WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2003 FROM PAGE 1A The Item PAGE 7A OBITUARIES BRENDA1 L. ANDERSON Brenda Lee Anderson, 40, widow of John Henry Johnson, died July 29, 2003, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born Dec. 14, 1962, in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Steven Dickey and Eartha Lee Johnson. The family will receive friends at the residence of her daughter, Elizabeth 23-B Walker Sumter 29150.
Services will be announced by Job's Mortuary Inc. CARRIE G. JOHNSON Carrie Green Johnson, 94, widow of J.T. Johnson, died Monday, July 28, 2003, at a local nursing center. Born in Clarendon County, she was the daughter of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt Green and Susan Emmaline Tomlinson Green.
Mrs. Johnson was a member of Shiloh United Methodist Church. Surviving are a son, J.T. Johnson Jr. and wife, Frances, of Sumter; two daughters, Mary J.
Hobbs of Lynchburg and Emily J. Thomas and husband, Parkin, of Sumter; a brother, Barron H. Green of Lynchburg; eight grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; and a very dear friend, Mary Lou Riles of Sumter. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Shiloh United Methodist Church with the Rev.
Preston Grimsley officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Curtis Hobbs, Mark Hobbs, Frank Thomas, John Lee Thomas, John Johnson and Roy Johnson. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Philip H.
Brandt and Joe F. Dean Jr. The family will receive friends from 7 until 9 p.m. today at the Elmore-Hill-McCreight Funeral Home and other times at the home. Memorials may be made to Shiloh United Methodist Church, 6005 Mt.
Sinai Church Road, Lynchburg, SC 29080, or to a charity of one's choice. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com. Elmore Hill-McCreight Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. ELIZA A. TOLSON Eliza Atkinson Tolson died Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at a local nursing center.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Elmore-Hill-McCreight Funeral Home. ETHELLENE KENNEDY Matriarch Ethellene Kennedy, daughter of the late Lawrence Jefferson and Rosalee Jefferson, was born Oct. 25, 1919, in Holly Hill, and departed this life in the early hours of July 27, 2003, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence. She attended Lee County public schools, receiving her diploma in later years through adult education. She retired as an educational aide for Lynchburg Head Start.
Ethellene was a member of Warren Chapel United Methodist Church, where she served as a member of the gospel and senior choir and a member of the United Methodist Women. She was also a member of Queen of Lynchburg No. 247 O.E.S. PA Do Right Lodge and a precinct worker for the South Lynchburg Precinct. Ethel- lene was united in holy matrimony to the late Wilson Kennedy Sr.
and to this union 12 children were born, five of whom preceded her in death. She leaves to cherish fond memories four daughters, Mrs. Lela K. Peoples of Baltimore, Mrs. Wila Mae McDonald (Wilbur) of Lynchburg, Mrs.
Barbara K. Felder of Charleston, and Mrs. Madgalene Tyler of Baltimore; three sons, Mr. Stephen B. Kennedy (Ella) of the home, Mr.
Wilson E. Kennedy Jr. of St. Petersburg, and Mr. Marvin A.
Kennedy of Sumter; 46 grandchildren, including a devoted granddaughter, Rosetta McPhearson; 84 great-grandchildren; 12 great great grandchildren; one caring and devoted daughter-in-law, Kennia Kennedy; nieces and nephews, including Mrs. Diretha Eagleton and Mrs. Rosemary Rogers; an adopted-like son, Mr. Walter Washington; and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral service will be Thursday at 11 a.m.
from Warren Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Rufus L. Snowden, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Hawkins Cemetery. Arrangements by Jefferson Funeral Home, Lynchburg.
Eastern Star rites will be at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. IRENE DAVIS, Irene Louise Herrington Funchess Davis, 77, widow of the late Samuel Davis, died July 23, 2003, at her residence. Born June 30, 1926, in Tampa, she was a daughter of the late Willie and Hattie White Funchess and was nurtured and reared by the late Mack and Emma Herrington. She was a graduate of Morris College, where she earned a B.A.
degree in early childhood education. She also attended the North Carolina College in Durham, N.C. Mrs. Davis was a member of Emmanuel 1 United Methodist Church in Sumter. After relocating to New York City, she joined the Newman Memorial Methodist Church and reaffiliated with Emmanual UME Church.
She was employed as an educator and taught in Manchester High School in Pinewood for 15 years. She also taught in the Brooklyn, N.Y., public school system. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Palmetto Education Association of South Carolina. She was also a member of the YWCA of the Upper Lowlands and the Girl Scouts of America.
Survivors include three brothers, Luther Riley and Albert Funchess, both of Sumter, and Sammie Funchess of Charlotte, N.C.; two sisters, Willie Mae Waklatsi of Sumter and Estella Manley of Anchorage, Alaska; and a devoted niece, Carolyn Wallace of Jamaica Queens, N.Y. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Robert Funchess and Peter Funchess; and one sister, Sylvia Herrington Mansfield. The remains will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Thursday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.
Thursday at Emmanuel UME Church with the Rev. Willie Wilson, pastor, assisted by Elder Andre Felder the Rev. L.W. Barnes and Minister Evangeline Barnes. VAUGHN Burial will be in Walker Cemetery.
The funeral procession will leave at 1:15 p.m. from 548 S. Sumter St. The family will receive friends at 548 S. Sumter St.
Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc. of Sumter is in charge of arrangements. IVA N. BRABHAM Iva Nell Brabham died Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Elmore Hill-McCreight Funeral Home.
JAMES E. JEFFORDS James Edward "Jamie" Jeffords, 20, died Monday, July 28, 2003, at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital. Born in Orangeburg, he was a son of William Steven Jeffords and Amy Lynn Simpson. Services will be announced by Elmore Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home of Sumter. JAMES G.
CHANDLER OLANTA Mr. James Gleaton Chandler, age 87, died on July 28, 2003, at a Lake City hospital. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the Olanta Presbyterian Church with burial in the church cemetery directed by Floyd Funeral Home. Visitation will be 7 to 9 p.m.
today at the funeral home. Born in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Thomas Wilbur Chandler and Mamie Green Chandler. He was the former owner of the Olanta Hardware Co. He was a mason and a member of Beulah Lodge No. 259 where he was a lifetime member and past master.
He was a member of the Olanta Presbyterian Church, where he served as a Sunday school teacher, former deacon and he was an elder for 36 years. He was a member of the Olanta Lions Club. He was preceded i in death by his wife of 63 years, Minerva Barfield Chandler; a sister, Louise Parker; and a brother, Clyde Chandler. Surviving are four daughters, Dorothy Pry of Greenville, Roberta (Carlie) Morris of Florence, Catherine (David) Knight of Marion, N.C., and Patricia Tomlinson of Sumter; three brothers, T.W. Chandler of Sumter, William Chandler of Florence and Lindberg Chandler of Atlanta; nine grandchildren; and 12 great grandchildren.
The family requests that memorials be made to the Olanta Presbyterian Church. JAMES TAYLOR James Taylor, 15, died July 28, 2003, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born Oct. 31, 1987, in Sumter, he was a son of James Pearson and Barbara Taylor. The family will receive friends at the home of his father, 4001 Old Camden Highway, Cubbage Trailer Park, Lot No.
7, Dalzell. Services will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. JANNIE MAE S. NOWLIN LAKE CITY Jannie Mae Sanders Nowlin, 77, widow of Mose E. Nowlin, died Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence.
She was born March 12, 1926, in 1 Florence County. The family will receive friends at the residence, 116 Cash Lake City, SC 29560. Services will be announced by Green's Funeral Home of Lake City. LULA S. WHITE Lula Spann White, widow of Eric C.
White, died Saturday, July 26, 2003, at Mariner Health- care West. Born in Sumter County, July 12, 1912, she was a daughter of the late Carrie Spann Pearson and Butch Spann. In March of 1950 she married Eric C. White. They were married 49 years before he passed in March of 1999.
After her retirement in 1969 in New York City, she moved back to Sumter and joined the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Prior to her illness, she faithfully sang on the senior choir and served as a missionary. She leaves to mourn her passing a son, Mr. Charles E.
Spann of Washington, D.C.; a sister, Mrs. Rosa Wilson of Philadelphia; a devoted niece who served as her caretaker, Dr. Mary B. (James) Hallums of Sumter; a devoted nephew, Mr. Rhuel Pringle of Sumter; a special niece, Mrs.
Mable S. (Arvan) Washington of Lompac, and other nieces, nephews and family. The body will be placed in the church at 3 p.m. today. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m.
today at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church with the pastor, the Rev. James Blassingame, assisted by the Rev. Laddie Howard, the Rev. Joann Murrell and the Rev.
Dr. M.H. Newton. Burial will be in Walker Cemetery. Pallbearers will be the deacons and trustees of Mt.
Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Floral bearers will be the Missionary Ladies of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. The funeral procession will leave the home of her devoted niece, Dr. Mary B.
(James) Hal lums, 731 Longwood Drive, at 3:30 p.m. The family will receive friends at the home of her niece, Dr. Mary B. (James) Hallums, 731 Longwood Drive. Sumter Funeral Service Inc.
is. in charge of arrangements. MARGIE STRICKLAND BISHOPVILLE Margie Green McCutchen Strickland, age 58, wife of Krom Strickland and the late John A. McCutchen died Monday, July 28, 2003. The former Miss Bishopville was born in Boca Raton, to Mr.
and Mrs. Lesley Green. She is survived by her parents and her husband, Krom Strickland, from Bishopville; a son, John A. Jack) McCutchen VI from Rock Hill; stepsons, Stan Strickland and his wife, Eve, from Loris and Jay Strickland and his wife, Peggy, from Florence; a brother, William McDonald (Don) Green and his wife, Kay, from Camden; her sister, Madeline Green Williams and her husband, Ronnie, from Bishopville; and three grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a brother, Les- ley W.
(Buddy) Green Jr. She was employed by the Lee County Economic Development Alliance and was active in community activities. She was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends at the home of her parents on Wisacky Highway.
The funeral services will be held at the Bethlehem United Methodist Church in Bishopville today at 4 p.m. with the Rev. Jim Ridenhour and the Rev. Kenneth Phelps officiating. Burial will be at St.
Luke Cemetery. A loving wife, a dedicated mother, an obedient daughter, an influential sister, a guiding aunt, a playful cousin, an affectionate niece and a faithful, friend, Margie will be missed. Memorials may be made to St. Luke United Methodist Church or the American Cancer So- ciety, Hanco*ck-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville is in charge of arrangements. ROBERT BROWN Robert "Bubsy" Brown, 95, died July 27, 2003, at Heartland of Columbia.
Born May 7, 1907, in Darlington, he was a son of the late Harry Brown Sr. and Alma Brown. He a attended the public schools of Darlington. He was a member of the Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church and was the oldest member of American Legion Post 202. After receiving his master plumber's license, he became self-employed.
He was a veteran of BROWN World War II. Survivors include one sister, Florence B. Vaughn of Sumter; one brother, Jessie Brown of Baltimore; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and special friends. Viewing will be held Thursday from 3 to 4 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m.
Thursday at Job's Mortuary 312 S. Main Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Marion H. Newton officiating.
Burial will be in Hillside Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the home of his sister, Florence B. Vaughn, 340 Greenswamp Road, Sumter. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at Job's Mortuary Inc. is in charge of arrange- ROBERT JEFFERSON Mr.
Robert Jefferson, husband of Mrs. Gladys Jefferson, died July 28, 2003, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. The family is receiving friends at the home, 19 Bernie Circle. Services will be announced by Community Funeral Home. TOMMY H.
WAMPLER Sr. MANNING Tommy Hayden Wampler 70, husband of Joyce Banks Wampler, died Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at his home in Manning. Born March 9, 1933, in Millstone, he was a son of the late Abe and Elease Smedley Wampler. He was a member of the Clarendon Church of God and a Korean War Army veteran. Surviving besides his wife of Manning: are one son, Tom H.
Wampler II and wife, Debbie, of Manning; two daughters, Lynn Stewart and Jean Justice of Manning; four grandsons, Tommy H. Wampler III, Harry L. Stewart III, Travis Justice and Frankie Wampler, all of Manning; one granddaughter, Lynn Anne Wampler of Manning; four brothers, Jimmy Wampler of Ohio, Curtis Wampler of Indiana, Cecil Wampler of Kentucky and Franklin Wampler of Indiana; five sisters, Lelia Burton of Indiana, Phyllis Thacker of Kentucky, Cleo Holbrook of Kentucky, Sheila Boggs of Kentucky and Sondra Adams of Ohio. Funeral services will be 3 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home.
Graveside services 1 will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Banks Peaceful Hills Cemetery in Whitesburg, Ky. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at Stephens Funeral Home in Manning and other times at the home, 1055 Crawford Drive, Manning. Memorials may be made to the Clarendon Church of God.
Stephens Funeral Home of Manning is in charge of the arrangements. VELMA G. KERNS Velma Blanton Goings Kerns, 89, twice married, first to the late Otis L. Goings and then to the late Harley Kerns, died Monday, July 28, 2003, at a local nursing center. Born in Stanly County, N.C., she was the daughter of the late Ernest Ervin Blanton and the late Nancy Ann Hathco*ck Blanton, Mrs.
Kerns was a member of Bethesda Church of God and was a former member of Tremont Church of God in Greenville. She was a former resident of Covenant Place and Solomon's Home. Surviving are five half-sisters, Margaret Thompson of Mint Hill, N.C., Bonnie Carter of Ft. Lawn, Deloris Watts, Nellie Montgomery and Barbara Henry, all of Lancaster; two nieces, Nancy Gardner of Sumter and Diane Evans of York; and numerous other nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m.
Thursday at Evergreen Burial Park in Mint Hill, N.C., with the Rev. Albert H. Sims officiating. The family will receive friends at the home of her niece, Nancy Gardner, 2295 W. Brewington Road.
Memorials may be made to Bethesda Church of God Building Fund, 1402 Camden Highway, Sumter, SC 29153. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com. Elmore Hill-McCreight Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. WOODROW W. GALLASHAW Woodrow Wilson "WW" Gallashaw, 88, husband of Mrs.
Pauline P. Gallashaw, died July 28, 2003, at his residence in Sumter. Born May 11, 1915, in Woodrow, he was a son of the late Paul Q. and Amy Arch Gallashaw. The family will receive friends at 8 E.
College Sumter. Services will be announced by Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc. of Sumter. Vaughn said he is glad to be employed, though he has yet to see a contract, and is looking forward to the growth and development plan the board will be discussing at future meetings. "I have no problem, in fact, I'm pleased to hear the board say.
they're behind an initiative to growth and development. That's been lacking as a general initiative on the part of the board," he said. Vaughn said there is much work to be done but that he is ready to "press and to "dispel foolish, unwarranted notions." A survey designed to measure morale among career center employees indicated employees feel CHURCHES PAGE 1A FROM PAGE 1A "It's a very exciting time, but it's also a time of great sacrifice," Ellis said. To ease the transition, the two parishes have already combined their youth groups, Hispanic ministry, community building committees and several classes. Carboy said he and the other priests, the Revs.
Charles Aschmann and Alistair McKay, are encouraging parishioners to attend mass at either church. "We encourage people from the pulpit," he said. "I'll say, 'go over to St. Jude's next week and say hello." Alice Ingram attends St. Jude's, which was founded in 1939, but has visited St.
Anne's over the years. She said the prospect of uniting the parishes. has caused some concern. "We've got a lot of old parishioners, and I don't mean age- wise, I mean they've been members of whichever church for a long time," she said. "Perhaps their children have been married there or they were baptized there.
It's really very hard to let go." Even so, Ingram said it is obvious that the priest shortage will eventually affect the Sumter parishes. "I am able to separate myself and really look at the broader picture," she said. "We're growing in they are not dealt with fairly and that administrators show favoritism to select employees. Another major issue of concern among employees is discipline, which they indicate is not being dealt with in an appropriate manner. The career center has been under fire recently with county council members debating whether to fund the center or turn it over to the school districts.
Eventually, council voted along party lines to include the center in its budget. Board member Jo White declined to comment. Other members were not available for comment after the meeting and did not immediately 1 return calls. Contact Staff Writer Krista Pierce at or 800 774-1272. BROWN numbers.
Priests are less and less and you have to think of that. If each were to stick to their guns, we may end up with no priest at either one. The alternative to is, well, let's look to the future." Beth Brinkley attends St. Anne's, but like Ingram, has visited St. Jude's and said she sees the parishioners of both churches growing more familiar with each other.
"We're all Catholics," she said. "I have no qualms about combining the parishes." Carboy said the next phase of planning includes hiring an architect to begin a layout for the campus and design a church. "Can you just picture it? Wow! A new church with the schools and the rectory, everything all in one, all new and all beautiful," Ingram said. "The younger people will benefit from all this." The land purchased for the location of the unified church brings Sumter's Catholic community closer to its roots. In 1838, the first Catholic church in Sumter, Our Lady of Assumption, was erected in Dalzell, not far from the site where the new church will be erected.
"Some people in the church said it's not coincidence, it's Godincidence," Brinkley said. Contact Staff Writer Krista Pierce at or 803-774-1272. EEOC files suit against Goose Creek company over racial complaint CHARLESTON (AP) The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued JW Aluminum Co. alleging a black worker at the Goose Creek company was subjected to a racially hostile work environment. The EEOC filed the complaint on behalf of Reginald Kelly, who once worked as an equipment operator for the aluminum company.
The company denied the allegation and said it would fight the suit. The federal agency, which enforces civil rights laws in the work place, said the names of other workers might be added to the complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court in Charleston. The suit alleges Kelly and other black workers were harassed with derogatory graffiti and racial slurs since at least 1995. The EEOC alleged the company violated the Civil Rights Act prohibiting employers from discriminating based on race, color, religion, gender or national origin.
The federal agency said it sued after attempts to settle out of court were unsuccessful. The EEOC is seeking a permanent injunction against the company and unspecified damages. Don E. Kassing, the company's president and chief operating officer, said he is confident the allegations are baseless. "I've met personally with every employee, and I've never heard race come up as an issue in those meetings," said Kassing, who has been president for about 18 months and joined the company after Kelly left.
Kelly's departure was not related to the alleged harassment, the EEOC said. Woman says she might be girl who has been missing since 1986 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) DNA William Sherrill, who received tests were being conducted on a a startling call Saturday from the woman who contacted the family woman who claims she may be his of a 6-year-old who vanished in daughter, said DNA tests were 1986, saying that she might be the being conducted to determine if girl, the girl's father said Tuesday. she is his child. Shannon Marie Sherrill was 6 He said the woman called him when she disappeared Oct. 5, 1986, after speaking to his former wife, as she played outside her mother's Dorothy Sherrill, who still lives in mobile home in Thorntown, about Thorntown near the area where 30 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
their daughter vanished. She would now be 22 years old. "I had questions in my mind Hundreds of officers and volun- that I was going to ask her, and teers searched for the girl, but no when I got her on the phone, my trace of her was found. mind just went blank," William On Sunday, state police re- Sherrill said. leased a statement saying new in- Sherrill said Thorntown police formation had surfaced in the have told him that tests were nearly 17-year-old case and that being done to compare his and his their investigation was at a "criti- former wife's DNA to the cal juncture." woman's.
Police in Virginia said Tuesday "We gave blood samples years they were helping Indiana authori- ago, so they have our DNA: and ties investigate the woman's account. they're waiting on hers," he said..
