Clarke Co. GA - Obits from the Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald 29 Aug 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 10:46 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Ola Feltman Hartwell Ola Dyar Feltman, 93, formerly of Old 29 Hwy, died Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. A native of Hart County, Mrs. Feltman was a daughter of the late William Paul Dyar and Rossie Wright Dyar, and was the widow of B.C. Feltman. She was a homemaker and a member of Oak Bower Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Strickland Funeral Home, Hartwell. Burial will be in Nancy Hart Memorial Park. Survivors include four sisters, Geneva Bailey and Jerusha Shiflet, both of Hartwell, and Flora Bowman and Willie Bailey, both of Rome. The families are at their respective residences. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Odessa Smallwood Lilburn Odessa Veal Smallwood, 86, of 4884 B. Valleydale Dr., formerly of Commerce, died Saturday, Aug. 28, 1999. A native of Clarke County, Mrs. Smallwood was a daughter of the late Arthur and Roxyanne Grey Veal, and was the widow of Roy Smallwood. She was a homemaker and a member of Morning Star Baptist Church. Services will be at 4 p.m. today at Little Ward Funeral Home, Commerce, with the Rev. Mark A. Poston Sr. officiating. Burial will be in Grey Hill Cemetery, Commerce. Survivors include a number of nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends from 1-4 p.m. today at the funeral home. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Rufus Jarrell Miramar, Fla. Rufus Alva Jarrell, 76, of 6811 S.W. 23rd St., died Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. A native of Greene County, Mr. Jarrell was a son of the late John Thomas Jarrell and Minnie Lee Doster Jarrell. He was a pile driver in the construction industry and was a member of Faith Christian Church, Hollywood, Fla. He was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose and a member of Pile Driver Local Union 1026 since 1960. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at McCommons Funeral Home, Greensboro, with the Rev. Dr. Roy F. Campbell officiating. Burial will be in Penfield Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Kathleen R. Jarrell; and a daughter, Helen English, Gainesville, Fla. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Building Fund, Faith Christian Church, 7676 Davie Road, Hollywood, Fla. 33024. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Carl Hancox Westminster, S.C. Carl Eugene Hancox, 65, of Long Dr., died Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. A native of Stephens County, Mr. Hancox was a son of Essie Mae Payne Hancox, Toccoa, and the late Marion James Hancox. He lived most of his life in Oconee County, S.C. He was a carpenter in house construction, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and was of the Church of God faith. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Acree-Davis Funeral Home, Toccoa, with the Rev. Raymond Roach officiating. A private internment will be held later by the family. Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his wife, Rosella Amolsch Hancox; a daughter, Christine Roach, Westminster, S.C.; two sons, John Hancox, Huntsville, Ala., and Robert Dale Edmondson, Indianapolis, Ind.; a sister, Emily Ruth Whiten, Toccoa; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. The family is at the residence and will receive friends today from 7-9 p.m. at the residence. They will also receive friends from 1:30-3 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Hancox family, 114 Long Dr., Westminster, S.C. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Helen Shaw Decatur Helen F. Shaw, 83, formerly of Demorest, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999. A native of White Bear Lake, Minn., Mrs. Shaw was a daughter of the late Benedict and Catherine Jordan Gantzer, and was the widow of Chester Allen Shaw. She was a private duty nurse for 11 years. She served as Food Services director at Habersham County Medical Center and Piedmont College. She was of the Presbyterian faith, and had served as an elder in Central Presbyterian Church, Moorhead, Minn. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Yonah Memorial Gardens with Dr. John Bridges officiating. Survivors include three daughters, Louise C. Shaw, Omaha, Neb., Linda K. Elgin, Grand Forks, N.D., and Susan J. Shaw, Lexington, Ky.; two sons, Thomas A. Shaw, Marietta, and David G. Shaw, Moorhead, Minn.; and eight grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at Whitfield Funeral Home, South Chapel, Baldwin. Memorial may be made to the American Heart Association, c/o Jackie Ausburn, 1352 Chase Road, Cornelia, GA 30531. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Dee Winter Comer Dee Ann Winter, 27, of 287 Collier Church Road, died Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. A native and lifelong resident of the area, Mrs. Winter was a daughter of Robert and Linda Epps Morgan of Comer. She attended Emmanuel College and was a member of Compass Community Church. Memorial services will be at 6:30 p.m. today at Compass Community Church, 525 Calhoun Dr., with Jim Carpenter officiating. Survivors, in addition to her parents, include her husband, David Winters; two daughters, Kayleigh Winter and Alexandria Winter, both of Comer; a sister, Tracy Lane, Virginia; two brothers, Lee Morgan, Athens, and Lloyd Morgan, Savannah; and her grandfather, T.J. Epps, Athens. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Kayleigh and Alexandria Winter Educational Trust Fund, c/o Jim Carpenter, Compass Community Church, 484 Spratlin Mill Road, Hull, GA 30646. Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, East, is in charge of the arrangements. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 B.F. Coggan Engineer SAN DIEGO - B.F. ''Sandy'' Coggan, who led the Convair Division of General Dynamics during the aerospace boom of the 1950s and went on to advise the Defense Department and United Nations, died Sunday from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 81. Born Bernard Frederick Coggan in Gary, Ind., he grew up in Michigan and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Michigan State University. In 1952, Coggan moved to San Diego to become vice-president and general manager of Convair, which had a work force of 45,000 designing and manufacturing aircraft and missiles. As a consultant to the Department of Defense in 1961, Coggan conducted worldwide audits of military hospitals and radar installations. As a United Nations adviser in 1966, he was part of a team assigned to audit a five-year economic plan of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 Joseph Gold Marine TENAFLY, N.J. - Joseph Gold, the nation's oldest living Marine and one of the few remaining World War I veterans, died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 107. Gold, who served with the American Expeditionary Force in the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918, was one of two servicemen to receive France's Legion of Honor award last month. Just a few weeks ago, interviewers from the U.S. Marine Corps Research Center arrived at Gold's nursing home to record his thoughts on the war he fought and his service in the Marines. Marine records show Gold was the oldest living Marine. He is one of only a few who remembered fighting during World War I. After the war, Gold remained in Europe until 1919 to help with postwar reconstruction. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 David Graham Pacifist LONDON - David Graham, who led the Oxford University students' hugely controversial vote against fighting ''for king and country'' in the year Adolf Hitler came to power, died Aug. 12, according to newspaper reports. He was 87. While a student at Oxford in February 1933, Graham drafted the pacifist debating motion that ''this house will in no circumstances fight for its king and country.'' The Oxford Union passed the matter by a vote of 275-173, causing an uproar among conservatives in the British Parliament and the press. But according to The Daily Telegraph, Graham was not so much a pacifist as an ''independent spirit fond of controversy.'' Graham joined the British Broadcasting Corp. shortly after his graduation from Oxford and his career there spanned four decades. His first task was to adapt Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' for radio, The New York Times reported. When World War II broke out, Graham, eager to use his fluency in German and knowledge of the country to support Britain's war effort, became part of a small BBC team that broadcast to Germany. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc. Story last updated at 10:46 a.m. on Sunday, August 29, 1999 B.F. Coggan Engineer SAN DIEGO -- B.F. ''Sandy'' Coggan, who led the Convair Division of General Dynamics during the aerospace boom of the 1950s and went on to advise the Defense Department and United Nations, died Sunday from complications of Alzheimer's disease. He was 81. Born Bernard Frederick Coggan in Gary, Ind., he grew up in Michigan and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Michigan State University. In 1952, Coggan moved to San Diego to become vice-president and general manager of Convair, which had a work force of 45,000 designing and manufacturing aircraft and missiles. As a consultant to the Department of Defense in 1961, Coggan conducted worldwide audits of military hospitals and radar installations. As a United Nations adviser in 1966, he was part of a team assigned to audit a five-year economic plan of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Joseph Gold Marine TENAFLY, N.J. -- Joseph Gold, the nation's oldest living Marine and one of the few remaining World War I veterans, died Wednesday of pneumonia. He was 107. Gold, who served with the American Expeditionary Force in the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918, was one of two servicemen to receive France's Legion of Honor award last month. Just a few weeks ago, interviewers from the U.S. Marine Corps Research Center arrived at Gold's nursing home to record his thoughts on the war he fought and his service in the Marines. Marine records show Gold was the oldest living Marine. He is one of only a few who remembered fighting during World War I. After the war, Gold remained in Europe until 1919 to help with postwar reconstruction. David Graham Pacifist LONDON -- David Graham, who led the Oxford University students' hugely controversial vote against fighting ''for king and country'' in the year Adolf Hitler came to power, died Aug. 12, according to newspaper reports. He was 87. While a student at Oxford in February 1933, Graham drafted the pacifist debating motion that ''this house will in no circumstances fight for its king and country.'' The Oxford Union passed the matter by a vote of 275-173, causing an uproar among conservatives in the British Parliament and the press. But according to The Daily Telegraph, Graham was not so much a pacifist as an ''independent spirit fond of controversy.'' Graham joined the British Broadcasting Corp. shortly after his graduation from Oxford and his career there spanned four decades. His first task was to adapt Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace'' for radio, The New York Times reported. When World War II broke out, Graham, eager to use his fluency in German and knowledge of the country to support Britain's war effort, became part of a small BBC team that broadcast to Germany. Survivors include a daughter and two sons. Dr. George T. Harrell DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Dr. George T. Harrell, the founding dean of medical schools at the University of Florida and Pennsylvania State University, died Thursday. He was 91. Harrell was an innovator in physician training, emphasizing understanding and caring for the patient as a whole. He advocated training students in small groups to prepare them for work in health teams and created the first medical school programs in humanities, family and community medicine, and behavioral science. Most medical schools offer programs in the humanities today. Harrell was recruited by the University of Florida in 1954 to develop its college of medicine. The school opened with a new college of nursing in 1956. He left Florida for Pennsylvania in 1964 after chocolate magnate Milton S. Hershey pledged $50 million for a hospital and medical school to be affiliated with Penn State. Nick Mariana PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Nick Mariana, a former baseball executive, sportscaster and high school athletic official in Montana, died Aug. 20. He was 86. Mariana was president and general manager of Montana's minor-league Missoula Timberjacks from 1956-60, and general manager of the Great Falls Electrics from 1948-53. online athensAthens Daily News/Banner Herald Šopyright 1999 Athens Newspapers Inc.