The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia (2024)

March 18, 1985

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The Roanoke Timesi

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Roanoke, Virginia

Issue Date:

Monday, March 18, 1985

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4

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A4 Roanoke Times World News Monday March 18 1985 DEATHSUNERALS OBITUARIES Roanoke Valley State Out of state OBITUARIES New River Valley Service provides sitters for retarded State the Roanoke area who could benefit who simply know about it Group to ask reassessments every 2 years ished by July 1 could produce an ad In memoriam By ERIC RANDALL New River Valley bureau By CHARLES HITE Medicalscience writer ninth graders from the high school and Pulaski Middle School students hold national titles Pulaski County High School won the Atlantic Coast High School There are a little more than 40000 real estate parcels in the city including vacant lots and abandoned property Based on the real estate tax rate of 1133 per $100 assessed Pulaski chess team sweeps championships student dies in car accident SIMMONS SALLIEC Sallie Coleman Simmons age 83 passed away riday She was preceded in death by a daughter Darlene Meredith Survivors in clude her husband Sidney Sim mons one son Gordon Simmons Woodbridge one sister Mrs Martha Stanley Martinsville five grand children Stephen Simmons Laura Ragain Pamela Stuber Gary Ray Meredith Donna Keale four great grandchildren Kristen Meredith Brandon Keale Scott Culbertson Jamie LOWERS DEWEY Dewey Lee lowers 85 died riday He was retired from Ameri can Viscose Surviving are his wife Gladys Stamback lowers a daugh ter Mrs John (Levelle) Booze Rich mond two sons Junior lowers Roanoke Waynard lowers Manas sas a sister Lula Mays Hollins two grandchildren uneral services will be conducted from Lotz Roanoke Chapel 11:00 am Tuesday March 19 1985 with the Rev Weldon Myers officiating Interment in Sherwood Memorial Park In a report to council City Manager Bern Ewert recommends By JOEL TURNER Municipal writer restrictions were placed on the amount of the tax exempt industrial BEDORD Oscar Wilburn Rector 66 died Saturday Arrange ments by Carder Tharp uneral Home Pearisburg Individually Pierce MacGill of Critzer was second and Elizabeth Knarr of Pulaski Middle School took third i Northwood and Claremont ele mentary schools from Pulaski were first and third respectively in the primary division Six of eight indi vidual co champions were from Pu laski County uneral for Ethel Mae Young er who died riday will be Tuesday at 1 pm Hamlar Curtis uneral Home Chapel BOONE RUTH Mrs Ruth Bowman Boone age 88 of 215 Hershberger Rd died Sat urday She was a member of Oak land Baptist Church and the widow of Grover Boone Surviving are one brother Joseph loyd Bowman nieces and nephews erman and Pearl Bowman Melva Trout LaRue Mason Eileen Baldwin devoted friends Barbara and Leonard Shank all of Roanoke Graveside services will be 2:00 pm Monday in air View Cemetery with the Rev Kelly Dampeer officiating riends may call at North Chapel HAMILTON EDGAR Edgar Hamilton age 84 of Roanoke died riday He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church the Masonic Pleasants Lodge No 63 and was a retired em ployee of the Railway Sur viving are two daughters Mrs Jean Collier Richmond Mrs Peggy Browning Waynesboro four grand children five great grandchildren one great great grandchild one sis ter Mrs Estelle itzgerald Roa noke one nephew Raymond itzgerald Roanoke Graveside ser vices will be 11:00 am Monday in Sherwood Memorial Park with Dr Harry Gamble officiating The family will receive friends from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm and from 7:00 to 9:00 pm Sunday at Roanoke Chapel HARRIS WILLIAM A SR William A (Billy) Harris Sr age 77 2309 Lyndhurst St NW died at home Sunday March 17 1985 He was a member of Oakland Baptist Church and a member of Pleasant Lodge No 63 and a retired employee of Atlas Motor Parts Company He was an army veteran of world War II and a member of VW Post No 1264 He is survived by his wife Mrs Eula Arrington Harris one son William A Harris Jr Doraville Ga one sister Mrs Margaret Ruppert Tar boro NC two brothers Har ris Harris both of Elizabeth City NC three grandchildren A Harris III Marla Harris McDon ald Ginger Harris uneral ser vices will be conducted from North Chapel 3:00 pm Tuesday March 19 by the Rev Kel ly Dampeer officiating Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens riends may call North Chapel GRUBBS EARL SR Earl Lynn Grubbs Sr age 87 of 2006 Sherwood Ave SW died Saturday evening in a local hospital Mr Grubbs was retired from the Railway with forty five years service He was an active member of Greene Memorial United Method ist Church and a fifty year member of Osceolo Lodge 47 Knights of Py thias Surviving are his wife Mrs Gertrude Southern Grubbs two sons Earl Lynn Grubbs Jr Dur ham NC David Southern Grubbs Roanoke three grandsons Robert Earl Grubbs Kenneth David Grubbs David Southern Grubbs Jr three granddaughters Mrs Kather ine Grubbs Capehart Mrs Teresa Grubbs Jenkins Miss Diane Grubbs six great grandchildren a brother Leonard Grubbs Roanoke sis ters Mrs Grant Reid Roanoke Mrs Huffman Shenandoah four nephews and three nieces Ser vices will be 10:30 am Tuesday at Roanoke Chapel The Rev Robert Garner the Rev Walter Lockett Jr and Dr John Myers will officiate Interment will be in Evergreen riends may call at Roanoke Troutville Mrs Virginia Crawford Covington Mrs Winona Henry Manassas Mrs Elsie Trent Roa noke brother Ralph Boothe Ohio 21 grandchildren 6 great grandchil dren uneral services to be held Tuesday March 19 1985 at 11:00 am at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with the Rev Charles Krause offi ciating Interment will be in Mt Un ion Cemetery The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 9:00 pm Monday at Rader uneral Home Troutville Arrangements by Stuber The funeral services will be held 3:00 pm Monday March 18 1985 from the Lotz Vinton Chapel The Rev William Hungate will officiate Burial to follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens riends may call at Lotz Vinton ChapeL will be held at 2:00 pm Tuesday in the Barnett uneral Home Chapel in Wytheville with the Rev Harold Dean Underwood officiating Inter ment will follow in the Bethany Lu theran Church Cemetery The family will receive friends at the Barnett uneral Home after 7:00 pm Monday or at the residence anytime In Ueu of flowers the fam ily suggests that memorials be made to the American Cancer So ciety in co Dorothy Kincer 790 North Second St Wytheville Bar nett uneral Home Wytheville is in charge of arrangements YOUNGER ETHEL uneral service for Mrs Ethel Mae Younger of 1207 Loudon Ave NW will be Tuesday 1:00 pm at the Hamlar Curtis uneral Home Chapel The Rev William Lee will officiate with burial in Wil liams Memorial Park The family will receive friends Monday from 7:00 to 8:00 pm at the Hamlar Cur tis uneral ADAMS SIDNEY Mr Sidney Thomas Adams age 84 of Route 1 Salem died Satur day He was retired from the Government and is survived by three daughters Mrs Sidney ay Gunter Roanoke Mrs Peggy Hodges Mrs Virginia Bohon both of Salem one brother Harold Adams Toms Creek seven grand children four great grandchildren Graveside funeral services will be held 11:00 am Tuesday at Sher wood Memorial Park by Dr Con rad Johnston and Taylor Lodge No 23 riends may call Sun day or Monday at the John Oakey Son uneral Home Salem RICHMOND Helen Jean Bryson Sjoblum been found by the Division of Unclaimed Prop erty yet but in the past few weeks more than 4000 Virginians have found valuables at the and found The division is hunting for Sjob lum to give her $36000 from an un claimed insurance policy the largest single unclaimed amount reported to the state of the $50 mil lion belonging to lost owners But many many others have been luckier Three weeks ago the division published a list of 25000 people and institutions for whom it is holding unclaimed money for valuables The publicity prompted a flood of responses said Vivian Herbert director of unclaimed property generated calls tell you" she said not aware they could call in not aware of the ads calling it to see if we had prop erty in their name Graveside service for Ruth Bowman Boone who died Saturday will be today at 2 pm air View Cemetery Carl cl*throw ord 66 153 Wildhurst Ave NE died Sunday uneral Tuesday at 11 am Harri sons uneral Home Chapel Lexing ton WYOMING Mich Hessie Viola Perdue 82 formerly of Mar tinsville Va died Saturday Ar rangements Dy Roselawn uneral Home Martinsville TROUTVILLE uneral for lorence Boothe Wood who died Saturday will be Tuesday at 11 am Pleasant Hill Baptist Church WYTHEVILLE Eleanor Wanda Clippard Rosenbaum 51 died Sunday uneral Tuesday at 2 pm Barnett uneral Home Chapel INDIAN VALLEY uneral for Charlie Sutphin who died Satur day will be Tuesday at 11 am Maberry uneral Home Chapel loyd PULASKI Graveside service for Clinton McPeer Collins who died riday will be today at 2 pm Thornsprings Cemetery BARREN SPRINGS Edna Earl Martin Miller 74 died Sunday Arrangements by Stevens uneral Home Pulaski LOYD uneral for annie Slusher Jones who died Saturday will be today at 11 am Laurel Branch church of the Brethren BEDORD Lloyd Andrew Whorley 61 died Sunday uneral Tuesday at 2 pm Hunting Creek Baptist Church Arrangements by Carder Tharp uneral Home CHILHOWIE Reece Bryan Testerman 57 died Satur day uneral Tuesday at 2 pm Wil liams uneral Home Chapel COVINGTON Harry Taft Carter 78 died Sunday Arrange ments by Arritt uneral Home GALAX Roby Manuel 87 died Saturday uneral Tuesday at 2 pm Vaughan Guynn uneral Home Chapel MARION Cora Lee Burchett 91 died Saturday uneral Tuesday al 11 am Barnett uneral Home Chapel NORTH TAZEWELL Charles armer 79 died Saturday uneral Tuesday at 2 pm Haw Orchard Baptist Church Rugby Arrangements by Peery St Clair uneral Home Tazewell PETERSBURG Mary Armi stead Mahone died Saturday Grave side service today at 2 pm Blandford Cemetery Petersburg Arrangements by Roanoke Chapel ROCKY GAP Sadie Jose phine Saunders 79 died Sunday Arrangements by Newberry uner al Home Bland ROCKY MOUNT uneral for Ernest Hanco*ck who died Saturday will be Tuesday at 2 pm Mount Calvary Holiness Church MAHONE MARY A ft Mary Armistead Mahone of Petersburg widow of William Ma hone III died March 16 1985 in Roanoke She was the daughter of Judge and Mrs Edward Winston Armistead of Dalkeith Wolftrap Halifax County She was a former member of the Petersburg Study Club Poplar Lawn Garden Club and St Episcopal Church She is survived by a daughter Mrs Dus tin Grannis of Lake orest Ill a son William Mahone IV Roanoke two granddaughters Jane Gran nis Hoboken NJ and Nan Overton Mahone Richmond a grandson William Mahone Burlington NC two nieces Mrs John Latimer Wilmington Del and Mrs Charles Blackburn Raleigh NC Graveside services will be conducted at Bland ford Cemetery Monday March 18 at 2:00 pm uneral arrangements by Roanoke Chapel The family suggests memorials be made to the Boys Home Covington Va or St Church Petersburg Va just been fantastic" Between March 3 when a Rich mond Times Dispatch article on the matter appeared and Wednesday the division received 3636 tele phone calls and 792 written inquir ies from people who thought the state had something of theirs Her bert said least 80 percent (of those checking with the division) have got ten something she said then checked herself and said it probably was more no way I could even guess at she said The reason she was uncertain about how many had received how much Herbert said was that nobody available to add it up just too many suddenly popular agency is responsible for receiving reports of unclaimed valuables from banks insurance companies state agencies courts and utility companies This year she intends to see that $5 million finds its way back to its rightful owners Division and had seven players among the top eight individual fin ishers Pulaski senior Chuck Daugh erty Sr rated an by the United States Chess edera tion took first followed by sopho more Chris Bushong and senior Chris Byrd In the junior high division Pu laski Middle School took first ninth graders from Pulaski County High School were second and Giles High School eighth and ninth graders fin ished third Richard Mabry of Pu laski County High School Noah Spaulding of Radford Junior High and Brian Weatherington of Pulaski Middle School won individual hon ors Pulaski Middle School sixth graders reigning national cham pions took first at the elementary level followed by Critzer and Macy says know the sitters are peo Buckley feels so strongly about the benefits of short term care that she agreed to an interview some thing she normally avoids because she wants to protect her priva sitters are self employed and fees cy ioo ouen sne says stones about mentally handicapped people turn into tear jerkers not all she says that council approve a proposed pol icy for allocating the local bond money and a schedule for consider ing applications for the money The recommended policy would give a higher rating for industries and businesses locating in the urban enterprise zone and those ex porting products outside the Roa noke Valley It would also consider the commitment to hiring minority workers and general eco nomic benefit to the city In loving memory of Roy Lee Young on his birthday March 18 We know your bright er in heaven oh so fair looking forward to the day be with you up there Sadly missed by wife children grandchilden great granchildren LEXINGTON A junior at Washington and Lee University was bridge County early Sunday State police said John Christo pher Hunter 21 of Cave Spring Ga died at the scene of the crash which occurred about 1:30 am on Virginia 681 a half mile north of Lexington Police said the car he was rid ing in driven by WiL student Paul Henson HI ran off the road and struck a tree Henson was listed in stable con dition late Sunday at Stonewall Jackson Hospital in Lexington ac cording to a hospital supervisor LAUREL Md Leonard ranklin Wines 66 husband of Iris Marie Wines formerly of ruiasKi va died Saturday uneral Wednesday at 11 am Chap el United Methodist Church Hia JONES ANNIES LOYD annie Slusher Jones 96 widow of lemon A Jones died Saturday March 16 1985 at the Evergreen Nursing Home Greensboro NC Surviving are two sons Paul Jones Martins ville Silas Ward Jones Inkster Mich four daughters Anne Jones Murphy Greensboro NC Ruth Jones Day Amelia Island la Rob erteen Jones Slusher Dearborn Mich Katherine Jones Nester Richmond 12 grandchildren 15 great grandchildren 2 great great grandchildren uneral will be at 11AA am Mnniav ai IIia 4hiaI Branch Church of the Brethren with Ve Ricard Wood Poquoson the Rev Bowman officiating Wood Burial win be in the Slusher Ceme tery Maberry uneral Home is han dling the arrangements LYNCH DANIELL SR Mr Daniel Lynch Sr age 90 of 320 Hershberger Rd NW died Sunday at his residence He was the widower of Ruth Akers Lynch a member of the Primitive Baptist Church a fifty plus year member of the Pleasants Masonic Lodge 63 and was a retired engineer from the Vlflinian Ua in mwviltarl by a daughter Mrs Dorothy Ed er uneral Home Troutville warns Roanoke three sons Daniel Lynch Jr Bridgeport WVa Roy Lynch Vienna Elmer Lynch Baltimore Md 11 grand children and 13 great grandchil dren uneral services will be conducted at the graveside air view Cemetery at 11:00 am on Tuesday with Elder OK Tench offi ciating Masonic services will be conducted by Pleasants Lodge 63 riends may call at Roa noke Chapel PULASKI Perennial scholas tic chess powers from Pulaski Coun ty demonstrated their prowess again Saturday and Sunday as they swept the four divisions in the At lantic Coast Chess Championships The previous week Pulaski teams won the Virginia state cham pionship for the sixth year in a row There were 225 players from 33 schools in Virginia West Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee at the At lantic Coast tourney held at Critzer Elementary School in Pulaski A team from Pulaski County High School will be traveling to St Louis in two weeks for the national championships said Edward Shaw a Pulaski Middle School teacher who organizes tournaments McClaugherty Elementary from for Pulaski chess players ror uie first time they have a real good shot at the Shaw said The national high school chess ROSENBAUM ELEANOR WYTHEVILLE Mrs Elean or Wanda Clippard Rosenbaum age 51 of Route 2 died Sunday in a Roa noke hospital She is survived by her husband Richard (Sammy) Rosen baum one son Mike Rosenbaum Wytheville one daughter Connie Lynn Rosenbaum Max Meadows her mother Oleta Clippard Wythe ville two brothers Art Clippard airfax Carson Clippard Hawaii three half brothers Oliver Clippard Huntington Va Garnett Clip pard Winchester Tn Robert (Bunk) Clippard Martinsville one half sister Mrs Ruth A Budil so the amount of additional taxes re mains uncertain The appeals are up from last year when assessments were in creased on less than 5 percent of the property in the city but they are lower than several years ago when more than 1000 property owners annealed Also Monday council will be lulled in a single car crash in Rock toid that the city allocation for industrial development bonds this year is $75 million the same amount as last year Under state Puideline fnr allv eating the bond money to localities pealed their proposed assessments receive an allocation of thisyear $75 per person Assessments were increased on Under federal legislation about a fourth of the property in the passed by Congress two years ago city this year increasing the restrictions were placed on the tax base by 48 percent amount of the tax exempt industrial City appraisers have proposed development bonds that can be sold increases on 10026 pieces of proper by states and localities ty o887 residential ana 1139 bus inesses and commercial hind in normal development Coppersmith keeps a registry of sitters and helps to match a sitter with a family when a request is made Sitters are available on an hourly daily or weekly basis The are negotiated between the sitter and family Usually sitters charge between $2 and $4 an hour amilies are reimbursed for the sitting fees from 50 to 100 percent depending on their income level Sitters must be 18 or older They must take eight hours of first aid training and spend four hours had no problem getting the kind of of the progam agrees She esti uZgV tour of ocal mental Hm thov want Thnv rnh nn Chnnt ne sis it V0Ur 01 10Ca mental health facilities learn how to handle certain problem situations" Coppersmith says Sitters also must submit three references and be interviewed by three mental health officials includ ing a family member that serves on the advisory board for the Short Term Care program amilies interested in using the program or people interested in be coming sitters should call Coppers mith at 344 3784 ELarl Lynn Grubbs Sr 87 2006 Sherwood Ave SW died Saturday uneral Tuesday at 10:30 am Oak Roanoke Chapel William A Harris Sr 77 2309 Lyndhurst Street NW died Sunday uneral Tuesday at 3 pm North ChapeL Daniel Lynch Sr 90 320 Hershberger Road NW died Sun day Graveside service Tuesdav at 11 am airview Cemetery Ar wassee Va Arrangements by rangements by Roanoke Bower uneral Home Pulaski unapei Glenn William Noel 82 907 Connecticutt Ave NE died Sun day Arrangements by Vin ton Chapel Graveside service for rank Pierce Sprinkle who died Saturday will be Tuesday at 3 pm airview Cemetery Christine Michelle Wright in fant daughter of Patricia Wright 121 17th Street SW died riday Graveside service Tuesday at 10 a Williams Memorial Park Ar rangements by Hamlar Curtis neral Home A Roanoke group will ask City Council today to switch to tnP rMWPWfflPTlt of rpal traliiatiin 6kxx nstw 'leeocemAnid Huntington Va uneral services once every two years rather than new construction that will be fin annuaiiy ished by July 1 could produce an ad The Concerned Citizens and ditional $15 million in taxes in the Taxpayers an organization that was next fiscal year founded several years ago because Council has not set the tax rate of unrest over assessments has re for the next budget year however uuesieu unit io outline iis request In a letter on agenda i Robert Justice president of the group said it will ask the city to change the annual real estate as sessment process Justice does not elaborate on the request but some members of the group have said in the past they thought the practice of reas sessing property every year has helped to fuel controversy over as sessments There has been less controversy in the past two years than in the late and rarlv IQftfic hut hundred property owners have ap TESTERMAN REECE CHILHOWIE Reece Bryan (Bud) Testerman age 57 died Satur day afternoon in the Smythe County Community Hospital Marion Survi vors include his wife Lois Blevins Testerman two brothers Theodore red Testerman Troutville Kent Testerman Marion three sisters annie Ball Grassy Creek NC Blanche Hagy Lansing NC Ruth Barker Bel Air Md also several nieces and nephews uneral ser vices conducted at 2:00 pm Tues day at the Williams uneral Home Chapel with the Rev Willard Reedy and the Rev Virgil Blevins officiat ing Burial will follow in the Grosses Creek Cemetery lowers will be ac cepted or donations may be made to the Chilhowie Rescue Squad The family will receive friends at Wil liams uneral Home 7:00 to 9:00 title has eluded Pulaski though MA Ila AZiLaaI WOOD LORENCE TROUTVILLE Mrs lor ence Boothe Wood age 80 of Route 2 died Saturday She was the tist Church She is survived by two State has millions to return daughters Mrs Ruth Rodgers Roa at lost and found window Chicago Ill Donald Wood Nash ville' Tn Lowell Wood incas Associated Press When Patricia Buckley leaves home for an afternoon meeting of one of several civic groups she is ac tive in she needs a very special kind of sitter to watch Patrick her 9 year old son Patrick is considered a traina ble mentally handicapped child He There are a lot of families in has no physical problems but is vir the Roanoke area who could benefit tually speechless He uses sign Ian from the short term care program guage to communicate who simply know about it or the past several years Buckley feels Buckley and her husband Leo have Anne Coppersmith coordinator 1 biaer uiey wanu i ney reiy on onon mates about 95 families use the pro Term Care a program of Mental approximately 30 sitters neann services oi ine noanoKe val ley that provides sitters for mental ly retarded people of all ages or for their Coppersmith says ripvplonmAntallv dnlavpd rhildron a only does the program provide a sitter for Patrick but the thing so important to us is that we feel very comfortable in leaving our pie who have an IQ of 70 or below or child because we know these people for young children who may not are screened and they have been have been termed mentally retard through Patricia Buckley ed but who are considered to be be people use it just so they can get out for a while usually with i ney go shopping or see a movie something to get a break from the routine at The service is available for peo.

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