Clarke Co. GA - Obits from the Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald 25 Dec 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/ *********************************************************************** OBITUARIES Story last updated at 9:50 p.m. on Friday, December 24, 1999 Cheryl Lacount Mt. Airy Cheryl Ann Lacount, 39, of Mt. Airy, died Thursday, December 23, 1999. A native of Stephens County, Miss Lacount was the daughter of Hazel Loudermilk and the late Joe M. Lacount. She was a homemaker and a member of Good News Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at McGahee-Griffin and Stewart Funeral Home with the Revs. Gene Batson, Leon Brown and Ray Turpin officiating. Burial will be in Camp Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Survivors, in addition to her mother, include a brother, Rodney Lacount, Mt. Airy; a sister, Dorleen Holland, Mt. Airy; a nephew and a great niece. The family is at the residence of Dorleen Holland, 119 McConnell Place, and will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald Friday, Dec. 24, 1999 Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 9:50 p.m. on Friday, December 24, 1999 Justin Duncanson Lavonia Justin Shawn Duncanson, infant son of Shawn Duncanson and Brandy Segars, died Thursday, December 23, 1999. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Pruitte Funeral Home with the Rev. Leon Suttles officiating. Burial will be in Franlin Memorial Gardens North. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include a sister, Page Duncanson, Lavonia; grandparents, Dennis and Betty Duncanson, Carnesville, and Lamar Segars, Canon. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald Friday, Dec. 24, 1999 Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 9:50 p.m. on Friday, December 24, 1999 Grace Austin Winder Grace D. Austin, 82, died Thursday, December 23, 1999. A native of Jackson County, Mrs. Austin was the daughter of the late Dave and Neta Hogan Doster and was the widow of Glenn Austin Sr. She was a retired seamstress and was of the Baptist faith. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Carter Funeral Home. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Survivors include two sons, Glenn ''Butch'' Austin, Marietta, and Phil Austin, Lilburn; a sister, Rubye Holloway, Winder; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald Friday, Dec. 24, 1999 Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 9:50 p.m. on Friday, December 24, 1999 Tyrone Crabb Mayor NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- Newburgh Mayor-elect Tyrone Crabb died Wednesday from a heart attack at the catering hall where he was preparing for his inaugural party later that night. He had been officially sworn in as mayor a few hours earlier. The 59-year-old Republican was elected mayor in November and would have taken office in January. The Newburgh City Council will appoint a temporary mayor who will serve until a special election can be held. Calvin Crawford Bass player NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Calvin Crawford, the bass player in ''The Country Boys'' band that performed with Grand Ole Opry singer Little Jimmy Dickens, died Thursday. Crawford, 68, had cancer. He played bass for Dickens for 18 years. John Paton Davies WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Paton Davies, a China expert at the State Department who was fired as a security risk during the McCarthy era but later regained clearance, died Thursday in Asheville, N.C. He was 91. Davies was fired in 1954 after accusations by the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy that Davies had undermined U.S. policy and contributed to the Communist victory in China. He fought to clear his name and was granted security clearance from the State Department in 1969. Davies was born in China and served as a foreign service officer in China and political adviser to Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, who headed U.S. forces in China, Burma and India during World War II. Davies also served as first secretary in charge of the political section at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow; as a member of the State Department's policy planning staff; with the U.S. High Commission for Germany; and as director of political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Germany. Marcel Landowski PARIS (AP) -- Marcel Landowski, a leading French composer and conductor, died Wednesday at a Paris hospital. He was 84. Landowski founded the Paris Orchestra in 1967 and was the first director of music, dance and the lyrical arts at the French Ministry of Culture. Landowski suggested the creation of France's regional orchestras, which now flourish. He also was known for reviving the teaching of music in French schools by requiring all students to take classes in music and its theory. Landowski lamented ''over-experimentation'' in modern music, according to France Musique radio. The primary themes of many of his more than 150 compositions, from symphonies to film soundtracks, were mysticism and love. Some of his most celebrated works include ''The Laugh of Nils Halerius,'' ''John of Fear,'' the ''Concerto for Martenot Waves'' and the opera ''The Mad Man.'' In 1950, he won the Great Prize for composition of the City of Paris. Landowski was the Culture Ministry's director of music, dance and lyrical arts from 1970 to 1974, founded the Paris Orchestra in 1967 and was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1975. Alton A. Lindsey TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Alton A. Lindsey, an environmental preservationist who traveled to Antarctica with Adm. Richard E. Byrd in 1933, died Sunday. He was 92. The Lindsey Islands, a small group of 12 islands off the coast of Antarctica, are named for him, as is the oldest dated wood in the American Southwest, the Lindsey Ancient Tree Site in the El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico. The wood was traced to 190 B.C. A new genus and species of bug also was named for him, the Lindseyus coastus. Lindsey wrote 10 books and worked for the preservation of small natural areas in the United States. The National Park Service presents an Alton A. Lindsey Award in Science and Research Stewardship, and Purdue University, where Lindsey was an emeritus professor of biology and founded the Ross Biological Reserve, dedicated the Alton Lindsey Field Laboratory in his name two months ago. Lindsey received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America in 1976 and was the first professional managing editor of its journals. Bernard Carter Randall ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Bernard Carter Randall, a financial adviser and regular panelist on public television's ''Wall Street Week,'' died Tuesday of emphysema. He was 72. Randall worked for Equitable Trust Co. in Baltimore for 30 years, where he worked his way up from a teller in 1947 to senior vice president. In 1981, he moved to Orlando and headed the trust department at what now is SunTrust Banks Inc. He later formed his own financial consulting company. Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc.