Pag* 2A-UMGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thuradoy. Octobw 23. 1980
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MRS. BENNIX
Mrs. Bertie Louise Bennix, 70,
of 409 Belvedere Circle, died
Monday afternoon in Cleveland
Memorial Hospital.
Arrangements, which are in
complete, will be announced by
Withrow Funeral Home.
MRS. MATTIE ORR
BARNETTE
Mrs. Mattie Orr Barnette, 70,
of Route 1, died Tuesday after
noon at Mercy Hospital in
Charlotte.
She was the wife of Jimmy
Barnette, who survives, in addi
tion to three sons, Harold
Barnette of New York City,
Gareth Barnette of Baltimore,
Md. and Michael Barnette of
Gastonia; four daughters, Mrs.
Aileene Feemster of Bessemer
City, Mrs. Nina Floyd, Mrs.
Dolly Adams, both of Kings
Mountain, and Mrs. Brenda
Gordon of Gastonia; 21 grand
children and five great grand
children.
Funeral arrangements, which
are incomplete, will be announc
ed by J.W. Gill and Sons
Funeral Home.
HAZEL I. BROWN
Funeral services for Hazel J.
Brown, 52, who died Sunday
morning of an apparent heart at
tack, will be conducted Friday at
4 p.m. from Galilee United
Methodist Church of which he
was a member and treasurer, in
terment following in Adams
Chapel Cemetery with masonic
and military rites.
Dr. T.A. Powell, Rev. Victor
Carson, Rev. Samuel Jackson
and Rev. R.L. Garvin will of
ficiate at the rites.
Mr. Brown had retired after
20 years service with the U.S.
Okays
Project
Grover’s Town Council voted
unanimously Tuesday night to
renovate Town Hall and turn
the old Police Chiefs Office into
the business office.
In a special 20-niinute session,
the board also voted to use the
current business office as a com
bined police chief-mayor’s office.
Grover will greet its new
police chief, Mike Brown, Sun
day afternoon, and called the
special session so work can begin
immediately in hopes of having
it near completion by his arrival.
Brown, 27, is a Kings Moun
tain native and for the past year
has served on the Hickory Police
Department. He is married to
the former Susan Owens of
Kings Mountain.
He will be sworn into office at
2 p.m. Sunday in special
ceremonies at Town Hall.
The board has been discussing
renovating Town Hall for
several months. The new
business office will include a
counter which will prevent
customers from coming around
the clerk’s desk, new panelling
and a lowered ceiling.
Signs will be painted on both
doors, designating one side of the
building as the business office
and the other side as the piolice
department.
In other matters Tuesday, the
board:
—Authorized the purchase of
$130 worth of equipment for the
police department.
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Army and served as Projects
Manager for the Cansler Street
Urban Renewal Project.
The body will be taken to
Galilee Church Thursday at 6
p.m. and the family will receive
friends from 7 until 7:30 p.m.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Virginia Perkins Brown; their
daughter, Tanya, of the home;
and his parents, Mrs. Ina
Virginia Couser and Hazel
Brown, Sr., both of Kings Moun
tain.
J.W. Gill and Sons Funeral
Home is in charge of ar
rangements.
MRS. EVELYN BYERS
Funeral services for Mrs.
Evelyn Byers, 52, of Manhattan,
New York, will be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m.
from Bynum Chapel AME Zion
Church, interment following in
St. James Cemetery in York
County.
Rev. Victor L. Carson, Rev.
Howard Shipp, Rev. R.L. Gar
vin and Rev. M.L. Campbell will
officiate at the rites.
The body will be taken to the
church at 6 p.m. Friday and the
family will receive friends from 7
until 7:30 p.m. The family will
be at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Fields Simmons on N. City
Street.
A former Kings Mountain
resident, Mrs. Byers was the
daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Raleigh Brown.
J.W. Gill and Sons Funeral
Home is in charge of ar
rangements.
MRS. MINNIE CLEG WEBB
Funeral services for Mrs. Min
nie Cleo Webb, 93, of 102 N.
Dilling St., who died Wednesday
at North Carolina Lutheran
Home in Albemarle, will be con
ducted Friday afternoon at 2
p.m. from St. Matthew’s
Lutheran Church with the Rev.
Harwood T. Smith officiating.
Interment will be in Pleasant
Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
at Fallston.
The family will receive friends
Thursday night from 7 until 9
p.m. at Harris Funeral Home.
Mrs. Webb was the widow of
John Webb and daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Smith.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. James Carpenter of Kings
Mountain; two granddaughters,
Mrs. Jim Lybrand and Mrs.
Houston Wolfe, both of Kings
Mountain; and four great
grandchildren.
Harris Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
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