Clarke Co. GA - Obits from the Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald 27 Dec 1998 Thanks for permission from the Athens Daily News /Banner-Herald http://www.onlineathens.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Oliver Eldred Barrow Rutledge Oliver Eldred Barrow, 83, of 189 West Main St. died Saturday, Dec. 26, 1998. A native of Wrens, Mr. Barrow was a son of the late Henry B. and Lillian Duke Barrow. He was a painter. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Rutledge Baptist Church with the Rev. Wayne Ghann officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Stapp Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Annie Laura Stapp Barrow; seven daughters, Christine Huff and Norma Jean Housman, both of Farmington, Ellen Austin, Madison, Lindie Hooper, Winterville, Evelyn Moorehead, Buckhead, Virginia Barrow, Atlanta, and Gladys McCannon, Watkinsville; a son, Richard Barrow, Bishop; two sisters, Mary Gay and Fannie Windom, both of Wrens; two brothers, Jake Barrow, Wrens, and Thomas Barrow, Md.; and 21 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends at the residence. Simmons Funeral Home, Madison, is in charge of arrangements. C.T. Bell Winder C.T. Bell, 88, died Saturday, Dec. 26, 1998. Mr. Bell was a son of the late Eddie and Pearl Simpson Bell and was married to the late Hattie M. Bell. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Smith Funeral Home. Burial will be in Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Braselton. Survivors include two sisters, Edrie Freeman, Winder, and Mildred Ramey, Norcross; a brother, Elton W. Bell, Daytona Beach, Fla.; and a number of nieces and nephews. Montine Clack Winder Montine Clack, 89, died Thursday, Dec. 24, 1998. Mrs. Clack was a daughter of the late George and Leila Steed and was married to the late Hoyt Clack. She was a member of Pentecost United Methodist Church. Services will be 3:30 p.m. today at Smith Funeral Home with the Revs. Marvin Coffee and Lisa Caine officiating. Burial will be in Barrow Memorial Gardens. Survivors include two daughters, Mary Morris, Canton, and Carolyn Pinson, Winder; a son, Munford Clack, Winder; and six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Robert Lewis Doster Athens Robert Lewis Doster, 86, died Sat. Dec. 26, 1998. Mr. Doster was born in Athens on Nov. 6, 1912. He was the son of the late Bertha Lucille Sims and Garnett Avery Doster. He graduated from Athens High School and was a local pioneer in radio technology. Mr. Doster built his first radio at about age 10 and for most of his active life was involved with radio and television broadcasting and technology. Mr. Doster was preceded in death in 1985 by his best friend and companion, the love of his life and his wife of 50 years, Clara L. Doster, and in 1997 by his brother G. Curtis Doster. He married Clara Alice Langford of Madison County on June 9, 1935. He had earnestly courted her throughout her 4 years as a University of Georgia student. Shortly after their marriage he opened one of the first radio sales and service businesses in Athens. With the U.S. entry into WWII, Mr. Doster twice volunteered for military duty and twice received medical refusals by the military services. Members of the local draft board knowing his desire to serve called upon him to work as clerk of the Clarke County Draft Board throughout the duration of the war. In 1946 Mr. Doster became manager of radio station WGAU and led that station and its three original investors through a strong and successful period in its history. During this period Mr. Doster provided the leadership and management for the station's addition of FM broadcasting capabilities, including the construction of the original FM radio tower behind the station on Bobbin Mill Road. He worked effectively to maintain a good relationship between WGAU and the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Radio and Journalism giving many talented young engineers, broadcasters, and disc jockeys their first "On the Air" opportunities. Later in the 1950s when television was having an adverse effect on radio stations throughout the country WGAU's original investors sold the station to new owner/managers. Rather than uproot his family from their close family and community ties in the Athens area, Mr. Doster decided not to pursue golden offers from the space industry in Fla. Instead he returned to his first work in radio and television sales and service until he retired. For many years Mr. Doster was very active in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Athens and in Georgia. His father G.A. Doster was a master woodworking craftsman who had personally crafted much of the beautiful woodwork and the pews in First Christian Church in downtown Athens. Mr. Doster told stories many times of his father's riding his two young sons to Sunday school on a bicycle all the way from the family's home out Oglethorpe Ave. at the edge of town. He was an elder in first Christian Church as his father had been before him. He often taught the men's Bible class there and served a number of times as chairman of the Board of Elders and of the General Board of Deacons and Elders. Mr. Doster served on the Board of Directors for the Christian College of Georgia for many years and was chairman of that board. He provided wise and stable leadership through a particularly difficult period of growth and rapid change in the 1950s. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at First Christian Church, Athens. The body will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. Those who desire may come for a period of personal prayer and meditation. Burial will be 2 p.m. in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. Mr. Doster valued deeply the love and caring warmth of family. He is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Laura Doster-Holbrook Chase and Silas Chase Read Jr., Athens; a son and daughter-in-law, Robert G. Doster and Erna Cooper Doster, Ila; three sisters, Virginia L. Doster, Annie Jean Doster Smith, and Olivia Doster McLeroy, all of Athens; and his grandchildren, Alice Doster Self and David Self, Virginia Doster Brooks and Jon Brooks, all of Ila, Robert G. Doster Jr. and Melanie Doster, Port Angeles, W.Va., Langford Doster Holbrook and Shannon E. Staats, Leesburg, J. Andrew Holbrook, Savannah, and Abigail S. Holbrook, Salem, Va. Mr. Doster was the proud great-grandfather of six, Matt Self, Taylor Self, Julie Doster, John Doster, Caleb Brooks, and Wade Brooks, and is also survived by a number of nieces and nephews throughout the state. The family will receive friends after the service until 2 p.m. in the grand parlor. Bernstein Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Charles E. Eagle Jr. Madison Charles Edward Eagle Jr., 81, of 2811 Greensboro Road died Friday, Dec. 25, 1998. A native of North Carolina, Mr. Eagle was a son of the late Charles E. Eagle Sr. and Mary Richie Eagle. He was a painter and member of Veterans of World War II. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Simmons Funeral Home with the Rev. Freddie Bell officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Buckhead City Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Laura Seabolt Eagle; a daughter, Helen Juanita (Mitzie) Eagle, Madison; three sisters, Nancy Roughton, Elizabeth City, N.C., and Ellen Correll and Della Mae Wright, both of China Grove, N.C.; two brothers, Richard Eagle and Bobby Eagle, both of Kannapolis, N.C.; and four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Sarah Nicole Hicks Mansfield Sarah Nicole Hick, infant daughter of Danny Ray and Amanda Gail Sprayberry Hicks, died Thursday, Dec. 24, 1998. Services will be 3 p.m. today at Simmons Funeral Home with the Rev. Raymond Hardy officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Buckhead City Cemetery. Survivors, in addition to her parents, include two brothers, Danny Ray Hicks Jr. and Tyler Michael Hicks, both of Mansfield; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pruitt Hicks, Madison; maternal grandmother, Brenda Kay Sprayberry, Rutledge; paternal great-grandfather, William Meritt Nelms, Anderson, S.C.; and maternal great-grandmother, Annie Louise Knight, Griffin. Thomas Grady Holyfield Winston-Salem, N.C. Thomas Grady Holyfield, 68, died Friday, Dec. 25, 1998. A native of Clarksburg, W.Va., Mr. Holyfield was a son of the late Grady and Marian Anderson Holyfield and was preceded in death by a son, Thomas G. Holyfield Jr. He was of the Baptist faith, served in the U.S. Navy and retired as a mechanic from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Bethania Moravian Church. Burial will be in God's Acre. Survivors include his wife, Peggy Doub Holyfield; two daughters, Deborah Allen, Athens, and Faye Powell Reid, Winston-Salem, N.C.; a sister, Louise Simpson, Rockford, N.C.; a brother, Charles Holyfield, Clemmons, N.C.; two granddaughters; a grandson, Douglas Allen III, Athens; and an aunt, Mauzy Johnson. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bethania Moravian Church, Bethania, N.C. The family is at the home of Faye Powell Reid, 5580 Murray Road, Winston-Salem, N.C., and will receive friends 7-9 p.m. today at Voglers Funeral Home, Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, N.C. Elizabeth Sims Jackson Jefferson Elizabeth Sims Jackson, 44, of 239 Riley Road died Friday, Dec. 25, 1998. A native of Barrow County, Mrs. Jackson was a daughter of Geneva Sims and the late Otis Sims. She was a member of Maxey Hill Baptist Church. Services will be 11:30 a.m. Monday at Maxey Hill Baptist Church Cemetery with the Revs. Ambrose M. Jackson and R.E. Cooper officiating. Survivors, in addition to her mother, include her husband, Samuel T. Jackson; a daughter, Elizabeth E. Jackson, Albany; two sons, Christopher Jackson, Orlando, Fla., and Marlon Jackson, Jefferson; two sisters, Brenda Brown, Commerce, and Cheryl Ann Gwinn, Jefferson; a brother, Timothy Sims, Jefferson; and a nephew raised in the home, Mitchell Sims, Jefferson. Hurley Funeral Home, Athens, is in charge of arrangements. Holman Maddox Watkinsville Holman Maddox, 90, died Friday, Dec. 25, 1998. A native of Georgia, Mr. Maddox was a son of the late Seab and Ella Lawson Maddox, was married to the late Anne Maude Strickland Maddox, and was preceded in death by a son, Edward Maddox, and a grandson, Ricky Maddox. He retired as foreman of PuritanCordge Mill and was a member of Princeton United Methodist Church and the men's Bible class. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Bridges Funeral Home, Athens, with the Revs. Peggy H. Lowe and Darrell Gilmer officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park. Survivors include a daughter, Mae Duncan, Watkinsville; a brother, Warren Maddox, Athens; and four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Jimmy Hale, Elmer Johnson, John Spipe, Ed Bramblett, Bruce Couch, and Donald Parr. The family is at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Duncan, Watkinsville. Huldah C. Mingledorff Sylvania Mrs. Huldah Cail Mingledorff, 86, of Milhaven Plantation died Saturday, Dec. 26, 1998. A native of Screven County, Mrs. Mingledorff was a daughter of the late Dr. James C. Cail and widow of Vernon "Catfish" Smith, George B. Lorimer, and W. Lee Mingledorff, former mayor of Savannah. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Sylvania First United Methodist Church with the Revs. B. Sonny Mason and Wyche Stubbs officiating. Burial will be in Milhaven Plantation Cemetery. Survivors include three daughters and two sons-in-law, Patricia S. and William C. Lord, Sylvania, Huldah S. and Frank Carlton, Savannah, and Jerry S. Gentry, Sylvania; a son-in-law, Charles J. Gentry, Slyvania; 11 grandchildren, John Frankhouser, Bill Lord Jr., Huldah Becton, Jackson Gentry, and Lorimer Gentry, all of Sylvania, Mike Hutchings, Windom, N.H., Chrisite Lord, Atlanta, Frank Carlton IV, Marathon, Fla., Sam Carlton, Charleston, S.C., Debbie Wallace, Charlotte, N.C., and Ben Carlton, Savannah; and 12 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Mrs. Mingledorff's six grandsons. Contributions may be made to the Screven County Hospital, 215 Mims Road, Sylvania, in memory of Mrs. Huldah C. Mingledorff and Dr. John C. Cail, who built the first hospital in Screven County. The family is at the residence, and will receive friends 7-9 p.m. tonight at Thompson-Strickland-Waters Funeral Home. John West Patman Jr. Bogart John West Patman Jr., 48, of 290 Marlborough Downs Road died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1998. Mr. Patman was the son of the late John West Patman Sr. and Ola Lee Barber Patman. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Mount Sinai Baptist Church with the Rev. Abraham Mosley officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include two sisters, Rosa Pope and Mattie Tate, both of Bogart; two brothers, Leo Patman, Athens, and David Patman, Bogart; and a friend, Hattie Jewell, Bogart. Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home, Athens, is in charge of arrangements. T.H. 'Buck' Smith Winder T.H. "Buck" Smith, 86, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, 1998. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Eberhart & Son Mortuary with the Rev. James Lyles officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Barrow Memorial Gardens. Survivors include his wife, Pauline C. Smith; and a daughter, Eva Mar Johnson, Winder. Lillian Mae Young Madison Lillian Mae Young, 84, of 3630 Buckhead Road died Thursday, Dec. 24, 1998. A native of Pickens County, Mrs. Young was a daughter of the late Chesley and Rosa Williams Anderson and was married to the late Otis F. Young. She was a housewife. Services were Saturday. Survivors include two daughters, Jean Maye, Macon, and Linda Hardison, Madison; two sons, Charles Young, Madison, and Bobby Young, Eatonton; a sister, Melene McDaniels, Calhoun; 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Simmons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Anna M. Hunt Dewy Rose Anna Milford Hunt, 94, of 6806 Elberton Hwy., widow of Charlie Hunt, died Saturday, Dec. 26, 1998. Strickland Funeral Home, Hartwell, will announce arrangements. ______ ______________________________ Athens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1998 Athens Newspapers Inc.