Deaths and funerals and ALS center founder dies
Notices cover a South Carolina service for Annie L Drummings Settles at Science Hill Baptist Church with interment at Bettis Academy Memorial Park and a Pittsburgh obituary for Neil Alexander, 49, financial planner behind the Live Like Lou Center for ALS Research at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute.
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Peter Strick
University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute
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O’hara
Los Angeles
Fordham University
Pitt
Herren-Tillotson
Lou
Merritt Holland Spier
Western Pennsylvania
ALS Association
Abby
Patrick
Veteran newsman Rex Sanders dies at 77 in Georgia
Augusta, GA veteran newsman and former editor Jonah Rex Sanders, 77, died March 8 2015 in Augusta surrounded by family. He studied at the University of Alabama and edited at The Tuscaloosa News Chattooga News Free Press Gadsden Times and the Aiken Standard before retiring in 1997. He is survived by wife Linda Lindsey Sanders daughter Kathi Dickson and son Scott C. Sanders and two grandchildren. Memorials to the University of Alabama Alumni Scholarship Program.
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Jonah ‘Rex’ Sanders
Georgia
Sanders
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Kathi Dickson
Bud
Scott C. Sanders
Archer
Florida
McNeill Funeral Home
Martinez
Memorial Service for Ora Mae Settles in Aiken
A memorial service for Mrs. Ora Mae Settles will be held at 12 noon on Saturday March 28 2015 at G L Brightharp and Sons Mortuary Chapel in Aiken South Carolina. G L Brightharp and Sons Mortuary 390 Beaufort Street AIKEN SC 803 648 0134.
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Annie L. Drummings Settles
Science Hill Baptist Church
Jasper Lloyd
Bettis Academy Memorial Park
G. L. Brighthorp & Sons Mortuary
West Avenue
North Augusta
S. C
Funeral services scheduled for March 26 across local churches
Thursday services list Thomas Fredrick Davis at noon at Shellhouse Funeral Home Chapel. Sharon C. Griffin at noon at Blizzard Funeral Home Chapel. Nellie Key Hankinson at 2 p.m. at Pentecost United Methodist Church Warrenville. Jewell Bagwell at 3 p.m. at Blyth Funeral Home Chapel.
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Thomas Fredrick Davis
Shellhouse Funeral Home
Sharon C. Griffin
Chapel of Blizzard Funeral Home
Nellie Key Hankinson
Pentecost United Methodist Church
Warrenville
Obituary Notice Policy for Aiken Standard Listings
The Aiken Standard details daily obituary notices printed free for up to ten lines including headline. Additional lines incur a fee. Notices are submitted by funeral homes and printed as provided, with homes helping supply details and charges. Deadline is 5 p.m. daily. For more information call 803 648 2311.
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Yehuda Avner, Israeli diplomat, dies at 86
Yehuda Avner, a former Israeli diplomat and longtime adviser and speechwriter for prime ministers from Eshkol to Peres, has died in Jerusalem after a cancer battle at 86. British-born, he moved to Israel at 17 and later served as ambassador to Britain and Australia. His 2010 memoir recounted trusted access to leaders including Begin and Rabin, and world figures such as Reagan, Carter, Thatcher, and Schneerson.
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Shimon Peres
David Sable
Britain
Australia
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Yitzhak Rabin
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Margaret Thatcher
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Ex-Williamsburg County sheriff jailed for credit fixing scam
Former Williamsburg County sheriff Michael Johnson received a 30 month prison term for creating false police reports to aid a friend in a credit fixing scheme. He must repay 16000 to victims. the judge noted his clean record but stressed accountability for integrity in office. Johnson apologized, saying he broke the laws he swore to uphold during a 17 year career.
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Williamsburg
Michael Johnson
Johnson
U.S
Terry Wooten
Wooten
South Carolina man kills driver then flees to Daytona Beach
South Carolina man Donald Harper Jr. confessed to shooting Ronald Brown in Columbia, stealing Brown's car, and driving to Florida for spring break. Daytona Beach police stopped a 20 mile high speed chase on I 95 ending in a crash. Harper, 24, said Brown invited him for gas then pulled a gun before the fatal shot.
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South Carolina
Florida
Donald Harper Jr
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Ronald Brown
Mike Chitwood
Chitwood
Brown
Columbia
Suspect in carjacking and homicide linked to Daytona trip
Police surrounded a scene but Harper sped from the parking lot igniting a chase. In a Columbia news conference Leon Lott said Harper, recently released from prison with a long criminal record, shot and killed a man then took his car and drove to Daytona Beach for spring break. Brown taught at Benedict College in Columbia.
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Harper
Columbia
Richland County
Leon Lott
Daytona Beach
Lott
Union set to vote at Boeing's S C plants
About 3,000 Boeing production workers in South Carolina will vote next month on representation by the Machinists union. The one day election is scheduled for April 22 at five locations on the North Charleston campus, covering the 787 Dreamliner plant Interiors Responsibility Center and the propulsion plant. Governor Nikki Haley criticized the union move, noting low overall union coverage in the state and calling the union stance hypocritical.
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Boeing
South Carolina
Machinists
National Labor Relations Board
Interiors Responsibility Center
Candy Eslinger
Nikki Haley
Haley
NLRB
Washington State
Washington
House OKs furloughs at S C State University
The South Carolina House approved a bill by a 100-0 vote allowing South Carolina State University to mandate up to 20 days of unpaid furloughs for employees before June 30. The bill follows the Senate's unanimous approval last month as the university faces more than $10 million in unpaid bills. Officials had proposed seven business days of furloughs to save about $750,000.
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Columbia
South Carolina State University
Senate
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