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THURSDAY. MARCH 10, 1988—THE CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK, TEXAS—PAGE FIVE
Task Force schedules hearing
on AIDS at Angelina College
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Cherokee County residents have
been invited to attend a Legislative
Task Force on AIDS public hearing
from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at the
Angelina College Fine Arts
Auditorium in Lufkin. The college is
located on Highway 59 South of
Lufkin.
The East Texas Regional Hearing
at Lufkin is one of eight regional
hearings scheduled across the state
to obtain information on perceived
needs and recommendations in
relation to the Task Force's charge.
The Legislative Task Force on AIDS
is also interested in learning about
what coordinated and or
cooperative efforts exist among
local organizations.
Obituaries
Willie Wayne Hopkins
Funeral for Willie Wayne
Hopkins, 58, of Zavalla, formerly of
Rusk, was held at 2:30 p.m. Monday
at the Zavalla First United Pen-
tecostal Church with the Rev. Joe
Poe and the Rev. Thomas Wain-
wright officiating. Burial was in the
Zavalla Cemetery.
Mr. Hopkins was born Nov. 23,
1929, at Zavalla. He died March 5 in
a Houston hospital. He was an
Angelina County resident most of
his life, but had resided in Cherokee
County for 20 years. He was a
member of the First United Pen-
tecostal Church at Zavalla and ser-
ved in the U.S. Army during the
Korean Conflict. He was retired
fromA.M.P.I.
Survivors include his wife,
Rosalie Hopkins of Zavalla; a
daughter, Janet Anne Gates of
Alto; his parents, Warren and
Jimmie Hopkins of Zavalla; two
sisters, Laura Mae Terrell of Tom-
ball and Yvonne Buford of Hun-
tington; four brothers, Dan
Hopkins, Edward Hopkins and J. P.
Hopkins, all of Zavalla and Jimmie
Hopkins of Tomball; two step-
daughters, Cheryl Paris of Bridge
City and Sandy Speakman of
Missouri; seven grandchildren and
a number of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Paul Paris,
Terence Hopkins, Kevin Hopkins,
Richárd Hopkins, Curtis Hollis,
t pelha^n Jones, P^rl Hopkins, Ed-
win Buford, Billy Terrell and Doug
Holland.
Mrs. Margaret Singletary
Funeral for Mrs. Margaret
Singletary, 72, of Alto was at 2 p.m.
Wednesday in St. Thomas Chapel
A.M.E. Church with the Rev. E. G.
Reed and the Rev. Herman Martin
officiating.
Burial was in St. Thomas Chapel
Cemetery in Alto under direction of
O.T. Allen & Son Funeral Home.
Mrs. Singletary died Saturday in a
Houston hospital after a long illness.
A lifetime resident of Alto, she was
a member of St. Thomas A.M.E.
Church where she served as an adult
Sunday school teacher. She was
president of the stewardess board, a
trustee and a member of the
missionary society.
She is survived by three sons, Billy
R. Singletary of Lufkin, Kenneth W.
Singletary of Prairie View, and
David L. Singletary of Alto; five
daughters, Ola M. Morrison, Edna
M. Crain, Patricia Johnson and
Janet Christopher of Alto, and
Sharon Wolf of Houston; two
brothers, Earnest Palmar of Dallas,
and Archie Palmar of Fort Worth;
six sisters, Susie Rose, Nancy
Hamilton and Ethel Tucker of Alto,
Otha Collins of Fort Worth, Ruth
Quinn of Houston and Lois Tidwell of
Dallas; 20 grandchildren; and nine
greatgrandchildren.
Pallbearers were Robert Wolf,
Bobby Christopher, J. W. Johnson,
Joe Crain, Britton Tilley and Rollie
Skinner.
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James Gardiner
Services for James Henry Gar-
diner, 73, Rusk, was at 3 p.m. Thur-
sday in Wallace-Thompson Funeral
Home Chapel in Rusk with the Rev.
Dr. Doyle Riley officiating.
Burial was in Hendrick Cemetery.
Mr. Gardiner died Tuesday in a
Lufkin hospital after a lengthy
illness.
He was born July 9, 1914, in Rusk
and lived in Rusk 10 years and was a
veteran of World War II. He was a
retired baker for Rainbow Bakery
and a member of the Bakery and
Confectionary Union and Industry,
Adams Chapel Church in Beulah. He
was a farmer and worked for
Southern Pine Lumber Co.
Survivors include his wile, Mrs.
Maxinc Gardiner, Rusk; a brother,
Norris Gardiner, lluntsville; three
sisters, Mamie Durham, Beaumont,
Muurinc Sco.lt, Alto, and Mildred
Day, M esquite; three gran-
dchildren, Anthony James Gar-
diner, Marion Wayne Gardiner Jr.
and Juan Carlos Gardiner,
lluinacao, Puerto Rico; and several
iii'ves and nephews
Nephews were pallbearers
The task force will develop
recommendations for public
policies .needed to dramatically
reduce the current and projected
long term impact of AIDS in Texas.
The State of Texas ranks fourth
nationally in the number of persons
diagnosed with the disease, a
catastrophic illness which is one of
the greatest public health crises of
the century. In addition to the im-
mense human suffering caused by
AIDS, the rapid escalation of tire
disease has resulted in serious
economic pressures on state and
local governments, public and non-
profit hospitals and other providers
of health and social services.
The special task force was appoin-
ted by Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby
and House Speaker Gibson D. (Gib)
Lewis to assess the economic burden
of AIDS and Human Im-
monodeficiency Virus (HIV) infec-
tion in Texas, make recommen-
dations regarding the health and
social services needed by persons
with AIDS and HIV infection and
determine the State's role in finan-
cing such services, the Legislative
Task Force on AIDS will present its
findings and recommendations to
the 71st Legislature when it con-
venes in January 1989.
Testimony and suggestions will be
welcomed at the hearing. To the
maximum extent possible, the task
force will try to accommodate the
schedule of persons wanting to
testify. Persons unable to present
testimony at the public hearing can
submit their written comments to
the Legislative Task Force on AIDS,
P. O. Box 12068, Austin, 78711.
An interpreter for the deaf will be
available during the first two hours
of the hearing to assist persons with
hearing impairments in presenting
their testimony.
Charge made to the Task Force on
AIDS include giving particular at-
tention to an assessment of the
current and anticipated economic
burden of AIDS in Texas; an
assessment of the current public and
private resources and programs to
assist in identifying the current and
future health care and social service
needs of persons with AIDS and HIV
infections; to study ways to de-
velop the human and institutional
resources needed to provide a con-
tinuum of care, home health care
programs, nursing homes, acute
care hospitals for persons with AIDS
and HIV infection; defining the
state's role in financing the cost of
caring for AIDS patients, study
alternative methods of financing to
enhance the accessibility
availabilty, and cost effectiveness of
AIDS health care services; and to
report findings and recommen-
dations to the 71st Legislature.
Questions can be directed to the
task force's office at 512-463-0002.
The Distinguished Service Award,
highest given by the Texas
Historical Commission, and a Cer-
tificate of Merit have been earned by
the Cherokee County Historical
Commission for historical preser-
vation work done in 1967, the state
commission has announced.
The Distinguished Service Award
will be presented to the commission
chairman during the annual
Preservation Conference in Brown-
sville in April at the awards lun-
cheon session. The Certificate of
Merit for preservation of East Texas
history will be announced at the
same meeting but will be presented
to the commission during its annual
All-History Dinner May 31 in
Jacksonville. Curtis Tunnell,
executive director of the Texas
Historical Commission, will present
the certificate.
11 historical commission entered
four categories of the Distinguished
Service Award competition and all
four entries were winners, accor-
ding to Mrs. Cindy Sherrell-Leo,
director of the DSA competition.
The DSA entries were on county
courthouses, by Terry Guinn;
historical photographs, by Grady
Singletary; historical cemeteries,
by Mrs. Mary Taylor ; and historical
commission structure, by John
Allen Templeton. The entries in-
cluded a history of the Cherokee
County courthouses since the county
w$« organized in 1846, copying
historical photographs and
establishing an archive of those
photographs, a record and map of all
cemeteries in the county, and details
of the way the Cherokee County
Historical Commission is organized,
operates, and is funded.
Mrs. Henry Rose directed the DSA
projects along with her work as
chairman of the historical markers
program, a continuing activity of
the commission. Organization for
the 1988 work DSA competition is
already in progress by Mrs. Rose.
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