Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia • B7

FUNERALS TODAY 3 p.m.at Crocker Funeral in Carver Memorial Cemetery. J.Sr.: 5 p.m.at Sturtevant Funeral Blvd. 11 a.m.Monday in Parklawn Memorial Park. Boyd: 3 p.m.at Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, in Island Cemetery. 2 p.m.in Peninsula Memorial Park.

2 p.m.at Bethany United Methodist in St. Memorial Park. Gail: 3 p.m.at St.Mark’s Episcopal 3:30 p.m.at Koch Funeral 17 2:30 p.m.in Windsor Gardens Cemetery. Mae: 1 p.m.at Shivers Funeral in Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery, Ivor. Nicole: 1 p.m.at T.E.

Cooke-Overton Funeral in Carver Memorial Cemetery. Ann: 1 p.m.at St.John Baptist in Williamsburg Memorial Park. Louise Fox: 2 p.m.at Bruton Parish Church. 1 p.m.at Slack Funeral Stark: 11 a.m.at New Hope Christian Beach. J.Sr.: 11 a.m.in Parklawn Memorial Park.

1:30 p.m.at Peninsula Funeral Home; burial in Hampton Memorial Gardens. 1 p.m.at Parklawn-Wood Funeral Home Chapel. Louise: 11 a.m.at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home. Diggs: 1:30 p.m.at Zion United Methodist in Peninsula Memorial Park.

11 a.m.at Ronald C. Perkins Funeral in Hampton Memorial Gardens. 11 a.m.in Hollywood Mae: noon at Oak Grove Baptist in Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. 18 Gerald 6:30 p.m.at R.Hayden Smith Funeral Home. 1 p.m.at Second Baptist Church East in Hampton Memorial Gardens.

Tutson: 1 p.m. at Cooke Bros.Funeral in Peninsula Memorial Park. Nelson: 1 p.m.at New First Baptist in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Jefferson noon at the Veterans Affairs in Hampton Memorial Gardens. Ann: 2 p.m.at Lady of the Mount Catholic Church, Lookout in Forest Hills Daniel: 3 p.m.at Greenlawn Funeral S.C.;burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park.

20 2 p.m.at the Regimental Eustis. Harvey: 2 p.m.at Charles City County. 21 Varney: 5 p.m.at the Church of St.Therese. noon at First Baptist Church West-Munden, Chesapeake. 23 3 p.m.at Burton Hall at Warwick 9 a.m.Monday, July 24 in Arlington National Cemetery.

24 9 a.m.in Arlington National Cemetery. 26 Haight: 10 a.m.in Arlington National Cemetery. Marlin: 9 a.m.in Arlington National Cemetery. Editor: deePage: No. of bullets: 3Notes: Zone: 1st YELLOWMAGENTACYAN BLACK DAILY PRESSSUNDAY, JULY 16, 2006 B7 XXSTATEXX EUGENE E.JAEGER NEWPORT NEWS Eugene Earl of Emma B.Jaeger, died family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m.Tuesday, July Weymouth Funeral Home.

ANNIE GRAY JENKINS Annie Gray Jenkins, of Della C.Swain of Hampton, died services will be held 2 p.m.Monday,July by Garrett Funeral CHERISH MAHONE-HUDSON NEWPORT NEWS Cherish daughter of Erica Mahone and James Edward July will be 1 p.m.Monday,July Peninsula Funeral a service to follow at 1:30 p.m.Burial will follow in Hampton Memorial Gardens. MARGARET RANCE MOORE HAMPTON Margaret Rance Moore, 15, 2006.Arrangements by Parklawn-Wood Funeral Home. MATTIE LOUISE SAUNDERS HAMPTON Mattie Louise Saunders, 12,2006. She retired as a dietary aide in the cafeteria of the Hampton Affairs Medical Center with 18 years of service. Preceded in death by her parents, Benjamin and Etta Diggs Johnson and Etta Mae two Kirby Jr.and Garnett is survived by two S.Martin and her Alice Randolph; two Randolph and John great-grandchild; her her Kirby.

A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m.Monday,July the R.Hay- den Smith Funeral Home chapel by the Rev.Frank Earwood. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes 1132, 22038. GEORGIA ANN SHARPE-SHELL Georgia Ann was lifted to heaven by angels on July 13, 2006. She was born in Newport News on Nov.8,1970,and graduated from Denbigh High School in 1989.She attended ODU and worked at Kingsmill she met her moving to pursuing a career as a special events planner.She gave everyone around her great joy with her beautiful flower arrangements and wonderful sense of humor and her creative cheating at Pictionary.She loved music and romantic movies. She is survived by the love of her life, her precious son, Ethan Joseph Shell of her and Mary Sharpe of Lady Sharpe Bouldin of Abby Jo Sharpe Focht of Sharpe of 10 nieces and nephews.

J.Avery Bryan Funeral home in in charge of arrange- ments.Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.July 18 at Lady of the Mount Catholic will be laid to rest at Forest Hills SHIRLEY ANN SULTAN GLOUCESTER Shirley Ann died Riverside Walter Reed Hospital.Arrangements by Hogg Funeral Home and Crematory, Gloucester Point. JAMES L.WALL HAMPTON James L.Wall,72,of 15,2006. Arrangements by Parklawn-Wood Funeral Home. BURON NEWPORT NEWS Buron of Mary P.Whitley, died by Peninsula Funeral Home. JEANETTE DIGGS SPARRER SEAFORD Jeanette Diggs of at St.Francis Nursing Center on 13,2006.

Mrs.Sparrer was born in Mathews County on Jan.31,1914,and lived in Seaford since her marriage in October 1931.She was a member of Zion United Methodist Church in Seaford. She was preceded in death by her husband of 57 Bernard James Diggs and Edna Grey Brooks infant son, Bernard Winfield Diggs Carlton Phillips numerous other family members. She is survived by a Bernard Sparrer of a Louise Sparrer of Hudgins of James W.Sparrer of Sparrer Freeman of Poquoson and Kathleen Sparrer of and other family a very special friend and Michaud. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m.Monday,July Zion United Methodist Seaford Road, with the Rev.Joe Carson officiating.The family will receive friends Monday at 1 p.m.in the church.Interment will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park. In lieu of donations may be made to the Zion United Methodist Church Building American Diabetes VA to the charity of your choice.

Arrangements by Amory Funeral CARTER W.WISE NEWSOMS Carter Wayne son of Dawn and Larry Wise graveside service will be held 11 a.m.Monday in Hollywood by Wright Funeral Home. COMPILED BY MANDY MALONE OBITUARIES ContinuedfromB6 XXOBITUARIES XX School considers installing detectors THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM There was no carbon monoxide detector in the Roanoke College dormitory where one person died and dozens of teenagers and adults were sickened after a leak of the odorless gas, but the school is considering installing them, a spokeswoman said Saturday. One woman remained hospitalized Saturday. State law require carbon monoxide detectors in college dorms, but spokeswoman Teresa Gereaux said the private school would consider installing them. in the process right now of investigating the options of what will work with the systems we already have in she said.

A total of 114 people were taken to two hospitals Friday after waking up with headaches, nausea, dizziness and shakiness. A 91-year-old man was found dead in the dorm, but medical examiners had not determined the cause of death. About 100 of the guests had come from across Virginia, with a handful from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, to attend a Power in the Spirit Lutheran conference at the campus. Thirty-seven teenage girls from southwest Virginia were there with Upward Bound, a six-week college preparatory program. is a profound sadness of what has occurred, but there also is this wonderful sense of community come out of this like nothing ever Gereaux said.

Investigators were focusing on a gas water heater system as the possible cause, Gereaux said. just hard to say exactly how long that will she said of the investigation. Five people had been hospitalized overnight at Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem, but four were released Saturday. Roanoke College might add carbon monoxide monitoring equipment in dorms after incident. Electrocution looms for killer of Virginia woman Brandon Hedrick is to be executed Thursday for the 1997 rape and murder of 23-year-old Lisa Crider.

BY KRISTEN GELINEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND Weeping as one of her captors bound her in duct tape, the young woman made a final desperate plea for her life, telling the two men she was a mother. Unmoved and armed with a shotgun, Brandon Hedrick and Trevor Jones forced Lisa Crider to a remote bank of the James River. what you gotta Jones told his friend. Hedrick squeezed the trigger, delivering a fatal shot to face. Jones and Hedrick drove back to Lynchburg apartment and went to sleep, according to court documents.

body was discovered that evening on Day. Barring intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court or Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, Hedrick will be electrocuted Thursday for the rape and murder of 23-year-old Crider in Appomattox County.

Hedrick, who opted for the electric chair instead of lethal injection, would be the first person in the United States to die by electrocution in more than two years. He also would become just the 13th white inmate in the United States executed for the slaying of a black victim since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Six additional white inmates have been executed for killing multiple victims of different races. Conversely, 207 black inmates have been executed for the slaying of a white person since 1976. Four black inmates were executed for the murders of multiple victims of different races.

is the perception of dangerousness associated with African-American defendants, and particularly African-American men, and that appears to play out in capital said Christina Swarns, director of the criminal justice project at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. certainly a persistent Hedrick and Jones, then 18, spent the night of May 10, 1997, drinking, smoking marijuana and crack cocaine, and employ- ing the services of several prostitutes, according to court documents. While cruising around Lynchburg, they spotted Crider walking along a road. Jones knew who Crider was and believed her boyfriend sold crack. The two decided to bring her back to apartment and rob her because they thought she might have drugs.

Later that night, Jones and Hedrick forced Crider at gunpoint into truck, where prosecutors say Hedrick raped and sodomized her. After driving through the night, they stopped at the James River, where Crider was murdered. Hedrick and Jones fled Virginia and were apprehended in Nebraska. Hedrick was sentenced to death in 1998; Jones received a life sentence. The crime robbed Dale Alexander of her only daughter and left 5-year-old son without a mother.

sum of Lisa was roses and doves she was peace loving, no gossip, no said Alexander, 55, of Altavista. would try to protect anybody around In 2002, Hedrick asked a judge to drop his appeals. But in 2003, he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he was a changed man and hoped to inspire other inmates. know what I was involved in was totally wrong and I should have had no involvement in doing any of it. I do believe that I need to be punished, but I know what my punishment should he said.

judged myself harder than most people Hedrick declined through his attorney, Robert Lee, to be interviewed. Lee is seeking a hearing to determine if Hedrick is mentally retarded. In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that exe- cuting the mentally retarded is unconstitutional. In Virginia, those who score 70 or below on an IQ test before they turn 18 are generally considered retarded.

At sentencing, his court-appointed clinical psychologist, Dr. Gary Hawk, testified that Hedrick had an IQ of 76 which was below although so low as to suggest mental But taking into account a standard margin of error and the the increase in IQ scores over time there is the possibility that IQ may fall below 70, Lee said. Hedrick also has a history of learning difficulties, Lee said. possible that this 76 is a low score for him. It could also be at the highest range of what he could score the Lee said.

guess that and I really think the courts Hedrick also contends his trial attorneys were inadequate. In a clemency petition to Kaine, attorneys say the lawyers who represented Hedrick at trial were ill-prepared and spent far too little time working on the case. The attorney office argues that Hedrick deserves to die for his crimes. Hedrick brutally tortured Lisa Crider and murdered her said J. Tucker Martin, spokesman for Attorney General Bob McDonnell.

jury decided he deserved the death penalty and justice will be carried out on July son Tracy, now 14, also wants life to end, but he was deemed too young to witness the execution, said Alexander, mother. does want to see justice she said. Dale Alexander, mother of murder victim Lisa Crider, holds the memorial card from 1997 funeral on Thursday in Altavista. AP PHOTO received child support from an who refused to visit his children and is a living witness to a difference in how the support system handles these She said her former wife allow him to see their children. The reason, she said, was hatred with money attached to were many days and nights I saw my husband cry to see his children, just wanting to hold them and love them and those mother despitefully would not allow Another woman has less sympathy for Burns but with a twist: She said she once spent 30 days in jail for falling behind in child support payments to her former husband.

constantly held it over my head that I was delinquent and subsequently refused to let me see our she wrote. six agonizing years, I saw my daughter only she said, though she never stopped trying. She had raised a daughter from a previous marriage, she said, as well as her daughter from a previous marriage and their own daughter together for six years before the marriage fell apart. Eventually, she won custody of their daughter. Now, she said, her ex is not only delinquent in support payments but has visited the child only twice in the past year, even though allowed visitation.

am just biding my time until he is six to eight months in she wrote. we will see how he likes sitting in jail and not because of the money but because he owes her more than just a payment every month. He owes her her right to have a Many daddies recognize their importance in a life and a importance in theirs even daddies who were shanghaied into the job. One reader whose name I agreed not to use alleged that his girlfriend decided to get pregnant, unbeknownst to him. So she began taking a fertility drug, lied about her menstrual cycle and used a needle to poke holes in his condoms, he said.

plan worked he wrote, that two of her friends tattled on her immediately afterwards. Nevertheless, I realize I was not raped, and have accepted fatherhood, taking her to court for shared custody and visitation as soon as our daughter was born. may have been forced into paternity, but I chose fatherhood after the far more generous than his ex deserves. But his focus is where it should be: on his child. What irks many noncustodi- al parents just paternity interrupted or crushing support payments.

also Internal Revenue Service and other rules that disproportionately hurt them and reward the cus- todials. One reader, Glenn Woodell, said trying to change some financial injustices. Noncusto- dials must pay taxes on their child support payments, for instance, while custodials receive that money tax-free. Custodials get the tax deduction for a dependent, while noncustodials even if they pay most of the total support do not. And Woodell said he overpaid nearly $4,000 in child support one year only to learn that he could neither get it back nor get credit for it.

am convinced that some deadbeat parents got that way by being beat down by the Woodell wrote. have been a wonderful father who has been beat down over and over again. Fortunately I have been in a position to be able to bounce back every time but I know many noncustodial parents are not able to do The least sympathetic reader? former wife, Linda Manna, the mother of two of the four children Burns is in jail for failing to support. Manna dissected my column, in particular comments supporting Burns made by his current wife in Hampton and by a good friend of the couple. Among other things, two defenders maintain that an excellent father to his four young children here.

They also said that in the past several years, he found the road to Jesus and to good fatherhood. To Manna, too little, too late for the children he left behind in Braintree. being a Christian is moving on and forgetting your past, even at the expense of 4 innocent children whom he dismissed as if they were never Manna wrote. children he left went through heartache, they have feelings, wants and needs beyond financial. for him to be a good father now, and better for himself, but not at the expense of my children.

I would hope that is not the Christian When it comes to families ripped apart by custody disputes, by money and acrimony, the Christian way has very little to do with it. Too often, neither does the best interest of the children. Tamara Dietrich can be reached at or 247-7892. DIETRICH ContinuedfromB1.