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Deaths Funerals Page20A RALPH H. SAMS Retired U. Col. Ralph Henry Sams, 84. of Wesley Branch Road, died Saturday, May 6, 1995.

A native of Yancey County, he lived most of his life In Asheville. He was a son of the late Henry Ray and Mabel Horton Sams and the husband of the late Nell Wright Sams. He was GEORGE R. DAVIS SR. Qeoroe Robert Davis 71, of Asheville.

died Saturday, May 6, 1995, in Asheville VA Medical Center. A lifelong resident of Buncombe County, he was the son of the late Ben and Carrie Ownbey Davis. He owned and operated the Bates Food Store in Asheville for 30 years. Ha was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of VFW Poet 3040. Ha was a member of Haywood Street United Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by a son, George R. Sunday, May 7, 1995 ERICH O. SCHWENQEL JR. MARS HILL Erich O. I Schwengel 54, of 201 Eagle's, Nest, died Saturday, May 6, 1995.

A native of Milwaukee, he'" was the son of Erich Schwengel Sr. and Nancy Welch Schwengel. 1 He ie survived by his wife, Pamela Rager Schwengel; daughter, Lea Marie Hollar of Florida; son, Bill Q. Hlntz of Bettendorl, Iowa; alater, Susan Slebodnlk; two granddaughters; two grandsons. Services wM be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at Bright Hope Laurel Methodist Church, where he was a member. The Rev. E.T. Ehresman will officiate. Entombment wHI be In Ashelawn Gar- dens of Memory.

The body will be placed in the church 30 minutes be- fore the services. an Army veteran 1 1 .1 1 FUNERALS TODAY flame, rMdenee Time Location Alan BMaa, Marshal 2p.m. Happy Hollow Cemetery Ray Greene, MM Spring 2 p.m. Pleasant Grove Baptist V. Foster McCrary, Brevard 3 p.m.

Grace Baptist Annie Bametl, Columbus, Ga. 4 p.m. StrHfter-Hamby Laura George, RobbinsvUle 2 p.m. Sweat Gum Baptist Grady Pendergnua, FranMn 2 p.m. Mount Slnal Assembly of God Andrew Hams, HendersonviHe 2 p.m.

Shepherd Memorial Park Robert LaCtaJre, Maggie Valley 3 p.m. Wells, WaynesvMe Vera FaHa, AshevHIe 3 p.m. Brooks Howell Home James Williams, Bryson City 2 p.m. Bryson City Wealeyan Agnes McMeekan, Brevard 3 p.m. First Methodist or wona war 11, serving In the Philippines.

He was a member and past Senior Deacon of the Hominy Masonic Lodge No. 491. joining in 1946, and receiving his 25 year Grand Lodge Certificate In 1972. Surviving are his daughter, Flirahath UNDSEY K. ROGERS WAYNESVILLE Lindsey Kay Rogers, 68.

died Friday, May 5, 1995, In hi horn. A Haywood County native, he moved to Piedmont, 3.C., In January. He was a eon of the late Lush J. and Lucy E. Green Rogers.

He served In the U.S. Army during World War II nd was an engineer equipment operator with the) U.8.D.A. Forest Service Jor30 years. Ha was a member of Bethel Baptist Church and former "ambar and board of director member of Lake Logan Fire Department. Ha was a life member of Pollocks Ferry Hunting Club, Halifax.

Surviving are his wife, Lynn Carpenter Rogers of Piedmont, S.C.; stepdaughters, Qall Moore of Arden and Teresa Myers of Cruso; sister, Gladys Snypes of Rldgecrest; half sister. Hazel Phillips of Retreat; brothers, Harry Rogers of Bethel, Vaughn and the Rev. J. Rogers of Lake Logan. Don Rogers of Olx Creek; three step-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Roy Kilby officiating. Burial will be in Greenhill Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Garrett Funeral Home. At other times, the family will be at the home of Vaughn Rogers, Lake Logan. Memorials may be made to Bethel Ralph Sams DIANNA H. HART FOREST CITY Dlanna H.

Hart, 55, of Momlngstar Lake Road, died Saturday, May 6, 1995. Services will be at 11 a m. Thursday at Cody-White Funeral Home, Milford, Conn. The family will receive friends 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at McMahan's Funeral Home.

EVA L. DAVIDSON FOREST CITY Eva Louise Davidson, 92, died Saturday, May 6, 1995. Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Missionary Methodist Church. The family will receive friends 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Monday at Padgett King Mortuary. DOROTHY JUNE INGLE HICKORY Dorothy June Ingle, 64, of 1930 Kool Park Road, died Saturday, May 6, 1995. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Grace Methodist Church, Leicester. The family will receive friends 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Sunday at Bass-Smith Funeral Home. AGNES McMEEKAN BREVARD Agnes M. McMeekan, 88, died Thursday, May 4, 1995. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at First Methodist Church with visitation following the services.

Moody-Connolly Funeral Home Is in charge of arrangements. McClure of Asheville; granddaughters, Rachel and Sarah McClure; sisters, The! ma Maxwell of Pennsylvania and Marie Logerquist of Michigan; brothers, Frank, J.F. and Mack Sams of Asheville. Services will be at 1 1 a.m. Monday at Snow Hill United Methodist Church, where he was a life member.

The Rev. Phillip E. Jenkins Jr. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

The) famihf wHI rnmiwi ManHa ffmm The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Capos Funeral Home. At other times, the family will be at the home. Memorials may be made to Hos- pice of Madison, Carl Bier Road, Mars Hill 28754 or Special Olympics, i co Linda Harrell, Madison County Schools, 2 Blannahassett Island. Road, Marshall 28753.

CEUA ANN METCALF MARS HILL -Cella Ann Metcalf, 84, died Saturday, May 6, 1995, In a local hearth care faculty. A lifelong resident of Madison I County, she was a daughter of the late Sam Cox and the late Polly I Eatmon Cox. She was the wife of the late John Metcalf and was preceded I in death by her son, James Hensley, and sister, Shirley Fox. She was a member of Middle Fork Baptist Church. Surviving are her sister, Mary Ada Tomberlln of Mars four grandchs- uavn wno oiea in 1889.

Surviving are his wife. Arm Ward Davis; son, Larry Davis of AshevMe; sister. Ruby Davis of Henderson; three grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Penland Funeral Home, Swannanoa.

with the Rev. Elgene Nichols officiating. Burial wiH be In New Morgan Hill Cemetery, Enka. The family wll receive friends one hour before the services at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Haywood Street United Methodist Church, 297 Haywood Asheville 28801.

NANCY STOWERS CLYDE Nancy Ruth Smith Stowers, 71, formerly of Chambers Mountain Road, died Friday, May 5, 1995, at Haywood County Hospital. A native of Elberton, Ga, she had lived most of her life in Haywood County. She was the daughter of the late Earl Mary Tyner Smith. She was preceded In death by her Mitchell Stowers, arid her husband, James Earl Stowers, who died In 1977. She was a retired lab technician at Midway Medical Center and was a member of Concord United Methodist Church of Elberton, Qa.

She Is survived by her son. Earl William Stowers of WaynesvHIe; granddaughter, Amber Stowers of WaynesvHIe. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Concord United Methodist Church, Elberton, Qa. The Rev.

Stan Hamilton and Bud Jenkins will officiate. Burial wHI be In Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery, Elberton. The famly win receive friends from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Monday at Concord United Methodist Church. Wells Funeral Home, Waynesville.

Is In charge of arrangements. VAUGHANTA FAULKNER MARSHALL Vaughanta Lee Fisher Faulkner, 76, of 151 Tilery Baptist Christian School, Route 3, Box 336, Canton 28716 In memory of Lindsey Rogers. Former librarian for newspaper dies FROM STAFF REPORTS Long-time AsheviUe Citizen-Times librarian Lucille D. Hearn, VVNC CALENDAR Send in your calendar items to WNC CALENDAR, AshevMe Citizen-Times, P.O. Box i090, Asheville, N.C, tSSOt or FAX to 704-251-0585.

Please postmark days prior to event uioti, iuur nieces; one nepnew. Services will ha at 11 am UnMau at Capps Funeral Home with the 79,011 Norwood died Friday at a local health care nsseajn neese officiating. Burial win be In Middle Fork Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the home and one hour before the service at the church. Memorials may be made to Snow Hill United Methodist Church, 84 Snow Hill Church Road, Candler 28715; Mountain Area Hospice, P.O. Box 16. Asheville 28802; or The American Cancer Society, 31 College Place, Building D.

Suite 310. Asheville 28801. Groce Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. ELEANOR BRENNAN BLACK MOUNTAIN Eleanor Marie Hansen Brennan of 200 Tabernacle Road, died Thursday, May 4, 1995. No local services are planned.

Burial wll be in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus, N.J. McFarland Funeral Chapel, Tryon, Is in charge of arrangements. ROXJE H. WESTAU MARION Roxle Hensley Westal, 89, of Autumn Care, formerly ofVeterana Drive, died Friday. May 5.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Westmoreland Funeral Home. The family wW receive friends one hour before the services at the funeral home. Hearn, who retired in 1987, was a librarian at the newspaper for 20 years, clipping and filing stories from the presidency ZORA B. FOX BURNSV1LLE -Zora B.

Fox. 91. of the Newdale Community, died Saturday, May 6, 1995. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday at Hotcombe Brothers Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral mm MKOI CONCEIT: BREVARD The Brevard Boys Choir, Johnsie Mills Memorial Mass Choir and the Golden Oldies Band rmdlne nine perronrm slated for a concert for world hunger awareness at 3 p.m. Sunoay in Brevard Cceo's Ounharri AudHorium. Admission is ftre rmrvperishable food items tor Sharing House. Cash donations also be accepted.

For more infofmafJOT.cal Taylor Mackey at 884-4415. WJeWMLC HT: The Transylvania Trailrjiazers, in conjunction with their annual PHc Beds Trail Challenge on May 13, are families and individuals who prefer walking the tral to running The event Is sanctioned for voflcssporfjno. achievement awards through the American Volkssport Association and the International Federation of Popular Sports. Admission is free for the public and $2 for those walking for credit. For more Information, call Doris Headtey at 862-3541.

STOHCM. MIS TOW: BREVARD -As part of National Preservation Week, the Transylvania County Historical Society wi host a bus tar tfeigMLfrttorlc sites May 16 and 17. Morning and afternoon tours wi begin at the Baptist Owrch narking lot on Old Hendersonvile Highway and wi the Cascade Power Co. Tickets are avatable White Squirrel Shoppe. or phone reservations may ma rjyNrflJcHuoons at 877-3843.

WALK FOt MfMINSOtn DBOSE The 9th annual Walk-A-Thon to raise rnoney for research Into the cause and eventual cure of Parkinson's disease will begin take place Sunday 7 at 2 p.m. The five-mile walk "To Ease the Burden and Find a Cure" will begin at Biltmore Forest Town Hall. Those Interested in walking can pick up pledge sheets at the Wtowing locations: Thorns Rehabilitation Hospital, Mountain Neurological Center, Western Carolina Neurological Consultants, the Biltmore Forest Fire Station, Accent on Books, Mountain Medical Associates In Clyde and Highland Fatrns In BujckMouiitaiaFw more htormatlon, contact Jane Bingham 274-1309. IMKianmnm: Auditions kx TJon in Winter by CcTs Players wi be at 2 p.m. Surety Johnston Elementary School Gy tor men andwwnan 16-years and up.

For more information cat 683-9928. OWD) MKNTf NKNT: Owen High School wri Parents' Night for parents of eighth-grade Owen middle School students from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the high school. Cal 686-3852. Morris FUNERAL HOME ASHEVILLE ARDEN Est.

1919 252-1821 adult general dentistry Dr. Larry Turner 252-3851 Hrancn Road, died Friday, May 5, 1995. In Memorial Mission Hospital. A lifelong resident of Madison County, she was the daughter of the late Henry P. and Etta Dewesse Fisher.

A homemaker, she was a member of Long Branch Baptist Church and Marshall Chapter Order of the Eastern Star where she had served as Worthy Matron. She was preceded in death by a son, Ronnie Faulkner. Surviving are her husband of 57 years, Marvin Faulkner; daughter, Sandra F. Courtney of Valdese; brothers, Ced C. Fisher of WeavervWe and Henry C.

Fisher of Spartanburg, S.C.; two grandchildren. Services wHI be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Madison Funeral Home with the Revs. Steve Honeycutt and Jennis Sluder officiating. Burial will be in Tltlery Branch Cemetery.

The family wHI receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Flowers are acceptable or memorials may be made to Long Branch Baptist Church. TERRA JEAN STALCUI MURPHY Terra Jean Stalcup. 40, of Matins Creek Community, died Saturday, May 6, 1995, in her home.

Towneon Rose Funeral Home Is In charge of arrangements. of Lyndon John- Ladfc Hear son to that of Ronald Reagan. "She left a legacy of information people will call on for generations," said Citizen-Tunes Associate Editor Nancy Marlowe, a long-time friend and co-worker of Hearn. Marlowe remembers Hearn as a gentle, knowledgeable woman who was "infinitely helpful" Hearn was named Citizen-Times employee of the year in 1986. A native of Evergreen, she was the daughter of the late Alfred Bryon and Virginia Wethering-ton Dean.

She had lived in Asheville for 30 years. Hearn was a member of First Baptist Church, where she attended the Truth Seekers Sunday school class. She is survived by her husband, Fred B. Hearn; sons, James M. Hearn of Jefferson City, Tenru, and Michael D.

Hearn of Charlotte; and three grandchildren. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Don Crawford officiating.

The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the church. Memorials may be made to Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, 24 Cumberland Ave, Asheville 28801. Morris Funeral Home, Merrimon Avenue, is in charge of arrangements. (dm Better MTU INN H7KJT PKKXUI: The Changing Faces of ADDLD wi be presented by Chidren with Attention Deficit Osoraert of WfC at 7 p.m. Monday Thorn RehsMitatlonHospttal Auditorium.

Cad 274-7562. (Mi IBSONS Shag Lessons wi be taught at 6:30 p.m. starting Tuesday at the RadbaonHotel in Isadora's Lounge. For more information cal 686-5542. WOm mm NBMBS Janet Moore wi presert a prog btW Itorketing Yourself" at the Women Mean Business meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at the Jewish Community Center, 247 Charlotte SI Nn-mernber guest registration Is $5. For more Information call 274-5050. UH: WAYNESVILLE A seniors Ins dance dasa being conducted during May open Tuesday and wi be held from 10 to 1 1 am. each Tuesday tor men and women over the age of 50. To register or tor more Wwmation contact tfWaynesvie Recreation Center at 456-9207.

to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at fhe Mountain Area Health Education Center on Bftnore Avenue In classroom 4. The fee is $10. For more information cal 259-3599. rufotama MTamnefSM.

AsJienrWe, NO tse-ssss 1 Dedicate 2 Hlmtes oftke Moatk to Tow Hearlmff take the "Dial A Hearing Screening Test" Dial: 25S-TEST (8378) This public service la sponsored by: BrinuuM LOCALLY OWNED GROCE FUNERAL HOME 252-3535 CALL FOR NO-OBLIGATION INFORMATION ABOUT VETERANS CEMETERIES REARRANGEMENTS CREMATIONS FUNERALS OUT-OF-STATE TRANSFERS Maple Springs CREMATORY "fewa-AsaksSUs. ma MMin NCISTII I eSinee. 19S2 9i 254-6197 Calvary Episcopal Churchyard A Public Cemetery Cremation Garden if 684-6266 In Loving Hassan Of oaS8 Or 1994 Ford TSkocta Extended PUrCnag''" yVerostar DAVID HAROLD RHODAHMEB Bora: June 1979 Died: May fLlIM Your fentle Esse snd patient Basils with sadness wm recaU. You had a kindly word lor each Anddiedbabvedbysll. The voice is anile and stilled the heart that loved ua well and true.

Oh. bitter was the trail to part From orio so snod ss you. You are not fbrflouan loved ana Nor snU you sssr bs. In Loving Memory JUNE SHELTON TREDWAY on her birthday 6-9-38 Died 2-8-95 God saw you getting tired When a cure was not to be. So he dosed his arms around you and whispered "Come to me" You didn't deserve what you went through andao he gave you rest God's garden must be beautiful He only takes the beat In tears we saw you sinking we watched you fade away Our hearts were broken you fought so hard to stay.

But when we saw you sleeping so peacefully free from pain. We could not wish you back In Loving Mtnory CARD OF THANKS The family of Esther Yranne Hardy a Mit-eerefjr grateful to Dr. Charles O'Caia and the staff of St Joseph's Hospital for their medical ear. We appreciate the spiritual support and comfort extended bjr Rev. John Brewster and the members of the Tabernacle Mnsnoanr Baptist Church, Elder johnaoe, Jr.

and Or. Charles a Moslej. The thoushtfulnest of friends and neighbors through telephone calls, visita, flowers and sharing of food helped ua persevere during this sad occasion. We are grateful fo, the professional semes by the staff of the Jesse Ray Funeral Home. "Grring thanks ahem far all Hunts onto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Const" Epb.

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no one cao nil your understanding. Proberbs 3:13 WlferMra8. Joaaas Sons: Merrta. Max. Michael.

Morrie fllolMa full, to suiter tne pain again. We Love and miss you. Husband, Bill Tredway Son Boyce, Grandson Jenney. Dad 4 Host Harold ft Paahna Sistere: SheJIIa. MlrhalU, Bererrr Niece Nephews: Aasnas, Charlie.

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