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Our policy: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution strives to make this list a complete record of deaths in the metro area and of selected deaths elsewhere. Please ask your funeral home or cremation society to call us at 404-526-5342 or fax us at 404-526-7517 These listings are free. For a Family-Placed Death Notice, for which there is a charge, have your funeral home contact our paid notice department at 404-526-5271 DEATHS FUNERALS LOUISE BLITCHINGTON COMSTOCK, 95, of Atlanta and Olean, N.Y., died Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Woodlawn United Methodist Church, Augusta; Stephen D.

Posey Funeral Home, North Augusta, S.C. INEZ GOSSETT, 95, died Wednesday. Funeral, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, H.M. Patterson Son, Spring Hill.

CATHERINE GRIFFIN, 79, died Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m. today, Wages Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain. CAROLE COST HORNE, 48, died Thursday. The body was cremated.

Memorial service plans will be announced; Cremation Society of Georgia. MELVIN LASTER, 60, died Monday. Funeral plans will be announced by Young Funeral Home. JULIAN MARK JONES 77, of Bowdon died Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Bowdon Baptist Church; Rainwater Funeral Home. JAVIER MEJIA MORALES, infant son of Monica Morales Sanches and Javier Mejia Velazquez of Bowdon, died Monday. Graveside service, 1 p.m. today, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church cemetery; Almon Funeral Home. DORATHY M.

WILLIAMSON, 84, of Fort Walton Beach, a Carroll County native, died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Sunday, Almon Funeral Home. HERSCHEL WOOD, 60, of Whitesburg died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Whitley-Garner at Rosehaven. WILLIAM MILLWOOD, 69, of Canton died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. today, Sosebee Funeral Home. KENNETH COLVIN 15, of Jonesboro died March 28.

Funeral, noon Saturday, Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church; Knox Funeral Home. JAMES H. POGUE, 57, of Jonesboro died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. today, Ford-Stewart Funeral Home.

CHARLES DUANE BURGESS 45, of Mableton died Wednesday. The body was cremated. Memorial service, 1 p.m. April 12, Leland United Methodist Church; Cremation Society of Georgia. RICHARD PIERCE GAUT, 51, of Kennesaw died Tuesday.

Funeral, 7 p.m. today, Mayes Ward- Dobbins Funeral Home. JOHNNIE KELLY, 64, of Powder Springs died Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Davis- Struempf Funeral Home.

JOHN ELLIOTT MOORE 62, of Smyrna died Thursday. The body was donated to John Hopkins University. Memorial service, 2 p.m. Sunday, Faith Presbyterian Church, Leakesville, Georgia Memorial Park Funeral Home-Winkenhofer Chapel. ELIZABETH WALTERS WALTON, 75, of Marietta died Sunday.

The body was cremated. Memorial service, 11 a.m. April 26, Holy Episcopal Church; H.M. Patterson Son, Canton Hill. MAE SUSIE TAYLOR, 90, of Douglasville died Sunday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Old Mountain Top Baptist Church, Winston; Simpson Daughters Mortuary. BERTRAM A. JORDAN 65, of Fayetteville died Monday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

today, Carl J. Mowell and Son Funeral Home, Fayetteville. RODNEY BRUCE MILLER, 36, of Peachtree City died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. today, First United Methodist Church; Carl J.

Mowell and Son Funeral Home, Peachtree City. JUDITH C. IMBESI, 72, of Gainesville died Wednesday. The body was cremated. Memorial service plans will be announced by L.W.

McDonald Son Funeral Home. OLLIE M. MITCHELL, 75, of Cumming died Wednesday. Funeral plans in Knoxville will be announced; L.W. McDonald Son Funeral Home.

MICHAEL MARSH, 49, of East Point died Aug. 17. The body was cremated. No service is planned; Cremation Society of the South. MANIBHAI PATEL, 81, of College Park died Monday.

Funeral, 4 p.m. Saturday, Wages Sons Funeral Home, Stone Mountain. BRUCE BARTLEY WALRATH, 68, of Lake Havasu City, formerly of Roswell, died Wednesday. Funeral plans will be announced by Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home, Lake Havasu City. WILLIE DAILEY, 35, of Norcross died Saturday.

Funeral plans will be announced by Warbington Mortuary. JENNINGS DUNAGAN, 77, of Lawrenceville died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Tom. M.

Wages, Oak Lawn Chapel. GISELA GARCIA, 78, of Norcross died Thursday. Funeral, 1 p.m. Saturday, H.M. Patterson Son, Oglethorpe Hill.

JESSIE L. HUTCHINS, 84, of Dacula died Tuesday. Funeral, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Christ the King Church; Warbington Mortuary. DARRELL FRANKLIN COWAN, 49, of Locust Grove died Thursday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, New Hope United Methodist Church; Haisten Funeral Home. ALVIN D. JOHNSON, 90, of Covington died Wednesday. Funeral, 4 p.m.

Saturday, Caldwell Cowan. BEATRICE SINGLETON RENFROE, 72, of Dallas died Thursday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Clark Funeral Home. VINCENT JOSEPH TRAKNEY, 80, of Conyers died Wednesday.

The body was cremated. Memorial service plans will be announced; Cremation Society of the South. LINDA L. ARNN, 58, of Cleveland died Sunday. The body was cremated.

Memorial service, 3:30 p.m. today, Crowell Brothers Peachtree Chapel Funeral Home. IONA H. BEVERLY, 102, of Greensboro died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m.

Saturday, Springfield Baptist Church; Norrington Funeral Home. DAVID ELLIS CARTER 75, of Blairsville died Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Coosa United Methodist Church; Cochran Funeral Home. MICHAEL HOMER CRAVEY, 48, of Lavonia died Wednesday.

Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Bethany Baptist Church; Strickland Funeral Home. DEWEY EUGENE FORTENBERRY, 64, of Emerson, formerly of Acworth, died Wednesday. A private service is planned; Roy Davis Funeral Home. STEVEN BRUCE GOURLEY, 43, of Demorest died Wednesday.

A private service is planned; Church and Son Funeral Home. ELIZABETH B. HALL, 89, of Clarkesville died Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Tom M.

Wages, Snellville Chapel. JENNIFER MARIE KIMBROUGH, 40, of Greensboro died Tuesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Macedonia Baptist Church; Watts Funeral Home, Union Point. JANICE SKELTON KNIGHT, 57, of Demorest died Wednesday.

Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Hillside Memorial Chapel, Clarkesville. ALBERTUS CORNELIUS MEIJERINK, 59, of Union Point died Wednesday. The body was cremated. Memorial service, 8 p.m.

today, McCommons Funeral Home. MARY FRED MILLER, 63, of Athens died Thursday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Bridges Funeral Home. BRANDON E.

MOORE, 20, of Clarkesville died Wednesday. Funeral, 1 p.m. today, Clarkesville Baptist Church; Whitfield Funeral Home, North Chapel, Demorest. THEODORE RIEGEL, 68, of Athens died Thursday. The body was cremated.

Memorial service plans will be announced; Cremation Society of the South. MARTHA REYNOLDS, 69, of Monroe died Wednesday. Funeral, 2 p.m. Saturday, Friendship Baptist Church; Meadows Funeral Home. MARY ANN ROBINSON, 64, of Tallapoosa died Wednesday.

Funeral, 4 p.m. today, Baptist Tabernacle Church; Memorial Chapel. TONEY DALE TAYLOR, 62, of Bremen died Wednesday. Funeral, 11 a.m. Saturday, Hightower Funeral Home.

OBITUARIES By ROCHELLE CARTER Lovejoy High School students donated their lunch money to bury a classmate who died last week from injuries sustained in an accident before school. Lovejoy students chipped in more than $2,500 to pay toward Kenneth funeral. Kenneth, 15, a freshman, died last Friday, four days after he was injured in a collision between a car and a school bus. Total contributions which include money from teachers, nearby schools, parents, businesses and $300 from a Missouri woman hit $5,901.23 Thursday as word spread of the need, English teacher Camille Barbee Olmstead said. Also killed in the accident were 10th-graders Darren Michael Brooks, 16, the driver, and Justin Phillips, 15.

The fund-raiser started Tuesday. School officials learned family have the $3,000 needed to bury him, Olmstead said, so the student council asked everyone to give at least one dollar. The student body has set a new goal to pay for and funerals as well. Any additional money will go toward medical expenses, Olmstead said. funeral is scheduled for noon Saturday at Knox Funeral Home, 2357 Bankhead Highway, Atlanta.

Contributions can be mailed to Lovejoy High, 1587 McDonough Road, Lovejoy, GA, 30250. Lovejoy students raise funds to bury classmate Michael Wayne, film producer Michael Wayne, 68, of Burbank, oldest son of actor John Wayne who helped produce several of his films, died Wednesday of complications from lupus, an immune system disease. He was the head of Wayne Enterprises, which owns many of his films. Distributing the movies and merchandising his image occupied much of his time, along with real estate and other investments. John Wayne died of lung cancer in 1979.

Associated Press Center to appeal zoning denial ASSOCIATED PRESS Hamilton The proposed World Center will appeal the Harris County Commission vote to deny rezoning for the center. Donald H. Whitney, who wants to develop the site to serve homeless, orphaned or abused children, said Wednesday that the Superior Court appeal will reserve the rights while other options are considered. The center has proposed building a $250 million multiple-use community on the 541-acre site and 372 acres nearby that it has an option to buy. The commission voted 3-2 on March 4 to deny rezoning the larger tract from to planned commercial development.

final decision regarding the location of the World Center will be based on many things, including what is in the best interest of the Whitney said. Whitney said there is interest in four communities, including one that is still within Harris County. organizations committed to peace through nonviolence. King family members will lay a wreath at crypt. Lowery said he was on a train returning from a meeting in Nashville when King was actually shot.

He was met at the Birmingham train station with the bad news. wife and children met me at the station. She had this terrible, sad, lost and bewildered look on her face, so I knew something bad had said Lowery. she told me what happened, I was stunned and driven to a deep, dark For those closest to King his family today marks the personal acknowledgment of one of the darkest periods in American history. Martin Luther King III, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, recalls the chaos when he and his siblings heard on television that their father had been shot.

ran back to our mother, but she have much information at the King said. About an hour later, they all knew. Martin Luther King Jr. was dead. was probably the saddest day of my said King.

the most Leading the organization his father founded, King said he was too busy spreading his message to mourn today. He said he recall the last time he actually cried on the anniversary of the death. try to find the positive and not focus on the negative. I try to look at where we are in this country and try to apply the King said. can inundate and cause you to lose King: Dark day recalled Continued from C1 EVENTS HONORING KING King Anniversary events include: This morning, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference will launch its Peace With Justice Council, a forum of organizations that are committed to peace through nonviolence.

King III said the mission is to peace with justice in the affairs of humanity in America and in U.S. foreign policy in every region of the Music mogul Russell Simmons, Oscar nominee Queen Latifah and former Rep. Walter Fauntroy are among those scheduled to appear with King for the 10 a.m. announcement at Ebenezer. King family members will also lay a wreath at crypt.

At Morehouse College, where King attended undergraduate school, the college will host a 7 p.m. interfaith assembly and peace prayer tonight to mark the anniversary. On Saturday, the Rev. Joseph Lowery will speak at the King Historic Third Annual Day of Remembrance, at 2 p.m. at Ebenezer.

Later Saturday, the Georgia Peace Coalition will conduct a solemn march from the Carter Center through the adjacent Virginia-Highland neighborhood to Howell Park for a candlelight peace vigil. Marchers will gather at 5 p.m. in the Carter Circle of Flags and will wear black armbands and carry symbolic coffins as a memorial to those killed in Iraq. for 21st. While such national rankings have their critics, they are often used by schools to help market their programs to students, businesses and potential faculty.

Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough said proud of the consistent high ratings in its College of Engineering. Seven of the 11 engineering programs ranked in the Top 10, with industrial and systems engineering ranked No. 1 for the 12th year in a row. are not the be-all, end-all of higher Clough said, the gains made across the board show that Georgia Tech is maintaining our engineering excellence while improving in areas for which less well While engineering program received high marks, its business school dropped 12 spots and off the Top 50 list for the first time in recent years. Terry College of Business also slipped, dropping eight slots to tie for 42nd place.

Terry dean, P. George Benson, said the deep job cuts translated into difficult times for graduates, which affected the ratings. sour economy in the state of Georgia made it a tougher job market for our he said. Meanwhile, Georgia State part-time MBA program in the Robinson School of Business was ranked 5th in the nation this year, maintaining its rank for the third year in a row. part-time programs continuing to grow in prominence and market share, this ranking takes on greater significance year after said Georgia business school Dean Sidney Harris.

Business 1. Harvard University 2. (tie) Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania 4. (tie) Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Northwestern University 21. (tie) Emory University; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 42.

(tie) University of Georgia; Tulane University; University of Maryland Engineering 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Stanford University 3. University of California-Berkeley 4. University of Illinois- 5.

Georgia Tech Law 1. Yale University 2. Stanford University 3. Harvard University 4. Columbia University 5.

New York University 27. Emory University 31. (tie) University of Georgia; Brigham Young University; Fordham University; University of California-Davis Medicine (Research) 1. Harvard University 2. (tie) Johns Hopkins University; Washington University in St.

Louis 4. (tie) Duke University; University of Pennsylvania 19. Emory University Education 1. Harvard University 2. Stanford University 3.

University of California-Los Angeles 4. (tie) Teachers College, Columbia University; Vanderbilt University 27. (tie) University of Georgia; University of Florida; University of Washington Source: U.S. News World Report TOP SCHOOLS CURTIS COMPTON Staff Emory high rankings in a recent survey is reflective of many of the graduate schools. Rankings: grad schools among best Continued from C1 The staff was terminated because at least two of the grants have expired and it has no money to pay the workers.

Cox said the city is trying to determine how the workers were paid between the time the federal funding ran out and the actual layoffs. City officials also want to know whether other grant money was improperly used to pay the workers. Cox said an improved agency will emerge when the reorganization is complete. acknowledge an ongoing audit and Cox said. the city remains committed to providing this most worthwhile service to the residents of Atlanta in a manner that is in compliance with federal and state The Workforce Devel- opment Agency offers programs that teach job skills to the less fortunate residents.

The program is managed by an executive director with oversight by a board of trustees. The predecessor was the Private Industry Council, a program that also fell victim to corruption and mismanagement. Federal auditors found questionable dealings and contracting at the council and ordered $543,000 to be repaid. Council employees also alleged staff was used to campaign for then-Mayor Bill Campbell. Complaints about the Workforce Development Agency began late last year when board members met with Franklin.

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