LEXINGTON HERALD Monday, December 20, 1982 C16 Obituaries Separate house fires kill 15 people in New York Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. A woman and four of her children died early yesterday in a fire that began near the family Christmas tree, bringing to 15 the number of New York state residents killed in fires in homes last weekend, firefighters said. Three of the victims were parents who ran back into burning homes to save children. Killed in the fire yesterday in a house in Poughkeepsie were Patricia Ann Flax, 28; her children, Benjamin, 1, Stephanie, 2, and William, and her 18-year-old stepdaughter, Ellissa. Mrs.
Flax died trying 1 to reach her children, firefighters said. The father, 43-year-old Alan Flax, escaped with a daughter, Helen, 3. Poughkeepsie Fire Chief Jim Davidson said that the blaze started near a Christmas tree in the living room of the two-story wood-frame house. The cause was under investigation. A fire on Saturday in Albany left four family members dead and drove a dozen others into the bitter cold.
The fire, Albany's most deadly in 15 years, was of suspicious origin, Albany Fire Chief Wendell Noble said. Albany County Coroner William Loetterle III said that the dead were Helen Stein, 85; her grandson, Robert Van Alstyne, 30, of Rensselaer; and her great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Van Alstyne, 8, and Robert 5. Lexington woman dies after 8 days in coma A 36-year-old Lexington woman who suffered severe brain damage more than a week ago in the collapse of a second-story porch died yesterday at St. Joseph Hospital. The woman, Joan Francis Moore of 518 Emerson Avenue, had been in a coma in critical condition since Dec.
11, when a wooden rail gave way on her porch, plunging her and two other people toward a driveway 30 feet below. Also injured were Sandy Honican, 23, of 333 South Upper Street, and Greg Renfro, 29, of the Emerson Avenue address. Ms. Honican suffered internal injuries but has since been released from Central Baptist Hospital. Renfro, a busboy at the Lexington Marriott Resort at Griffin Gate, was Briefs Woman shoots neighbor over loud-radio incident MILWAUKEE (AP) A woman who stomped her feet when the man living below her refused to turn down his radio fatally shot him when he came upstairs and pounded on her door, police said.
Elhue Johnson, 24, was killed Friday when the woman emptied a caliber revolver at him as he tried to flee downstairs, officials said. Johnson had turned off the radio when police summoned by the woman arrived but turned it back on when they left, police said. That was when the 34-year-old woman stomped on the floor. 2 drown after waves sweep them from wall SAN DIEGO (AP) A man and a woman were swept over a sea-wall rail when they left a group of friends to watch 10- to 12-foot waves generated by a Pacific storm, officials said. Brenda Horton, 35, of Los Angeles, was pronounced dead on Saturday morning after her body was picked up by a Coast Guard helicopter, said Coast Guard Lt.j.g.
Dennis Mortensen. The body of 33-year-old Larry S. Balthazar of San Diego was still missing yesterday, authorities said. A Coast Guard helicopter briefly spotted his body during a two-hour search on Saturday, but the waves prevented recovery, said San Diego police Lt. Dennis Gibson.
FBI arrests minister accused of fraud PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) A minister accused of defrauding 13 church members in Schenectady, N.Y., of $104,000 has been arrested. FBI agents arrested the Rev. Howard L. Meyer, 44, of Ballston Spa, N.Y., on Saturday night, and he was held at Maricopa County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail.
U.S. Attorney Frederick J. Sculin Jr. of Albany, N.Y., said Meyer, of the First Assembly of God in Schenectady, took church members' money starting in November 1981, promising to invest it in the marketing of railroad ties. The money was neither invested nor returned, Sculin said.
treated at St. Joseph Hospital for hand lacerations and loss of teeth and released. Ms. Moore's brother, Shelby Moore, 19, said Tuesday that his sister had lived longer than a doctor expected when he first spoke with the family on the morning of the accident. "He said he didn't expect her to make it through morning," Moore said at the time.
"She was really in bad shape." In the days that followed, the family kept a vigil by alternating shifts at Ms. Moore's bedside. A print-shop employee at the Lexington Clinic, she was the daughter of Grover and Sally Moore, who live at 519 Emerson Avenue. Arrangements are incomplete at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home. Van Alstyne made it out of the two-story brick building but ran back in to rescue his children, Albany Police Capt.
William Dollard said. Van Alstyne was visiting Mrs. Stein to help her set up a Christmas tree. She was confined to a walker and a wheelchair. His body was found kneeling by the bed where his children's bodies were huddled.
Mrs. Stein's daughter, Helen Campman, was taken to St. Peter's Hospital because of a heart condition, hospital officials said. She was listed in stable condition. Mrs.
Campman's son, Glen, 16, received 20 stitches for injuries received while trying to rescue his grandmother. Firefighters had to deal with freezing water in 8-degree cold. In the Adirondack town of Crown Point, firefighters blamed 'a faulty heating system for a smoky fire early Saturday morning that killed four people. The body of Sherman Whittemore, 21, was found in the ruins of his home, along with the three people he tried to rescue, state police said. He earlier had jumped to safety from a secondfloor Firefighters removed the bodies of Whittemore's brother, Gary Whittemore, 19; John Ross, 9, and Andrea Ross, 6, the children of Sherman Whittemore's sister-in-law, officials said.
The deaths were attributed to carbon-monoxide poisoning and asphyxiation, said trooper Robert Carlson. Tammy Whittemore, who jumped with her husband, suffered burns and a broken leg and arm. In the Washington Heights section of New York City, a mother and her 5-year-old son died in a fire that authorities said appeared to have been deliberately set. Dwight Macdonald, author, dies at 76 By Wolfgang Saxon New York Times News Service NEW YORK Dwight Macdonald, the author, essayist, editor and gadfly critic of books, films and politics, died yesterday at Metropolitan Hospital of a heart ailment. He was 76 years old and had lived in Manhattan and East Hampton.
Known for the wry, witty style he brought to his articles in such magazines as the New Yorker, Macdonald nevertheless felt the swirl of political contention for much of his life. He started out as a Stalinist but then passed through Trotskyism, anarchism and pacifism and often seemed like a one-man anti-communist-left movement. He was too much of an individualist and inborn skeptic to be beholden to any confining ideology for long. Though he admitted he had mellowed in recent years, he never was far from the jousting in public print that marked the much-splintered left in the years before and after World War II in the United States. Leonid Kogan, Soviet violinist, dies at age 58 By Richard Bernstein New York Times News Service Leonid Kogan, the internationally acclaimed Soviet violinist, died Friday, the official Soviet press agency, Tass, announced yesterday.
Tass did not report where Kogan had died or give a cause of death. He was 58 years old. Kogan, who gained recognition by winning first prize at the Prague youth competition in 1947, gave frequent concerts abroad and performed as a soloist with many major orchestras in the United States, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. He was a professor at the Moscow State Conservatory and was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1965. Boyd man dies in head-on collision ASHLAND A 28-year-old Boyd County man was killed in a two-vehicle head-on collision early yesterday about two miles west of Princess on Interstate 64, according to Kentucky State Police.
Police said the victim, Samuel R. Mullins of 2660 Main Street in Westwood, died instantly when his eastbound car drove into the back of a In Lexington James Fields Jr. of New Or- leans, formerly of Lexington, the husband of Olivia M. Fields, died Friday. Services and burial will be at 9:30 tonight in New Orleans.
Smith and Smith Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Kaliopi Ouraniou, 75, the mother of George Ouraniou and Olymbia Mullins, died Thursday. Services will be at noon Wednesday at St. George Church in Vancouver, Canada. Donations may be sent to the Greek Orthodox Church, Memorial Fund, 920 East High Street.
Elizabeth Young, 65, of 351 Chambers Avenue, a farm worker, died Saturday at her home in Georgetown. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of God in Jesus Name on Georgetown Street. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 tonight at Martyn-Hurley Funeral Home in Lexington. Burial will be in Stamping Ground Cemetery.
In Kentucky BEATTYVILLE Steve Wilson 57, of Route 1 died Friday in Jackson. He was a retired truck driver and the husband of Clara Mocahbee Wilson. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Newnam Funeral Home with visitation after 5 p.m. today.
CORBIN Joseph L. Cravens, 67, of Flat Lick died Saturday in Pineville Community Hospital. Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hart Funeral Home with visitation from 5 to 9 p.m. today.
CORINTH Jesse Garfield Brooks, 102, of Cincinnati, formerly of Corinth, the father of Stelva Cornelius of Union, died yesterday in Cincinnati. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rogers Funeral Home with visitation from 5 to 9 p.m. today. CORINTH Sylvia Mae Jenkins, 60, of Route 2 died yesterday.
She was the wife of Otis Jenkins. Rogers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. CUMBERLAND Glenn Johnson, 55, of Sand Hill, a retired miner and owner and operator of Lawrence Tavern, died Saturday at Lynch Medical Services, apparently of a heart attack. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Parker Funeral Home with visitation from 7 to 9 p.m.
today. CUMBERLAND Martha Lewis, 94, of Blair died Saturday at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital after a long illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Blair Chapel Church with visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. today and Tuesday at Parker Funeral Home.
CUMBERLAND Grover Cleveland Matney, 77, of Henson Street, a retired miner and the husband of Drucilla Matney, died Saturday at Lynch Medical Center after a long illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Parker Funeral Home with visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. today. arrangements.
FRANKFORT William J. Meyer, 71, of Route 9, the husband of Ruth Potter Meyer, died Saturday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rogers Funeral Home with visitation anytime. HARRODSBURG John Harmon Hurst, 70, of Oakland Lane died yesterday.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Andrew's Catholic Church. The Rosary will be recited at Alexander and Royalty Funeral Home at 8 p.m. today.
Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. today. HAZARD Effie Combs Chatfins, 74, of Wooten died yesterday at Hazard Appalachian Regional Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Stone Coal Regular Baptist Church at Garrett with visitation at her home until the service time.
Burial will be in the Chaffins Family Cemetery in Rockfork. Engle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. IRVINE Annie Abney Berryman, 83, the widow of Headley Berryman, died yesterday at MarcumWallace Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Lewis Funeral Home with visitation after 2:30 p.m.
today. LANCASTER Carl Pendleton, 86, the brother of W.G. Pendleton of Lancaster, died Saturday at Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford. Graveside services will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Lancaster Cemetery with visitation at Ramsey Funeral Home until the time of service.
MARTIN Gold Howard, 53, of Eastern, the husband of Ola Howard, died yesterday at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Medical Center. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hall Funeral Home with visitation after 6 p.m. today.
MARTIN Chris Dean Mitchell, 28, of Teaberry, a coal miner and the husband of Dina Mitchell, died Thursday of a gunshot wound. Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Samaria Regular Baptist Church with visitation at the church before the service. Hall Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. MARTIN Betty Jean Moore, 52, of McDowell, the daughter of Molly Moore, died yesterday at Highlands Regional Medical Center.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Hall Funeral Home with visitation after 6 p.m. today. MARTIN Lola R. Ousley, 49, of Hopkinsville, formerly of Floyd County, died Thursday at Jennie Stuart Hospital.
Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Old Beaver Regular Baptist Church with visitation anytime. Hall Il Funeral Home is in charge. MARTIN Charles Dwayne Samons, 18, of Allen, the son of Lonnie and Leona Samons, died Friday in an automobile accident. Services will be at 1 p.m.
today at the home of his parents with visitation anytime. Hall Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. MOREHEAD Lorene Plank Pendland, 66, of Route 2, the wife of Leslie "Red" 'Pendland, died Friday at St. Claire Medical Center. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday at Northcutt and Son Home for Funerals with visitation anytime. PIKEVILLE Ernest Blackburn, 55, of Justiceville, an employee of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the husband of Eleena Parsons Blackburn, died yesterday at Mountain Manor Nursing Home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Justice Funeral Home with visitation anytime. PIKEVILLE Mary Gross Myers, 90, of Pikeville died Saturday at Mountain Manor Nursing Home.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Justice Chapel with visitation anytime. PIKEVILLE Lawrence "Cap" Williamson, 76, of Lower Johns Creek died Saturday at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Medical Center. He was a retired carpenter and teacher and the husband of Lois Williamson.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at J.W. Call and Son Funeral Home with visitation after 2:30 p.m. today. SALT LICK Viola Hall Ellingham, 91, died Friday at Lifecare Center in Morehead after a long illness.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Powell and Denton Funeral Home with visitation before the service. SALT LICK Elmer Lee Highley, 94, of Salt Lick died yesterday. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Powell and Denton Funeral Home with visitation after 2 p.m.
today. SOMERSET Faustine Dick Rogers, 43, formerly of Somerset, died Saturday in Cincinnati. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Somerset Undertaking Co. with visitation after 5 p.m.
today. SCIENCE HILL Mary Phelps, 77, of 325 Clifty Road died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Fayrene Hargis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at White Lily Baptist Church with visitation at Morris and Hislope after 4 p.m. today.
STANTON Robert Lee Crabtree, 61, of Dallas, Texas, formerly of Powell County, died Friday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dallas. Wells Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. WAYNESBURG Osa Willams, 78, of Eubank, the wife of Manville Williams, died Saturday in Somerset after a long illness. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Liberty Baptist Church with visitation after 3 p.m.
today at Barnett Funeral Home. Despite those decades of at-timesbitter argumentation, his literary merits earned him election in 1970 to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the honor society for the arts chartered by Congress. He also held visiting professorships at a number of colleges over the years and taught at John Jay College in New York in the mid-1970s. "I was a Trotskyist once," he observed in 1970 during a discussion of labeling people in politics, a practice he regarded with some disdain. "Then I became an anarchist, and then I lost interest because I saw no possibility under Eisenhower.
I began to worry about politics again only about 1965 and that was over Vietnam." Among the volumes Macdonald wrote or edited were Henry Wallace: The Man and the Myth (1948); The Ford Foundation: The Men and the Millions (1956); The Memoirs of a Revolutionist: Essays in Political Criticism (1957); Parodies (1960), an anthology of that genre from Chaucer to Max Beerbohm and beyond; and Essays and Afterthoughts: 1938-1974. William Miles Carr dies at 102 DANVILLE Florence Worth William Miles Carr wanted to live He was a lifelong Catron, 81, of Shelby Street, Junc- to be 100, and after he had done that, member of Porter tion City, died Friday at her home. said his daughter-in-law, Lucy Carr, Church. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at "he was satisfied." Other survivors Junction City Christian Church with Carr, of 237 Aberdeen Drive, died Richard G.
Carr, and visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. today at yesterday at the age of 102. ter-in-law, Beulah M. Stith Funeral Home. Lexington; and six DANVILLE Roy Gene Os- "He lived a very clean, very per- Marie Harris, Bill Carr, borne, 28, of 416 Adams Street, the sonal life.
He was an avid sports fan lins, Lena Zacarelli and son of Roy and Nellie Osborne of Dan- and loved to watch sports on TV. He all of Lexington, and ville, died Saturday. Services will be was extremely alert up until his of Indianapolis. at 2 p.m. today at Gethsemane Bap- Services will be at death, too," Mrs.
Carr said. tist. Church with visitation from 10 A native of Franklin County, Carr day at Aaron Smith a.m. to the time of service. Preston- had been a farmer in Woodford with visitation from 3 Pruitt Funeral Home is in charge of County.
from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Funeral Notices Information furnished by mortuaries. Charles L. Adams Jr.
died Friday. He has a brother Elmo Adams of Franklin, OH. and a sister Mrs. Henry Richard surviving him. Services 1:30 p.m.
today at the W.R. Milward Mortuary-Broadway by Rev. Ronald W. Summers. Burial Hillcrest Cemetery.
BEARD Mrs. Etta M. Beard. Services 2 p.m. today at the Graveside in the Lexington Cemetery with Rev.
Ken Groen officiating. Kerr Brothers Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Local ADAMS DEEHNE Sue the Deehne. Services Milward 10 a.m. today' at W.R.
MortuaryBroadway by Rev. Michael E. Williams. Paul bearers will be: Will Dunn, John Sloan, Don Cundiff, Reid Cundiff, Jim McVey and Glen Greathouse. Burial Lexington Cemetery.
HARRIS Emmett T. Harris. Funeral services Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Wesley United Methodist Church by Dr. G.L.
Russell. Burial Highland Cemetery. Visitation after 6 p.m. today at the church. Cunningham Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
MASON Mary Selby Mason, 86, widow of WINCHESTER Robert Milton Nelson, 82, the uncle of Fannie Bell of Lexington, died Saturday in Clark County. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Haggard and Son Funeral Home with visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. Baptist and a Memorial Baptist include a son, another daughCarr, both of grandchildren, Mildred ColMary Bishop, Richard L.
Carr 1:30 p.m. TuesFuneral Home to 5 p.m. and Richard Givens Mason, died Friday at the Good Samaritan Hospital following a long illness. She was a native of Casey County, and the daughter of the late Mack Clinton and Minnie Gibson Selby. She was a member of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church.
Survivors include six sons, Earl Clinton and Richard D. Mason, both of Lexington; Fred (Bill) Mason, Indianapolis, Ernest Mason, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dr. Leslie Mason, Arvada, Glen Thomas Mason, Freemont, two daughters, Mildred Brummett, Santa Rosa, Loraine Wilson, Highland, Utah; one brother, Virgil Selby, Danville, one sister, Nellie Nichols, Danville, 41 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Funeral services 2 p.m. today at Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Church, 1859 N.
Limestone, with Dr. Leslie Mason and W.C. Mason officiating. Burial Lexington Cemetery. The sons will serve as paulbearers.
Kerr Brothers Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. SCOTT Owen Russell Scott. Services 10 a.m. Tuesday at the W.R. Milward Mortuary-Southland with Rev.
J. Gordon Bechtel officiating. Burial Flatwoods Cemetery in Waco, KY. State JOHNSON Mrs. Ollie Abner Johnson, 89, of 207 Kentucky Avenue, died at Pattie A.
Clay in Richmond Sunday morning. She was the widow of the late Charlie S. Johnson. Funeral services I p.m. Tuesday at the Oldham, Roberts and Powell Funeral Home.
Visitation after 3:30 p.m. today. W. Frank Shauntee, 75, of 313 Tue Trail, died Friday evening at his home after a long illness. He was a son of the late Ben and Rosa Shauntee.
He was a native of Davis County, member of the First Baptist Church, Epsilon Pi Tau Fraternity, National Retired Teachers Association, Honorary Kentucky. Colonel, and a member of the Kentucky State University Alumni Association. He was a graduate of Kentucky State University, Knoxville College, Indiana State Teachers College where he earned a Master of Science degree, and did post graduate work at Indiana University. He was a veteran of WW II. Survivors include his wife, Margurite (Johnson) Shauntee; one son, Kenneth B.
Shauntee, Louisville; one daughter, Magdaulm Reed, Bardstown; one sister, Mrs. Clara Tisley, Owensboro; one brother, George Thomas Shauntee, Terre Haute, five grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church by Rev. K.R.
Moore. Burial Frankfort Cemetery. Friends may call at the church after 4 p.m. today. Smith Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
SHAUNTEE Elizabeth Lewis Young, 65, of 351 Chambers Avenue, widow of James Lee Young died Saturday morning at her home. She was the daughter of the late Lewis and Emma Lewis. She was a native of Scott County, and a member of Georgetown Street Lexington Church of God in Jesus Name where she served as a member of the choir and of the missionary. She is survived by four sons, James Young Los Angeles, Jacob and Thomas Lee Young, both of Georgetown; Jerry Beatty, Lexington; eight daughters, Mrs. Emma Bradshaw, Mrs.
Lillie Beatty, Mrs. Mattie Collins, Mrs. Dorothy Young, Mrs. Maggie Green and Mrs. Ella Miller, all of Georgetown; Mrs.
Pearlina Holt and Mrs. Deloris Young, both of Lexington; one sister, Mrs. Louvenia Goodman, Georgetown; two brothers, Elder Robert Lewis, Lexington; Joe Irvin Lewis, Cincinnati, 31 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins, inlaws and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services 11 a.m. at the church of God in Jesus Name Lexington, with the the Elder Robert Lewis officiating.
Burial Stamping Ground Cemetery. Visitation from 7-9 p.m. at the MartynHurley Funeral Home 565 W. Second Street, Lexington. tractor-trailer driven by Robert E.
Lockskin, 48, of Panorama City, Calif. Neither Lockskin nor his passenger, Cameron McPhearson, 39, of Arleta, was injured. Carter County Coroner Les Henderson said Mullins suffered multiple injuries. Robertson Funeral Home in South Shore is in charge of arrangements. -Leader Classified Ads Phone 233-7878.
