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The Anniston Star from Anniston, Alabama • Page 37

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6D Clir Anniston tar Wednesday, Jan. 23, mo Police briefs FBI joins search for Audrey Marie Hilley tt IKa msI No The FBI has joined the nationwide hunt for Audrey Marie vehicle about 5 p.m. Tuesday ana ran At the request of the bureau, a Birmingham federal magistrate has issued a warrant charging Mrs. HUley with unlawful flight to avoid prosecutions for murder, attempt to Hilley, the 46-year-old Anniston woman police say is the central figure in a macabre series of arsenic poisonings. Professor Obituaries Longt ime Roanoke doctor, Gerson Bonner, dead poison and check fraud.

Federal prosecutors have recommended the warrant carry a 850,000 bond. The warrant was filed by FBI Special Agent Joseph J. Ross Jr. at the request of the office of CalhounCleburne District Attorney Bob Field. Its filing comes 51 days after Mrs.

Hilley failed to appear for a Dec. 3 trial on charges of attempting to poison her 19-year-old daughter, Carol, with arsenic. Mrs. Hilley has been missing since mid-November of last year. On Jan.

11, a Calhoun County grand jury indicted Mrs. Hilley for murder in the arsenic poisoning of her husband, Frank, in 1975. A separate charge of check fraud was also lodged against her last year. According to Lloyd Warnken, assistant special agent in charge of the Birmingham FBI office, the federal warrant allows the bureau to assist local officials with the search. To get the warrant, local officials had to provide evidence indicating Mrs.

Hilley had fled the state, and pledge to extradite her from another state and prosecute the case. Federal involvement in the Hilley case will not alter the local investigation, said Lt. Gary Carroll of the Anniston Police Department. But Carroll said the FBI has "more contacts" and better facilities and communication with other law enforcement agencies to conduct the search. Mishap kills Ragland man GADSDEN A 25-year-old Ragland man died Tuesday night at Holy Name of Jesus Hospital in Gadsden from injuries sustained in a one-car accident on U.S.

411 in Ashville. State troopers said Charles Ray Looney lost control of his passengers were in the car, troopers saia. Motel robbery is probed Anniston police said they are investigating the Tuesday night robbery of Traveler's Motel at 1407 Quintard which two men escaped with an undetermined amount of Ccish According to police reports, a man entered the lobby of the motel and told the clerk he wanted to register for a room. He then left briefly, the report states, returned with another man, brandished a handgun and demanded money from the cash register. Police reports listed the suspects as a black man and a white man.

Peas, pennies stolen A can of peas, 100 pennies, a derringer and cash were among items reported stolen recently in theft reports compiled today by the Anniston Police Department. The following persons or businesses reported these items taken from locations in Anniston: Robert D. Baker, 12-gauge shotgun, rifle and a derringer, Rt. Deborah Dill, a can each of peas and salmon and a television, 2022 Cooper Church's Fried Chicken, 8450, 2129 Quintard Ave. Sarah J.

Houser, purse and contents, 1629 Quintard Paul H. Israel, 100 pennies, 1102 Johnston Drive. eu uentim PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) -Dick Gebhardt, an assistant professor of education at Washington State University, says that in order to teach, an instructor must get the student's attention. So the instructional technology specialist has lectured while reclining ip a chartreuse bathtub decorated with daisies, mounted a saddle on a stand in his classroom, addressed students from a flight of stairs that go nowhere and is drawing almost constantly.

Before joining the WSU faculty in 1970, Gebhardt was an advertising manager for a food chain, an art director for a public television station in American Samoa and an audiovisual coordinator for a Department of Defense information school. WE ACCEPT USD FOOD OPEN SVHDHY QM. TO 5 P.M. An (MQ ir BND579 I -J US.D.A. GOVT INSPECTED FRESH WHOLE FRYERS LB.

maVAKI Ml I PORK ROAST u.yy mm i mmmm BUSHS CHILI HOT BEANS Pallbearers will be nephews. Mrs. Craft was a native and lifelong resident of Calhoun County and a retired employee of Anniston Army Depot. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Duke ROANOKE Services for Henry Carl Duke, 78, of Roanoke were today at Mount Zion Congregational Christian Church with the Rev.

Mac Holloway, the Rev. L.H. Stanford and the Rev. Albert Holcomb officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Quattlebaum's Brown -Service Funeral Home in charge.

Mr. Duke died Monday at his residence. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lurline Keeble Duke of Roanoke; two daughters, Mrs. Ted Ward and Mrs.

Howell Fetner, both of Roanoke; a son, Hiram Duke of Augusta, Ga. and two sisters, Mrs. Jack Ringer of LaGrange, and Mrs. Clyde Pappas of Miami, Fla. Fincher ROANOKE Services for A D.

Fincher, 70, of Roanoke were today at Potash Church of God with the Rev. C.J. tames officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery with Quattlebaum's Brown-Service Funeral Home in charge. Mr.

Fincher died Monday in Randolph County Hospital in Roanoke. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lottie Sheets Fincher of Roanoke; two daughters, Mrs. Janell Cottle and Mrs. Dean Kirby, both of Roanoke; a son, Bruce Fincher of Roanoke; four sisters, Mrs.

Verna Veal of Roanoke, Mrs. Eunice Adcock of LaGrange, and Mrs. Lois Thompson and Mrs. Opel Campbell, both of Statesboro, Ga. a brother, William Fincher of Franklin, and nine grandchildren.

Glass SCOTTSBORO Services for Herman Brooks Glass, 68, of Scottsboro, formerly of Anniston, were today at Gray Brown-Service Chapel in Anniston with the Rev. Phillip Howell and the Rev. Hoppy Mitchell officiating. Burial was in First Baptist Church Cemetery in Wellington. Mr.

Glass died Monday at his residence. Survivors include a daughter, Ms. Wanda Smail of Wellington; two sons, Earl Glass of Anniston and Judson Glass of Scottsboro; a sister, Mrs. Mildred Pugh of Thomasville; a brother, Earnest Earl Glass of Thomasville; 12 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. Pallbearers were grandsons.

Mr. Glass was a native of Marengo County and had resided in Anniston before moving to Scottsboro for the past four years. He was manager of the Greyhound Bus Station in Anniston for 10 years. Gobble Services for Charlie Harrison Gobble 91, of 4522 Skyline Drive, Anniston, will be Friday at 2 p.m. at Rawlings Funeral Chapel in Sevierville, with the Rev.

Sherman Harper officiating. Burial will be in Pigeon Forge, Methodist Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight until 10 at Gray Brown-Service Mortuary. Mr. Gobble died Tuesday in Regional Medical Center after a short illness.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gray of Saks; a son, Emert B. Gobble of Kankakee, 111. a grandchild, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Mr.

Gobble was a native of Pigeon Forge, and had resided in Calhoun County for 30 years. He was a retired employee of the "Department of Agriculture, University of Tennessee. Looney RAGLAND Services for Charles Ray Looney, 25, of Ragland will be announced by Strickland Funeral Service of Talladega. Mr. Looney died Tuesday in Holy Name of Jesus Hospital in Gadsden from injuries received in an autombile accident.

Wade GAYLESVILLE Services for L.D. "Pat" Wade, 78, of Gaylesville, Rt 1, will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Pleasant Hill Methodist Church with the Rev. Robert Garrett officiating. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery with Jordan Funeral Home in charge.

The body will be at the funeral home until one how before services and will be at the church one hour. The family will receive friends tonight from I to 9 at the funeral home. Mrs. Wade (bed Tuesday in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Birmingham after a long illness. Survivors include a sister, Mrs.

Eula Mae Wade of Gaylesville; three brothers, Jack Wade and Travis Epp Wade, both of Gaylesville, and J.C. Wade of Cedar Bluff; and several nieces and nephews. Mr. Wade was a native and lifelong resident of Cherokee County and a retired farmer. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the American Legion.

He was also a Baptist, f. ROANOKE Dr. Gerson W. Bonner, who treated patients in Randolph County SO years, died today at Traylor Nursing Home in Roanoke. Services for the 85-year-old general practitioner will be announced by Quattlebaum's Brown-Service Funeral Home.

Dr. Bonner, a native of Rock Mills, left his hometown to attend medical school at the University of Alabama, but upon graduation returned to open a practice in Randolph County. "He treated everybody in Randolph County and Roanoke," says Ronald Traylor, administrator of Traylor Nursing Home. He recalls that in 1948 Dr. Bonner removed his tonsils "in a little house by the (Handley) high school where he had a hospital." Later he treated patients at the old Knight Sanitarium, built in the 1950s and since replaced by Randolph County Hospital, Traylor says.

"He'd just do anything he had to to help you. He made bouse calls up until he got too old to drive his car. He tried to retire (in 1977) but people kept coming out to him and he wouldn't turn anyone away," Traylor adds A man of medium build, Dr. Bonner would constantly push up his eye glasses as he talked in a quick, gruff tone, Traylor says. He was "very highly regarded in the community," says his son-in-law, L.E.

Sellers of Alexander City. "I've seen him call on patients when he had to crawl up steps because he was sicker than they were." Dr. Bonner, a physician's son, was married for 64 years to Mary Lee Bonner, who died in 1977. He retired shortly after her death, Sellers says. Dr.

Bonner is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Bonner Sellers of Alexander City and Mrs. Margaret D. Funderburk of fcaGrange, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Abernathy CRAGFORD Services for James R.

Abernathy, 61, of Cragford, Rt. 1, will be announced by Brock Funeral Home. Mr. Abernathy died Tuesday in Clay County Hospital after a long illness. Catrett LUVERNE Services for Mrs.

Rosa Catrett, 73, of Luverne will be Thursday at Bethel Baptist Church in Crenshaw County. Burial will be in Providence Cemetery with Turner Funeral Home of Luverne in charge. Mrs. Catrett died today in Crenshaw County Hospital after a long illness. Survivors include a son, Joe Catrett of Anniston; a sister, Mrs.

Edna DuBose of Lake City, Fla. and three grandchildren. Chapman MOBILE Services for Mrs. Josephine Chapman, 83, of Mobile, formerly of Calhoun Countv. will be at Holy Family Church in Mobi with graveside services at noon Frida, at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville.

Mrs. Chapman died Tuesday after a long illness. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Caroline Chapman Philpot of Mobile; a son, Reuben Chapman of Huntsville; a sister, Mrs. Adelia Seyforth of Anniston; a brother, Maurice Gaboury of Bound Brook, N.J.; and eight grandchildren.

Mrs. Chapman, a native of Jacksonville, was a member of a pioneer Calhoun County family. She had resided in Mobile with her daughter for several years. Mrs. Chapman was the widow of Reuben Chapman, and a longtime resident of Huntsville.

Clark ROANOKE Services for Mrs. Pearl Mae Clark, 77, of Roanoke will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Taylor's Crossroads Church of Christ with Gerald Romine officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Quattlebaum's Brown-Service Funeral Home hi charge. Mrs.

Clark died Tuesday in Tanner Memorial Hospital in Carrollton, Ga. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Romell Sberrill of Connellys Spring, N.C., Mrs. Anne Smith of LaGrange, Mrs. Sara Harmon of Roanoke and Mrs.

Betty Vinson of Carrollton; three sons, Claude Knott of Immokalee, Sberrill Knott of Franklin, and Carlos Knott of Roanoke; three sisters, Mrs. Lilly Lackey of Talladega, Mrs. Minnie Lumpkin of Heflia and Mrs. Eva -Thompson of Jacksonville, 28 grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren. Craft Services for Miss OIlie "Winnie" R.

Craft, 65, of 617 Wilmer Anniston, win be Thursday at 2:39 p.m. at Gray Brown-Service Chapel with Gaddys Roy and Tony Clark officiating. Burial will be in Edgemont Cemetery. The body will be at the funeral bom through services. Mrs.

Craft (Bed Tuesday in StringfeDow Hospital after 1 long illness. Survival include two sisters, Mrs. Annie L. Coiey and Mrs. Pauline Summerhill, both of AqpLston; a brother, John D.

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