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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1989 -THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- Obituaries TT-r mil. I Davies dies; worker, victim C-7 JOSEPH TOTH, 74. Indianapolis, died Saturday. Services will be at 1 1 a.m. Wednesday In Shirley Brothers East Chapel, with calling from 2 p.m.

to 8 p.m. Tuesday. He was a computer specialist for the U.S. Army Finance and Accounting Center at Fort Benjamin Harrison 18 years, retiring In 1972. He was a member of Faith United Methodist Church.

He was a Marine veteran of World War II. Survivors: wife. Dorothy Bottorff Toth: sons. John James D. and David L.

Toth: five grandchildren; one great-grandchild. OLIVE M. ADKINS TROTH, 93. Indianapolis, died Sunday. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday In Singleton Herr Madison Avenue Mortuary, with calling from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. She was a member of Greenwood Church of Christ. She was the widow of Arthur Troth.

Survivors: daughter. Mary Ellen Troth: sister. Betty Hodson: brother. Harold Adkins. ROBERT R.

WEAVER 48. In ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of visitors to the pink granite gravesite of "Mother" Jones in Mount Olive, is increasing. Scholars stir interest in labor's Earnhardt coasts to win 1 in NASCAR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Darlington. S.C. Dale Earnhardt drove on low fuel for the final 80 laps Sunday, but claimed the Southern 500 for his second victory In the Labor Day classic at Darlington Raceway.

Earnhardt, driving a Chevro let, finished 1 .45 seconds ahead i- of Mark Martin's Ford, but his crew chief and car owner admit ted afterwards It was a close call on fuel. "I was scared the gas sltua- tion would get us at the end." said car owner Richard Chll- dress. "After the last pit stop (witn ho laps remaining on the 1. 366-mile track) Kirk (Shelmer- dine. crew chief) handed me a piece of paper that said we need ed 21.3 and I knew we had been picking up 21.5 gallons." Not only did Earnhardt squeak, by on his fuel mileage but he managed to set a track record In the process.

His average speed of 1 35.462 mph broke the old record of 134.033 mph set In the 1973 Southern 500 by Cale Yarborough. Ironically, the record Earnhardt broke was set the same year his father, Ralph. died, and his victory came the day after his father was Inducted Into the National Motorsport Press Association Hall of Fame. "The car was mediocre." Earnhardt said after collecting his fifth Darlington win. his third this season and the 37th of his NASCAR Winston Cup ca reer.

"It wasn't hooked up that good but it was consistent. We Just ran a consistent pace. After that last stop, they said we had enough gas and I said OK. I wanted to watch the gas gauge but I didn't, continued Earnhardt, who admitted scuffing the wall a couple of times. Earnhardt led eight times for 153 laps, including the final 63 In the 367-lap event.

With his victory, he gained 20 points on Rusty Wallace In the battle for the national driving title. With eight races remaining, Earnhardt, who won $71,150. holds a 73-polnt advantage over Wal lace. There were 27 lead changes among 10 drivers In the race that was slowed by four caution flags for 27 laps. Ricky Rudd placed third In a Buick.

Wallace finished fourth In a Pontiac and Ken Schrader placed fifth in a Chevrolet. Darrell Waltrlp, who would have received a $1 million bonus if he had won the event, had to settle for an extra $100,000 instead. Waltrlp experienced prob lems midway through the event, smacking the wall twice, and was never in contention the rest of the way. fiery Mother Jones Linda Tillotson cancer support Services for Linda Tillotson Da-vies. 42.

who volunteered for cancer support groups while fighting the disease herself, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hopkins-Rector Funeral Home. Greencastle. Calling will be from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday. Mrs. Davies, who died Saturday, was a volunteer In Methodist Hospital's Hospice Unit and Its "Bosom Buddies" Cancer Support Group. In the July 1989 Issue of Indianapolis Woman magazine, she wrote about her personal experience with breast cancer In a story titled Had to Fight or Die. She encouraged women to learn more about breast cancer and to have EUGENE W.

ALTON, 71. Indiana-polls, died Saturday. Memorial services will be at 6 p.m. today In Conkle Funeral Home. Speedway Chapel.

No calling is planned. He had worked In the service department of Palmer Dodge for 17 years, retiring In 1982, and was a member of First Baptist Church of Indiana-polls. He was the widower of Eunice Roberts Dalton. Survivors: daughters. Antoinette McLaughlin and Linda Zancow: son.

Jon Dalton: sister. Pauline Dalton; four grandchildren. BERNARD FLEISCHMAN, 81. Indianapolis, died Saturday. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday In Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Cemetery South. Aaron-Ruben-Nelson Meridian Hills Mortuary Is handling arrangements. He had worked as an Insurance agent in Louisville and had also worked in advertising sales in Indianapolis. DAVID P. HOWARD, 43.

Indianapolis, died Sunday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday In Flanner Buchanan Farley Morris Street Mortuary, with calling from noon to 9 p.m. Thursday. He was an assembler for Atkomatlc Valve Indianapolis.

14 years. Survivors: wife. Shelley Whlted Howard: daughters. Shirley Aljefrea. Robin Sloan.

Annette Howard and Elizabeth Rameriz: sons. Jason, William and David Howard II: brother. Samuel Howard: sisters. Martha Garner and Kathy Howard: nine grandchildren. MAURICE CARTER JACKSON, 68.

Indianapolis, died Thursday. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday In Holy Angels Catholic Church, of which she was a member. Calling will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday in Stuat Mortuary Chapel. She worked for P.R. Mallory Co. 30 years, retiring as a supervisor In 1982. She then worked six years in the shoe department at L.S.

Ayres Co. department store In Glendale Shopping Center. She also was a volunteer for Central Indiana Regional Blood Center. She was the widow of Arthur C. Jackson Sr.

Survivors: son. Arthur C. Jackson daughter. Jasmin Pettlford: sister. Dorice C.

Board: six grandchildren. ANNA SHEA JOHNSTON, 92. Indianapolis, died Saturday. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday In Feeney-Hornak Keystone Mortuary and at 10 a.m.

In Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church. Calling will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday In the funeral home. She was vice president of Construction Digest magazine 50 years, retiring in 1979.

She was a past president of Our Lady of Lourdes Women's Club. She was the widow of Fred G. Johnston Sr. Memorial contributions may be made to Little Sisters of the Poor. Survivors: daughter.

Mary Anne Howard: sons. Jerry J. and Fred G. Johnston sister. Dorthea Dougherty: 15 grandchildren: 15 great-grandchildren.

CHARLES F. KERSEY, 96. Danville, died Saturday. Services will be at 1 :30 p.m. Wednesday in Weaver Funeral Home, Danville, with calling from 4 p.m.

to 9 p.m. Tuesday. He had been an operating engineer at National Malleable Indiana-polls, for 22 years, retiring In 1958. He was a Navy veteran of World War I. He was the widower of Marguerite Beaver Kersey.

Survivors: sons, Paul and Donald "Jack" Kersey: five grandchildren: nine dianapolis, died Saturday. Services will be at 1 1 a.m. Tuesday in Roys-ter-Askln-Sandrock Mortuary, with calling from 2 p.m. to 9 pm. today.

He had been a technician for Handschy Industries 10 years and was an Air Force veteran. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Survivors: wife, Lillian Kay Reed Weaver; sons, John and Robert Weaver daughters. Robin. Sherl and Jana Kay Weaver: stepson: James Davies; stepdaughter.

Christy McAfee: nine grandchildren. LETTIE IRENE CARNES WATERMAN, 92. Indianapolis, died Sunday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday In Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel, with calling from 2 p.m.

to 9 p.m. today. She was active In the Democratic Party as a precinct commltteewoman. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.

She was the widow of John C. Waterman. Memorial contributions may be made to the church or the American Heart Association. Survivors: son, Charles J. Waterman; daughters, Mary E.

Waterman and Carol S. Bishop: sisters. Mildred Richards. Annis Miller, Annie To-liver and Ida Kacherian; brothers. Bill Villasana, Arthur and Clarence Carnes; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.

BESSIE BLAKEY WHITE, 85. Indianapolis, died Friday. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday In Mount Paran Baptist Church. of which she was a member.

Calling will be after 6 p.m. Tuesday. Laven-ta's Home for Funerals is handling arrangements. She was an assembler for Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. 20 years, retiring In 1977.

She was the widow of Richard White. Survivors: stepson, Robert White: sister. Geneva B. Bogguess; two grandchildren. Claire Luce, 85, was versatile actress NEW YORK TIMES New York Claire Luce, a 1920s Zlegfeld star who left the musical stage for the classical theater, died Thursday at her Gramer-cy Park home In Manhattan after a lengthy Illness.

She was 85. Her first dramatic role was In a London production of Burlesque. She returned to New York In 1938 to play the role of Curley's wife in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. She was acting that part In London at the outbreak of World War II. She became the first American actress to play leading roles at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford -on-Avon.

regular examinations that could lead to early detection of the disease. In addition to her volunteer ties at Methodist. Mrs. Davies was a supervisor In the hospital's Service-master Department. She also co-owned, with her husband, the Walker Motel and New Maid Inc.

She was a member of Big Walnut Baptist Church In Reelsville. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Survivors: husband. James R. Davies: daughters, Mary Mosteller and Amy Davies; mother.

Mary Tillotson; sister. Martha Tolllver. SHIRLEY POOLE, 100. Franklin, died Saturday. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday in Vandi-vler-Tudor Funeral Home. Franklin, with calling from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. He farmed in the Johnson County area 70 years, retiring In 1970.

He also was a bus driver for Clark Township schools In Franklin 12 years. He was a member and former deacon of Community Congregational Church In Johnson County. He was the widower of Bertha Rlchey Poole. Survivors: daughter. Mildred Tharp: son.

Wayne Poole: three grandchildren: 1 1 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter. MARY ELSIE ODELL REYNOLDS, 80. Plalnfleld. died Sunday. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday In Hall-Baker-Litke Funeral Home. Plalnfield. with calling from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

She was a member of Kingsway Christian Church in Plalnfield. Survivors: husband. Marlon W. Reynolds; daughters. Ruth E.

Sapp. Jeanie Ewlng. Joyce Ebert. Carole Parker and Sharon Meadows: sisters. Viola Trail and Fern Martin: 18 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren.

KATHERINE G. ROSS. 89. Indianapolis, died Sunday. Services will be at 1 p.m.

Wednesday In Crown Hill Cemetery. Summers Northeast Funeral Chapel Is handling arrangements. She was a church organist for Emmanuel Baptist Church, of which she was a member, and former pianist for showings of silent motion pictures In the Walker Theatre. She was a former organist for Mount Olive. New Light and Gethsemane Baptist churches.

She was a former nurse's aide for the Red Cross. She was a member of the YWCA. She was the widow of Jesse Ross. Survivors: daughter, Virginia Ross Briggs: sister, Ethel M. Underwood; grandson.

EDWARD A. SCHWIER 56. New Palestine, died Saturday. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday In Hendryx Cumberland Mortuary, with calling from 4 p.m.

to 9 p.m. today. He had been a glazier for Circle City Glass Co. several years. Survivors: wife.

Mary E. Morris Schwler; daughter. Laclnda Lopez: son. Edward Thomas Schwler: brothers. Marvin and William Schwler: sisters.

Dorothy Toombs. Joan Cohron. Shirley Bullard. Donna and Lois Schwler: one grandchild. RUTH B.

TRULOCK SILVER-THORNE, 74. Nashville. formerly of Indianapolis, died Saturday. No calling or services are planned. Reed Jewell Funeral Home.

Columbus, Is handling arrangements. She was a member of Garden City Christian Church, Indianapolis. She was the widow of Emmitt "Red" Sllverthorne. Survivors: daughter, Vlckl Sllverthorne-Norrls: brothers. Tom and Richard Welch and William and Vernle Swl-gart: sisters.

Helen Trimble and Patricia Wright. CORRECTION DARRELL BARNES Survivors also include stepsons. Terry, William and Donald Cartwright: stepdaughters, Karen Cartwright and Jacqueline Lee: and 15 step-grandchildren. The Information was omitted from his obituary Sunday because of Incomplete information provided by the funeral home. with the need and can All loving some making act.

By JOHN DOWLING ASSOCIATED PRESS Mount Olive. 111. She was once "the most dangerous woman In America." For close to half a century, coal miners from West Virginia to Colorado knew her as a fiery champion of organized labor In an era when picket lines were often met with bayonets. Today, memories of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones have faded even In the coal-mining country where she Is buried In the only union-owned cemetery In the nation. But a handful of labor activists and scholars want to ensure she is more than a footnote to the history of the labor movement.

"She serves as kind of an inspiration to workers who won't be satisfied until they are on an equal plane, In control of their destiny." said labor historian Ralph Stone of Sangamon State University In Springfield, which has an annual Mother Jones commemoration. From the 1870s almost until her death In 1930. her white-haired, grandmotherly figure was In the thick of some of the nation's most bitter labor dis putes. She was a fierce socialist who once bristled when called a "great humanitarian." "Get it right." she retorted. "I'm not a humanitarian.

I'm a hell-raiser." Her history Is a litany of clashes with police, prosecutors and government authorities, who saw her as a subversive of the worst kind. INDIANA DEATHS Berne Reuben Graber 69. hus band of Anna C. Schwartz Graber. Cloverdale Williarn Bellmore 90, widower of Opal Forsythe Bellmore.

Columbus Hulda G. Thomas Avery, 92, widow of Joseph E. Avery; Rudolph J. Humensky. 79, husband of Jeanette Farrell Humensky; Lucy 0.

Lippiatt. 83, widow of William James Lippiatt; Paul M. Powers. 14, son of Lyndel R. Powers and Janita Gaye Crouch Powers Weekly.

Lafayette Lottie Fuqua Carter, 97; Geneva Hiner Nelson, 64, wife of Robert Nelson. LoaansDort Harold E. "Shorty" Fellers, 73, husband of Helen Rush "I got a little behind In the race and I didn't need to do that." Waltrlp said. "We came out after getting four tires on a green flag stop and we were a lap down. All of a sudden Dale dives Into the pits and I felt 1 could get by Harry Gant and 'hell raiser', "There sits the most dangerous woman In America," a West Virginia prosecutor said of her in the early 1900s.

"She crooks her finger 20,000 contented men lay down their tools and walk out." Historians say Mother Jones was given to rewriting her own history, and Indisputable facts about her early life are few. An Irish Immigrant trained as a teacher, she lived briefly In Chicago but settled in Memphis. In the 1860s. She married Ironworker who was an active union member and had three children. Her husband and children died in an 1867 epidemic of yellow fever, and the young widow moved back to Chicago, where she worked as a dressmaker.

Despite nearly 60 years as a labor organizer she was. by her reckoning. 100 years old at her death in 1930 her tangible legacy Is limited, in part because of her distaste for Institutions. Though closely associated with the United Mine Workers, she feuded with some of its best-known leaders, such as John L. Lewis.

Some of the tradition has been revived In recent years with the Mother Jones Dinner at Sangamon State that Includes a pilgrimage to the gravesite. One reason she Is better known now Is the existence of the 13-year-old San Francisco-based magazine Mother Jones, a liberal journal best known for its expose on the problems of the Ford Pinto. Fellers; Frank P. Parente. 74, husband of Louise Boyer Parente.

Milan Esther R. Koechlin Huntington, 91, wife of Collis Huntington. New Castle The Rev. Oelbert Truest Fletcher, 61, husband of Mae Catron Fletcher. Richmond Maude Reber Mow, 85, widow of Leonard W.

Mow. Scottsburg Roy William Shephard, 64, husband of Lois Server Shephard. Terre Haute Ira B. Seneff, 86, husband of Ruth Evans Seneff. West Lafayette Rosemary Lodde.

78. Winamac Presley J. Gourley. 94. husband of Maria Herber Gourley.

able to do some of the things he used to do as he grows older. He may, In fact, not even realize how difficult he has become to live with and you should pray that God will give you wisdom about how to communicate this to him. At the same time, the time may come when you both will need a different arrangement, such as a retirement home. But whatever your need, turn to Christ and find your strength and guidance in Him. The Bible promises that God "is able to do Immeasurably more than all we ask or Imagine, according to his power that Is at work within us" (Epheslans Yes.

Christ can actually give us the strength to deal with circumstances that ordinarily would get us down. If you have never committed your life personally to Jesus Christ and accepted His love for you, turn to Him today and urge your husband to do so also. Write to Billy Graham, The Indianapolis Star, in care of Tribune Media Services, 720 North Orange Avenue, Orlando, Fla. 32801. then Harry gets Into the wall in turn two.

"1 thought this was my opportunity (to get back on the lead lap) and I tried 'too hard. I got loose in turns three and four. I got into the wall once. I didn't have enough sense to slow down and I got Into the wall again two or three laps later. The sad part of the day is I lost a lot of Winston Cup points and that Is more Important than the Waltrlp finished 22nd.

eight laps1 off the pace. He lost 83 points to Winston Cup point leader Earnhardt and was fourth In the standings. 224 points My Answer Pole position winner Alan Kulwlcki completed 184 laps be fore his Ford developed mechani cal problems. By BILLY GRAHAM UJS. Olympian wins 5 his third pro bout ASSOCIATED PRESS LC' Pensacola.

Fla. Roy Jones the hard-luck boxer of the 1988 Olympics, won his third professional fight without a loss Should Include Dignified Arrangements DEAR DR. GRAHAM: My husband and I have been married fifty-five years, and our lives have been very happy until quite recently. Now my husband is having a number of health problems, and he has become more and more self-centered and short-tempered. This has me worried, because I wonder how much longer I can take care of him.

Please pray for us. Mrs. C.P.S. DEAR MRS. C.P.S.: Yes.

I am sure many people reading this will pause to pray for you. Some of them In fact may have faced a similar situation, and have dis covered that God Is able to give us strength and wisdom In diffi cult times. Let me encourage you first of all to have your husband exam-. Ined by your family doctor. Let him know the problems your husband seems to be having (including his short temper): these may Indicate a deeper physical problem that needs to be discov ered.

It may be. however, that your husband's self-centered-ness and short temper come from his frustration at not being your life you've shown tender care. Now you can use professional assistance in beautiful, dignified arrangements for the last loving Our staff stands ready to help by knocking out Ron Amundsen in the seventh of a scheduled eight-round Junior middleweight bout. Jones, fighting In his home town and in front of a national television audience, dropped Amundsen with two left Jabs and I then a right cross. Referee Bill Connors stopped the fight at 2:42 of the round as Amundsen (16-2-1) fell back Into the ropes.

Jones, a silver medalist at the 1 Seoul Olympics, won the sympathy and admiration of the nation when he lost a disputed decision in the 1 56-pound, gold medal bout to Park Si Hun. a South Korean. However. Jones was named as the most outstanding boxer of the Olympics regardless of weight class. appointment with our counselors today.

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