4-A Statesville Record Landmark Tuesday, July 12, 1994 Obituaries Bob Corbell Mr. Robert Thruston Corbell, 79, of 495 Kings Grant Court, died Sunday, July 10, 1994 at his residence following an illness of one year. Mr. Corbell was born in Richmond, on May 23, 1915, a son of the late Robert T. Corbell, and Edna Wright Corbell.
He was a retired air conditioning and refrigeration technician. He attended schools in Richmond, and the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He was a member of Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Temple Terrace, Fla. He was married to the former Soldier Arrested FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) A Fort Riley soldier will be turned over to military authorities in connection with a weekend shooting on the base that left a North Carolina soldier dead and another soldier critically injured, Army officials said.
Pvt. Anthony Thornton, 22, died of a gunshot wound to the head, fort spokesman Mark Meseke said Monday in a press release. Spec. Silky Boatwright, 23, was listed in critical condition in the University of Kansas Medical Center, he said. The suspect, who was treated for a superficial wound in Irwin.
Army Community Hospital, wasn't being identified. No charges had been filed, Meseke said. The shooting came several hours after a quarrel in the bar: racks late Saturday night, said Deb Skidmore, a base spokeswoman. Frances Swanson Geers, who preceded him in death in 1991. One son, Robert T.
Corbell, III, also preceded him in death in 1985. Survivors include two sons, Rev. Thomas Corbell of 1015 Argyle Place and Norris H. Corbell of Stephens City, one daughter, Evelyn C. Rinehart of Lake Worth, two in stepsons, James S.
Geers of Las Altos, Calif. and John Geers of Webster Groves, two stepdaughters, Karen Dowling of. Miami, Fla. and Nancy Salamon of Bloomington, one sister, Mrs. Helen McCarthy of Richmond, and six grandchildren and 10 step grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Temple Terrace, Fla. Rev. Bob Wiley will officiate. Burial will be in the church memorial garden.
Rev. Corbell and his family will receive friends in the lounge at St. Johns Lutheran Church today from p.m. Memorials may be made to St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Statesville, N.C., 28677; or to Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Druid Hills Road, Temple Terrace, 33617.
Nicholson Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Loyd Mays TAYLORSVILLE Mr. Loyd Wayne Mays, 61, of All Healing Springs Road, died Monday, July 11, 1994 at his residence following a lengthy illness. Mr. Mays was born in Alexander County on Oct.
14, 1932, a son of the late Troy and Ida Roxanne Little Mays. He was educated in the Alexander County Schools. He was a member of Poplar Springs Baptist Church in Alexander County. He was owner and operator of a grading business and was owner of Wayne Mays Meat Processing. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Harold Mays and Don Mays, by one half-brother, Kivette Little and by two sisters, Rose Ellen Mecimore and Thelma Jurgenson.
Survivors include his wife, Margie Ann Bumgarner Mays of the home; two sons, Jimmy Wayne Mays of Stony Point and Michael Lee Mays of Taylorsville; one daughter, Tamara Michelle Mays of the home; one brother, Steve Mays of Taylorsville; four grandchildren, Courtney, Isaac, Lauren and Adams Mays. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Liledoun Baptist Church in Alexander County. Rev. James Bumgarner and Rev.
Devon Dyson will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will to the church 30 minutes prior to the funeral hour. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at.
Adams Funeral Home in Taylorsville. Howard Stamey Colorado Town Has Tragic Past Funeral services for Mr. Howard Murray Stamey, 76, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Broad Street United Methodist Church. Dr.
Douglas Fairbanks and Dr. Earle Haire will officiate. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be grandsons, Will Stewart, David and Robb Stamey, sons-in-law, Bill Stewart, Ron Payne and Lee Palles. Honorary pallbearers will be retired extension agents and the Fellowship Bible Class of Broad Street United Methodist Church.
The family will receive friends from p.m. today at Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home, claimed 15 lives in 1981. A propane tank that exploded in 1985 as workers tried to repair it, killing 12 people. "Everybody in town knew somebody who was killed," Copp said. A plane that crashed during a 1992 snowstorm on its way to Aspen.
Six people died. None of those, however, matched last week's disaster: a modest 50-acre brush fire on Storm King Mountain that was whipped into a deadly blaze by strong winds. U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, a Glenwood Springs resident and former volunteer fireman, helped recover the charred bodies.
He said it was like "looking into the door to hell." But as people learned of the deaths, "we had offers of everything from chocolate chip cookies to corporate jets," said McInnis, "It was unbelievable. We couldn't even put our trucks back in the station. There were so many cases of (donated) pop and water and stew," said Assistant Fire Chief Jack Jones. "We got calls as far as Massachusetts who were going in fly in here to help." Businesses from McDonald's to Wal-Mart donated food. Organizations began fu raising campaigns.
People wore purple ribbons or placed them on buildings, lamp posts and car antennas. The Christmas cross on a nearby mountain will be lighted for 14 days one day for each victim. Residents of Canyon Creek Estates provided firefighting crews with food and let them use their telephones to call relatives. "You tell them we appreciate what they did," resident Richard Drew said, his voice choking. "My wife, Vicky, doesn't even want to look at our grocery bill," he said: "I'm not going to look at the phone bill.
I'm just going to pay it. We told them to call home directly and not fool with credit cards or collect calls." and at other times, will assemble at the residence on Stamey Farm Road. Mr. Stamey, a retired Iredell County agricultural extension agent and dairy farmer, died Monday, July 11, 1994 at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Frances James Stamey; sons, Robert W.
Stamey and Charles H. Stamey, both of Statesville; daughters, Sue S. Stewart of Greensboro, Margaret S. Payne of Asheville and Annie S. Palles of Raleigh; and grandchildren, David, Robb, Meg, Heather, Jennifer and Sarah Stamey, all of Statesville; Will and Anne Stewart of Greensboro; Maggie and Meredith Payne of Asheville; and Kate, Mary and Sophie Palles of Raleigh.
Mr. Stamey was born in Canon on July 29, 1917, a son of the late George E. and Flora M. Stamey. was educated at Brevard College and graduated from North Carolina State in 1942.
He was an animal husbandry specialist for N.C. State for three years and a livestock agent in Iredell County for 30 years. He was awarded the distinguished service award in 1967 by the National Association of County Agents. He was also inducted into the N.C. State Fair Livestock Hall of Fame.
He was a member of the Iredell County Democratic Party, and a former Rotarian. Memorials can be made to the N.C. Dairy Youth Foundation in care of agricultural extension office in Statesville or Broad Street United Methodist Church. William Pressly Memorial services for Rev. William Laurens Pressly, DD, 91, of 514 Dogwood Road, were to be conducted a.m.
today at First ARP Church. Rev. Robert Sherer was to officiate and burial was to be in Oakwood Cemetery prior to the memorial services. Rev. Pressly, an associate reformed Presbyterian church minister for 46 years, died Sunday, July 10, 1994 at Iredell Memorial Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Cowan Pressly; one son, James A. Pressly; two- brothers, one sister and three grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the work of Rev. Pressly's grandson, John Lowry Pressly, Volunteer in Missions, Costa Rica, Sardis Presbyterian Church, 6100 Sardis Road, Charlotte, N.C., 28270; or to the church or charity of the donor's choice. Maria Kay Mrs.
Maria Rinehart Kay, 27, of route 2, Troutman, died Monday, July 11, 1994 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is in charge of plans. Monday's closing prices on selected stocks of local interest by: SMITH BARNEY SHEARSON, INC. Ross Cowan 1-800-642-0633 NASDAQ co*ke Consolidated. Food Lion-A Food Lion-B 17 Goodys 17 NYSE Armstrong A.T.&T.
...53 Bell South ...23 Clark Equipment. ...63 Duke Power .....36 Family Dollar. 12 First Union 46 General Motors. Heilig Meyers Hunt Manufacturing 16 IBM .55 Ingersoll Rand 35 International Paper Lowes ...35 NationsBank .....52 Newell JCPenney Pitney Ruddick .16 Sara Lee. 19 Southern National Springs Industries ...31 V.F.
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28677 872-0171 Jim Love LIFE AUTO HOME MOBILE HOMES Leave it to The Good Hands People Allstate Insurance Company Allstate Life Insurance Company AWARDS PRESENTED James Duckworth, left, Craig Hutchens, center, and Brian Pratt, recently received the coveted Golden Key of the State FFA Degree. The degree, conferred at the annual North Carolina FFA Convention, is the highest level of achievement recognized by the state association. To be nominated, students must show satisfactory progress in developing leadership skills, be active in their local FFA chapter and have made at least $1,000 from their Supervised Occupational Experience Program. Jon McConnell and Josh Lincomfelt also received the award. All are 1994 graduates of South Iredell High School.
Universities Propose Child Abuse Center DURHAM (AP) An innovative plan by three North Carolina universities would provide a comprehensive method to treat the victims of child abuse under one roof. Social workers, doctors, mental-health providers, legal experts and law enforcement officials all would work at what's being called the North Carolina Center for Child Advocacy and Protection. Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University would run the center. The program would be patterned after a program begun nine years ago in Huntsville, Ala. It has been copied across the country and even in a handful of North Carolina communities.
Plans for the center should be completed this fall, presented to university administrators and shopped around to private foundations with grant money to offer, The News Observer of Raleigh reported. The center proposal comes as child abuse reports are rising dramatically across the state. A state report last year showed that reports of abuse and neglect had increased 23.6 percent in North Carolina over the previous year's tally, up to 59,527 cases a 91.4 percent increase over the number reported four years earlier. The potential payoff is clear to Mark Everson, director of the Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment at UNC Hospitals, which is expected to join the center. "Each of the universities has some resources and some quality people working in the field, but they're in isolation," Everson said.
"The center would offer a place where everyone could work together. "The benefit is much better quality of care for children and families. You can call in an expert who is just down the hall instead of in the next county. And more than one head is better in the decision-making process, especially in complicated cases." The proposal includes spending $3 million for a new building for the center somewhere along the Durham-Orange county line. UNC and Duke would move several medical and mentalhealth programs into the center and NCCU would tie in its Family Law Clinic, a wing of the university's law school expected to open this fall.
Teachers, researchers and students from each of the schools perhaps even from across the state could work and train at the center. Social services departments in Orange and Durham counties would assign social workers to the center, and local police and sheriff's departments, as well as the district attorneys, would be asked to participate. The majority of the children who would receive care would be from Durham and Orange counties, but services would be available to others as well. Supporters say the center would make the ordeal of investigation and treatment often a myriad of meetings and interviews less harrowing for children who have been abused. "You want to minimize the trauma to the kids," said Dan Hudgins, director of the Durham Department of Social Services.
"It's very traumatic, having to go through that process of retelling what happened. It's very hard. You relive it all Cathy Purvis, who helps run such a comprehensive center i in High Point, says the potential for the Durham-Orange center is great. She says its benefit will be less unless center leaders persuade everyone working with child abuse cases to join in the effort. "Between Duke and Carolina, they have some of the best psychological resources the country," Purvis said.
"But they desperately need the cooperation of the district attorney, law enforcement and social services. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) A mine disaster. A gas explosion. A plane crash.
A deadly wildfire. Tragedy has struck often in this mountain resort town. "You never get good at it," said City Manager Michael Copp. The disasters also linger in many ways. When the town gathered to mourn 14 firefighters who died Wednesday battling a wildfire, the memorial service was held on a stage built for a ceremony honoring victims of a natural gas explosion nine years earlier.
Even before the wildfire deaths, this community of 6,000 people had endured: An explosion in a coal mine in Redstone, 30 miles away, that Resort Co Communities Threatened By Fires BODFISH, Calif. (AP) Winds pushed a wildfire across 350 acres and through two resort communities in the Sequoia National Forest, destroying one home and threatening hundreds more about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. In Washington, a 300-acre wildfire leaped across the Spokane River and was burning about five miles west of downtown Spokane. Homes, a convalescent center and a campground were evacuated. There were no reports of injuries from either fire.
More than 200 residents near Bodfish and Lake Isabella, evacuated voluntarily Monday. One house and five sheds were destroyed, and one house suffered moderate damage, said County fire Capt. Dennis Walker. The Spokane fire destroyed MONDAYFRIDAY 12 P.M.3 P.M. OAKS GOLF CLUB RIDE 18 HOLES FOR ONLY $12 Limited Time Only CALL FOR TEE TIME 872-3979.
3250. Twin Oaks Dr. Statesville an indoor shooting range, but there were no other reports of damage. Residents of three neighborhoods and about 120 patients from a convalescent home were were temporarily evacuated. Elsewhere: In Oregon, a fire in north-central Oregon continued to burn out of control and a' forest fire near Kimberly raged in rough, hard reach terrain.
The cost of battling a 965-acre forest fire in a bald eagle nesting area near Klamath Falls reached $900,000 Monday. The suspected arson fire was 50 percent contained. Arizona's two biggest wildfires remained the Rattlesnake fire and the acre Rincon blaze, both about two weeks old and entrenched the larger blaze in rugged, highaltitude mountainous areas of the Coronado National Forest near Douglas and the smaller in the Saguaro National Monument east of Tucson. In Colorado, crews fully encircled the Canyon Creek fire that killed 14 firefighters last week. In Utah, 45 firefighters had a blaze started by lightning in the desert north of the Great Salt Lake about 60 percent contained today, and expected to control the blaze Wednesday night.
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Front St. The program will include a caregiver video and discussion. Co-facilitators are Norma Jean Sherrill, 872-7137, and Marge Prokupek, 873-2965. The public is welcome to attend. DIED IN 1759 Composer George Frederic: Handel died in 1759.
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