 86, of Ormond Beach, who passed away Thursday, will be conducted at Monday 1pm at the Forest City Chapel of Baldwin-Fairchild Funeral Homes. Rev.

Wight Kirtley will officiate. Interment to follow at Glen Haven Memorial Park. Visitation will be Sunday from 2-4 pm at the Forest City Chapel of Baldwin-Fairchild. In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested contributions be made to the Community United Methodist Church, 321 Piney Ridge Casselberry 32707. BALDWIN-FAIRCHILD FUNERAL HOME, Forest City.

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FINANCING Installation Available and Orange Ave. (opt. 422-5597 339-3377 AVAILABLE IN MEMORIAM in Loving Memory of My Darling E.C. "BOCK" KENNEDY Who Passed Away July 28, 1983 A million times I've needed you, A million times I've cried. If love alone could have saved you, You never would have died.

In life I love you dearly, In death I love you still. Everday I miss you, And know I always will. It broke my heart to lose you, But you did not go alone. A part of me went with you. The day God called you home.

GOD BLESS Wife, Minnie..

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