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The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 52

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THE PANTAGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1984 CENTRAL ILLINOIS Donald D. Mallicoat CLINTON The funeral of Donald D. Mallicoat, 62, R.R. 2, who died Tuesday (July 3, 1984) will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at HeringtonCalvert Funeral Home, pastors Glenn Stockton and Verlin Parker officiating.

Burial will be in Texas Township Cemetery with full military rights. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. He was born April 22, 1922, in De Witt County, the son of Lloyd F. and Louise Davis Mallicoat.

He married Rose Mary Wells in 1968 in Lincoln. She survives. Also surviving are two sons, Ronald Stiles, Clinton, and Skyler Davis, at home; a daughter, Shannon Dawn, at home; and a grandchild. A daughter and a sister preceded him in death. Mr.

Mallicoat, a coil monitor at McElroy Metal Mill Clinton, was a member of Texas Christian Church and the DeWitt County Town and Country Riding Club. A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Clinton Veterans of Foreign Wars post. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or Texas Christian Church. Norman M. Adams EI PASO (PNS) The funeral of Norman M.

Adams, 73, Cape Canaveral, formerly of El Paso, who died Tuesday (July 3, 1984) will be at 2 p.m Friday at Froelich Memorial Home, the Rev. Ed Blumenfeld officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the memorial home.

He was born April 7, 1911, in El Paso, the son of Melville and Estella Hurd Adams. He married Rebecca Cabeen in February 1937 in Indiana. She survives. Also surviving are two sons, Burton Merritt Island, and Norman Dickinson, Texas; and three grandchildren. A brother preceded him in death.

Mr. Adams was a member of Riverside Presbyterian Church, Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was an insurance underwriter in Hamilton, Ohio, retiring in 1976, when he moved to Florida. Memorials may be made to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. Florence Lauher COOKSVILLE The funeral of Florence Etta Lauher, 76, Cooksville, who died Tuesday (July 3, 1984) will be 10:30 a.m.

Friday at Beck Memorial Home, the Rev. Sam Buck officiating. Burial will be in Toulon Cemetery, Toulon. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the memorial home.

She was born July 13, 1907, in Kewanee, a daughter of Samuel and Anna Streed Harper. She married Alja Lauher in August 1967 in Bloomington. He survives in Cooksville. Also surviving are two stepsons, John Wells, 1519 Wilson Bloomington, and Donald Lauher, Tucson, three stepdaughters, Martha Compton, Childress, Texas; Helen Schendel, Schaumburg; and Kay Black, Highwood; two sisters, Lucille Erdman, Park City South, Bloomington, and Bertha Brucker, 912 N. Madison Bloomington; eight step and three stepgreat-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother, four sisters and a stepgrandson. Memorials my be made to a charity of the donor's choice. William L. Bennis LINCOLN William L. Bennis, 48, of Lincoln Lakes, Lincoln, died at 7:30 a.m.

yesterday (July 4, 1984) at St. John's Hospital, Springfield. He had been ill. Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Holy Family Catholic Church, the Rev.

Edward Westermann officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Friday at Kerrigan Funeral Home, Lincoln. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. He was born Aug. 7, 1935, in Lincoln, a son of Leo and Mildred Heinrich Bennis. Surviving are his father, Lincoln; a daughter, Candace Bennis, Lincoln; and a sister, Sandra Johnson, Galesburg.

His mother preceded him in death. Mr. Bennis was employed by the state of Illinois and worked at the power plant at the Lincoln Developmental Center. He was a member of Holy Family Church and Lincoln Eagles Lodge. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War.

Marvin F. Brown LINCOLN The funeral of Marvin Francis Brown, 58, of Lincoln, who died at his home Tuesday (July 3, 1984) will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Fricke Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home, Lincoln, the Rev. Missy Warren officiating. Burial will be in Harmony Cemetery, Beason, with American Legion services at the graveside.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. He was born June 22, 1926, at Fancy Prairie, a son of William Franklin and Mary Hilton Barr Brown. His father survives. He married Sarah Louise Landers April 1, 1949, in Springfield.

She survives. Also surviving are his stepmother, Dora Brown; a daughter, Connie Downey, Las Vegas, a son, Gus Franklin Brown, Lincoln; two sisters, Betty Anderson, Lincoln, and Florence Tangman, Chandlerville; and four grandsons. Two brothers and a sister preceded him in death. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen Number 85 and the American Legion Post of Lincoln. Memorials may be made to the American Legion or Disabled American Veterans.

Jones infant MORTON Graveside services for Kevin Lee Jones, infant son of Donald and Nancy McMullen Jones, 772 Taylor will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Hirstein Cemetery near Morton, the Rev. Charles Gaston officiating. Visitation will be an hour before the service at Perry Memorial Home, Morton. The infant died shortly after his birth on Monday (July 2, 1984).

He is survived by his parents; three brothers, Daniel, Eric and Scott, all at home; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl McMullen, Morton; and his maternal great-grandmothers, Frances McMullen and Iva McNeese, both of Hume. Emma H. Fitzgerald EL PASO (PNS) The funeral of Emma H.

Fitzgerald, 77, Plano, Texas, and formerly of El Paso, who died Tuesday (July 3, 1984) will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, the Rev. John O'Connor officiating. Burial will be.

St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Froelich Memorial Home. A rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m.

She was born May 8, 1907, in Eureka, a daughter of Behren and Gertrude Marie Frerichs Heiken. She married Leo L. Fitzgerald Nov. 27, 1926, in El Paso. He died April 24, 1969.

Surviving are two sons, Dr. Leo, Plano, Texas, and Mark, Washington, D.C.; five daughters, Marie Orseske and Gail Sabatino, both of Midlothian; Tresa N. Pfister, Kingston, N.C.; Helene Naughton, Arlington Heights; and Kathryn Bergstron, Bensonville; three brothers, George and Benjamin Heiken, both of El Paso; and Ed Heiken, 711 Highpoint Road, Normal; 25 grandchildren; and 10 great- grandchildren. A brother, two sisters, an infant son and a grandchild preceded her in death. Mrs.

Fitzgerald was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice. Chris Haab FAIRBURY Chris Haab, 95, a resident of Fairview Haven nursing home, died at 5 p.m. yesterday (July 4, 1984) at Fairbury Hospital.

His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Apostolic Christian Church, church ministers officiating. Burial will be in North Apostolic Christian Cemetery, rural Forrest. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Duffy-Pils Memorial Home, Fairbury, and an hour before the service at the church.

He was born Sept. 29, 1888, in Livingston County's Pleasant Ridge Township, a son of Henry and Mary Rapp Haab. He married Kate Metz on Dec. 31, 1912, in Pontiac. She died on Oct.

31, 1972. Surviving are two sons, Lewis and Floyd, both of Forrest; two daughters, Helen Rapp and Elva Mae Sutter, both Fairbury; a brother, Sam Haab, Decatur; a sister, Carrie Moser, Fairbury; eight grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Two brothers, four sisters, a daughter, and three grandchildren preceded him in death. Mr. Haab attended Apostolic Christian Church and farmed in Pleasant Ridge Township until 1945.

He then worked at Farmer's Grain Co. for a number of years. Memorials may be made to the nursing home, where Mr. Haab resided the past six years, or to a charity of the donor's choice. Forrest W.

Quinn MCLEAN The funeral of Forrest W. Quinn, 86, who died Tuesday (July 3, 1984) at Brokaw Hospital, Normal, will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at McLean United Methodist Church, the Rev. Marvin Orewiler ficiating. Burial will be in Funks Grove Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursd a a McReynolds Fu- Mr. Quinn neral Home and one hour before the service at the church. Masonic services will be 8 p.m Thursday. He was born Sept.

13, 1897, in Shirley, a son of William H. and May Boulware Quinn. He married Ruth Evelyn Maguire June 21, 1922, in Wood River. She survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Jean, Springfield; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and three sisters. Mr. Quinn was a retired dairy and grain farmer from the Shirley and McLean areas. He was a member of McLean County Farm Bureau for 60 years. He was a member of McLean United Methodist Church, serving on the board of trustees of the church.

He belonged to Heyworth Masonic Lodge 251 for 65 years, and was a past master of that lodge. Mr. Quinn also was a member of the Bloomington Consistory, Peoria Shrine and Keystone Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, for which he had been a worthy patron many times. He was a graduate of University High School, Normal, and attended Illinois Wesleyan University, where he was a memer of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He was a trustee of Scogin Hill Cemetery Board for 50 years, and a school board member and president of the Lake Grade School board.

He was a Republican precinct committeeman. Memorials may be made to the church or the Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Drugs. BLOOMINGTON NORMAL John W. Katz The funeral of John W. "Jack" Katz, 63, of 1214 S.

Mason Bloomington, who died Tuesday (July 3, 1984) will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church, the Rev. Ernest L. Gerike officiating. Burial will be in Park Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Kibler-Smith Memorial Home. He was born July 25, 1920, at Bloomington, a son of John and Anna Albrecht Katz. He married Betty Warmbir Oct. 8, 1946, at Bloomington.

She survives. Other survivors include two sons, Daniel, 1303 Kern Normal, and David, of 1020 W. Folsom Bloomington; a daughter, Rebecca Katz, 7 Clobertin Court, Bloomington; and a sister, Eleanora Eberwein, rural Bloomington. He was preceded i in death by a daughter, a brother and a grandson. Mr.

Katz was a welder at the Watlingtor Manufacturing Company, Bloomington. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, in care of Corn Belt Bank, or to the Radio Fund of the church. Vonnie B. Wheeler Vonnie B.

Wheeler, 83, of 905 N. Main Normal, died at 10:10 a.m. Wednesday (July 4, 1983) at McLean County Nursing Home. She had been ill several years. Her funeral will be at 2 p.m.

Friday at East Lawn Memorial Chapel, Dr. Gordon White officiat- ing. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be an hour prior to services Friday. She was born July 29, 1900, at Weldon, a daughter of Frederic and Matilda Bell Miller.

She married Delmo Wheeler Nov. 1, 1919. He died Aug. 29, 1970. She is survived by two sons, Delmer, Clarkesville, and Fred, 913 Green Normal; a daughter, Margaret Ritchhart, Decatur; a brother, Elza Miller, Weldon; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Three sisters preceded her in death. Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor's choice. AP National Park Service officials estimated 500,000 people watched the Beach Boys concert yesterday in Washington, above with Washington Monument in background. Below, singer Julio Iglesias, left, joined Mike Love of the Beach Boys during the performance. 530,000 come to mark Fourth in Washington WASHINGTON A rollicking holiday throng of more than 530,000 people turned the Washington Monument grounds into a gigantic beach party yesterday, celebrating the nation's 208th birthday at a massive musical extravaganza that was one of the capital's largest gatherings ever.

Bathing suits, beach blankets and beer coolers were the order of the day in festivities that honored America's birth and also marked a rebirth of rockand-roll music here as the Beach Boys returned to Washington after their celebrated run-in last year with then-Secretary of the Interior James Watt. Watt banned the California group and other rock bands because, he said, their music attracted the "wrong element" for patriotic gatherings. The traditional Independence Day parade featured participants from all 50 states. Washington Post Hippies celebrate in forest LIKELY, Calif. (AP) An estimated 20,000 members of hippie "tribes" celebrated the Fourth of July at the annual Rainbow Gathering, seeking unity through a blend of religion and drugs in a pristine national forest.

The tranquility was marred, however, when a woman "freaked out" and threw her infant in a fire Tuesday, burning 10 percent of the baby's body, deputies said. Organizers of the gathering called in deputies, and the baby was flown to a burn center in Sacramento where it was listed in stable condition. The woman, Anne Evelyn Figueroa, 33, of Oakland, was arrested for investigation of attempted homicide, according to Dick Myers, chief of the Modoc County Sheriff's criminal division. "We're investigating whether she was on drugs," said Myers, who added that it appeared her action was "deliberate." The Rainbows have complained all week that the Highway Patrol was harassing them and writing hundreds of "fix-it" citations against the tattered vehicles the hippies drove. There were fewer complaints about the patrol yesterday as most of the hippies stayed off the roads and in their "sanctuary" on 22,000 acres of sagebrush, pine and fir in Modoc National Forest.

The Rainbows, a collection of "families" and "tribes" that evolved from the counterculture movement of the 1960s, were carrying on a tradition started in Colorado in 1971. Each year around July Fourth, they come from all over the United States, gathering on remote government-owned land, camping in tents, teepees and carpeted yurts, or Mongolian tents, to renew their spiritual ties. Modoc National Forest District Ranger Mike Lee estimated this year's crowd at 20,000. U.S. Forest Rangers and sheriff's deputies from six Northern California counties said they were bewildered by the mix of drugs and religion at the gathering, but had not attempted to go beyond the parking lot to make arrests for drug possession.

LSD, called a "sacrament" by many of the Rainbows, and marijuana, their "sacred herb," were ingested liberally during the July Fourth festivities. There were no fireworks or the traditional trappings of Independence Day. Some men and women walked around in loincloths or less, lolling in the warm sunshine. Others painted their faces and bodies and wore brightly colored clothing. A few dressed punk rock style, their hair various shades of purple and gold.

"We are here to express our love of God, and this forest and these fields are our sanctuary," said Barry Plunker, an original member of the Rainbow Family and an organizer of the gathering. "There have been problems, but the most serious problems have been caused by just a few people out of all the people who have come," he said. The celebration was slated to last until Friday. Kennedy-King tapes to be released BOSTON (AP) Secretly recorded conversations between President John F. Kennedy and the Rev.

Martin Luther King Jr. about civil rights marches in Birmingham, and Washington are among hours of White House tapes set for release today. The tapes of White House meetings and telephone conversations recorded by Kennedy offer a public glimpse of Kennedy's involvement in the civil rights issue from March through October 1963. Officals with the John F. Kennedy Library say these will be the last major group of conversations to be released from the 260 hours of recordings Kennedy made from the Oval Office.

The tapes cover Kennedy's reaction to racial tensions and protests in Birmingham, and the massive march King led in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Also included on the tapes are conversations between Kennedy and congressional leaders on proposals that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "It's a nice package," said Megan Desnoyers, a supervisory archivist at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston where the tapes will be released.

"Martin Luther King is in there about the march on Birmingham and talking about, the march on Washington." The tapes also include conversations between Kennedy and White House staff, senators and congressmen, and phone calls to Southern governors and mayors, she said. This is the third time the library has released portions of 325 office conversations and 281 phone calls taped from mid-1962 until Nov. 7, 1963 15 days before Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The existence of the tapes was not known until 1973. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, began recording conversations following the Bay of Pigs failed attempt to invade Cuba.

The latest release begins with disturbances and demonstrations in Birmingham, in the early spring and summer of 1963, when racial tensions led to a march by King and his followers..

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