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PAGE 12 • • THE YANCEY JOURNAL JULY 21, 1977 R.B. (Sam) Pate, 51, of the Schronce Creek Community of Yancey County was killed Thursday afternoon, July 14, in the Double Islands section of Yancey County when he came in contact with a high voltage electrical line while relocating the line. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of Fannie Wilson Pate of Greensboro and the late Frank Pate, and was employ ed by M.B. Haynes Electrical Contractors of Asheville. Surviving in addition to the mother are three sons, Ricky and Jody Pate of Burlington, N.C. and Richard B. Pate of Greensboro, N.C.; two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Frost of Asheville and Mrs. Catherine Bush of Weaver ville; four brothers, Molt Pate of Burnsville and Alvin, Dewey and Lloyd Pate of Greensboro. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. Rev. Howard Buchanan officiated and burial was in the Church cemetery. RICHARD LEE BAKER Richard Lee Baker, 29, of Shelby died Friday at his home. He was a native of Burnsville and had been living in Shelby for the past four years. A 1966 graduate of Cane River High School and a” Vietnam War Veteran, he was the son of Lee and Ivory Anglin Baker.* In addition to the parents he is survived by the wife, Linda Riddle Baker; a daugh ter, Melissa Baker; two sisters, Mrs. Willie Jobe and Mrs. Howard Laws of Burns ville; a brother, Randy Baker of Burnsville; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Anglin and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Julia Baker of Burnsville. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Bakers Creek Baptist Church. Revs. Niram Phillips and Perry Norton officiated and burial was in the Baker Cemetery on Bakers Creek. JOHNNY CAPELL Johnny Capell, 59, of Route 2, Ridgewood Hgts., Duncan, South Carolina, a retired veteran of the U.S. Army and former employee of BOOK REVIEW By Gladys Coletta THE THORN BIRDS by Colleen McCullough. Pp. 560. 1977. Harper and Row, Publishers, N.Y. The Thom Birds, by Colleen McCullough, is a bittersweet saga of a closeknit Australian family, and their trials and tribulations, loves and joys, during the early part of this century. For three generations the story unfolds around all the characters who must each fulfill his own destiny, even at the cost of death to his ambitions, love and life. The central figures are Meggie Cleary, the only daughter in the Geary family of eight boys, and the handsome, ambitious priest, Ralph de Bricassart. Although they both were far apart in distance, education, temper ament and social background, there was a strange sort of fate that drew them together. It was almost as if the gods were looking down and laughing at the poor lovers caught up in a web of emotions, circumstances and false ambitions. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out while it was dying, because it had to-it was driven to do it, so the lovers created their own problems (thorns), and never stopped to count the cost. In the end, all they could do was to suffer the pain, and tell themselves it was worth it. In reality, The Thorn Birds is a story of retribution, as the characters pay dearly for their misdeeds. Fate takes its toll in full. "Although the mills of the gods grind slowly, they grind exceeding fine,”** Greek poet "Nearly 135 canned meats •re sold in the nation’s $ , ‘ v. • v'- •' 5 . v.. : ,'•» . (Ho irrefoell . ? M i-Wsssam Jattl Davis Electrical Company died Thursday, July 14, at 6:45 a.m. at the Allen Bennett Hospital after a long illness. A native of Greenville County, son of the late Robert and Essie Christopher Capell, he was a member of the Lyman United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Louise Blake Bennett Capell (formerly of Yancey County); a step-daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Bennett Turner of Jakarta, Indonesia; three half-brothers. Norman j for Your Food Stamps Here I 59*1 I iMKiL ItMNsßr \Wmai\ 11 kH * nQi I oaflSft lIITPFFT rf-h I |Texiz£..GAiJoG:. AA I I teg 1 liSmi IfujT TO I I lteol® .ssi \HsfiLSit 'SWECfes 5' I-! I er-g W* 41,1 ' 1 ” I Ispnwi yMnSrlH I | jiwptwpvsfcwft Mj—- WMiiWBINS299* UUrKHIIUH 1- Iglfe I lEILF*IQ9I fraoi* ilte-nsriSrrMl I TIPI »»r I waldorf. 4mpk...Jj%l UQUIDDETER I I H-DSfißCw ggrll SE- g| Waters of Simpsonville, Ar thur and Alex Boiter of Greer; a sister, Mrs. Pauline Antley of Duncan; three half-sisters, Mrs. Minnie Hawkins of Travelers Rest, Mrs. Sara Knight and Mrs. Ethel Hudson of Simpsonville and two grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, July 17, at 4 o'clock*, at the Wood Mortuary by the Rev. Gorge Wilson and the Rev. Ray Dowis. Burial was in Wood Memorial Park. CouwTij Waps An® nftTsED Tteue* flu. OP.\J£SX£R*N-C- V^N££V dovmy CoUNTtVO Sfon £ I SUBSCRIBE NOW! I I I | The Yancey Journal I I Box 667 I In County... $ 5.00 Burnsville, N.C. Out of County. *7.00 I NAME _ I ADDRESS I ■ CITY - STATE ____ ZIP Enclosed is for Year’s Subscription
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