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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1987
Page
5
Forecast shows partly cloudy skies tonight with a 20 percent chance of showers and lows in the 40s. Thursday to Saturday bring mostly sunny days, highs from the mid 60s to lower 70s, and 40s nights. regional zones Mountain Midlands Coast Beaches: cool tonight, sunny and warm tomorrow with highs near 60s to 70s.
Flooding across New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Vermont prompts evacuations for more than 1,000 residents. Dam spillways open as rains keep surging rivers, amid a bridge collapse search and rescue. Authorities declare emergencies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Humorist Jerry Clower voiced faith that the word of God will endure the PTL scandal involving Jim Bakker. He urged Southern Baptists to support their own religious programming and said Bakker’s resignation has not hurt the Christian cause.
A series of funeral services were announced for infants and adults across Ridge Spring Langley Aiken Edgefield Leesville and surrounding areas. Services include Joseph S Valentine infant son of Loraine Valentine 5 p.m. at Davis Funeral Home Ridge Spring burial Randall Branch Baptist Church Cemetery. Aurel E Mann 90 burial Sunset Memory Gardens Langley. Willie Rowe 63 Union Hill Baptist Church Hollow Creek. James Dublin at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church with burial. Harriet Elizabeth Tompkins 95 no funeral planned. Anthony Simmons 20 memorial service at Simmons Ridge Baptist Church Edgefield County. Murtice Adams Long 91 First Calvary Baptist Church Leesville. Memorials to First Presbyterian Church and church-related groups. Donations to various churches noted. Funeral homes include Cromer, Edgefield Mercantile, Blalock’s, and Milton Shealy.
Lynn Schmacker 32 of Collinsville died after Hodgkin's disease while awaiting a bone marrow transplant at Barnes Hospital. Fundraising efforts quickly exceeded 75000 dollars for the transplant. Chogyam Trungpa 47, Tibetan Buddhist leader in Halifax, died after fleeing Tibet in 1959 and recently establishing Vajradhatu. Pieter D Bennett 46, former Grand Rapids AP correspondent and Michigan news editor, died after a long illness.
Funeral services for Mrs. Aurel E Mann daughter of the late Walter Delano and Wilhelmina Shel don Williams were conducted Thursday at 2 PM in the George Funeral Home Chapel with Dr William Roe officiating. Interment followed at Sunset Memory Gardens Langley DC. Survivors include six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. George Funeral Home Inc Aitken SC.
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