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SOUTHERN ILL I NO! SAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1981 Carbondale-Herrin-Murphysboro-Marion Page Eighteen Deaths Calendar Genealogy socSety to nueei on Sunday Saturday 4 Ella Wright Ella Wright, 92, of 712 N. Main Harrisburg, died at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1981, in Doctors Hospital in Harrisburg. She was born on Nov.

27, 1888, in Simpson to Church and Eliza Taxton McNew. She was married to H. A. Wright, who preceded her in death in 1932. Mrs.

Wright was a member of the Dixon Springs First Christian Church in Harrisburg. Survivors are a daughter, Rachel Dorris of Harrisburg; a son, Robert Wright of Harrisburg; nine grandchildren and several great and great-great grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m Saturday at the Gaskins Funeral Home in Harrisburg; Burial will be in Sunset Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.

9 a.m.-noon Saturday. Please sort cans; a magnet will not hold to aluminum. Clean, dry newspaper is also purchased, 100 pounds minimum. Donations of cardboard, ledger paper and glass are welcome at Jackson County's only not-for-profit recyling center, phone 687-1521. Every litter bit counts.

Randall M. Willmore Randall M. Willmore, 68, of 10 Briarcliff, Collinsville, formerly of West Frankfort, died, at 6:55 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, at St.

Lukes Hospital in St. Louis. Mr. Willmore had been employed as a field supervisor for the P.N. Hirsch Co.

since 1947: He was a member of the Elks Lodge of Belleville and the First Baptist Church of Edwardsville. He was born July 29, 1912, in West Frankfort, to Logan and Eva McClintock Willmore. He was married April 8, 1931, in West Frankfort, to Nola M. Wall. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Jeanie Willmore of Collinsville and Janice Brumitt of Edwardsville; four grandchildren; four brothers, Kermit Willmore of Mount Vernon, Perry Willmore of Farmington, Mason Willmore of Fen-ton, and Kenneth Willmore of three sisters, Sylvan Fozzard of Decatur, Juanita Keller of Canton, Ohio, and Eva Sayre of Akron, Ohio.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Edwardsville. Burial will be in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Edwardsville. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at the Weber Funeral Home in Edwardsville.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church in Edwardsville or the Heart Fund. Dorothy Brian Eula Virginia Maxine, Elkville Maxcine, Sunday Public Meetings ALCOHOLICS Anonymous, 9 a.m. Sunday, Marion Alcohol Info Center (in rear), 1305 W. Main St. ALCOHOLICS Anonymous, 9 ST.

JOSEPH MEMORIAL, Murphysboro ADMITTED: Novick, Mrs. William, Marion Shook, MrsGary, Anna Watson, Mrs. Dennis Etherton, Raymond Swetland, Harry DISCHARGED: Garcia, Mrs. Dominga and baby, Carbondale Arbeiter, Pa trie i.a, Gorham Bel izar i Fanny and baby, Carbondale Mifflin, Douglas Leady, Pose Kerley, l.elen SPARTA COMMUNITY ADMITTED: Cole, Sondra Henderson, Florence Penney, Charles Thompson, Dorothy, Willisville Gentry, Ellen Hapke, Albert Bock, Patricia Cane, Gezell, Steeleville DISCHARGED: McBride, Diana, Marissa Thompson, Dorothy, Gtick, William, Marissa hcart, Marie and son, Marissa Townsend, Dorothy, New Athens Shaw, Mary, Steeleville PINCKNEYVILLE COM MUNITY ADMITTED: Names not available DISCHARGED: Muehlhauser, Andrew, Marissa Schneider, Alma Ehlers, Julia Rice, David Hospital DISCHARGED: Rice, Ingram, Keiner, Brooks, Lesley, Schwebel, Pinckneyville UNION ADMITTED: Body, Griffin, Rosenberg, Jonesboro Williams, DISCHARGED: Douglas, Shepard, Jonesboro MEMORIAL, ADMITTED: Farmer, Grosvenor, Riggo, Roy, Mo. Welch, Lindwedel, Steeleville DISCHARGED: Welge, Bradley, Helmers, Hartmann, Steeleville Steeleville Steeleville Buatte, Mo.

Paudendistel, Hartline, Johns, Kirkland, Sparta COUNTY, Anna Joyce, Olmsted Edna, Cobden Florence, Noah Clifton Andrea, Rose Valentine Funeral services for Rose Valentine, 65, formerly of Pinckneyville, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Toods Mill. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m.

today at the Doerr-Schwebel Funeral Home in Pinckneyville. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Mrs. Valentine died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1981, at the home of her daughter in Bridgeview.

She was a member of St! Fabian Catholic Church in Bridgeview. She also was a member of Catholic Daughters of America in the Toods Mill Parish. She was born Nov. 10, 1895, in Perry County, to Joseph Adam and Frances Lessnow Bathon. She married Carl Valentine, who preceded her in death in 1959.

Survivors include three sons, Kenneth of Tamaroa and Harold and Howard, both of Pinckneyville; one daughter, Eileen Suda of Bridge-view; a stepson, Jackie Phillips of Romeoville; 20 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Clara Kellerman of Pinckneyville and Elizabeth Majewski of St. Louis, Mo. She also was preceded in death by one daughter, four brothers and three sisters. Dorse Wideman Dorse Wideman. 81, of Metropolis, formerly of Brownfield, died at 1:55 a.m.

today, Jan. 9, 1981, in Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis. He was a retired farmer and a member of Bay Valley United Methodist Church. He was born March 4, 1899, in De Soto, to-Mr. and Mrs.

Issac Wideman. He married Pearl Fritch, who died July 17, 1971. He married Mary Will-ard Aug. 3, 1976. Survivors include his wife; one stepdaughter, Constance Champion of Golconda; one stepson, Mark Don of Fox Point, Wis.

and one brother, Chesley Wideman of Farmington, Mo. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Aly Funeral Home in Eddy ville. Burial will be in Eddy ville Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m.

Saturday at the funeral homp Helen Michalski Helen Michalski, 70, of rural Ashley, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, in Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born in Posen on Sept. 21, 1910, to Fred and Fronie Kozuszek Sharkowski.

She married Stephen Michalski in St. Louis on Oct. 16, 1928. Mrs. Michalski was a member of St.

Ann Catholic Church in Nashville and was a member of the Altar Society. Survivors include her husband, Stephen of Ashley; and two sisters, Martha Rozanski and Anna Geppert, both of Nashville. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Ann Catholic Church in Nashville, with burial in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Pyatt Funeral Home in Nashville after 1 p.m. Sunday and until 9:30 a.m. on Monday. The rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 8 p.m. Sunday.

noisy powe Illinois State Police, looking Thursday for a possible downed airplane near the Lake of Egypt, instead turned up a stuck valve at the Lake of Egypt power plant that sounded like a low-flying plane. Residents in the area had reported hearing what sounded like a low-flying plane whose engine faltered and died about 5:45 a.m. Thursday. Tha los plan Chester Robert Charles Lucille Karen, Perryville, Opal, Sparta Anna, Robert Mary Emma Clotilda, Purrington, Mina, Degenhardt, Stella, James, St. Marys, Louis, Perryville, Mo.

Sandra, Cobden Joshua, Rockwood Geraldine, a.m. Sunday, Marion. Friendship Group (in rear), 1001 N. Court St. GENEALOGY Society of Southern Illinois, 2:15 p.m.

Sunday, John A. Logan College Learning Resource Center, Carterville. LOGAN Consolidated No. 110 School board, 2 p.m: Sunday at the school. How to submit a calendar item The Southern Illinoisan will print, without charge, items on meetings and entertainments that are open to the public.

Information should be sent to Calendar, The Southern Illinoisan, 710 N. Illinois Carbondale, 111. 62901, one week in advance of the event. The information should include the date, time and place; a brief description of the event; and the admission charge, if any. Vaughn, Ethel Shoemake, Delores Lansford, Ed, Cambria Smith, Michaet, Creal Springs Ogden, Amber Sims, John Tolbert, SHawn Dunning, David, Zeigler MEMORIAL, Marion ADMITTED: Sheets, Ruth Smith, Myrtle, Creal Springs Flood, Dorothy Eleanor Williams, Joe Burl Gibson, Theodore Darnelll Gary Sumner, Yvonne Fletcher, Ronnie Gene Deming, Lacene Cowles, Norman Bush, Gabrielle Cripps, Mary Louise Cass, Rhonda Miller, Lori Cullum, Lisa Connett, Clarence Voss, Mary Jent, Ruel DISCHARGED: Anderson, Bertha Jones, Lawrence Dawson, Alberta Eairheart, Lena Kobler, Cynthia Plentz, Richard Williams, Marie DOCTORS, Harrisburg Names of persons admitted not available DISCHARGED: Prather, Gertie Sheets, Ruth Underwood, Linda Shoemaker, Emma Brandon, Billy Reynolds, Suzanne Caraker, Loyd Miller, Henry Hebda, Stephanie Ewell, Nona Sue DOCTORS, Carbondale ADMITTED: Trover, Laura, Ozark Blanche, Nathan, Murphysboro Leckrone, Shirley, Marion Turns, Edith, Anna Smith, Wanda, Dongola Lanigan, Richard Babcock, Dana Mazza, John Jr.

Moss, Lillian, Christopher Leach, Virginia, Carterville Smith, Edward, Carterville North, Jo, Marion Barker, Linda, Marion McKay, Eunice, Thompsonville Johnson, Tonia Unterfer, Geneva Kinsel, Edward, Marion DISCHARGED: Meadows, Andy, Mulkeytown Finney, Violet, Energy Smith, Larry Robertson, Lucy, Grand Tower Furlow, Edward, Du Quoin Smith, Owen Tyner, Cecile, Cambria Dillinger, Gladys Short, Gail and son, Jonesboro Meier, Cindy and son, Anna McClain, Roy Austin, Sharon, Murphysboro ores NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, NO A A. U.S. Dept of Commerce the Gulf coast. In Southern Illinois, the high Thursday was 34 degrees. The low between 7 a.m.

Thursday and 7 a.m. today was 16 degrees with no precipitation. The 9 a.m. temperature was 23 degrees. Sunset today, 5:12 p.m.; sunrise Saturday, 7:03 a.m.; sunset Saturday, 7:13 p.m.; sunrise Sunday, 7:03 a.m.

Public Meetings ALCOHOLICS Anonymous and Al-Anon, 8 Saturday in the cafeteria of St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro. AL-ANON, 8 p.m. Saturday, First Christian Church, 302 S. Main Benton.

AL-ANON, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Anna Heights Baptist Church. Special Events RECYCLING pays at Resource Reclamation, 1321 Rover St, Murphysboro. Aluminum cans are bought for 20 cents per pound from Pot of Gold 180405 Estimated jackpot $36,000 Bingo B-13, -25, N-3S, G-56, 0-75 Estimated jackpot $42,400 Daily Game 355 Robber takes $30 in Sesser A strong-arm robber took $30 from an IGA Store employee in Sesser Thursday, Police Chief Roy Pink-ston said. The employee was making rounds of the store after closing time when he was struck from the blind side and knocked unconscious.

Pinkston said the robber took cash from the employee's wallet. Nothing was reported missing from cash drawers, the safe and the store. The robber apparently hid atop a cooler until the store closed and was going to burglarize the store when, the employee surprised him, Pinkston said. It was the second robbery in Sesser within a week. Pinkston said an employee of the Huck's Convenience Store was robbed at gunpoint about 11:45 p.m.

Saturday. The Huck's robber was described as 20 to 25 years old, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds. Items stolen in Willisville Items worth $1,639 were taken early this week in a burglary at a Willisville residence, Perry County deputies said. Items discovered missing from the home of Roy and Dorothy Younger included a microwave oven, a portable television, an antique pock-etwatch and about $75 in coins, deputies said. None of the items have been recovered, deputies said.

They said they have-suspects in the case but no arrests have been made. The burglary apparently occurred between 8 a.m. Sunday and 11 p.m. Tuesday, while the Youngers were out of town. Deputies said the home had about $300 worth of property damage.

There was damage to a back door, through which burglars entered the home, to a safe and to some furniture, deputies said. James Cox James Melvin Cox, 82, of Route 2, West Frankfort, died at 5:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, in Union Hospital in West Frankfort. He was born Jan.

6, 1899, in Tunnel Hill to George and Mae Pyle Cox. He was married April 29, 1939, in Padu-cah to Gladys Furlong. Mr. Cox was a retired miner, lost working at the Old Ben No. 9 mine in 1964.

He was a member of United Mine Workers of America Local 8317 and attended the Church of God. Survivors are his wife, two daughters, a son, two stepdaughters, a brother, two sisters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Union Funeral Home of West Frankfort. Burial will be in Providence Cemetery at Carrier Mills.

Friends may call after 6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Lottery Findley, Ronna and baby, Du Quoin Goss, Virginia Krach, Catherine, Taylorville MARSHALL Quoin ADMITTED: Smilev. Robert WASHINGTON COUNTY, Nashville ADMITTED: Names not available DISCHARGED: Siliven, Gloria, Oakdale Riechman, Nora Rose E. Hitpas Funeral services will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday at the Sacred Heart Church in Du Quoin for Rose E. Hitpas, 95, of 634 N. Division St. in Du Quoin, who died Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, at the Marshall Browning Hospital after an illness of two years.

She had been a resident of Du Quoin for 20 years and was a member of the Sacred Heart Church. She was born on Nov. 17, 1885 in Red Bud to Philip and Branadine Pfeiffer Bergman. She was married to Emery Schneider, who preceded her in death. She later married Joseph Hitpas, who also preceded her in death.

Survivors include two brothers, the Rev. John Bergman of Du Quoin and Philip Bergman of Du Quoin; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by two sons, two sisters and one daughter-in-law. Friends may call at the Neal Memorial Chapei in Du Quoin after 6 p.m. today.

The rosary will be recited at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral chapel. Agnes Truran Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Murman and Wilson Funeral Home in Johnston City for Agnes Truran, 72, of 403 11th Johnston City, who died at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.

7, 1981, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Gardens south of Energy. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Rebeccah Class of the First United Methodist Church in Johnston City. Mrs. 'Truran was born March 4, 1908, in Glasgow, Scotland, to Robert and Janet Wyper Russell. She was a "member of the Eastern Star and Senior Citizens. She was also a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Her husband, Peter S. Truran, died July 11, 1976. Survivors include two daughters, Mary Cernkovich of Downers Grove and Viva Lee Smith of West Frankfort; two sons, James "Pete" Truran of Marion and Tom Truran of Johnston City; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by two brothers and 10 sisters. Fay Brayfield Fay Brayfield, 70, of Sesser died at her home on Thursday, Jan.

8, 1981. Mrs. Brayfield was born July 30, 1910, in Fisher, to Vernon and Theresa Edwards Hackney. Her husband, Windsor, died in .1956. Survivors include four daughters, Betty Crisp of Lauton, Rose Mae Lindner of Mulkeytown, Joyce Donaker of Shelbyville and "Corky" Brayfield of Carbondale; two sons, John Brayfield of Christopher and Richard Brayfield of Casey; 15 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Brayfield Funeral Home in Sesser. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery in Sesser. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Ella Tucker Sopoliga Ella Tucker Sopoliga, 70, of Detroit, and formerly of Mur-physboro, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, in Detroit. She was born in 1911 in Jackson County to Henry and Lida Sedrick Tucker. Survivors include two sisters, and two brothers, including Carl E. Tucker of Murphysboro; and one nephew, Carl H.

Tucker of Murphysboro. Services will be conducted in Detroit Anna Marie Kaemper Garrett Anna Marie Kaemper. Garrett, a native of Benton, died Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1980, in Clovis High Plains Hospital in Clovis, N.M. She was born in Benton on Aug.

8, 1897. Survivors include two brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were held Jan. 3 at the Steed-Todd Chapel in Clovis. Births UNION, West Frankfort ADMITTED: Names not available.

DISCHARGED: Peircy, Debra and daughter Bennett, Margaret Lulek, Katie Perkins, Michael Coleman, Archie Ester Alma Monroe Ester Alma Monroe, 85, of Route 1, Herrin, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1981, at Union Hospital in West Frankfort. Mrs. Monroe was a member of the, Monroe Street Apostolic Church in Herrin.

She was born Dec. 24, 1895, in Jackson County, to John and Zella Davis Asa. Her husband, Lee, preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by two daughters. Survivors include- a son, Kenneth Monroe of Memphis, four grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Van Natta Funeral Home in Herrin. Burial will be in Herrin City Cemetery. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart Fund. John Owen Young John Owen Young, 63, of South Fairdale, Royalton, died at 7:40 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, at Union Hospital in West Frankfort. Mr.

Young was a retired coal miner. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Royalton, and was past president and member of the United Mine Workers of America Local 9111. He was born Oct: 28, 1917, in Royalton, to John B. and Etta Eldridge Young. Survivors include his wife, the former Ada Skipper; four sons.

Bill of West Frankfort, Jim of Benton, Charles of Herrin, and John of Royalton; two sisters, Ina Christian of West Frankfort and Doris Lutos-tanski of Royalton; and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Moeller-Vantrease Funeral Home in Royalton. Burial will be in Miners Cemetery in Royalton. Friends may call after 6 p.m.

Saturday at the funeral home, where Masonic services will be at 7 p.m. e' was just plant valve Apparently plant employees managed to correct the situation, giving residents the impression the "airplane" engine quit. State police and Williamson County authorities received no official reports Thursday of a missing plane from any airport or air base, -but searched the area with a state police plane anyway. lunch cost Davis, who retired. Van Vorhiss has worked in the district six years.

Also Thursday, Whitecotton said the school board was approached by persons asking that the athletic code regulations that resulted in the dismissal of four players from the high school basketball teams be reconsidered. The school board took no action. "No changes have been made and no changes are anticipated, at least this year," Whitecotton said. The athletes were charged with underage drinking following a high speed car chase early Jan. 1.

The athletic code prohibits any use of alcohol by players. Dismissed were varsity players Greg Malone and Neal Halstead and junior varsity players Billy Burdel and Greg Woods. COULTERVILLE: KEM-PFER, Leonard and Deborah, a son, today, Jan. 9, 1981, at the Pinckneyville Community Hospital in Pinckneyville. PERRYVILLE, ROY, Mark and Karen, a daughter, Thursday, Jan.

8, 1981, at the Memorial Hospital in Chester. MARION: JACK, Alan and Patsy, a son, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, at Herrin Hospital. GRAND TOWER: MASTERS, Randy and Margaret, a son, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, in Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

CARBONDALE: BAB-COCK, Douglas and Dana, a son, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, in Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. DONGOLA: SMITH, Gary and Wanda, a daughter, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1981, in Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. FRANKLIN, Benton ADMITTED: Bourque, Ruthann Soustielle, Marguerite, Golda, Sesser Hearford, Alta, Christopher Branson, Meda Minkler, Joan, Mount Vernon Demattei, Louie Galloway, Tommy, West City Dixon, Stella DISCHARGED: Wehrle, Agnes, Zeigler Cash, Betty, West Frankfort Bryant, Anna, West Frankfort Snedecor, Phillip HERRIN HOSPITAL ADMITTED: Names not available.

DISCHARGED: Quoin board to absorb 7 higher school A reduction in reimbursement by the federal government for school lunches from I8V2 cents to 16 cents a meal will mean no immediate increase in lunch prices for Du Quoin students. Jacob Whitecotton, superintendent of Unit District 300, said the district will try to "absorb" the $4,400 an nual loss the reimbursement cut will mean and not consider raising lunch prices until next school year. Lunch price increases need state approval and, Whitecotton' said, "By me ume yuu get approval D3CK, me year would be almost over." mi in inner ousiness inursaay, the school board interviewed three candidates -for the assistant principal job at Du Quoin High School and hired John Van Vorhiss, formerly the Wheatley Grade School principal. Van Vorhiss, 42. replaces Galen Showers Stationary Occluded ma Cold Below freezing temperatures are expected until Saturday morning from the northern Plains through the Midwest and into the mid and north Atlantic states.

Cold weather is also forecast for the Pacific Northwest. Snow flurries are expected for the northern Rockies. Mild weather is expected from southern California to I Snowers Stationery Occluded.