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THE NEWS OBSERVER TUESDAY APRIL 14 1998 OBM-RES 4 --) I ttv141- 4 FLOYD CELEY SR RALEIGH Floyd Maxton Celey Sr died Thursday April 9 1998 at Memorial Hospital in Ormond Beach FL A native of Raleigh Mr Celey retired in 1975 as supervisor of Giant Foods Warehouse in Landover MD and with his wife Gwendolyn moved to Port Orange FL Mr Celey attended Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church and was a member of the Senior Center both in Port Orange A funeral mass is scheduled for 10 am Wednesday at the Mitchell Funeral Home Chapel Glenwood Ave location Burial will follow in Raleigh Memorial Park Surviving are his wife of 60 years Gwendolyn Celey sons Floyd Celey Jr of Old Lyme CT Richard Celey of Port Orange FL Larry Celey of Deerfield WI sisters Bessie Douglas of California and Muriel Luck of Burlington NC nine grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 7-9 pm at Mitchell Funeral Home 7209 Glenwood Ave Raleigh Erwin GERALD JOHNSON 75 April 13 At rangements by Skinner Funeral Home Dunn Eureka CHRISTOPHER LEWIS 88 April 13 Arrangements by Shackleford Funeral Service Fremont Fayetteville MARGARETEA BROWN 69 April 12 Arrangements by Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home FRANK THREArrs JR 80 April 13 Arrangements by Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home Goldsboro CHARLES A GRANTHAM 93 Charleston WVa formerly of Goldsboro April 12 Arrangements by Seymour Funeral Home Grantsboro EBER WARREN 94 April 12 Arrangements by Bryant Funeral Home Alliance Greenville MAY BAVERSTOCIC 91 April 13 Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home MEREDITH "RED" CAVENDISH 77 April 13 Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home Hal' sboro STEPHEN DEW 61 April II Arrangements by McKenzie Mortuary Whiteville Hatteras KENNETH WATERFIELD 52 April 13 Arrangements by Twiford's Island Chapel Henderson WILLARD "TOM" EDWARDS 71 April 13 Arrangements by Flowers Funeral Home Louisburg JOAN WALSH 59 April 12 Arrangements by Bright Funeral Home Wake Forest Lucama CORNELIA LAMM 13 April 12 Arrangements by Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Service Wilson Lumberton MAIE HATCHELL 94 April 10 Arrangements by Floyd Mortuary and Crematory Manns Harbor JAMES PLETCHER 80 April 13 Arrangements by Twiford's Colony Chapel Manteo Middlesex JUANITA DAVIS 80 April 13 Arrangements by Joyner's Funeral Home Wilson Morehead City DANEEL "DAN" MELKE 68 April 13 Arrangements by Munden Funeral Home Crematory New Bern HUBERT JERNIGAN 71 April 12 Arrangements by Cotten Funeral Home WAKE COUNTY JEREMIAH BOND 21 Raleigh April 12 Arrangements by Mitchell Mineral Home Glenwood Avenue LEO ENNIS 81 3901 Johnson Pond Road Apex April 12 Arrangements by Apex Mineral Home NErriE LANE 400 Fayetteville St Apt 512 Raleigh April 12 Arrangements by Haywood Mineral Home Inc HAYWOOD LUNSFORD JR 1601 River Knoll Dr Raleigh April 13 Arrangements by Lea Funeral Home BRENDA SANDERS 46 1529 Salem Church Road Apex April 12 Arrangements by Apex Funeral Directors LENA STEVENS 94 4104 Benson Road Garner April 13 Arrangements by Bryan-Lee Funeral Home DURHAM COUNTY CLIFFORD CROSS 75 Durham April 14 Arrangements by Hudson Mineral Home FREDERICK "RICKY" JOHNSON Durham April 10 Arrangements by Ellis Jones Sons Inc MINNIE PETTY 72 2903 Kanewood Drive Durham April 12 Arrangements by Fisher Mineral Home ORANGE COUNTY ELM CRUTCHFIELD 79 2015 Davis Road Hillsborough April 13 Arrangements by Clements Mineral Service JOHNSTON COUNTY THOMAS A BRANTLEY Infant Clayton April 12 Arrangements by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home Millbrook Road Raleigh ARNELL BURTON 69 Selma April 13 Arrangements by Parrish Funeral Home ANNIE GODWIN 83 Selma April 12 Arrangements by Walter Sanders Mineral Home Smithfield FLONN1E PARKER 99 Pine Level April 13 Arrangements by Parrish Mineal Home Selma JAMES PURVIS 65 Kenly April 12 Arrangements by Walter Sanders Mineral Home Smithfield ORAN SHEPHERD 60 497 US 701 South Four Oaks April 13 Arrangements by Minshew Mineral Home JEWELL TEMPLE 84 Four Oaks April 13 Arrangements by Minshew Mineral Home STATE Atlantic Beach RICHARD "DICK" LEWIS 61 April 11 Arrangements by Munden Mineral Home Crematory Beulaville REGINA MERCER 44 April 12 Arrangements by Community Mineral Home Burlington JOHN TYSOR 69 April 12 Arrangements by Rich Thompson Mineral Home Graham Carthage MARY BLACK 74 April 13 Arrangements by Fry-Prickett Mineral Home Coats WINFRED MESSER 69 April 13 Arrangements by Rose Graham Mineral Home Coleruin WOODROW MIZELLE 64 April 12 Arrangements by Walker Mineral Home Windsor Dunn LILLIAN BRACEY 83 April 13 Arrangements by Skinner Mineral Home HARVEY HINSON 94 April 13 Arrangements by Skinner Mineral Home 1---11 IN MEMORY OF LACY ARNOLD NEELY JAN 16 1951 APRIL 14 1981 We your family miss you very much Your only daughter is grown now She is a Registered Nurse married and has a two year old son Even though it has been a long time your memory and love is still with us We will love you always Your Family Mom and Dad Monica Jim and Chuck JEREMIAH BOND RALEIGH Jeremiah Lee Bond 21 died Sunday April 12 1998 A native of Wake Co he was a carpenter A graveside service is scheduled for 11 am Thurs at Raleigh Memorial Park Cemetery Surviving are his mother Holly A Satterwhite grandmother Connie Satterwhite of Raleigh uncles Steven and Paul Satterwhite both of Apex aunts Barbara Burns of Raleigh Connie Gibson of Columbia SC Karen Kerkhoff of Overland Park KS Sherry Aronson of Cleveland OH and ten cousins The family will receive friends from 7-9 pm Wed at Mitchell Funeral Home 7209 Glenwood Ave Raleigh RONNIE PARKER PINE LEVEL Flonnie Strickland Parker 99 died Monday She was preceded in death by her husband Branston Parker and two brothers George Beverly Strickland of Kinston and Percy Strickland of Selma She had been a nurse with the Kennedy Home in Kinston for many years A graveside service will be conducted at 4 pm today in the Crocker Cemetery Surviving are her nephews James Strickland George Beverly Strickland and Johnny Bobby and Brad Crocker Parrish Funeral Home in Selma is assisting the family with service details Whileville LAURA WILSON 88 April 12 Arrangements by McKenzie Mortuary Wilson THOMAS VASSALLO JR 54 April 12 Arrangements by Joyner's Mineral Home DIXIE WOOTEN 86 April 13 Arrangements by Thomas-Yelverton Mineral Service Winterville RA CARDENAS 70 April 13 Arrangements by Farmer Rineral Service Ayden DANIEL CANNON APRIL 14 1988 It seems just yesterday you left us I guess because of our undying love for you Love Betty Pat John Bridget Tonya and Trina ARNELL BURTON SELMA Arnell Creech Burton 69 of Highway 96 North died Monday Funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 pm in the Chapel of Parrish Funeral Home in Selma Entombment will be in Selma Memorial Gardens Surviving are her husband Calvin A Burton sons Vann Davis of Tampa Fla and Calvin A Burton Jr of Louisville KY daughters Jill McClure of Birmingham AL Katherine Ennis of Opelika AL Sharon Herndon of Georgia and Peggy Hicks of Jeffersonville IN a brother Cliff Creech of Selma sisters Stella Brown of Clayton Pauline Holmes of Rocky Mount and Retha Jones of Selma 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday night from 7-9 pm Memorial contributions may be made to Creech's Primitive Baptist Church Building Rind ELRA CRUTCHFIELD HILLSBOROUGH Mrs Elra Willett Crutchfield 79 resident of 2015 Davis Rd Hillsborough died Monday morning in her home following declining health She was born in Lee County the daughter of the late Alex and Mary Odom Willett She was the wife of the late Joseph A Crutchfield She was predeceased by a son Johnny Crutchfield Mrs Crutchfield was a homemaker and she attended North Durham Baptist Church Surviving are one daughter Mrs Mary Jo Minnis of Hillsborough one sister Mrs Herman Chop lin of Wake Forest six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren Graveside service will be conducted Wednesday 11 am in Lee Memorial Park in Sanford by Rev Charles Rutt The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 7-8 pm at Clements Funeral Home 148 Churton St in Hillsborough Flowers are acceptable or those wishing may make memorial contributions to North Durham Baptist Church 2510 Landis Dr Durham NC 27705 JAMES ROBERTSON SR JACKSONVILLE FL James William Robertson Sr age 50 died Sat April 12 1998 at his home in Jacksonville FL Graveside service will be Thurs at 11 am at Sunset Gardens He is survived by his wife Mrs Elizabeth Faye Haynes Robertson of the home his parents JW and Juanita Robertson of Southern Pines one daughter and two sons White ItImeral Home is handling arrangements "He built the department" said professor emeritus John Dixon Jr 1 When Sloane came to LINC in 1959 he set out on two equally ambitious tasks: to create Sloane will be a top-notch art memorialized department and Wednesday to build the Ackland's collection To accomplish the first goal he was as selective as possible in his hiring Dixon said "He was very careful to get the best people for positions that opened up" he said For the second Sloane enlisted the help of LINIC's faculty as well as art dealers across the country What set Sloane apart Dixon said was not that he did things differently his tactics were not unusual It was just that he worked so hard to fulfill his vision for the department His pursuits were not limited to THOMAS A BRANTLEY CLAYTON Thomas Alan Brantley infant son of Jeff and Amanda Brantley passed away Easter Sunday April 12 1998 Graveside service will be conducted 2 pm Wednesday April 15 1998 at Raleigh Memorial Park The family will receive friends 7-9 pm Tuesday at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home 1701 Millbrook Rd and following the service at the residence of Tom and Nancy Britt 4140 Kincaid Dr Raleigh NC Surviving are parents Jeffrey and Amanda Brantley sister Brandi Brantley maternal grandfather Tom Britt and step-grandmother Nancy Britt maternal grandmother Valorie Lovingood and step-grandfather Larry Lovingood paternal grandfather Tim Brantley and step-grandmother Ellen Brantley Thomas is predeceased by his paternal grandmother Carolyn Brantley Flowers are accepted but memorial contributions may be made to SIDS 10500 Little Patuxent Pkwy Suite 420 Columbia Maryland 21044 LOUIS A DAVIS APRIL 4 1933 APRIL 9 1998 NORFOLK VA Louis Abraham Davis SSgt Ret of Clayton NC died Thursday April 9 1998 at Sentara Hospital Norfolk Louis was the son of the late Rev Thomas Davis and Ina Mitchell Davis Mineral service will be held 2 pm Tuesday April 14 1998 at Mount Vernon United Church of Christ Lambard St Clayton NC Louis is survived by one sister Ruth Davis Lucas of Four Oaks NC three brothers Wilotha Davis of Norfolk John Davis of Clayton NC William Curtis Davis of Durham NC Visitation will be 1:30 2 pm Tuesday at the church Rmeral at 2 pm with full military rites Arrangments by RL Sanders Funeral Home Smithfield LENA BARBOUR STEVENS MAY 7 1903 APRIL 13 1998 GARNER Lena Barbour Stevens 94 of 4104 Benson Road died Monday at Rex Hospital Mrs Stevens was a native of Wake Co and the wife of the late Robert A Stevens She was a life long member of Mt Zion United Methodist Church Funeral service 11 am Wednesday at Mt Zion United Methodist Church Burial church cemetery Surviving: daughters Doris Ellington and Betty Jean Sorrell both of Raleigh Hazel Lee of Garner and Linda Ingram of Largo FL sons James Stevens of Garner Louis Stevens of Raleigh 12 grandchildren 11 great-grandchildren The family will receive at Mrs Stevens home Tuesday afternoon and evening Services by Bryan-Lee Funeral Home Garner HALEY AUSTIN GARNER Funeral service for Miss Haley Marie Austin will be held 11 am Tuesday Brown-Wynne RIneral Home St Mary's St Burial will follow in Mont lawn Memorial Park the university He actively pushed to raise the profile of the arts across North Carolina often without much recognition within his own department Ft) lda said "So we were working away in our department while he was making all these good things happen to improve the environment not only for our undergraduates but also our graduate students and our faculty and we hardly even knew about it" Fo Ida said Sloane retired in 1978 after nearly 20 years as chairman and director He was born in Pottstown Pa and raised in Pasadena Calif He received his bachelor's and master's in fine arts and doctoral degrees from Princeton University Before coming to UNC he taught at Princeton and Rutgers universities and at Bryn Mawr College where he was the chairman of the arts department from 1939 to 1951 Sloane achieved the rank of lieutenant commander in the US Navy serving in the Pacific during World War He married Marjorie Merrill now deceased in 1934 The couple had CLIFFORD CROSS DURHAM Clifford Lee Cross 75 of 5721 US 70 Durham Orange County died Sunday April 12 1998 in the Duke Medical Center after a brief illness Mr Cross was a native of Durham and had lived here all of his life He was the son of the late Dun i Bennett (Buck) and Laura Honeycutt Cross and the widower of the late Eleanor Ruth Reams Cross He was retired after 35 years with the Beatrice Foods formerly Durham Dairy Surviving are one son Jerry Cross of Zebulon one brother James Cross of Surf City one sister Liberty Overman of Durham two grandchildren Katherine Cross and Suzanne Bingham and three great-grandchildren Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 pm in the Hudson Funeral Chapel Rev Cecil Coates will officiate Burial will be in the Oak Grove Memorial Gardens Visitation will be tonight 7-9 pm at the Hudson Flineral Home MEREDITH "Red" CAVENDISH GREENVILLE Mr Meredith Eugene "Red" Cavendish 77 died Monday April 13 1998 The funeral service will be conducted Wednesday at 3:30 pm in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery Mr Cavendish a native of Msted West Virginia served as Sergeant Major in the US Marines during World War II from 1939 until 1945 He attended East Carolina University was a graduate of the University of Richmond and received his law degree from Wake Forest Law School For a time he was a special agent with the FBI in Chicago Illinois He practiced law in Greenville from 1951 to 1983 and was a member of the firm of James Hite Cavendish and Blount He was a member of the NC State Bar and the Pitt County Bar Association Mr Cavendish was a lifetime member of the American Legion was the first president of the Greenville Optimist Club and was president of the Greenville Little League in 1958 Surviving: wife Lou Joyner Cavendish son and daughter-in-law Michael Eugene and Kay Cavendish of Laurinburg daughter and son-in-law Pat Cavendish and John Conway III of Greenville brother Gerald Cavendish of Tampa FL sisters Marjorie Blankenship of Tampa FL Alma McVey of Oak Hill of WVA three grandchildren Betsy Cavendish Sheppard Lauren Elizabeth Conway John Allen Conway IV one great-granddaughter Emily Sheppard The family will receive friends from 7-9 pm today at the funeral home Memorial contributions may be made to the First Christian Church 520 Greenville Blvd SE Greenville NC 27858 or to the Greenville Little League 564 Circle Drive Greenville NC 27858 More deaths page 7B two daughters: Janet now of Dorchester Mass and Peggy now of New York City The Joseph Curtis Sloane Library at the Hanes Art Center at UNC a collection of 79000 volumes of books exhibition catalogs serials CD-ROMs videocassettes and microforms on the art of all periods from prehistoric times to the present is named in his honor He received The North Carolina Award in 1977 UNC honored him with the Jefferson Award and an Alumni Distinguished Professorship of Art He served as chairman of the board of the North Carolina Museum of Art In 1994 Sloane also received an honorary doctor of letters degree from UNC reflecting his continued interest in art history "Joe was an extraordinary scholar" Po Ida said "He sacrificed so much of his iacademici career to doing all these wonderful things to make the university stronger in terms of the arts" Julia Corbin can be reached at 836-2882 or icorbinnandocom Pikeville HAZEL EDGERTON 67 April 13 Arrangements by Shackleford Funeral Service Fremont Pinehurst JOHN CRAFT 83 April 12 Arrangements by Boles Funeral Home Crematory Pittshoro TIMOTHY A SHOTTS 43 April 10 Arrangements by Griffin Funeral Home Salemburg LINDA CrOODRICH 52 April 13 Arrangements by Crump lerHoneycutt Company Clinton Sanford INEZ JACKSON 72 April 12 Arrangements by Rogers-Pickard Rtneral Home BETTY RICE 74 April 12 Arrangements by Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home CHLOE SPAINHOUR 64 April 11 Arrangements by Miller Funeral Home Spring Lake CHARLES A CREECH 61 April 13 Arrangements by Rose Graham Funeral Home Benson Tarboro MARY WEEKS 88 April 13 Arrangements by Carlisle Funeral Home Joseph Curtis Sloane 89 art historian emeritus Elizabeth City ROBERT MILLINER 78 April 13 Arrangements by'Rviford Memorial Chapel VIRGINIA DAUGHER'rY 95 April 12 Arrangements by Twiford Memorial Chapel Enfield THOMAS "TOMMIE" WILLIAMS 81 April 11 Arrangements by Branch Funeral Home friends BY JULIA CORBIN STAFF WRITER CHAPEL HILL Jaroslav Fo lda first met Dr Joseph Curtis Sloane in DO when Fo Ida interviewed for a professorship at the University of North Carolina Like any other young man before a job interview Folda expected the chairman of UNC's department of art to quiz him about the qualities he could bring to the department Instead Sloane spent his time selling Folda on his dream for the department "He had a very ambitious agenda and he had this fervor of wanting me to join the department and be part of this new venture that he was trying to organize" Folda said Sloane 89 professor emeritus of art history at UNC-CH died Friday at Carol Wood Retirement Community A memorial service will be held at 3 pm Wednesday at Carol Wood Colleagues recalled the former chairman of the art department and the founding director of the Ackland Art Museum as an art historian with a passion for promoting the arts When you need them the 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