The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Wednesday, December 11, 2002 DEATHS AND FUNERALS BLUFFTON William Blake "Billy" Ashley 53, of 1712 Burnt Church Road, husband of Faye Burkett Ashley, died Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 at Hilton Head Medical Center. Born in Anderson County, he was a son of the late William Blake Ashley Sr. and Emma Ashley.
He was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church and Bascomb Masonic Lodge No. 363 and a Hejaz Shriner. He was self-employed. Survivors include his wife of the home; a son, William Scott Ashley of Bluffton; a daughter, Sally A. Williams of Bluffton; a brother, Keith Ashley of Richmond, two sisters, Linda A.
Smith of Honea Path and Donna A. Smith of Savannah, and three grandchildren. Services are at 1 Thursday at Parker- White Funeral Home in Ware Shoals. Burial is in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Visitation is 7-9 tonight at the funeral home.
Parker-White Funeral Home, Ware Shoals, is in charge. Grace Bartley Grace Robertson Bartley, 88, formerly of Phoenix Street, widow of Jessie C. "Jake" Bartley, died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002 at National Health Care of Greenwood. Services will be announced by Blyth Funeral Home.
Edward Gilchrist Sr. McCORMICK Edward Gilchrist husband of Emma Mae Shivley Gilchrist, died Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 at Self Regional Medical Center in Greenwood. Born in Spartanburg, he was a son of the late Rufus and Bertha Leverette Gilchrist. He attended McCormick public schools and retired from Grede Foundry, Greenwood.
A member of Tranquil A.M.E. Church, he served on the steward board and was a member of the Senior Choir, Gospel Chorus and All Male Chorus. Survivors include his wife of the home; seven daughters, Connie Dunlap, Tina Abney and Janie Jennings, all of Greenwood. Jean Gilchrist, Lisa Moore and Dianne Gilchrist of McCormick and Denise Cartledge of Washington, D.C.; five sons, Edward Gilchrist Jr. and Charlie McClendon, both of Honea Path, Michael Gilchrist and Richard Gilchrist, both of Greenwood and Brian Gilchrist of McCormick; a brother, Leon Gilchrist of Braddock, and 25 grandchildren.
The family is at the home, 311 Oak Hill Lane. Services will be announced by Walker Funeral Home. William Graham Billy Ashley Jr. NINETY SIX Services for William Edward "Bill" Graham are 2 Friday at Mays United Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Willie Key, assisted by Elder Thomas Richardson and Elder Jesse Warren.
The body will be placed in the church at 1. Burial is in NinetySix Community Cemetery. Pallbearers are U.S. Navy military escorts. Honorary escorts are church officers.
Flower bearers are members GREENWOOD COUNTY Grace Bartley, formerly of Phoenix: Street, Greenwood William Graham, 101 Graham Drive, Ninety Six Beatrice J. Martin, 112 Kingston Road, Greenwood Sidney Qualls, 363 Turkey Creek Road, Ware Shoals MCCORMICK COUNTY 1 Edward Gilchrist 311 Oak HIll Lane, McCormick OTHERS IN S.C. Billy Ashley 1712 Burnt Church Road, Bluffton OUTSIDE S.C. I James Sibert, Buffalo, N. Y.
VISITATIONS TODAY ASHLEY, Billy 7-9, Parker-White Funeral Home. LOGAN, Tadre, evening, home of maternal grandparents, Wanda and Howard Logan, 118 Panther Drive, Ninety Six. MARTIN, Beatrice, 7-8, Robinson Son Mortuary, I MITCHELL, Annie, Ramey Funeral Home, Saluda. 1 QUALLS, Sidney, 6-8, Parker- White Funeral Home. I WARNER, Betty, 3-4, Wesley Commons Emerald Room.
SERVICES TODAY BOOZER, Mattie, 1, Old Mount Zion Baptist Church, Epworth. COWART, Fermella, 11, graveside, Greenwood Memorial Gardens. HARRISON, Ransom 2, Springfield Baptist Church, Edgefleld County. MITCHELL, Annie, 3, Ramey Funeral Home, Saluda. PENN, David, 11, Richland Springs Baptist Church, Ward.
I TAYLOR, Keith, 2, graveside, Greenwood Memorial Gardens. I WARNER, Betty, 11, graveside, Rehoboth United Methodist Church Cemetery. PAID OBITUARIES Paid obituaries are published as desiring more information than is funeral notices. Such obituaries are Advertising Department at 223-1411. of the United Methodist Women and church ushers.
Visitation is 7-8 Thursday at Robinson Son Mortuary. The family is at the home, 101 Graham Drive. Robinson Son Mortuary Greenwood, is in charge. Beatrice J. Martin Services for Beatrice Jackson Martin are 3:30 p.m.
Thursday at St. Paul F.B.H. Church, conducted by the Rev. Lela Breeze, assisted by Elder J.L. Davis.
The body will be placed in the church at 2:30. Burial is in Evening Star Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers and flower bearers are friends of the family. Visitation is 7-8 tonight at Robinson Son Mortuary. The family is at the home, 112 Kingston Rd.
Robinson Son Mortuary Inc. is in charge. Sidney Qualls WARE SHOALS Sidney Eugene Qualls, 58, of 363 Turkey Creek Road, husband of Judy Pressley Qualls, died Monday, Dec. 9, 2002 at his home. Born in Ware Shoals, he was a son of the late James and Frances Burkett Qualls and was a member of Turkey Creek Baptist Church, where he served as an usher and on various committees.
He worked at Riegel Textile Corp. from 1962 until the plant closed in 1985, receiving a ZD Award and a Corporate Award. He also worked at Ware Shoals Dye and Print and, most recently, was a maintenance technician for Riechem of Mt. Vernon Mills Division. Survivors include his wife; three sons, Scotty Simpson of the home, Randy Qualls of Waterloo and Donny Qualls of Ware Shoals; three brothers, Roy Qualls of Angleton, Texas, James Qualls of Simpsonville, and Edward Qualls of Waterloo; two sisters, Joyce Knight Hunt requested to accommodate those provided in traditional death and prepared and billed through our of Gray Court and Lydia Hammond of Williamston; and a grandchild.
Services are at 3 Thursday at Turkey Creek Baptist Church, conducted by the Revs. Rod Carver, Jack King and Bobby Davis. Burial is in the Ware Shoals Cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 2. Pallbearers are Bill Knight, Mike Knight, Gerald Knight, Stanley Roach, Leonard Qualls and David Qualls.
Honorary pallbearers are employees of Riechem and members of the Men's Sunday School Class of the church, along with Danny Abercrombie, Curtis Brown, Reid Goodbar, Robert Pace, Ronnie Sullivan, Terry Wood, Aubrey Bannister, Buddy Garrett, Steve Lynch, Bobby Spence and Joe Wood. Visitation is 6-8 tonight at Parker-White Funeral Home. The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to Turkey Creek Baptist Church, 235 Turkey Creek Road, Ware Shoals, SC 29692 or to Hospice, 408 W. Alexander Greenwood, SC 29646.
Parker- White Funeral Home is in charge. James Sibert BUFFALO, N. Y. James Sibert, husband of Theola Bell Sibert, died Friday, Nov. 29, 2002 in Buffalo.
Born in McCormick, S.C., he was a son of the late James and Lessie Haskel Sibert. He was a member.of Mount Zion Church of God Holiness, where he served on the usher board. He retired from General Motors in 1980. Survivors include his wife of the home. Services and burial were Dec.
5 in Buffalo. H. Alfred Lewis Mortuary was in charge. Announcement courtesy of Walker Funeral Home, McCormick. Holidays try patience of waiting men KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
(AP) They're the lumps on the log. Guarding their territory and leaving their imprints behind on hard mall wooden benches. Husbands and grandfathers, brothers, cousins and nephews patiently wait and wait and wait some more as wives flock to shop. It is the busiest shopping time of the year, and men stand their post trying never to the break the No. 1 rule of seasonal shopping: Don't complain.
And the second rule: Never try to do a search and rescue by floating into a store looking for your significant other. Everyone will know you just don't quite belong. McROBERTS, Ky. (AP) Environmentalists have tried protests to stop the practice of removing entire mountaintops to get to the coal beneath. They've filed suit in the nation's courts.
On Tuesday, they appealed to a higher power. About 50 people, a mixture of environmentalists and religious leaders, met on a mine-scarred mountaintop in eastern Kentucky on Tuesday and prayed for God to stop coal companies from destroying the land. "When I was a little boy, the mountaintops were all beautiful. Now they are scarred and marred," said the Rev. Steve Peake, pastor of Corinth Baptist Church, a small congregation between two Letcher County mountains where coal is being mined.
"My prayer is that God will open up the eyes of some of those people so they will have compassion." Peake said the barren mountaintops allow rain to rapidly runoff into the communities below, causing flooding that damages homes and businesses. Several religious organizations, including the Catholic Committee on Appalachia, supported the prayer service. The Rev. John Rausch, a Catholic priest, said he felt it was important to ask God to enlighten the hearts of the mine operators and to move them to use less damaging means to extract coal. Rausch pointed to the mountaintop, mostly barren of vegeta- TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Groups send up prayers to save mountaintops McRoberts, Ky.
About 50 people, and religious leaders, met on a day in eastern Kentucky and nies from destroying the land. tion, as an example of "the greed of humanity." No one from the coal industry spoke at the prayer service. "I think it's improper to drag the Bible into this debate," said Bill Caylor, president of the Kentucky Coal Association. "It's frustrating. Man should be able to prudently use the resources.
I think man ought to be good stewards of the land, and that means that land can be used for the betterment of man. From Genesis on, the Bible talks about man having dominion over the earth, not the earth having dominion over man." Letcher County Judge-Execu- a mixture of environmentalists mine-scarred mountaintop Tuesprayed for God to stop coal compa- AP photo A group of people are seen at a prayer ceremony Tuesday near tive Carroll Smith said coal companies were the first to bring God into the argument, referring to some of the floods that have started on mined land as acts of God. Smith, who was a miner for 20 years, said the companies contend that they are obeying state and federal laws in extracting. coal, but still they're doing great harm 1 to the environment. "I'm not against coal mining," he said.
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11, the 345th day of 2002. There are 20 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson. On this date: In 1792, France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason.
(Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.) In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state. In 1872, America's first black governor took office as Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor of Louisiana. In 1928, police in Buenos Aires thwarted an attempt on the life of President Herbert Hoover. In 1937, Italy withdrew from the League of Nations. In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S.
responded in kind. In 1946, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established. In 1961, a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon the first direct American military support for South Vietnam's battle against Communist guerrillas. In 1981, the U.N.
Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body. In 1991, a jury in West Palm Beach, acquitted William Kennedy Smith of sexual assault and battery, rejecting the allegations of Patricia Bowman, Ten years ago: President-elect Clinton tapped Robert Reich to be labor secretary and Donna Shalala to be secretary of Health and Human Services. A severe storm pounded the upper Atlantic coast with snow, rain and high winds. Five years ago: More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's greenhouse gases. Henry Cisneros, President Clinton's first housing secretary, was indicted on charges of conspiracy, obstructing justice and making false statements about payments to his former mistress.
(Cisneros, who later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, was eventually pardoned by President Clinton.) Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams became the first political ally of the IRA to meet a British leader in 76 years as he conferred with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London. One year ago: In the first criminal indictment stemming from Sept. 11, federal prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings. The chairman of the militant Jewish Defense League, Irv Rubin, and an associate, Earl Krugel, were arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman. (Rubin died this past November 14th, 10 days after what federal officials described as a suicide attempt in jail.) The government approved Swiss food giant Nestle SA's $10.3 billion purchase of Ralston Purina.
Today's Birthdays: Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn is 84. 'Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is 72. Actress Rita Moreno is 71. Actor Ron Carey is 67. Former California state lawmaker Tom Hayden is 63.
Pop singer David Gates (Bread) is 62. Sen. Max Baucus, is 61. Actress Donna Mills is 59. Sen.
John Kerry, is 59. Singer Brenda Lee is 58. Actress Lynda Day George is 58. Music producer Tony Brown 56. Actress Teri Garr is 54.
Movie director Susan Seidelman is 50. Actress Bess Armstrong is 49. Singer Jermaine Jackson is 48. Rock musician Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) is 44. Rock musician Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones) is 41.
Singer-1 Justin Currie (Del Amitri) is 38. Rock musician David Schools (Gov't Mule, Widespread Panic) is 38. Actor Gary Dourdan is 36. Actress-comedian Mo'Nique is 34. Rapper-actor Mos Def is 29.
Actor Rider Strong is 23. Thought for Today: "Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad." Christina Rosetti, British poet (1830-1874). Cuban stowaway survives 4 hours in plane's landing gear MONTREAL (AP) A Cuban stowaway who endured freezing temperatures and almost no oxygen for four hours in the wheel -well of a Canada-bound airliner is seeking refugee status here. The stowaway, who cannot be named because of a publication ban by the Refugee Board, landed at Dorval airport in Montreal d. Ho aft rac vot afte trig can ber: but fied "There are just certain stores you don't go wandering into," said Dennis Willis, who finds a seat close to whatever store his wife, Mary Ruth Willis, has chosen for her once-a-week shopping spree.
These solitary figures are not without purpose. Quite the contrary these men serve not as bodyguards but as bag-guards. They keep a watchful eye on a stockpile of bags being dropped off at their side. Scurrying to her spouse to leave yet another sack, Carolyn Harold makes her way into another store. Meanwhile, husband, Ross, has read the newspaper and neatly stacked it.
A veteran of on Friday. He was told Monday he must remain in custody until his next hearing Dec. 13. The an airport worker at the Havana airport, sneaked onto the wheel well of the Cubana airline DC-10 before it departed for the Cayo Coco resort east of Havana and then headed to Montreal. "I consider myself very lucky mall shopping escapades, he is on to the next activity of making a to-do list.
"I have got it down to a science," Harold said, holding a mini-notebook and an ink pen. Mark DeSantis found a makeshift bedroom of sorts at a mall display that encourages passers-by to "Have a seat." DeSantis leans back in a comfy leather recliner and pull his baseball cap down over his eyes to catch a few zzz's while his wife, Lori, shops with their 9-month old daughter, Katelyn. "I saw my daughter catching a nap, and I thought that looks pretty good," DeSantis said of his brief snooze. to have survived. Thank God," the man, who looked to be in his 20s, said Monday evening after his first appearance before the refugee panel.
During the flight, he held onto a heating pipe, wrapping his shirt around it to hold on. The temperature in the hold was believed to be about minus 40 degrees during much of the four-hour flight, with little oxygen at an altitude of 30,000 feet. "I kept my face close to it, and that helped me to breathe," he told the news channel LCN. If it weren't for the hot-air tube in the wheel well, he probably would have frozen to death. The man said he held onto a length of rubber piping when the landing gear opened beneath him..
