Deaths And Funerals Jane F. G. Stretch Funeral services for Mrs. Jane P. G.
Stretch, 86, who Friday in an Asheville nursing drone following a long illness, will be conducted at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home. The Rev. P. A.
Ratzell will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. H. F. Meadows Funeral services for H.
F. Meadows, 72, of the Leicester section, who died at his home Friday morning following a short illness, be conducted at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Union Baptist Church at Leices. ter. The Rev.
Grady Freeman will officiate. Grandsons will be pallbearers. Meadows was the son Samuel and Sadie Strap Meadows. Surviving are then widow, Mrs. Nannie Cox Meadows; Your daughters, Mrs.
O. S. McDaniel of New Mexico, Mrs. Homer Meadows of Marshall. Mrs.
Dan Jones of West Virginia and Mrs. Albert of Old Fort; six sons, Howard, Carmel, Dewey and Roy of Winston-Salem, Jennings of Detroit, and Ray ers, Ed and Charlie Meadows; Meadows of Alexander; two brothel sisters, Hagan and Mrs. Aveline Baker; 29 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. Morrie Lineberry Black Funeral Home is in charge of Clyde W. Taylor services for Clyde W.
Funeral, of Candler RFD a retired carpenter who died Thursat the home following a short day Illness, will be conducted at today in Sardis Methodist p.m. Church. The Rev. J. R.
Dawkins, the Rev. Groce and the Rev. Vernon Hall will officiate. Burial will be In the church cemetery. The body will remain at the home until it is taken to the church for the services.
Taylor was a member of Sardis Methodist Church. Fred W. Zimmerman services for Fred W. Funeral Zimmerman, 62, of 22 Brucemont retired Asheville 8 man, who died Friday in a hospital here, will be conducted at 3:30 p. m.
today in the chapel of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home. The Rev. J. B. Grice will officiate.
Burial will be in Green Hills Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Dr. P. R. Terry, John R.
Marks, P. B. Mayo. W. B.
Fluharty, Dr. Herman H. Kaplan, Edwin Allen, J. N. Davis and S.
Thomas Walton. Members of the Elks Lodge will conduct graveside rites. The body will remain at the funeral home until time for the services. A native of Spartanburg, S. he had resided in Asheville since early childhood.
Zimmerman was formerly associated with the Asheville Packing Company of which his father, the late Frederick W. Zimmerman, was the founder. He also at one time operated meat markets on Depot St. and Merrimon Ave. He was a member of the Elks Lodge and the fraternal Order of Eagles.
It has been requested that no flowers be sent but that donations be made to the Cancer Fund. Lyle J. Turpin Funeral services for Lyle J. Tur- pin, 57, an employe of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Oteen, who died in a hospital Wednesday, will be conducted at 2:30 p. m.
today in In memory of our darling Mother, Mrs. Martha Jane Burrell, who departed this life March 29, 1953. Mother dear, one year ago, you fell asleep, And left us here, to sigh and weep. It was so hard to see you go, For we really loved you so. They say time heals the broken heart, But no, that isn't true.
For one long year has passed And our hearts still break for you. God gives us strength to carry on And courage to bear the blow, But. darling, how it hurts to lose you Only God can ever know. You're safe with Jesus, this we know. For thru your life His love did flow, And rejoicing on that Heavenly shore We'll meet you, Mother, to part no more.
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chapel of Black Funeral Home. The Rev. James H. Smith, pastor of Reed Memorial Baptist Church, and the Rev. H.
B. Dendy will ficiate. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery. Lander B. Walters Funeral services for Lander B.
Walters, 70, who died Wednesday his home, 11 Park were conducted yesterday in the Haywood Street Methodist Church. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Mrs. Ralph F. Fawcett Funeral services for Mrs.
Mary Goodard Fawcett, 77, wife of Ralph F. Fawcett, who died Thursday at her home, 22 Rosewood conducted yesterday in the chapel of Morris-Lineberry-Black Funeral Home. Burial was in Riverside Cemetery. Fred Emmett Brown Funeral services for Fred Emmett 6, a native of Wythe County, Virginia, who died Thursday in an Asheville hospital, were conducted yesterday in Abernethy Methodist Church. Graveside rites were conductec in Green Hill Cemetery, ville.
Waynes Miss Mildred Smith FRANKLIN, March 27-Miss Mildred Faye Smith, 40, died today at 6:30 a. m. in her home in the Tesenta section of Macon County after a brief illness. She was a native and. lifelong resident of Smith Ridge township.
She was born Feb. 21, 1914, daughter of John Clinton and Lenna Justice Smith. Miss Smith was a member of the Tesenta Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p. m.
in Dryman's Chapel Methodist. Church. The Rev. Robert Poindexter, pastor, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Judson Smith, a Baptist minister.
Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Don Henry, Neville Buchanan, Roy Henry, Patterson, Hayes Buchanan and J. L. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Smith of Franklin, RFD and two sisters, Mrs. Roy Henry and Mrs. Pink Gibson of Middle Creek. The body will remain in the home until the hour of the funeral.
Bryant Funeral Home is in charge. James Golden WAYNESVILLE, March 27 James Golden, 54, of died today at 7 a. m. in a Sylva Tuckaseegee, hospital after a long illness. He was a farmer and a native of Jackson County.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Wawnie Mathis Golden of the home; four sons, Dee of Brevard; Talmadge, Junior and Douglas of the home. Also 11 daughters, Mrs. Irma Woodard of Wyandotte, Mrs. Kathleen Ball, Mrs.
Ernestine Ball and Miss Sarah Golden of Miami, Mrs. Madeline Woodard of Tuckaseegee, the Misses Myrtle, Charlotte, Ruby, Edith, Brenda and Ann Golden, all of the home; one brother, Will Golden of Tuckaseegee; three sisters, Mrs. Etta Watson and Mrs. Julia Nelson of Brevard and Mrs. Dollie Galloway of Liberty, S.
and grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Garrett Funeral Home. Mrs. Arrie M. Levi COLUMBUS, March 27-Mrs.
Arrie M. Levi, 76, died today at 10:30 a. m. in home near here after a long illness. Surviving are the husband, C.
E. Levi; one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Atkins of Columbus; six sons, Lewis and Herman of Zirconia, Parlo and Burgin of Columbus, Coy of Tuxedo and Talmadge of Tryon, RFD Spurgin Mullinax of and Also three brothers, Elon "and Roosevelt Mullinax of Mariett, S. two sisters, Miss Lura Mullinax Tuxedo and Mrs. Rosa Miller of Marietta, S.
C. Funeral services will be held Monday at 3 p. in Double Springs Baptist Church. The Rev. Jess Osteen will officiate, assisted Dunn and Groce FUNERAL HOME 1155 Haywood Road Asheville PHONE 2-3535 MONUMENTS All Sizes and Designs $5 to $10,000 JOHN D.
STRONG MEMORIAL WORKS 1556 Hendersonville Read Dial 9-4232 DUNN WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Levin) Funeral Directors 24-Hour Ambulance Service None Better At Any Price 57 N. Spruce St. Dial 2-2767 Announcing The Burial Insurance formerly operated by the McCoy-Wilkins Funeral Home has been officially turned over to the Henry Mutual Burial Ass'n, located at the Henry Funeral Home, as of March 1. 18 Eagle Asheville. Calls Parents On Learning Wrong Body Sent For Burial By JOHN KAY ADAMS DALLAS, March 27 (P- Herman Smith, 23, whose parents had planned to bury the wrong body, learned of it today and cried, "I'll bet Mom nearly The big Korean War veteran dropped.
God, what en shock." from Miami Beach, said he never imagined a body might be found in his stolen car. The victim of a Chickasha, automobile School Bonds In Marshall Vote. MARSHALL, March 27-Marshall school district voters today approved a $50,000 bond proposal to finance two new building projects. Voters favored by a margin of 567 to 236 the plan to issue bonds to upplement state funds for the erection of a gymnasium and physical education building at the Marshall School. The proposal will be submitted to the State Board of Education in Raleigh for approval, school officials said tonight.
Election officials reported the following vote by townships: Ward Township Marshall, 417 for; 35 against; Ward 3, Township Walnut Creek, 32 for; 27 against; Ward Township 1, Laurel Creek, 47 for; 41 against; Township 6, Sandy Mush, 36 for; 71 against; and Township 7, Laurel River, 35 against. Special registration had been held in these areas. Lincoln Man Wounds Wife, Ends Own Life LINCOLNTON, March 27-A 60- year-old Lincoln County farmer shot his wife three times and fatally wounded himself last night, Sheriff P. Heavner reported today. The sheriff said the doubleshooting occurred in the home of neighbors in the Northbrook section, about 15 miles from Lincolnton.
Heavner said he told that Miller followed his wife, Grace, 47, from a beauty parlor to the home of Mr. and Mre. C. S. Mitchem.
There he shot his reportedly estranged wife three times with a Luger pistol. Then he turned the gun on himself, despite pleas of his son, Worth P. Miller the sheriff said. Miller died en route to the hospital. 10 A ASHEVILLE Sunday, CITIZEN- March LIMES, 28, 1954 ASHEVILLE, N.
C. the Rev. Johnnie Middleton, and burial will be in Double Springs Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Homer, Leo, Rector and Newman Levi, Theron Mullinax and Burgin Beddingfield. The body will be taken tomorrow at 2 p.
m. to the home of a son, Burgin Levi, to await the funeral hour. Petty Funeral Home, Landrum, S. is in charge. Death Claims Andrew Mouw Andrew Mouw, 64, of 50 Griffing an upholstery engineer, died at his home about 4 p.
m. yesterday following a short illness. He was a native of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mouw was born, June 26, 1889, in Grand Rapids of Netherlands parentage. He had been prominent in furniture industry in Grand Rapids and elsewhere in the United States, ae well as in Colombia, South America, Canada and Mexico.
Mouw operated at one time his own custom upholstery business in Grand Rapids until he became upholtery engineer for No Sag Spring Company of Detroit, Mich. This position he held at the time of his death. Mouw resided ed in Ann Arbor, and Huntington when Woods, he until August, 1952, moved to Asheville, He served in the Navy and took a cruise around the world in 1907 and 1908 with "Fighting Bob" Evane. Mouw served many years in the Michigan National Guard, being a captain, during several the years. border He trouble was with Mexico.
He was a leader in Boy Scout work and at the request of the late Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan he established the Boys' Welfare work for the Grand Rapids Herald. Mouw was a member of the Shrine, a former member of the Army and Navy club and the Kiwanis Club. He was also a member of the North Park Presbyterian Church in Grand Rapids.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Coletta Marie Mouw of Asheville: two daughters, Mrs. Mary Louise Knapp of Asheville and Mrs. Howard Tiffany Knapp of Hudson Heights, N. and two grandchildren, Susanna.
Marie and Phillip Andrew Knapp. Lewis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangement, which were incom. plete last night. Death Claims Mrs. Ward, 88 HENDERSONVILLE, March 27- Mrs.
Louisa C. Ward, 88, a lifelong resident of Henderson County, died today in her home in the Mountain Page Community. The funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. in Mountain Page Baptist Church, of which she was a member, with the Rev.
General Beddingfield and the Rev. A. T. Howard officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Burgin, Jesse, Kenneth and Mitchell Pace, Ted Ward and Rex Stewart as pallbearers.
Thomas Shepherd Funeral Home is in charge. She was the widow of John A. Ward and a daughter of the late Levi and Elizabeth Pace Ward. Surviving are daughter, Mrs. R.
B. Pace of Brevard; two sons, H. T. of Landrum, S. and Harley Ward of Saluda: 15 grandchildren; a number of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral Rites For P. T. Marsh Are Set Monday, UNION, S. March 27 J. T.
Marsh died here today at 6 p. m. after a brief illness. Marsh was born Oct. 9, 1864, in Catesville, the son of the late Calvin and Jane Glassco*ck Marsh.
He had resided in Union for 30 years and was connected with the Union Buffalo Mills until he retired in 1949. Marsh was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Union. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Allie Marsh; two daughters, Mrs. Sam Sherbert and Mrs.
Frances M. Moore of Union; four sons, William S. Marsh of Union, Ruble Marsh Asheville, Joe B. Marsh of Long Beach, and Robert P. Marsh of Columbia, S.
two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 4:30 p. m. in the First Presbyterian Church here with the Rev. Benson Sloan officiating and the Rev.
R. R. Brady assisting. The body will be taken to the home tomorrow at 2 p. m.
where it will remain until Monday at 3 p. m. when it will be taken to the church to lie in state until the hour of service. The S. R.
Holcomb Funeral Home is in charge. Roscoe Ward Dies; Funeral Set Monday Roscoe Ward, 50, of 1 West Chapel Circle, died in an Asheville hospital Friday night after a short illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. in Mt.
Zion Baptist Church. The Rev. H. B. Ferguson, pastor, will officiate.
Burial will be in Violet Hill Cemetery. The body will lie state in the church from 12:30 p. Monday until time for the services. He was employed by Mrs. C.
S. Bryant in Biltmore Forest as a chauffeur for about 15 years. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Lucile Davis Ward; two sons, Roscoe Jr. and Charles, of the home; his mother, Mrs.
Ella Woods of Murfreesboro, two sisters, Mrs. Narcissus Bryant of Chicago and Mrs. Matilda Lytle of Murfreesboro, and two brothers, Oliver of Cleveland, Ohio, and John of Tampa, Fla. crash Tuesday was Identifled from papers as Smith and the body sent to Florida. The real victim may have been Smith's onetime roommate, Mathew Francis Grady, about 34.
When the startled Smith re. gained his composure, he hurried to telephone his mother. "Well, my car got stole," he told her. "Oh, thank God you called." his mother said. It was the first she had heard from her son in two weeks and the first direct infor.
mation that he was alive. She urged him 1 to come home, but Smith argued. "Everything I got was in that car." he pleaded. "I'll have to get another stake." But in the end he said, "Okay, come home." "She was really shook," he sald later. "I could tell." The bizarre of the wrong body began Tuesday night when Smith's friend, Grady, a hitchhiker he had picked up near Houston, disappeared.
Smith's car also was gone. In it were twe new suits, his discharge papers from a year ago, and a Japanese sword souvenir he had brought back from a 13-months tour in Korea. Smith reported the theft of his 1941 Cadillac to police here. But he did not telephone his mother and father. They are Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Smith, who left Lewes, one year ago to move to Miami Beach. The youth said he did not want to worry them.
The car was found near Chickasha. It spun off a curve and smashed into the back of a truck. mangled corpse in the wreckage was sent to Smith's parents. Lawyers Plan Appeals Fight TOKYO, Sunday, March 28 UPMilitary defense lawyers said today they would exhaust all sources, including an appeal to President Eisenhower, in efforts to save M. Sgt.
Maurice L. Schick from execution for the "sexual satisfaction" strangulation of a little girl. A court-martial yesterday convicted the twice-wounded World War I veteran after the prosecution read his confession stating the strangling of an Army colonel's daughter last November gave him "complete sexual satisfaction." Maj. Harlow Huckabee, contending that Sgt. Schick should, have been sent to the Menninger Clinic at Topeka, for psychiatric treatment, said "We will fight this all the way through the highest appeal." Eric Rawls Dies At Home In Brevard BREVARD, March 27-Eric Montague Rawls, 68, retired engineer, died in his home here early today following a long period of declining health.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. in St. Phillips Episcopal Church. The Rev.
Paul L. Ritch and Rev. John Tuton will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be James P.
MOrroW, Eben Morrow, Augustine Tucker, Alex Kizer Lloyd Burhans and Henry Henderson. Rawls was a graduate of the University of Virginia and a native of Asheville. He and his wife operated tourist inn for many years. He was the only 33rd degree Mason in Transylvania County. He was member of the Mt.
Hermon Lodge of Ashevile and an honorary member of the Dunn's Rock Lodge, Brevard. Members of both lodges and Asheville Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, will serve as honarary pallbearers. He was at one time connected with the engineering firm of Carter and Bearden of Asheville. He was also a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Asheville, and the Down Town Club. Survivors include the widow, Mrs.
Rawls, one brother, Reuben Rawls of Philadelphia, Pa. Moore Funeral Home is in charge. Rookie pitcher Frank Sullivan of the Boston Red Sox is the tallest player in the American League. He is Dr. Erdmann Dies On His 90th Birthday WILLIAM W.
FREEMAN Funeral To Be Conducted For W. W. Freeman Funeral services for William W. Freeman, 79, retired farmer of Alexander section, who died at 4:301 yesterday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. W.
B. McKinnish of Middlemount will be conducted at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the French Broad Baptist Church. The Rev.
Erwin Sluder and the Rev. Mitchell Embler will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be David and Clyde Embler, Ervin Parris, Gudger Wilson and Carl Burnette. was in Madison Freeman, 18, 1874, the son of Benjamin and Harriet Payne Freethe daughter since his retirement man.
He had been residing with last October. He had been ill six weeks. The body will remain in Dunn and Groce Funeral Home until time for the services. Surviving are four sons, Filmore of Calmar, Thomas of Detroit, and Ralph and Dan Freeman, both of Asheville; seven daughters, Mrs. McKinnish, Mrs.
J. W. Morris of River Rouge, Mrs. S. O.
Waddell of Kingsport, Mrs. Frank Hosler of Cadillac, Mrs. J. H. Maine and Mrs.
George May of Miami, and Mrs. Clyde Sluder of Alexander; one brother, Zeb Freeman, of Marshall, four sisters, Mrs. Martha Washington State, Mrs. Margaret, Graham of Arden, Mrs. Anderson of Frostproof, and Mrs.
Matilda Franks of Asheville; 15 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Attorneys For Carney Won't Appeal FLORENCE, S. March 27 (P) Court appointed attorneys for Raymond Carney, sentenced to death last Tuesday for the murder of H. B. Allen of Latta, announced tonignt they would not appeal the sentence.
E. N. Zeigle: and Rogers who, along with C. C. McDonald, served as attorneys for Carney, announced their decision after visiting Carney at the State Penitentiary in Columbia.
Zeigler said that Carney agreed that "he had received a fai: and impartial trial and that he would gain nothing personally from an appeal and a possible new trial." Mrs. S. E. Britt Dies At 81 BREVARD, March 27-Mrs. Sallie Elizabeth Britt, 81, died this morning in her home on Horse Shoe, RFD 1, following a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Boyleston Baptist Church. Officiating minister will be the Rev. Ralph Banning and the Rev. Rady Hamby.
Burial will be in the church ceme. tery. Surviving are four sons, Joe Britt of Palestine, Ohio; Esaw Britt of Johnson City, Fred Britt of Horse Shoe, RFD Milburn Britt of Horse Shoe, RFD two daughters, Mrs. Tillia Sherrill of New Galloway, and Mrs. Nola West of Horse Shoe.
Pallbearers will be Spurgeon Massingale, Johnnie Galloway, Rick Mc. Call, Cleaves Burgess, J. H. Townsend and Jack Banning. Osborne Simpson Funeral Home is in charge.
Mrs. Kilpatrick Passes At 85 In Marble Home MURPHY, March 27-Mrs. Iowa Kilpatrick, 85, widow of J. M. Kilpatrick, died today at 5 a.
m. in her home at Marble after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements will be I announced by Townson Funeral Home. Surviving are four sons, Royall and Ernest of Marble, Jack of Sylva and Sheridan of Kannapolis; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Wood of Athens, Mrs.
Tom Pharm of Bogart, and Mrs. Belle Howard of Aquone; and one brother, Sam Neal- of Ga. Man Is Found Dead In Institution Barnett Arthur Francisco, 48, of Kingsport, was found dead in an Asheville institution early yesterday, Dr. P. R.
Terry, coroner, said Francisco had died of strangulation brought about by hanging himself with pair of coat hangers. The body, which was found about 7:45 a. m. was taken to Newport, yesterday for funeral services and burial. Dr.
Terry said Francisco had been dead since 6 a. m. NEW YORK, March 27 -Dr. John F. Erdmann, renowed surgeon who once helped perform secret operation on President Grover Cleveland, died today on his 90th birthday.
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