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Obituaries The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Joe Henderson Joseph L. Henderson, 64, of 113 North Acres Road, husband of Cheryl C. Henderson, died Monday, March 9, 2009 at his home. Services will be announced by Harley Funeral Home and Crematory.

Anderson Howland Jr. ABBEVILLE Mr. Anderson Howland Jr. departed this life on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at his home. He was the husband of Hilda V.

Copes Howland. He was born in Abbeville County on Sept. 29, 1934 and was the son of the late Anderson and Etta Lee Howland Sr. He was a retired machine operator in the construction industry, an avid CBer and a member of Shady Grove A.M.E. Church.

Surviving are his wife of the home; a son, Andy Howland of New York; a daughter, Barbara Howland of New York; stepsons Derrick Ogletree of New York and Edward Copes of Charlotte, NC; a sister, Rebecca Ruth Howland Davis of Abbeville; nephews, Darren Howland and Dale (Roberta) Howland; niece, Tashawn Howland; several grandchildren and great Services will be Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 1 p.m. at Shady Grove A.M.E. Church, with Pastor Carroll Wells officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. The body will be placed in the church at noon.

Viewing will be Wednesday from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. at Brown and Walker Funeral Home. The family is at the home. Brown and Walker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Willie Thomas Lomax MOUNT CARMEL Willie Thomas "Crow Pecker" Lomax, 59, of Kathy Heights, Mt. Carmel, SC, died Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Anderson Area Medical Center, Anderson, SC. He was born in McCormick, SC, to Ruth Belcher Lomax and the late Eugene Lomax. He was preceded in death by one brother, Cleveland Lomax and two sisters, Louise Wideman and Effie Page. He was a member of Rockford A.M.E.

Church in Mt. Carmel. Surviving is one son, Tavares O. Jackson of Calhoun Falls, SC; one daughter, Kristi Kennedy of Calhoun Falls, SC; three brothers, William Lomax, James Marshall Lomax, both of Mt. Carmel, SC, and Herman Lomax of New York City, NY; three sisters, Delores Peterson of Abbeville, SC, Ruth Bell and Jennette Kennedy of Calhoun Falls, SC.

I GREENWOOD COUNTY Joe Henderson, 113 North Acres Road, Greenwood Rev. James Peppers, 214 Park Ninety Six I Sarah Shealy, 223 W. Main Ninety Six I ABBEVILLE COUNTY I Anderson Howland Abbeville I MCCORMICK COUNTY Willie Thomas Lomax, Kathy Heights, Mount Carmel I EDGEFIELD COUNTY Louise S. Talbert, 105 Callison Highway, Edgefield I VISITATIONS TODAY LOMAX, Willie Thomas, 1-8, viewing, Abbeville White Mortuary, Abbeville. Rev.

James, 6-8, Harley Funeral Home. Louise, 6-8, 1 Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Plum Branch. I FUNERALS TODAY I LOFTIS, Ralph, 3, Bethlehem ARP Church, Donalds. RHODEN, Nellie, 2, Abney Memorial Baptist Church. WILLOUGHBY, Amy, 11, Solid Rock Community Church, Calhoun Falls.

I OBITUARY POLICIES Short death notices are published at no charge. They consist of name, age, address of deceased, or of, date of death, place of death, home where family members are gathered and funeral home in charge of arrangements. Visitations and services for the current day are included on the Deaths and Funerals list. Obituaries including other information are charged $13 per column inch. Pictures will increase the notice length and be charged accordingly.

All obituaries are handled through the newsroom obituary desk: (864) 223-1811; email, Public vies ing will be Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at the Eugene Brownlee Memorial Chapel at Abbeville White Mortuary Inc. from 1-8 p.m. Services are Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 1 p.m. at Rockford A.M.E. Church in Mt.

Carmel, SC, with Rev. Albert L. Thompson officiating and Pastor Thelma Kelly assisting. The body will be placed in church at noon. Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Online condolences may be sent to charterinternet.com. The family is at the home of his son, Tavares Jackson, 1412 Island Ford Road, Abbeville, SC: Abbeville White Mortuary Inc. is in charge of professional services. Rev. James Peppers NINETY SIX James E.

Peppers, 86, of 214 Park Street, husband of Elizabeth Tate Peppers, died Sunday, March 8, 2009 at his home. Born in Barrow County, GA, he was a son of the late Henry Cleveland Peppers and Estelle Peppers- Peppers. He retired from Greenwood Mills after 29 years and during that time, served as a part time Holiness minister and as an evangelist, serving in a ministry of love to all who requested his services. He was a veteran of World War II. He was preceded in death by two daughters, Carolyn Marie Straessle and Shirley P.

White and a son, Charles Stephen Peppers. Surviving are his wife of the home; a son, Alan Kelley Peppers of Ninety Six; eight grandchildren; 11 -grandchildren; and two great -greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Harley Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Terry Bonds officiating.

Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Mason Peppers, Ricky White, Tim White, Timmy White, Dennis Popella, Riv Temple, Steven Peppers and Chris White. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The family is at the home. Messages may be sent to the family by visiting www.harley.funeralhome.com.

Sarah Shealy NINETY SIX Sarah Coleman Shealy, 89, of 223 West Main Street, Ninety Six, widow of David H. Shealy, died Monday, March 9, 2009 at NHC Health Care Center. Born in Cross Hill, she was a daughter of the late Hoyle and Beatrice Ward Coleman. She retired from Self Memorial Hospital. She was a member of St.

Paul United Methodist Church, holding many offices in the church, including treasurer for 26 years, taught Sunday School and was a member of the Mattie Hazel Circle. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Preston Shealy and her brother, Ernest Coleman. Surviving are three sons, Richard Shealy, Michael Shealy and his wife, Barbara, Christopher Shealy and his wife, Catherine, all of Ninety Six; two sisters, Virginia Jacobs of Clinton and Margaret Pendergast of Charlotte, NC; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m.' Wednesday at St. Paul United Methodist Church, with the Rev.

Philip E. Chandler and the Rev. Larry Smith officiat- Grand Ole Opry member Hank Locklin dies By The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. Country singer Hank Locklin, whose smooth tenor voice on hits like "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" marked a career that spanned half a century, has died. He was 91.

Locklin died Sunday at his home in Brewton, Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt said. She said the cause of death was not being released. Locklin helped usher in "the Nashville Sound" that gave country music a more lush feel. He performed on the Grand Ole Opry for 47 years. "I've been blessed to have hit songs that are timeless and appeal to the generations," he said in 2001.

He recently released his 65th album, "By the Grace of God." His "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" was a hit in 1958 and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" in 1960. "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On," which Locklin wrote, also was recorded later by Johnny Tillotson and Dean Martin. He joined the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1960 and last performed there on Sept. 8, 2007, Schmidt said Locklin spent '19 years recording for RCA Records. His other hits included "Let Me Be the One," "Geisha Girl," "Why, Baby, Why" and "It's a Little More Like Heaven." In 2001, he released his first album in two decades, "Generations in Song." Vince Gill and Dolly Parton joined him on the LP.

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Paul United Methodist Church, along with Ken Bisek, Jimmy Ellison, Clyde Ellison, Melvin Griffin, Bill Montgomery, William Davis and Gene Adams. The family will receive friends in the church parlor on Wednesday from 10 to 11 a.m. The family is at the home. It is respectfully requested that flowers be omitted and memorials be made to St. Paul United Methodist Church, PO Box 66, Ninety Six, SC 29666.

Harley Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements. Messages may be sent to the family by visiting www.harleyfuneralhome.com. Louise S. Talbert EDGEFIELD Mrs. Louise Sibert Talbert, wife of Mr.

Albert Talbert, died at Hospice House of the Piedmont, March 7, 2009. She was born in McCormick, SC, Aug. 18, 1949, a daughter of the late LOUISE Robert Lee S. TALBERT and Essie Bell Talbert Sibert. She was a graduate of Mims High School and was a member of the Mt.

Moriah Baptist Church in Plum Branch, SC. She was a retired employee of the McCormick County School District. Survivors are her husband of the home; three sons, Feltonnous (Cherae) Talbert of McCormick, SC, Lavictor (Shara) Talbert of Indian Trail, NC, and Altavious Talbert of Edgefield, SC; a sister, Minerva Martin of Charlotte, NC; five brothers, Robert Lee Sibert Ben Otis Sibert, James Sibert and Lawerence Sibert, all of McCormick, SC, and Ernest Sibert of Groveland, FL; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be Wednesday at Noon at the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Plum Branch, SC, with the pastor, Rev.

Melvin Gordon, officiating. Assisting is Rev. Williams. The family will receive friends at Mt. Moriah Church on Tuesday evening from 6 p.m.

until 8 p.m. The family is at her. home at 105 Callison Highway in Edgefield County. Services by Walker Funeral Home. INDEX JOURNAL U.S.P.S.

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Good OVUS www.windowworldgreenville.com HISTORIC PAINTING AP PHOTO Professor Stanley Wells, left, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace trust and one of the world's leading experts on Shakespeare studies according to the trust, poses Monday next to a newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, in central The portrait, thought to be almost the only authentic image of the writer made from life, has belonged to one family for centuries but was not recognized as a portrait of Shakespeare until recently. There are very few likenesses of Shakespeare, who died in 1616. Contemporary brush up on Shakespeare? Experts trying to determine authenticity of portrait By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press writer LONDON The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday's unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery. Experts say it is the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime in effect, the sole source of our knowledge of what the great man looked like. But they can't be certain.

In the shifting sands of Shakespeare scholarship, where even the authorship of the plays is sometimes disputed, nothing is written in stone. "We're 90 percent sure that it's Shakespeare," said Paul Edmondson, director of learning at the Shakespeare Learning Trust, which plans to exhibit the portrait in Stratford-on-Avon. Incredibly, the portrait has been in private hands for several centuries but the owners the Cobbe family had no idea the man in the painting was responsible for so many enduring masterpieces, All that changed three years ago, Edmondson said, when one of the Cobbes (he won't the National Portrait Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square to see a traveling exhibit called "Searching for Shakespeare." One of the first things he saw was a famous portrait of the Bard that usually hangs in the renowned Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. "His jaw dropped," Edmondson said. "He realized he had one at home.

And the one he had at home turned out to be the original." Edmondson said the portrait is far superior to the copies made after Shakespeare's death, including the famous 1623 engraving that graces the cover of the First Folio collection of Shakespeare's plays. He said scholars are convinced it is Shakespeare because so many copies of the painting were made, including the one at the Folger, and because the painting was handed down through the generations along with a portrait of the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's main patron. The Cobbe collection curator, Mark Broch, spent three years researching the paint-, ing, and several sophisticated tests, including X-ray exami- nations, tree-ring dating on the wooden frame, and infrared imaging, were made to say which one) walked into determine its age. Our 125th Year Since 1884 Yes, our own cremation facility. It's all right here.

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