The News and Advance from Lynchburg, Virginia (2024)

The News Advance, Lynchburg, Saturday, February 14, 1998 Obituaries Anne Pickett Coleman Anne Pickett Coleman, 70, of 4609 Oxford Lynchburg, died Friday, Feb. 13, 1998, at Lynchburg General Hospital. She was the wife of Houston Carrington Coleman for 52 wonderful years. Born in Lynchburg, she was the daughter of the late James Elmer Pickett and Ida Ferrell Pickett Schmitt. Mrs.

Coleman was a member of Beulah Baptist Church and an Avon Representative for 20 years. She was the Treasurer of the Kirkwood-Otey Chapter 10 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In addition to her husband, she is survived by one son, Carrington Lee Coleman and his wife, Louise of Sunbright, one daughter, Anne Belen Freeman and her husband, Douglas of Forest; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A graveside service will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday from the Mausoleum Chapel at Fort Hill Memorial Park by the Rev.

Maurice McCarthy. The family will receive friends from 4-6 p.m. Sunday at Whitten Timberlake Chapel and at other times at the residence. Those wishing to make memorial contributions, please consider the Lynchburg Life Saving and Rescue Squad, 2007 Memorial Lynchburg, Va. 24501.

Onnie Lee Branham Onnie Lee Branham, 75, of 3217 West Perch Road, Monroe, died Friday Feb. 13, 1998, at Avante' of Lynchburg. He was the husband of Sarah Alice Branham of Monroe. Born in Amherst, he was a son of the late Hurley Lee and Ruth Branham. Mr.

Branham was a retired employee of the Amherst Water Works and a member of the Church of God. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two children, Maude and Tommy IN MEMORY IN LOVING MEMORY OF JAMES WESLEY BYERS-1998 Happy Valentine's Day We love and miss you more every day. XO Love Your Family IN MEMORY OF CAITLIN ROSE BURKS On this day 7 years ago, you became my angel, my baby girl. You are now an angel for the Lord. You are always in my thoughts and in my heart.

Sadly missed and Loved very much, Momma In Memory of KENNETH SHAW Who Passed Away Eight Years Ago February 13, 1990 To one we will never forgetHis absence to us is a sorrow His loss we will always regret. With loving thoughts, Mother, Sister and Brothers IN MEMORY OF TOMMY JAMERSON 12-13-42 6-3-96 within my heart are treasured memories of your love. I send up HAPPY VALENTINE wishes to you above. I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH! NANCY LUCY J. CHAMBERS FEB.

14, 1995 NOEL J. CHAMBERS APRIL 18, 1982 Another year has passed since Mom Dad have been together on this special Day. Time goes on but neither of you will ever be forgotten in our hearts. Sadly missed Children Family ADELIA MAE FERGUSON PENN Mama, Fifteen years ago today, God saw that you needed a rest. I'm sure He knows best! Even though you are gone, you will never, ever be forgotten! Loving you forever, Daddy, George, Carol Ann, George Lavern, Kenneth, Wayne, Patricia, Samuel, Consuelo, Grandchildren Great-grandchildren On this Valentine's Day, I am proud to pay tribute to my dear Mother whom I think is the greatest, well one of the greatest, sweetest, caring Mothers and Grandmothers who ever lived.

Mrs Annie C. Taliaferro 1885-February 14, 1981 Sadly missed by, Son Stanley, Daughters Elizabeth and Annie Isabell, Granddaughters Margaret and Shirley, Great Granddaughters, Debra, Diane, Darlene and Pamela. Branham. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Mabel Fitzgerald of Coleman Falls, Margaret Roberts of Evington, Larry Ray Branham of Coleman Falls, Wayne Branham Bedford, Shirley Stinnett of Lynchburg, Linda Pierce and Herman Branham of Monroe; sisters, Bertha Branham of Elkton City, and Gracie Roberts of Lynchburg; brothers, Melvin Branham of Amherst a and Grover Branham of Madison Heights; 26 grandchildren and 23 greatgrandchildren. A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m.

Monday at Whitten Monelison Chapel. Burial will be in the Vault Hill Cemetery on Monacan Park Road, Elon. The family will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home and other times at the residence on West Perch Road, Monroe. Rev.

Matthew S. Cotton Rev. Matthew S. Cotton departed this life Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1998 in Virginia Baptist Hospital.

Born in Baltimore, he was a son of the late Emory B. Cotton Sr. and the late Mrs. Mary Ida Cotton. His wife was the late Mrs.

Barbara Rebecca Goode Cotton. He was a member of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Bedford, and the former pastor of Christ Chapel Baptist Church in Lynchburg. He is survived by four children, Mrs. Jackquline Cox, Ms.

Madeline R. Cotton, Matthew E. Cotton and Miss Barbara M. Cotton, all of Lynchburg; three grandchildren, Aisha Shante Alexander, Denayha Monique Cotton, and Matthew E. Cotton III, all of Lynchburg; one brother, Michael F.

Cotton of Frankfurt, Germany; three sisters, Mrs. Sharon Barksdale of Baltimore, and Ms. Mary A. Cotton, both of Baltimore, Ms. Jennifer Ida Cotton of Manhattan, N.Y.; one brother-in-law, Christopher Cox, and a host of loving nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.

The family is receiving friends at the residence of his daughter at 377 Woodland Avenue, Apt. A. 'The funeral announcement will appear later. His remains rest at (Carl B. Hutcherson Funeral lHome.

Mr. Pettyjohn was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, a Lt. Col. in the Army Corp. of Engineers during WWII, a former partner of the John P.

Petttyjohn Co. and was associated with several other construction firms in the area up until his retirement in 1970 and was a member of First Presbyterian Church. He is survived by four children, Linda P. Davis, and Macon M. Pettyjohn Jr.

both of Lynchburg, Richard G. Pettyjohn of Charlotte, N.C. and Parmalee (Lee) R. Pettyjohn of Greer, S.C.; a sister, Mrs. W.W.

Winfree of Lynchburg; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. A graveside service will be conducted 11 a.m. Monday in Spring Hill Cemetery with the Dr. James J.H. Price officiating.

The family suggests that in lieu of flowers memorials be made to the Patrick Henry Boys Plantation, the David Randolph Pettyjohn Fellowship Fund, The V.M.I. Foundation in Lexington, Va. or the charity of your choice. Edward Poe Edward Poe of Brookneal died Thursday. Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m.

Sunday at the Chapel of Jeffress Funeral Home in Brookneal. Joseph Louis Porter Sr. Joseph Louis Porter Sr. of 207 Whistle Wood Court (Willow Bend), departed this life Thursday, Feb. 12, 1998 at Uva.

His remains rest at Community Funeral Home. Sarah E. "Peg" Torrence Sarah Elizabeth "Peg" Torrence, 74, of Lynchburg died Thursday, Feb. 12, 1998 at Camelot Hall Nursing Home. She was born Nov.

7, 1923 in Concord. She was the daughter of the late Charles McFarland and Anna Tweedy Torrence. She was a member of Early's Chapel United Methodist Church. She is survived by two sisters, Nancy T. Long of Lynchburg, Alease T.

Harlow of Bedford; two brothers, Richard B. (Dick) Torrence of Lynchburg, and John Torrence of Concord. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Pate Torrence of Bedford, Jimmy Torrence of Madison Heights, and Emmitt Torrence of Hampton; four sisters, Evelyn T. Clark of Greensboro, N.C., Madeline T. Jones of Thomson, Marion T.

Evans of Lynchburg, and Helen T. Heery of Thomson, Ga. A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Early's Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery with the Rev. James Rodden officiating.

Those wishing to make memorial contributions, please consider Early's Chapel United Methodist Church Building Fund. Diuguid Rivermont Chapel is in charge of arrangements. News Tip? Do you have an idea for a news story? A sports feature story? Do you want to pass along a news tip to one of our reporters or editors? Please call with any ideas or information to The News Advance's newsroom at 385-5555 or 1- 800-275-8831. AP photo Bonnie Patterson rests her head on the seat back of a police cruiser Thursday night while being questioned by Richmond police. Woman charged Infant left in her care fatally RICHMOND (AP) The small, neatly lettered sign out in front of the white house said "Child Care." In the fenced-in front yard was a pink and green girls' bicycle.

Nothing looked amiss. But when police got there Thursday night, they found Bonnie Patterson leaving the house, distraught and with a bloody knife in her hand. Inside, a baby that had been left in her care lay dying of stab wounds and a man had been shot twice and seriously wounded. On Friday, Mrs. Patterson, a 45-year-old mother who made money baby sitting in her home, sat in jail as police tried to figure out what caused the deadly rampage in her small, quiet home in a middle-class suburb.

Police say Mrs. Patterson shot her husband, Harold, twice, fatally stabbed Hassan Shodeinde, DIVERSITY Continued from Page D-1 agency. "We are trying to create a culture within the agency that is welcoming to all cultures," said Augustine fa*gan, CVCS executive director. Although it is costly to shut down the agency, "It is an investment in the long term," he said. "It is something we feel is important not only to the agency, but the community." Amy Nelson is co-chairwoman with Ghana Ramey of the cultural diversity committee that planned the event.

In working with clients, she said, empathy and understanding are gained by greater understanding of culture and family systems. It is a matter of being on the same wavelength as the client. "You might be talking about things they don't understand, it is not part of their life. Understanding where they are coming from helps you work with them." CVCS provides local programs for mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse. It has more than 4,000 clients, of many backgrounds.

Cultures live together without understanding. Gene Tweedy, who now works in corrections and probation, grew up in the White Rock Hill section of the city, "in a hustling environment." Drug use, illegal numbers games were normal and people he knew and their relatives were often in prison for BLAST Continued from Page D-1 down," he said. drug offenses. "Things that the larger ered normal," find out how the larger moved on with said, "I had to After college, working in youths. In the young black white males military They didn't understanding he said, and he translating.

One CVCS woman, said it understand "that hustling," and diversity includes educated, who ues than those tered growing Each person an individual, Working Americans Americans can although they problems that the agency. Dr. Kim Song, cian of Korean almost totally familiar culture the U.S. in 1964 spoke little was able to read had a great deal ing" the language ken. Lynchburg Democrats weren't cowed by Gilmore's threats or his trip.

House Democratic Leader Richard Cranwell, D- Roanoke said "the governor (was) flying out to Roanoke with the specific goal of getting my constituents to put pressure on me." "That was unworthy of the office of governor," added Del. Jerrauld Jones, D-Norfolk. Del. Thomas Jackson, D-Hillsville, said at a press conference earlier in the day that Democrats had the right to raise objections to the plan. "Those of us who are trying to bring the problems with this plan to light should not be cast as villains," he said.

After hearing Gilmore's comments about the 1999 elections, Jackson stuck to his guns. "I'm glad the governor is in favor of democracy. Contested elections are always good for the process. I don't have any worries about going to my voters and telling them that I objected to a plan that gave most of the money to Northern Virginia and was unfair to our region of the state," he said. Richmond Delegate Ann "Panny" Rhodes, gave a widely applauded speech earlier in the day calling for less rhetoric about "if we'll have car tax cut" and more over "how we'll do it." Rhodes said she has problems with the plan as introduced because it is unfair to some localities who have chosen to rely more heavily on the real estate tax than the personal property tax to fund their local governments.

"The one gets the cost of it's local government paid, the other gets nothing," she said. Rhodes has introduced a bill that would give localities the option of cutting the real estate tax or the personal property tax. In other General Assembly news Friday: The legislature again came to a standstill over the issue of judgeships. Box 14, Gretna, Va. 24557 or to the the issue of judgeships.

story. 1 in child's death stabbed, husband shot twice a 13-month-old boy left in her care, and called police to report the attack. The toddler's 2-yearold brother was also at the home, but was not hurt. The Pattersons' 8-year-old daughter was not home, police said. Hassan died at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals at 11 p.m.

Thursday. Harold Patterson remained in critical condition Friday afternoon. with gunshot wounds to the torso and leg. Hassan's father, Ismail Shodeinde, knew nothing of the attack until he arrived at the Pattersons' house shortly before midnight. He had come to pick the boys up on his way home from work in Powhatan, said police spokesman Bill Chorney.

The Shodeinde family did not return phone calls Friday. were illegal in community, we considhe said. He didn't those things affected community, until he his life. Then he become aware." Tweedy began corrections with black office, he was a male working with ages 40 to 50 with backgrounds. have a lot of about each other, spent a lot of time employee, a black is important to not everyone is that the cultural those who are have different valTweedy encounup.

must be seen as she said. with Asian and Hispanic be very different, may have similar brought them to M.D., is a physiancestry. She was isolated from her when she came at age 25. She English, although she it very well. She of trouble "hearas it was spo- had two Korean families when she moved here in 1971.

In Korean families, the eldest. son bears many responsibilities, including caring for his elderly parents. Once married, women leave their own families forever. The elderly are greatly respected, she said, and in any line, are served first. When a parent dies, they are mourned for three years.

Women often never remarry. Ray Martinez, whose ancestry is American Indian and Hispanic, grew up in Arizona then moved with his family to pick oranges. He is the first in his family to graduate from high school, college, and now, he is on his way to earning a master's degree. In his culture, the men dominate, said Martinez, and they are the first to be waited on. Hispanic families are not open with their problems, he explained.

"They don't reveal their secrets." In a program on sexual minorities, the speaker addressed the problems of gays, lesbians and bisexual people. Working with sexual minorities changes with where they are in their own ability to accept their sexual identity, she said. For some, drug use is a way out. "They drink to make it go away. They smoke to make it go away." They often struggle with guilt, denial and anger, she said.

When they can accept themselves as being gay, lesbian or bisexual the disease of alcoholism can be treated in and of itself. Still Today Once again the irresistible force of Del. Thelma Drake, R-Norfolk, met the immovable obstacle of the rest of the Norfolk delegation, all Democrats. Drake is holding up the election of a circuit court judge in Norfolk in order to have her choice on a juvenile and domestic relations court judge. The Democrats from Norfolk, who outnumber Drake 6 to 1, refuse to give her a veto over judges.

At one point Friday, House Speaker Thomas Moss, D-Norfolk, publicly offered to settle the dispute with a secret ballot, majority-rule vote in the caucus. Drake did not respond. The problem was never solved, just delayed once again, as the two sides agreed to drop the judge who was in dispute and the judges they could all agree on. The dispute led to two hours of inaction in the General Assembly and kept the House from completing it's calendar of business. Bills to reduce the ratio of sheriff's deputies to citizens from one per 2,000 to one per 1,500 passed both chambers of the legislature.

The bills were sponsored by Sen. Charles Hawkins, R-Chatham, in the Senate and Del. Lacey Putney, I Bedford, in the House. The measure passed unanimously, without debate, in both chambers. The Senate delayed action on a bill to criminalize assisted suicide for the seventh straight day.

The bill's sponsor, Sen. Bill Mims, R-Loudoun, is faced with a problem he dislikes the bill now that it has been amended to include only medical personal but he doesn't have the votes to pass the bill without the amendment. Supporters of the amendment, sponsored by Sen. Ken Stolle, R- Beach, say it removes the possibility of prosecution of a family member who acted on genuine compassionate impulses. The Associated Press contributed to this.