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AS -The RcpubOc Crtumbof. Ind Monday. May 10. 1993 Area Deaths Died Saturday 1990 from Poseyville. Survivors include a brother, i- J'" '7Mtmm i TT ibiii i 1 i Associated Press I Rosanne Harvin, 62, 8 Its In Maysvllle, S.C.

She has lived her swing in on the farm for 32 years. She and others must leave after being told the farm Is being sold. Sale of Sooth Carolina farm eproots families i i i I i i 1: 7Sw Evelyn C. Seward Funeral Tuesday Funeral for Evelyn Chalmers. Seward, 83, of Lafayette Avenue will be conducted at 10 am.

Tuesday at Myers Funeral Service, Hathaway-Myers Chapel on Pearl Street, with Tom Pickett officiating. There will be no calling hours. Private burial will be at City Memorials may be made to a favorite charity shared with Miss Seward. She died at 12:05 a.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at a local nursing home.

Miss Seward was a 1924 graduate of Columbus High School and a 1929 IVELVN SEWARD graduate of Butler University, where she majored in Latin and French. She earned a master's degree in Latin from the University of Michigan in 1938, received a John Hay Fellowship to Columbia University in 1954-55 and also did post graduate work at Purdue and Indiana universities. She was honored May 3 as a Paul Harris Fellow by Columbus Rotary Club for her community involvement She was a teacher in Bartholomew County schools from 1930 to 1972 and served in the WAVES from 1944 to 1946. Miss Seward' was a member of Columbus Christian Science Society, where she served as second reader, and of the Mother Church in Boston. She was a Sunday school teacher and a member of Business and Professional Women, Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Indiana Civil Liberties Union and the local and national chapters of the NAACP.

She was a member and past president of Delta Kappa Gamma sorority, was founder pf Bartholomew County Chiujterf American Association of ReTTred Persons and served two terms, one as vice chairman, on the AARP state legislative committee. She was a member of League of Women Voters and in 1974 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She was a 50-year' member, past president and past state legislative chairman of American Association of University Women, was a member and past president of Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, was a member and former legislative committee chairman of Indiana Retired Teachers Association and was a life member of National Education Association and American Association of Teachers of French, of which she also was past state president She was a member and past president of Indiana High School Press Association, a 50-year member of Women tn Communications, a former member of the board of directors of Bartholomew County Humane Society and also had served on the Animal Control Commission and as a member of Bartholomew Consolidated School Board. She was a former liaison to the School Foundation. She also worked for the Izaak Walton League, Environmental Defense Fund, Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wild Life and Arbor Day Foundation.

She was the recipient of Bartholomew County Senior Citizen of the Year Award and Friend of Education Award from Columbus Educators Association and was named to Bartholomew Consolidated Schodl Corp. Education Hall of Fame. The 'Quill and Scroll chapter at Columbus North was named for her. Born May. 22.

1909, in CoIum- bus, Miss Seward was the daughter of Robert A. and Hallie Brown Seward. She is survived by several cousins, Robert Chappell's brother Hobart Chappell Huntingburg Word has been received here of the death of Hobart Chappell, ill. UH Edmund Boatwrlght, 69, gestures as he talks In his living room. He Is being forced from his Mayesville, S.C., home after 40 years.

at at Jasper Nursing Center. He retired from the Indiana State Highway Department, was a Navy veteran of World War II and was a member of Salem United Church of Christ Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and Huntingburg Conservation Club. Funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Nass and Son Funeral Home in Huntingburg, with the Rev. Michael Thompson officiating.

Calling will be after 3 p.m. today. Burial will be at Fairmount. Cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars members.

Mr. Chappell was born Dec. 11, 1921, at Huntingburg, the son of Garrett H. and Minnie Hollander Chappell. He was the widower of 1 Leola Andry Chappell.

Survivors include a daughter, Cheryl Chappell of Indianapolis; stepsons, Ronald Cleveland of Jasper and George Cleveland of Jackson, sisters, Rosie Freson of Huntingburg and Jewel Jenkins of St Louis; brothers. Robert Chappell of Columbus and Jerry of Pittsboro; six stepgrandchildren; and several stepgreat-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Andrew "Jack" Chappell. G.C. Murphy retiree Bryan J.

Clark Jr. Seymour SEYMOUR Bryan J. Clark 68, of Miller Lane died at 11:42 a.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Jackson County Hospital. He was an Army veteran of World War II, a 45-year employee of the G.C.

Murphy Co. and a member of Seymour Moose Lodge and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Voss Chapel, with the Rev. Roy F.

Quanstrom officiating. Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and from 8:30 a.m. until service time Tuesday. Burial will be at Jtiverview Cemetery-Military graveside rites will be conducted by members of Seymour Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans.

Memorials may be made to the donor's choice of charities. Mr. Clark was born March 30, 1925, in Seymour, the son of Bryan W. and Evelyn C. Childs Clark.

He married Ruth E. George Aug. 11, 1946, at Jeffersonville. She survives. He lived in Jackson County most of his life.

Additional survivors include sons, Stanley Clark of Newburgh and Terry Clark of Fort Pierce, brothers, Jack Lynn Clark of California, Joe Roger M. and Norman E. Clark, all of Seymour, and the Rev. Ronald Clark of Booneville; and grandchildren, Doug Young, Nicole Clark and Kailee Clark. He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Gulf Oil Co. retiree William A. Habicht Seymour- SEYMOUR William A. Habicht 78, of West Fifth Street-died at 6:26 p.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Jackson County Hospital emergency room.

A member of Central Christian Church, he was a retired construction engineer with Gulf Oil Co. Funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Myers Funeral Service, Burkholder Chapel, with the Revs. Clayton Boyer and Sam Davenport officiating. Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

today. Additional calling hours will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday at George P. Kalas Funeral Home in Oxon HilL Md. A memorial service will be conducted at 4 p.m.

Sunday at Henson Valley Christian Church in Oxon HilL Memorials may be made to Central Christian Church or the American Heart Association. Mr. Habicht was born in West New York, Feb. 8, 1915, the son of John O. and Rose Buser Habicht He married Dorthy C.

Kendry Jan. 23, 1942, in Pennsylvania. She died April 18, 1990. He moved to Jackson County in June 4 Halen Hobbs, Pakln. Dariana Vondlallngan, Saymour.

Blaka Wilson, Saymour. Births William and Tamara Evarsols, Saymour, son. Mlchasl and Sandy Klawltt, Saymour. daughtar. Josaph and Ramona Lawson, Saymour, daughtar.

Diarma Taskay, Saymour, daughtar. Dismissals Virginia Bowman and Infant daughtar. Carria Maria Bowman, Browns- Imogana Craach, Saymour. Sarah Jo Cox and Infant daughtar, Klrstan Emma Cox, North Vamon. Latfta Ooaman, North Vamon.

Trseto SaDskl and Infant son, Tytsr Wayna Sanskl, North Vamon. Blake Wilson, Saymour. Sunday Admittances Josaph Balckman, Saymour. Births Lois Cawdra and Gerald BoOng, Brownstown, daughtar. 71, of Huntingburg.

He died a.m. May 9,4993, John Habicht of Avon, and a daughter-in-law, the Rev. Marsha Habicht Rodenberger, with whom he made his home; four grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and two step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by sons, the Rev. Bill Habicht Jr.

and Gwilliam Habicht National Linen retiree Geraldine F. Harsh Texas Geraldine Faye Harsh 71, of Harker Heights, Texas, formerly of Columbus, died at 7:45 a.m. Sunday, May 9, 1993, at Santa Fe Hospital in Temple, Texas. She retired from National Linen Co. Funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m.

Thursday at Myers Funeral Service, Reed and Jewell Chapel on 25th Street with the Rev; Virgil Clotfelter officiating. Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be at Scipio Cemetery. Mrs.

Harsh was born Feb. 8, 1922, in Hoopson, 111., the daughter of Lee Clarence and Ruth Marie Johnson Dowling. She married Charles Frederick Harsh June 16, 1943, in Oakland, Md. He died Nov. 22, 1989.

Survivors include a daughter, Ruthann Hayes of Harker Heights; sons, Marvin Lee Harsh of Scipio, Mark Wayne Harsh of North Vernon and Charles Dwight Harsh of Ogilville; a stepson, Robert Harsh of Barberton, Ohio; a brother, Clarence Dowling of Paris Crossing; seven grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a sister, Naomi Voss. Arrangements incomplete Mabel A. Otte Seymour SEYMOUR Mabel A. Otte.

90, of North Pine Street died at 7:50 a.m. Monday, May 10, 1993, at Jackson County Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Myers Funeral Service, Burkholder Chapel. Retired loan officer Mabel G. Hammond Elizabethtown Mabel G.

Hammond, 92, of Elizabethtown died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Columbus Convalescent Center. She had worked as a loan officer and retired from American Loan Co. She was a member of Esther Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star at Hope. Funeral will be conducted at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at Myers Funeral Service, Hathaway-Myers Chapel on Pearl Street with the Rev. Robert Lay officiating. Calling will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. An Eastern Star memorial service will be conducted at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Burial will be at Springer Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the donor's choice of charities. Miss Hammond was born May 5, 1901, in Elizabethtown, the daughter of Thomas C. and Nellie Maude Akens Hammond.

She is survived by a sister, Doris McGuire of Columbus; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five.brothers and three sisters. The deadline for obituary information is 9 o.m. Monday through Friday for the weekday and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday for the Zerrty prod hJL LZ weekend editions.

Information ily are accepted for out-of-town deaths. The Republic will verify and edit information submitted Photographs, either black-and-white or color, are accepted for all obituaries. Service reports, a brief account of the service which includes pallbearers' names, are published after the funeral. Obituaries and service reports are a free service of The Republic. Obituary number 379-5635.

Dismissals Trina Lush, Saymour. Tamara Eversole and Infant aon, William Earl Evarsols Saymour. Lori Hopper and Infant daughter, Laxl Elenl-Deyle Hopper, Saymour. Accidents Sunday 5:25 a.m. 200 block of Wast Fifth Street, Saymour Richard Pfaffenberger, 29, Saymour, and a parked vehicle registered to Roger D.

Coomer Seymour. 1:30 p.m. Foods Phis parking lot at Village Canter, Saymour Sharon K. Koester, 49, Saymour, sod vehicle that tenths scans. Fires Sunday U1 pjn.

Seymour FVa Department caned to 632 S. Vina St, construction firs. 1:57 pjn. Saymour FVa Department called to a vehicle fire at (Sea AREA, Page A9) By Colette Baxley Associated Press MAYESVILLE, C. It's not having to move now that bothers the aged men and women who've lived and worked for decades on the Mayes family cotton farm.

It just hurts that Bill Mayes Jr. gave them only 15 days to get out Being uprooted are about 16 people, mostly widowed women and men and couples in their 60s and 70s. There's also a young family with five or six children. All are black and live rent-free except for one white man. He rents his house and works in town, but he, too, must go.

Their houses dotting the property are ramshackle, but tidy with flowers carefully planted in some yards. Built of wood, brick or cinderblock, some stand by dirt roads, others by pavement Many lack plumbing. W.M. Mayes patriarch of the family that gave its name to the town of 800 chartered in 1896, told them they could live here always. But soon after he died last month at age 72, his son decided to sell the family's thousands of acres here in the state's flat rural middle.

On April 29, he knocked on doors to deliver the bad news. The eviction is upsetting to people who relied on the elder Mayes' promise. "I couldn't believe it" said Rosanne Harvin, 62, a farm resident for 32 years and a cotton picker for half that "I offered to pay rent But he said the (prospective buyer) didn't want nobody on the place." Harvin said she was paid $2 for every 100 pounds of cotton she picked, a job she had until tractors replaced the women in 1976. "I picked more than 200 pounds a day," she said. Bill Mayes Jr.

decided to sell the farm, in part because of the expense, said his lawyer, Bill Robinson. "It's just difficult now to finance a large farming production as the Mayes family had." Mayes was reached Friday at his home here but declined to Pentagon By Donald M. Rothberg Associated Press WASHINGTON A commu- rich history that" Includes "names -like" i con nnuiRr nr vnnu Kran. ley and Powell, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is housed in a single monumental building the Pentagon.

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Gea Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stair, will join several of their predecessors in the bffilding's five-acre center courtyard to mark the anniversary. As a building, the Pentagon got off to a rocky start Congress was skeptical of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to spend $35 million for a massive structure to house the nation's burgeoning military establishment "We might not need all that space when the war comes to an end," said Rep. Everett M. Dirksen, R-I1L "What will we do with the extra space?" His concern seemed well founded.

After all, the five-sided, five-story structure across the Potomac River would be the world's largest office building. It would cover 29 acres and contain 6.3 million square feet, of which 3.8 million was usable for office and storage space. It included parking for 10,000 cars and its own indoor shopping mail, one of the first in the nation. But the military's need for space was clear. It was the summer of 1941, and the United States was heading toward war.

In 1940 there were fewer than 500,000 people in the armed forces. In 1943, the number topped 9 millioa The War De- Associated Press The fireplace is charred and crumbling. He secures the place with a padlock on the front door. "The old house, it ain't-much good anyway," Boatwright said. "But you just can't walk out in the street and find something overnight I'll just depend on the good Lord to take care of me." Said 72-year-old Vermelle Temoney, "The only thing I hate to do is pick up my things and.

go." She said she picked cotton; and pulled weeds on the farm for 35 years, earning 25 cents an Just who will buy the land and for how much wasn't clear. Robinson said several in- vestors were interested, but noth- ing was settled. For more than a century, the! Mayes have ranked among South; Carolina's largest cotton-growing families, Robinson said. 50 years the Pentagon: W.VA. Af.Bae Bancirt one of 127 buildings housing 130 000 Defense Department employees in the capital area.

House fciJF Washington Kvo DC. Arlington 1 1 I. 1 I answer any questions. "We have to refer everything to our attorney," was his only response. "They had to make a decision this year whether they were going to borrow the funds to farm again or whether they were just going to discontinue farming," Robinson said.

Edmund Boatwright 69, said he worked the farm for 40 years and is uncertain of finding another job, much less a new home. "I'm an old man. They don't want to hipe me now," he said. He and his wife, Mary, live on Social Security. Their single-story cinder-block house has cold running water only because he installed plumbing.

Blind in one eye, his wood home is little more than a shack. The floors are clean and bare. celebrates Pentagon facts Some facts and figures about Floors: Stairways: 150 Escalators: 19 Elevators: 13 Windows: 7,743 Restrooms: 280 Drinking fountains: 685 Gross floor area: 6.5 million sq. ft Office and storage space: 3.8 mlUion sq. ft Land area covered by building: 29acra Center court area: acres.

Outer circumfarencs: 4,605 ft Length of corridors: 17 A miles. Peak Population: 31,419 In 1952. Current population: about Parking spaces: 10,000. Projected construction cost S35 mfflion. Actual construction cost $87 minion.

Projected cost of renovation: Over $1 billion over 10 year. partment as it was then called, had 24.000 military and civilian employees operating out of 17 buildinp in the Washington area. Aran Counties Jackson Jacfcson County Sehnck Manorial Hospital Friday Admittances bnogana Craach, Saymour. Gartruda Dowling, Crotnaravin. Robart McKhwey, Saymour.

Unda Clartston. Rout 4, North Vawon. Was lay Hall, 2. aon of Jamas and Julia Hall. Kurtz.

Blaka Wliaon, 3, ton of Batty Jo Wilson, Saymour. Dismissals Janls Bramlatts, Saymour. Paari Burton, Br ownstown. Mamls OauR, North Vamon. Joaaph Guy, Crotharsytlta.

Janntfar Lawaflyn and aon, Jaffray Cram Lawaflyn, Saymour. Larry R. HI 8 Sr, Saymour. Blaka Wilson, aon of Batty Jo Wilson, Saymour. Saturday Admfttancaa Tabatha Ruhr, Scottsourg..