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Frank Childs Sr.
Athens
Frank Childs Sr., 66, of 4127 Old Danielsville Road died
Thursday, Oct. 28, 1999.
A native of Clarke County, Mr. Childs was a son of the late
James Willie and Lenora Hendrix Childs and was the widower of
Clarsy C. Childs. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Jennie
Marie Crowell. He was a retired security guard for the EPA and was
a veteran of the Korean War.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Brown Funeral Home,
Danielsville, with the Rev. Elmer Butler officiating. Burial will
be in Evergreen Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include two daughters, Charlotte Tittle, Winterville,
and Betty Jean Smith, Jefferson; three sons, Billy Trammell,
Colton, Curtis Lee Childs, Athens, and Frank Childs Jr., Newnan;
two sisters, Frances Maddox, Bogart, and Nettie Bradshaw,
Jefferson; two brothers, Otis Childs, Athens, and James R. Childs,
Hull; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Wendall Evans, Jeff Evans, Mike Tittle, Lee
Benton, Robert Cunningham and Mike Mattox.
The family is at the residence of Curtis Childs, 4301 Old
Danielsville Road, and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at
the funeral home.
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Sara Elizabeth Murray
Athens
Sara Elizabeth Murray, 75, of 172 White Court died Thursday,
Oct. 28, 1999.
A native of Oglethorpe County, Mrs. Murray was a daughter of the
late Willie Edward and Mattie Mae Blew Wills and was the widow of
John T. Murray. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Dorothy
Jean Murray, and two sons, John Junior Murray and John Edward
Murray. She was a sewing machine operator at Thomas Textile and was
a member of Moons Grove Baptist Church.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Brown Funeral Home with the
Revs. Elmer Butler, B.G. Miller and Haney officiating. Burial will
be in Moons Grove Baptist Church cemetery.
Survivors include a daughter, Martha Taylor, Athens; two
sisters, Gladis Mann, Nicholson, and Betty Calloway, Winterville;
four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Nelson Calloway, Wayne Anderson, Allen
Cowart, Larry Evans, Lamar Evans and Allen Gunter.
The family is at the residence.
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Gary Lee Carlson
Longmont, Colo.
Gary Lee Carlton, 23, formerly of Athens, died Friday, Oct. 22,
1999.
A native of Fort Collins, Colo., Mr. Carlson was a son of Jack
H. and Sharon Lynn Kivler Carlson.
Services were Wednesday. Memorial services are pending.
Survivors, in addition to his parents, include three sisters,
Lisa Carlson Feder, San Francisco, Calif., Erica Carlson Sandor and
Shauna Carlson, both of
Athens; four brothers, Clay Carlson, Provo, Utah, Brian Carlson,
Fort Collins,
Jared Carlson and Brandon Carlson, both of Athens; grandparents,
Jack and Vera Carlson, Charleston, Utah.
Olpin-Hoopes Funeral Home, Heber City, Utah, has charge of
arrangements.
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Annie Porterfield
Athens
Annie B. ''Dink'' Porterfield, 87, died Thursday, Oct. 28, 1999.
A native of Madison County, Mrs. Porterfield was a daughter of
the late Malia and George Bullock and was the widow of Adell
Porterfield. She was a member of East Athens Baptist Church for
more than 60 years and was a member of Joy Sunday School class. She
was retired from St. Mary's Hospital with 25 years of service and
was a volunteer with the Athens Community Council on Aging.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. today at Lord & Stephens
Funeral Home, East, with the Revs. Tom Brown, Don Leaptrott and
David Shelley officiating.
Survivors include a daughter, Deborah Porterfield, Athens; a
sister, Mary Sargent, Monroe; nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends after the service at the funeral
home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to East Athens Baptist
Church.
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Sybil L. Jordan
Winder
Sybil L. Jordan, 27, died Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999.
A native of Barrow County, Miss Jordan was a daughter of
Sylvester and Maggie Jordan, Winder.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at White Oak Spring Baptist
Church with the Rev. Alfred Hazel officiating. The body will be
placed in the church at 1:30 p.m. Burial will be in Barrow Memorial
Garden.
Survivors include her parents.
Eberhart & Son Mortuary has charge of arrangements.
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Patricia R. Campbell
Winder
Patricia Rutledge Campbell, 55, died Friday, Oct. 29, 1999.
Mrs. Campbell was a daughter of the late Jack H. and Ina O'Kelly
Rutledge. She was a member of Clairmont Baptist Church, Atlanta.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at Smith Funeral Home with
the Rev. Michael Plunket officiating. Burial will be in North
Atlanta Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include her husband, Steve Campbell; two sons, David
Childers, Norcross, and Kevin Childers, Winder; a sister, Bebe
Johns, Atlanta; and two brothers, Don Rutledge, Winder, and Jon
Rutledge, Covington.
The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. today
at the funeral home.
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Mamie Simpkins
Elberton
Mamie Sapp Dye Simpkins, 94, of 651 Rhodes Drive died Thursday,
Oct. 28, 1999.
A native of Clarke County, Mrs. Simpkins was a daughter of the
late Edward Young and Katherine Livingston Sapp and was the widow
of William Simpkins. She was an educator in Clarke, Elbert,
Oglethorpe and Stephens counties and was of the Methodist faith.
Services will be at 1 p.m. today in Lincoln Heights Cemetery
with the Rev. John W. Strong officiating.
Survivors include a daughter, Mamie Epps; a son, Ernest Warren
Tate; and a grandchild.
The family is at the residence of James and Mamie Epps, Country
Club Road, Elberton.
McKinney-Neal Mortuary has charge of arrangements.
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Lessie Chappell
Royston
Lessie Hilda Carter Cobb Chappell, 77, of 305 Weatherly Homes
died Thursday, Oct. 28, 1999.
A native of Franklin County, Mrs. Chappell was a daughter of the
late Dank and Nancy Saylors Carter and was the widow of Winfred
Cobb and of Wayne Chappell. She was preceded in death by a son,
Robert Edwin Cobb. She was a homemaker and was a member of Old
Canon Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Pruitte Funeral Home with
the Rev. Hugh Hubbard officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
Survivors include four daughters, June Crowe, Toccoa, Judy Cobb,
Canon, Jackie Frye, Atlanta, and Peggy Brown, Royston; four sons,
Harold Cobb, Airline, Dan Cobb, Hartwell, Tommy Cobb, Royston, and
David Chappell, Carnesville; a stepdaughter, Doris Vickery,
Lavonia; a sister, Jean Peeples, Royston; a brother, James Carter,
Elberton; 22 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and two
great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Michael Carey, Jack Hill, Dickey Crowe,
David Chappell Jr., Kenny Snyder and Ricky Boleman.
The family is at the residence of David Chappell, 1865 Georgia
Highway 145, Carnesville, and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m.
today at the funeral home.
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Deaths Elsewhere
Rafael Alberti
Poet
MADRID, Spain -- Rafael Alberti, a renowned poet and the last
survivor of Spain's Generation of '27 artistic group, died
Thursday. He was 96.
Alberti became a member of Spain's Communist Party and was
heavily involved in leftist politics in the 1930s. He started the
revolutionary magazine Octubre (October) in 1934.
The Generation of '27 was a loosely-knit group of writers,
artists and filmmakers that included the likes of Federico Garcia
Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Luis
Bunuel.
The group took its name from the year -- 1927 -- when Alberti
and other literary figures met in Seville to pay homage to 17th
century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora. Its members became some of
the leading protagonists of the Surrealist movement.
Forrest Anderson
Basketball coach
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Forrest ''Forddy'' Anderson, a basketball
coach who led Michigan State University to the Final Four in 1957,
died Monday from complications of pneumonia. He was 80.
Anderson coached from 1954-65. He had a 125-124 record that
included a tie for the Big Ten title in 1956-57 and an outright
championship in 1958-59. He was fired in 1965 after a 5-18 season
and a last-place finish in the conference.
Wes Berggren
Musician
DALLAS -- Wes Berggren, a guitarist and pianist for the
psychedelic rock group Tripping Daisy, was found dead in his
apartment Wednesday. He was 28.
Investigators are awaiting the results of toxicology tests to
determine the cause of death. Police said foul play was not
suspected.
Berggren's wife discovered his body in their Dallas apartment.
Tripping Daisy blossomed onto the pop charts in 1995 with ''I
Got a Girl.'' a quirky single that propelled the group's second
album, ''I Am an Elastic Firecracker,'' to sales of nearly 300,000.
Sales of the band's third album, ''Jesus Hits Like the Atom
Bomb,'' were sluggish, though. Island Records dropped them in 1998
as part of its merger between Universal and PolyGram Records, The
Dallas Morning News reported today.
Their core fans remained true, and the group, which formed in
the late '80s at the University of North Texas, had been performing
at clubs around Dallas and Fort Worth in recent years.
Leonard E. Boyle
ROME (AP) -- The Rev. Leonard E. Boyle, who led the Vatican
Library into the age of computer catalogs and gift merchandising,
died Monday. He was 75.
During his 13 at the Vatican, Boyle oversaw the world's largest
collection of ancient manuscripts.
As keeper of manuscripts and chief librarian, he modernized the
library by computerizing its old catalogs and wiring the main
reading room for computers.
He also tried to make money by selling the rights to its
warehouse of images.
Boyle was in charge of the library when Ohio State University
professor Anthony Melnikas stole pages from an ancient manuscript
once owned by the 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrach.
Melnikas was sentenced to 14 months in prison and fined $3,000 for
theft.
In 1996, the Vatican was forced to pay the equivalent of $8.8
million plus $1.3 million in attorney's fees to settle a lawsuit
that resulted from Boyle's sale of exclusive rights to reproduce
library images.
It is unclear if the two incidents led the Vatican to dismiss
Boyle in 1997 or if he accepted early retirement.
Frank DeVol
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Frank DeVol, a composer who wrote scores for
more than 50 films and received Oscar nominations for ''Hush ...
Hush, Sweet Charlotte,'' ''Pillow Talk'' and ''Guess Who's Coming
to Dinner,'' died Wednesday. He was 88.
In addition to movie scores, he also wrote the theme music for
television shows including ''My Three Sons'' and ''The Brady
Bunch.''
He later took on roles as a character actor, appearing in
''Parent Trap,'' ''Fernwood Tonight,'' ''I'm Dickens, He's
Fenster'' and ''Silver Spoons.''
He later wrote radio studio arrangements for stars including
Rudy Vallee, Ginny Simms, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Kay Starr, Tony
Bennett and Vic Damone.
Ben Johnson
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Ben Johnson, who grew up poor in
Texas and became one of the biggest real estate deal makers in Palm
Beach, died Friday of cancer. He was 64.
Johnson joked that his childhood in Dallas was so poor his only
toy was an old mayonnaise jar. But in 1980, he sold the El Solano
oceanfront mansion to Yoko Ono and John Lennon.
In 1985, Johnson's wealthy and much older wife of two decades,
Johanna C.C. ''Ancky'' Johnson, sued for divorce. He requested
alimony sufficient to maintain the lifestyle he had come to enjoy.
Charges of drug use and extramarital affairs made the messy
split the talk of the island. Still, the two remained friends and
Johnson was at his ex-wife's bedside when she died three years ago.
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Jewell Carlton Nash
Athens
Mr. Jewell Carlton Nash, 78, of Athens died Friday, October 29,
1999.
A native of Jackson County, Mr. Nash had lived in the Athens
area most of his life. He was a son of the late John and Hattie
Nixon Nash and the widower of Irene Whitehead Nash. He was retired
owner of Nash & Son Truck Parts, a member of the Whitehead Civitan
Club, the Classic City Square Dancers, and a member of Forest
Heights Baptist Church.
Services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Bernstein Funeral Home
Chapel with the Rev. Tom Lang officiating.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Jerry and Betty
Nash, Bogart, GA; a daughter and son-in-law, June and Bobby
Sanders, Athens; two sisters, Clara Norman, Smyrna, GA and Sally
Parham, Snellville, GA; grandchildren, Mark Nash, Lane Nash, Dawn
Sanders D'Apollonio, and Brook Nash; nine great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Joe Archer, Jimmy Fields, Joe D'Apollonio,
Mark Nash, Lane Nash, and Brook Nash.
The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Saturday evening
at Bernstein Funeral Home. Those desiring to do so may make
contributions to the Atlanta Area Chapter of the Alzheimer Assoc.,
1841 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30329.
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Hassie Mae Scogin
Comer
Hassie Mae Gearin Scogin, 79, died Friday, October 29, 1999.
A native of Madison County, Mrs. Scogin was a daughter of the
late Joseph and Telitha Thomas Gearin, and the widow of the late
Dabney Wilmer Scogin. She was retired from the Health Care Field. A
member of Forest Heights Baptist Church, she was also active in the
Bible Mission Church.
Graveside Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 31,
at Evergreen Memorial Park with Rev. Luther Fouche officiating.
Survivors include a son, Paul Scogin, Pittsburgh, PA; two
daughters and sons-in-law, Virginia ''Jeannie'' and Jimmy Ledford,
Winterville, GA and Barbara and Samuel Moore, Cataula, GA; a
sister, Hazel Epps, Danielsville, GA; six grandchildren, five
great-grandchildren,, one niece and two nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Saturday evening
at Bernstein Funeral Home. Those desiring to do so may make
contributions to the Atlanta Area Chapter of the Alzheimer Assoc.,
1841 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329.
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