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A4 LOCALNATION Saturday, july 21, 2001 decatur, Illinois OBITUARIES EDgWweairldl stale atta victim Men off critica 1st Hale OLNEY Michael Allen Hale, 54, Olney, died Wednesday (July 18, 2001). No services. Arrangements by: Summers-Kistler Funeral Home, Olney. Miller EFFINGHAM A. Louise Miller, 68, Effingham, secretary, died Thursday (July 19, 2001).

Services: 2 p.m. Sunday, Bauer Funeral Home, Effingham. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Burial: Van Voorhis Cemetery, Hinds-boro.

Memorials: donor's choice. Rutland FLORA Raymond Rutland, 90, Flora, died Thursday (July 19, 2001). Arrangements incomplete: Frank Bright Funeral Home, Flora. PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -The 8-year-old boy whose arm was torn off in a shark attack two weeks ago was taken off 41 cal list Friday.

Jessie A TKn Sacred Heart gasts con Children's Hospi- itionwas upgraded to serious. He remained in a light coma but was no longer in immediate danger of dying, said Rob Patterson, a pediatric intensive care specialist at Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. "Jessie is beginning to respond to external stimulation, like changes in noise and light," Patterson said in a Web site posting. The boy continues to are from children. A card from "Mariah Topeka KS" was addressed only "To the boy that was bitten by the shark, He's in the hospital, Pensacola Florida." Soile Hamalainen of Pickering, Ontario, sent an e-mail saying that she remembers Jessie daily in her thoughts and prayers.

"When I first heard of Jessie's accident, I was horrified mainly because I was also attacked by a shark last January," she wrote. She added that her left arm was badly mangled, although not bitten off, and she also lost a large amount of blood. "In my case, it is a miracle that I am alive and I thank God for it," Hamalainen wrote. "I understand that it also (is) a miracle that Jessie is alive." receive dialysis treatment to help repair his kidneys, which were damaged when he lost nearly all his blood in the July 6 attack. Surgeons were able to reattach Jessie's right arm, which was recovered when the 6V2-foot shark was pulled out of the sea by the boy's uncle and another beachgoer.

Gifts and support are pouring into the hospital for the boy and his Ocean Springs, family. As of noon Friday, they had received more than 1,000 e-mails and more than 3,000 pieces of mail, including gifts of food, toys, flowers and money, hospital officials said. An 88-year-old World War II veteran in Mississippi offered to come to Florida to donate blood. Many of the get-well wishes MACON COUNTY Brown DECATUR Nancy J. Clark Brown, 44, Decatur, National City Bank consumer loan service representative, died Wednesday (July 18, 2001).

Funeral Mass: 1 p.m. Saturday, Holy Family Catholic Church. Visitation was Friday. Burial: Mount Gilead Cemetery. Arrangements by: J.J.

Moran Sons Funeral Home. Memorials: St. Jude Children's Hospital or donor's choice. South DECATUR Betty J. South, 77, of Mesa, formerly of Decatur, died 5:15 p.m.

Thursday (July 19, 2001) in St. Mary's Hospital. Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Monday in Graceland Cemetery. Dawson Wikoff West Wood Street Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials: American Lung Association. Mrs. South was born Sept. 21, 1923, in Peoria, the daughter of Earl and Elizabeth Pemberton Duclose. She was a homemaker and a member of Pilgrim Lutheran Church.

She married Curtis L. South Aug. 24, 1944. Surviving are her husband; sons, Roger R. South and wife Pat and Warren B.

South and wife Edith, all of Decatur; daughter, Nancy J. Trimby and husband David of Decatur; sisters, Margaret McCarthy of Peoria; Mary Ann Fattori of Pennsylvania; six grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren. She was preceded by her parents and one brother. Waddell NIANTIC Margaret J. Waddell, 82, of Niantic died 3:28 p.m.

Thursday (July 19, 2001) in St. Mary's Hospital. Mew resfric irons leo reserves, the New York Blood also projects up to 10 percent would be lost with the exclusion of donors. sides agree the mad cow threat have come at a more difficult aging population and the more sophisticated transplants treatments have fueled a rise in national blood usage since according to the National Blood Resource Center. has not risen as fast, thanks in generally smaller workplaces sites of blood drives and the shift of the World War II generation blood donors to users.

In 1989, the blood supply exceeded demand by units; by 1999 that figure had 35.7 percent to 1.20 million, center figures show. A unit is one donation, or roughly one pint. many hospitals, Nelson's greatest are in type the most versatile of blood. Two shelves she regularly devotes to O-positive have been virtually empty for weeks. by with basically nickel and units of blood and negotiating with she said of the constant shuffling schedules and blood supplies.

non-emergency heart surgeries Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, have been delayed in recent for lack of blood. Meanwhile, in Phoenix have been allocating blood to two patients and then one does not need it, according to Blood Services of Arizona. ilar rules in September. "We feel it is prudent and aggressive in dealing with this disease," said Dr. Jerry Squires, the organization's chief scientific officer.

"No one quibbles with being aggressive. The only concern is, will there be enough blood?" Squires believes a donor recruitment campaign and better collection practices will allow the Red Cross to offset the expected drop in supply, but others are less optimistic. "This is the tightest blood supply I've seen in the more than 25 years I've been involved in blood transfusions," said Dr. Harvey Klein, president of the American Association of Blood Banks, the industry's leading professional association. "We worry about mad cow disease and you have to be aware of the potential risk.

On the other hand, if you show up at the hospital and they say you need six units and we have four, that is a safety issue here and now." The plan faces its fiercest opposition from the doctors who rely on blood reserves daily. "Countless lives will be lost" if the new rules are allowed to reduce blood supplies further, argued Dr. Geoffrey Dough-lin, chairman of emergency medicine at Jamaica Hospital in New York, in comments to the FDA panel. On June 28, the board endorsed the plan 10-7. Nowhere will the restrictions be felt more severely than in the New York area, the only place in the country that imports European blood products.

In addition to imports, which make a quar Mad cow disease in Europe limits donors who spent time there Knight Ridder Newspapers NEW YORK As hospitals in much of the country struggle with a critical blood shortage, many doctors and researchers believe proposed curbs on blood donation will only make the situation worse. New restrictions urged last month by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel are designed to avert a theoretical spread of mad cow disease by banning the use of blood from Europe and limiting donations from those who spent considerable time in Europe. The new rules are expected to cut donations by 5 percent nationwide, which would be the largest single drop on record. Supporters, including the American Red Cross, say the plan might prevent a tragedy like that of the early 1980s when hemophiliacs and other patients received HIV-tainted blood.

But others, noting that the human form of mad cow disease never has been shown to be spread by blood, call it an overreac-tion that will aggravate the shortage. Parts of the country already are suffering their worst blood shortage in 20 years, forcing doctors to postpone some surgeries and cancer treatments. Though the stricter guidelines are not expected to take effect until next spring, the Red Cross, collector of half the nation's blood supply, plans to adopt sim- artiize state inquiry affected users will be entered in a separate drawing for a single $10,000 prize, along with receiving the Target gift certificate and AOL time, he said. "We've already apologized to these customers for any inconvenience and confusion, and we've offered them a goodwill gesture," Weinstein said. ter of total Center more previous Both could not time.

An growth of and cancer steady 1994, Data Supply part to frequent gradual from nation's 1.87 million declined resource equal to As in shortages type "We get (liming doctors," of treatment Several at months doctors the same hoping United DEATHS LISTED Decatur, Macon County BROWN, Nancy J. (Clark), 44, Decatur G00S, Donald Richard, 69, Decatur PECK, Donald 72, Decatur PHIPPS, Mary Kay, 40, Decatur SOUTH, Betty J. (Duclose), 77, WADDELL, Margaret J. (Edwards), 82, Niantic Central Illinois BLEDSAW, Ray 84, Hillsboro EDWARDS, Dorothy L. (Tolly), 75, Taylorville HALE, Michael Allen, 54, Olney MILLER, A.

Louise (Dickson), 68, Effingham RUTLAND, Raymond, 90, Flora The Herald Review publishes death notices free including date of death and service arrangements. Basic obituaries are published for a flat fee of $15. There are limits on the amount of information included in basic obituaries. Custom obituaries, which include additional information desired by the family of the deceased, are published for $9 per column inch. The obituary desk is open from 3:00 p.m.

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Services: 1 p.m. Sunday, Grace United Methodist Church. No visitation. Burial: Summit Cemetery, Williamston, Mich. Arrangements by: J.J.

Moran Sons Funeral Home mpeck DECATUR Donald L. Peck, 72, Decatur, retired from A.E. Staley Mfg. died Thursday (July 19, 2001). Graveside services: 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Graceland Cemetery. Visitation: 10 a.m. until services, Dawson Wikoff West Wood Street Funeral Home. Memorials: American Heart Association or Decatur Park Singers. Phipps DECATUR Mary Kay Phipps, 40, Decatur, died Tuesday (July 17, 2001).

Services: 11 a.m. Saturday, W'oodland Chapel Presbyterian Church. Burial: at a later date, Star of Hope Mausoleum, Graceland Cemetery. Visitation: one hour before services. Arrangements by: Renner-Wikoff Funeral Home, Champaign.

Memorials: Carle Foundation Hospital Cancer Care Unit, 611 W. Park Urbana, IL 61801. CENTRAL ILLINOIS Bledsaw HILLSBORO Ray L. Bledsaw, 84, Hillsboro, electrician for Eagle Picher, died Thursday (July 19, 2001). Services: 1:30 p.m.

Sunday, Hough Sons Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday. Burial: Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsboro. Memorials: Hillsboro Area Hospital, Heartland Home Health Care, Schram City Baptist Church or Hillsboro Animal Shelter.

Edwards TAYLORVILLE Dorothy L. Edwards, 75, Taylorville, retired waitress, died Sunday (July 15, 2001). Member: Joy Assembly Church, Stonington. Survivors: daughter, Barb Wee-den, Pana; one granddaughter; one great-granddaughter. Preceded by: parents, husbands, Earl McMillan and Byron Edwards, and one sister.

Graveside services: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oak Hill Cemetery, Taylorville. No visitation. Arrangements by: Sutton Memorial Home, Taylorville. (Humes), Decatur, girl, July 18.

BENNETT, Dennis and Valerie (Bowers), Decatur, boy, July 18. JALLEY, Anh and Wendy (Tohill), Decatur, boy, July 18. JOHNSTON, Mark and Marilee Grunden, Decatur, boy, July 18. Central Illinois Carle Foundation Hospital, Champaign TRENT, Jason and Catherine (Smith), Monticello, boy, June 2. AOL false winnings prompts HeralcLlReview Postmaster Send address changes to: Herald Review, P.O.

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Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday in Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes. Margaret Waddell Burial will be in Long Point Cemetery, Niantic. In lieu of flowers, memorials to Niantic Christian Church or St. John's Hospice.

Mrs. WTaddell was born July 22, 1918, in Rock Island, the daughter of Garold and Cora Graves Edwards. She was a member of Niantic Christian Church and the church's Laura Hall Guild. She used her music talent for many years as the pianist for the Sunday school at Niantic Christian Church. In 1940, she graduated from Eureka College with a degree in home economics.

Mr. and Mrs. Waddell owned and operated Boone Waddell Lumber Co. for 47 years before retiring. She married James K.

Waddell May 5, 1941, in Rock Island. Surviving are her husband of 60 years; sons, Jim M. Waddell and wife Sue of Niantic; Bill Waddell and fiancee Kim Hunt of McFarland, Dick Waddell and wife Amy of WTiitestown, grandchildren, Kim Cornwell and husband Blain, Michael Waddell, Terah Waddell, Brian Waddell and Brett Waddell; greatgrandchildren, Kellie and Brock Cornwell; brother, Dr. Richard Edwards and wife Iris of Rock Island. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Robert Edwards.

The Waddell family wishes to acknowledge the intensive care department at Decatur Memorial Hospital, extended care staff at St. Mary's Hospital and St. John's Hospice staff for their care and When the individual is special, the funeral home should be too. Remembering those things that make an individual special. Special hobbies.

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