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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1979
Page
2
A bulletin of obituaries and funeral notices from Washington to Wagener including Roxie Head in Washington D C and Bryan Keenan in Windsor. Survivors listed span multiple states with relatives in Aiken Barnwell Lexington and Augusta. Services held at Mount Beulah Baptist Church Phillippi Baptist Church and other local venues with burials in church cemeteries and area memorial parks.
Burial services for Corrie Warren Dowd mother of Milton Dowd of Aiken were held yesterday at West Creek Baptist Church. Dowd died Saturday at her Leesville Route 4 home after a long illness. Born in Saluda County she was daughter of the late Joe and Cora Warren and a Beulah Baptist Church member and retired farmer. She was married twice first to the late Till Maroney. Surviving are three stepsons J M Dowd Fountain Inn Shealy Dowd Sumter Edgar Dowd North Augusta and two stepdaughters Mrs Clarence Dowd Johnston
A cloudy night gives way to partly cloudy New Year’s Day with a 10 percent precipitation chance. Tonight’s low around 30. Tomorrow near 50. Wednesday partly cloudy. Thursday and Friday more overcast with highs in the 40s to 50s and lows in the 20s to 30s.
Rev. Mellie H. Hickey officiated her last Holy Communion at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church in Aiken. She plans to stay in the priesthood though future assignments are undecided as controversy over women priests and revisions to the Book of Common Prayer continue in the Episcopal Church.
Cincinnati AP report says 32 year old William Howard Cole of Harrison Ohio was arrested on two counts of aggravated assault for mailing a bomb to Larry Sweigart of Dublin Georgia. Sweigart, a paraplegic, was injured alongside Mrs Cole as the device exploded on Christmas Eve. Cole was moved to a local hospital from a jail due to care needs. The motive cited was revenge for a broken marriage as Cole and Sweigart met while in rehabilitation at a Cincinnati clinic.
Fifty oak trees valued at 2000 dollars were reported stolen from the Wagener property of Wade Cobb, according to an Aiken County Sheriff's Department report. The trees were found cut from the property during the weekend. In a separate incident, Bobby Griffin reported the theft of 695 dollars worth of fireworks from his U.S. 1 stand.
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