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n8 February 5, 1981 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Page 39 DEATHS AND FUNERALS Richard Was Services for Richard Pratt, former Indianapolis resident who helped found several local companies, were today at Grand Junction, where he died Tuesday, A memorial service will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in University Park Christian Church in Indianapolis, of which he was a former member. Pratt, 55, had lived at Grand Junetion since last fall. He recently sold Ray W. Pratt Co.

Inc. and Pratt Lantz manufacturers, representatives firms in He was president of Coordinate Measuring Equipment, a precision measuring machine firm, at the time of his death. He was a graduate of Butler University and an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He was a former board member of Murat Temple and a member and former president of Murat Chanters. Pratt also was a member of Scottish a Rite and Millersville Masonic Lodge 126 Charles Wade Rites Saturday Services for Charles Wade, 91, Indianapolis, will be Saturday at 9:30 a.m.

in Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel and at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Wade died Tuesday in a nursing home. He retired in 1957 after 47 years as a mechanic and car repairman for the former Pennsylvania Railroad. He was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and its men's club and Retired Railroadmen's Association.

Wade was a World War I Army veteran. Friends may call from 7 to 9 tonight and tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. Rosary will be tomorrow night at 8. Survivor brother William. Floyd Knoy Dies In Hospital Floyd.

Seaton Knoy, 74, Indianapolis, died yesterday in Community Hospital. He worked 25 years at Kroger, including working as a warehouse superintendent, then worked at HamilTobacco, retiring several years ago as warehouse superintendent. Knoy was a member of Englewood Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite, Moose Lodge 17 and Arlington Heights Christian Church. He was a United States Auto Club observer at the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race many years. Services are being arranged at Moore Kirk Arlington Chapel.

Survivors wife Ethel; daughter Mayo Ellis; son Arthur; sister Joy Stringer. Mrs. Joe Henry 1927 1981 Services for Mrs. Joe (Doris Marie) Henry, 606 W. 30th, a keypunch operator at the Army Finance Center atFort Harrison, will be Saturday at 1 p.m.

in Church of God in Christ Sanders Temple. Mrs. Henry, 53, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. She was a member of Church of God in Christ. Friends may call tomorrow from 4 to 9 p.m.

at Jacobs Brothers Westside Funeral Home. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivors husband; daughters Teresa, Marcia Henry; sons Robert, Michael; mother Ellen Witherspoon; sisters Willie Arnold, Lorene Adams, Pu Purna Ross; brothers Herman, Nathaniel, Aaron Witherspoon. James King Services for James King, 31, Flint, formerly of Indianapolis, will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in Willis Mortuary, where friends may call tomorrow from 4 to 9 p.m.

King died Saturday of a gunshot wound at Hayti, Mo. He was a native of Frenchman's Bayou, and lived in Indianapolis several years. He had been a construction worker. Survivors mother Gertrude; sisters Mary Lewis, Lettie King; brothers Robert, Linwood, Cornelius, Homer, Herman, Roy, Lawrence, Lonnie. Owen Corn Graveside services for Owen Corn, 80, Miami, formerly of Indianapolis, will be tomorrow at 1 p.m.

at Crown Hill Cemetery. Corn, who died Tuesday in a Miami hospital, was a U.S. Post Office clerk and an Army veteran of World War I. He was a member of Evergreen Masonic Lodge 78. Friends may call until 9 tonight at Flanner Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary.

Survivors wife Martha; son Owen daughter Wanda Browning. Sheldon DeGolyer Services for Sheldon DeGolyer, 70, Indianapolis, will be tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. in Conkle Lynhurst Funeral Home, where friends may call until 9 tonight. DeGolyer died Tuesday in Morgan County Hospital. He retired in 1970 after 29 years with Allison.

Survivors sons Ramon, Gary, Richard; daughter Carolyn Fuehrer; brother Oral; sisters Bernice White, Laverne Trusty, Geneva Watkins. Robert Emerson Graveside services for Robert Emerson, 33, 2324 Delaware, a 10-year employe of Chrysler, will be Saturday at 9 a.m. at Floral Park Cemetery. Emerson died Tuesday in Wishard Hospital. Friends may call tomorrow from 4 to 9 p.m.

at Jacobs Brothers Westside Funeral Home. Survivors daughters Lisa, Kendra Emerson; sons Terrance, Keith; parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard Emerson. Pratt Businessman AURA Richard Pratt 1925 1981 and was a former member of Indianapolis Maennerchor.

Memorial contributions may be made to cancer research in care of St. Vincent Foundation, 8220 Naab Road, Indianapolis. Survivors wife Norma; daughter Baumgartel; sons Stephen, Jeffery; father Ray; brothers Donald, Robert, David; sisters Mary Lou Cox, Doris Wilkinson. STATE DEATHS Services for Arthur Anthony, 80, 3127 Boulevard Place, retired chief custodian at Hoffman Specialty ITT, will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in Twenty-Fifth Street Baptist Church, of which he was a Anthony, who died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital, was head custodian at Hoffman Specialty 32 years, retiring in 1974.

He was a member of the church choir, Baptist Training Union, trustee board, Sunday school and brotherhood, and also was a member and former president of its deacon board. Friends may call tomorrow from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at Summers Northeast Funeral Home and from 6 to 9 p.m. at the church. Burial will be in Washington Park North Cemetery.

Survivors wife Florence; brother Samuel; sister Mrs. Omer Halcomb. Harry Kindred Of Hardware Store Special to The News MARTINSVILLE, Ind. Services for Harry Kindred, 62, Martinsville hardware store owner, were today. Kindred, a Martinsville native, died Monday at his home.

He owned Kindred Hardware Garden Center 35 years. Kindred was a member of Masonic Lodge, Martinsville Fraternal Order of Mrs. Don Sullivan Services Saturday Special to The News TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Services for Mrs. Don (Betty Chadwick) Sullivan, 55, an executive producer of the news at WTHI television, will be Saturday at 10 a.m.

in Funeral Home. a Mrs. Sullivan died yesterday in Terre Haute Union Hospital of cancer. She came to WTHI, Channel 10, in 1958 after 14 years with the Brazil Daily Times where she was photographer, editor and business manager. She once appeared on the "To Tell The Truth" television program because of her job as a female TV photographer.

Mrs. Sullivan was in Berlin in 1962 during the Cold War crisis in that city while filming a story on reserve airmen from Terre Haute. In 1979, she became executive producer of the news. Survivor husband, an Indiana State Police trooper. Dewey Deaton Special to The News NOBLESVILLE, Ind.

Dewey Deaton, 82, retired from Shanks Industry in Indianapolis, died yesterday in Riverview Hospital. Services will be Saturday at 3 p.m. in Coaltrin-Randall Roberts Funeral Home, Noblesville. Survivors wife Manda; sons Dewey, Charles, Samuel, Floyd; daughters Lou Akers, Rose Deaton, Nora Jennings. Mrs.

Toney Mrs. Sharron Toney, 34, Indianapolis, a waitress and bartender the last month at the Sugar Daddy Lounge, died yesterday in Community Hospital. She formerly worked at Mini Pub 7 years. Services will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Flanner Buchanan Shadeland Mortuary, where friends may call tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m.

and 6 to 9 p.m. Burial will be in Washington Park East Cemetery. Survivors daughter Tina Toney; son Gene; mother Clara Moore; brothers Royce, Bill Redfern; sisters Mary Marks, Pam Mendenhall, Tammy McDaniel. Mrs. Willie Bell Mrs.

Willie (Eveline) Bell, 80, 501 N. East, died yesterday in Wishard Hospital. She was a member of Mount Calvary Apostolic Church. Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in Stuart Mortuary, where friends may call tomorrow from 3:30 to 9 p.m.

Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Survivor sister Dessie Mazique. Mrs. Ida Mae Givens Services for Mrs. Ida Mae Givens, 62, Indianapolis, who died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital, will be Saturday at 2 p.m.

in East Side Holiness Church, Paducah, Ky. Mrs. Givens lived in Indianapolis most of her life. Survivors sons Joseph, James, Jimmy, Derwood, Michael; mother Nellie Mallory. Katherine Betts Services for Katherine Betts, 66, who died yesterday at her Indianapolis home, will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

in Stirling Funeral Home. Friends may call tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. Entombment will be in Floral Park Mausoleum. Survivors mother Mary Cecelia Quilter; brothers Alfred, Robert, Walter Quilter; sisters Loretta Cameron, Lorraine Martin, Marguerite Case. Mrs.

Bessie Frazier Mrs. Bessie Knox Frazier, 90, Indianapolis, died yesterday in a nursing home. She had been a machine operator, retiring in 1956. Services will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. in RoysterAskin-Sandrock Mortuary, where friends may call until 9 tonight.

Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Mrs. Henry C. Brown Private services for Mrs. Henry Calvin (Gaines) Brown, 89, Indianapolis, were Stirling Funeral Home.

Mrs. Brown died yesterday in a Danville nursing home. Survivor son James. Arthur Anthony 1900 1981 Police, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He also was a member of Moose Lodge and Scottish Rite Valley of Indianapolis.

Survivors wife Margie; sons Bob, Bill; daughters Donna Sheeks, Linda Reynolds, Brenda Carter. DENVER Roscoe Miller, 93, retired saw mill owner. Rites today. FRANKLIN Mrs. Robert (Valetta) Wolf, 83, licensed practical nurse at Johnson County Hospital 30 years, retiring in 1978.

Services Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in Flinn Maguire Funeral Home. LEBANON Larry Pitman, 57, retired farmer. Services tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Myers Mortuary.

Survivor wife Ilene. NOBLESVILLE Mrs. Forrest (Minnie) Beaver, 90, member of Noblesville First Christian Church. Services Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in CoaltrinRandall Roberts Funeral Home.

Survivor husband Iva Weaver, formerly of Lapel. Rites today. PI SHERIDAN Mrs. Herman (Mary) Pickard, 68, employe at Sheridan Health Care Center, retiring in 1980. Services tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.

in Kercheval Funeral Home. Ralph Richman Services for Ralph Richman, 75, Indianapolis, will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Jordan-Lawrence Funeral Home, where friends may call until 9 tonight. Richman, who died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital, worked at Rytex Printing. Survivors daughter Mary Schackel; sons Kenneth, Gary; sisters Ruth Quick, Ruby Larson.

Theodore Slider Services for Theodore "Ted" Slider, 62, Indianapolis, a -employed painter, be tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Moore Kirk Irvington Chapel. Slider died Tuesday in Community Hospital. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of Ritter Avenue Free Methodist Church. Survivors wife Lillian; son Terry.

Mrs. Carl Williams Services for Mrs. Carl (Carrie) Williams, 96, Indianapolis, who died Tuesday, in at a 1:30 nursing p.m home, the will be chapel tomor- at Washington Park East Cemetery. There will be no calling. Murphy Mortuary, Shelbyville, is coordinating arrangements.

Survivor sister Alice Henninger. Mrs. Lloyd Hedge Mrs. Lloyd (Edith Blanche) Hedge, 89, 1739 N. Kildare, died today in Wishard Hospital.

Services will be Saturday at 1 p.m. in Feeney-Hornak Shadeland Mortuary, where friends may call tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Survivors daughters Hazel Bailey, Marianna Hodges, Maxine Hendricks, Henrietta Mathis. 1 3 Caution: Possible Danger Youngsters and their dogs play on ice- above the wandering channel may look safe covered Eagle Creek Reservoir in Northwestern when, in actuality, it may be only an inch thick.

Marion County. Venturing onto the ice is For this reason ice fishing and skating on the discouraged by park officials because of Eagle frozen reservoir is prohibited. The NEWS Creek's winding channel through the lake. Ice Photo, Joe Young. 'Never Give Hudnut Says At Prayer Breakfast The United States survived recent crises because Americans clung to the belief they were right, Mayor William Hudnut said today.

"What sets Americans apart is the hope in our hearts, our sense of destiny," said. "That's what our country is built on and that's what we continually renew. The mayor was featured speaker during a prayer breakfast today at Fort Harrison, one of several early morning gatherings conducted around the country in recognition of the National Presidential Prayer Breakfast in Washington. More than 200 persons met in the fort Officers Club at 7 a.m. to participate in the celebration, which included music by the 74th Army Band, Scripture readings from the Old and New Testaments and a hearty meal of eggs, bacon, sausage and a wide variety of breakfast rolls.

The service was nondenominational, Marion Moran Rites Saturday Marion Moran, Greenwood, a retired fork-lift operator, died yesterday in St. Francis Hospital. Arvin Moran, 70, Automotive was a forklift Industries 27 operator for years, retiring five years ago. Memorial contributions may be to Community Church of Greenwood, of which he was a member, or Villa Heights Church of God. Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m.

in Community Church of Greenwood. Friends may call until 9 tonight and tomorrow from 1 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Wilson-St. Pierre Greenwood Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Survivors wife Lela; sons Arnold, Junice, Delrue; daughter Charlene Terry; brothers Paul, Estel; sister Esther Conns. Courtney Watson Dies In Hospital Courtney Watson, 82, Indianapolis, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. He was an inspector in the disease eradication division of the civil service at the Indianapolis Stockyards 20 years, retiring in 1963. Watson was a member of St.

Mark Lutheran Church and was a World War I Navy veteran. Services will be Saturday at 1. p.m. in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home, where friends may call tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. Entombment will be in Washington Park North Mausoleum.

Survivors wife Margaret; son Marshall Murray; sister Ivah Elliott. Dickey Ray North Services for Dickey Ray North, 42, Indianapolis, an assembler at Chrysler 16 years, will be tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel. He died yesterday in Methodist Hospital.

Friends may call until 9 tonight. Survivors wife Linda; sons Johnny, Dick; mother Mrs. Richard North; brothers Jerry, Steve, Ronnie. featuring prayers by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergymen. The mayor's speech followed the singing of the national anthem and declaration of the Pledge of Allegiance.

'Nobody in America could have lived through the events of the last month without believing in his or her heart that ours is truly a nation under God," Hudnut told the 200 persons who met attended the breakfast. "There has been a resurgence of belief in what makes America great. "And that belief is exactly the issue that sharply separates the world's dictatorships from the The mayor, who was senior minister Rites Set For Mrs. Keck Mrs. Curtis (Margaret) Keck, Danville, former children's home houseparent and retired hospital dietician's aid, died yesterday in Hendricks County Hospital, Danville.

Mrs. and her husband, the late Rev. Curtis Keck, former pastor of Concord Baptist Church near Lebanon, were houseparents at the Children's Home at Lebanon. After his death in 1965, she was a dietician's aid at Hendricks County Hospital 12 years. She retired in 1979.

She was a member of Concord Baptist Church. Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. in Weaver Funeral Home, Danville, where friends may call tomorrow from 2 to 9 p.m. Burial will be in Danville South Cemetery. Survivors daughters Mrs.

Robert Stanley, Mrs. Loren Evans; sisters Mary Peacock, Pauline Anderson, Stella Hammond; brother Max Lehman. Roland Propps, Pharmacist, Dies Roland Propps, 76, Indianapolis, a retired pharmacist, died yesterday in St. Vincent Hospital. Propps worked 20 years at Haag Drug, retiring several years ago.

He was a member of Greenwood Masonic Lodge. Memorial contributions may be made to Indiana School for the Blind. Services will be Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in Shirley Brothers East Chapel, where friends may call tomorrow from to 8 p.m. Burial will be in Washington Park East Cemetery.

Survivors wife Elizabeth; sons George, David; daughter Marilu Gibson. Mrs. Mary Dillon Mrs. Mary Dillon, 59, formerly of West Newton, died yesterday at Hemet, where she had lived three years. She was a member and past matron of West Newton Chapter of Eastern Star.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Heart Fund. Services will be in California. Survivors son Stephen; daughters Donna Jean Bennett, Claudia Allen. at the city's Second Presbyterian Church before his election as Indiana's 11th District congressman in 1972, sprinkled his speech with quotes from American statesmen who held strong religious beliefs. Hudnut said he was impressed by the words "In God We Trust," engraved in marble at the front of the congressional chamber in Washington.

"Being a minister, my term in Congress gave me the opportunity to study the American relationship between government and theology," he said. "And that's at the heart of America's Hudnut said a totalitarian government does not allow any such relationship. "Our democracy recognized that there are certain aspects of human life that cannot be administered by government," he said. "Above our political structure is a belief in God a belief that a totalitarian state denies. "And this belief gives us the courage of our convictions.

It makes America a country where we can look confidently to the future, believing we are right because we also believe in divine providence." Boycott Of TV Violence, Sex Planned The Moral Majority of Indiana today announced it will join with the Coalition for Better Television in a "battle to restore decency to prime-time television" by boycotting programs it considers undesirable. In a Statehouse news conference today, the Rev. Greg Dixon, Indiana executive director of the organization, said Moral Majority will join with some 300 other organizations in efforts to monitor and tabulate incidences of profanity, violence and sex on TV. The coalition, headed up by a Tupelo, Methodist minister, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, will tabulate such incidences during March, April and May.

He said a network of 66 teams, including 132 Hoosiers will be monitoring prime-time television during those months. Apparently, the plan then is to boycott the products of program advertisers that fail to meet the coalition's standards. Dixon said television networks have substituted violence with a massive increase in "immoral sexual situation comedies, not very-well-edited. movies and commercials which show nice-looking people saying immoral and degrading, added that what the organization intends to do is to determine who is sponsoring sex, violence and profanity on prime television and then inform the public. It is the fault of advertisers that such programs are allowed to exist, he added.

"Simply put, what is happening in America is that we are being programmed, subtly but steadily, to accept gross sin and immorality as normal, even admirable," he added. Water Woes Inundate Homeowners FORT WAYNE, Ind. The snow cover is melting and that is bad news for some suburban Fort Wayne families. They have been counting on the snow for water to flush their toilets and water from other sources for drinking. No, the families aren't destitute and; yes, they live in an area served by water utilities.

They are in the middle of a gigantic battle with private water companies all organized under Inbalco Utilities over good quality drinking water. Inbalco and its five utilities serve more than 5,000 suburban Fort Wayne homes, having an estimated population of 20,000 residents with water and sewage service. In the battle, which broke open last July, more than 600 families chose to withhold payments of their water bills, putting the payments in escrow with a Fort Wayne bank instead. However, a recent court ruling gave Inbalco the right to shut off water to homes of persons who refused to release the bank payments to Inbalco. And Inbalco employes have done just that.

Why would suburban residents, living in new homes in new subdivisions, go without water? By JERRY GRAFF Special to The News Lois said the Inbalco water has a heavy calcium, iron and manganese content. Her husband, Courtland Maple, said the water looks like "it has dandruff floating around in it." He explained every two months or so he had to replace or repair the water faucets when they became badly corroded from minerals in the water. Most residents in the suburbs have installed water softeners, but they complain the softeners don't always work. "There is no way you can adjust your softener to take care of the problem, because you don't know when it is coming," Mrs. Maple said.

Tears welled up in the eyes of Sandra Rademaker when she gestured toward a huge steel boiler on top of the stove in her kitchen. "My husband made this a few years ago to cook lobster in, not to store water in," she explained. "You will have to excuse I'm near tears. Not because of the water, but because we have no rights." She echoed the sentiments of many of the thousands of suburban Fort Wayne residents involved. A lawsuit was filed in an attempt to force the Inbalco utilities to revert to supplying city water as it had for years.

But Noble Circuit Judge Robert Probst ruled the St. Joe Township Com- munity Association, which represents the 5,000 suburban homes, should direct its complaints about bad water to the Indiana Public Service Commission. That ruting was similar to one made in another suit Aug. 7 by Whitley Circuit Judge Edward Meyers. In the wake of Meyers' ruling, the suburban residents sought to get intervention by the PSC.

The PSC has refused to intercede, saying it was up to the State Board of Health to decide whether Inbalco's water safe. State health officials in turn have maintained the water is not bacteriologically unsafe, regardless of its appearance and odor. State officials, though, have recommended Inbalco install iron removal filters. Those various rulings have left many residents with a seething sense of frustration and anger toward Inbalco and the state bureaucracy. In front of houses where residents are going without Inbalco water there are signs proclaiming, "Day 1," "Day 2," "Day 3" without water.

Inbalco officials suspended disconnections. The PSC conducted a public hearing earlier this week and will hear more testimony at a second hearing Tuesday. The hearings focus on two issues: Is Inbalco's water substandard? If so, can the utility legally disconnect customers who are paying into escrow? Most suburban residents had been holding out hopes the city of Fort Wayne would negotiate an agreement under which the city would either buy, or lease-purchase the Inbalco water utilities or would sell city water to Inbalco under a long contract. But those hopes were dashed last month when Inbalco officials suddenly informed the city they no longer are interested in discussing the sale of the water utilities. Additionally, Inbalco officials indi-; cated they probably will cease buying city water in the near future for the Maplewood Park Water Utility which is one of the five Inbalco utilities.

At one time, Inbalco purchased all of its water from Fort Wayne. But, in an agreement with the previous municipal administration, Inbalco began phasing out the purchase of city water to various subdivisions and the use of well water. It was a switch of the final group of suburban residents July 17 that sparked protest marches by the Maplewood Park water customers that focused attention on the quality of water. A few months later Inbalco agreed to return those 800 homes to city water one is saying what will happen when these residents are switched to well water again..