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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1963
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1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner
Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South
Carolina.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad
vance :Six Months $1.25.
County Native
Rites Tuesday
Mrs. Latimer, 86,
Died Wednesday
Mrs. Lillian Werts Latimer, 86,
veteran newspapermanwoman and
wife of the late Robert S. Latimer
Sr., Presbyterian minister and
newspaperman, died last Wednes
day at Lee County Memorial Hos
pital, Bishopville.
Mrs. Latimer retired from ac
tive newspaper work in April of
this year after having served as
society editor, subscription solici
tor and ad saleswoman since 1910,
first on the Pagelahd Journal and
finally with Lee County Messen
ger. Both newspapers were owned
and edited by her husband, who
died July 6, 1943. She served as
Bishopville correspondent for sev
eral daily newspapers in North and
South Carolina for many years.
Mrs. Latimer, one of four chil
dren of the late Mr. and Mrs. Da
vid Berly Werts of Newberry, was
first married to Samuel Arthur
Hunt, auditor of Pickens County
at the time of his death. They had
one daughter, Miss H. Irene Hunt,
now living in Washington.
Her second marriage was to the
Rev. Robert Stevens Latimer Sr.,
pastor of the Smyrna charge of
Presbyterian churches in Newber
ry County. Mr. Latimer had one
daughter, Kate P. Latimer, from
his first marriage. She lives in
Harlan, Ky.
Children of the second marriage
are Robert S. Latimer Jr., editor
and owner of Lee County Messen
ger, James E. Latimer of Bishop
ville, employed by the Sumter
Daily Item, Mrs. W. A. Pritchette,
Florence, Mrs. Helen Latimer Lee
of Bishopville and T-Sgt. John L.
Latimer of Shaw Field and Bish
opville.
Also surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. Clarence T. Summer, New
berry, and Mrs. Robin L. Cox Sr.,
of Donaldsville, Ga.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from the Bishopville Presby
terian Church at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Men In Service
MURNAU, Germany (AHTNC)
—Army Specialist Five James D.
Beaty, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro
bert L. Beaty, 1311 Milligan St.,
completed a five-week demolition
and mine warfare course at the
U. S. Army School, Europe, in
Murnau, Germany, Nov. 29.
Specialist Beaty received in
struction in performing demolition
missions, in laying and removing
mines and boobytraps and con
struction blasting.
The specialist, a launcher crew
man in Battery A, 5th Missile Bat
talion, 1st Artillery, near Mainz,
Germany, entered the Army in
May 1958.
Beaty is a 1955 graduate of
Newberry High School.
John Harold Hipp, 61, died In
Greenwood after a serious illness.
He was born at Little Moun
tain, the son of the late John Hil
lard and Frances Jane Shealy
Hipp, but he lived practically all
his life in Saluda County.
He was employed by the State
Highway Department for 20 years
or more.
Survivors include his wife, Car
rie ’B. Coleman Hipp; one daugh
ter, Mrs. James (Kathleen) Mc
Dowell; three grandchildren; one
great-grandchild; two brothers,
Holly H. Hipp and J. L. Hipp; two
sisters, Mrs. J. F. (Emma) Mil
ler and Mrs. J. F. (Bertha) Her-
long, all of Greenwood and Saluda.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Mt. Pleas
ant Lutheran Church. Burial was
at Memorial Gardens near Green
wood.
Mrs. Wise Dies
At Hospital
Mrs. Gertrude Abrams Wise,
48, died Sunday night at the New
berry County - Memorial Hospital
after a long illness.
Mrs. Wise was born and reared
in the Tranwood section of New
berry County and was the daugh
ter of Mrs. Phoebe Reagin Abrams
and the late O. H. Abrams. She
was a member of St. James’ Lu
theran Church and the United Lu
theran Church Women. She was
very active in her church and
community as long as her health
permitted.
Mrs. Wise is survived by her
husband, Ray A. Wise, Newberry;
one daughter, Miss Barbara Ann
Wise, Newberry and Greens’ ro;
her mother, Mrs. Phoebe R. b-
rams, Newberry; four brothers,
Cecil Abrams, Spartanburg, Mal
colm S. Abrams and Edward P.
Abrams, both of Greensboro, N.
C., and Thomas M. Abrams, New
berry; two sisters, Mrs. George
(Inez) Stephens, Newberry, and
Miss Frances Abrams, of Green
ville.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 11 a.m. from St.
James Lutheran Church with Rev.
John Heyer conducting the serv
ice. Burial followed in the church
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Harold
Long, James Bishop Sr., Herman
Morris, William Ralph Baker, Her
man Wicker, and Tom Workman.
Honorary escort was* composed
of Oscar Mayer, Forrest Miller,
Bennie Sease, Lawrence Derrick,
and the members of St. James Lu
theran Church Council.
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TS2? MEN came from the East, three kings were
1/1/ they. They had long searched their hearts and
studied the stars and their mission was to follow
the brightest of stars.
These kings of men were not mere wanderers in a
strange land, but men of purpose, seeking the fulfill
ment of prophecy.
Far from home and accustomed regal comfort, these
weary travelers pushed onward, waiting the moment when
the light of the star would signify they had reached
journey 9 s end.
They had traveled far, these kings of men, to kneel
down and pay homage to a mere infant—a newborn
child—the “King of Kings".
£>HEPHERDS there were, watching their flock, upon
\ the hillsides near Bethlehem. These were men of
simple birth and of simple faith, far different from
he Three Kings of the Orient who passed in the night
mroute to Bethlehem. Because the King born in Bethle-
tem was not only the “King of Kings," but the King of
ill men, everywhere, a heavenly messenger was sent forth
o announce the glad tidings to the gentle shepherds.
These men of simple means possessed no gold,
rankincense or myrrh, but they brought gifts, as best
hey could afford, and offered them with a full and
wppy heart.
ANGELS were the messengers of joy that night in
y \ Bethlehem and they instructed the shepherds to
leave their flocks and go forth into Bethlehem
where they would find the newborn King.
How easy it would be for us all to believe more
deeply if God should choose to send us a personal angel!
Yet, should we not realize, on this Christmas day,
that God has sent to us the greatest gift of all?
God chose to send forth His Son. During his 33
years upon earth, Christ lived for die most part an
ordinary life. No heralds preceded his footsteps. He never
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The journey to Bethlehem had been a difficult
one. Without her great faith and the realization of the
supreme importance of her mission in life, we must
wonder if Mary might not have been tempted to give in
to despair and defeat.
Mary certainly was not immune to pain, yet she
never complained, not even to Joseph. Mary knew well
the hope and the joy of all mankind.
J OSEPH, the carpenter from Galilee, was a humble
man, strong and filled with determination to fulfill
the requirements of the great responsibility for which
he had been chosen.
The great faith of this man Joseph should provide
inspiration for all of us. Jose” 1 did not question the
will, nor the purpose of God.
In the face of adversity and jilied with great concern
for Mary, Joseph could have cried out in anger against
the world which seemingly denied aid and comfort in so
great an hour of need.
J ESUS, the son of God was bom in Bethlehem, in the
simple surroundings of a crude stable. He was to
spend 33 years upon earth, living a life of humility,
faith, obedience and highest example. He offered friend
ship and love to every man and lay down a foundation
upon which every man could build eternal happiness.
Centuries have now come and gone, yet the story of
Bethlehem remains essentially the same.
It is now the season of Christmas, in the year 1963.
The world which surrounds us may be far from perfect,
but we need only look to see the progress of Christianity,
wherein lies the hopes of all mankind.
To all Christians, everywhere, Christmas is the time
for realization that a glorious life on earth and unselfish
death on Calvary has not been in vain.
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