THE CLARION-LEDGER I SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2002 CLARIONLEDGER.COM MISSISSIPPI DEATHS Infant Nicole P. Brown Morton Nicole Paige Brown, infant daughter of Jimmy and Ginger Brown of Morton, died Thursday, January 3, 2002, at River Oaks Hospital in Flowood. Graveside services were 2 p.m. Saturday in Morton Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Martha Chan Jackson Martha Chan, 81, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at Central Mississippi Medical Center.
Visitation is p.m. today at Baldwin- Funeral Home in Jackson. Services are 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home with burial in Mendenhall Cemetery. A native of Mendenhall, Mrs.
Chan had lived in Jackson for the past 11 years. She was a retired escrow officer and was a member of St. Therese Catholic Church and was a past president of the Jim Bean Bottle Club. She was the widow of the late Mr. Kenneth Clifford Shepardson and the late Mr.
Joseph Chan. Survivors include: son and daughter -inlaw, Kenneth C. and Ester Shepardson of Jackson; daughters and son-in-law, Dianna M. and Russell Hawkins of Mexia, Texas and Barbara A. Jones of Los Angeles, and grandchildren, Brad Hawkins, Leila Treijo, Kim Wynne, Merlina Saum, Desiree Poturny and Robert Harrig.
Wallace Allen Chase Jr. Whitfield Wallace Allen Chase 50, died Wednesday, January 3, 2002, at Jaquith Nursing Home. Visitation is 1:30 p.m. today at Rolling Fork Methodist Church. Services are 3 p.m.
today at the church, followed by burial in Mound Cemetery in Rolling Fork. A native of Rolling Fork, Allen lived in Jackson many years. He was a of the University of Mississippi graduate worked in state government several years. Survivors include: his mother, Mopsey Humer; a sister, Marion Chase, both of Jackson; a niece, Stacy Therrell of Brandon; two nephews, Cauley Chase of Rolling Fork and Chris Martin of Leland; two great-nephews and one great-niece. The family requests any memorials be made to the Huntington's Disease Society of America, 158 West 29th Street, New York, NY 10001.
Ethel M. Flanagan McCall Creek Ethel M. Flanagan, 94, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at Franklin County Memorial Hospital. Services are 2 p.m. today at Stringer Funeral Home in Crystal Springs with burial in Poplar Springs Cemetery.
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Services are New Hope M.B. Church in burial in New Hope Batesville. Cooley's Batesville is handling Bernice Herring Greenwood Home in Prentiss. Wednesday at Pete Silsbee, Texas Cemetery in Buna, retired employformerly of December 31, Hospital in South2 p.m. today at Batesville with Cemetery in Mortuary Inc.
of arrangements. Bernice Bain Turner Herring, 77, a homemaker died of heart failure Friday, January 4, 2002, at Golden Age Nursing Home. Graveside services are 2 p.m. Monday in Oddfellows Cemetery. Wilson Knight Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Doyle Marion Hood Ackerman Doyle Marion Hood, 65, founder of Hood's Plumbing Electric in Starkville died of heart failure Friday, January 4, 2002, at Oktibbeha Co. Hospital in Starkville. Services are 2 p.m. today at Old Lebanon Presbyterian Church with burial in Old Lebanon Cemetery. Nowell Funeral Services is handling arrangements.
Ernest 'Dude' Stryker II Chatom, Ala. Ernest Harold "Dude" Stryker I1, 72, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at home. Visitation is 1-3 p.m. today at Laton Hill Baptist Church. Services are 3 p.m.
at the church with burial in Chatom Cemetery in Chatom, Ala. Lathan Funeral Home of Chatom, Ala. is handling arrangements. John W. Martin II Tupelo Joseph S.
Garst Clarksdale Oakridge Cemetery in Clarksdale. Nowell Funeral Home is handing arrangements. Linda E. Johnson Carthage John W. Martin I1, 85, died Saturday, Clarksdale January 5, 2002, at Cedars Nursing CenJoseph S.
Garst, 87, a retired farmer ter in Tupelo. Services are 3 p.m. Monday died of heart failure Friday, January 4, at Peniel Baptist Church in Islandton with 2002, at Baptist East Hospital in Mem- burial following in the church cemetery. phis. Services are 11 a.m.
Monday at St. Lee Memorial Funeral Home of Verona is Elizabeth Catholic Church in Clarksdale handling arrangements. with burial Gene Gaston Columbus Gene Gaston, 80, died Friday, January 4, 2001, at home. Visitation is 5-7 p.m. Sunday at St.
Paul's Episcopal Church. Services are 2 p.m. Monday at the church with burial in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus. Gunter Peel are handling arrangements. Joe Hagwood Causeyville Community Joe C.
Hagwood, 47, a market manager for Winn-Dixie Grocery store died Thursday, January 3, 2002, at home. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at Barham Funeral Home in Meridian. Services are 1 p.m. Monday at Center Grove Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery in the Causeyville Community.
Margurette Hammers Prentiss Margurette Hammers, 86, a homemaker died Saturday, January 5, 2002, at home. Visitation is 4-6 p.m. today at LAKEOVER FUNERAL HOME MR. TOMMY HAYNES 11 a.m. Grove (Pocahontas) Visit Mon.
after 1 p.m. 1525 Beasley Rd. 362-0162 WRIGHT FERGUSON MR. WALLACE ALLEN CHASE JR. 3 p.m.
Fork Methodist Church Visit 1:30 p.m. Sun. church MRS. PATSY J. WILLIAMS 11 a.m.
Chapel, Parkway Visit 2-5 p.m. Parkway MR. GORDON MCLEMORE 11 a.m. Presbyterian Church Visit 5-8 p.m. Sun.
Parkway MRS. BEVERLY RICHARDSON SMITH 2 p.m. High St. Visit 1-5 p.m. High St.
MR. WENDELL W. LADNER 10 a.m. Parkway Visit p.m. Parkway NANCY R.
MYERS 2 p.m. Baptist Church Clinton, MS 352-3632 Alice Baroudy Roberts Vicksburg Alice Baroudy Roberts, 81, a retired bookkeeper, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at Parkview Regional Medical Center. Visitation is 10 a.m. Monday at St. George Orthodox Church.
Services are 11 a.m. Monday at the church with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Fisher-Riles Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Lavern Russell Gunnison Mabry Lavern Russell, 69, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at home. Visitation is 2- 3 p.m.
today at Ray Funeral Home in Cleveland. Services are 3 p.m. today at the funeral home with burial in Beulah Cemetery. Debra Flora Ryan Starkville Jackson Debra Flora Ryan, 44, died Friday, January 4, 202, at home. Visitation is 1 p.m.
at Aldersgate United Methodist Church. Memorial services are 2:30 p.m. Monday at the church. Welch Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Beverly R.
Smith Beverly Jane Richardson Smith, 52, personnel officer for the Mississippi State Tax Commission, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at Baptist Medical Center following a long illness. Visitations are 1-5 p.m. today and Monday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street. A Memorial service is 2 p.m. Monday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street.
Burial will follow in Lakewood Memorial Park. Mrs. Smith was born September 4 4, 1949, at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Clinton and a drum majorette for the Clinton High School band.
Following graduation in 1967, she Smith majored in English at Mississippi College and taught briefly at Calloway High School before entering a career in personnel management. After working for Borg Warner Security in Houston, Texas for 12 years, she returned to Mississippi to serve as personnel officer for the State Tax Commission. Among her proudest accomplishments was being named the Commission's Employee of the Year 2001. Family and friends remember Mrs. Smith as a woman of wit and Intellect who worked diligently and selflessly while shunning the spotlight.
She gave generously of herself, working with a laptop computer on her bed up until December 23, to finish a policy manual for her employers. She then invested her remaining strength in preparing Christmas gifts for her loved ones. Her daughter, Robin Stumpf of Clinton, describes her as "Strong, heroic, and uncomplaining, an inspiration to everyone who witnessed her fight with cancer. She was not just my mother; she was my best friend, and I owe her everything." Her mother, Mrs. Jimmie Reynolds of Clinton recalls that Mrs.
Smith's character and determination were always a standout: "The boys at school voted Beverly the girl who ought to be on the football team. She was feminine and not very big, but she meant business." Mrs. Smith was preceded in death by her father, Dr. L.B. Richardson.
Other survivors include her husband, Eddie Smith of Jackson, granddaughter, Ashlee Miley of Clinton, brothers Dr. Douglas Richardson of Jackson and Rev. Brian Richardson of Flowood. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester MN 55095 or American Cancer Society, 1380 Livingston Jackson, MS 39213.
Thomas Swims Jr. Carrollton Thomas Swims died Thursday, January 3, 2002, at Green Hospital. Services are 2 p.m. today at Sanders Sanders Funeral Home in Winona with burial in the Swims Family Cemetery in Carroll County. Ruby Anderson Webb Cleveland Ruby Anderson Webb, 97, management supervisor for Farmer's Home Administration, died of heart failure Saturday, January 5, 2002, at Beverly Healthcare.
Visitation is p.m. Monday at Thweatt-King Funeral Home. Services are 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home with burial in New Cleveland Cemetery. Patsy J.
Williams Madison Patsy J. Williams, 64, a homemaker, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at home. Visitation is 2-5 p.m. today and 9:30 a.m. Monday at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland.
Services are 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home with burial in Parkway Memorial Cemetery. Mrs. Williams, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, was a long time resident of Jackson and Madison. She attended Georgetown College and the University of Cincinnati where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi Sorority.
She was very involved in the community, volunteering MARK SEEPE FUNERAL HOME CREMATORIUM 601-352-5239 Toll-Free: 1-800-748 9751 755 Riverside Drive, for the Salvation Army, the American Cancer Society, the Jackson Ballet, and serving as a leader in the Girl Scouts of America. Mrs. Williams also volunteered at many nursing homes throughout Jackson. She was a very active member of First Presbyterian Church. Mrs.
Williams is preceded in death by her husband, Auvergne Williams Jr. Survivors include: daughter, Michele Waters of Newnan, son, Warren Williams of Jackson; and four sisters, Betty June Heilman of Richmond, Sherry Ketteler of Erlangr, Marsha Blandshard of Hendersonville, N.C. and Donna Lee Cain of Harrison, Ohio. Memorials may be made to Hospice Ministries, 450 Town Center Ridgeland, MS 39157, or French Camp, French Camp, MS. Alfonso Wright Lexington Alfonso Wright, 83, a retired farmer, died of heart failure Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at VA Medical center.
Services are 2 p.m. today at Century Hairston Funeral Home with burial in Wright Cemetery. Wilmer L. Young Laurel Wilmer L. Young, 73, retired from the City of Laurel Water Department, died of heart failure Friday, January 4, 2002, at South Central Regional Medical center.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at Memory Chapel Funeral Home. Services are 10 a.m. Monday at the funeral home with burial in Hickory Grove Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice Ministries, P.O.
Box 1228, Ridgeland, MS, 39158-1228. Roxie Jones Lewis Jackson Roxie Jones Lewis, 52, a homemaker, died Wednesday, January 3, 2002, at Central Mississippi Medical Center. Visitation is after 10 a.m. Tuesday at Lakewood Memorial Funeral Home. Graveside services are 11 a.m.
Tuesday in Lakewood Memorial Park. Survivors include: husband, Ed Lewis of Jackson; daughters, Cassandra Sprowles Napaul of Clinton and Jaclyn K. Lewis of Byram; and aunt, Louise Porch of Brandon. Gordon McLemore Madison Gordon McLemore, 73, died Friday Jan. 4, 2002, at home.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland, and 10 a.m. Monday at Highlands Presbyterian Church. Services are 11 a.m. Monday at Highlands Presbyterian Church with burial in the Natchez Trace Memorial Park Cemetery with full military honors.
Mr. McLemore was born in Agricola, and lived in the Jackson and Madison area for 35 years. He was a former resident of Fairhope, where he owned Gordon's Inc. and he retired as a salesman with Cabell Electric in Jackson. He was a veteran of the Korean Conflict serving in the U.S.
Marines from 1948-1952, where he received the Bronze Star with a combat for valor. He was one of the Chosin Few for having fought in the battle at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean Conflict and also served as a Color Guard in Washington, DC. Mr. McLemore was a member of Highlands Presbyterian Church, the American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was the American Legion nominee for the State of Mississippi to attend the Korean War Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C.
in 1995. He is survived by his wife Sharlene McLemore of Madison, three daughters: Melissa McLemore of Ridgeland, Melanie Martin of Madison, Monica Cobb of Ridgeland, three grandchildren: Kayli Cobb, Martin Cobb, Alex Martin, two brothers: C.B. McLemore of Eupora, W.B. McLemore of Gainesville, two sisters: Rachel Odle ofLucedale, Harriett Brannan of Lucedale, Miss. Memorials may be made to Highlands Presbyterian Church 1160 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, Ms.
39157. Joe J. Myrick Bay Springs Joe J. Myrick, 79, retired military and nursing home business, died of heart failure Thursday, January 3, 2002, at Jasper General Hospital. Visitation is 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. today at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home. Services are 2 p.m. today at the funeral home with burial in Providence Cemetery in Stringer. Ida Mae Dukes Neal Jackson Ida Mae Dukes Neal, 91, a retired teacher and homemaker died Thursday, January 3, 2002, at Lakeland Healthcare Center.
Services were 2 p.m. Saturday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home on High Street followed by burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. A native of White Oak, Mrs. Neal was raised and educated in Smith County. She was a graduate of Hinds Community College, Delta State, and earned a Masters degree from U.S.M.
She taught chemistry, biology, and Home Economics in public schools in MS. and for 42 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Braxton Neal. Survivors include: a daughter, Mary Lou Payne, Brandon; two sons, Wendell Neal, Brandon and Webber Neal, West Chicago, brother, Dr. Timon Dukes, Clinton, sisters, Tera Belle McClain, Brandon and Polly Clark, Taylorsville, six grandchildren, Sharee Brewer, Kendall Church, Natalie Neal, Ashley Neal, Mark Neal, Jonathan Payne and great-grandson, Jason Neal.
Florinda B.Pieralisi Leland Florinda Biagioli Pieralisi, 80, a homemaker died of heart failure Saturday, January 5, 2002, at home. Funeral Mass is 1 p.m. Monday at St. James Catholic Church with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Greenville. Boone Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
LAKEWOOD FUNERAL HOME MRS. ROXIE JONES LEWIS Visitation after 10 a.m. Tuesday Graveside services 11 a.m. Tuesday Lakewood Memorial Park MRS. GERTRUDE LANIER Arrangements Pending MR.
HOMER KEYES Arrangements Pending 922-2123 Smith Troy Associated Press A fitting farewell Coahoma farmer Bobby Harold Goss, whose horse-drawn carriage entertained youngsters for years in area parades and other community events, is transported via horse-drawn hearse to Oakridge Cemetery on Thursday in Clarksdale. Fellow horse enthusiasts rode in the processional. Aboard the hearse are (from left) Wayne Rybolt and Sherry Davis, both of Clarksdale, and Brad McCormick, Goss' son-in-law, who lives in Bay Springs. Simpson jurors to hear murder case The Associated Press PASCAGOULA Simpson County jurors will hear the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing a 4-year-old Ocean Springs girl. Assistant District Attorney Cheryl Sullivan said Jackson County Circuit Court officials will travel Jan.
14 to select a jury for the trial. The jurors will be brought back to Jackson County. "We hope we can get a jury selected in one day, and that we will be back here on Jan. 15 to begin opening arguments and testimony," Sullivan said. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Kathy King Jackson ordered an out-of-county jury hear the case after ruling Dec.
18 that media coverage made it difficult to find an impartial Jackson County jury. Hugh McGowan, 36, is charged with capital murder in the Feb. 27, 2000, death of 4-year-old Shelby Lynn Tucker. He is accused of taking the child from her grandmother's Gulf Park Estates residence. Her body was found the next day in a wooded area near the Ocean Springs Airport after an extensive search.
Authorities said an autopsy showed that she died from heart failure caused by a blow to the left side of her head. Linda E. Johnson, 58, a retired emergency medical technician, died Saturday, January 5, 2002, at St. Dominic's-Jackson Memorial Hospital. Visitation is 2-8 p.m.
today and a.m. Monday at Wilcox Funeral Home. Services are 10 a.m. Monday at Wiggins Baptist Church with burial in Wiggins Cemetery near Carthage. Mrs.
Johnson was a native of Newton County. She was an active member of Wiggins Baptist Church. Survivors include: husband, Edwin Johnson; son, Craig Perry of Carthage; two step-sons, Joe E. Johnson of Pelahatchie and Larry Johnson of Carthage; three sisters, Shirley Bozeman of Carthage, Barbara Tuminello of Jackson and Jarie Thompson of Booneville; two brothers, Jimmy Ezelle of Carthage and Billy Earl Ezelle of Noxapater; and six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Hazel W.
Joy Brandon Hazel W. Joy, 91, died Friday, January 4, 2002, at home. Memorial services are 11 a.m. Monday at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Survivors include: son, Larry Joy of Brandon; daughter, Marla Veniegas of Kiln; two grandchildren, Misty M.
Barr and Chad T. Joy, both of Brandon; and one great-grandchild. BALDWIN-LEE MRS. MARTHA CHAN 2 p.m. Mon.
Chapel Jackson MRS. KATHRYN M. TURNER 2 p.m. Sun. B-L Pearl MRS.
HAZEL JOY B-L Pearl (601) 939-6110 (601) 372-5623 PEARL JACKSON OTT LEE FUNERAL HOME Since 1934 Brandon 824-6018 Locally Forest 469-3412 Owned Morton 732-6571 WILLIAM A. "BILL" SEMPLE 3 p.m. Chapel-Brandon Visit 1-3 p.m. Sun. NICOLE PAIGE BROWN Infant daughter of Ginger Brown 2 p.m.
Memorial Gardens Visit noon to 1:45 p.m. Suspect, out on bond, jailed on new charges The Associated Press out on bond after a mistrial was PASCAGOULA A declared in a Nov. 13 murder trial. Pascagoula man who was out on Knox was arrested in Clarke bond pending a new trial for mur- County on Dec. 20 by an agent with der is back in jail after his arrest on the East Mississippi Narcotics drug and kidnapping charges.
Task Force and a Stonewall police Judge James Backstrom officer on kidnapping charges after revoked the $100,000 bond on an incident in which he and another Marlon Knox after a hearing Fri- man held a woman hostage in her day in Jackson County Circuit Stonewall residence. Court. The other man remains at large. Knox, 24, is accused of killing The drug charge involves a Dec. Willie James McGill on May 1, 7 case in which Knox is accused of 2000.
He was allowed to remain selling $60 worth of crack cocaine. Minister who helped reunite Presbyterian churches dies The Associated Press BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. The Rev. John Randolph Taylor, an architect of the reunification of northern and southern Presbyterian denominations in 1983, died Friday at his home at age 72. Taylor, who had been suffering from multiple myeloma and kidney failure, was a key leader on the committee working to reunify the branches into what is now the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Taylor also was elected moderator of the reunified denomination's General Assembly the same year as the merger. He spent the next year touring the country, working to strengthen ties in the new denomination. Taylor served as president of San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1985 until his retirement in 1994. Earlier, Taylor was a pastor of congregations in Washington, D.C., Charlotte and Atlanta and participated in the civil rights movement. While at Church of the Pilgrims in Washington, he urged church leaders to join the 1963 March on Washington and marched with Martin Luther King Jr.
in Selma and Montgomery. As pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta in 1968, he opened the church doors as a hospitality center to thousands of mourners streaming into the city following King's assassination. He became pastor of Myers Park Presbyterian Church in Charlotte in 1976. Taylor was a fifth-generation minister and son of missionaries to China. He graduated from Davidson College, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Survivors include his wife of more than 50 years, Arline, six children and 12 grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the J. Randolph Taylor Fellows Program at Montreat Conference Center, in care of MRA, Box 969, Montreat, NC 28757. A memorial service is set for Tuesday in Montreat..
