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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1976
Page
7
Lynn Kinney of 6110 Ave P reports $2 500 of losses after burglars raid his home while he is away. Police say entry was through the garage and the scene was ransacked.
Protestant conventions in the South debated morality, social issues, and church accountability. In Norfolk the Southern Baptists condemned homosexuality, debated abortion therapy and child neglect by pastors, and urged doubled evangelistic efforts by 2000. In Tuscaloosa the Presbyterians reelected Rev. James E. Andrews as stated clerk amid agency restructuring. An AME conference in Atlanta prepared black papers on social issues and planned a prayer vigil over South Africa violence.
Transcript details show Vladimir Sabich whispered Claudine Longet’s name as he died after a shot with a .22 pistol. Longet, ex-wife of Andy Williams, faces felony manslaughter trial opening Aug 30. Witnesses recount Longet’s statements and gun safety flaws noted by experts.
Obituary notices list services pending for Mrs. Elta Moore 70 Seminole died in Turkey. Mrs. Elizabeth Edna Baldwin 72 Old Hickory Tenn services at 10 a.m. today in Tyler burial Tyler Memorial Park. Thomas Carrell 67 Dimmitt funeral 3:30 p.m. today First Baptist Dimmitt with Castro Memorial Gardens burial. Fusae Chong 48 2832 67th St services 11 a.m. today Second Baptist burial Resthaven Memorial Park. Johnnie A. Wheeler 68 Rt. 1 Lorenzo services 2 p.m. Canyon United Methodist Church East Engler burial East Engler under England Funeral Service. Hermond Benningfield 82 Denver City funeral 2 p.m. Sunday Bethel Baptist Church burial Yoakum County Memorial Park survivors listed.
Albert Ellious Gardner 81 of Littlefield died Friday in Littlefield Hospital. Services set for 3 p.m. Sunday at Highway Church of Christ with burial at Littlefield Memorial Park. Retired farmer, Navarro County native, resident 24 years. Survived by wife Eddith, three daughters, three sons, 15 great grandchildren.
Obituary notices cover Arlie B Hodges of Big Spring killed in a two car crash. Rosary for Nick Hurtado of Muleshoe and former Ribera resident. burial in San Miguel Cemetery. L O Moorehead of Lubbock Wellman funeral. Edmundo Pena of Lubbock Parish plan and funeral arrangements.
Mortality notices from multiple Texas towns list services for Harvey Pennington in Lockney with burial in Lockney Cemetery and extended survivor details. Ava Switzer in Grand Prairie with Castro Memorial Gardens services. Anna May Tubbs of Littlefield in Parkview Baptist Church services after a Cuba NM crash. Elvor Weaver of Lamesa with Hancock Cemetery burial. Nina Jayne Yarbrough of Kress with Parklawn Memorial Gardens service and long biographical details.
A Texas committee studying medical malpractice insurance voted to study limiting pain and suffering awards to about 100 000 per case. Chairman Page Keeton supports the cap to lower physician rates and overall medical costs, and the panel also considers rate system recommendations for insurers.
The List will hold Old Folks Day at Prairievee in Leington, New Mexico on June 27. The event honors residents aged 60 and over and will include basket lunches.
Six members from the YWCA of Lubbock will join about 2,000 participants at the 27th National Convention of the YWCA USA. Delegates Glenda Cook Geneva Collins Sara Wadley Rachel Harmon Emilia Lira and Margaret Richards will attend Notre Dame University South Bend Indiana June 21 to 26. The theme Freedom to Be Power to Move will guide goals for the 1976 1979 triennium as approximately 1 300 voting delegates set the program of action.
Tom Smith, 89, of 3703 38th St., with Franklin-Bartley Funeral, died at 9 10 a.m. Friday in Quaker Manor Nursing Home after a brief illness. A Parker County native, she had lived in the Redwine community in Lynn County since 1915 before moving to Lubbock 17 years ago. Mrs. Smith was a New line continues from obituary fragment.
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