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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 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Norma Williamson-Moore Athens Norma Compton Williamson-Moore, 75, of 575 Cedar Creek Drive, Athens died Thursday, January 13, 2000. A native of Madison County, Mrs. Williamson-Moore was the daughter of the late Milton and Emma Scarborough Compton. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas C. Moore. She was the retired co-owner of Custom Picture Frames and a member of Green Acres Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday at Green Acres Baptist Church with the Rev. Mark Babin officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park. Survivors include sons, David Williamson, Winterville, and Gary Williamson, Augusta; daughter, Pamela Williamson, Raleigh, NC: sisters, Ruth Greenway, Adairsville, Ava Jordan, Winston-Salem, NC, and Enide Strickland, Greenville, SC; and grandchildren, Laura Williamson-Packard, Birmingham, AL, and Jeff Williamson, Atlanta. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Green Acres Baptist Church, 2085 Barnett Shoals Road, Athens, GA 30605. Bernstein Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Dorothy Nettles Bader Baldwin Dorothy Nettles Bader, 92, died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000. A native of Colquitt County, Mrs. Bader was a daughter of the late Jesse Richard and Nancy Jane Nettles and was the widow of Edward Bader. She was a retired elementary school teacher and was a homemaker. She was a member of AARP and Central Heights Baptist Church. Services were Friday at Whitfield Funeral Home, North Chapel, Demorest, with the Rev. Wayne Fowler officiating. Burial was in Camp Creek Baptist Church cemetery. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to Central Heights Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1432, Clarkesville, GA 30523 or Higher Ground Baptist Church, P.O. Box 640, Baldwin, GA 30511. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Eleanor Prickett Burger Jefferson Eleanor Prickett Burger, 89, of 473 Horace Head Road died Friday, Jan. 14, 2000. A native of Jackson County, Mrs. Burger was a daughter of the late Lovic and Bell Garrison Prickett and was the widow of George Burger. She was a secretary and was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Atlanta. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Dry Pond United Methodist Church with the Rev. Phil Williams officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include two great-nieces, Barbaranne Hammond, Jefferson, and Marcia Hudson, Forest Park; and three great-nephews, Christopher Head, Roanoke, Va., Michael Head, Wilmington, N.C., and Patrick Head, Marietta. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 'Pete' Hester Winder Elmer ''Pete'' Hester, 79, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A native of Lumpkin, Mr. Hester was a son of the late Lon Hester and Lou Ellen Perry. He was a farmer and was of the Baptist faith. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Wise-Connolly Funeral Home. Survivors include five daughters, Nancy Hester and Margie Hester, both of Winder, Linda Mobley, Monroe, Kathy Garner, Lithonia, and Bessie Garrett, Atlanta; a son, Leo Hester, Acworth; two sisters, Francis Williams and Fanny McElroy, both of Winder; a brother, the Rev. Bill Hester, Gillsville; seven grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Jeffery Hester and Robert Ratzmann. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Wylie Porter Jr. London Wylie Porter Jr. died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2000. A native of Oglethorpe County, Mr. Porter was a son of the late Wylie Sr. and Fannie Porter. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force after 30 years. Services will be Monday in England. Survivors include two daughters, Becky Porter and Karen Porter; two sons, Chris Porter and Tony Porter; two sisters, Josephine ''Mollie'' Porter, Carlton, and Laura Heard, East Point; nieces and nephews. John and Maurice Funeral Home, London, has charge of arrangements. Announcement provided by Jones Lexington Funeral Chapel. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Douglas Wilson Dunlap Mableton MSGT Douglas Wilson Dunlap, 67, formerly of Athens, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A native of Mableton, Mr. Dunlap was a son of Esther McIntosh Dunlap of Sanford, N.C. and the late Auby Dalton Dunlap. He was retired as a Master Sargeant after 42 years and was a member of Albert Pike Masonic Lodge 303, Wichita, Kan., from 1969-2000. He was a member of Sierra Club Department 478, San Francisco, from 1984-2000, and was a member of American Legion Post 0264, Mableton. He was a member of the ''B#'' and other square dance clubs. Services will be at 1 p.m. Jan. 26 at Arlington National Cemetery. Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his wife, Elizabeth F. Nevil-Dunlap; four daughters, Barbara Baker, Omaha, Neb., Linda Chandler, Clinton, Ariz., Rebecca Reid, Topeka, Kan., and Cindy Smith, Tempe, Ariz.; a son, Keith Dunlap, Omaha; four sisters, Shelby D. Fallin, Pinnacle, N.C., Sarah D. Hussey, Robbins, N.C., Rachel D. Moore, Seagrove, N.C., and Dorothy P. Wright, Asheboro, N.C.; two brothers, James Dunlap, Sanford, N.C., and Kenneth Dunlap, Olivia, N.C.; and nine grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or to the American Lung Association. White Columns Chapel, Mableton, has charge of arrangements. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Mary LeLah Howell Lavonia Mary LeLah Collins Howell, 92, of 266 Sheriff-Tarpley Road died Friday, Jan. 14, 2000. A native of Cartersville, Mrs. Howell was a daughter of the late Samuel Oscar and Lilly Morgan Collins and was the widow of Daniel Brewster Howell. She was a homemaker and was a member of Toccoa Church of Christ. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Toccoa Church of Christ with Ministers Aubrey Prestridge and Russell Tarpley officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be at 3:30 p.m. today in College Park Cemetery, College Park. Survivors include two daughters, Betty H. Tarpley, Lavonia, and Mary H. Reynolds, Jacksonville, Fla.; a son, Daniel B. Howell Jr., Jekyll Island; a sister, Marguerite Mitchell, Newton, N.C.; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Georgia Agape, Inc., 3094 Mercer University Drive, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30341. Hamby Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Edith Pierce Hight Greensboro Edith Pierce Alfriend Hight, 89, of 302 S. East St. died Friday, Jan. 14, 2000. A native of Hancock County, Mrs. Hight was a daughter of the late James Watts and Edith Pierce Alfriend and was the widow of James Preston Hight Sr. She was a teacher at Bleckley County schools and was a stenographer with the U.S. government. She was a member of Sparta Presbyterian Church, where she was a member of Women in the Church. She was a 1928 graduate of Sparta High School and a 1930 graduate of Georgia State College for Women. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Sparta City Cemetery with the Revs. Reggie Haslett and Ford G. Segner officiating. Survivors include a son, James P. Hight, Greensboro; and a sister, Julia Bailey, Waycross. The family is at the residence. McCommons Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Dewey Rose Kelley Colbert Dewey Rose Kelley, 50, of 229 E. 5th St. died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A native of Madison County, Mr. Kelley was a son of the late Bunyan Monore and Flora Garrett Kelley. He was a U.S. Navy veteran having served in Vietnam and was employed by Fowler Products Co. He was of the Baptist faith. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Collier Baptist Church cemetery with the Rev. Don Fuller officiating. Survivors include two sisters, Brenda Faye Damron, Colbert, and Addie Cloe Hill, Holly Hill, Fla.; and a brother, Reuben Ben Kelley, Elberton. The family is at the residence of Donald Damron, 51-HV Chandler Road, Colbert, and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Sunday at Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Ruby Day Sanders Winder Ruby Day Sanders, 87, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A native of Jackson County, Mrs. Sanders was a daughter of the late Andrew Day and was the widow of Hardy P. Sanders. She was a homemaker and was a member of First Methodist Church of Winder. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Wise-Connolly Funeral Home with the Revs. Kenneth Deaton and Jeff Hogan officiating. Survivors include two daughters, Lavern Hogan, Winder, and Edna Altman, Carrollton; 10 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 'Brog' Clark Athens Willie James ''Brog'' Clark, 53, of 650 Reece St. died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A lifelong resident of Athens-Clarke County, Mr. Clark was a son of Gladys Davis Clark and the late Matthew Clark Sr. He was preceded in death by two children, Samera Clark and Barbara Ann Clark. He attended Clarke County schools and played football at Burney Harris High School. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. today at Hurley Funeral Home with Clarence Clark Sr. officiating. Survivors, in addition to his mother, include two daughters, Rhonda Denise Hunter, Decatur, and Nica Latonya Clark, Athens; four sons, Eric Carew Clark, Jamall Antonio Clark, Vida Blue Jefferies and Danny Jefferies, all of Athens; three sisters, Magnolia Clark and Cora Jackson, both of Athens, and Patricia Snelling, Decatur; a brother, Matthew Clark Jr.; and five grandchildren. The family is at the residence. Forestglen Mortuary, Jefferson, has charge of arrangements. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Marc Davis Cartoonist GLENDALE, Calif. -- Marc Davis, the cartoonist who was the lead designer on such Disney characters as Tinker Bell, Bambi and Cruella De Vil, died Wednesday. He was 86. Davis also designed concepts and characters for such Disney theme-park attractions as ''Pirates of the Caribbean.'' Sam Jaffe Agent LOS ANGELES-- Sam Jaffe, the super agent of his day whose client roster included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, David Niven, Richard Burton, Fredric March and Barbara Stanwyck, died Monday at age 98. Also a producer whose movies included ''Born Free,'' Jaffe became a local movie mogul by the age of 22. Jaffe worked for such film pioneers as Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer and Harry Cohn, as well as representing such film icons as Bogart, Bacall, Niven and Burton. Other clients included Zero Mostel, Mary Astor, Lee J. Cobb and Jennifer Jones, as well as directors Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh and Stanley Kubrick. Born May 21, 1901, in New York City's Harlem to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Jaffe dropped out of high school to take an office boy's job offered by his brother-in-law at the Paramount-Famous Players-Laskey studio in New York. He moved up quickly in the new industry of moving pictures and soon left for Hollywood. He began representing actors and directors in 1935 when he formed the Jaffe Agency at the urging of his wife, Mildred. But he kept his hand in movies, producing Joy Adamson's true-life story of raising Elsa the lioness in 1966's ''Born Free.'' In 1973 he teamed up with his old friend and fellow art collector Vincent Price to do the fictional ''Theater of Blood,'' about a Shakespearean actor killing his critics. Rodrigo Lloreda BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Rodrigo Lloreda, a leading conservative newspaper publisher and one of Colombia's most distinguished public servants, died Thursday of cancer. He was 57. As defense minister, Lloreda initiated reforms that boosted the military's morale and effectiveness after years of humiliating defeats. He resigned last May to protest peace concessions to leftist rebels. He served as governor of his home state of Valle de Cauca from 1968-70, and later as senator, education minister, foreign minister and ambassador to the United States. He was defeated in the 1990 presidential elections, but served in the National Constituent Assembly that drafted Colombia's 1991 constitution. In 1998, he was awarded his country's highest journalism prize, the Simon Bolivar award for lifelong achievement. Alfred Nzo JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Alfred Nzo, South Africa's first post-apartheid foreign minister and a key organizer of the African National Congress during a quarter-century in exile, died Thursday. He was 74. Nzo joined then-President Nelson Mandela's Cabinet after the 1994 all-race elections that ended white minority rule. Following Mandela's release from prison in 1990, Nzo served on an ANC delegation that undertook talks with the National Party government that ruled under apartheid. Jay Geddes Odell Jr. VENICE, Fla. (AP) -- Jay Geddes Odell Jr., a former editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer who became managing editor at the now defunct New York Star, died Tuesday. He was 88. Odell began his career in the 1930s in Minnesota as a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and sports announcer for radio station KSTP before moving to Philadelphia and joining the Inquirer staff. After serving in World War II, he returned to the paper, and in 1946 he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship, which gives mid-career journalists a year of graduate work at Harvard University. The following year, Odell became managing editor of The New York Star. The Star folded in 1949 during a period that saw the demise of several small, independent newspapers around the country. Odell moved on to become editor and information officer for The Committee for Economic Development, a nonpartisan organization influential in policy recommendations during the postwar transition to peacetime economics in the United States and Europe. He retired in 1990. Odell is survived by his wife, Adalberta LaVoie Odell, and his son, Jay Scott Odell. Henry Pleasants LONDON (AP) -- Henry Pleasants, an American music critic who tried to dispel the notion that jazz was not ''serious'' music, died Thursday. He was 89. Pleasants worked as the London music critic for the New York Herald Tribune for 30 years. He also wrote 10 books taking a critical look at opera's future and the value of jazz. Two of his works, ''Rise of Jazz'' published in 1961 and ''Serious Music and All That Jazz'' published in 1969, attempted to counter critics who dismissed jazz. After serving in World War II, he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. commander in Vienna. He also became a music correspondent for the New York Times. Pleasants retired from the government in 1964 and joined the Herald Tribune's London office to focus on music. Paul Sigler NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Paul Sigler, a Yale University scientist who helped pioneer the field of structural biology, died Tuesday after collapsing while walking to his laboratory, the university said. He was 65. In the early 1960s, Sigler joined a small group of biophysicists attempting to unravel the secrets of enzyme function. He joined the Yale faculty and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1989 and spent most of the next decade focusing on the mechanisms by which gene expression is controlled, studies that have implications for understanding cell development, cancer and hormone regulation. Ella Goldberg Wolfe PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Ella Goldberg Wolfe, who helped her husband build the foundations of the Communist Party of the United States but eventually became a supporter of Ronald Reagan, died Saturday. She was 103. Her husband, Bertram, wrote the manifesto that created the U.S. arm of the party in 1919. Mrs. Wolfe worked as a secretary for the Comintern, the International Organization of Communist Parties formed by Lenin to promote revolution in countries outside the Soviet Union. By the 1970s, both had become supporters of Reagan. Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Margaret Maddox Danielsville Margaret Maddox, 79, of 1964 Holman Autry Road died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A native of Madison County, Mrs. Maddox was a daughter of the late Russell Collie and Lottie Quillan Landers Carithers and was the widow of Guy Maddox. She was retired from Colbert Manufacturing Co. and was of the Baptist faith. Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Lord and Stephens Funeral Home, Danielsville, with the Rev. Tony Lee officiating. Burial will be in Meadow Baptist Church cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Shirley Dillard, Danielsville; two sisters, Alma Parham, Comer, and Mary Ann Rigby, Jonesboro; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Jeff Dillard, Shane Smith, Walter Smith, Tommy Dillard, Edward Duncan and Darral Scoggins. The family will receive friends from 2-3 p.m. today at the funeral home. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:12 a.m. on Saturday, January 15, 2000 Grady Pickens Lavonia Grady Pickens, 74, of 1036 Caney Branch Road died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000. A native of Hart County, Mr. Pickens was a son of the late Clifton Henry and Lena Rucker Pickens. He was a deacon at New Light Baptist Church, Lavonia. Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at New Light Baptist Church with the Revs. Ken Cooper and Hazell Quarles officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Atie Pickens; a daughter, Wilma Pickens; two sons, Russell L. Pickens and Grady A. Pickens; a sister, Airlean Brown, Bowersville; and a brother, William Pickens, Lavonia. The family is at the residence and will receive friends from 7-8 p.m. today at Moss-Stovall-Neal Funeral Home. Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000 Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc.