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Tallahassee Democrat Sunday, July 20, 1997 11B Floiuda Obituaries PUNTA CORDA LOCAL OBITUARIES A native of Randolph, he had lived in Tallahassee since 1983. He was a retired floor finisher and was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Bennie R. Brown of Tallahassee; a stepdaughter, Joyce Cushing of Tallahassee; six stepgrandchildren; and 12 stepgreat-grandchildren. Emma K.

Gardner Emma K. "Kay" Gardner, 82, of Tallahassee died Thursday. The service will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. John's Episcopal Church.

Family will receive friends following the service at the church. A native of Jacksonville, she had lived in Tallahassee since 1964. She had retired from the Tallahassee Democrat as the Women's Page editor and had run the Artist Series at Florida State University. She was a member of the Tallahassee Garden Club, and was an Episcopalian. She is survived by a son, Michael S.

Duke of Tallahassee; a daughter, Mary G. Flanagan of Tallahassee; and two grandchildren. (Culley's MeadowWood Riggins Road Chapel, 877-8191.) Mary Frances Harrison Mary Frances Harrison, of Albany, died Friday. The service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Long Branch Cemetery.

A native of Cairo, and former resident of Grady County, she was a homemaker. She was a member of Bible Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. She is survived by her husband, Jason Harrison of Albany; a daughter, Rebecca H. Bratcher of Albany; five grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. (Miller-Cooper Funeral Home in Cairo, 912-377-2112.) Johnson David Hawkins Memorial contributions for Johnson David Hawkins, 74, of Carrabelle, who died Wednesday, may be made to the Franklin County Humane Society, P.O.

Box 697, Carrabelle, FL LI IF mm. 32322; or to the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch, Boys Ranch, FL 32060. His survivors include 13 grandchildren. (Kelley-Riley Funeral Home in Carrabelle, 697-3366.) Ethel Lee Hunter Ethel Lee Hunter, 73, of Perry died Friday following an extended" illness. The service was held Saturday at San Pedro Baptist Church Cemetery in Perry.

A native of Nashville, she was a longtime resident of Taylor County. She was the former owner of Hunters Grocery in Perry, and was a member of San Pedro Baptist Church. She is survived by a son, Jimmie G. Taylor of Perry; a brother, Jessie Massey of Perry; two sisters, Rosa Lee Ellenburg of Valdosta, and Betty Jean Haskell of Dallas; four grandchildren; and two greatgrandchildren. (Joe P.

Burns Funeral Home in Perry, 850-584-4149.) 1 Mable Mills Sellars Mable Mills Sellars, 76, of Bain-bridge, died Friday in Tallahassee. The service will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Cox Funeral Home in Bain-bridge (912-24 644 11), with burial dt Brinson Cemetery in Decatur County, Ga. Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

A native of Decatur County and former resident of Tallahassee, she had lived in Bainbridge for 36 years. She had been a waitress at Dairyco in Bainbridge, had worked for Gee's Drive Inn in Bainbridge, and was a homemaker. She is survived by five sons, Alvin Sellars, Rodney P. Sellars, Dwain Sellars and Kyle Sellars, all of Bainbridge, and Steve Sellars of Floral City; two daughters, Faye Kosemund of Cleveland, and Marlene Ingram of Bainbridge; a sister, Mae Eidson of Tallahassee; 13 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and her ex-husband, Oscar A. Sellars of Tallahassee.

Jaclyn Flynn Bibler Jaclyn Flynn Bibler, 66, of Tallahassee died Saturday. Private services are planned. Memorial contributions may be made to Big Bend Hospice, 1723 Mahan Center Tallahassee 32308-5428. A native of Valparaiso, she had lived in Tallahassee since 1994. She was a registered nurse.

She is survived by a son, Barton Bibler of Tallahassee; a daughter, Ivy Bibler of Ormond Beach; her mother, Kathryn Brulls of Tallahassee; a brother, John Flynn of Phoenix; and four grandchildren. (Fairchild Burial Cremation Service, 386-8686.) Mary Kate Blount Mary Kate Blount, 59, of Madison died Saturday. The service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at TJ. Beggs Jr.

Sons Funeral Home in Madison (973-2258), with burial at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Family will receive friends'from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Big Bend Hospice, 1723 Mahan Center Tallahassee 32308-5428. A native of Madison and former resident of Quincy, she was a secretary for Dr.

Harrison and Dr. DuRant in Madison, and was a member of Grace Presbyterian Church in Madison. She is survived by her husband, Harry Blount of Madison; a son, Danny Blount of Madison; a daughter, Kathy B. Norris of Tallahassee; four brothers, Ed Bland and Gerald Bland, both of Madison, Stanley Bland of Lee, and Bruce Bland of Quitman, and four grandchildren. Truly L.

Brown Truly Brown, 89, of Tallahassee died Saturday. The service will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Fellowship Baptist Church, with burial at Tallahassee Memory Gardens. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m.- today at Culley's MeadowWood Riggins Road Chapel (877-8191). Need a lift? Dusty Berlew, 14, of Punta Gorda, flips over Pat Engelhardt, 14, of Port Charlotte, during a Charlotte County Police Athletic League in-line skating, skateboarding and BMX bike session in Punta Gorda on Saturday.

The weekly events include competitions on nine ramps and skid rails. Prizes are awarded to competitors with the most points at the end of the summer. CHRISTIAN FUCHSThe Associated Press TOBACCO STOCKS SARASOTA Hie evil' weevil is devouring bromeliads A weevil isn't picky about the bromeliads it eats it can be one in the wild or a rare one in a cherished garden. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARASOTA Gardeners are calling it the evil weevil a pest insect that's devouring bromeliads. A Broward County nursery worker found the first weevil in 1989.

Researchers think it arrived in a contaminated shipment of bromeliads from Mexico. The pests have spread across the state. "I lost a plant just this week," said Buddy Worley, who has several thousand bromeliads growing on his property in Manatee County. "The weevil bored a hole right in it and the plant just fell apart." Officially known as Metamasius callizona, the insect doesn't care what kind of bromeliad it eats, whether it's a rare species in someone's garden or one growing in the wild. Aside from private gardens in Charlotte, Sarasota and Manatee counties, the insect has been found in Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota, which has one of the most extensive collections of bromeliads in the world.

The bugs also are attacking wild bromeliads. "We've got 16 kinds of native bromeliads in Florida and they're all in danger," said bromeliad grower Wally Berg. "And you know what? Nobody gives a hoot. But if they had an orange on them, man, we'd be spending millions or billions." J.H. Frank, professor and researcher for the University of Florida's Entomology and Neonatology Department in Gainesville, does care.

"The best kind of something I can think of is to go to the homelands of this weevil, find a specialized natural enemy, bring it back, make sure it's absolutely safe, and then release it in Florida," Frank said. "And then hope it kills this weevil." He's been looking for eight years. "I made a trip to Mexico in 1992 and got nowhere," he said. "I made a trip to Panama in 1994 and didn't get very far, but there is something going on in Honduras that shows promise." That promise is a parasitic fly that latches onto and kills the weevil. The research isn't complete yet, but Frank is hopeful.

If all goes well, he said flies could be set free in Florida by December 1998, but before that can happen, Frank will need the approval of a slew of state and federal bureaucrats. "There are people looking over our shoulders all the time," he said. "If I mess up, if I do something wrong, my career is gone, so I'm going to take care. We're going to make sure this fly wouldn't even hurt a native weevil." The state isn't contributing any money, so Frank is getting by on." donations from Florida's various bromeliad societies. "We raised more than $800 at a' plant auction," said Bob LaRoe, president of the Sarasota Bromeliad Society, which draws members from Palmetto to Ft.

Myers. "We felt we needed to help. "A bromeliad can be a whole ecosystem of its own," LaRoe said. State sells millions in tobacco holdings Sir James Goldsmith, financier Sir James Goldsmith, the cosmopolitan billionaire who formed his own political party to crusade against European unification, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 64.

Goldsmith's i The state is holding off on selling its remaining i shares until the prices edge a bit higher. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1- Florida has sold about $650 mil jpr i loved ones his wife, ex-wife, mistress and his eight children were "united in grief," said his British spokesman, Patrick Robertson. The maverick financier, homes in four Goldsmith who owned five DEATHS victory by Tony Blair's Labor Party. Blair and Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative former prime minister, joined in paying tribute to a man she called "one of the most powerful and dynamic personalities that this generation has seen." Said Blair, "Though I didn't always agree with his political views, obviously, he was an amazing and interesting, fascinating man." Carl fllavey, civil rights lawyer Carl Maxey, a scrappy civil rights lawyer credited with virtually singlehandedly desegregating much of the inland Northwest, has died in Spokane, where he had long been known as the city's leading criminal defense attorney and a pre-eminent civic leader. He was 73.

The police said Maxey died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home and left no note. Relatives declined to speak to reporters, and detectives closed the investigation without having determined a motive. He was at once eastern Washington's first black lawyer and one who became so adept at using litigation to break down racial barriers at restaurants, private clubs, and other establishments that he claimed some of his most significant victories simply by threatening to sue. Along the way, Maxey won such widespread admiration that he became a member of the city's power elite, serving on a host of civic and corporate boards. He defended prominent white defendants in some of the city's most celebrated criminal cases, but he also represented many obscure black clients and others without charge.

Earl Albrecht, health commissioner 'Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Alaska's first full-time health commissioner and a legendary physician from territorial days, has died in Braden-ton. He was 92. Albrecht founded an international organization to share medical information among circumpo-lar regions.

The 25-nation group is now known as the International Union for Circumpolar Health. Albrecht came to Alaska in 1935 and became the sole doctor at a new settlement of 202 families at Palmer, a rural outpost 50 miles north of Anchorage. After serving in the Army during World War II, he became the territory's first full-time health commissioner. He later became assistant director for mental health and correction in Ohio and Pennsylvania's deputy secretary of health. William Reynolds, film editor Academy Award-winning film editor William Reynolds has died in South Pasadena, of cancer.

He was 87. In a 60-year career, he edited and helped edit 80 films ranging from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to musicals such as "Carousel," "Hello Dolly" ar "South Pacific" to epics suih as "The Godfather." He won Oscars foi "The Sound of Music" and "The Sting." Democrat news services resents 78 percent of Florida's tobacco investment. Florida's public pension account is the nation's fifth largest, and its tobacco holdings made it by far the biggest fund yet to divest tobacco Since Florida's move, Vermont has agreed to divest its $18 million in tobacco stock. Maryland last year sold its $77 million tobacco investment, and New York and Massachusetts have stopped buying cigarette stocks, although they have not divested existing shares. The 16 million shares Florida sold included 10 million shares of Philip Morris, which also owns Kraft Foods Inc.

and Miller Brewing Co. Some 10 million shares of Philip Morris stock are traded daily, so Florida's selling over the course of a month was hardly noticed, said Amy Wilson, who tracks the industry for the nonprofit Investor Responsibility Research Center. "No matter what, there's still plenty of buyers for (tobacco) stocks," Wilson said. Chiles pushed the state to unload its tobacco holdings, saying he did not want to go to trial with the industry in August in a compromised position: attacking cigarette makers at the same time the state profited from them. "This is a swift move that will ensure taxpayers and pensioners are protected," said April Herrle, a Chiles spokeswoman.

"They sold it when it got to a high point," Nelson said, adding that was just what the board intended. During the past 40 years, Philip Morris has been a standout stock providing investors with annual returns of 20.2 percent making it the single most profitable large U.S. stock, according to analysts. lion worth of tobacco stock in the last month, severing the bulk of its financial ties with cigarette makers. The divestiture took just days after a late May vote by the board that oversees the state's $69 billion pension fund, The Orlando Sentinel reported.

A remaining $185 million in cigarette stock is being held until tobacco share prices are higher, Peter Collins, an investment manager with the State Board of Administration, said. Failing to ride last week's market surge, tobacco stocks remained a few dollars lower Friday than in early June when the state sold most of its holdings, Collins said. Board members Gov. Lawton Chiles and Treasurer Bill Nelson ordered the divestiture May 28 in a 2-1 vote, over opposition from Comptroller Bob Milligan. Florida aggressively went to market before the June 20 announcement of a proposed $368 billion settlement between tobacco companies and 40 states, including Florida, that are suing the industry to recover public money spent on treating sick smokers.

"To some degree, it's a surprise (Florida) has done this so fast," said Rob Norfleet, a tobacco analyst with Davenport a Richmond, brokerage. "Usually when a major investor looks to get out of an investment position, it's stretched out over a period of months or longer." The $650 million sold so far rep countries, died at his Spanish villa near Marbella. Robertson said Goldsmith suffered a heart attack brought on by the debilitation of pancreatic cancer. Son of a British Jewish father and French Catholic mother, Goldsmith was a citizen of both countries and lived a life without borders. But he abhorred the European Union as a German-dominated threat to British sovereignty.

Keeping secret a recurrence of cancer and chemotherapy treatment, Goldsmith spent $32 million founding a party and fighting a vigorous campaign against British membership in the EU. His Referendum Party won no seats in the House of Commons in Britain's May. I election. However, attracting right-wing support, it helped bury the long-governing Conservative Party in a landslide PLANT A LIVING MEMORY Dedicate a tree or planting area in honor or in memory of a loved one at the New Hospice Center. Call for details.

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