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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 2006
Page
6
Funeral rites for Catherine Evans Shipes 86 will be Tuesday at Fork Funeral Home Chapel Williston with burial at Williston Cemetery. Memorials to Edisto Baptist Church. Survivors include daughter Yvonne Harman son William Sr Jerry Shipes and many grandchildren. Also memorial notices for Betty Yates Etheridge Clyde Ready Willie Brown and others with services or arrangements pending.
Funeral services are set for Nettie Bell Ashley Gaffney at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Young Rosemary Missionary Baptist Church Williston with burial in the church cemetery. Survivors include five daughters, four sons, a daughter in law and many grandchildren. A separate notice reports the death of Elizabeth H Smith at 71 in Lexington Medical Center, with services at Aiken Memorial Gardens Mausoleum on Tuesday at 3 p.m. and visiting hours prior.
The Aiken Standard publishes daily obituary notices. The first notice prints 16 lines free of charge, with extra lines billed. Funeral homes submit information, which is edited for style. Deadline is 7 p.m. daily. For more details call 648-2311.
Donna Lee Corbett Johnson 78 of Aiken died November 18. Funeral services set for November 21 at St Johns United Methodist Church with Rev. Dr. George K. Howle and Rev. Eugene Mullikin officiating. Interment in Bethany Cemetery. Born in Shawnee County Kansas to the late William and Emma Huff Corbett, she was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War and moved to Aiken in 1967. She helped found the Aiken Lions Club Lioness Club, belonged to the Garden Club, and volunteered with ACTS. Survived by husband Wyatt Manley Johnson and two sons Bill Johnson and Wyatt Lee Johnson, grandchildren Keith A. Cox, Michael Johnson, great grandchildren Ronnie Cox, Eli Johnson, Keith Cox, and sister Nancy Quancy. Preceded in death by daughter Evalina Trudy Johnson Cox. Memorials to St Johns United Methodist Church or Four Comers Native American Ministry. Honorary pallbearers: United Methodist Women and Eden Gardens Family Wednesday Morning Group. Family will receive friends after the service at the church. Shellhouse Funeral Home.
Elsenborough native Frank Durkan, a lawyer admired for Irish American activism, died at 76 after pulmonary failure in Greenwich hospital. He defended Irish Republican Army gunrunner George Harrison in 1982, asserting CIA involvement and earning praise for wit and dedication.
Thousands gathered outside Fort Benning to press for the closure of the School of the Americas, blamed for human rights abuses in Latin America. Delegations, veterans, and religious groups joined marches while some protesters faced trespassing arrests.
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