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NEW CASTLE NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1971 They had a dream Red Cross dinner speaker is named William Strawbridge William L. Strawbridge, 66, of Frederick Montgomery Frederick (Fred) Montgomery, 90, of Kent, Oliio, formerly of Civic leader Dr. Gillespie is dead at 78 lit ii. fairtield Ave. died Mrs.

Marie McNicholas Mrs. Marie Mvrtle McNicholas, 82, of Old 'Butler Road, died at 8 a.m. yesterday at home. She was born in Clpvplanri Oct Francis Lowellville RD 2, Lawrence a.m. today in St Hospital after an illness.

extended County, died at 5:45 a.m. today alter a stroKe on Wednesday. He was born in Bvrndale. He was born on Aug. 1, Dr.

James A. Gillespie, 78, of 9, 1888, to the late Michael and 425 E. Lutton a civic leader Elizabeth Young Mumbaugh. and practicing dentist in New She was married to John Aug. 3, 1904, to the late John and Mercer to the late Cyrus F.

and Sarah Mountey Strawbridge. He Jennie Boston Montgomery. He was the president and owner of was a retired farmer of the Precision Metal Products Co. Mahoning Township. The annual dinner and awards meeting of Lawrence County Chapter of the American Red Cross will have Truman Solverud of Alexandria.

manager of the Eastern Area of the American Red Cross, as the evening speaker. The dinner and awards presentations will be in Fellowship Hall. First McNicholas, who died Feb. 18, Truman Solverud in Ellwood City for the past 25 Mr. Montgomery was ft Castle for 40 years, died at 12:40 p.m.

yesterday in the Lawrence County Home after an illness of the past eight years. Dr. Gillespie was a leader in the black community and had member of Mahoning Presbyterian Church, I Jefferson and Falls streets. has served the Midwestern Area Office as assistant director of 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.

It will be the Military and Naval Welfare unurcn. He was married to the former Stella Cowden on Sept. 12, 1901, and she died on March 22, 1965. He is survived by a son, Lloyd A. of Kent, where he made his home since 1965; a brother, Samuel, of Oakmont, and two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Friends will be received at the Cunningham Funeral Home Lowellville Chapel from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. The service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday at the Lowellville Chapel by the Rev. Robert ajro annual meeting ot me Service in Veterans county chapter.

Administration offices and at Solverud has been a member armv posts arid was a regional of the Red Cross staff since 1936 director in Texas and New and between 1955 and 1958 was Mexico. He served American director of operations in the Far Red Cross offices in Texas, New Eastern Area, responsible for Mexico and Florida before going services to American military t0 tne paT st Gillespie personnel ano tneir dependents Prior l0 hjs joining the Red in Japan, Korea, the Philippines CYoss Staff. Solverud was a arfu Okinawa. In a farewell raipwnrkpr anH atcictant 1951. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs.

Stephen tDorothy Mildred) DeMasi of New Castle and Mrs. Alex (Marjorie Miles of Belvedere, 111; three sons, Ernest Homer C. and LeRoy 0.. all of New Castle; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Diamond of New Castle and Mrs.

Pearl Bollenbacher of Willoughbye, Ohio: and 12 grandchildren, 21 greatgrandchildren and a great-great grandchild. She was preceded in death by a son, Herbert in 1963, and two brothers and three sisters. Friends will be received at the Howard H. Reynolds Funeral Service, 909 Adams from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 tc 9 p.m.

tomorrow. A service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home by James A. Nealis. minister of Shenango Christian Church.

Burial will be in Oak Park Cemetery. W. Loren (Bud) Fowler William Loren (Bud) Fowler, 64, of 346 E. Washington St. died at 3:50 p.m.

yesterday in the Jameson Memorial Hospital after an illness. years. Mr. Strawbridge was a member of St. Camillus Church, Council 512 Knights of Columbus of New Castle and the BPOE Elks Lodge of St.

Marys, Pa. He is survived by his wife, the former Marian Edgeworth, whom he married Oct. 26, 1926; a son. William L. of Ellwood City; two daughters, Mrs.

Margaret Brindle of New Castle and Mrs. John Mary Lou) Crowe of Chatham, N.J.; a sister, Miss Nellie Strawbridge of Williamsport, two brothers, John W. of Williamsport and Ralph B. of Port Washington, Long Island. N.Y.; and eight grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two brothers. Friends will be received at the John A. Meehan Jr. Funeral Home, Highland and Lincoln avenues, from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

on Monday. The funeral Mass will be sung at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Camillus Church by the Rev. Robert J.

McBride. Burial will follow the Mass. before he returned to the United director of public welfare in Cass States, he was made an honorary County. N.D. He is a graduate of St.

Olaf College at Northfield. vice president of the Japanese Red Cross with the Award of Merit at a presentation by Minn, and the School of Social served as a past president of the State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 30 years. He formerly served on the boards of the Local Boy Scouts of American Council, the American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, the YMCA and was a vice chairman of the Lawrence County Redevelopment Authority before his illness. He was born in Bennettsville, S.C., June 5, 1893, to the late Service Administration of the Princess Chichibu'-for service to University of Chicago. He member of the Japan-America particularly in the field of disaster relief." He holds the Korean Red Cross Society of Washington, D.C.

and the Rotary Club of Alexandria. FnllnwintJ thp nrfrirMs thn By REASONS and PATRICK Austin Dabney was one of many black patriots who fought gallantly against the British during the Revolutionary War. Frederick of Mahoning UP Church. Burial will be in Mahoning UP Church Cemetery. Mrs.

Boies service A service for Mrs. Nellie Foster Boies, 81, of 914 Lorraine who died Thursday in the Jameson Memorial Hospital after an illness, will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Joseph W. Ligo Funeral Home in Slippery Rock. The Rev.

Jack Chisholm of the Covenant U.P. Church will conduct the service in the funeral home and burial will follow in Society's silver medal for his role annual election of lhe boari Qf and the part he played in the directors and recognition of organization of the society. He volunteers will be held. Alice Reese i But Dabney 's service ended prematurely when he was George Gillespie. He graduated from Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., and taught science in Selma University, Selma, prior to He was born in New Castle State checks mine discharge north of city I to serVe in France.

Following Ju 19f to the late Samuel j0hr, (Jake) Ross Sr. struck in the thigh by a nflebalrat the Battle of Kettle Creek, Ga. and was crippled for life. 5 Near death, Dabney was taken in by a white farmer i named Harris who nursed him back to health. Dabney never forgot that act of humanity.

After the war. Dabney became a respected citizen of Georgia and a generous benefactor to his white friend. i He put Harris' eldest son through law school and wept tears of joy when he passed the bar. JAMESON MEMORIAL To Mr. and Mrs.

Wesley R. Stoner of 313 Arthur a daughter. May 7. Mrs. Stoner is world War 1.

he en ered Howard John (Jake) M. Ross 67, of. University in Washington, D.C., A bulldozer being utilized for the former Willa Kathleen construction work by the New P'tzer. castle Duntile Co. for the Frazier to study dentistry, and following graduation he practiced in New Castle with offices on W.

Washington St. He was retired from the Pennsylvania Engineering Corp. Mr. Fowler was a member of First Christian Church, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Aerie 455 Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is survived by a son.

lo Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. develoDers broke into an When he died, Dabney left his estate including land E. Washington abandoned coc-1 deeD mine Fondozzi of a son, Ma hp was Pivpn for his; militarv servirp tr thp Harrk uiuesyie wdj a hiciiiitci ui 7.

Mrs. Fondozzi producing a slightly acid mine Church, Prince is the former Barbara Brown. family Hall Lodge and AM, the IBPOE of W. in New Castle and An account of Dabneyfs life is contained in the papers Plain Grove UP Church Cemetery. Mrs.

Boies was born in Plain Grove Township on Feb. 25, 1890 to the late Manville and Emma Caldwell Foster. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Sharon. Her husband. Dale Boies, died May 24.1952.

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Stella McCleary of Los Angeles, a brother, Ray Foster of Slippery Rock RD; and a number of nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at the funeral home in Slippery Rock from 2:30 to 4:30 and from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Za relict correction of Georgia Gov.

George Rockingham Gilmer, who called the Grand Lodges, Phi Delta Mu Dabney a "good soldier" with a record of and Omicron Kappa Upsilon 416 Bartram Ave. was dead on' arrival at the Jameson Memorial Hospital at 2:15 p.m. yesterday, apparently of a heart attack after a short illness. He was born in New Castle June 2, 1903, to the late Domenick and Yolanda Varati Ross. He was a retired riveter of the Pennsylvania Engineering Corp.

Mr. Ross was a member of St. Vitus Church and Aerie 455, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is survived by his wife, the former Marie Harding whom he married March 26, 1926: three sons. John M.

Eugene and James, all of New Castle; three sisters, Mrs. Louis (Susie) fraternities, the Lawreni ST. FRANCIS To Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Yanelli of 418 Hawthorne a son, May 7.

Mrs. Yanelli is the former Maria Santuso. To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hamed oE 315 Savannah Road, a daughter, May 7.

Mrs. Hamed is the former Judith Cwynar. military service. According to Gilmer, Dabney lived with a Georgia farmer by the name of Aycock and served in the war in Aycock's place. He was given his last name of Dabney by Samuel, of New Castle; four daughters Miss Debra at home, Mrs.

Charles (Karen) Marguriet of Lawton, Mrs. Julius (Elaine) Hughes of Utah. Mrs. Jon (Jane) Lepisto of New Castle and a step-daughter. Mrs.

Darrell Wimer of Polk, two sisters, Mrs. Charles (Grace) Fleming in California and Mrs. John E. (Ann) Melvin of New Castle; and five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by County and American dental societies and the National Dental Society.

He was married first to the former Elzora Burwell. who died drainage discharge. The incident took place near Coaltown between Pa. 18 and the Mercer Road just north of the city. Investigations conducted by the Department of Environmental Resources showed an estimated 500 gallons of mine water per minute having a pH factor of 5.6 and iron content of five parts per million was being released into a Shenango River tributary.

Department regional engineer Wayne C. Bellaman said the pollution has not affected the city's water supply. the captain in whose company he served at the outset of the war. Dabney acquired land in Madison County. after the war and took Harris and his family to live with him.

'He labored for Harris and his family more faithfully than any slave could have been made to do," Gilmer wrote. in 1959, and he later married the former Corinne G. Garside, who survives him. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Alice L.

Vaughn of Trenton, N.J.; a son, James B. of Washington T) C. a sistpr three brothers. DeRobbio, Mrs. Rocco (Helen) MS Hope Chest support asked The next month will be known as Multiple Sclerosis Month as proclaimed by Mayor Carl A.

Cialella Jr. He has asked citizens to Friends will be received at the MRnpinn Mrs Donnfrio RD. Cunningham North Side aU of New Castle; and a Funeral Home, 2429 Wilmington grandchild. Dabney was granted a military pension, and in 1821 the Vermeil Gillespie of New York re-inspection ot the site i Georgia Legislature awarded him 12 acres of land in City and seven grandchildren. Vincenzo Zarella, 100, of Hillsville, who died yesterday, is-survived by four sons, Anthony and Peter of New Castle, Albert of Edinburg and Felix of Hillsville.

Felix was omitted in the account of the death yesterday. He was preceded in death by two sons, Louis and and a daughter, Mrs. Rose Storti. in addition to his brother Domenick who was listed yesterday. He was preceded in death by He was preceded in death by two sons, Domenick and David; a brother, Anthony (Perch): and three sisters, Mrs.

Rose Benincase, Mrs. Mary Sheldone and Mrs. Clara Paolise. support the MS Hope Chest scheduled for next week. Should Campaign.

the problem not be taken care of Cialella has proclaimed next" by that time, legal action will be week as National Police Week in taken against the company and Newcastle. developers, Bellaman said. 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. A service will be conducted at 1:30 p.m.

Monday at the funeral home by Bruce Cooley, Minister of First Christian Church. Burial will be in Oak Park Cemetery. Walton County, near Oglethorpe. When he moved there, Dabney again took Harris and his family along. According to Gilmer, Dabney "continued to labor for them and appropriated whatever he made for their support, except what was necessary for his coarse two brothers and two sisters.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Second Baptist Church. Harbor St. and Bell by the Rev. Emmett Burns.

The body will lie in state in the Second Baptist Church on Tuesday and the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. IWATCHES Friends will be received at the Edward A. DeCarbo Funeral Home. S. Mill and E.

Lutton streets, from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. The funeral mass will be sung at 9 a.m. on Monday at the St.

Vitus Church by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Fabbri.

The procession will leave the funeral home at 8:30 a.m. for the church. Burial will be in St. Vitus Cemetery. clothing and food.

'The eldest son of his benefactor he sent to Franklin College and afterwards supported him whilst he studied 1 law. "When Harris was undergoing his examination, Austin Ii; was standing outside the bar, exhibiting great anxiety, and when his young protege was sworn in. he burst into a flood of tears. Dabney had many white friends, such friendships George Kurtesch Sr. George Kuttesch 81.

of 419 Waldo St. died at 7:30 p.m. yesterday at home. He was born in Transylvania March 5, 1889, to the late Martin and Sara Alischer Kuttesch. He was a former owner of a meat market at 1213 S.

Mill St. and then employed as an inspector by the Universal Rundle Corp. Burial will follow the service in Oak Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by the J. G.

Crunkleton Funeral Home, 245 W. Grant St. 'barefoot' in your wonderful walking Mrs. Judith Thomas Everything for your LAWN and GARDEN is at Weingartner's Garden Corner Wilmington Road at Maitland Lane Choose From Such Famous Names As: Omega Girard Perregaux Hamilton Tissot Wyler Buiova Priced from ro USE OUR CONVENIENT toyoway Plan! Jesse N. KERR 5-7 N.

Mill Sr. Phone 654-6121 Followine his retirement he was Mrs. Judith Thomas, Hickory, died Friday at employed by the Cash and Carry Frank D'AugosHne wasnington Hospital in Washington, Pa. were overshadowed by racial prejudice, occasionally with humorous overtones. Once, while traveling to Savannah with a white neighbor, Col.

Wyley Pope, Dabney reined in his horse at ig the outskirts of the town after Pope suggested it wouldn't be proper for them to be seen riding together, He later regretted his remark as Dabney approached the house of Gen. James Jackson, then governor of Georgia. SILVERMAN'S 1 10 c. Washington St. She was born Oct.

29, 1946, at Monongahela. to Lillian and the late Wilbert Shevel. Mrs. Thomas was a graduate of Elizabeth-Forward High School lSJM and Lalitomia State "Upon looking back. Pope saw the governor run out ol College in 1967.

She received a Services were held privately on Friday at the William F. DeCarbo Funeral Home, 926 Cunningham for infant Frank D'Augostine, 1 day of 413 Laurel who died at 3 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis Hospital where he was born earlier. Burial followed the service in St.

Vitus Cemetery. The baby was born May 5 in St. Francis Hospital to Frank and Rose Marie Firmi D'Augostine. who survive him. also a sister.

Renee at home; paternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Marion D'Augostine. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and the Eintracht Singing Society.

He is survived by his wife, the former Mary Paul. wham he married on June 14, 1916; a daughter. Mary, of Buffalo. N.Y.; four sons, George Martin Fred and John all of New Castle; and 13 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother.

Martin. Friends will be received at the Leyde-Tanner Mortuary. Highland and Winter avenues, from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.

A the house, seize Austin's hand, shake it as if he had been masters degree from there in his absent brother, draw him from his horse and carry 19- him into his house, where he stayed whilst in sfe by tlher husband. David her mother, Gilmer wrote. LtlUan Shevd New Gilmer said Pope later sheepishly recounted the three sisters. Mrs. Dorothy anecdote, noting that while he "passed his time at a Pandolph of New Castle: Mrs.

tavern, unknown and uncared tor, Austin was the Ariene Leiay oi rorest mus. Knit Shirts by THANE, ARROW, McGregor, lord jeff j450 t.M500 and Mrs. Ruth Hannold: Automation Enters Medical Laboratory honored guest of the governor." Dabney died in Zebulon, and, according to Gilmer, was buried near the grave of Harris, his lifelong friend. and a brother. Dr.

W. Lee Shevel of Mahopac, N.Y. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the William Rodgers Funeral Home. MacDonald.

Pa. A service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday. Burial will be in the service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at the mortuary by the Rev.

Carl Sacherich of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Castle Grandview Cemetery. Monessen. View Burial Park. Pa.

mmm Dellmuth named Murder charge HARRISBURG (UPI) Gov. ERIE, Pa. (UPI) Mary-Milton J. Shapp Friday Louise Goldenbroit, 31, Erie, appointed Terry Dellmuth of held on a general murder charge Ji MM 1 II I 'A Philadeipnia as a specie uk uau. is iau.i UumB ui Robert Adams.

42, of Erie. could pre assistant to the governor for human services at an annual salary of 521.672. Friday was permitted plead guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Bl Rr IRa McBRIDE-SHANN0N CO. 238 E.

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