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                                 OBITUARIES
        Story last updated at 9:26 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2001
                          Bessie Lawrence Criddell
                                  Atlanta 
                                      
        Bessie Lawrence Criddell, 92, formerly of Greene County, died
     Monday, March 12, 2001.
        Mrs. Criddell was a daughter of the late Garfield and Elizabeth
     Lawrence and was the widow of Leo Criddell. She was a member of
     Springfield Baptist Church, Greensboro, and the Brothers and
     Sisters Society.
        Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Springfield Baptist
     Church with the Revs. S.L. Williams, Keith Richardson and Kenneth
     Nelson officiating. The body will be placed in the church at noon.
     Burial will be in St. Paul Cemetery, Siloam.
        Survivors include two nieces, Jennifer Lawrence, Stockbridge,
     and Maggie Lawrence, McDonough; and two nephews, Harold Shelton and
     Alfonza Shelton, both of Atlanta.
        The family is at the residence of Claudia Mae Lawrence, 48
     Canaan Circle, Greensboro.
        Watts Funeral Home, Union Point, has charge of arrangements.
        Athens Daily News, Friday, March 16, 2001
     
     
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                                 OBITUARIES
        Story last updated at 9:26 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2001
                                Polly Smith
                                Winterville 
                                      
        Ruby Kyle ''Polly'' Smith, 86, died Wednesday, March 14, 2001.
        A native of Madison County, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of the
     late William B. and Lou Zona Styles Bumgarner and was the widow of
     James Prentiss Smith. She was employed by Thomas Textile for 39
     years and founded Style Rite Manufacturing Co. in 1960, which
     operated until 1997. She was a Jehovah's Witness.
        Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Lord and Stephens Funeral
     Home, East, with Francis Livengood officiating.
        Survivors include three daughters, Evelyn Strickland, Elaine
     Dantzler and Eleanor Doster, all of Winterville; two sons, James
     Prentiss Smith Jr. and B.J. Smith, both of Winterville; 20
     grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; and five
     great-great-grandchildren.
        Pallbearers will be Barry Strickland, David C. Doster, Brant
     Dantzler, Tommy Strickland, Gerry Smith and Ben Smith. Honorary
     pallbearers will be Bryan Hale and Matthew Hale.
        Athens Daily News, Friday, March 16, 2001
     
     
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