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Saturday, June 10, 2017The Washington Post writer’s book “Janesville: An American Story,” is an account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Wisconsin; she appears in conversation with UC Berkeley sociology professor Arlie Russell, author of “Strangers in Their Own Land.” [7 p.m., Green Apple Books, 506 Clement St., S.F.]The Moth-True Stories Told Love: Participants in the program tell five-minute tales on the topic of “cosmic justice.” [6 to 9 p.m., Public Works, 161 Erie St., S.F.]Click here or scroll down to comment-- Place your ad hereLoading... (function(){ var D=new Date(),d=document,b='body',ce='createElement',ac='appendChild',st='style',ds='display',n='none',gi='getElementById'; var i=d[ce]('iframe');i[st][ds]=n;d[gi]("MarketGidScriptRootC52455")[ac](i);try{var iw=i.contentWindow.document;iw.open();iw.writeln("");iw.close();var c=iw[b];} catch(e){var iw=d;var c=d[gi]("MarketGidScriptRootC52455");}var dv=iw[ce]('div');dv.id="MG_ID";dv[st][ds]=n;dv.innerHTML=52455;c[ac](dv); var s=iw[ce]('script');s.async='async';s.defer='defer';s.charset='utf-8';s.src="//jsc.mgid.com/s/f/sfexaminer.com.52455.js?t="+D.getYear()+D.getMonth()+D.getDate()+D.getHours();c[ac](s);})(); -- In Other News -- ...
Saturday, June 10, 2017MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Older members of Berkeley County’s Veterans Combined Honor Guard who participated in military funerals for years are fading away.The guard’s remaining six to eight participants continue to conduct military services on Memorial Day and Veterans Day at Martinsburg’s War Memorial Park, but no longer presents military honors at veterans’ funerals, according to Kenneth Yeakley.“We were doing 80 to 90 funerals and special events a year,” said Yeakley, 74. “Some of the guys are getting pretty old, (which) makes it hard.”Michelle “Shelly” Schoppert is administrative coordinator at Brown’s Funeral Home in Martinsburg. She said Yeakley shows up in his uniform with a bugle to play taps at cemeteries whenever a veteran is buried.“Kenny stands off to the side, and if no one is there to play taps, he plays it. It’s very moving,” she said.Yeakley said it is his duty.“We owe it to the veterans,” he said. “There is no greater honor when a veteran passes on. We are comrades to the end.”Because the local honor guard hasn...
Monday, May 01, 2017After returning, he went to work for Sperry Rand Univac in New York City, beginning a career in the computer industry. While there, he also married Jane Kiely on May 4, 1957. In 1958, they moved to Berkeley where he earned an MBA in Operations Research from UC Berkeley and they also had the first of their six children. Upon graduating, they moved to Hinsdale, Ill., where he worked for Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche). After two years, they returned to California so that he could go to work for North American Aviation. They took up residence in Malibu. In the early 1970s, he and his business partner acquired Performance Development Corporation. Over the next 40+ years, they would travel the U.S. and the world advising many of the Fortune 500 and various arms of the Federal government. Davis was a longtime board member and president of the LaCosta Homeowners Association, he was president of Malibu Coastal Vision and was an active alumnus backer of the New Mexico Military Institute. He was named the 2004 Citizen of the Year by The Malibu Times. More recently, he organized a concert in Malibu to raise funds for the homeless. In his spare time, he traveled the world, sometimes with his wife and sometimes to exotic surf spots with his kids and other surfing buddies. He was predeceased by his daughter, Sarah, and is survived by his wife of 59 years, five children, 11 grandchildren and one step-grandchild. The funeral mass was held on Saturday, April 1, at Our Lady of Malibu Church.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Services and widower of Marlene Tisdale-Nelson, died Saturday. Arrangements by Palmetto Mortuary. VAUGHN, Frederick Jerome, 63, of Charleston died Monday. Arrangements by Dorothy's Home for Funerals.Berkeley CountyPADDOCK, Lynn Armstrong, 81, of Moncks Corner, a railroad conductor, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Simplicity Lowcountry Cremation and Burial Services of North Charleston.PARSONS, Sylvia Foster, 82, of Bonneau, a civil service retiree with the Air Force and widow of McKeith Parsons, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Russell Funeral Chapel of Moncks Corner. Colleton CountyLASSETTER, Rose P., 66, of Walterboro died Tuesday. Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society of Charleston.YOUNG, David Lowell, 54, of Walterboro, a carpenter and husband of Dawn Beasley Young, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Brice Herndon's Walterboro Chapel.Dorchester CountyKELLNER, Frank H. III, 83, of Summerville died Wednesday. Arrangements by James A. Dyal Funeral Home. ROGERS, William M., 74, of Summerville, husband of Robin Rogers, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Tri-County Cremation Center.THOMAS, Ruth L., 56, of Summerville, a homemaker and wife of Marion E. Thomas, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Parks Funeral Home.Georgetown CountyWILSON, Elton, 51, of Georgetown, a former employee of Curry's Cleaners, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Henryhand's Andrews Chapel. ElsewhereCROMWELL, Leroy, 68, of Jacksonville, Fla., formerly of James Island, S.C., a Navy veteran, died April 5. Arrangements by C.L. Page Mortuary of Jacksonville.DULIN, Dennis Anthony, 60, of Manning died Monday. Arrangements by Charleston Cremation Center and Funeral Home. WITHERSPOON, Shirley, 74, of New York, wife of Rufus Witherspoon, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Gethers Funeral Home of Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Saturday, June 10, 2017The Washington Post writer’s book “Janesville: An American Story,” is an account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Wisconsin; she appears in conversation with UC Berkeley sociology professor Arlie Russell, author of “Strangers in Their Own Land.” [7 p.m., Green Apple Books, 506 Clement St., S.F.]The Moth-True Stories Told Love: Participants in the program tell five-minute tales on the topic of “cosmic justice.” [6 to 9 p.m., Public Works, 161 Erie St., S.F.]Click here or scroll down to comment-- Place your ad hereLoading... (function(){ var D=new Date(),d=document,b='body',ce='createElement',ac='appendChild',st='style',ds='display',n='none',gi='getElementById'; var i=d[ce]('iframe');i[st][ds]=n;d[gi]("MarketGidScriptRootC52455")[ac](i);try{var iw=i.contentWindow.document;iw.open();iw.writeln("");iw.close();var c=iw[b];} catch(e){var iw=d;var c=d[gi]("MarketGidScriptRootC52455");}var dv=iw[ce]('div');dv.id="MG_ID";dv[st][ds]=n;dv.innerHTML=52455;c[ac](dv); var s=iw[ce]('script');s.async='async';s.defer='defer';s.charset='utf-8';s.src="//jsc.mgid.com/s/f/sfexaminer.com.52455.js?t="+D.getYear()+D.getMonth()+D.getDate()+D.getHours();c[ac](s);})(); -- In Other News -- ...
Saturday, June 10, 2017MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Older members of Berkeley County’s Veterans Combined Honor Guard who participated in military funerals for years are fading away.The guard’s remaining six to eight participants continue to conduct military services on Memorial Day and Veterans Day at Martinsburg’s War Memorial Park, but no longer presents military honors at veterans’ funerals, according to Kenneth Yeakley.“We were doing 80 to 90 funerals and special events a year,” said Yeakley, 74. “Some of the guys are getting pretty old, (which) makes it hard.”Michelle “Shelly” Schoppert is administrative coordinator at Brown’s Funeral Home in Martinsburg. She said Yeakley shows up in his uniform with a bugle to play taps at cemeteries whenever a veteran is buried.“Kenny stands off to the side, and if no one is there to play taps, he plays it. It’s very moving,” she said.Yeakley said it is his duty.“We owe it to the veterans,” he said. “There is no greater honor when a veteran passes on. We are comrades to the end.”Because the local honor guard hasn...
Monday, May 01, 2017After returning, he went to work for Sperry Rand Univac in New York City, beginning a career in the computer industry. While there, he also married Jane Kiely on May 4, 1957. In 1958, they moved to Berkeley where he earned an MBA in Operations Research from UC Berkeley and they also had the first of their six children. Upon graduating, they moved to Hinsdale, Ill., where he worked for Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche). After two years, they returned to California so that he could go to work for North American Aviation. They took up residence in Malibu. In the early 1970s, he and his business partner acquired Performance Development Corporation. Over the next 40+ years, they would travel the U.S. and the world advising many of the Fortune 500 and various arms of the Federal government. Davis was a longtime board member and president of the LaCosta Homeowners Association, he was president of Malibu Coastal Vision and was an active alumnus backer of the New Mexico Military Institute. He was named the 2004 Citizen of the Year by The Malibu Times. More recently, he organized a concert in Malibu to raise funds for the homeless. In his spare time, he traveled the world, sometimes with his wife and sometimes to exotic surf spots with his kids and other surfing buddies. He was predeceased by his daughter, Sarah, and is survived by his wife of 59 years, five children, 11 grandchildren and one step-grandchild. The funeral mass was held on Saturday, April 1, at Our Lady of Malibu Church.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Services and widower of Marlene Tisdale-Nelson, died Saturday. Arrangements by Palmetto Mortuary. VAUGHN, Frederick Jerome, 63, of Charleston died Monday. Arrangements by Dorothy's Home for Funerals.Berkeley CountyPADDOCK, Lynn Armstrong, 81, of Moncks Corner, a railroad conductor, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Simplicity Lowcountry Cremation and Burial Services of North Charleston.PARSONS, Sylvia Foster, 82, of Bonneau, a civil service retiree with the Air Force and widow of McKeith Parsons, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Russell Funeral Chapel of Moncks Corner. Colleton CountyLASSETTER, Rose P., 66, of Walterboro died Tuesday. Arrangements by Palmetto Cremation Society of Charleston.YOUNG, David Lowell, 54, of Walterboro, a carpenter and husband of Dawn Beasley Young, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Brice Herndon's Walterboro Chapel.Dorchester CountyKELLNER, Frank H. III, 83, of Summerville died Wednesday. Arrangements by James A. Dyal Funeral Home. ROGERS, William M., 74, of Summerville, husband of Robin Rogers, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Tri-County Cremation Center.THOMAS, Ruth L., 56, of Summerville, a homemaker and wife of Marion E. Thomas, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Parks Funeral Home.Georgetown CountyWILSON, Elton, 51, of Georgetown, a former employee of Curry's Cleaners, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Henryhand's Andrews Chapel. ElsewhereCROMWELL, Leroy, 68, of Jacksonville, Fla., formerly of James Island, S.C., a Navy veteran, died April 5. Arrangements by C.L. Page Mortuary of Jacksonville.DULIN, Dennis Anthony, 60, of Manning died Monday. Arrangements by Charleston Cremation Center and Funeral Home. WITHERSPOON, Shirley, 74, of New York, wife of Rufus Witherspoon, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Gethers Funeral Home of Moncks Corner, S.C.
