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i 11 Jackson Sun Monday, September 3, 2001 Dr. Christian Barnard dies of asthma attack at 78 South Africa native performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967 By RAVI NESSMAN The Associated Press DURBAN, South Africa Dr. Christian Neethling Barnard, a South African doctor working out of a little-known hospital who became an international hero by performing the first successful human heart transplant, died Sunday. He was 78. Barnard suffered a fatal asthma attack Sunday morning after going for a swim at a resort in Paphos on the southwest coast of Cyprus, where he had been vacationing, according to a statement from the Christian Barnard Foundation.

Barnard had spent many years experimenting with heart transplants, mainly with dogs, before he walked into the operating room at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town at about 1 a.m. on Dec. 3, 1967, and replaced Louis Washkansky's 53-year-old heart crippled by diabetes and heart disease with the heart of 25-year-old Denise Darvall, who had died in a car accident. It was "a very easy organ to transplant. There will be much greater scientific breakthroughs in medicine, because the heart transplant was not a scientific breakthrough.

It was a technical breakthrough," he later said. Washkansky lived 18 days after the operation before dying of double pneumonia attributed to his suppressed immune system. But Barnard's success in putting a new heart in Washkansky's body and coaxing it to beat and circulate Obituaries Information supplied by West Tennessee Funeral Directors Houston Kizer, 73 LEXINGTON Houston Kizer, 73, died Sunday at Methodist Hospital in Lexington, TN. Arrangements are incomplete. For more information, call Mercer Bros.

Memorial Chapel at 731-967-5783. Amie Nell McCain, 88 GLEASON Services for Amie Nell McCain, 88, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at Tumbling Baptist Church. Burial will be in Tumbling Creek Cemetery. Ms.

McCain, a homemaker, died Sunday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital of heart failure. Survivors: a daughter, Ann Brooks of Dresden, Tennessee. Call Gallimore Funeral Home at 731-648-5801. Nora Linville Wilkerson SAVANNAH Services for Nora Linville Wilkerson, 86, will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at Shackelford Funeral Home, Savannah, TN. Burial will be in Wilkerson Cemetery.

Mrs. Wilkerson died Sunday, September 2, 2001 at Harbert Hills Nursing Home, Savannah, TN. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Wilkerson. She is survived by a son, Dennis Wilkerson, Savannah, TN. Shackelford Funeral Directors 731-925-4000 Randy Patterson JACKSON Randy Patterson died Sunday, September 2, 2001 at Methodist LeBonheur.

Arrangements are incomplete. For more information, call LawrenceSorensen Funeral Home at 731-424-24224. Burnis Alonzo Porter, Sr. 80 SOMERVILLE Services for Burnis Alonzo Porter, 80, Retired Firestone Tire Rubber in Memphis will be at 10 A.M. Tuesday with burial at Mt.

Pleasant Cemetery at Hickory Withe, TN. Survivors include Sarah Spalding of Parsons, TN. PEEBLES FUNERAL HOME SOMERVILLE, TN 901-465-3535 Elizabeth Morine Rice ALAMO Services for Elizabeth Morine Rice, 84, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at Ronk Funeral Home. Burial will be in Nance Cemetery.

She is survived by daughters, Sandra Tomlinson of Crockett Mills, TN and Flossie Mae Jones of Alamo, TN; brothers, Clint Warren of Alamo, TN and Billy Warren of Pontotoc, MS. Ronk Funeral Home 731-696-5555 Dorothy Adell Skinner HUNTINGDON Mrs. Dorothy Adell Skinner, 71, of Huntingdon, Tennessee, died Saturday, August 31, 2001, at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Funeral Services will be conducted on Monday, September 3, 2001, at 11:00 AM in the Chapel of Dilday Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Carroll Memorial Gardens.

Reverend Fred Ward will officiate the services. Mrs. Skinner, the daughter of the late John Leonard and Mary Mozella Johnson Reaves, was born July 23, 1930. She was a retired employee of the Thomas Bradford Company and a member of Huntingdon First Baptist Church. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Albert Ernest Skinner, who died in 1992.

She is survived by three daughters, Sharon Ditmore, of Garden City, Michigan, Laura Johnson, of Palmersville, Tennessee and Dorothy Allison, of Huntingdon, four sons, Al Skinner, of Ventura, California, Victor Skinner, Livonia, Michigan, Lorne Skinner, of Fair Oaks, California and Keith Skinner, of Huntingdon, three sisters, Gladys, Brethauer, of Lansing, Michigan, Peggy Perritt, of McKenzie, and Wanda West, of Houston, Texas, six brothers, Eugene Reaves, of Lansing, Michigan, Joe Reaves, Jerry Reaves and Charles Reaves, all of McKenzie, Cecil Reaves, of Trezevant, and Bobby Reaves, of Paris. She also leaves 17 grandchildren 19 greatDilday Funeral Home blood was a massive step that turned him into a medical superstar. Barnard was featured on internan tional covers, magazine socialized Barnard with Sophia Loren and Princess Diana, and wrote two autobiographies and a raft of health books and novels, including a thriller about a diabolical doctor who tries to implant a baboon's brain in a coma patient. "Carrying out the first heart transplant showed great courage in an area many at the time considered purely experimental," said Ignazio Marino, director of the Mediterranean Transplants Institute, in Palermo, Sicily. Soon after Washkansky died, Barnard transplanted a heart into Philip Blaiberg, who lived for more than 18 months before dying from Ruth Herrin CAMDEN Services for Ruth Herrin, 96, will be held at 2:00 P.M.

Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at Stockdale Chapel in Camden, TN. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Methodist Cem. in Camden. Mrs. Herrin died Sunday a at Camden Gen.

Hosp. of heart failure. She was preceded in death by her husband, E.M. Herrin. She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Allen of Camden and Faye Lockhart of Waverly; three sons, E.L.

Herrin of Camden, Don Herrin of New Johnsonville and Brown Herrin of Camden; one brother W.J. Via of Bells, TN. Stockdale-Malin Funeral Home 731-584-8282 Tarl Corbett, 77 BELLS Tarl Corbett, 77 died Saturday, September 1, 2001 at Bells Nursing Home of heart failure. Arrangements are incomplete. For more information, call Baskerville Funeral Home at 731-784-1717.

Wesley Kevin Stricklin SAVANNAH Services for Wesley Kevin Stricklin, 17, will be held at 1:00 P.M. today, September 3, 2001 at Shackelford Funeral Home, Savannah, TN. Burial will be in Centenary Cemetery. Mr. Stricklin died Saturday, September 1, 2001 at Hardin County General Hospital, Savannah, TN.

He is survived by his mother, Melissa Carol McFall, and father William Kevin Stricklin both of Savannah, TN; maternal grandmother, Virginia Kate Wilder, paternal grandmother stepgrandfather, Betty and James Boswell, all of Savannah, Tennessee; paternal great-grandmother, Annie Stricklin of Savannah; maternal great-grandparents, Edith and Roy McFall of Lutts, TN. Shackelford Funeral Directors 731-925-4000 Elmer Thompson, 100 SOMERVILLE Services for Elmer Thompson, 100, Retired Farmer, will be at 2 P.M. Monday at Mt. Olive Baptist Church near Somerville with burial in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife of 76 years, Pearl White Thompson and two children.

PEEBLES FUNERAL HOME SOMERVILLE, TN 901-465-3535 Thomas Wingo Hillsman Funeral Services for Mr. Thomas Wingo Hillsman, 95, will be Wednesday at 2:00 PM. Sept. 5, 2001 at Englewood Baptist Church with Rev. Jimmy Dickson, Dr.

Hyran Barefoot and Dr. Phillip Jett officiating. Burial will follow in Ridgecrest Cemetery with Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home in charge. Hillsman died Saturday evening at the Madison County General Hospital. Mr.

Hillsman was born in Trezevant TN, the son of the late James Reddick and Esther Wingo Hillsman. He was a graduate of University of Tennessee Knoxville with a B.S. degree in Agricultural Education, taught Vocational Agricultural three years in Trezevant, was Assistant County Agent in Madison County 3 years and 9 months before becoming County Agent in Madison County for 30 years. Since retirement he has engaged in Farming, Construction, Land Sales and Golf Courses Construction. He was Past President of the Jackson Rotary Club and former Deacon Board Chairman of the First Baptist Church, Jackson, TN.

Mr. Hillsman joined Englewood Baptist Church in 1990, served as Deacon and Sunday School Teacher. Survivors include his wife of 68 years Naomi B. Hillsman; One sister, Helen Hillsman of Memphis, TN; several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers to serve will be Dr.

John Jenkins, John Hillman, Mark White, Harold McCleary, Warren Tinker and Clois Duke. Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M. Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home 731-424-2424 chronic rejection. More than three decades later, the surgery, while not quite routine, has been refined so greatly that 90 percent of patients survive, and 85 percent live for a year. "Thirty years later, many thousands of patients a year are still benefiting from the therapy he pioneered," said Dr.

Maaten Simoons, president of the European Society of Cardiology, which is meeting in Stockholm this week. A man who never shied from controversy in apartheid-era South Africa, Barnard ignored many racial barriers in the country. He was the first doctor to use mixed-race nurses in the operating room to treat white patients, and he transplanted the heart of a white woman into a black man. Yet, he also criticized apartheid opponents for not recognizing the good in his country. Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first post-apartheid president, paid tribute to Barnard during a news conference in Johannesburg.

"He was one of our main achievers, a pioneer in heart transplant, and he also has done very well in expressing his opinion on apartheid," he said. Barnard was born Nov. 8, 1922, one of four sons of the Rev. Adam Barnard, a Calvinist preacher in Beaufort West, a dusty town 250 miles north of Cape Town. Barnard studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, but his medical career was nearly aborted when he became nauseated watching an operation for the first time.

After completing his internship at Groote Schuur, he married nurse Alletta Gertruida Louw in 1948 and went into practice in Ceres, a mountain village 70 miles north of Cape Town. In 1951, he returned to Cape Town, where he became a senior medical officer at Groote Schuur, before heading to the United States to work at the University of Minnesota under the tutelage of renowned heart surgeons Richard Varco and C. Walton Lillehei. Barnard returned to Groote Schuur and took over the University of Cape Town's cardio-thoracic surgery department in 1961, developing a technique to correct the infant cardiac killer known as "transportation of the great vessels," and performing several successful cutting-edge heart operations. Barnard, however, was eventually forced to restrict his time in surgery because of chronic arthritis.

He retired in 1987. He was married three times the last two times to women much younger than him and had six children. Troy Donahue, '60s teen idol, dies in California hospital at 65 Alpheus (Chicken) Crockett SHARON Services for Mr. Alpheus (Chicken) Crockett, 86, will be held at 11:00 am. today, September 3, 2001 in the chapel of Gardner Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery Sharon. Mr. Crockett died Saturday at Veterans Hospital in Memphis. He is survived by his wife, Helen Crockett. Call Gardner Funeral Home at 731-456-2300 JACKSON Graveside Services for Whitman Keith Brown, 12 Days old, will be held at 2:00 P.M.

today, September 3, 2001. at Antioch Jones Cemetery. He died Saturday at Jackson Madison County General Hospital of heart failure. He is survived by his mother and father Betty Beverly-Brown and Henry Keith Brown; a brother Antonio Keith Brown. Call Baskerville Funeral Home at 731-784-1717.

Rosetta Sager Owen, 91 SOMERVILLE Rosetta Sager Owen, 91, retired artist and widow of Giles L. Owen died Friday in Memphis. Funeral, 3 P.M.. Monday at Peebles Funeral Chapel in Somerville with interment in Somerville City Cemetery. Mother of Esther McKeown and Daniel Green.

PEEBLES FUNERAL HOME SOMERVILLE, TN 901-465-3535 Leonia Lorene Lewis Whitman Keith Brown Funeral services for Leonia Lorene Lewis, 80, will be held at 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, September 4, 2001 in the Chapel of LawrenceSorensen Funeral Home conducted by Minister Ray Hawk. Burial will follow in Independence Cemetery in Henderson County. Miss Lewis, died Saturday, September 1, 2001 at Forest Cove Nursing Center. She was born in Jackson, the daughter of the late Virgil and Pearlie Pruitt Lewis.

She was: a retired employee of Bemis Cotton Mill and of a Beauty Shop and was a member of Campbell Street Church of Christ. She was preceded in death by three brothers Ira B. Lewis, Ted Lewis and Robert "Monk" Lewis. Survivors include two brothers Troy Lewis of Alvin, Texas and Stennis Lewis of Jackson. Visitation with the family will be from 6 to 8 P.M.

today at the funeral home. Lawrence-Sorensen Funeral Home 424-2424 Ruby Evelyn Martin Services for Ruby Evelyn Martin, 84, Hermitage, Tennessee, will be Wednesday, September 5, 2001, at 1:00 PM, at Reed's Chapel at Lexington, Tennessee with Jerry Sellers and Luther Hasz officiating. Mrs. Martin died Saturday, September 1, 2001, at McKendree Health Center in Hermitage, Tennessee. She was born March 5, 1917, at White City, Kansas, to Hugo and Nellie (Nelson) Gustason.

She was united in marriage to James Earl Martin on September 1, 1962, in Independence, Missouri. He survives. Mrs. Martin attended the Stone Chapel Grade School and graduated from the White City High School in 1934. She attended the Hutchinson, Kansas, Business College.

She did secretarial work with several Businesses in Miami, Florida, Denver, Colorado, Wichita, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. She retired from public work in 1967. Mrs. Martin was confirmed at the Marion Hill Lutheran Church near White City on July 24, 1932, and remained a member of the church throughout her life. Along with her husband, she is survived by three nieces and three nephews.

Visitation will be at Reed's Chapel in Lexington from 6 PM until 9 PM Tuesday, September 4, 2001. Burial will be in the city cemetery in Lexington, Tennessee. Pallbearers will be Chris Sellers, Denny Flanagan, Richard Gustason, Chad Sellers, Kerry Sellers and Drew Flanagan. Reed's Chapel 731-968-3643 By ANDREW BRIDGES The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Actor Troy Donahue, a blond, blue-eyed heartthrob of the 1950s and '60s who starred in teen romances like "A Summer Place" and "Parrish," died Sunday. He was 65.

Donahue died at St. John's Hospital and Medical Center in Santa Monica after suffering a heart attack on Thursday, said family friend Bob Palmer. The actor played Sandra Dee's young lover in 1959's "A Summer Place," a role that made him a teen matinee star. "He was a good-looking, blond guy who looked great on the beach," Palmer said. "He was a little more moody he wasn't a gee-whiz guy.

His character was more the brooding youth, but with heroic underpinnings." Donahue went on to star in a series of teen romances, including "Parrish" (1961), "Rome Adventure" (1962) and "Palm Springs Weekend" (1963). Donahue was born Merle Johnson Jr. on Jan. 27, 1936, according to a Warner Bros. studio biography from 1960.

His father headed the motion picture division of General Motors Corp and his mother was an aspiring actress. The New York native moved at 19 to Hollywood, where he was discovered by Warner Bros. The release of "A Summer Place" made him for a time the studio's top fan-mail draw. "They'd ask me to light a cigarette and when I did, they screamed and fell Donahue said of his fans in an interview with The Associated Press a year after the film's release. During his heyday, Donahue split his time between the movies and television, appearing in ABC's detective series "Surfside Six." He was given his screen moniker by Henry Willson, the same film agent who named heartthrobs Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter.

"It was part of me 10 minutes after I got it. It feels so natural, I Suzanne Pleshette shows off her with her husband-to-be, Troy December 1963 file photo. heartthrob of the 1950s and '60s, NTED 831 engagement ring as she poses Donahue, in Los Angeles in this Donahue, a blond, blue-eyed teen died Sunday. He was 65. The Associated Press Suzanne Pleshette shows off her engagement ring as she poses jump when people call me by my old name.

Even my mother and sister call me Troy now," he told AP. Donahue attempted unsuccessfully to break away from pretty boy typecasting with his role as a psychopath in "My Blood Runs Cold" (1965). By the late 1960s, the studios stopped making the kind of teen films that propelled Donahue to stardom. Movies such as "Those Fantastic Flying Fools" (1967) and "Come Spy with Me" (1967), failed to revive his career. He had a bit part in 1974's "Godfather, Part II," playing a gigolo named Merle Johnson.

But with his career in decline, Donahue began abusing drugs and alcohol, even spending a summer homeless in New York's Central Park. He became sober by the early 1980s. "I realized that I was going to die, and I was dying or worse than that, I might live the way' I was I was living for the rest of my life," Donahue said at the time. "He had some adversity in his life and challenged it all," actress Connie Stevens, who appeared with him in "Parrish," "Susan Slade" (1961) and "Palm Springs Weekend," said on CNN Sunday. Donahue has had bit parts since his heyday in the '60s, including a role in director John Waters' 1990 film, "Cry-Baby." The actor was married at least four times, including a brief marriage to actress Suzanne Pleshette, his co-star in "Rome Adventure" and "A Distant Trumpet" (1964).

He is survived by a sister and two children. At the time of his death he lived in Santa Monica with his mezzo soprano Zheng Cao, Palmer said. Organized labor copes with several setbacks, still sees opportunities By LEIGH STROPE The Associated Press WASHINGTON Labor Day finds organized labor between setback and opportunity. Union membership is sliding. Thousands of jobs have disappeared because of the faltering economy.

The Bush administration has crippled labor's agenda on such issues as workplace safety regulations and union partnerships with government. Labor officials think aggressive campaigns on issues such as immigration, globalization, trade, workers' rights and the minimum wage could help drive the resurgence they have sought unsuccessfully for years now. "Unions have more relevance than ever," said Teamsters President James P. Hoffa. "They're playing an ever increasing role in national elections and in directing the debate on the way this country is going." and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney face re-election this year.

Union membership has declined or remained stagnant as the work force has grown. The percentage of American workers belonging to unions fell last year to 13.5 percent, the lowest in six decades, according to the Labor Department. Union officials have blamed a decline in heavily unionized industries coupled with job growth i in nonunion parts of the economy. It is now or never for unions to raise their numbers, said Lawrence Lorber, deputy assistant labor secretary under President Ford. Today's economic uncertainty holds opportunity for labor.

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