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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1987
Page
6
Thundershowers continue with partly cloudy skies tonight and tomorrow. Chance of thunderstorms is 20 percent tonight and 30 percent tomorrow. Temperatures range from lows in the upper 60s to 70s and highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s across mountains Midlands coast and beaches.
About 700 black miners halted work at a coal mine, returning today as Anglo American noted the plant had lost about 2,000 tons of water after a saboteur attack. The company blames unrest on the 10 day strike and a water pipeline sabotage at a nearby ERGO plant. The National Union of Mineworkers rejected resuming talks on violence reduction after police dispersed a gathering near the President Steyn mine.
Dosey Swindell entered rest August 17 1987 at 90 Cloudman St Warrenville South Carolina Funeral services set for Wednesday August 19 1987 at 4 pm Piney Heights Baptist Church officiated by Revs Bill Reese and Matthews Kimak Burial in Aiken Memorial Park Survived by 9 grandchildren one great grandchild 3 nieces and 5 nephews Memorials to Belvedere North Augusta Rescue Squad or American Cancer Society Friends may call at residence or Poseys Funeral Home Langley South Carolina
Stephen D. Posey McCraw of 207 Second St Jackson S C husband of Helen McCraw entered into rest funeral arrangements to be announced Ron ald Steve Tipton Route 1 Melrose New Ellenton S C husband of Esther Marie Tipton funeral services Wednesday at 3 o clock in Stephen D Posey Funeral Chapel officiating interment Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery call at the funeral home or at the residence of his parents Washington Street New Ellenton D C florist Ipm Stephen D Posey Funeral Home Aiken S C
Augusta native Linda Hightower High tower 203 Hale St died in Medical College of Georgia Hospital. William Huxley James 43 North Augusta died Monday with military honors at Grove Hill Cemetery. Roy Pinckney Mayson 72 North Augusta funeral at Posey’s tomorrow. Mollie Lamb Newsome 87 Stapleton died Monday in Washington County. Julius R. Risher 78 Smoaks died Monday in Walterboro. Otha V. McCraw died today in Aiken. Melvin P. Swindell funeral today Langley. Ronald Steve Tipton 33 New Ellenton died Monday. Mary Campbell Shealy 56 Newberry sister of Mack Campbell. Surviving family listed for each.
The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne cousin of Queen Elizabeth II dies at 99 from a heart attack. Fergus Bowes Lyon became earl in 1972 after Timothy Bowes-Lyon’s death. He served on the Edinburgh Stock Exchange since 1963. In Georgia, Harry Oliver Smith age 81, former state director of Selective Service and publisher of the Winder News, dies after leading Georgia SSS from 1963 to 1967 and running his paper 1939–1972.
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