8A THE NEWS-JOURNAL Raeford, N.C.
May 28, 2003
Public Record
Obituaries
Jack Pittman
Jack Pittman, 84, of 921 Posey
Farm Road, Raeford, died Thursday
May 22, 2003 in Autumn Care of
Raeford.
Mr. Pittman was born in Hoke
County to the late Milton and Beaulah
Cheek Pittman. He retired from
Burlington Industries and worked for
the City of Raeford.
Mr. Pittman served in the U.S.
Army during World War 11 in En
gland where he met and married Mrs.
Pittman.
He wasamember of Philippi Pres
byterian Church.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2p.m. Saturday, May 24 in Philippi
Presbyterian Church held by the Rev
erends Benny Pearce and Herman
Autry. Burial was in the church cem
etery.
Survivors include his wife, Elsie
K. Pittman of Raeford; three sons,
Melton Pittman of Holden Beach,
Barry Pittman and Roy Pittman, both
of Raeford; one daughter, Susan P.
Baker of Raeford; one brother, Chari ie
Smith of Raeford; five grandchildren;
and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial may be made to Caro
lina Hospice and Palliative, 336 S.
Main St., Raeford.
Crumpler funeral Home and Cre
mation Services Inc. of Raeford served
the family.
Orean M. Smith
Orean Mishoe Smith, 82, of 1206
N. Fulton Street, Raeford, died Fri
day, May 23,2003 in Autumn Care of
Raeford.
Graveside services wereconducted
at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 25 in Raeford
Cemetery.
Survivors include two sons, Lonnie
Smith Jr. of Raeford, and William
David Smith of Fayetteville; two
daughters, Anita Gibson of Raeford
and Bessie Young of Ruther Glen,
Virginia; one sister, Sadie Stanley of
Jacksonville, Florida; 11 grandchil
dren; 25 great-grandchildren; and two
great great-grandchildren.
Crumpler Funeral Home and Cre
mation Services, Inc. served the fam
ily.
Lizzie Bell Locklear
Lizzie Bell Clark Locklear, 74, of
787 Morgan J. Road, Shannon died
Sunday, May 25,2003 in Duke Uni
versity Hospital.
Funeral services will be conducted
at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 29 in Zion
Hill Baptist Church in Rennert held
by the Reverends Henry Locklear,
Anthony Oxendine and Milton Hall.
Burial will be in the church cem
etery.
Survivors include her husband,
Quessie Locklear of Shannon; seven
sons, Hurland Clark of St. Pauls, Eddie
J. Locklear and Gene Locklear, both
of Shannon, Crawford Locklear of
Pembroke, Larry Locklear of
Rowland, Jimmy Earl Locklear of
Smithfield and Jackie Dean Locklear
of Godwin; nine daughters, Sylvia
Cummings and Evelyn Clark Hicks,
both of St. Pauls, Sheila Hales of
Autryville, Joyce Locklear, Carolyn
Brewer and Goldie Chavis, all of Sh
annon, Marnice Swop of Lumber
Bridge, Mary Ann Haywood of
Lumberton and Sarah Locklear of
Pembroke; four sisters, Mittie Jones
of Shannon, Mary Jane Cummings of
Lumber Bridge, Leacy Jackson and
Ivina Donahue ,both of Hope Mills;
72 grandch i Idren; and 64 great-grand-
children.
Crumpler Funeral Home and Cre
mation Services Inc. of Red Springs
served the family.
Vernon Dial
Vernon Dial, 59, of 590 Murph
McLauchlin Road, Red Springs, died
Sunday, May 25, 2(X)3 in his home.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 29 in Rock
Assembly of God in Red Springs held
by the Reverends Wallace Locklear
and Gene T. Chavis. Burial was in
Hoke County Holiness Church Cem
etery in Red Springs.
Survivors include his wife, Mary
0. Dial of Red Springs; three sons,
Timmy Oxendine of Maxton, Vernon
C. Dial of Lumber Bridge and Jeff
Dial of Red Springs; three brothers,
Dormon Dial of Rowland, James H.
Dial and Roger Dial, both of Red
Springs; five sisters, El izabeth (Tony)
Locklear, Louise Pate, Evion
Cartwright and Betty Locklear, all of
Red Springs and Ruth Locklear of
Maxton; and 12 grandchildren.
Crumpler Funeral Home and Cre
mation Services Inc. of Red Springs
served the family.
Leroy McLaughlin
Leroy McLaughlin, 52, of 928
McPhaul Road, died Friday, May 23,
2003.
The funeral will be conducted at 1
p.m. Thursday in Shady Grove Mis
sionary Baptist Church by Dr. J.W.
Gorham.
Burial will be in the church cem
etery.
Mr. McLaughlin issurvivedby his
mother, Mabel McLaughlin of
Raeford; a brother, Thomas
McLaugh I i n J r. of Raeford, and seven
sisters, Lucille Handon, Edna
McLaughlin, Mattie Jones, Linda
Armstrong andJacquelyn Armstrong,
all of Raeford; Joeann Posey of Adel,
Georgia, and Maeola McLaughlin of
Wilmington, Delaware.
A viewing will be held today at 4-
8 p.m. at Doby Funeral Home.
Bobby N. Murphy
Bobby M. M urphy, 57,5719 Baker
Ten Mile Road, Lumberton, died
Monday, May 26, 2003 at the V.A.
Medical Center in Fayetteville.
Funeral Arrangements are incom
plete.
The family will receive friends
and family at 5719 Baker Ten Mile
Road in Lumberton.
Raeford, HSO officers charge seven men here
Jones
Hoke County
Sheriff’s Office
and Raeford Po-
liccofflcenshave
arrested seven
men on drug
charges in joint
operations.
Charged are:
• Paul “Poppa” Jones, 28, Spring
Pine Lane, Shannon; one count of
possession of cocaine. Officers say
he was observed leaving a crack
house and smoking crack.
• William Kelley Strickland, 22,
Gillis Road, Laurel Hill; one count
each of possession of marijuana, pos
session of a firearm by a felon and
carrying a concealed weapon. Offic
ers say he was apprehended after a
vehicle stop and a search found a
f J
Strickland
Shaw
stolen firearm and marijuana.
•Traymond Shaw, 28, Doc
Brown Road; one count posses
sion of cocaine. Officers say the
Highway Patrol found cocaine and
turned it over to Hoke officials.
• William Stanley McGougan,
31, Payton Place, Lumber Bridge;
one count each of possession with
intent to sell and distribute crack
cocaine, sell and delivery of crack
cocaine and resist and delay an of-
McGougan Dixon
ficer. Officers said he sold crack co
caine to undercover officers.
• Todd Jeffery Dixon, 33, Payton
Place Road, Lumber Bridge; one count
each possession with intent to sell and
distribute crack cocaine, sel I and deliv
ery of crack cocaine and resist and
delay an officer. Officers said he sold
crack cocaine to undercover officers.
• Marvin Conwell Stubbs, 24,
McEachern Farm Road; one count pos
session of crack cocaine and posses-
Stubbs McLaughlin
sion of marijuana. Officers said crack
cocaine and marijuana were found in
his socks when Probation and Parole
and asked for assistance.
• Corey Thomas McLaughlin, 27,
Alex Baker Road; one count of pos
session with intent to sell and distrib
ute marijuana. Officers said he ap
proached undercover officers with
four bags of marijuana in the front of
his pants.
DCC Wanted
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Geraldine L. Whiting
Geraldine Latisha Whiting is
wanted by the 1 loke County Division
of Community Correction. She was
convicted of driving while license
revoked and with having an expired
registration tag on her car.
Whiting, a 31-year-old black fe
male, is5’7" tall and weighs approxi
mately 170 pounds.
Whiting last resided at 236 Turn
pike Road, Raeford.
If you have any information on
Whiting’s whereabouts, contact
CPPO Isaacs at (910) 875-5081.
Wall of
Honor
Kecognizing those
military in harm’s way
77ie/Vews-7onr/ial has established
a WallofHonorfor llokessons and
daughters who are serving in Opera
tion Iraqi Freedom and elsewhere in
defense of our country.
Previously included on our “wall
of heroes" are Lonnie Lee Peterkin
Jr., LaTroy D.R. Peterkin, Danielle
L. Peterkin, LCPL Elliott B. Gra
ham, LCDR Karl Rauch, SSgt. Erin
L. Brown, Sgt. Gregory L. McLean
and F.T2(SW) James W. Watson.
The idea for a Wall of Honor
originated with the Rev. Elle B. Gra
ham, who also wants Hoke's war
heroes to be remembered in other
ways. He may be contacted by call
ing 281-4936.
If you want your loved one to be
included in the Wall of Honor, email
pat^i thcnews-joumal.com or mail to or
bringphotos and write-ups by The News-
Journal office at 119 West Elwotxl.
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so dependent on for its survival? together and graduated in the same
Hoke is indeed growing and
mostly because of Fort Bragg, but
residential growth is not an eco
nomic benefit until it generates
retail sales. In fact, it’s a drain until
it does.
The Fayetteville Observer is so
high up on its horse because
Cumberland County (and the news
paper itself) do benefit economi
cally, and unless Hoke shuts up,
they may suffer too.
Of the three counties most af
fected by these proposed land use
restrictions, only Hoke isn’t get
ting, but needs the economic ben
efit of Fort Bragg. To put things in
perspective, Hoke's retail sales in
March were $8.9 million. Moore
County’s were $71.6 million.
Cumberland’s were $244.4
million.❖
Next year, school officials are
going to have to implant micro
chips in the foreheads of seniors
and install retina scanners to make
sure only those authorized get in to
Hoke High’s graduation. It’s a sad
day when parents can’t get in to see
their children graduate because
tickets have been faked. But every
one needs to remember it’s the
miscreants who counterfeited the
tickets w ho are to blame. Each year,
school folks have to read off an
ever-longer list of irritating, disre
spectful and even illegal behavior
they’d appreciate not witnessing at
graduation.
My son attended a graduation in
Columbia, S.C. over the weekend,
and said several parents - when
their Johnnys crossed the stage -
whipped out aerosol-air horns.
So I can see it next year: “We’d
like to welcome everyone to the
commencement exercises for the
Class of 2004. We ask you to hold
your applause, name-calling and
heckling until after all the seniors’
names have been read; please don’t
blow your air horns directly in your
neighbor’s ears; and turn off your
cell phones or at least keep your
phone conversations to a maximum
of three minutes..
1 hadn’t heard the name Jerry
Thompson in years, but Henry
Hostetler mentioned him in an
email last week. Henry and I grew
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class (sans air horns). Mr. Thompson
was our English teacher our junior year,
and was, shall we say, unconventional.
For example he ordered us to purchase
a grapefruit, name it, carry it every
where we went for a week, establish a
relationship with it and write about the
relationship. I don’t remember much
about that week, but 1 seem to recall
writing about the juice spilled when
the grapefruit died in an accident. And
consider his approach to distributing
graded tests: he stood before the class
and said in his high voice, “Class,
remember the test you took back in
September? Well, I found them in the
living room. Most of you failed and it’s
going on your grade for this semester,”
and then he’d toss the whole stack of
papers in the air. We’d scramble like
kids after candy from a pinata, trying to
make sure no one else saw our bad
grades.
He was one of those teachers w ho
genuinely cared about his students, but
that didn’t mean the relationship was
always smooth. I remember a storj
from a field trip to the Raleigh muse
ums. Be back by such and such a time,
he had said as the students departed the
bus at the first stop, “and not a second
later!” That, of course, was a waste of
breath.
When several students showed up
late - way late - he was furious, and
ordered the driver to skip the other
museums and head to Raeford. On the
way home in complete silence, they
stopped for fuel, but somehow, as Mr.
Thompson - who was fuming (ha! Pun
intended) finished pumping, the little
regulator thing failed to work and it
pumped gas all over him. He was so
mad as he got back on the bus the
students were scared. Except one, who
after a minute or two of silence, said,
“Anybody got a match?”*!*
1 was listening to a well-pierced
eighth-grade girl tell her friends of her
plans to tattoo on her backside, the
name of her boyfriend. They hesitated,
looked at each other, and one of them
said, “Don’t you think it’s likely you
might not have the same boyfriend the
rest of your life?”
Another, still thinking it through,
said, “People don’t even have the same
husbands all their life.”
As I sat there I thought about an
article 1 read by Grettir Asmundarson,
the operator of the internet radio sta
tion Radio Free Tiny Pineapple. Be
fore he pulled the plug on the station, I
liked his musical taste so much, I be
gan reading his web log - comments
about any old thing - and got hooked on
his writing as well.
So I wrote him and asked permis
sion to reprint an occasional musing
from www.tinypineapple.com:
When Life Gives
You Lemons...
"... ask for a Diet Coke to put them
in. That way, at least you’ll have a
decent beverage for your descent into
Hell." — Grettir Asmundarson
The last three-and-a-half years have
honestly been the worst years of my
semi-long and rather pathetic life. I
guess the disi ntegration of a marriage
has a way of doing that to you, and the
disintegration of mine has been like
watching a three-and-a-half-year-
long train wreck happening in slow
motion. You know what’s going to
happen in the end, you can see it
happening right in front of you, but
no matter how much you don’t want
it to happen or how hard you try to
keep it from happening, it’s going to
happen anyway. And now comes the
really unpleasant part. It’s time to
notify the next-of-kin.
Within the next week or so. I’ll
have the opportunity to sit down with
my two little girls and explain to
them that their mother and I are get
ting divorced. The thought of it makes
me want to gouge out my eyes with a
melon bailer, but instead I will sit
there with a straight face and say all
of the reassuring things that books
about divorce tell you to say to your
kids so they won’t notice that what
you’re really doing is ripping the rug
right out from under their little feet.
We’ll explain it to them in such a
way that no one is to blame and ev
erybody wins. “This is best thing in
the world! Your Mom and Dad get to
pursue their lives as fully sejf-act^l-
ized human beings and you kids'will
have two bedrooms to decorate.
Doesn’t that sound like fun?”
Then we ’ 11 have the legal niceties.
Since we are fairly rational, intelli
gent human beings, there will be
blessed few points of legal conten
tion, but that doesn’t necessarily make
it any easier. For instance, I will get to
sit in a mediator’s office and make
contingency plans about how we will
divide time with the girls if one of us
moves out of state.
That means I get to negotiate for
the privilege of not having my daugh
ters in my life for six months out of
the year. But, which six months of the
year do 1 not want to tuck them in?
Which six months of the year do I not
want to order pizza and pop micro-
wave popcorn with them and watch
“Swiss Family Robinson” for the thir
tieth time? And which six months of
the year will 1 not get to intervene in
an argument between the two of them
and say, “You girls are going to be
sisters for the rest of your lives. You
need to learn to work these things out.
What? Why did your Mom and I get
divorced? Oh, we had irreconcilable
differences.”
But it’s not all bad, right? I’m
learning important life lessons, right?
Well, I’ll tell you the important life
lessons I’ve learned:
* Even though there have been
times when things have been so bad
that I honestly didn’t think my heart
could bear it one second longer, it did
bear it one second longer...and then
another...and then a minute...and
then an hour...and then a year...and
the pain was still there.. .and my heart
was still beating...and I don’t know
whether to be grateful for or appalled
by the fact that, no matter how bad it
gets, you get by.
• 1 will never, in this lifetime, be
able to comprehend the complexities
of the human heart. *>
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