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                                 OBITUARIES
        Story last updated at 10:32 p.m. on Sunday, November 5, 2000
                                Martha Smith
                                  Atlanta 
                                      
        Martha Robinson Death Smith, 72, of Hermance Drive, died
     Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000.
        A native of La Grange, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of the late
     Charles Walter and Mary Robinson Thompson Death, and was the widow
     of Charles Laster Smith. She was retired from the Central
     Intelligence Agency.
        Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Hightower Funeral Home,
     Bremen, with the Rev. Bill Tidwell officiating. Burial will be in
     Pineywoods Cemetery, Buchanan.
        Survivors include a daughter, Amanda Ham, Atlanta; two sons,
     Randolph C. Smith, Athens, and Ashley Smith, Atlanta; a sister,
     Betty Death, Milledgeville; and a grandchild.
        Pallbearers will be Ray Bouchillon, Doug Brock, Bill Carter,
     Chuck Fields, Howell White and Richard White.
        Athens Daily News, Monday, Nov. 6, 2000
                   Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc.


                                 OBITUARIES
        Story last updated at 10:32 p.m. on Sunday, November 5, 2000
                               Dalmer Clawson
                                   Canon 
                                      
        Dalmer Ray Clawson Sr., 68, of 2270 Starr's Bridge Road, died
     Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000.
        A native of Big Cedar, Oak., Mr. Clawson was a son of the late
     Sterlin Randolph and Trudy Nichols Clawson. He was a 25-year U.S.
     Army veteran and both a mason and a shriner.
        Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Pruitt Funeral Home,
     Royston, with the Rev. Eldon Massey officiating. Burial will be in
     Bowers Memorial Gardens.
        Survivors include a sister, Thelma Faye Dodson, Paris, Texas;
     two brothers, Dean Clawson and Billy Clawson, both of Tulsa, Oak.;
     five children; 13 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
        The family is at the residence and will receive friends from 7-9
     p.m. today at the funeral home.
        Athens Daily News, Monday, Nov. 6, 2000
                   Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc.


                                 OBITUARIES
        Story last updated at 10:32 p.m. on Sunday, November 5, 2000
                                Clara Thomas
                                 Commerce 
                                      
        Clara S. Purcell Thomas, 84, of 632 Georgia Highway 326, died
     Sunday, Nov. 5, 2000.
        A native of Banks County, Mrs. Thomas was a daughter of the late
     William Morgan and Ellie Duncan Purcell, and was the widow of Hoke
     Thomas. She was a member of Hudson River Baptist Church.
        Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Little-Ward Funeral Home
     with the Revs. Troy Herbert, Henry Webb and Ronnie Moon
     officiating.
        Survivors include two daughters, Lois Bridges and Mary Fricks,
     both of Commerce; two sons, Billy Dean Thomas, Gainesville, and Joe
     Thomas, Commerce; 13 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.
        The family is at the home of Joe Thomas, 774 Georgia Highway
     326, Commerce, and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. at the
     funeral home.
        Athens Daily News, Monday, Nov. 6, 2000
                   Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc.