The Daily Progress from Charlottesville, Virginia (2024)

January 19, 1991

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The Daily Progressi

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Charlottesville, Virginia

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Saturday, January 19, 1991

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16

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B2 THE DAILY PROGRESS Charlottesville Virginia Saturday January 19 1991 I Death notices Virginia Obituaries Deaths elsewhere Sr TEAGUE UNERAL SERVICE Since 1934 Thomas Saul THE INEST IN ACILITIES AND SERVICE 1951 1991 WIUI MATERIALS faXavM MATERIALS 271 9 Pittman Bertha Pittman 92 whose grandson lives in Charlottesville died Tuesday in Waycross Ga Miles Odum uneral Home of Waycross is in charge of arrangements Hughes John William Hughes Sr 96 died Thurs day in Lovingston Health Care Center Etter uneral Home of Waynesboro is in charge of arrangements calls go up anytime we have something of consequence and bad 2260 Ivy Road 977 0005 100 INANCING AVAILABLE Marianne Drew Navy support deputy Pre Arrangements Encouraged Gov Wilder: crime killing King dream Cox Constance May Cox 98 a former Charlottes ville resident and mother of University of Virginia Professor Emeritus James AD Cox died riday in Sa vannah Ga There will be no funeral services John Helms John Edgar Helms 76 of Route 2 Ruckersville died Wednesday Jan 16 1991 in a Charlottesville hospital Born eb 22 1914 in Sullivan Mo he was the son of the late Thomas Joseph Helms and Bar bara Tutterall Helms He is survived by his wife El isabeth Helms of Ruckersville two daughters Dorothy Gerke of Charlottesville and Sue Crews of Rolla Mo one stepson David Porter of Dearborn Mich one brother Walter Helms of Sulli van Mo three sisters Beulah Edwards of St Louis Mo Ollie Klien of Rolla and Edna Lambing of Rocka Beach Mo and eight grandchildren Mr Helms was a retired steel worker and was a veteran of World War II and the US Coast Guard uneral services will be con ducted at 11 am Saturday at Ryan uneral Home in Quinque Interment will be in Holly Me morial Gardens The Rev Jim Baseler will officiate The family will receive friends from 4 9 pm today at the funeral Mrs became the first woman to sit oh the high court when she was nominated by President Reagan and took the oath in September 1981 will confess that my first year on the Supreme Court sometimes made me yearn for she said Outside the workers carried signs chanted slogans and han ded out leaflets to tuxedo and evening gown clad VBA mem bers live and work in the 20th century Colonial Williamsburg is lost in the 18th read the sign carried by Christian The workers refused a con tract offer from Colonial Wil management on a 294 15 vote in late December The union called for additional negotiations but management said that was its final offer Albert 0 Louer a spokesman for Colonial Williamsburg said he was distressed at the picket ing themselves as cripples Even then still a case that can be made for some Although doubting Thomases may have sat in au dience of about 250 Charlottes Virginia Crouch was not among them Mrs Crouch walked into the ser vice at 7 pm relying on a wooden cane Afterward she strode to ele vator her cane tucked under her arm and a smile on her face It just felt different I felt warm all over and like there was warmth in my she said leg was numb and then I could feel it again Mrs Crouch said she suffers from diabetes and that the disease causes muscles in her leg to swell with fluid' The fluid disappeared after Rev Casper prayed for her Mrs Crouch said carrying this cane not using it" she said as the elevator doors opened "I know something Gladys Smith Gladys Smith a trumpeter who played with ats Waller and other jazz greats' died Wednes day of pneumonia at age 82 Smith began working as a professional musician at age 16 At age 17 he became a member of Charlie Paradise Band and was soon recording with Wal ler and James Lou isiana Sugar Babes Smith worked with many of the major bands of the 1930s includ ing the orchestras of Carroll Dickerson Earl Hines Erskine Tate Charlie Elgar ess Wil liams and Claude Hopkins In the 1950s he started work ing in a car rental agency But in 1979 he returned to performing joining the cast of the musical in New York He later toured with it During the 1980s Smith worked in Europe in clubs and at festivals WILLIAMSBURG (AP) Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day drew about 200 protesters riday night for a speech at Colonial Williamsburg where employees have been working without a contract since January 1 is about guarantees ver sus said1 Minor Christian president of Local 32 of the ood Beverage Workers union Mrs was the speaker for a Virginia Bar Asso ciation banquet at the restored colonial Williams burg Lodge In her opening remarks to the 750 bar members and guests Mrs mentioned the picketers guess that it just goes to show that lawyers thrive on she said Most of her remarks were de voted to what the routine is like and her experiences on the body for the husbands of women sailors sent overseas she said have some trouble with their wives being deploj she said Since the war started Wednesday night the Navy amily Sendees Center outside the Norfolk Naval Base has seen its usual daily load of about 250 calls climb as high as 1600 calls a day Those calls do not include the number of contacts that go through the Navy's ombudsmen system The ombudsmen are wives of sailors who are chosen by their commanders to serve as contacts for other wives about news aboard ships or within air squadrons ombudsmen are pretty much trained to keep the families calm and get the word out as they receive said Tina Wilson chairwoman of the Tidewater Ombudsman Assembly Assistance to families can range from providing counseling to setting up financial help to taking care of such routine problems as getting a broken household appliance repaired The Navy has about 500 ombuds men in the Hampton Roads area families are good said Mrs Drew are dedicated and we expect as much of them as we do our service Vernon Bowles Sr Vernon (Sug) Bowles Sr 73 of Columbia departed this life Wednesday Jan 16 1991 in University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville Mr Bowles was born eb 26 1917 Surviving are four sons Ver non Bowles Jr of Silver Springs Md Arthur Bowles of Upper Marlboro Md Thomas Bowles III of Trevilians and Mar ion Bowles of Louisa four daughters Loretta Williams of King George Va Pauline Quarles of Goochland Geraldine Gilbert of Southfield Mich and Bessie Tyler of Palmyra five brothers Thomas Bowles of Columbia Marion Bowles of St Albans NY Bernard Bow les of Washington DC Dr James Bowles of Sandy Hook and Arthur Bowles of Detroit Mich one sister Ruth Jackson of New York City four sons in law Thomas Williams Luther Quarles James Gilbert and El wood Tyler Jr three daughters in law Delores Bowles Sandra Bowles and Madie Bowles 21 grandchildren 4 great grandchildren a devoted friend Paul Bailey and a host of nieces nephews cousins and friends uneral services will be held at 2 pm today in Pleasant Grove fiaptist Church Route 605 Columbia where viewing also will be from 1 2 pm Interment will be in the church cemetery uneral Service of Louisa is in charge of arrange ments Ella Bishop Ella Rhoads Bishop 85 of Charlottesville died Thursday Jan 17 1991 in a local nursing home Born Nov 30 1905 in Gooch land she was the daughter of the late Walker Rhoads and Ellie Woodson Rhoads She was the wife of the late Willard Bishop and was also preceded in death by a son John Bishop and a daughter Jeanette I Bishop She was a member of Belmont Baptist Church and was a life time Sunday school teacher at St Episcopal Church Mrs Bishop is survived by three sons Thomas Bishop of Ashland Earl Bishop of Char lottesville and Bobby Bishop of Lynchburg two sisters Maude Armstead of Woodridge and Alice Roberts of Charlottesville 12 grandchildren 17 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild A funeral service will be con ducted at 2 pm Sunday Jan 20 at the Hill and Wood uneral Chapel by the Rev Cecil Pace Interment will be in St churchyard at Simeon The family will receive friends from 7 8 pm today at the funeral home Burdell Bixby Burdell Bixby a longtime figure in New York Republican Party politics died Wednesday of lung cancer at age 76 Bixby first became active in po litics in the 1930s He became an aide to Gov Thomas Dewey in 1948 and secretary to the gov ernorin 1952 Bixby became a member of the state Thruway Authority at its inception in 1950 and in 1960 was appointed authority chairman He served until 1974 He was treasurer of the state Republican Committee from 1959 to 1961 and manager of Gov Nel son re election cam paign in 1970 Bixby was a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer and Wood from 1955 to his retirement in 1985 der ranklin and Sallie (Napier) Hughes He was a member of Winter green Christian Church and the American Legion He was preceded in death by his wife Mary Helen Hughes in 1987 He is survived by a daughter Helen Thrasher of Gainesville Ga two sons John Hughes Jr of Roseland and Vance Hughes of Waynesboro seven grandchildren seven great grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews A funeral service will be con ducted at 2 pm Sunday Jan 20 in the Waynesboro Chapel of Et ter uneral Home by the Rev Ray Coffey Burial will follow in Beech Grove Christian Church cemetery Active pallbearers will be Ray Harris Donald Martin Mike Davis Luther Mogann Jr Grady Wartham and Danny Watson Honorary pallbearers will be Gene Hughes BC Small Jr reddy Phillips Layman Dodd Tracey Davis Chester itzgerald and Junior Thompson The family will receive friends from 7 8 pm today in the funeral home Giacomo Manzu Giacomo Manzu a leading Ita lian artist who gained fame as the creator of the bronze doors at St Basilica died Thursday of heart failure at age 82 Manzu became famous for his realistic sculptures of religious subjects and his revival of an an cient tradition of sculpting bronze doors for churches In 1948 he won irst Prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale In 1966 Manzu who professed to have no interest in politics but described himself as a of the won the Lenin Peace Prize awarded by the Soviet Union Although he was commissioned to do the doors for St in 1950 the work was only com pleted in the early 1960s after much prodding from Pope John XXIII who was a close friend RICHMOND (AP) Young min orities embracing a life of crime and drugs have destroyed the dream Martin Luther King Jr died for Gov Douglas Wilder said riday Speaking at a breakfast honoring the slain civil rights leader Wilder said that gather to honor such a man when millions of African are caught in the middle of violence millions feared those racial supremacists who openly talked of taking our lives because we dared to speak for our he said Today Wilder said fear those hoodlums who would take our lives and our money to buy drugs or to merely flaunt their machismo before their fellow terrorists of the Wilder told the crowd of business leaders and state and local government officials ral lied when the enemy was Jim Crow and the the 1990s we must do the same if we are to defeat those for ces of death and destruction now lurking among he said at Vir ginia Commonwealth University Wilder cited homi cide statistics for 1990 showing that of 114 homicides during the year 102 were black and in two th irds of the cases black killed a Crime and drug abuse is one of the most compelling problems fac ing society and requires a coor dinated rather than patchwork an ti drug effort he said we are to be brutally honest the families of this state and nation are going to have to do more them Wilder said CANVAS 9g AWNING IM MATERIALS Paid Death Notices are made available to readers who would like to publish complete death and funeral information on family members Obituaries are news items com posed by staff reporters Aurelia Ryan Aurelia Harrison Ryan widow of Commander Philip Henry Ryan (USN Ret) died Thurs day Jan 17 1991 in Charlottes ville She was 85 Born in Lynchburg she was a daughter of the late Randolph Harrison and Julia Halsey Harr ison She also was preceded in death by a son Ensign Philip Henry Ryan and a brother Ran dolph Harrison Mrs Ryan was a graduate of National Cathedral School Washington DC and later stu died costume design in Paris She was a founding member of Lynchburg Junior League and was the first president She was a member of Rivanna Garden Club National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Virginia armington Country Club and Greencroft Club She is survived by her sister Mrs James Winston Watts II of Washington DC a daughter Mrs Matthew Wills of Colorado Springs Colo and four grand children Mrs Craig McKenzie of Richmond Calif Matt Wills Jr of Colorado Springs Mrs Thad deus Austin of Minneapolis Minn and Ellen Wills of Bend Ore uneral services will be 10 am riday Jan 25 in the chapel of St Memorial Episcopal Church A graveside funeral ser vice will be conducted at 1 pm riday at Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg The family requests that me morial contributions be made to Martha Jefferson House 1600 Gordon Ave Charlottesville 22903 or to American Cancer So ciety 175 Pantops Dr Char lottesville 22901 Hill and Wood uneral Home is in charge of arrangements NOROLK (AP) The Navy's support system for the families of Operation Desert Storm sailors was already in high gear riday when the sea first aircraft loss from Hampton Roads was reported calls go up anytime we have something of consequence and said Marianne Drew de puty assistant secretary of the Navy for force support and families Mrs Drew was visiting the home of the largest naval base to tour family support operations and encourage workers who have handled thousands of telephone calls around the clock since the war against Iraq was launched Wednesday night Mrs Drew said the impact of immediate television reporting of events in the Middle East conflict have tended to reduce the number of calls that family ser vice centers receive about combat information The centers do not have that kind of information anyway she said But when the news is bad such as the missing car rier based A 6E Intruder from Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach it can spark a flood of calls by worried wives and parents wanting to know more details There are five A 6E squadrons from the Oceana on assignment to Desert Storm carriers It was the second Navy aircraft lost in the war An A 18 from Jacksonville la was reported missing Wednesday Mrs Drew said the impact of war news can be espe cially hard on children your a pilot and a plane goes down she said Many schools have support groups for the children of military personnel she said The Navy also is beginning to offer support services STORM WINDOWS 6for2SB A wror INSTAtlEO Nita Krebs Nita Krebs the oldest surviv ing Munchkin from the movie of died at home ri day of a heart attack at age 85 Stephen Cox who wrote a 1989 book about the Munchkins said Krebs had been the oldest of 18 surviving Munchkins Krebs starred in the movie of Tiny as one of an all midget cast in 1938 a year before of was released She was also a former member of the Singer Midgets Krebs who was born in Cze choslovakia stood 3 foot 8 0L VINYL WINDOWS EO MATERIALS IVERSARY LE Workers protest at speech by Bertha Pittman Bertha Pittman 92 died Tuesday Jan 15 1991 in Way cross Ga after a short illness A native of Ball Ground Ga she was married to the late Robert Pittman She was a' member of the irst Baptist Church Waycross Club Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and Order of the Eastern Star Surviving are a sister Louise Barnes Roberts of Atlanta Ga four grandchildren Julie Mathews of Reston Va Jury Brown III of Tucson Ariz James Brown of airport NY and Jeffrey Brown of Charlottes ville and five grandchildren uneral services will be at 11 am today in the chapel of Miles Odum uneral Home in Way cross Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery Calls flood support services for families of sailors in gulf Willard Hammann Willard Hammann 80 of Charlottesville died Thurs day January 17 1991 at his re sidence Born June 13 1910 in High land Park NJ he was the son of the late Ralph and Viola Mather Hammann Mr Hammann was a retired supervisor of Precision Instru ments Sperry Marine Inc He was also a member of the Ama teur Radio Relay League W4UDD Surviving are his wife of 57 years Lucille Selover Hammann of Charlottesville one son Wil lard Hammann Jr of Cincin nati Ohio six grandchildren and two great grandchildren He was preceded in death by his daughter Amy Jean Lovell A funeral service will be con ducted at 2 pm Sunday in Tea gue Chapel with Chaplain Ron Lovelace officiating Interment will be private The family will receive friends from 7 8 pm today at Teague uneral Home The family suggests memorial contributions may be made to UVa Health Sciences Center cnapiain utnee Box Charlottesville 22908 9 John Hughes Sr John William Hughes Sr 96 died Thursday evening Jan 17 1991 in the Lovingston Health Care Center Born April 11 1894 in Massies Mill Va he was a son of Alexan Of WOOD I t1 MATERIALS tBKKBS: jCWh STORM I hl Isfil ATO1 Al EAGIaE WINDOW CO 1513 EAST HIGH ST 293 3312REE ESTIMATES" Healing Continued rom Page B1 TH Illi 14 L1 II I LL 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