Clarke Co. GA - Obits from the Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald 22 May 2000 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 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 Paulette Moss Sautee Paulette Moss, 38, of 208 Button Quail Road, died Friday, May 19, 2000. A native of Habersham County, Mrs. Moss was a daughter of Byrd T. Moss, Sautee, and the late James Moss. She was a member of Bean Creek Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bean Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Willie Norman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Survivors in addition to her mother include two daughters, Raquel Moss and Heather Moss, both of Sautee; a sister, Margie Moss, Gainesville; five brothers, Michael Trammell, Helen, Darryl Moss, Cleveland, Gary Moss, Oakwood, Fred Moss, Sautee, and Bobby Moss, Columbus, Ohio; and a grandson. The family will receive friends from 7-8 p.m. today at Moss-Stovall-Neal Funeral Home, Toccoa. Athens Daily News, Monday, May 22, 2000 send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 George Thompson IV Winder George Thompson IV, 20, died Saturday, May 20, 2000. Mr. Thompson was a son of George ''Chip'' and Shadie Howard Thompson III, Winder, and was a graduate of Winder Barrow High School and attended the University of Georgia. Services will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Larry Rary officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Survivors include a sister, Suzanne Thompson, Winder; grandmothers, Faye Howard and JoAnn Montgomery, both of Winder; aunts and uncles. The family will receive friends from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. today at Smith Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to First United Methodist Church of Winder, 280 North Broad Street, 30680. Athens Daily News, Monday, May 22, 2000 send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 Mary Johnson Crawford Mary Elizabeth Johnson, 57, of 245 Buddy Faust Road, died Sunday, May 21, 2000. A native of Oglethorpe County, Mrs. Johnson was employed with ABB, formerly Westinghouse, and was a member of Lexington Baptist Church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, Athens, with the Rev. Larry Elliott officiating. Burial will be in Athens Memory Gardens. Survivors include her husband, Don Jose Johnson; two sons, James Wesley Johnson, Crawford, and Rodney Clay Johnson, Athens; two stepsons, Donald Bradford, Danielsville, and Johnnie Carlton, Winterville; two sisters, Patsy J. Barnes, Swansboro, N.C., and Tracy Yearwood, Athens; and a brother, Robert E. Jones, Athens. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1060 Gaines School Road, Athens, Ga. 30605. Athens Daily News, Monday, May 22, 2000 send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 Henry Wright Sr. Albany Henry Ware Wright Sr., 82, died Friday, May 19, 2000. A native of Waynesboro, Va., Mr. Wright attended Fishburne Military Academy and was a graduate of the University of Georgia. He was retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a research chemist and was a World War II Air Force veteran with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Private services will be held at a later date. Survivors include his wife, Martha Whitaker Wright; a daughter, Anne Wright, Nashville, Tenn.; two sons, Henry Wright Jr., Falls Church, Va., and Robert Wright, Atlanta; and two grandchildren. Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Home, Albany, has charge of arrangements. Athens Daily News, Monday, May 22, 2000 send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 Hazel Thomas Clarkesville Hazel D. Thomas, 70, died Saturday, May 20, 2000. A native of Towns County, Mrs. Thomas was a daughter of the late James Frank and Lola Mae West Dyer, and was the widow of D.L. Thomas. She was retired from Kandy Kane Nursery and Learning Land, and was a member of North Georgia Bible Church. Services will be at 4 p.m. today at Whitfield Funeral Home, Demorest, with the Rev. Mark Akin officiating. Burial will be in Yonah Memorial Gardens. Survivors include a daughter, Stephanie Martin, Clarkesville; two sons, Roy Lee Thomas, Clarkesville, and Larry G. Thomas, Crawfordville, Fla.; three sisters, Betty Marolf and Lois ''Cricket'' Mason, both of Alto, and Velma Crawford, Greenrock, Ill.; three brothers, Loyd Dyer, Gillsville, Guy Dyer, Cornelia, and T.J. Dyer, Blairsville; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. today at the funeral home. Athens Daily News, Monday, May 22, 2000 send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 Willie Moore Washington Willie ''Bud'' Lee Moore, 84, of 304 Carolyn St., died Friday, May 19, 2000. A native of Wilkes County, Mr. Moore was a son of the late Bish and Susie Richardson Moore. He was a retired construction worker and a veteran of World War II. Services were held Sunday, May 21, 2000, at Rest Haven Cemetery with the Rev. Roy Burns officiating. Survivors include a son, Edward Cade; three sisters, Lillie Stokes, Thomson, Leola Jones, Kennesaw, and Lucy Zellars, Washington; and two brothers, Walter Moore, Hayward, Calif., and Jimmie Moore, Dallas, Ga. McLendon Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements. Athens Daily News, Monday, May 22, 2000 send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc. OBITUARIES Story last updated at 8:14 a.m. on Monday, May 22, 2000 Actor John Gielgud dead at 96 Associated Press LONDON - Sir John Gielgud, the last of a trio of actor-knights who dominated the 20th-century British stage, has died, his family said. He was 96. Gielgud died Sunday at his home near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, west of London, his family said. No other details were immediately available. With his silken voice and patrician bearing, Gielgud held his place alongside Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson as Britain's leading actors. His Hamlet was regarded as the finest of the age. Gielgud's matchless range of Shakespearean roles stretched from the octogenarian Lear, performed at the age of 27, to Prospero in his own old age. Late in life, he took up screen comedy as the quintessential English butler Hobson opposite Dudley Moore in ``Arthur,'' and won an Academy Award for it. He touched audiences with his tender patience toward his drunken playboy employer - and with the impishness for which he also was known off screen. ``It brought me fan mail from all over the world. It still does, which is extraordinary, really,'' said Gielgud, who almost passed up the role. ``I turned it down a couple of times. ... I thought (the script) was rather smutty, rather common,'' he said. Gielgud's stage career embraced the classics and provocative new works, and his films ranged from Alain Resnais' intellectual ``Providence'' (1977) to Bob Guccione's trashy, soft-porn ``Caligula'' (1979). On television, he shone in ``Brideshead Revisited'' (1981), playing Jeremy Irons' eccentric father, and in ``Summer's Lease'' (1990), as the randy columnist, Haverford Downs. ``I have been extraordinarily lucky,'' Gielgud told The Associated Press in a 1991 interview. ``I've had sort of three goes, which is rare, very fortunate for an actor, and in every kind of work.'' Gielgud was born April 14, 1904, in London, the third of four children. His great-aunt was the celebrated stage actress Ellen Terry. As he wrote in his 1979 memoir, ``An Actor and His Time,'' he was ``theatrically englamored by my family.'' He intended to be a stage designer, but turned to acting ``only to please my parents.'' Gielgud won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1921 at the Old Vic Theater, playing a French herald in Shakespeare's ``Henry V.'' His first major London role was as Trofimov, the perpetual student, in a 1925 staging of Chekhov's ``The Cherry Orchard.'' In the 1991 interview, he reflected unsparingly on his early days: ``I spoke rather well but rather too well, and fell in love with my own voice. All that took me years to get away from.'' But before long, his reputation for Shakespeare grew. In 1930, he acted the first of his many Hamlets, a part he played more than 500 times. Gielgud's Shakespeare repertory included Cassius, Benedick, Leontes and Richard II, as well as Prospero, in ``The Tempest'' - a role that obsessed him throughout his career. In 1991, he played Prospero in the Peter Greenaway movie, ``Prospero's Books,'' calling it, ``the best part I've had, ever.'' Gielgud's work in modern plays included Alan Bennett's ``Forty Years On,'' and two standout parts in the 1970s - the aging Harry, confined to a rest home, in David Storey's ``Home'' (1970) and the seedy poet Spooner in Harold Pinter's ``No Man's Land'' (1975). Both co-starred Gielgud's close friend Richardson, who died in 1983. His final stage role was as Sir Sydney Cockerell, friend of George Bernard Shaw, in Hugh Whitemore's ``The Best of Friends'' (1989). He played the part on radio and TV as well. Gielgud never ceased to take his craft seriously, even when age left him with occasional memory problems. ``I've been able to take no notice of the flattery and praise and concentrate on the things that were wrong,'' he said. ``I'm frightened, now that I'm old, that people will be so respectful.'' He said there was a danger that old actors will fall back on old tricks: ``One must guard all the time against that and try and find a fresh approach.'' Gielgud made his Broadway debut in 1928 in Alfred Neumann's ``The Patriot,'' and returned to the New York stage regularly throughout his life. He acted Hamlet there in 1936, and triumphed with his solo recital, ``The Ages of Man,'' in 1958 and again in 1963. His last New York appearance was in ``No Man's Land'' in 1977. Gielgud's directing credits started with Shakespeare (``The Merchant of Venice'' and ``Romeo and Juliet'' in 1932) and went on to include Tennessee Williams (``The Glass Menagerie'' in 1948) and Edward Albee (``All Over'' on Broadway in 1971). He won the best director Tony Award for Hugh Wheeler's ``Big Fish Little Fish'' in 1961. Gielgud also directed opera in Britain. Gielgud made his film debut in 1924 in ``Who Is the Man?,'' going on to play Benjamin Disraeli in ``The Prime Minister'' (1941) and Clarence to Laurence Olivier's Richard in ``Richard III'' (1955). Gielgud spoke frankly about the ways in which he and Lord Olivier differed: ``He was very much more extrovert. He had a tremendous actual physical side of acting, which I'm not good at at all.'' His other film credits included ``Murder On the Orient Express'' (1974), ``The Shooting Party'' (1984) and ``Plenty'' (1985). Gielgud lived most of his life in London. He moved in 1976 to an elegant 1690s carriage house west of London, where he enjoyed gardening and catching up on his reading between roles. ``One's had the odd horror and mishap, but on the whole I have very, very much to be thankful for,'' he said when he was 87. ``And that I can still go on working at this age is extraordinary really; the only sadness is so many of my contemporaries are gone. Most of the actors that I knew well and worked with have died.'' He leaves no immediate survivors. send flowers to this funeral share your memories email the editor send this notice to a friend Šopyright 2000 Athens Newspapers Inc.