Church News
Christ United Methodist Bible School
Christ United Methodist Church in Weavervilie will hold its
summer vacation Bible school for five consecutive Wednesday
nights through July 27 from 6-8 p.m. Classes and activities are
planned for all ages. For more information, call 645-7131.
Redmon Reunion
The annual reunion of the Redmon Clan will be held Sunday,
July 24 at 11 a.m. at the Redmon Cemetery. Everyone is in
vited to attend.
Easter Gap Homecoming
Easter Gap annual homecoming will be Friday and Satur
day night at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Services will be
held outside if weather is permitting.
Foster Creek Baptist Revival
Foster Creek Baptist Church will hold a singing Saturday at
7 p.m. The New Hope Quartet will perform. A revival will
start the following Monday at 7 p.m. with the Revs. Dean
Hughes and Ken Parker.
Bonnie Hill , Sleepy Valley VBS
The Salvation Army Churches of Bonnie Hill and Sleepy
Valley will be holding Vacation Bible School on August 1-5. Bi
ble school will begin each night at 7 p.m. at the Sleepy Valley
Salvation Army Church. Everyone is invited to attend. For
more information contact Captain Tom Friddle at 125 Jackson
Avenue or call 622-3359.
Marshall Presbyterian , First Baptist
Host Community Bible School
Community Vacation Bible School will be held at the Mar
shall Presbyterian Church July 18-22 from 6:30 p.m - 8:30 p.m.
Ages 2 - Adults are welcome to attended. It is sponsored by
Marshall Presbyterian and Marshall First Baptist Church.
Sleepy Valley Revival
The Salvation Army Church of Sleepy Valley will be holding
revival services on July 24-July 31. The services will begin
each night at 7 p.m. The Honorable Reverend Lattie Hender
son will be speaking. Everyone is invited to attend. For more
informati&h contact Tom Friddle at 125 Jackson Avenue or
call 622-3359.
Marshall Baptist Hosts Benton
Benton group will be at Marshall Community Baptist
Church on Friday at 7 p.m. Pastor Don Harris invites
everyone to attend.
Piney Mountain Bible School
Piney Mountain Baptist Church will be holding Vacation Bi
ble School July 17-25 from 6:45-8:45. Transportation will be
provided. Call 645-7559 or 689-4266. Classes for all the family
Belva Baptist Homecoming
Homecoming at Belva Baptist Church will be Sunday at 12.
There will be a singing at 2 p.m. Rev. Allen Hunter invites
everyone to attend.
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Chapel Hill Bible School
Chapel Hill Baptist Church will be having Bible School July
18-22 from 7 p.m.- 9 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend.
Shoal Hill Baptist Sets Homecoming
Homecoming and decoration at Kirk Payne cemetary Sun
day at 11 a.m. at Shoal Hill Baptist church. There will be a
covered dish dinner with singing services in the afternoon.
Rev. Jerry Jarvis invites everyone to attend.
Union Valley Holds Singing
Union Valley Missionary Baptist Church will hold a benefit
singing for the Easter Gap Church on Saturday, July 23 at 7:00
p.m. The David Shelton Family, Dahila Wilson Trio and
Hopewell Bpt. Church singers are expected. Everyone is in
vited to attend.
Union Valley VBS
Union Valley Missionary Baptist Church will hold Vacation
Bible School the week of July 25-29. Classes will be held all age
groups. Everyone is invited to attend.
Long Branch VBS
Long Branch Baptist Church will be having Vacation Bible
School July 18-22 from 6:30 p.m. -9:00 p.m. An adult class Willi
begin at 7:00. Commencement will be held Sunday July 24th at
5:00. Everyone is invited to attend.
Obituaries
Dewey T. Riee
Dewey Talmadge Rice, 85, formerly
of Asheville, died Thursday in Winter
Park, Florida.
A native of Madison County, he had
lived most of this live in Buncoknbe
county before moving to Florida. He
was retired from the spinning depart'
ment of Burlington Industries. He
was the son of the late William and
Lockie Minton Rice and the husband
of the late Lela Meadows Rice.
Rice is survived by a daughter,
Thelma Parker of Asheville; two
sons, Dewey T. Rice of Asheville and
Doyle C. Rice of Morganton; a half
sister, Mable Davis of Marion ; a half
brother, Garret Rice of Cocoa Beach,
Fla.; seven grandchildren, 18 great
grandchildren and five great great
grandchildren.
Services were held Sunday in the
chapel of Anders-Rice Funeral
Home. The Kev. Kion K. Kitchen and
Brigadier Gene Herring officiated.
Burial was in Asheiawn Garden of
Memory.
Donnie M. Brigman
Donnie Matilda Brigman,86, of
Asheville died Monday at her home.
A native of Madison County, she
had lived in Buncombe County for the
past 60 years. She was a member of
the Weaverville Order of Eastern
Start Chapter No. 49. She Was the
daughter of the late Agustus and
Adeline Treadway Corn and was the
wife of the late Rev. Joel Bascombe
Long Awaited Dream
Becomes A Reality
A long awaited dream is close to
becoming a reality in Hot Springs as
the first gruop home for mentally
retarded and developmen tally disabl
ed adults in Madison County nears
completion. The home will be located
on an acre of land at the corner of
Route 25-70 and Mountain Heights
Road on the west side of town. Con
struction should be completed by the
end of July and the home in operation
by the end of summer.
The Madison County Group Home
was orginally approved by the US
Department of Housing and Urban
Development in late September, 1965.
$227,500 in construction funds were
set aside for the project provided a
suitable consturuction proposal could
be submitted for approval. The
Greensboro HUD office accepted a
construction proposal in December
1987, and Construction began in
January 1988.
A board of directors composed of
county residents interested in the suc
cess of the project was selected dur
ing the winter months and has been
meeting regularly. By laws and ar
ticles of incorporation have been ap
proved by the board; building, per
sonnel, program, and budget commit
tees have been formed and are ac
tive; and in its June meeting, the
board selected Randall Lanier, a Hot
Springs resident long interested and
involved in work with the menatally
retarded, to be director of the new
group home.
Lanier has been impressed and
pleased by the reaction of local
residents to the new home. People
have offered to help in a variety of
ways. Many people have welcomed
the home as a "good thing", a
"beautiful place," a "good and much
needed service."
The Madison County Group Home
will provide a home for six mildly or
moderately mentally retarded and
developmentally disabled adults over
18 years of age. Some may have an
associated condition such as cerebral
patsy. High priority will be given to
residents of Madison County who
meet the criteria for admission
Applicants must have substantial
functional limitations in at least four
of the following areas: self-care,
language, independent living, learn
ing, mobility, self-direction, and
economic self-sufficiency. A client
who has only three of these areas with
substantial fucntional limitation, but
who has a diagnosis of mental illness
may be considered for admission.
Group residents will be required to.
participate in a day activity outside
the home, either in structured and
supervised employment, or in a day
center program such as that provided
by the nearby Hot Springs Unaka
Center. At home, residents will be
engaged in the normal activities of
any family of six: preparing food,
caring for house and yard, recreation
activities, laundry, baths and
showers, personal and household
maintenance.
Lanier's hopes as director are, as
much as possible, to see these six peo
ple interact as family. Six people,
developmentally disabled, yet learn
ing to live togethers to manage a
house and to manage their own In
dividual lives.
The new director was hired at the
end of June. At present he has no
phone, no office, no staff, no clients.
His immediate goals are to hire staff
once job discriptions have been
developed, to purchase equipment
and furnishing for office and the
group home once budget approvals
have been secured, to receive client
applications and together with a
board welcome new residents.
The brick residence is being con
structed by Arpin Construction of
Mars Hill. It includes seven
bedrooms, a living room, dining
room, a kitchen, the director's office,
and three full bathrooms.
For further information on
Madison County Group Home, con
tact Randall Lanier, P.O. Box 97, Hot
Springs, NC 28743.
Brigman.
She is survived by her two
daughters Parolee Gillespie of
Warner Robins, Ua., and Estelle Prit
chard of Asheville: three sisters,
Augusta Self and Julia Fisher of
Asheville and Victoria Metcalf of
WeaverviUe; five grand children,
three great-grandchildren and a
great-great grandson.
Services were held Thursday in
New Bridge Baptist Church, of which
she was a member. The Revs. Jeffery
Hensley. David Coleman and Edward
Autland officiated. Burial was in
West Memorial Park.
Charles M. Cole
Charles M. Cole Sr. ,75 of Weaver
viUe died Sunday.
A native of Buncombe County, he
was a retired welder with General
Motors Corp. and attend South Fork
Independent Methodist Church. He
was the son of the late Charles Martin
and Elizabeth Buckner Cole and the
husband of the late Katherine Novella
Tesner Cole.
Cole is survived by three sons,
David Cole and, Larry Cole of Can
field, Ohio, and Charles M. Cole Jr.,
of Pigeon, Mich; a sister, Lula
Sheehanof of Weaverville; two
brothers, T.T. Cole of Asheville and
Everette Cole of Butler, Tenn; and
six grandchildren.
Services were Wednesday in the
chapel of West Funeral Home. The
Rev. Kenneth Bragg officiated.
Burial was in Vance Cemetery.
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