1 The Roanoke Times, Saturday, March 28, 1998 Roanoke Valley New River Valley GALAX Black, Mary E. 0. ALLISONIA Dills, James T. Boone, Sylvia M. Crelia, Edna M.
Clark, Norman H. Dixon, Delmar D. Doehler, Helen C. BLACKSBURG Poole, Mildred F. Eversole, Minnis D.
Nissle, Charles F. GLADE SPRING Hartigan, Donn M. Davidson, Pearl F. G. White, Irene V.
C. PULASKI Wise, Ruby W. Hensley, Robert LEXINGTON WILLIS Sorrells, Dora G. Bedford-Franklin Hill, Beatrice W. WYTHEVILLE BEDFORD Black, Janie H.
Dyess, Halley E. State PENHOOK BASSETT Out-of-State Palmer, Thomas N. Skeens, Jessie W. LOUISVILLE, KY. REDWOOD CHILHOWIE Craig, Dora W.
Campbell, H. Testerman, Ida C. SPARTA, N.C William Dowell, Glenn T. WASHINGTON, D.C. Driscoll, James F.
Check late notices for deaths received too late to be included in this index. Roanoke Valley BLACK, Mary Elizabeth Owens, 84, of 2266 Memorial Avenue, S.W., Roanoke, and formerly of 215 LaGrange Street, Pulaski, died early Friday morning, March 27, 1998, in the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. She was born in Virginia on October 17, 1913, and was the daughter of the late James H. and Mary T. Owens.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Charlie C. Black; a son, Charles S. Black and his wife, Linda D. Black, and his daughter, Susan L. Black.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Pulaski. Surviving are sons and daughter-in-law, Wayne Black, Roanoke, Jimmy and Jonell Black, Wirtz; two sisters, Pauline O. Myers, Pulaski, Rita O. Green, Myrtle Beach, S.C.: five grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m.
from the Stevens Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Steven Emory officiating. Burial will follow in the Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin. Visiting will be Sunday evening from Stevens Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers the family wishes that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church, Pulaski.
Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Pulaski. BOONE, Sylvia Meek, 65, of Roanoke County, died Wednesday, March 25, 1998. Sylvia was a long time member of Red Hill Church of the Brethren, was a 1953 graduate of Roanoke Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, and was a caregiver for Carilion Hospice. She was preceded in death by her parents, John Franklin, Sr. and Mattie Gayheart Meek; a brother, John F.
Meek, Jr. Surviving are her husband, Gerald D. Boone, her sons and daughters-in-law, Gerald D. Jr. and Barbara Boone of Phoenix, Phillip L.
Boone and soul mate, Robin of Boones Mill; a daughter and her life partner, Sherrie L. Boone and Manne A Strand of Pompano Beach, grandchildren, Ty Boone, Nathan Boone and Patrick; her brothers, Robert M. Meek and friend, Bonnie of Crimora, David M. Meek and wife, Arlene, Randolph P. Meek and wife, Lucille, Kenneth L.
Meek and wife, Peggy, all of Waynesboro, Lloyd S. Meek and wife, Rosanne of Stuarts Draft; her sisters, Stella M. Batten and husband, Hubert of Ruckersville, Dora Ann Peery and husband, Grover, Betty Jo Cash and friend, David, Debbie Gail Meek (a special sister), all of Waynesboro, Carolyn Sue Craig and husband, Buddy of Crimora; a sister-in-law, Mary Meek of Waynesboro; numerous nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be held at Red Hill Church of the Brethren, Saturday, March 28, 2 p.m., with the Rev. Paris E.
Bain officiating. Interment in Franklin Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be made to Carilion Hospice or the American Cancer Society. Friends may call at Oakey's South Chapel after 11 a.m. Friday.
CRELIA, Edna Mae, 71, of Roanoke, died Friday, March 27, 1998. Arrangements by Oakey's South Chapel. DOEHLER, Helen Christine, 82, of Vinton, passed away Thursday, March 26, 1998. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Sallie Floyd; her husband, Walter R. Doehler, and sisters, Ethel Pugh, Ruby Peters, Hallie Glover and Berta Pugh.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Eric E. and Diane Doehler of Goodview; granddaughters, Mrs. Ronnie Ray (Misty) Lawhorn of Vinton and Amber Doehler of Goodview; greatgrandchildren, Brandon Lawhorn and Austin Lawhorn; sisters, Beulah Powers and Alda Wallace, both of Vinton, and a brother, Henry Floyd of Roanoke. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday, March 30, 1998, at Lotz Vinton Chapel.
Interment will follow in Old Dominion Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the funeral home. Arrangements are being handled by Lotz Funeral Home, Vinton. In Memoriams CAWLEY -In loving memory of Bill and Clara Cawley.
Mom, we wish you a Happy Birthday, your 5th year in Heaven. Dad, it has been 30 years since you left us so suddenly on March 28th. We remember the hurt as if it were only yesterday. Children and Grandchildren OBITUARIES PALMER, Thomas Nelson, 67, of Penhook, died Friday, March 27, 1998. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Elizabeth Palmer.
Mr. Palmer was the owner of Palmer's Trailer Park and Palmer's Marina at Smith Mountain Lake. He had been battling cancer for six years. Surviving are his wife, June Hudson Palmer of the home; two sons and daughters-in-law, Michael and Carolyn Palmer, and Don and Patti Palmer, all of Penhook: two daughters and sonsin-law, Susan and Tim Altice of Richmond and Cindy and Jeff Holland of Glade Hill; seven grandchildren, Matthew and Jessica Jason and Kristie Palmer, Logan and Elizabeth Palmer, and Chelsea Holland; one sister and brother-in-law, Flora and Jimmy Dorsett of Danville; three sistersin-law and their husbands, Margaret and Wilson Hodges, Eva Mae and Charlie Tyree, and Pat and Joe Tolbert, all of Rocky Mount; one brother-in-law and his wife, Ned and Essyebelle Hudson of Rocky Mount, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m.
Sunday in Flora Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. John Downs, the Rev. Brian Vaughn and the Rev. Charles Comer officiating. Interment will follow in the Palmer family cemetery.
Friends may call after 4 p.m. Saturday, with the family receiving friends from 7 to 9 p.m., at Flora Funeral Service, South Main Street, Rocky Mount. New River Valley CLARK, Norman Harold, 74, Allisonia, passed away Thursday, March 26, 1998. Graveside service 2 p.m. Sunday, Shockley Cemetery, Hillsville.
Arrangements by Vaughan-Guynn-McGrady Chapel, Hillsville. HENSLEY, Robert, 65, of Pulaski, died Thursday, March 26, 1998. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday, Stevens Funeral Chapel. HILL, Beatrice Weeks, 85, of Willis, passed away Thursday, March 26, 1998, at the Salem Health and Rehabilitation Center.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilmer C. Hill. Surviving are three sons and daughters-in-law, Harry and Judy Hill, Willis, Henry and Mary Ann Hill, Dugspur, Ray and Lynn Hill, Lake Charles, two daughters and sons-in-law, Betty and Curtis Brown, Willis, Helen and Jimmy Goad, Roanoke; 14 eleven grandchildren; grandchildren. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at the Willis United Methodist Church with Rev.
Lawrence Nuckolls officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Maberry Funeral Home, Floyd. NISSLE, Charles Frederick, 86, of Blacksburg, died Thursday, March 26, 1998.
Funeral services will be held in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home. State BLACK, Janie Hale, 87, of Wytheville, died Wednesday, March 25, 1998. Funeral 1 p.m. Sunday at the Bethel A.M.E.
Church. Visitation from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Barnett Funeral Home in Wytheville. DAVIDSON, Pearl Frances Griffey, 79, of Glade Spring, died Friday, March 27, 1998. Arrangements by Williams Funeral Home, Chilhowie.
DILLS, James Thomas, 93, of Galax, died Thursday, March 26, 1998. Funeral 11 a.m. Saturday, Atkins Memorial United Methodist Church, Fries. Arrangements by Vaughan-Guynn Chapel. DIXON, Delmar Dean, 50, of Galax, died Thursday, March 26, 1998.
Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday, Vaughan-Guynn Chapel POOLE, Mildred Frances, 74, of Galax, died Thursday, March 26, 1998. Funeral 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Vaughan-Guynn Chapel. SKEENS, Jessie 66, of Bassett, died Thursday, March 26, 1998.
Graveside service 11 a.m. SatRoselawn Burial Park. Arrangements by Bassett Funeral Service. SORRELLS, Dora Gordon, 74, of Lexington, died Friday, March 27, 1998. Arrangements by Harrison Funeral Home.
TESTERMAN, Ida Carter, 92, of Chilhowie, died Friday, March 27, 1998. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday, Macedonia Baptist Church. Arrangements by Seaver-Brown Funeral Service, Marion. Out-of-State DOWELL, Glenn 63, of Sparta, N.C.
formerly of Mouth of Wilson, Va. died Friday, March 27. 1998. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. ReinsSturdivant Funeral Home Chapel, Independence, Va.
DRISCOLL, James 79, of Washington, D.C., died Tuesday, March 24, 1998. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. CRAIG, Dora Wallace, 84, of Louisville, and formerly of Williamson, W.Va., died Friday, March 27, 1998, at Hurstbourne Care Center. Mrs. Craig was born on August 31, 1913, and was predeceased by her husband, William B.
Craig. She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Williamson, W.Va. She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Jane Fuller, Louisville, Patty and Hilton Minton, Louisville, Cathy and Woody Nester, Christiansburg, son and daughterin-law, Bill and Linda tington, W. grandchildren, Kaye, Craig and Wally Minton, Threresa and David Fuller, Michael and Steve Nester, Billy and Colleen Craig, and two great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 29, 1998, at Weaver Mortuary Chapel. Interment will follow in Mount View Memory Gardens, Huddy, Ky. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 1998, at Weaver Mortuary Chapel. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimers Association, the American Heart Association or First United Methodist Church, Williamson, W.
Va. Late notice TRUSSELL, Evelyn 66, of Lexington died Friday, March 27, 1998. Arrangements by Harrison Funeral Home. Group wants Gilmore to veto 'partial birth' ACLU ready to challenge abortion bill The organization, which may file a lawsuit, says the bill is unconstitutional because it endangers women's health and lives by forcing them, in some cases, to undergo riskier procedures. ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND The American Civil Liberties Union has threatened to file a lawsuit if Gov.
Jim Gilmore signs a bill outlawing a form of late-term abortions that opponents call "partial-birth" abortion. In a letter Friday, the executive director of the ACLU in Virginia urged Gilmore to veto the bill. Kent Willis wrote that the ACLU "is prepared to challenge this bill in federal court should it become law." Gilmore will sign the bill, spokesman Mark Miner said. "The ACLU is on the wrong side on this issue," he said. Willis said the law "is so vague that physicians will need to consult lawyers while they are performing abortions and they still might not get it right." He also argued the bill is unconstitutional because it endangers women's health and lives by forcing them, in some cases, to undergo riskier procedures.
"To say this is the safest procedure is an incredibly irresponsible thing for the ACLU to state," said Fiona Givens, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Society for Human Life. She said the procedure "poses significant risks to the mother's life and fertility." Nineteen states have laws similar to the Virginia bill. Courts have blocked enforcement in 10 of the states, and the laws in others are under attack. WHAT DO YOU THINK? Three of the seven seats on Roanoke City Council will be on the ballot May 5. We'd like to hear your ideas about what's at stake in this election and what issues the candidates for council should address.
Let us know so we can follow up: PHONE: In Roanoke, 981-0100. Press category 7824. FAX: 981-3346 E-MAIL: WRITE: Todd Jackson, The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, Va. 24010-2491.
Please include your name, address and phone number. Family doubts woman fell from ship Search suspended for missing woman Amy L. Bradley, 23, was reported missing early Tuesday from the cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas. ASSOCIATED PRESS 73, of Salem, died Thursday, March 26, 1998. She had resided in the area since 1956 and was retired from ITT where she had worked as a technician for many years.
She was the widow of the late Cecil S. Eversole Sr. and was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Salem. Surviving family include a daughter and sonin-law, Joyce E. and Sonny Tarpley; sons and daughter-in-law, Cecil S.
"Sonny" and Cathy Eversole Billie E. and Norma Eversole; brothers, Sherman Dixon, George Dixon, Daniel Dixon, and Alvin Dixon; two sisters, Laura Spraker and Doris Boitnott; grandchildren, Vickie T. Thomasson, Elizabeth A. Tarpley, Scott and Craig Eversole, Corrie A. Eversole and Candi J.
Eversole; four great-grandsons. A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 28 at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem with the Rev. Thomas L. Joyce officiating.
The family will receive friends on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the John M. Oakey Son Funeral Home in Salem. The family suggests in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to the Fort Lewis or the Salem Volunteer Rescue Squads. HARTIGAN, Donn Michael, 69, of Roanoke, died Friday, March 27, 1998.
Arrangements by Oakey's South Chapel. WHITE, Irene Varnell Conyers, 71, of Roanoke, passed on Thursday, March 26, 1998. She was born in Marion, S.C. to the late George and Nora Goodman Conyers Sr. She was predeceased by her husband, Lester Junious White.
She is survived by four sons, Lester E. (Janice) White, Richmond, Christopher (JoAnne) White, Powatan, Stephen L. (Bonnie) White and Kelvin L. White, both of Roanoke; two daughters, Cynthia T. White, Richmond and Quinivere and husband, Wayne O.
White-Ross, Roanoke; three brothers, Marvin Conyers, George Conyers Terry E. Conyers, all of Richmond; one sister, Miriam C. Payne, Richmond; eleven grandchildren, Jasmin, Kara, Nikki, Anasha, Michael, LaToya, Christopher, Ayana, Amber, Olivia and Wayne four greatgrandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be Monday, March 30, 1998 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hamlar-Curtis Chapel with the Rev.
William L. Lee officiating. Interment will follow at Williams Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 29, 1998 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hamlar-Curtis Funeral Home.
WISE, Ruby Wells, 92, of Salem, went to be with the Lord Friday, March 27, 1998. She was a lifelong member of the Salem Church of Christ. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother and aunt. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert Wise; two sons, Russell and Marvin Wise; one daughter, Phyllis Reynolds. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Maynard (Buddy) and Sylvia Wise, Salem; five grandchildren; a number of great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m., Monday, March 30, 1998 at Lotz Salem Chapel with Minister Roy Miller and Minister Brian Orahood officiating. Interment will follow in Sherwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Lotz Salem Chapel.
Bedford-Franklin CAMPBELL, William EVERSOLE, Minnis Howard, 88, of Redwood, died Friday, March 27. 1998. Arrangements by Flora Funeral Service, Rocky Mount. DYESS, Hailey two-month old daughter of Michael and Tammi Knuckels Dyess of Bedford, passed away Friday, March 27, 1998. Arrangements by Updike Funeral Home, Bedford.
THE BEST SOURCE FOR COUPONS The Sunday edition of THE ROANOKE TIMES WILLEMSTAD, Curacao The Netherlands Antilles Coast Guard has called off the search for a Virginia woman missing from a cruise ship since early Tuesday. The search of the Caribbean Sea south of Curacao by airplanes was suspended at dusk Thursday and officials decided not to resume their efforts Friday morning, the Coast Guard said. Ocean searches are not usually extended beyond two or three days. Amy L. Bradley, 23, of Chesterfield County, was vacationing with her parents and brother on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' Rhapsody of the Seas when she was reported missing early Tuesday as the ship neared Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean colony about 40 miles north of Venezuela.
Bradley may have fallen from the balcony of the family's cabin on the ship's eighth deck, said Netherlands Antilles Coast Guard Lt. Sjoerd Soethout. The ship was 10 miles outside Willemstad at the time. The woman's mother last saw her asleep on a chair on the balcony, said her uncle, John Noblin." When family members awoke, she. was gone.
A Curacao police spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said Bradley was, last seen at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. She was reported missing shortly before 7 a.m. Noblin said the family doubts that Bradley fell overboard. Royal Caribbean spokesman Rich Steck said the ship was searched after Bradley was reported missing but she was not found.
FBI agents also met the ship at its next stop in St. Maarten to interview crew and passengers to determine if a crime was involved, said FBI spokeswoman Sara Lema in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FBI has jurisdiction in the case because the ship operates from U.S. territory, Lema said. Its current weekly voyages begin and end in San Juan.
The Rhapsody of the Seas, which is carrying about 2,000 passengers, was to end its oneweek cruise today in San Juan. IN VIRGINIA FROM WIRE REPORTS Gilmore says be Once named he steps chancellor down, and Carrier spend will his time helping the school with Confederate fund raising. His salary will come from private sources. month for all in 1971 Carrier, and is 65, the became longest-serving president RICHMOND Gov. Jim Gilmore's proclamation declaring April Confederate History and Heritage Month will denounce slavery and emphasize inclusiveness, he said during a radio address.
His predecessor, fellow Republican George Allen, was criticized last year for issuing a proclamation that glorified the sacrifices of Confederate soldiers and did not mention the plight of slaves. "Any proclamation would include everyone," Gilmore said on his radio call-in show Thursday. "There was slavery in this state abusive to people. The proclamation will reflect the complete society" in Virginia at the time of the Civil War. Allen's proclamation prompted protests by civil rights groups but.
also earned him support among Civil War re-enactors. Eventually, Allen apologized to anyone who was offended but also suggested civil rights leaders had tried to exploit the issue in an election year for the three top statewide offices, including governor. Salim Khalfani, spokesman for the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he would give Gilmore, "the benefit of the doubt" in his promise to draft a more historically and racially balanced proclamation. Retiring JMU president to become chancellor HARRISONBURG James Madison University's outgoing president will become the school's first chancellor, the school's board of visitors announced Friday. Ronald Carrier, who led JMU's growth from a small teacher's college to a major state university, has said he will retire after 27 years as school president.
Carrier said he would remain as president until his successor is hired, but no later than Dec. 31. Retirees will get settlement checks RICHMOND Checks total-, ing $62.5 million will be mailed. Tuesday to federal retirees participating in a settlement with the state, which illegally taxed their pensions. The Virginia Department of Taxation said the 50,495 checks are the fourth of five annual payments to retirees.
Virginia was one of 23 states affected by a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Michigan case that states could not tax federal. retirees while exempting state and local government pensions. About 154,000 retirees agreed to a settlement paying them $308 million, about 76 percent of what they were owed. Parents try for probation on child abuse charges BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn.
A psychologist with the Scott County, school system and her husband are seeking pretrial diversion on charges they sent their 13-year-old son naked into a cold, rainy night. Stephen Yeaney, 40, and Donna Yeaney, 39, appeared Friday in Sullivan County Criminal Court. A pretrial hearing was set for June 8 and a trial date was scheduled for July 20. Prosecutors can offer pretrial. diversion to people who have no criminal records.
If defendants complete probation successfully, the charges would be dismissed. The Yeaneys were charged. with child abuse after the couple, allegedly sent the boy outside Jan. 16 to discipline him. The couple reported him missing later that.
night. He was found the nextafternoon hiding in a neighbor's barn wearing a choir robe he had: taken from his father's church. Authorities said that it was not. the first time the couple had disci-. plined him that way.
Bank robber enters guilty plea Dedric L. Wiley, of Montgom- FBI received a tip that someone ery County, pleaded guilty in fed- named Dedric was at his. eral court Friday to robbing the girlfriend's apartment in Mont-: Southwest Virginia Savings Bank gomery County trying to clean the in Northwest Roanoke in Decem- money. The teller who was held up ber. He had been scheduled to go had slipped a dye pack in with the on trial Monday.
$1,968 she gave Wiley and the. Wiley, who has a previous dye had exploded, turning the record for armed robbery and money red, according to an FBI other crimes, also pleaded to the affidavit. two other federal charges against Wiley was arrested after a him: being a felon in possession of police chase through a firearm and use of a firearm Christiansburg and has been held during a violent crime. without bond. No sentencing date Wiley, 26, was caught a few has been set.
days after the robbery after the JAN VERTEFEUILLE.
