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The Times and democraT Monday, July 23, 2018 A3 00 1 DEADLINES IN MEMORIAMS BIRTHDAY ADS Publication Date Deadline Monday Thursday, 4pm Tuesday Friday, 4pm Wednesday Monday, Noon Thursday Tuesday, Noon Friday Wednesday, Noon Saturday Thursday, Noon Sunday Thursday, Noon The Times and Democrat OBITUARIES Marion Bradley ROWESVILLE Mr. Marion Bradley, 72, of 4844 Charleston Highway, Rowesville, died July 20, 2018, as a result of an automobile accident. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Funeral Home. Friends may call at the residence and at Fu- neral Home. Vernesia Wescott ORANGEBURG Ms.

Vernesia Wescott ,83, of 2306 Riverbank Drive, Orangeburg, passed away on Satur- day, July 21, 2018, at the Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be an- nounced later by Simmons Funeral Home of Orange- burg. Online condolences may be sent to www.simmons- funeralhome.com Vernell Wright ORANGEBURG Ms. Vernell Wright, 85, of 3232 Bamberg Road, Orangeburg, passed away on Satur- day, July 21, 2018, at the Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be an- nounced later by Simmons Funeral Home of Santee.

Friends may call at the residence, 3232 Bamberg Road, Orangeburg, or Simmons Funeral Home. Online condolences may be sent to www.simmons- funeralhome.com Mattie Kearse CORDOVA Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Kearse, 77, of 106 Kinsey Court, Cordova, will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at St. John A.M.E.

Church, 3601 Rowesville Road, Rowesville. Interment to follow in the church cemetery. The Rev. Melissa W. Green is offici- ating.

Mrs. Kearse passed away on Monday, July 16, 2018, at the Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg. Visitation will be held from noon to 8 p.m., Monday, July 23, 2018, at Simmons Funeral Home, 2868 Colum- bia Road, Orangeburg. Friends may call at the residence of her daughter, Ms. Carolyn Thomas, 977 Adden Orangeburg, or Sim- mons Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be sent to www.simmons- funeralhome.com Theolus Wells ORANGEBURG Funeral services for Mr. Theolus Wells, 96, of 922 Peasely Orangeburg, will be held 11 a.m., July 24, 2018, at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. The Rev. Gregory Young will officiate.

Mr. Wells will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. Burial will be held in Belleville Memorial Gardens will Military Rites. Mr. Wells died July 19, 2018, in Dorn VA Medical Cen- ter of Columbia.

Theolus Wells was born July 14, 1922, in Summerton, to the late Rev. Douglas Shelly Wells and Plummie E. Wells. He was married to the late Claie Ola Huggins Wells; and again to his high school sweetheart, Agnes Williams Glover Wells. He had one son, Norman Doug- las Wells (deceased).

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Agnes Williams Glover Wells; three grandchildren, Tami Wells-Thomas, Jonathan Wells and Brittany Wells. Visitation will be from 1 to 7 p.m., Monday, July 23, 2018, at the funeral home. Friends may call at the residence of his wife, Mrs. Agnes Glover Wells, 1453 Sifly Road, Orangeburg and the Bythewood Funeral Home.

Daneshia Marie Byron ST. MATTHEWS Daneshia Marie Byron, 22 of St. Matthews, passed away Saturday, July 21, 2018, at her home. A graveside service will be held 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in the Roselawn Cemetery, Highway 176, St. Matthews.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Thompson Fu- neral Home, Inc. in Orangeburg. She was born Dec. 19, 1995, in Orangeburg, the daughter of Melissa Byron. She attended Calhoun County High School, she then went to OC Tech with certificates in various areas.

She loved reading and writing her own poems. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Robert John Byron Sr. and her uncle, Robert John Byron Jr. Survivors include her mom, Melissa Byron; sister, Lynda Gleaton; grandmother, Patricia Byron; aunts and uncles, Penny (Ricky) Irick, Barbara Neil and Rusty Neil; and her cousins, Samantha Irick, Robert Irick and Jeffrey Byron. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Visitation will be held from 6 8 p.m. Monday, July 23, 2018, at Thompson Funeral Home, Inc. in Orange- burg. Please sign the online guest book at www. thompson.fh.net.

Rosemary Shuler Lee Burroughs ST. MATTHEWS Rosemary Shuler Lee Burroughs, 69, of 383 East 143rd Street, Bronx, New York, died July 16, 2018, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. July 24, 2018, at Mt.

Pisgah AME Church in St. Matthews. The Rev. James Duckett will officiate. The casket will be placed in the church at noon.

Burial will be held in church cemetery. Rosemary Shuler Lee Burroughs was born Sept. 23, 1948, in Orangeburg, to the late Tonzel (T.C.) Shuler and Thelma Shuler Cullars. She worked in numerous honorable positions, work- ing for the Mayor of New York from 1968-1971. Then she went on to be a secretary for a publishing company, before going into her proud and gifted field as Supervi- sor of Escort services at the Veterans Affairs Hospital; where she interacted and ministered to veteran patients.

Rose also offered her voluntary services as an Auxiliary Police Officer and as a School Advocate for kids with special needs. She is survived by her husband, Chester Burroughs and three chidlren, LaShawn Lee (Jerome Johnson) of South Carolina, Kip Lee (Koya) of Delaware, and Chan- non Burroughs of Bronx, New York. She leaves behind her mother and stepfather, Thelma and Crawford Cullars; her five grandchildren, Jarai Lee, Tamesha Williams (Lucas West), Jahmyah Reeves, Mahkai Lee, and Jordan Lee; one great-grandchild, Carson West; siblings, Tozel Shuler (Helen), Wilbur Shuler (Queen Ella), Ann Shuler (Erasmo Gual), Vale- ria Shuler and Dawn Johnson (Lymal her honorary sister, Shirley Garrett; and a host of special nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives and close friends. Friends may call at the residence of her mother, Thelma Cullars, 951 Greenville Orangeburg. Memorials may be made to Owens Funeral Home of Branchville.

ZEKE MILLER Associated Press BRIDGEWATER, N.J. President Donald Trump asserted without evidence Sunday that newly released documents relating to the wiretapping of his onetime campaign adviser Carter Page with little that intelligence agencies misled the court that approved the warrant. But lawmakers from both political parties said the documents show wrongdoing and even ap- pear to undermine some previous claims by top Re- publicans on the basis for obtaining a warrant against Page. Visible portions of the heavily redacted docu- ments, released Saturday under the Freedom of In- formation Act, show the FBI telling the court that Page been collaborat- ing and conspiring with the Russian The agency also told the court that FBI believes Page has been the subject of tar- geted recruitment by the Russian The documents were part of application for a warrant to the secretive foreign intelligence surveil- lance court, which signed off on surveilling Page. Trump tweeted Sunday on the documents: usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but con- firm with little doubt that the Department of and FBI misled the courts.

Witch Hunt Rigged, a The release appears to undercut some of the con- tentions in a memo pre- pared by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes earlier this year. Nunes, and other Republicans had said that anti-Trump research in a dossier prepared by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and paid for by Democrats was used inappropriately to obtain the warrant on Page. While the documents confirm that the FBI re- lied, in part, on information from Steele to obtain the initial warrant, they also show how the FBI informed the court of his likely moti- vation. A page-long footnote in the warrant application lays out the assessment of history and the likely interest of his backer, adding that despite the po- litical concern, the bureau believed at least some of his report to be Democratic Rep.

Adam Schiff of California, a rank- ing member on the House Intelligence Committee, said the documents detail why the FBI was so concerned that Carter Page might be acting as an agent of a foreign Trump: Documents show misconduct STAFF REPORT Calhoun County Office A resident of Bates Court reported July 15 that while she was at Heyward AME Church, someone damaged the lock on her vehicle door and stole her purse. According to the inci- dent report, the purse contained her wallet with two bank cards, a Belk card, a food stamp card and a Social Security Card. The total loss was $75, the report states. In other reports: A resident of Doyle Street in Orangeburg re- ported July 15 that while operating a vehicle belong- ing to Beard Auto LLC, he was sent from Columbia to pick up a disabled vehicle. He said he had changed the license tag and left it to be retrieved the next morn- ing.

When he returned for it, the vehicle was missing, the report states. South Carolina Highway Patrol had no record of the vehicle being picked up, the report states. The vehicle is valued at $3,000. A Sumter resident re- ported July 15 that she and her brother, also of Sumter, had a disagreement while they were traveling in a car in Calhoun County, and he assaulted her. According to the re- port, the woman said her brother took her cellphone and walked off toward U.S.

601. A deputy arrived on the scene and searched but could not find the brother, the report states, noting that the suspect appar- ently called another fam- ily member who took him back to Sumter. The victim told the dep- uty she was unsure about pressing charges against her brother. St. Matthews Police Department A Pearl Street apart- ment manager reported July 13 that a female tenant claimed someone entered her apartment at 3 a.m.

and stole $70 from her purse and a cellphone that was on a table. The manager told po- lice there was no sign of anything missing, noting the tenant was intoxicated when she made the claim, the report states. While questioning the tenant, the investigating officer observed a silver pipe with marijuana resi- due on the table, the report states. The tenant admit- ted to using alcohol and marijuana the day before, according to the report. Based on the manag- report, the officer concluded there was no burglary and warned the tenant to keep her door locked.

He also confiscated the pipe and the marijuana. No charges were filed. In a separate report, a resident of Lower Muller Street reported July 15 that her purse was sto- len from her vehicle. The purse was found later near some trashcans, the report states. Missing from the purse was $25, and $80 was missing from the eyeglass compartment, the report states.

The keys to a family 2002 black Nissan Frontier were also missing, according to the incident report. Police advised the victim to close her checking ac- count and open a new one. The total loss was $117, the report states. Woman at church when purse stolen CHARLESTON (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard is stepping up patrols along South Carolina waterways as tourists and residents look for ways to avoid pay- ing a licensed charter to get on the water.

For example, The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the Coast Guard has had jurisdiction among the inland lakes of Moultrie, Marion and Murray but been seen there of- ten until recently. Coast Guard investiga- tor Lt. J.B. Zorn says most boats are licensed and car- rying passengers legally. But he says as federal, state and local marine patrols increase inspections and education efforts, author- ities are responding to sev- eral reports each month of commercial passenger boat violations.

Those violations in- clude captains working for hire without licenses; vessel inspection or insur- ance problems; carrying too many passengers or not having enough safety equipment. Coast Guard steps up patrols of S.C. lakes ASSOCIATED PRESS BRANSON, Mo. The 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank in a Missouri lake were remembered Sunday during a service attended by around 200 people in the tourism community of Branson. A church bell at Williams Chapel at College of the Ozarks chimed 17 times for those who died Thursday at Table Rock Lake, the Joplin Globe reported.

we honor the 17 lives that were Bran- son Mayor Karen Best said. honor the 14 survivors. And we honor the many he- roes who did everything in their power to save The service was held at the college near the site of the accident. The city and college hosted the remem- brance for the victims. Nine of the people who died were part of one In- diana family.

Online fund- raisers had raised more than $400,000 for their funeral expenses by Sunday afternoon. Two GoFundMe cam- paigns are underway for the Coleman family, who lost three generations in the duck boat accident. GoFundMe spokes- woman Katherine Cichy said verified one cam- paign raising money. Ingrid Coleman Douglas told The Indianapolis Star a second campaign is also legitimate. Others killed were from Missouri, Arkansas and Il- linois.

Suzanne Smagala with Ripley Entertainment, which owns Ride the Ducks in Branson, said Friday the company was assisting au- thorities. Bell chimes 17 times at Branson memorial for duck boat victims ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND DAN SEWELL Associated Press BOSTON The heated debate over how Supreme Court nominee Brett Ka- a a would vote on the Af- a Care Act might not matter. As long as five past de- fenders of the health care law remain on the na- highest court, the odds tilt in favor of it being allowed to stand. Some Democrats are warning that President Donald designee could spell doom for the statute, even as some con- servatives are portraying Kavanaugh as sympathetic to former President Barack landmark legisla- tion. But where Kavanaugh would vote if he joins the Supreme Court is less clear than both sides suggest, according to an Associ- ated Press review of the appeals court de- cisions, other writings and speeches.

Kavanaugh could get to weigh in on the health care statute if the high court takes up a lawsuit brought by Texas and 19 other states. Those states are seeking to strike down the entire law because the Republican-backed tax overhaul removed fines for not having health in- surance. The Trump adminis- tration recently said in that case that it will no longer defend the protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions, nor its limits on how much insurers can charge older customers. But if Chief Justice John Roberts joins the four Democratic appointees in upholding the law as he did in the two previous challenges Kavanaugh be the deciding factor. Retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the majority on the second decision, in 2015, for a 6-3 majority.

Still, Timothy Jost, emeritus professor at the Washington and Lee Uni- versity School of Law, said while there are some clues, not clear how Kavana- ugh would view a health care case as a justice. what he has written so far, I see Kavana- ugh as an existential threat to the Affordable Care Jost said. But may well develop into when he has the power to throw out Supreme Court precedent, he added. Some conservatives see Kavanaugh as the author of road for upholding the health care overhaul, while liberals fear be a willing tool for efforts to scuttle it. At the heart of the debate is lengthy 2011 dissent in a challenge to the individual mandate, the re- quirement that people have health insurance or pay a penalty.

Kavanaugh, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, argued that federal law required the appeals court to turn away the case until challengers had actu- ally paid the fine, and urged his colleagues to not rush to answer the consequential constitutional question. all, what appears to be obviously correct now can look quite different just a few years down the Kavanaugh wrote in the dis- sent. Dems see Kavanaugh as Obamacare threat Kavanaugh Barbara Ann Glover During a time like this, we realize how much our family and friends mean to Your kind expression of sympathy will always be remembered. Henry Glover Children Card of Thanks.