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YORK OBSERVER Wednesday, October 9, 1991 'Unsolved Mysteries' reunion on TV tonight Tega Cay resident Duncan didn't know he had a Gilmore, daughter until April, when HOMETOWN his wife watched "Unsolved Mysteries" and told him he had a daughter who was looking for him. Duncan Gilmore contacted the television station and two weeks later he and his estranged daughter, 31-year-old Jeannie Wagener, were reunited. A segment on tonight's "Unsolved Mysteries" on WCNC (channel 36) at 8 will feature the first meeting between Gilmore and his daughter. "I never even knew I had a daughter," Gilmore said. "I met my girlfriend while I was in the service and she became pregnant.

She'd been seeing someone else and she married the other guy. I assumed the baby was his and left before she was born." Wagener found out Gilmore was her real father when she read her mother's diary 10 years ago. "She (Wagener) looked for me for 10 years," Gilmore said. "She hired private investigators and even appeared on a talk show. She never gave up." Gilmore, his wife and three children flew to Houston for the first meeting with Wagener, her husband and two sons.

"It was really kind of strange," said Gilmore. "The television people followed us up to the door. When the door opened everyone was laughing and crying and hugging at the same time and the cameras were rolling right in front of Alice Sherrill York County Party will mark Senior Citizens Appreciation Day ROCK HILL Senior Citizens Appreciation Day will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct.

19 at the York Electric Cooperative building on S.C. 161. The event will feature exhibits, cakewalks, door prizes and blood-pressure checks arranged by Women Involved in Rural Electrification. The day will also include door prizes and magic demonstrations by Lance Freeman, the Senior Citizens Clowns from Fort Mill and professional storyteller Reggie Griggs of Gastonia. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m. For more information, call Joyce Faris at 684-4247 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Briefly A ROCK HILL WOMAN reported items worth $5,859 were stolen from her home Friday, according to a York County Sheriff's Department report.

Electronic equipment, jewelry and guns were stolen. ANOTHER ROCK HILL WOMAN told Rock Hill police that $17,000 in property including baseball cards, jewelry and pennies in piggy banks was stolen during a break-in at her home Thursday. Missing were six sets of baseball cards from 1984 to 1990, valued at $4,800, and jewelry worth $10,000. Lancaster County Lancaster groups set blood drive for next Wednesday LANCASTER An annual blood drive sponsored by the Lancaster District Boy Scouts of America, the Lancaster Telephone Company and Lancaster Cable TV is 1 to 6 p.m. next Wednesday at the Boy Scout Center on Wylie Street in Lancaster.

The goal is to collect 75 units. The bloodmobile is open to the public. Edited by Sherry Chisenhall The York Observer 135 S. Oakland Ave. Rock Hill, S.C.

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Myrtle Beach, Sunny Alken and mild Sunny and mild Charleston Sunny and S.C. mild Forecast The Weather Channel In Clover: Cable channel 27 In Chester: Cable channel 22 1 Thunderstorms 30.17 Showers Low Warm Cold 6 6 Rein BE NE Snow Static 16 6 6 BOR 306 80 High SOURCE: Weather Central Doctor can't reattach torn tongue By PATTY LIMBACHER Staff Writer ROCK HILL A Piedmont Medical Center doctor said Tuesday there was "no way we could reattach" a Columbia woman's tongue that was ripped from her mouth Sunday night. Dr. Robert Lesslie said the entire tongue of Melody Shelton, 28, of 2144 Winndale Dr. in Columbia, was gone.

"It's the worst I've ever seen," Lesslie said. "I can't imagine anyone having this done to Shelton's tongue was ripped out by another woman while they were in the Chester County Jail, Sheriff Bobby Orr said Monday. The woman said she was removing a demon from Shelton's mouth, Orr said. No charges were filed. Shelton was in jail with her three sisters, Donna Doxie, 24, Evette Doxie, 25 and Shawn Doxie, 20, on disorderly conduct and simple assault charges.

A small part of the tongue was brought to Piedmont Medical Center, Lesslie said, but there was "really nothing to do nothing to reconstruct." Shelton was released Monday. Lesslie said its possible her tongue might have been gouged out over several days because there were signs of healing. Lesslie said Shelton's problems will be substantial. "She'll have difficulty talking and eating," he said, and added that he did not know of any process that would create a new tongue for Shelton. Hall On one side, charity; on the other, trouble Continued from page 1Y prison while serving a five term for the shooting.

He was convicted of grand larceny in South Carolina while out of prison, and he was sentenced concurrently with his N.C. escape term. In all, Hall has served about 14 months for Carolinas crimes. "I was young and just determined to have something," Hall said. "I've made a few mistakes, and I've paid for them." Friends, family and neighbors see Hall, known as "Hambug" in his neighborhood, in different lights.

"He was always trying to project a good image," said Antonio Barnes, a Rock Hill hairdresser who has known Hall since grade school and donated to his Kids Care charity. "He had good ideas and good intentions, but he just kind of got trapped or detoured Hall grew up poor in Rock Hill, doing odd jobs at age 10 to help support his mother, Maggie, and his 13 siblings. "He was always out trying to hustle and generate money," said Barnes, who has donated to Hall's projects. He was always doing something to try to survive." His mother saved enough money in 35 years as a hospital worker for all his siblings to live in houses she owns and he manages on Hickory Lane. Hall graduated from Northwestern High in 1974, inspired by the late funeral director Roosevelt Johnson, and guided by an African witch doctor in Rock who dubbed him which became Hambug.

A strong-willed teenager, Hall OBITUARIES Viola Causey Church member ROCK HILL Mrs. Viola Barnes Causey, 81, of 317 A N. Jones Ave. died Oct. 8, 1991, at Piedmont Medical Center.

Funeral is 11 a.m. Thursday at White Street Baptist Church, where she was a member. The Rev. William Shytle will officiate. Burial will be 4 p.m.

Thursday in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Tabor City, N.C. Visitation is 7 to 9 tonight at Greene Funeral Home. A native of Horry County, Mrs. Causey was the widow of James Gordon Causey and the daughter of the late Johnny Mack and Polly Jane Shelly Barnes. Survivors are her daughter, Mrs.

Colene McDonald; brother, Wade Barnes of Baltimore; sisters, Mrs. Blanche Bellamy of Florence, Mrs. Gertrude Rowell of Loris, Mrs. Erlene Cooke of West Palm Beach, Mrs. Jewell Powell of Moncks Corner; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one greatgreat -grandchild.

The family will be at the home of the daughter, Mrs. R.O. McDonald at 212 Lee St. Memorials may be made to the White Street Baptist Church Bus Fund, 605 W. White Street, Rock Hill, S.C.

29730. J. ALLEN Fall ritual Joseph Faulk burns leaves he raked Monday rakings as leaf season begins. Joseph's home in his front yard, the first of what will be many is in Newport. Fort Mill firefighter seeks council seat FORT MILL A Fort Mill firefighter has filed for a seat on the town council.

Republican Ronald Helms, 43, filed Tuesday for the Ward 2 seat held by Democrat David Yarborough, who is seeking reelection. Helms, a Fort Mill native, is a married right out of school, his mother said. He then spent two years in Washington, managing a fast-food restaurant there and attending a Fairfax, management training school known as "Hamburger College." He returned to Rock Hill in 1977, and problems with the law began. After his prison term for escape and grand larceny, Hall said, he wanted to change his reputation. He opened the Crosby Street Superette in 1985, using $500 to renovate a storage house into a crowded, blond-paneled store, trimmed in brown and stocked with gum and candy, chips, packaged foods and soft drinks.

"I was always hung up on having my own business," Hall said from his store. "You don't have to have a lot to be a lot." In 1986, Hall opened a video store on Main Street. When it burned in 1989, he used the insurance settlement to open Trina's, a Wilson Street grocery named for his wife, Katrina Hinton Hall. In September 1988, the Halls founded an informal charity known as Kids Care. Organizing local businessmen and residents, Kids Care helped buy Christmas toys for needy children, treat elderly residents to dinner and pay people's utility bills.

"Kids Care was really to keep people from going through the hardships we have," said Hall. "We try to do things creatively." Hall got security guards and donations for the church after New Hope United Methodist Church was vandalized repeatedly in 1988 and 1989, said its pastor, the Rev. Lee Bines. "He was a tremendous help to us," Bines said. In July this year, a Kids Care held a party for 8-year-old leukemia victim Chyneca Dixon.

It raised only $50 or $60, but her mother was heartened. "It was just the heart and spirit of it," Geraldine Dixon said. "That Roosevelt Johnson Funeral home owner ROCK HILL Mr. Roosevelt Johnson, 55, of 249 Bowser St. died Oct.

5, 1991, at American International Hospital in Zion, Ill. Funeral is 3 p.m. Thursday at Mount Prospect Baptist Church, where he was a member. The Rev. Grady A.

Yeargin will officiate assisted by the Revs. George Jackson B.R. Wilson and Charles Kiser. Burial will be in Barber Memorial Cemetery. Visitation is 6 to 8 tonight at Johnson Funeral Home.

The body will lie in state from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday at Mount Prospect Church. A native of Fort Mill, Mr. Johnson was owner of Johnson Funeral Home and a member of the Trustee Board and Christian Burial Society at his church. He was an A.P.

B. Society member at James Chapel Church, and a member of the Order of the Golden Rule Masonic Lodge No. 102 in Fort Mill, Menzel Shriners, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Sterling Lodge Elks No. 344, Fifth District Funeral Directors of South Carolina, National Funeral Directors Association and The Peep of Day Order of the Eastern Star Chapter No. 144.

Mr. Jonson was a graduate of George Fish High School, Friendship Junior College; Benedict College and the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. He was formerly employed as an assistant manager of the Employment Security Commission in Rock Hill and was past heating and air-conditioning repairman for the Rock Hill school district. He is chairman of the sound committee and is on the maintenance committee at Fort Mill Church of God. He is past head ranger over the Christian Service Brigade.

meant more to me than the cash in it. He's done a lot for the Hall became known around Rock Hill in late 1988, inviting the media and public figures to events. Mayor Betty Jo Rhea went along with six needy children on a Kids Care trip to Tons O'Toys just before Christmas that year. He invited television news crews to cover his March 28, 1989, wedding, where he said he awarded a needy Northwestern student the "Trina Scholarship." Former state Sen. John Hayes and local officials John Douglas, Winston Searles and Bidwell Ivey attended, Hall said.

But in 1989, Hall was in trouble again. A 15-year-old girl he hired at Trina's store accused him of statutory rape. His trial ended in a hung jury; he later pleaded guilty to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature by taking indecent liberties with a minor. Hall was sentenced to house arrest and five years' probation. He closed Trina's; and Kids activities, including the scholarship, dropped during his house arrest, from March 1990 to March of this year, Hall said.

Of the most recent charges distributing cocaine, distributing near a school, conspiracy and violating his probation Hall said police are jealous of his success and trying to "bring him down." "One thing I found out is, the black man's worst enemy is the other black man," he said. If convicted, Hall faces a maximum of 115 years in prison. Hall said he has regrets that he didn't further his education, that he got himself "in little that maybe he is still "a nobody." But he said he plans to continue his work, including a Kids Care trip to the toy store this Christmas. "My life has been really enjoyable," Hall said. "Even the bad days have been all right." owner of Chisholm Johnson Funeral Home.

Survivors were his wife, Sarah Johnson; sons, Roosevelt Johnson Eric Johnson; brothers, Hazel Johnson, Robert Johnson, both of Detroit, Ezra Johnson, Alfonzo Johnson, both of Fort Mill; sisters, Mrs. Estelle Setzler of Pittsburg, Mrs. Corena Newman of Charlotte, Mrs. Azelee Fuller, Ms. Viola Johnson, both of Fort Mill; one grandson.

David White Brick mason ROCK HILL David Allen White, 45, of 212 Doby Rd. died Oct. 5, 1991, at Piedmont Medical Center. Funeral is 2 p.m. today at Clemons Funeral Home, with the Rev.

Mildred Patton officiating, assisted by the Rev. M.N. Baxter. Burial will be in Green Hills Cemetery in Fort Mill. Visitation is noon to 2 p.m.

today at the funeral home. A native of Fort Mill, Mr. White was a brick mason. He was a graduate of George Fish High School and a member of the United AME Zion Church in Fort Mill. Survivors are his daughter, Miss Brittany White of Fort Mill; companion, Ms.

Stephanie Straight of Fort Mill; aunt, Mrs. Hattie Anderson of Fort Mill; uncle, Roosevelt Anderson of Fort Mill. The following obituaries were Incomplete: CHESTER Mrs. Geneva Stokes Jolly, 84, of 163 Harris St. "I've been in Fort Mill 43 years and I just want to give the community something back from what it's given me," Helms said.

He said he wants more communication between the council and organizations in town. Linda Brown Douglas Roy Hall's record Carolinas criminal and prison records show Roy Hall has been convicted and sentenced for these crimes: North Carolina Nov. 5, 1980 Assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury; five years. March 22, 1982 Escape; six months. South Carolina July 21, 1977 Assault; $100 fine or 30 days.

April 18, 1979 Discharging a firearm; $100 fine or 30 days. July 6, 1979 Assault; $25 fine or five days. Nov. 23, 1979 Breach of peace; $50 fine or 15 days. Dec.

5, 1980 Accessory before forgery; two years probation, $310 fine. June 11, 1980 Disorderly conduct; 30 days. Feb. 27, 1982 Grand larceny; two years, served concurrently with N.C. term.

Oct. 4, 1985 Possession of marijuana; $200 fine. Aug. 29, 1989 Assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature by taking indecent liberties with a minor; one year house arrest, five years probation, $1,500 fine and restitution to victim. died Oct.

8, 1991, at the Chester County Hospital. Denton Funeral Home is in charge. ROCK HILL Mrs. Quincy Hardin, of 412 Fewell St. died Oct.

8, 1991, at home. Johnson Funeral Home is in charge. Compiled by Alice Sherrill Other S.C. deaths The following deaths were published in The State, Oct. 8.

1991: Robert Adams, Loretta Barwick, Patricia Brewton, Mary Dale, Berdina Felder, Delphine Morris, Thellie Thompson, Columbia. Carolyn Arnette, Lake View. Wash Barwick, Barnwell. Leo Cook, Michael Hattaway, Fannie McGraw, West Columbia. Frank DePrete James McCant, Collie Nivens, Cheraw.

Harriet Entzminger, Blythewood. Leroy Graham, Ridgeland. Lottie Hewitt, Orangeburg. Esther Jones, Odessa Mason, Williston. Louisa McCullough, Kingstree.

Mattie Noffz, Laurens. Almena Proctor, Greenwood. George Rhodes, Loris. John Rue, Lugoff. Michaels Sires, Summerville.

Margaret Smith, Newberry. Viola Smoak, Walterboro. Rhette Sprouse, Edgefield. Tim Timmons, Aiken. Marle Weathers, Bowman.

Cathrine Weeks, Holly Hill..