Church, friends help to launch orphanage Barbara Livingston Nackman The Journal News MAHOPAC - Kenneth Storen's dream of opening an orphanage in Lesotho, Africa, for AIDS babies has come true.And he owes his success, he said, to support from family, friends and a Mahopac parish, St. John the Evangelist."We are so busy and charging forward. I owe a lot to people here," he said, sitting on a comfortable couch in his family's...
ABSHIRE David L. Abshire, age 59, of Reynoldsburg, died suddenly at home on Wednesday January 19, 2000. He retired from Lucent Technologies. Founder and flight instructor for Phoenix Flyers, for 25 years. Member of the first class of the United States Air Force Academy, graduated from Ohio State University and received his Master's degree from Capital University. Member Reynoldsburg Lodge 340 F&AM, Walnut Chapter RAM 172, Eugenie Chapter 507 Order of the Eastern Star. He...
During yesterday's funeral for sisters Inez and Linda Lassiter, James March recalled that the 15-year-old known as "Nez" always said: "A baby is God's way of saying the world should go on."Before launching into an a cappella solo that linked "His Eye Is On the Sparrow" and "Silent Night," March looked out at the hundreds of mourning friends, relatives and neighbors...
The Collingswood couple accused of starving their four adopted sons were released from jail early yesterday when friends came up with $10,000 and their pastor offered his house to help make their bail.Even as Raymond and Vanessa Jackson were reunited with four of their biological adult children at church while congregants clapped and wept, a spokesman for Come Alive! New Testament Church in Medford said the family had agreed to an exclusive deal with CBS News to try to convince the country...
Lexington BASTIN, Barbara Ward, 75, died Wed., Feb. 9, 2005. Services, 10:30 am Mon., Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Friends may call 4-8 pm Sun., at W.R. Milward Mortuary-Southland. www.milwardfuneral.com CALDWELL, Allen Dean, 46, departed this life Tues., Feb. 8, 2005, at St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington. He was born July 22, 1958 in Hannibal, MO, to the late Imogene and Caleb Caldwell Sr. He did love the Lord, and was a loving father and brother. Allen was an employee of...