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THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT I www.TheTandD.com LOCALSTATE OBITUARIES Man gets 18 months on shoplifting charges POLICE REPORTS and was sentenced to two yean, suspended to three years of probation. Carmichael was also ordered to serve 60 days of public service. Ozell Newsome, 48, of 1318 Heart Court, Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen vehicle and was sentenced to time served. Newsome must also pay $635 in restitution. Bernard Kelly, 46, of 912 Dibble Bowman, pleaded guilty to third-degree burglary and was sentenced to three years, suspended to 18 months of probation.

Jameel Smoak, 18, of 692 Crawford Orangeburg, pleaded guilty to possessing illegal recordings and was sentenced to two years, suspended to two years of probation and a $500 fine. In addition, Smoak was ordered to pay a $500 special assessment fee and serve 45 days of public service. Staff Writer Richard Walker can be reached by telephone at 803-533-5516 or by e-mail at By RICHARD WALKER Staff Writer When an Orangeburg man pleaded guilty to several counts of shoplifting, a circuit court judge sent him to a place where there is little, if any, shoplifting. Vincent Gathers, 41, of 676 Doyle pleaded guilty to three counts of third or greater shoplifting in General Sessions court. Gathers was sentenced to 18 months in prison for each count by Circuit Judge Edward Cotting-ham.

The sentences are to be served concurrently. In unrelated cases: Jonathan Robert Green, 17, of 2419 Beech Drive, Orangeburg, pleaded guilty to disturbing a school and was sentenced to one year, suspended to one year of probation. For a March 14 incident at Brookdale Middle School, Green was also ordered to serve 30 days of public service. Robert Busby, 49, of 3441 Cannon Bridge Road, Orangeburg, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and was sentenced to two years. William Carmichael, 25, of 902 Mill Orangeburg, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine Electronics taken during burglary M.

Hurst Marshall Funeral services for M. Hurst Marshall, 64, of Winston-Salem, N.C., will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2003, at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home Chapel in Orangeburg. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Marshall died Monday. Memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care Center, 1100-C, South Stratford Road, Winston-Salem, NC, 27103. Avery Hollis Jr. Avery Dalton Hollis 75, of 139 Mitchell Road, died Thursday, Aug.14, 2003, at Lexington Medical Center.

Funeral services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Sardis Baptist Church, with the Rev. Dennis Campbell and the Rev. Karen Radcliffe officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Born in Rock Hill, he was the son of the late Avery Dalton Sr. and Gill Duncan Hollis. Mr. Hollis was a retired banker, was a Mason and Shriner, and a former member of the Chapin Ser-toma Club. He was a U.S.

Navy veteran and was a member of Sardis Baptist Church. Mr. Hollis was preceded in death by a son, Mark B. Hollis, and a sister, Ann Radcliffe. Surviving are his Morse Hollis; a daughter, Sheryl H.

Jewell of Saluda; two sons, Avery Dalton Hollis HI of Saluda and John Michael Hollis of Hudson, Ohio; a brother, Henry Hollis of Rock Hill; 10 grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Ramey Funeral Home in Saluda. Memorials may be made to Sardis Baptist Church, 218 Sardis Road, Saluda, SC, 29138, or to Habitat for Humanity, 121 Habitat Drive, Americus, 30709. Herbert Smith Herbert Smith, son of Nerlin Smith and Ethel Lee Islar Smith and husband of Beverly Smith, died Tuesday, Aug.

12, 2003, at The Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Lees, with the Rev. Freddie Wright officiating.

Burial will be held in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at Lebby Funeral Home in Denmark. Doris Henderson Funeral services for Doris Elizabeth McDonald Henderson, 80, of 1240 Sheppard Road, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug.

15, 2003, at New Hope Baptist Church. Burial will be in Edisto Baptish Church, Highway 61, Branchville. Pallbearers will be Jimmy Johnson, Richie Ehrhardt, Warren Brunson, Donald Stevens, Bill Wise and Frank Myers. Mrs. Henderson died Wednesday.

Friends may call at the residence and Dukes-Harley Funeral Home in Orangeburg. Memorials may be made to New Hope Baptist Church, co Building Fund, 4000 Riverbank Drive, Orangeburg, SC, 29118. FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 2003 Christopher L. Myers The funeral for Christopher L. Myers, 17, of 511 Rivelon Road, Orangeburg, will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003, at Calhoun County High School Gym, St. Matthews. Bur-; ial will be in Mount Pisgah AME Church, Fort Motte. The casket will be placed in the gym at noon.

Mr. Myers died Monday. He was born June 25, 1986, in Calhoun County, a son of Kathy M. Bennett and Minister Donald Charlie. For a while he 1 was reared in the home of his stepfather Clarence Bennett.

He attended Calhoun and Orange- burg County public Schools and was a senior at Calhoun County High School. He participated in sports activities, including foot- ball, the community basketball team and a drummer on the high school band. He was employed by Wendy's of Orangeburg and attended Mount Pisgah AME Church. Survivors include his mother of the home; his father of St. Matthews; his stepfather of St.

Matthews; three sisters, Standri-ka Bennett, Dominique and Shaquana; three brothers, Christopher, Donald Jr. and Darius; grandmothers, Mrs. Grade (Melvin) Goodwin of St. Matthews, Mrs. Daisy Davis; grandfather, James Myers of Lone Star; great-grandmother, Mrs.

Caroline Glover of Fort Motte; godparents, Eva (Kirk-land) Cheeseboro; godsister, Shateria Owens; godbrother, Ja- mal Caldwell a special friend, Ciara Steverson of Orangeburg; and a number of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Friends may call at the residence of his mother, Cathy Bennett, 511 Rivelon Road, and Carson- Funeral Home in St. Matthews. Mrs. Martha Louell Kinsey Funeral services for Mrs.

Martha Louell Kinsey will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 15, 2003, at Thompson Funeral Home Chapel, Orangeburg, with burial at Sunnyside Cemetery, Orangeburg. Pallbearers will be George Brant, Solomon Love, Curtis Vest, Freddie Gibson, Byron Lovern, Donald Thomas and Billy Browning. Memorials may be made to St.

John's United Methodist Church, 3526 Bamberg Road, Orangeburg, SC, 29115. Orangeburg County building permits The following permits were issued from Aug. 7-14 Joseph Fisher, double wide mo-. bile home. James Mullis, electrical permit.

Ted Henderson, residential additions. We wish to thank everyone who helped us get thru the loss of our daughter granddaughter, Heather Lynn Williams, Many thanks to the Jamison Volunteer Fire Dept. Rescue Squad, Sheriffs Dept. Highway patrol. Equal thanks to our friends and Neighbors for the food, cards prayers.

To our pastor Justin Eshleman and his wife Reneafor all their support. Also for the train conductor who ran a half a mile for help the engineer who stayed with Heather until the first responders arrived. They were Joe Ott Kirk Michelle Davis. witt mot iAtxtUn Sjuai. Dale Tina Williams and Family Wayne Shirely Williams and The Entire Williams Family 4A 53 Rae Murden Winslow Rae Murden Winslow, who directed plays in Livermore, and at the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, taught acting to children and wrote about growing up on a South Carolina farm, died Thursday, Aug.

7, 2003, in Walnut Creek. She moved to Livermore in 1952 with her husband Alan, and for many years acted and directed plays for an amateur theater group. She played the role of Winnie in the two-person play "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett. She directed "The Threepenny Opera," "The Seagull," "Playboy of the Western World," "The Showoff," and several other plays. At FCI, she directed women prisoners in "Steel Magnolias," "My Name is Alice," an all-woman version of "The Odd Couple," and song-and-dance productions written by the prisoners themselves under her guidance and encouragement.

She also taught creative drama to children under the auspices of the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District. She was born Arthur Rae Murden in Orangeburg, the youngest of three daughters of Arthur Julius Murden, a farmer, and Clementine Buffkin Murden. Her sisters were Connie Murden Turner of Fiar Bluff, N.C., and Edna Murden Tindall of Orangeburg. Her interest in the theater began in childhood when she would lead her playmates in impromptu dramas. She attended Furman University in Greenville for two years and graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she majored in drama.

She had a keen interest in literature, especially by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and women writers, and enjoyed gardening, art and the ocean. She was a founding member of the Spinning Wheel Antiques Club of Livermore. She was an accomplished intuitive cook who passed her love of cooking on to her children. Her earliest memories were from the age of 18 months, and she could recall events and conversations from every period of her life. Her stories and her memoir reflect her family's Southern rural life as seen through the eyes of an unusually observant child.

Wise, witty and compassionate, she was admired and loved by a wide circle of friends. She is survived by her husband; her children Deborah, Geoffrey and Jonathan Winslow, Julie Winkelstein and Rebecca Yamin; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Condolences may be sent to her husband, Alan Winslow, 28 Castlewood Drive, Pleasanton, 94566. Private memorial services will be held in both California and South Carolina. Mrs.

Amy McNeal Loadholt Memorial services for Mrs. Amy McNeal Loadholt, 92, of Ehrhardt will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, at Cave Funeral Services in Ehrhardt. FOR THE Buford Voyles, electrical permit.

James Doyle Wiley and Peggy Diane Croomes, single wide mobile home. Hakim Sabree, single wide mobile home. Linda Williams, electrical permit. Pineview Mobile Home Park, single wide mobile home. Herman and Ethel Carter, single wide mobile home.

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All carriers, dealers and distributors of The Times and Democrat are Independent contractors. Advance payments for subscriptions may be made directly to The Times and Democrat as agent. No responsibility for advance payments la assumed by the newspaper until the money it received at the office. The Times and Democrat It a member of the Audit Bureau of Circula- Staff Report Electronics appeared to be the main target after a Harley-wood Drive woman reported her home burglarized Wednesday. The victim told deputies with the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office that around 7:30 p.m.

she found someone apparently had entered her home through a window. Once inside, the woman realized a 27-inch Panasonic TV, a DVD player and several hundred DVDs were missing. The electronics are valued at $1,080. Bamberg PD A Rowesville man was arrested by officers with the Bamberg Police Department on a drunken driving charge early Sunday after they found a vehicle in a yard. Around 12:14 a.m., police were dispatched to a Faust Street residence after receiving a report of a single-car accident.

Police arrived and found that a Buick had entered the yard and struck a fence. Noting a smell of alcohol about the Buick's driver and a liquor bottle inside the car, police administered several field sobriety tests to the driver. When the driver, 57, failed the tests, he was arrested and charged with driving under the COURT SUMMARY influence. In other reports on file at the Bamberg PD: A Bamberg woman was arrested after police were called to the hospital to help calm a boisterous woman. Police presence was requested at the Bamberg County Hospital around 9 p.m.

Friday when a woman reportedly became irate and was using profanity. When police arrived, the woman, 42, was still cursing. Officers noted there was a smell, of alcohol about the woman. She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. DPS A purple Honda was entered into a national crime computer by officers with the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Wednesday after a woman reported her vehicle stolen.

The woman, 24, said that around 4:30 p.m. she parked her purple 1998 Honda Accord by her residence. At about 10:30 p.m., she exited her home to retrieve a CD from the Honda and realized the $6,000 vehicle was gone. Police entered the Honda in NCIC. Samuel Barnes Funeral services for Samuel J.

Barnes, 64, of 1014 Gardens Gate Road, Eutawville, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003, at Silas United Methodist Church, Eutawville, with the Rev. Delbert M. Brown officiating.

Burial will in the church cemetery. Mr. Barnes died Monday at his residence. He was born Sept. 18, 1938, in Marianna, a son of the late Aaron Barnes and Lucille Matthew Barnes.

Survivors include his wife, Sarah Barnes of the home; four sons, Duane Erick Barnes of the home, Vincent (Zelda) Barnes of Virginia Beach, Joseph (Devika) Barnes and Anthony (Tiffany) Barnes of Staten Island, N.Y.; a daughter, Denise Barnes (Robert) Ramerez of Staten Island; 11 grandchildren; a great grandchild; four brothers, George (Joyce) O'Neal of Birmingham, Aaron (Ida) of Durham, N.C., David L. Barnes of Marianna, and Elza J. Bell of McClellandtown, four sisters, Mary Cooper of Milwaukee, Ophelia Barnes, Doris Gregory of Oakland, Calif, and the Rev. Helen Newman of Marianna, and eight sister-in-laws and four brothers-in law. Eutawville Community Funeral Home of Eutawvile is in charge of arrangements.

Estelle Williams Pender Funeral services for Estelle Williams Pender, 85, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003, at Folk Funeral Home Chapel, Williston. Burial will be in the Springfield Cemetery. Mrs.

Pender, widow of Morgan Leroy Pender, died Thursday, Aug. 14, at the Bamberg County Nursing Home. Born in Aiken County, she was a daughter of the late Wade Hampton Williams and Lessie Cooper Williams. She was a member of Springfield First Baptist Church, where she taught in the Training Union and Primary Department for many years and was a member of the Elderberries Club. She was the former secretary of the Woodmen of the World Camp.

She was a homemaker. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Diane P. (Bill) Temples of Springfield; sons and daughters-in-law, Wallace D. (Mary Olive) Pender Sr. of Springfield, Meredith "Strut" (Helen) Pender of Elloree; sister, Alma W.

Sutcliffe of Orangeburg; brothers, Sam Williams of Orangeburg, Barney Williams of Lexington; 12 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to Springfield First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 368, Springfield, SC, 29146. Deadlines for submission of obituaries will be 6 p.m. daily, although funeral directors are encouraged to submit between noon and 4 p.m.

daily. Confirmation calls should be made between 4 and 6 p.m. to 803-534-1 060. Inquiries for Cards of Thanks and In Memoriams should be made to the advertising department at 536-4607. Obituaries can be read online at www.TheTandD.com.

RECORD mobile home. Department of Public Safety, commercial sub-station. Wilbur Redmond double wide mobile home. Richmond Halls, residential renovations. J.E.

Fairey, gas permit. William and Patrica Franklin, residential additions. Daniel C. Wilburn, double wide mobile home. Stephen I.

Davis, single wide mobile home. In Loving Memory Of Diane Marie Christmas who departed this life nine years ago, August 11, 1994. Year number I nine, we are allu fine. Just getting used tov nnt heino with f-V 1 y- Our i a hearts still heavy but life went on. We're just holding steady, the paths that we've gone.

We miss your wit, we miss your touch. How we long to relive what we loved so much. Your love was too abundant to hold in our hands, so you left enough for all your grands. Rejoice in heaven as youi have here. We 11 honor your life again on August 11 next year.

By Denise Christmas Airman We love and miss you, Chelle, Neesie, Anisty, Darla and Rachel J2u ft 1 Suspects apprehended in dry cleaners armed robbery By LAURA G. CARLSON Blackville Correspondent BLACKVILLE Two armed, masked men who robbed a dry cleaners in Blackville were quickly apprehended by authorities Thursday. Sgt. Johnny Fulmer of the Blackville Police Department said the armed robbery occurred about noon at Modern Cleaners of Blackville. "The Barnwell County Sheriff's Department dog team assisted with the capture of both suspects," Fulmer said.

"No names (of the suspects) can be released at this time." Cheryl Smoak, manager of Modern Cleaners, said the two bandits came around the counter and demanded money. "I gave it to them, and they took off running. The police got here in a hurry," Smoak said. "The Blackville Police Department and the Barnwell County Sheriff's Department did an excellent job handling the case. I'm glad they caught them.

We're back open for business and thankful to be here." Correspondent Laura G. Carlson can be reached by e-mail at Lauracarlsonclan.com or by phone at 803-793-3336. Conerstone Community Church, commercial renovations. North American Container, commercial building. Hudson and Hilliard Construction, residential renovations.

June Davis, single family residence. Wady ZissettAVesley Zissett, electrical permit Nextell Communications, commercial additions. Orangeburg County Fair Association, commercial renovations. Dora Caddis, electrical permit George and Peggy Creighton, single family residence. John Mellis, commercial additions.

Marion Ammonds, electrical permit. Ed and Virginia Northrup, residential renovations. Kenneth and Connie Austin, residential renovations. MR. Creenthaler, electrical permit Brenda Furtick, single wide mobile home.

Hikari USA electrical permit Dorothy Wolfe, electrical permit Cornertone Community Church, commercial building. Lawrence and Joni Thackston, single family residence. John White, electrical permit. N.E. McAlhaney, electrical permit.

George B. O'Cain, electrical permit Robert and Ktn'na Coleman, single wide mobile home. Thersa Jamison, electrical permit Bostic Brothers Construction, gas permit Shirley Washington, electrical permit Gary and Debra Holley, single wide mobile home. Police: 16-year-old runaway robbed Spartanburg bank SPARTANBURG (AP) Police are looking for a 16-year-old female runaway they say robbed a bank. Anastasia Pitts walked into the First Citizens Bank about noon Tuesday and gave the teller a note saying she had a bag of explosives and wanted $8,000, police Capt.

Randy Hardy said. Investigators recognized Pitts when they compared her picture from the bank's surveillance camera to a photo provided to police when she was reported as a runaway last month. Women don't often rob banks. Of the 85 bank robberies reported in South Carolina this year, three have been committed by women, according to Tom O'Neill, a spokesman for the FBI in Columbia. Nationally, about 500 women are accused of robbing banks each year, according to the FBI.

Arrests warrants have also been Issued for Calvin Williams, 26. Police said they have evidence linking Williams to Tuesday's robbery, but would not be more specific..