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Grady L. McCool, 80, died Sunday, December 22, 2002, at St Dominic / Jackson Memorial Hospital. Visitation is 12:30 p.m. today at Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland. Services are 2 p.m. today at the funeral home with burial in Parkway Memorial Cemetery. Mr. McCool was born November 25, 1922 in Carthage. He served […]

William Mitchell Hopkins, 83, of Memorial Drive in Paris died Thursday, December 19, 2002, at his residence. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at McEvoy Funeral Home. Jack Thacker of Grace Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Walker Cemetery. Chosen as pallbearers are Danny and Monroe Robbins, Charles Hopkins, Jerry Byrd, Billy […]

Michael Andrew Soltis Sr., 78, a native of Clarence, Pa., and resident of Montegut, died Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday and from 8 a.m. to service time Monday at Montegut Fire Station. Memorial Mass will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. He […]

LITTLE DEER ISLE – Raymond Hedglin, 79, died at his home on Little Deer Isle, Dec. 10, 2002, following a long illness. He was born Jan. 16, 1923, at Orland, Ind., the son of Henry A. and Emma L. (Stayner) Hedglin. Prior to World War II, he was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. […]

James N. Chetwin Sr., 79, of 816 Willis Ave., Syracuse, died Thursday [November 7, 2002]. He was born in Syracuse and graduated from Syracuse University. He was an engineer for many years and retired in 1986 from Pass & Seymour Inc. in Solvay after 13 years. He was a member of West Genesee United Methodist […]

Eugene Ellis passed away in Sacramento on December 2, 2002. He was the beloved husband of 30 years to Verna Ellis; the loving father of Tim Ellis, Michael Ellis, Lauralee Gardiner, Patty Jones, Eileen Ellis, Colleen Miller, Sharon Bollum, Gael Rushing, Karen Ellis and Julie Dillard; and the devoted grandfather of 33 and great-grandfather to […]

Matthew S. Wierzchowski, age 77, of Homestead, on November 23, 2002; beloved husband of Catherine (Brazinski-Brody) Wierzchowski; father of Nancy Cray, Patricia Coughlin, Matthew Wierzchowski; also survived by six grandchildren; brother of Dorothy Pasternak. Friends received at the William R. Welsh Funeral Home, 309 East 10th Ave., Homestead, on Monday 2-4 & 7-9 pm. Mass […]

Reverend Robert Jesse Jernigan, Sr., age 83, of Wilmington, NC, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 23, 2002, at Mariner Health Care Center. He was born in Tattnal County, GA, on August 3, 1919, the son of the late Thomas J. and Fannie Mae Haire Jernigan, also was preceded in death […]

Hugh A. “Barney” Stringer, 83, Concord, N.H., and a former resident of Englewood, died Nov. 20, 2002, in Concord, N.H. He was born Jan. 18, 1919, in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, and grew up and attended schools in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He earned his mechanical engineering degree from the College of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Ark. […]

Wallace Joseph Villarrubia, on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 3:30 A.M. Beloved husband of Mona Valeton Villarrubia. Father of Wallace J. ‘Skip’ Villarrubia, Jr. and the late Gary Valeton Villarrubia. Son of the late Elvin and Corrine Villarrubia. Brother of Shirley Cummings, June Dailey, Forrest Villarrubia and the late Alice Soniat, Nelda Villarrubia, Elvin ‘Brother’ […]