Clarke Co. GA - Obits from the Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald 2 Sep 1999 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/ *********************************************************************** Story last updated at 10:25 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 Charles E. Thompson, Jr. Athens Charles E. Thompson, Jr., 74, of 265 Clifton Drive, Athens, GA died Wednesday, September 1, 1999. A native of Providence, RI, Mr. Thompson had lived in Athens since 1965. He was a son of the late Charles E. and Edith M. Esleeck Thompson. He received a BS in Naval Science from the University of Southern California and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Stanford University in California. He was a veteran of the US Navy, retiring in 1967. He retired as a professor from the University of Georgia in 1987. He was a member of the Retired Officers Association, Learning in Retirement, and the Athens Country Club. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park. Survivors include his wife, Margaret (Tommy) Thompson, Athens; a son and daughter-in-law, Charles E., III and Sheena Thompson, Lawrenceville, GA; a daughter and son-in-law, Becky and Brian Begnaud, Athens; a sister, Meredith Reitnouer, Hesperia, CA; and five grandchildren. The family will receive friends rom 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Bernstein Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Charities of St. Joseph Catholic Church, 134 Prince Ave., Athens, GA 30601 or to St. Mary's Hospice, P.O. Box 6588, Athens, GA 30604. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:16 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 Hazel Brown Trotman Toccoa Hazel Brown Trotman, 98, of 617 Skyline Drive died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1999. A native of Franklin County, Mrs. Trotman was a daughter of the late John F. and Sally Stovall Brown and was the widow of the Rev. William A. Trotman Sr. She was a retired teacher, having taught in Stephens, Franklin, Banks and Habersham counties. She was a member of First Baptist Church and was a former Sunday school teacher. She was a graduate of Bessie Tift College and the University of Georgia. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Henry Fields and the Rev. Byron Kennerly officiating. Burial will be in Stephens Memorial Gardens. Survivors include three daughters, Sue Fitzgerald, Lancaster, Pa., Dortha Ann Arceneaux, Greenville Springs, La., and Mary Joe Gomillion, Union, Miss.; four sons, Douglas Trotman and Sam Trotman, both of Toccoa, Ronald Trotman, Montgomery, Ala., and W.A. Trotman Jr., Baldwin; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Baptist Church Chapel Fund, 601 Tugalo St., Toccoa, GA 30577. The family is at the residence and will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. today at Whitlock Mortuary. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:21 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 John Paul Kaiser Martin John Paul Kaiser, 83, of Red Hollow Road, formerly of Arlington, Va., died Monday, Aug. 31, 1999. A native of Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Kaiser was a son of the late Frank and Ester Kaiser. He attended Martin Baptist Church and was a retired manager of Peoples Drugs. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, having served on the U.S.S. Repose, and was stationed in China. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Martin Baptist Church with the Rev. Roy Rogers officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mallie Thomas Kaiser; two daughters, Pat Hogge, Glovster, Va., and Janet McCoy, Charlotte, N.C.; a son, Paul Kaiser, De Bary, Fla.; a sister, Ethel Holand, Virginia; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be John Kaiser, Jason Hogge, Jeff Hogge, Tony Graves, Bud Graves and Bill Thomas. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Martin Baptist Church Building Fund. The family is at the residence and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Friday and from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturday at Whitlock Mortuary, Toccoa. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:27 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 James Quarles Watkinsville James Quarles, 21, of 1973 McRee Ginn Road died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1999. A native of Greensboro, Mr. Quarles was a son of Myrna Tucker Quarles of Watkinsville. He attended Oconee County High School and was a member of Church of The Nations. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, West, with Pastor Mel Holmes officiating. Burial will be in Sims family cemetery. Survivors, in addition to his mother, include three brothers, his twin, John Quarles, Richard Taylor and Charles Quarles, all of Watkinsville. The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:17 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 Terry 'T.D.' Hall Mableton Terry ''T.D.'' Hall, 43, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1999. Mr. Hall was a mechanic with Georgia Power for 25 years and was a Union Shop Steward. He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 84. He was a 1974 graduate of Wills High School, Smyrna, and was of the Baptist faith. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Castellaw Funeral Home, Smyrna, with the Rev. Richard Hemphill officiating. Burial will be in Georgia Memorial Park. Survivors include two brothers, Donald B. Hall, Commerce, and John Michael Hall, Powder Springs; a niece and a nephew. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:22 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 Maderline Elder Moses Athens Maderline Elder Moses, 88, of 175 Dennis Drive died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1999. Mrs. Moses was a daughter of the late Earl and Ophelia Davenport Elder. She was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church, Watkinsville. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Walnut Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. Hoyt Smith officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Cemetery. Survivors include two daughters, Claude Moses Shaw, Atlanta, and Dorothy Moses, Chicago; a son, James E. Moses, Athens; four sisters, Helen Daniel, Ella Crawford, Ezzie Elbert and Emma Moon, all of Atlanta; two brothers, Cecil Elder, Athens, and James Elder, Atlanta; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The family is at the residence of James Moses, 1695 Timothy Road, Athens. Jackson-McWhorter Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:27 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 John L. Clack Winder John L. Clack, 72, died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1999. A lifelong resident of Barrow County, Mr. Clack was a son of the late Will and Fannie Herndon Clack. He was retired from Piedmont Builder's Supply and was a member of Chapel Christian Church. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Chapel Christian Church with the Rev. Jim Stephens officiating. Burial will be in Barrow Memorial Gardens. Survivors include his wife, Ruby House Clack; two sons, Johnny Clack and Billy Clack, both of Winder; two sisters, Edwinnie Blackstock, Winder, and Grace Rooks, Canton; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to the Christian Men's Fellowship, c/o Chapel Christian Church, 776 Chapel Church Road, Winder, GA 30680. Carter Funeral Home, Winder, is in charge of the arrangements. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:18 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 'Robie' Roberson Hartwell Walter Grady ''Robie'' Roberson, 68, of 278 Point Road died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 1999. A native of Wilson, N.C., Mr. Roberson was a son of the late Walter Watts and Anna Roberson. He was self-employed as an equipment salesman and was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a Mason and was a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. He was a former member of the Golden K and the Men's Club. Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at St. Andrews Episcopal Church with the Rev. Jim Shumard officiating. Burial will be in Nancy Hart Memorial Park. Survivors include his fiance, Arminda Tucker Hicks, Hartwell; four sons, William Mark Roberson, Newnan, Walter Bryan Roberson, Douglasville, David Reynolds Roberson, Wilson, N.C., and Capt. Walter Grady Roberson Jr., Ft. Benning; two sisters, Alice Daughtry, Newbern, N.C. and JoAnne Llewellin, Moorhead City, N.C.; a brother, J. Watts Roberson, Gastonia, N.C.; and four grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 579 Fairview Ave., Hartwell, GA 30643. The family is at the residence and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at Strickland Funeral Home, Hartwell. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 9:36 a.m. on Thursday, September 2, 1999 Deaths Elsewhere Joan R. Braden Political Hostess WASHINGTON -- Joan R. Braden, a hostess to and confidante of Washington's political heavyweights and senior government officials for more than three decades, died of a heart attack Monday. She was 77. Mrs. Braden performed those roles as she reared eight children, a story her husband, columnist Tom Braden, chronicled in the book ''Eight is Enough,'' which later became an ABC television series from 1977 to 1981. In her varied career, Mrs. Braden served as a State Department officer, public relations executive, magazine writer, television interviewer and aide to John F. Kennedy and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Besides her husband, she leaves seven children and 12 grandchildren. The eighth child, Tom, died in 1994. Matt Hartl EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Matt Hartl, one of the leaders of the 1995 Northwestern football team that played in the Rose Bowl, died Monday of Hodgkin's disease. He was 23. Hartl helped lead the team that became the first Wildcats squad to play in the Rose Bowl since 1949. A redshirt freshman fullback, Hartl was used primarily as a blocking back. Within a few months of the Rose Bowl, doctors discovered a tumor in his chest and diagnosed him with Hodgkin's disease, the same cancer his mother had beaten more than 20 years earlier. After missing the 1996 season while undergoing treatment, he returned for the 1997 season, starting in 11 games for the Wildcats. He planned to play the next season but could not because the disease reoccurred. Hartl's death came about two years after his mother died at the age of 45, her heart fatally weakened by the radiation treatments that helped cure her cancer years before. Alex Haynes STUART, Fla. (AP) -- Alex Haynes, a pioneering auto industry executive who helped adapt seat belts for use by Ford Motor Co., died Monday. He was 89. Haynes joined Ford Motor's design engineering department and was soon asked by Henry Ford II to look into the matter of seat belts. Both men had heard of recent studies showing better crash survival rates if passengers stay in the car. Haynes became known as ''Mr. Safety'' for his emphasis on making automobiles and trucks safer. But it was not yet a popular cause. Haynes, along with a team of international engineers, helped develop the automotive division Hyundai Motor Co. Marc Lustgarten NEW YORK (AP) -- Marc Lustgarten, a principal architect of Cablevision's growth in cable TV programming for the last 20 years, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. He was 52. Lustgarden was chairman of Cablevision's Madison Square Garden subsidiary. He joined the company in 1975 and helped turn the Long Island cable TV system into a sports and entertainment giant. His deal-making was a major force behind Cablevision's acquisitions of Madison Square Garden, Radio City Entertainment, The Wiz electronics retail chain and the Clearview Cinema theater chain. Lustgarten helped oversee the creation of American Movie Classics, Bravo, the 24-hour news service News 12 Long Island and the Sportschannel regional cable networks in New York, Boston and Cleveland. In 1997, Lustgarten worked on the $850 million deal that merged the Fox-Liberty Networks' cable sports channels with Cablevision's sports networks to create Fox Sports Net. Evelyn Shrifte NEW YORK (AP) -- Evelyn Shrifte, a longtime president of Vanguard Press, which published the first books of Saul Bellow and Dr. Seuss, died Aug. 8. She was 98. Ms. Shrifte was one of the first women to head a book publishing company. She began working for the independent Vanguard full time in the 1930s and was its president from 1952 to 1988, when it was sold to Random House. Vanguard's books included Bellow's first two novels, ''Dangling Man'' and ''The Victim,'' and Dr. Seuss's first two books, ''And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street'' and ''The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.'' Ms. Shrifte, who received a bachelor's degree from Barnard in 1921, worked for the Musical Quarterly and operated a Manhattan bookshop before joining Vanguard. George Sugarman NEW YORK (AP) -- George Sugarman, a sculptor whose colorful geometric aluminum designs were seen in museums around the world, died Aug. 25. He was 87. In the early 1960s, Sugarman was among the first to make large-scale sculptures that sat directly on the floor, not on a pedestal. He enjoyed having his artwork directly in the viewer's space. His pieces were originally made of painted wood but he later switched to aluminum. He designed his first polychrome sculpture in 1959 and turned to large outdoor sculptures in 1970 beginning with one for the Xerox Corporation in El Segundo, Calif. Over the next two decades, he designed 30 more sculptures in both the United States and abroad. Sugarman's most recent exhibition was in 1998 at Hunter College in New York where he taught from 1960 to 1970. Walter O. Wells ELKHART, Ind. (AP) -- Walter O. Wells, one of the founders of Schult Homes Corp. and one of the patriarchs of the manufactured housing industry, died Monday. He was 87. He had been chairman emeritus of Schult until 1997, a year before the Middlebury-based maker of mobile and modular homes merged with Oakwood Homes Corp. of Greensboro, N.C. Wells went to work at the Wilbur J. Schult Trailer Market in 1934, managing the startup of Schult's manufacturing. Wells was president of the Mobile Home Manufacturers Association in 1952 and 1953. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc.