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PAGE 2-The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 6,1972
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DEATHS
He was a member of Washing-
Section ton Street United Methodist
Miss Stewart
Miss Geneva Stewart died
Friday night June 30 at the
Newberry Convalescent Center
after several months of illness.
She was employed thirty-six
years by Judge and Mrs. Steve
C. Griffith, Sr. of Newberry.
The funeral services were
held Wednesday July 5th, at
2:00 P.M. in Saint Matthews
A.M.E. Church, conducted by
the Rev. James Moody. Burial
followed in the church ceme
tery.
Surviving are two brothers,
Mr. Claude W. Stewart, Chica
go, 111., Mr. George Stewart,
Newberry,; two sisters, Mrs.
Lillie M. Suber, Philadelphia,
Pa., Mrs. Julia M. Wallace,
Orangeburg, S. C.
Sylvester Reeder
Sylvester (Honey) Reeder, son
of the late Reverend Wade R.
Reeder and Mrs. Choney Briar
McGraw Reeder, passed July
1, 1972 in the Newberry County
Memorial Hospital.
Surviving are a wife, Mrs.
Alverta S. Reeder; one son,
William B. Reeder, both of New
berry; four sisters, Mrs. Ra
chel Henderson, Mrs. Mary
Green, Mrs. Chaney Lake, all
of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Ber
nice R. Rutherford of Pomaria,
S. C.; two brothers, O. P. Reed
er of Thomasville, N. C., Cleo
Reeder of Pomaria and Wash
ington, D. C.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday July 5, at James
Hopewell Baptist Church, New
berry, at 4:00 P.M.
R. L. Perkins
Richard Lee Perkins, 46, of
111 Cannon Lane, Edwards Fo
rest, Taylors, died Friday.
Bom in Newberry, son of
Mrs. Vera Rikard Perkins of
Newberry and the late Charlie
Perkins, he was personnel ma
nager for Southern Bell Tele
phone and Telegraph Company
and a member of the Blue Ridge
Council of Telephone Pioneers
of America.
He was a veteran of World
War II, a member of Amity
Lodge 87 AFM, Newberry, Sum
mer Memorial Lutheran
Church, Newberry, a former
member of the church council,
and attended Taylors First Bap
tist Church.
Prior to moving to Green
ville, he was service supervisor
at the Newberry Office of South
ern Bell.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Sterling Perkins; a
son, Richard Allen Perkins of
the home; and a sister, Mrs.
Bobby Counts of Newberry.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 2 p.m. at The Mac-
key Mortuary by Dr. S. H.
Jones, Rev. Ernest Carswell
and Rev. Pierce Evans. Inter
ment was in Springdale
of Rosemont Cemetery, New-
berry, at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. J. J. Geiger
Mrs. Nettie Mitchell Geiger,
85, widow of J. L. Geiger, died
Sunday afternoon at the Rich
land Memorial Hospital. Bom
in Lexington County, she was
a daughter of the late Thomas
and Alice Williams Mitchell.
She was a member of Glenn
Street Baptist Church.
Surviving are a son, J. E.
Geiger of Newberry, two
daughters, Mrs. Belle Banks of
Ne w b e r r y and Mrs. R. L.
Hughes of Edgefield; a sister,
Mrs. Daisy Thomas of Chester;
also seven grandchildren and
twelve great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
at 4:00 p.m. Monday from
Glenn Street Baptist Church
with Rev. Donald West and Rev.
Herbert Thomas conducting the
service. Bur'al was in the
Springdale Section of Rosr-ircut
Cemetery.
D. P. Schroder
David Pitts Schroder, 68, died
last Thursday night in Encini
tas, California. Mr. Schroder
was born and reared in New
berry County and was the son
of the late Albert and Mary
Etta Hendrix Schroder. He was
a retired Lt. JG. from the U. S.
Navy, retired from an import
export business, a member of
the Masonic Lodge, and was a
member of the Shrine.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs.
Dewey Floyd, Newberry; one
brother, James Earl Schroder,
Athens, Ga.; one sister-in-law,
Mrs. Maude Schroder, New
berry, and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Mrs. V. W. Archer
Mrs. Kate Eleazer Archer,
widow of Dr. Vincent W. Ar
cher, died June 25th in the Uni
versity of Virginia Hospital,
Charlottesville, Va. Her age was
76.
Mrs. Archer was born at
Spring Hill, S. C., a daughter
of the late Charles Haskell and
Stelle Bouknight Eleazer. She
was an alumna of Newberry Col
lege and taught in the public
schools cf South Carolina until
her marriage to Dr. Archer in
1918. She had resided in Char
lottesville for fifty years.
Mrs. Archer is survived by
a son, Vincent W. Archer, Jr.
of Houston, Tex.; five sisters,
Mrs. Oscar R. Summer, Miss
Lucille Eleazer and Mrs, John
J. Chappell of Newberry, Mrs.
Charles T. Paysinger of Colum
bia and Mrs. Matt D. Carson of
Charleston; and three grand
children.
Funeral services were held
on June 28th at the First Pres
byterian Church, Charlottesville
with burial in University Ceme
tery.
R. C. Williams Jr.
Reginald C. (Joe) Williams
Jr., 84, of Senate Plaza Apts.,
died Saturday in the Richland
Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Williams was born in
Newberry, a son of the late
Reginald C. and Elizabeth
White Williams. He owned and
operated the R. C. Williams
Furniture Co. in Columbia from
1910 until his retirement in 1962.
Christian Church
Mr. Charles Moore
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H. G. Calkins residence
Rte. 3
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Church and a former member
of the Official Board of the
Church.
Mr. Williams was a charter
member of the Columbia Ki-
wanis Club, a member of Rich
land Lodge No. 29 A.F.M., a
member of the Omar Temple
of the Shrine and a member
of the local chapter of the
AARP.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Wilhelmina Yearby Williams, a
sister, Mrs. Regina W. Quisen-
berry of Winston Salem, N. C.,
and a brother, Zed L. Williams
of Washington.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Monday in the Dunbar Funeral
Home, Gervais Street Chapel,
conducted by the Rev. E. Wan-
namaker Hardin. Burial was in
Elmwood Cemetery.
Baker be honored
at dedication
Governor John C. West will
make the principal address at
dedication ceremonies for the
Department of Mental Retar
dation’s Pee Dee Center at Flo
rence today (Thursday). The
ceremony is scheduled for 10:30
a.m. at the National Cemetery
Road site.
To be honored at the dedi
cation with a special citation is
former Mental Rttardation Com
mission Member Richard L.
Baker of Newberry.
Phase 1 construction consists
of a regional diagnostic and
evaluation facility, forerunner
of a regionally oriented resi
dential facility for the retard
ed ultimately to be developed.
The $283,000 project is funded
by $154,000 in federal funds,
along with state appropriations.
The diagnostic unit will provide
studies and services to the
area’s retarded, along with com
munity consultation and plan
ning in the Pee Dee. The con
struction site is the Florence
Boys’ Correctional School, a
unit of the South Carolina De
partment of Youth Services. Ap
proximately two acres have
been deeded by Youth Services
to the Mental Retardation De
partment for the diagnostic fa
cility. Following a future plan
ned move of the Boys’ School
unit to Columbia, Mental Re
tardation expects to receive
deed to a total of 112 acres
for the development of an en
larged center providing residen
tial care and outreach commu
nity services.
Besides Governor West, other
groundbreaking program parti
cipants include Dr. James B.
Berry Jr., Chairman of the
South Carolina Mental Retar
dation Commission; Senator
James M. Waddell Jr., Chair
man of the Governor’s Legis
lative Committee on Mental
Retardation; R e p r e sentative
Thomas E. Smith Jr., member
of the Committee; Mayor Coop
er Tedder of Florence; Joe L.
Robinson, President of the Flo
rence County Association for
Retarded Children; Dr. William
W. Bowen, Immediate Past-
President of the Pee Dee Foun
dation for the Handicapped;
Father William Atkinson of
Sumter; the Reverend Mills
Peebles of Bennettsville; mem
bers of the Mental Retardation
Commission-
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The City of Newberry Planning Commission
will hold a Public Hearing on a proposed
Zoning Ordinance at a meeting to be held in
Council Room, City Hall, Newberry, S. C.,
on July 17, 1972, beginning at 8:00 P.M.
This proposed zoning ordinance will affect
all areas within the City of Newberry. All
interested citizens are invited to attend. Copies
of the proposed Zoning Ordinance are avail
able at the office of the Building & Zoning
Official, City Hall.