B-10 Roanoke Times World-News, Thursday, September 29, 1977 Roanoke Valley Out-of-State Funeral for Roy M. Waldron who died Tuesday, will be Friday at 3 p.m., Shiloh Baptist Church. Arrangements by Hamlar-Curtis Funeral Home. Richard L. "Dick" Craft, 60, Rt.
8, Roanoke, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke Chapel. Miss Marion L. Williams, Friendship Manor, died Wednesday. Graveside service today at 2:30 p.m., Evergreen Cemetery.
Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke Chapel. James T. Goggin, 57, 2128 Ruritan Road NE, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke Chapel. Mrs.
Goldie S. Patrizzi, 62, Rt. 11, Camelot Lane, British Woods, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Rader Funeral Home, Troutville. State CROCKETT Mrs.
Cora Spraker, 91, died Tuesday. Funeral today at 2 p.m., Wohlford Funeral Home Chapel. GALAX Everett M. Carico, 84, died Tuesday. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m., First United Methodist Church.
Arrangements by Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home. HUDDLESTON Lura Belle Childress (Mrs. Charles 79, died Tuesday. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m., Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church.
Arrangements by Updike Funeral Home, NATURAL BRIDGE Eugene Davis Cummins, 87, died Wednesday. Funeral Friday at 3 p.m., Natural Bridge Baptist Church. Arrangements by Harrison's Funeral Home, Lexington. BEDFORD Funeral for Floyd Brown who died Tuesday, will be Saturday at 1 p.m., Otterville Baptist Church. Arrangements by Bedford Funeral Home.
RICHMOND George Wilbur Reed 54, formerly of Roanoke, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke Chapel. DUBLIN Josephine Farmer Smith (Mrs. Everett Wysor), 56, died Wednesday. Funeral Friday at 3 p.m., Dublin United Methodist Church.
Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home. COVINGTON Grover Cleveland Armentrout, 78, died Wednesday. Arrangements by Arritt Funeral Home. Out-of-State NEWARK, N.J. Zion Overton, formerly of Roanoke, died Monday.
Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m., Cotton Funeral Home. Increasingly Newspaper Preferred ads Since 1937 teach you: LOOTZ What! FUNERAL HOMES Where! Roanoke 982-1001 Salem 389-9208 When! Vinton 343-4986 HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. Wefley L. Keister, formerly of Roanoke, died Wednesday. Funeral Saturday at 11 a.m., John Haller Funeral Home Chapel, Altoona, Pa.
NEWARK, N.J. Mrs. Cora Belle. Waller, mother of Mrs. Lessie Belle Hairston, formerly of Roanoke, died Wednesday.
Funeral Saturday at 1 p.m., Sunlight Baptist Church. Arrangements by Cotton Funeral Home. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Julia Coleman Redmond (Mrs. Blondel 59, formerly of Roanoke, died Tuesday.
Funeral Friday at 11 a.m., Volgers Funeral Chapel. Graveside service Friday at Home, p.m., Sherwood Memorial Park, Salem, Obituaries BLAIR ROCKY MOUNT James Henry Blair, 87, died Tuesday in the local hospital. He was a member of the Liberty Christian Church at Sandy Level. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rosa Watson Blair; four daughters, Mrs.
Clarence LaPrade, Rocky Mount; Mrs. Thomas T. Hunt, Miami, Mrs. Joseph C. Terry, Knoxville, Mrs.
Howard W. Snider, Arlington; one son, James W. Blair, Rocky Mount; four stepsons, Esper Watson and O'Dell Watson, both of Sandy Level; Ferrell Watson, Chatham; Nelson Watson, Aubondale, four sisters. Mrs. Lenna Reynolds, Chatham; Adie English, Roanoke; Mrs.
Betty Cook, Gretna; Mrs. Lala David, Penhook: three brothers, Paul Blair Walter Blair, both of Sandy Level; Moncie Blair, Penhook; 10 grandchildren, 12 greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted 3 p.m. Thursday in Lynch Chapel by the Rev. Curtis Robertson and the Rev.
Eugene Riley. Interment will follow in Mountain View Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Lynch Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that contributions be made to the Franklin County Rescue Squad or Liberty Christian Church at Sandy Level.
BEDFORD Mr. Floyd Brown, died Tuesday in the Bedford County Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, two sons, Floyd Brown, Roanoke: James Brown, Washington, D.C.: three daughters, Dorothy Brown, Palmer Park, Mrs. Sarah Davis, Mrs.
Mary Davis, Washington, D.C.; twenty-five grandchildren; five great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at the Otterville Baptist Church in Bedford. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The remains will be taken to the residence of 1809 Longwood Avenue in Bedford at 5:00 p.m.
Friday evening. Bedford Funeral home, Bedford is handling arrangements. CHILDRESS HUDDLESTON Mrs. Lura Belle Childress, age 79, died Tuesday night in Bedford County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Bedford County, was the daughter of the late John Daniel and Betty Witt Daniel.
Her husband was the late Charles T. Childress. She was a member of Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church. She is survived by one son, John T.
Childress, Roanoke; four grandchildren. Funeral ser- Personal Attention It always belongs in our way of doing things. OAKEYS ROANOKE NORTH VINTON CHAPEL CHAPEL CHAPEL Evans Given Life In Gun Shop Killing vices will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. from Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church by the Rev.
Sam Caldwell and the Rev. Gordon Grimes. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Updike Funeral Home, Huddleston. CRAFT Richard L.
(Dick) Craft, age 60, of Route 8, Roanoke, died Wednesday in a Charlottesville hospital. He was a retired employee of Roanoke Ready Mix Concrete and a member of Rockingham Court United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Mae Hunley Craft; two sons, Charles Daniel Craft and Cameron Hanes Craft, both of Roanoke; three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Lockett, Mrs.
Kate McCormick, Mrs. Mabel Ferguson; two brothers, Luther D. (Buck) Craft and Wilbur K. (Jack) Craft, all of Roanoke; one granddaughter. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke Chapel.
CUMMINS NATURAL BRIDGE Eugene Davis Cummins, age 87, died Wednesday at his home. He was born in Rockbridge County December 4, 1889. He was a member Natural Bridge Baptist Church and was a retired Deputy Commissioner of Revenue of Rockbridge County. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Ellen C.
Parolari, Natural Bridge; Mrs. Dorothy C. Adams, Richmond; eight grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. Friday from the Natural Bridge Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev.
James Comstock, with burial in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Harrison's Funeral Home, Lexington. OLIVERIO Sara Katharine Taliaferro Oliverio, formerly of Salem, died Sept. 18, in Taylor, Michigan.
Survivors include husband, Sam Oliverio; son, Stephen Oliverio; mother, Margaret Taliaferro, Bristol, father Oscar Taliaferro, Detroit, Michigan; sister, Beth Logan; half-sisters, Melton, Elizabeth Chapiewski; brothers, Bill Taliaferro, Michael Taliaferro David Taliaferro. Memorial service, Oct. 1st, 11 a.m. at Church of Christ, Salem, Va. OVERTON Mr.
Zion Overton, of Newark, N. husband of Dorothy Saunders Overton, formerly of Roanoke, died on Monday. Among the survivors are a stepdaughter, Mrs. Barbara Earley Brown; a brother-in-law, Willard Saunders, Roanoke. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m.
in Newark, at the Cotton Funeral Home, 130 Lyons Avenue. SMITH DUBLIN Mrs. Josephine Farmer Smith, age 56, of Rt. 2, died Wednesday in the Roanoke Memorial Hospital from in-. juries received in an automobile accident September 16.
She was born in Pulaski County, daughter of the late Jordan B. Farmer and Frances Landrum Farmer. She was the widow of Everett Wysor Smith. Woman Convicted Of Arson Charge Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Judy Alexander, Mrs.
Janie Workman, both of Dublin; four sisters, Mrs. Ruby Smith, Mrs. Cynthia Butler, both of Dublin; Mrs. Eula Farmer, Pulaski; Mrs. Mary Ellen Osborne, Independence; four brothers, Kent Farmer, George Farmer, both of Dublin; Nathan Farmer, Radford; Jermie Farmer, Cannelton, 3 grandchildren, April Alexander, Shawn Workman, Kristie Workman.
Funeral services will be Friday at 3:00 p.m. from the Dublin United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Henry Holt, Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Mt.
View Cemetery, Pulaski County. The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Thursday at Stevens Funeral Home. SPRAKER CROCKETT Mrs. Cora M.
Spraker, age 91, of Rt. 1, Crockett, died Tuesday afternoon in the Smythe County Community Hospital, Marion. She was the widow of the late E. G. Spraker.
Surviving are two sons, George D. Spraker, Crockett; C. Henry Spraker, Wytheville; also three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Wohlford Funeral Home, Crockett with the Rev.
Frank Russell officiating. Burial will follow in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Rural Retreat Volunteer Emergency Service. Wohlford Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. WALDRON Funeral services for Roy M.
Waldron of 424 Chapman Salem, will be Friday at 3 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church. "The Rev. Ennis Glaspie will officiate with burial in Williams Memorial Park. Friends may call Thursday at Hamlar-Curtis Funeral Home.
WALLER Mrs. Cora Belle Waller, mother of Mrs. Lessie Belle Hairston, former Roanoker, passed away in Newark, New Jersey Wednesday. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Sunlight Baptist Church, Newark.
Cotton Funeral Home on Lyons Newark, New Jersey, is handling arrangements. WILLIAMS Miss Marion L. Williams of Friendship Manor, formerly of Barboursville. Va. and Gatesville, N.C., passed away Wednesday.
She was a former schoolteacher in North Carolina but had made her home for a number of years in Barboursville with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Williams. She is survived by a niece, Mrs.
Thomas A. Scott, several cousins. Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Evergreen Cemetery with Dr. John Wesley Newman officiating.
Arrangements by Oakey's, Roanoke. STAUNTON After two hours of deliberation an Augusta County Circuit Court jury Wednesday convicted Mona Knisely, 26, of arson for insurance fraud. Judge William Moffett sentenced her to five years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. The charge stems from the June 14 fire at her Stuarts Draft residence while both she and her two young sons were in the house. Defense attorney David Garber attacked the testimony of three key prosecution witnesses.
He charged two neighbors, Susan Taylor and Donna Harris, fabricated the story to damage his client. Both women had testified they saw someone leave the Knisely home and spray-paint some writing on the wall shortly before the fire broke out. Mrs. Taylor identified the figure as Mrs. Knisely.
Found painted in red on the side of the house after the fire were the words, "we hate you Mona your God is dead move. Garber said Mrs. Taylor had made up the story to divert possible suspicion from her son, who had been regarded as a suspect early in the investigation. Garber also charged state arson investigator James Jessup with bias against his client and moved that his testimony be stricken. Jessup had testified that the fire had been set from inside a front bedroom and that all the windows in the room had been closed.
The motion was overruled. Garber called that the most damaging testimony against his client. Garber said it's likely he will appeal the case to the State Supreme Court. It's not known if Mrs. Knisely will remain free on bond during that time.
Radford From Page B-1 Ms. Cuculic said she is paying her own way through school and, like most others attending Radford for the riding program, couldn't afford the tuition at Hollins College, Sweet Briar or Southern Seminary, all of which have extensive riding programs and indoor arenas. Radford lacks an indoor arena, estimated to cost $250,000. "Our stabling needs upgrading, too," Ms. Cuculic said, "but we'd all rather see us keep our horses and program and raise the riding fee than lose it all.
"They didn't even discuss it with -the people most concerned. Why not sell or lease part and let us keep the program?" Radford is the only state-supported school that has its own property and horses for a riding program. Other state-supported schools such as Virginia Tech and James Madison University have riding programs conducted at outside facilities. About 150 students each quarter pay $65, in addition to regular tuition, to take riding lessons on the college's 19 horses. Those bringing their own horses to Radford pay $125 monthly boarding fee.
Moore indicated the two riding instructors, Sue Bibb and assistant Heidi Ericksen-Crigger, would be retained for the full year of their contracts if the farm is sold. He said the college was investigating the feasibility of continuing the riding program, but not on college grounds with college-owned horses. He said he didn't know whether the two instructors would be retained to teach such a program. By CHUCK BURRESS New River Valley Bureau CHRISTIANSBURG Confessed murderer Chiles Oliver Penn Evans was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after a Montgomery County jury convicted him of first degree murder in the Dec. 31 death Christiansburg gun shop owner Fred B.
Harkrader. Giving more than an hour of bizarre testimony, Evans failed in an attempt to convince the jury he was not guilty by reason of insanity. He has admitted in signed statements to State Police investigators that he killed Harkrader. The jury deliberated for hours before returning guilty verdicts in four charges Evans. In addition to the life sentence for murder, Evans must serve 20 years for statutory burglary, three years for grand larceny and one year for the use of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Judge Kenneth I. Devore instructed that the sentences be served consecutively. Evans, 30, of Richmond, and two accomplices allegedly broke into the Custom Gun Shop Dec. 31 by tearing a hole in the roof. Charged as accomplices were Robert John Volanth and Alan Bolton Mackey, both 28, also of Richmond.
Evans and Mackey allegedly entered the building to steal guns and left Volanth on the roof as a lookout. Evans apparently tripped a burglar alarm at 3:17 a.m. while walking on stairwell inside and when police arrived moments later, he loaded a pistol and hid inside the building while Mackey and Volanth fled. Police called Harkrader's son, Donald, and asked him to let them in to search the building. Police twice searched the twostory building, but did not see Evans, who stood undetected in a shadow.
Finding nothing, the officers left and Harkrader called his father to come to the shop to help patch the roof because it was snowing. Harkrader's son left the shop for 10 minutes to buy coffee at a local convenience store. On his return he found the shop door open and his father did not respond to his shouts. He tripped the burglar alarm and waited for police to return. Harkrader.
was found 1 dead, lying in a pool of blood, with gunshot wounds through his head and chest. Evans testified that he shot Harkrader during an attempt to leave the building undetected. "He spotted me and freaked out," Evans said. "He kicked a door into my gun, then he went into a hall and tried to shoot me." Evans said Harkrader was going for a gun in his coat pocket when "I shot him dead on the Volanth and Mackey were arrested hours later at a downtown bus terminal, but Evans was not arrested until late January, in Chesapeake. Volanth was convicted of first-degree murder Aug.
17 and is serving a 42-year prison sentence for murder, statutory bur- glary, larceny and use of a firearm while commiting a felony. Evans was the only witness called to testify for the defense and his attorneys attempted to convince the jury of his insanity by his performance on the stand. Evans claimed he had been adjudged insane on four previous occasions at the ages of 10, 13, 14 and 19. He has spent time in four mental hospitals in Virginia and testified Wednesday that he had received little treatment at any of the facilities. He said former Circuit Judge W.
S. Jordan judged him to be insane when Evan, was on trial here in 1966 on two counts of auto theft. Evans said psychiatrists have told him that he has no conscience. During his confinement at state mental hospitals it was determined that Evans has an IQ of 143, ranking him as a genius. He said he once scored 280 on an IQ test because he memorized it after he was given the same test frequently.
The defendant said his mental problems began at birth when doctors told his mother he was clinically dead. He claimed to have spent his first 21 months in a hospital where doctors performed three experimental operations on his abdominal tract. As a result of that experience, Evans said, he had a morbid fear of pain and was smaller and weaker than his peers when he later attended school. He said he often acted violently as a child because of a fear of being attacked. An encounter with a child molester at the age of 13 ended his fear of defending himself, Evans said.
"He taught me quite a few things," Evans said, "like walking up and blasting someone (with a gun) until all the bullets are gone. He showed me that I never have to fear again. During final arguments, Montgomery County Commonwealth's Atty. J. Patrick Graybeal, who called Evans an assassin and executioner, asked the jury to "convict this man's hand to the fullest extent of the law and send the rest of him along (to prison) with it." Psychiatrists have determined Evans has an unnatural concept of life and death, he said.
When asked by Graybeal to elaborate, Evans said that fate determines who lives and dies. "If Harkrader's number hadn't come up, he wouldn't be dead," Evans said. In 1966, Evans based an insanity plea on claims that he had a sexual abnormality. He allegedly commited a burglary while wearing a woman's disguise, he said, and "for many years" was a transsexual. Graybeal contended Evans was released four times from mental hospitals because he had received all possible beneficial treatment.
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