of to a a FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1991 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL D7 FIRST ARKANSAS HELENA Miss Cecelia A. Hopkins, 86, retired bookkeeper, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Graveside services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday. Roller-Citizens Funeral Home has charge.
She was a member of HeFirst United Methodist Church. Miss Hopkins leaves a nephew, Rufus Thompson of Greenville, Miss. The family requests any memorials be sent to First United Methodist Church. MISSISSIPPI Arlie Ray McDill, 83, died Wednesday at her home. Services will be at 10 a.m.
today at Memorial Funeral Home in Columbus with burial in Memorial Gardens there. She was a member of Northside Freewill Baptist Church. Mrs. McDill, the widow of Jesse Manley McDill, leaves a daughter, Mrs. Avandell Ruffin of Columbus; two sons, Homer McDill Ethelsville, and Joe McDill of Caledonia; a sister, Mrs.
Ada Clemmons of Tuscaloosa, a brother, Carlos Woolbright of Gordo, nine grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. CHARLESTON Mrs. Liz Driskell Pritchard, 72, retired service representative for South Central Bell, died Wednesday at Tallahatchie General Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Charleston First Baptist Church, where she was a member and once secretary and treasurer for Fidelis Sunday school class, with burial in Charleston Cemetery.
Womble, Funeral Home has charge. Pritchard, the widow of B. P. Pritchard, leaves a sister, Miss Vera Driskell of Charleston, and many nieces and nephews. The family requests any memorials be sent to Charleston First Baptist Church or Tallahatchie County Medical Foundation.
CORINTH Grover Lee Grissom, 67, self-employed heavy-equipment owner and operator and farmer, died Wednesday at his home. Services will be at p.m. today at McPeters Funeral Home with burial in Forest Memorial Park. He was a World War II Army veteran, and a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Operation Engine Local No. 624.
Grissom, the husband of Frances West Grissom, also leaves five daughters, Mrs. Brenda Wooten of Chickamauga, Mrs. Carolyn Kaye McGaughy Burnsville, Linda Pounders of Iuka, and Mrs. Roberta Willis and Mrs. Ramona George, both of Corinth; two stepsons, Charles West Michie, and Randall West of Travis Air Force Base, his stepmother, Mrs.
Verdie Arnold of Red Bay, a half-brother, Glenn Grissom of Tupelo, seven grandchildren and stepgrandchild. DREW Joseph Donald 'Joey' Tribble, 15, the son of Donald and Joanna Starnes Tribble, student at Drew High School, died Tuesday at Delta Regional Medical Center i Greenville of injuries received in an automobile accident. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Drew United Methodist Church with burial in Drew Cemetery. Thweatt-King Funeral Home of Cleveland has charge.
He was a member of West Drew Baptist Church. He also leaves a sister, Donna Jo Tribble of the Mrs. home; Joel his Tribble grandparents, of Greenwood Mrs. and Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Starnes Jr. of Drew, W. and his Starnes great Drew.
grandmother, Mrs. J. GREENVILLE Mrs. Florence Bell, 75, died Monday at Delta Regional Medical Center. Services were Thursday at Mortimer Funeral Home with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church. Mrs. Bell, the widow James F. Bell leaves a daughter, Ms. Jane Breeden, and a son, William 'Bill' Bell, both of Memphis, and two grandchildren.
GREENVILLE Doug Faulkner, 13, son of Raymond and Brenda Faulkner, student at St. Joseph Junior High School, died Wednesday St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St.
Joseph Catholic Church, where he was a communicant and altar boy, with burial in Greenville Cemetery. Mortimer Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of the football and baseball team at St. seph, and Students Against Drunken Driving. He also leaves ters, Rhonda Faulkner and Kim Faulkner, both of Greenville, and his godparents, Ann and Randy Giachelli of Greenville.
The family quests memorials be sent Doug Faulkner St. Jude Fund, Sunburst Bank P.O. Box 959, Greenville, Miss. 38702. GREENVILLE Mrs.
Etta Mae Westbrook, 81, died Monday at Delta Regional Medical Center. Graveside services were at 10 a.m. Thursday in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Mortimer Funeral HomeGreenville has charge. Mrs.
Westbrook leaves several nieces and nephews. GREENWOOD Mrs. Edith Fairbank Alexander, 92, retired teacher, died Wednesday at Greenwood-Leflore Hospital. Services will be at CALEDONIA Mrs. Mrs.
Ceola Allen, 59, of 274 Cambridge, widow of L. C. Aller. Mrs. Carrie Sue Bing, 69, of Memphis, wife of Frank Bing Mrs.
Frances M. Blackwood, 76, of Memphis, widow of Harold R. Blackwood. Wilson Clayton Brooks, 54, of Cordova, a 35-year employee of Shelby government, husband of Ellen Faye Brooks. Mrs.
Coleen Bush, 58, of Memphis, wife of Maury Bush. Clyde R. Dunaway, 77, of Memphis, retired staff manager for Independent Life Insurance husband of Irma 'Faye' Dunaway. Mrs. Katherine W.
'Kay' Ferguson, 69, of Memphis, wife of Morris D. Ferguson. Mrs. Lula Mae Gray, 56, of Memphis, clerk for Disabled American Veterans on Summer. Ezra L.
Hawkins, 75, of 293 Bond, husband of Gladys M. Hawkins. Claborne L. Holland, 77, of Memphis, retired employee of Sequoia Supply. a.m.
Saturday at Itta Bena Baptist Church, where she was active for 65 years, with burial in Itta Bena City Cemetery. She was a graduate of Mississippi State College for Women. Mrs. Alexander, the widow of Joe Kimbrough Alexander, leaves a daughter, Mrs. John T.
'Kim' Farley of Richmond, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Elsie Steele of Ral Springs community; a brother, Robert Fairbank of Hattiesburg, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The family requests any memorials be sent to Itta Bena Baptist Church. GREENWOOD William Brewer Tucker, 70, Certified Public Accountant, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 10 a.m.
Saturday at Wilson Knight Funeral Home with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery. He was a graduate of Greenwood High School, attended Bowling Green (Ky.) Business University and was a World War II Army Air Corps veteran. He was partner in Tucker, Martin Armstrong and charter member of North Greenwood Baptist Church, where he served five years as treasurer. He was also a member of Elks Club, Greenwood Lions Club and was treasurer for the Northwest Mississippi Girl Scout Council. Tucker, the husband of Lucille G.
Tucker, also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ann Tucker Person, and four grandchildren. The family requests any memorials be sent to North Greenwood Baptist Church Building Fund. IUKA Clifford Gray, 86, died Wednesday at Sycamore View Nursing Home in Memphis. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m.
today at Burnsville Cemetery. Cutshall Funeral Home has charge. Gray, the husband of Nola Memphis, also leaves a stepdaughter, Mrs. Dorothy Tucker of Memphis; a stepson, Billy C. Smith of Memphis; a foster son, David C.
Captino of Memphis; four sisters, Mrs. Dovie Boothe of Sheffield, Mrs. Ollie Mae O'Conner of Claremont, Mrs. Evelyn Reynolds of Iuka and Mrs. Ruth Marlar of Memphis; a a a a a a a brother, Marshall Gray of Mooresville, N.C., six stepgrandchildren and eight stepgreat-grandchildren.
MICHIGAN CITY. Lonnie B. Cole, 50, disabled landscaper, died Saturday. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Sims Chapel MB Church here with burial in the church cemetery.
J. F. Brittenum Son Funeral Home in Holly Springs has charge. Cole, the husband of Hattie Foster Cole, also leaves three daughters, Miss Keisha Lorraine Miss Marilyn Annette Cole, both of Michigan City, and Miss Roberta Spinks of Moscow, a son, Franklin Tipler of Ashland; two stepdaughters, Miss Carolyn Foster and Miss Yolunda Singlea ton, both of Michigan City; his father, James Cole of Michigan City; five brothers, Chester Cole, James Cole, Willie B. Cole, Jimmy Cole and Thomas Cole all of Chicago, four grandchildren and three stepgrandchildren.
RIENZI Mrs. Ella Irene Felks, 69, retired factory inspector, died Thursday at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today at Kemp's Chapel Baptist Church with burial in the church cemtery. McPeter's Funeral Home has charge.
She was a Presbyterian. Mrs. Felks, the widow of Tommie Felks, leaves three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen Moss and Mrs. Peggy Burcham, both of Rienzi, and Mrs.
Irma Robbins of Corinth; a son, Marion Ray Felks of Rienzi; four sisters, Mrs. Ruby Driver, Mrs. Eddie Calvary Mrs. Ilene Adams, all of Corinth, and Grace McLemore of Ripley, two brothers, Robert Latch of Memphis and Marcus Latch of Corinth, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. of TUNICA- Donald D.
Alday, 58, of Memphis, bookkeeper, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Graveside services will p.m. today at Oakwood Cemetery here. Memorial Funeral Home has charge. He was a Mason.
Alday leaves a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Perryman of Lula, and two brothers, Euat gene Alday and W. E. Alday, both of Walls. The family requests any memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
VARDAMAN Alfred Gene Gilder, 69, retired truck driver, died Wednesday at his home. Services Jo- will be at 11 a.m. today at Vardaman Baptist Church, where he was deacon, with burial in Midway Cemetery. Parker Memorial Funeral Home has charge. He was a member of Vardaman Masonic Lodge re- and a World War II Army veteran.
to Gilder, the husband of Virginia Dorris Gilder, also leaves two daughters, Mrs. Barbara Waits of Brandon and Mrs. Gloria Lloyd of Vardaman; four sisters, Ms. Jacqueline Gilder and Mrs. Sara Edmondson, both of Memphis, Mrs.
Alma Edmondson of Vardaman and Mrs. Bessie Flemming of Starkville; three brothers, Rufus Gilder Jr. and Jasper Gilder, both of Vardaman, and Thomas Gilder of Starkville, and five grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests any memorials be sent to Vardaman Baptist Church Youth Ministry. WALNUT Mrs.
Gladys Louise 11 Mohundro, 82, died Wednesday at DEATHS River Oaks Hospital in Jackson. Services will be at p.m. today at McBride Funeral Home in Ripley with burial in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Tippah County. She was a member of Reeves United Methodist Church in Bolivar, Tenn.
Mrs. Mohundro, the wife of Felton Mohundro of Jackson, also leaves a son, Curtis Mohundro of Leaksville; two brothers, Leslie McKee of Walnut and Nolan McKee of Memphis, six granchildren and 12 great-granchildren. TENNESSEE COVINGTON Ms. Nadine Hodges Odom, 68, retired employee of Kimberly Clark, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m.
Saturday at Pafford Funeral Home with burial in Henderson County Memory Gardens. Ms. Odom leaves a daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Smith of Memphis; a sister, Mrs. Jerri Cisneros of Titusville, and two brothers, Elbert Hodges of Cherry Valley, and Leroy Hodges of Searcy, Ark.
HUNTINGDON Mrs. Mary Elam Jordan, 84, retired cook at Cimmarron Restaurant, died Thursday at her home from injuries received in a house fire. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Dilday Funeral Home with burial in Long Rock Cemetery. She was a member of Order of the Eastern Star for more than 50 years.
Mrs. Jordan leaves a daughter, Mrs. June Borcky of Huntingdon; a son, Jackie Chandler of Indianapolis, a sister, Mrs. Vila Mae Hopperton of Covington, four grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and a great granddaughter. HUNTINGDON Larry Wayne Pendergrass, 56, owner and operator of Betty and Larry's Shoe Repair, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital of Huntingdon.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Christian Chapel Church of Christ, where he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. Dilday Funeral Home has charge. Pendergrass, the husband of Betty Pendergrass, also leaves three daughters, Mrs. Lisa Haynie of Camden, Mrs.
Barbara A. Carter of Memphis and Mrs. Charlene Milam of Henderson; a son, John Wayne Pendergrass of Huntingdon; his mother, Mrs. Eddie Pendergrass of Huntingdon; three sisters, Mrs. Lois Fuller of Huntingdon, Mrs.
Ollita Kelly and Flossie Meals, both of Cedar Grove; three brothers, James A. Pendergrass and L. R. Pendergrass, both of Huntingdon, and Henry Pendergrass of Rutherford, and four grandchildren. LEXINGTON Mrs.
Mary Nelle Chalk, 76, retired teacher, died Wednesday at Lexington Methodist Hospital after a sudden illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Juno Church of Christ, where she was a member, with burial in Henderson County Memory Gardens. Reed's Chapel has charge. Mrs.
Chalk, the wife of Bonnie Chalk, also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Mary Linda Kelley Chattanooga; three sons, John Allen Chalk of Ft. Worth, Texas, Jimmy Lawrence, Chalk of Garland, Texas, Jackye Q. Chalk of Bonaire, Netherland Antilles; a sister, Ms. Dew Drop Rowlett of Murray, two brothers, Brandon Bromley Henderson and Billy Bromley of Columbus, and I eight grandchildren.
LEXINGTON Rev. Cooper Lee Moody, 80, retired 30-year teacher in Henderson County, died Thursday at Lexington Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Pafford Funeral Home with burial in Judson Cemetery. He was a member of Judson Baptist Church and Cheat Valley Masonic Lodge and was a York Rite and 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason.
Moody, the husband of Vergie Powers Moody, also leaves three daughters, Mrs. Faye Sims, Mrs. Marilyn Owens and Mrs. Dianne Gilbert, all of Lexington; four sons, Jerry Moody of Brentwood, J. V.
Moody of Scotts Hill, Clifford Moody of Primm Springs and Paul Moody of Jackson, two sisters, Mrs. Marena Todd of Lexington and Mrs. Bertha Bartholomew of Scotts Hill; a brother, Alf Moody of Jackson, 18 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. MILAN Mrs. Alice Victoria Adams Meeks, 84, retired employee of the former Milan Shirt Factory, a died Wednesday at Ridgewood Health Care Center.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bodkin Funeral Home with burial in Gibson County Memory Gardens. She was member of Milan First Baptist Church and Dee Cee Club. Mrs. Meeks, the widow of Marvin Meeks, leaves two sisters, Mrs.
Annie Wood of Adamsville and Mrs. Rena Fesmire of Lexington; two brothers, Priestly Adams of California and Ashley Adams of Wildersville, and two nieces who took care of her, Mrs. Janice Thetford of Milan and Carol Mangrum of Memphis. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. RIPLEY Mrs.
Ruth DeLois Ellis, 74, died Wednesday at her home after a long illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Halls (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Thur- David J. Ray, 84, of Memphis, retired employee of St. Joseph Hospital, husband of Dorothy Mae Stacy Ray.
Rev. William H. Sandown, 82, of Memphis, deacon at St. Anne Catholic Church on Highland, widower of Blanche S. Sandown.
Ms. Jessie Isom 'Bug' Slayton, 23, of 4795 Amey Road. Dudley T. Strawn, 69, of Memphis, retired employee of American Airlines, husband of Kay Dixon Strawn. Mrs.
Christine Strickland, of 1248 Firestone, widow of Henry Strickland. Mrs. Liza McLemore Tapplin, 53, of 837 Marianna, wife of Larry E. Tapplin. Patricia Ann Tindall, 37, of Memphis, counselor.
Betty Cooper Woods, 87, a resident of Hillhaven Nursing Home in Germantown, widow of Mose Woods. Mrs. Laura Goodbar Wunderlich, 84, of Memphis, widow of Walter C. Wunderlich. Mrs.
Mable M. Young, 82, of 216 W. Dison, wife of Willie Young. mond Cemetery in Halls. She was a sembly of Mrs.
Ellis, member of Hutchison. Chapel Asthe widow of James Ernest Ellis, leaves three daughters, Mrs. Betty Fitzhugh of Fowlkes, Mrs. Vallie Werner of Jackson, and Mrs. Gloria Prescott Ripley; two sons, Raymond Ellis of Alamo and Michael Ellis of Nashville; four sisters, Miss Lorene Thurmond of Halls, Mrs.
Marie Sikes of Bemis, Mrs. Mayonna Stanley of Jackson, and Mrs. Audrey Watson of Ripley; a brother, Carrol Thurmond of Memphis, 14 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. SELMER Du Wayne Kirby, 69, of Johnson City, Texas, formerly of McNairy County, retired teacher, died Sunday at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo. Graveside services will be at 10:30 at Cave Springs Cemetery in Chester County.
Shackelford Funeral Home of Selmer has charge. He was a World War II Army veteran and a graduate of UT Knoxville. Kirby, the husband of Martha Rushton Kirby, also leaves two daughters, Mrs. Lynn McGee of Little Rock and Mrs. Rebecca Mayo of Pensacola, a son, Jeff Kirby of Bethel Springs, and six grandchildren.
The family requests any memorials be sent to Pet Adoption League, Kerrville Highway, Fredericksburg, Texas, 78624. SOMERVILLE Ms. Louise Crawford Harston, 79, formerly of Memphis, retired teacher for Shelby and Fayette counties and New Castle, died Monday in Wilmington, from injuries received in an automobile accident three weeks ago. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home with burial in Somerville City Cemetery.
She was a graduate of Missississippi Synodical College and Memphis State University. She was a member of Somerville First Presbyterian Church, Craddock Book Club, Fayette County Organ Club and Tennessee Retired Teachers Association. Ms. Harston leaves three sisters, Mrs. Frances Winfrey of Somerville, Eleanor Noel of Franklin and Mrs.
Mary Young of Penns Grove, N.J.; two brothers, James T. Crawford of Memphis and Dr. Hugh Howard Crawford of Corona del Mar, Calif. The family requests any memorials be sent to Somerville First Presbyterian Church. SOUTH FULTON Ms.
Janette Watts Burrow, 72, retired teacher for Obion County, died Wednesday at Volunteer General Hospital in Martin. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Hornbeak Funeral Home in Fulton, Ky. with burial in Obion County Memorial Gardens. She was a member of Fulton First Baptist Church, where she was a member of Second Milers.
She was a lifetime 4- member and a member of Retired Teachers Association of Obion County. Ms. Burrow leaves a daughter, Mrs. Bonita Burpo of Union City; two sons, John Burrow of South Fulton and Brent Burrow of Powell; three sisters, Mrs. Audrilla Wade and 1 Mrs.
Joy Hoodenpyle, both of Fulton, and Mrs. Helen Hardy of South Fulton, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. TOONE Mason Cooper, 83, retired farmer and retired employee of Harmon, died Wednesday at Regional Medical Center at Memphis after a short illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home in Bolivar with burial in Toone cemetery.
Cooper, the widower of Velma Pirtle Cooper, leaves a daughter, Mrs. Helen C. Mathis of McKenzie; a sister, Ms. Jewel Cooper of Bolivar, a grandson and a great-grandson. TRENTON Ms.
Elsie Griffin, 60, cook at Cathey's Restaurant, died Thursday Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Shelton Funeral Home with burial in Center Baptist Church Cemtery. She was a member of Center Baptist Church. Ms.
Griffin leaves a son, Jeffery Harper of Humboldt; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Sattness of Beloit, and Mrs. Ruth Yeary of Middlesboro, 1 two brothers, Tom Hatfield and Ira Hatfield, both of Middlesboro, and two grandchildren. UNION CITY William Joseph 'Billy' Jimerson, 23, of Lexington Park, formerly of Union City, mail handler for J.J. Mailing Service, drowned Sunday in Lexington Park.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at White-Ranson Funeral Home with burial in East View Cemetery. Jimerson leaves his mother, Mrs. Barbara Elaine Pruitt Jimerson of Lexington Park; his father, Larry Joe Jimerson, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Hilon Pruitt, all of Union City. UNION CITY Mrs. Avalyn Williams Thorpe, 68, retired employee of Metropolitan Federal Savings Loan, died Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. today at White-Ranson Funeral Home with burial in Obion County Memorial Gardens.
She was a member of Union City First United Methodist Church. Mrs. Thorpe, the widow of Milton Earl Thorpe, leaves a daughter, Mrs. Linda Simrell, and two sons, Jim Thorpe and David Thorpe, all of Union City; her mother, Mrs. Ellie Jacobs of Tiptonville; two sisters, Mrs.
Evelyn Jetton of Union City and Mrs. Jettie Lane of Selmer; three half Mrs. Ellie Jas of Samburg, McKenzie and Mrs. Hazel Pat Haynie Morris of sisterS Tiptonville; five brothers, Earl Williams and Fred Williams, both of Tiptonville, James Williams of Portageville, Houston Williams of Florrisant, and Harry D. Williams of Collierville; a half-brother, Sam Jacobs of Tiptonville, five grandchildren, five step-grandchildren and a step-great-grandchild.
The family requests any memorials be sent to Union City First United Methodist Church or Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Read Al Dunning in Sports Judge to rule if schools need more aid NASHVILLE (AP) The judge suit, filed in 1988 against Gov. who heard a plea from 77 small Ned McWherter and other state school systems for more state officials, last October and Nomoney will likely release his de- vember. He has given no indicacision next week or the week tion how he will decide. after, a Metro Courthouse If he rules that rural schools source said Wednesday.
are shortchanged, the decision Chancellor C. Allen High "has could revive McWherter's edudictated the opinion," said the cation and tax reform plans. The source, who asked not to be iden- plaintiff schools have indicated tified. those plans would be an acceptaChancellor High tried the law- ble solution to their complaint. Smokies foresters to try new way to save fir trees GATLINBURG, Tenn.
(AP) Mountain. Foresters in the Great Smoky The soap is delivered by fire Mountains National Park have hose and must be accompanied hosed down Fraser firs for years by a modified fire engine, limitto protect some of the vanishing ing the foresters' ability to reach trees from the fatal attentions of trees to roadsides and other the balsam wooly adelgid. paved areas. But it's going to stop. So after this summer, foresters "We can't fund it," said Carroll will try injections similar to the Schell, resource management intravenous injections used on specialist for the park.
people, and time-release capInstead, foresters will try two sules implanted in the trees. methods of fending off the a adel- He said researchers hope the gid, which already has killed new treatment will be more efabout 95 percent of the once- fective than the hosing method. abundant Fraser population in Because they will be able to the park. reach a wide area with the new For the past several years, for- methods, Schell said, foresters esters have used a soap treat- hope they can save genetically ment against the bugs on stands different groups of trees instead of fir near Clingman's Dome, the of a few identical strands along park's high point, and Balsam the roadsides. Laptop computers help hearing-impaired aired 'talk' JACKSON, Miss.
(AP) Some paired to "talk" by touching picMississippi children are finding tures or letters on a keyboard. voices at a workshop that "What we are trying to do here teaches hearing-impaired is teach them how to say (that) youngsters to speak through lap- which is stored in the machine top computers. to sequence a series of picEight-year-old Adam Burden tures to express messages rangof Ocean Springs is one of eight ing from a single word to parachildren participating in Camp Ms. Bruno said. Talk, a weeklong workshop host- Included in the software are ed by the state Department of Re- 1,000 single words, 200 phrases habilitation Services.
The work- and 100 sentences. There also shop ends today. are songs and prose from books. "It's real nice to have them in- The federally funded camp is teract here," said Joan Bruno, a administered through the SucNew Jersey speech pathologist cess Through Assistive Rehabiliwhose software is being sampled tation Technology (START) proby the youngsters. "They may be gram.
the only children in their local Georgia Jenkins of Louise, community (who talk with com- whose 9-year-old son, Terrell, is puters). But here they are all the in the camp, said she just wanted same." to hear her son "say" two simple Ms. Bruno's Interaction, Edu- syllables: Ma-ma. cation and Play (IEP) software is Six-year-old Melissa Smith of geared to the conversational the Carnes community has gotneeds of 3- to 12-year-olds. ten a lot of mileage out of "That The camp is one of only five in really makes me mad" and the nation, and the first in Mis- "Chill out." But her mother, sissippi.
It is designed to im- Beth Smith, says 5 Melissa's most prove the communication skills memorable computer message of children who cannot speak. was one of her first: "She said, Ms. Bruno and four teachers 'Mom, I love tutor children on the use of And Adam? He had his mother Touch Talkers, laptop comput- program into his computer the ers that allow the language-im- phrase "Kiss my Coroner: Inmate hanged self ing said Thursday. Special to The Commercial Appeal Rushing said Lonnie B. Cole, 50, a disabled landscaper, was ASHLAND, Miss.
A man be- found dead in his cell Saturday. ing held in the Benton County He said the death was still under jail apparently hanged himself investigation. with a strap off his cloth sports Cole was being held for menbag, county coroner Larry Rush- tal evaluation. Raleigh crash kills Atoka man A 19-year-old Atoka, Cooper's 1986 Lincoln Town man was killed early Thursday Car left the roadway and ran in a one car accident in Raleigh, into a yard at 3563 Ramill, where police said. it hit a mailbox and a tree.
CooAuthorities said Cedric B. Coo- per was alone in the car. He was per was killed about 12:20 a.m. taken by helicopter to the Rewhile traveling south on Ra- gional Medical Center at Memleigh-Millington in North Mem- phis, where he was pronounced phis, according to a report by dead. The crash still under Sgt.
L. R. Skelton. investigation, police said. Police call shots murder, suicide ly Willing, 16, were found shot Special to The Commercial Appeal on County Road 500, in extreme southern Osceola about 1:45 p.m.
Mississippi County, au- Clowers was dead at the scene thorities believe the shooting and Miss Willing died later deaths of two Osceola teenagers Wednesday at the Regional MedWednesday were a murder and ical Center at Memphis. suicide. The two had been dating, auSheriff Leroy Meadows said thorities said. The investigation Ronnie Clowers, 19, and Kimber- is continuing. Truck's fall kills man doing repair Grissom, a self-employed heavy Special to The Commercial Appeal equipment owner and operator, was working on the truck's CORINTH, Miss.
Grover Lee brakes when it fell. He said GrisGrissom, 67, died Wednesday som was found under the front when a two-ton truck he was bumper. working on fell off its blocks and caught him underneath, the Alcorn County sheriff's department said. Deputy Larry Murphy said MEMPHIS DEATHS Mrs. Glover C.
Howard, 72, of 1596 jorie, retired employee of Holiday Inns wife of Eddie Howard. Leslie Miller 'Pop' Johnson, 83, of Memphis, retired cotton broker with Francis And Company husband of Carolyn Pierce Johnson. Mrs. Lula Mae Malone, 72, of 2208 Clayton, retired seamstress, widow of Claude Malone. Mrs.
Elsie Ann Maxwell, 72, of 1486 Miller, wife of Hosea Maxwell. Robert Ellis May, 70, of 3052 Emerald, owner of Bob's Auto Service, husband of Katherine Rhodes May. Ernest Newsom, 71, of 4850 Leonard Road, retired employee McLean Trucking husband mot Evangelist MTR. Imogene A. Newsom.
Beulah Mae Price, 83, of Memphis, retired executive secretary for StrattonWarren Hardware. Mrs. Charlyne A. Raines, 78, of Memphis, widow of Quincy W. Raines.
WORLD DEATHS LOS ANGELES (AP) Irina Nijinska, a dancer and teacher who traveled the world to promote the ballets of her famous choreographer mother, Bronisdied Tuesday after suffering a stroke. She was 77. Expressions From the Heart Lynn Doyle Flowers QUALITY FLOWERS DEPENDABLE SERVICE 3595 SOUTHERN AVE. 323-4521 PAID IN MEMORIAM MRS. MARY R.
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