In Memory of Rev. John M. Shuler, Chaplain, U.S. Army Air Corps

Rev. John M. Shuler, 92, of Paris, TX died at 11:30 AM, Saturday, March 22, 2008 in Paris. Funeral services are set for 11:00 AM, Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at the New World United Methodist Church in Garland.

Rev. Shuler was born February 4, 1916 in New Market, TN to P.L. and Alma Wills Shuler. He graduated from New Castle High School and the seminary of Southern Methodist University. Rev. Shuler married Leora "Skip" Thronburg on February 7, 1934 in Tulsa, OK. She died May 6, 2006.

After graduation from the seminary, Rev. Shuler was assigned to the Cuthand circuit, then to Calvary Methodist Church in Paris. During World War II, he attended chaplain training at Harvard University and served as chaplain for the 507 Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps. Upon his return home from the war, he served as minister at Lakewood Methodist Church in Dallas eventually assigned to the First Methodist Church of Paris.

Rev. Shuler was the assistant executive director of Goodwill Industries for the next two years. He then returned to the ministry as minister of the Cockrell Hill Methodist Church in Dallas retiring from the Casa Linda Methodist Church. After his retirement, he was asked to fill-in as the pastor at College Mound Methodist Church and stayed for three years.

Rev. Shuler is survived by his daughter, Linda K. Swaim and husband, Freddy of Paris; six grandchildren, John Emory Shuler and wife, Staci of Gilmer, Jeri Lynn Brown and husband, Jeff of Whitehouse, Kelly Ann Swaim of Burgin, Kentucky, Tracy Leigh Schweizer and husband, Ben of Tyler, Robert L. Swaim, IV of Paris, and Frederick "Ricky" Swaim, II of Paris; seven great-grandchildren, Sunni Ann Shuler, Leora Shuler, Blake Bolton, Elizabeth Bolton, Drew Brown, Lydia Schweizer, and Zachary Swaim; one brother, Phil Shuler of Temple; and one sister, Helen French of Round Rock. He was preceded in death by his parents; his son, James C. Shuler; and two brothers, James Shuler and Bob Shuler. Pallbearers will be Glenn Martin, Jeff Paige, Les Shuler, Gerald Lancaster, Tony Harris, and Tommy Townsend.

Honorary pallbearers are members of the 507 Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps, Rev. Ken Shamblin, Rev. Gene Wisdom, and Rev. Ben Shinn. Memorials may be made to the Haiti Missions, 118 Courtland, Rockford, Michigan 49341. Online condolences may be made to the Shuler family by visiting www.fry-gibbs.com.

In Memory of Raymond Saunders Wunsch, United States Navy

Raymond Saunders Wunsch, 89, of Paris passed away Wednesday December 19, 2007 in Paris Regional Medical Center. He was born on June 2, 1918 in Paris a son of Joseph W. & Bonnie Saunders Wunsch.

In 1939 Raymond became a partner in Joe W. Wunsch Mens Wear, located on the southeast side of the Plaza, a business he’d been around all of his life. The business was opened by his father on June 17, 1910. Following graduation from Paris High School, he attended Paris Junior College for two years before moving on to the University of Texas. He continued in an active role in the business, with the exception of a return visit to the University of Texas to earn his BBA degree in 1941 and to spend 3 ½ years with the U.S. Navy as a task unit commander and as administrative assistant to the commanding officer of Navy personnel stationed in Cuba. Raymond eventually completed his Navy tour and returned to Paris on January 2, 1946. He closed the store in 1990, after 80 years, making it at the time the oldest continuing family owned business in Paris.

Active in community affairs, he served as president of the Paris Jaycees, served as national director of the Jaycees, president of the Kiwanis Clubs, secretary of National Kiwanis for Texas and Oklahoma, a member of the Rotary Club receiving the Paul Harris fellow, president of the Paris Civic Music Club, had been active in Paris Little Theater serving as president, the Paris Parks Council, Rotary, and served as treasurer of the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he had served on the Paris City Council and is a past president of the Paris Junior College Board of Regents.

He also served as first president of the Paris Little League Baseball Association , and had served for 36 years as a Sunday School teacher at the First United Methodist Church where he was a member. He had served as president of the UT ex-student assoc. and the PJC ex-student association. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon at the University of Texas. Raymond was the oldest living member of the Paris Golf and Country Club and he was also a columnist for the Lamar County Echo (Random Thoughts) and the Paris News (Meditations). He was also a member of the Lions Club, the Masonic Lodge, and remained a diehard Texas Longhorn fan.

He married Camille Cameron Wunsch on June 28, 1946 in Paris. She preceded him in death on November 7, 2003. He was also preceded in death by a daughter Bonnie Dhu Wunsch in 1960, his parents, his step-mother Elizabeth Wunsch, and a brother Joe W. Wunsch, Jr. in 1936.

He is survived by sons Robert Wunsch and wife Robin of Paris, Cameron Wunsch and wife Heather of Trophy Club, Tx.; grandchildren Melinda Wakefield of Forgan, Ok., Jason Wunsch of Bartlesville, Ok., Katie Wunsch and Sarah Wunsch of Athens, Ga., Daniel Wunsch of Bartlesville, Ok., Aston Wunsch and Evan Wunsch of Trophy Club; great grandchildren Matthew & Bryan Morris and McKenzie Wakefield.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 P.M. Friday in the chapel of Fry- Gibbs Funeral Home with Rev. Van Lazaroff officiating. Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery with Jason Wunsch, Homer Thornton, Derald Bulls, Kirk Kyle, Robert Thornburrow and John Fuston serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be John Goode and Bob Thornburrow.

If desired, in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Scottish Rite Hospital for children, 2222 Welborn Street, Dallas, TX 75219.

Online condolences maybe sent to the Wunsch family by visiting www.fry-gibbs.com.

In Memory of Quincy Alan Hazelwood, 36th Infantry Division

QUINCY ALAN HAZLEWOOD 90, of Paris, died at 10:15 PM, Saturday, January 26, 2008 at Paris Regional Medical Center. A funeral service has been set for 2:00 PM, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 in the chapel of Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home with Rev. Van Lazaroff officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1:00-2:00 PM prior to the service on Tuesday. Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Hazlewood was born April 14, 1917 in Fort Towson, Oklahoma to Columbus Clayton and Lela Abigail Merriott Hazlewood. He graduated from Paris High School and Paris Junior College. Mr. Hazlewood married Zoe Huddle on November 30, 1940 in Durant, Oklahoma. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and it’s Couples Sunday School Class.

Mr. Hazlewood served in the US Army for 20 years retiring as a Captain. He served during World War II in the Army, 36th Infantry Division, Battery A, 132nd Field Artillery.
Mr. Hazlewood was a lifetime member of the Military Order of Purple Heart, Chapter 612; Disabled American Veterans; National Association of Uniformed Services; Veterans of Foreign Wars; American Legion; Sons of Confederate Veterans; and the 36th Division US Army Association.

After his retirement from the military, Mr. Hazlewood was a postal worker and worked for several years for Mr. Cotton McDowell and Biard Oil Company enjoying the many friends he came in contact with at the Phillips gas station on Lamar Avenue.

Mr. Hazlewood is survived by his wife, Zoe Huddle Hazlewood of Paris; two sons, John Quincy Hazlewood of Paris and William Roy Hazlewood and wife, Patti of Dallas; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant sister.

Pallbearers will be William Roy Hazlewood, Clay Hazlewood, Brian Alan Hazlewood, J.C. Howell, Burt Cain, Bob Groves, and Jerome Chapman.

In Memory of Willaim Riley Belcher, 102d Infantry Division

BELCHER,, WILLIAM RILEY Born November 25, 1921 in Millard, Kentucky, passed away May 16, 2006 in Dallas, Texas. He was a loving husband and father. He was a civil engineer who spent his career in the oil exploration industry.

He traveled the United States and many other parts of the world. His specialty was the construction of offshore drilling platforms. He was a member of Lovers Lane United Methodist Church. He served our country actively during WWII and Korea; additionally he spent time in the Army Reserve as retired as a Lt. Colonel.

His other personal interest was with the Renner Frankford Library. Survivors include his wife Alice Ann Belcher; son William R. Belcher, Jr. and his wife Lynn C. Belcher; granddaughter Stacy Lynn Belcher; grandson Patrick Scott Belcher; great granddaughter Riley Kate Belcher.

The family will receive friends at Sparkman/Hillcrest on Thursday May 18th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Funeral services are at 2:00 p.m. Friday May 19th in Sparkman/Hillcrest Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will follow in Hillcrest Mausoleum. Memorials may be made to the Renner Frankford Library Friends, 16131 Red Cedar Tr., Dallas, Texas 75248 or to Benton Garden at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church or to the charity of your choice.

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In Memory of Thelma Christine Knowles Lightfoot, USO Maxey Command

THELMA CHRISTINE LIGHTFOOT, 83, of Paris, passed from this life on Friday May 30, 2008. Funeral services were conducted at 11:00 a.m. on Monday June 2, 2008 in the chapel of Starrett Funeral Home with Rev. Bob Bush and Rev. Sharon Clepper officiating. Interment is in Evergreen Cemetery.

Thelma, known affectionately by grandchildren as “Mimi,” was born November 19, 1924 in the Viewpoint community of Lamar County, a daughter of Tom and Bessie Roberts Knowles. She was a graduate of the class of 1942 of Paris High School, then a graduate of Paris Junior College.

During WWII she was an active participant in the Maxey Command, a USO group who socialized with the enlisted men at Camp Maxey.  Thelma married her “sweet William” on August 22, 1948. They honeymooned in New Orleans before returning to Austin, where their long honeymoon continued while Thelma worked at the University of Texas Library and William studied architecture.

They returned to Paris, where she was a faithful member of First United Methodist Church, was involved in the Littleton-Hite Bible Club and the Upper Room Sunday School class, along with many hours of volunteer work for the church. She was a longtime volunteer for the March of Dimes and the American Heart Association. As her children grew up, she served as a Room Mother at First Ward Elementary, a Cub Scout Den Mother, and a Brownie and Girl Scout Troop leader, as well as extensive volunteer work for the YWCA and membership in the Good Earth Garden Club. Thelma was the best mother and grandmother one could ever wish for. Her motto was “I just want everybody to be happy.”

Thelma is survived by her husband William; two sons, Philip Lightfoot and wife Deborah, of Dallas and Tom Lightfoot and wife Cindy, of Frisco; two daughters, Julia Lightfoot, of Duluth, MN and Elaine Smith and husband Vernon, of Plano; seven grandchildren, Terri Kay Beshirs, Laura Lightfoot, Candice Shoptaugh, Maxey Mitchell, Alex Smith, Mallory Lightfoot and Kelly Smith; and a sister, Dorothy Rodgers, of Paris.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a brother, Jackie Knowles.

Named to serve as pallbearers are Vernon Smith, Alex Smith, Paul Denney, David Denney, Gary Tolleson and Mike Merritt.

In Memory of Rev. and Mrs. V.O. Kyle by Kay Kyle Wilson

My daddy V.O. Kyle served as a medic in the South Pacific, most notably on Guam, Tinian, and Guadalcanal. He rarely talked about it except to say how much he missed my mother. I have a gorgeous... hand made knife that his good friend George Madding made for him to take with him. 

My mother was a librarian at Camp Maxey during the war and remembered hosting German POWs at their home on Lamar Avenue for Sunday dinner. She said that it was interesting and that they were very young and homesick. 

My ex husband David Kelso's family would not have been in Paris had it not been for Camp Maxey. Jimmy Kelso was a young lieutenant from Alabama who trained there and brought his wife to live there while he was overseas. When the war was over they stayed in Paris. Jimmy Kelso served as a battery commander with George Patton in Germany.

As Told By Kenneth F. Hass, 99th Infantry Division

Frightening panorama along the Rhine By Kenneth F. Haas
Bettendorf, Iowa

I grew up in the small town of Ellis, Kansas during the great depression of the 1930s complete with heat waves, drought and dust storms. We thought such conditions were the norm.

I graduated from Ellis High School in May of 1943. I could have loafed around all summer waiting for my draft notice but I asked for immediate induction. My father was furious - thought I was out of my mind.

I was inducted at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas and because of poor eye-sight was classified as "limited service:. This earned me a basic training as a "medic" at Camp Barkley, Abilene, Texas starting in 100 plus degree temperatures in August, 1943.

Upon finishing these thirteen weeks, I was accepted in the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) and found myself at the University of Arkansas in December, 1943. With the prospect of needing more bodies for the invasion of Europe, this program was closed and over 100,000 "student-soldiers" were sent to largely infantry divisions, in my case the 99th Infantry Division at Camp Maxey, Paris, Texas.

About a third of the division were ex-ASTPers as the division had been raided for replacements. We "quiz kids" were greatly resented by the old- army types and that would not change much until combat put us all in the same boat. After another basic infantry training, we packed up and entrained for Camp Miles Standish, Taunton, Mass. In late August., 1944.

More training and we boarded ship in Boston harbor and sailed for England. While aboard ship, operation "Market Garden" ("A Bridge Too Far") took place and the two St. Louis teams met in the World Series. (my father and uncle attended). Arriving at Plymouth, England, we took the "toy trains" to Dorchester, (once home to novelist Thomas Hardy). We took over barracks once occupied by the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), then fighting in Italy.

About November 1, we boarded ship at Southampton and docked at LeHavre, France, the first full division to debark there since the Germans destroyed the port facilities. We went down rope ladders in full equipment at night and boarded "Red Ball" trucks for the drive across France and Belgium. On November 4, we started passing "Long Tom" (155 mm) artillery firing at the enemy many miles away. After fifteen months, we had arrived at the front.

We were stationed on a line running south from Malmedy through the Ardennes Forest on a "quiet" sector to get us used to battlefield conditions and artillery fire. Some quiet front!!

I had been in a rifle company at Camp Maxey but had been transferred to an anti-tank platoon of Headquarters Company of the 2nd battalion, 395th Inf. Regiment of the 99th Division. Our weapons were 57 mm cannon. By the time we arrived at the front on late 1944, the new German Panther and Tiger tanks had rendered our guns obsolete as an anti-tank weapon We trailed along behind the infantry to use our guns against houses, pill boxes and lighter vehicles. Sometimes we were handed "bazookas" to make attacks with the rifle companies.

We spend a relatively quiet month on line, as intended, watching the Germans across the way sawing wood, hanging out laundry, etc. and occasionally tossing a few mortar shells our way and we returned the favor.

The veteran 2nd Infantry Division was attacking pillboxes in the Siegfried Line, passing right through our lines. We were required to support them and to carry cases of ammunition, dynamite, and K-rations cross icy stream and snowy hills to a short distance from the attacking forces. On the return trip, we often carried litters with recent casualties.

Came December 16 and all hell broke lose. The early morning sky was lighted by searchlights, artillery fire was intense and it was evident our officers were alarmed nd confused. The attack on "Heartbreak Corners" had to be called off after many casualties and the retreat began.

We eventually found ourselves back on Elsenborn Ridge, a key position for preventing further German penetration. To get there, we had to pass through the "twin villages" of Krinkelt and Rockerath, described in stateside papers as "the two most valuable pieces of real estate on earth". These villages were held long enough by the 2nd Division to allow us to pass through and dig in on Elsenborn Ridge. To these brave 2nd Division soldiers, we owe our escaping a trip to German POW cages or worse.

We spent the next month on this ridge and I observed my 20th birthday there in a fox hole. Next we crossed the Rhineland, encountering German resistance along the way and ended on the Rhine River across from Dusseldorf. Sometime later we were loaded on trucks and speeded away on an all- night journey to where we had no idea.

The next morning we passed over a ridge and spread before us was the most awe-inspiring and frightening panorama I ever witnessed.. A couple miles away was the Rhine River and spanning it was the now famous Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen.

German artillery was raining on and about the bridge, frog-men were in the river trying to plant explosives, the new German jets were dropping bombs. The bridge was a railroad bridge, unsuited for truck and tank traffic.. In order to make it passable, large iron plates had been placed across the railroad tracks. As vehicles rumbled over these plates, they were gradually dislodged from the tracks. Engineers had to leave the relative protection of the towers of the bridge and manually lift these plates back on the tracks! Casualties were naturally high and the crews had to be replaced every fifteen minutes. Even so, some went out of their minds.

A single narrow road led from where we were to the bridge a mile or so away. Along this road was numerous vehicles on fire and in various stages of ruin. The field next to the road was covered with bodies covered by shelter halves. Tanks, trucks, jeeps, etc. were lined up awaiting their turn to cross.
At last came our turn, sitting on a pile of 57mm ammunition, our truck raced for the bridge, rattled across nd in a few minutes was under the relative safety of the bluffs on the eastern side of the Rhine. We were among the first troops to cross the Rhine going eastward since the days of Napoleon I. (So I have read).

Gradually the bridge-head was enlarged, American forces surrounded the Ruhr Valley and over 300,000 German soldiers surrendered. I myself escorted over a hundred prisoners to the POW cages, I sitting on top of a German "jeep" and herding my flock along. It was a foolish thing to do as any fanatic in the woods could have shot me from my perch. As we moved along, many Germans came out of the woods and joined the procession.

Next the 99th was transferred from Hodge's First Army to Patton's Third Army and we went barrelingthrough Bavaria, Patton-style, one village after another., white flags (bed sheets usually) hanging from most houses in the hope we might not murder their family or violate their women, as the Nazis had told them. We often jumped from tanks, rushed into houses with panic-stricken inhabitants and shouted "eir, eir" (German for eggs). They came running with baskets and pails of eggs and some tanks must have had a thousand eggs inside. At each brief stop, out would come the frying pans ( also "liberated"), down would come the fence-rails and soon fried eggs were being consumed sans any bread of condiments.

We ended the war at Landshut, Germany, not very far from the birthplace of the author of all of our misery. After three months in a quaint middle-a

In Memory of Frank William Meyer, Sr.

Services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29, at Bright-Holland Funeral Home with Rev. Stephen Carson and Ernie Harris. Burial follows in Evergreen Cemetery.

The family receives friends from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

He was the son of Carl and Veronica Meyer, and was born April 11, 1925, in North Hampton, Pa. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the 99th Infantry, Checkerboard Division. He worked for Babcock’s Auto Supply at stores in Bonham, Dallas and Paris. He then became an insurance agent representing several insurance companies before beginning his career with Campbell Soup Co. which spanned 24 years before his retirement.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one granddaughter, Carla Meyer.

Survivors include his wife of 63 years, Anna Belle Preston Meyer; two sons, Carl Meyer and wife, Kathie, of Paris, and Bill Meyer and wife, Donna of Richardson; a daughter, Cynthia Annette Ohl and husband, Bill, of Pensacola, Fla.; grandchildren, Greg Meyer, Corey Meyer, Melody Glatz, Matthew Meyer, Shaun Ohl and Jason Ohl; great grand-children, Taylor Meyer, Madison and Maci Meyer, Sam Meyer, Alex Aguire, Caroline Aguire, Elaine Glatz, Jared Glatz, and Ethan Ohl; two brothers, Carl Meyer and Eddie Meyer, both of Pennsylvania; and Margaret Cengeri and Annie Esterly both of Pennsylvania.

Casket bearers will be George Preston, Mike Vandever, Corey Meyer, Greg Meyer, Kenneth Rhodes and Matthew Meyer.

To leave a message or tribute for the family please visit www.brighthollandfuneralhome.com.

2011 Article About Former Camp Maxey Nurse Eleanore Ashman

May 24, 2011

By DIANE A. RHODES

Special to The Press-Enterprise

Eleanore Ashman was one of 59,000 registered nurses who volunteered to serve in the

U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Although her orders kept her stateside,

about half of these nurses volunteered to serve at front-line hospitals in overseas war

zones.

"I feel like those women were really in the war, but I had my place, too," said Ashman,
91, of Hemet. "I saw the soldiers before they went off and I saw them when they came
back, some as amputees and such."

After graduating from nursing school in Minnesota, where she was raised as the

youngest of 11 children, Ashman took a job as a surgical nurse at a hospital. She
enlisted in 1943.

 "I felt like it was the right thing to do," she said. "Uncle Sam needed me."

 After a stay in South Dakota, she was sent to Camp Maxey near Paris , Texas, where

soldiers were trained with mock battle conditions.

"We were besieged with cases of pneumonia and meningitis," Ashman recalled.

 "Penicillin had just come in and it saved a lot of our boys."

 She said a book about Army nurses who served at the front lines -- "And If I Perish" by
Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee -- helped remind her of how things
were in the early 1940s. She said the stories in the book mirror those she heard through
letters from colleagues who were in the war zones.

 While in training at Fort Lewis, Wash., Ashman requested to be sent overseas as an air
evacuation nurse because she said she always felt like she should be doing more. But
then the war ended.

 Ashman met her husband, George, while he was a captain in the dental corps. After she
was discharged in 1946, they moved to Inglewood and lived there for 10 years.

 The couple then moved to Hemet and George Ashman opened a dental practice in San
Jacinto. They raised four boys and Ashman now has several grandchildren.

 She began volunteering with the now-defunct Hemet Community Builders and other
organizations. With a background in glee clubs and church choirs, Ashman joined The
Happy Harmoneers about three decades ago. The volunteer singers perform in the
community to raise scholarship funds for local high school students.

In Memory of Hoyle R. Barr

Hoyle R. Barr, 91, of Paris died Friday, Jan. 2, 2009 at Paris Regional Medical Center.

Memorial graveside services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, in Evergreen Cemetery with Father Tim Cherry officiating. Services are under the direction of Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home.

He was born Dec. 7, 1917, in Paris to a family with a long history in Lamar County. He was the son of prominent Paris business owners C. Hoyle and Faith O. Barr. He grew up here and left to join the Marine Corps in 1940.

In the Marines, he served as an officer and aviator, flying dive-bombers, jets and finally helicopters, until his retirement in 1962. He fought in both World War II (Midway, Guadalcanal, Luzon and Mindanao most notably) and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and received two Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star and 12 air medals. His portrait also appeared in Life magazine’s special Midway edition, and was on display at Barr’s Coffee Shop in Paris for years. He had several overseas postings, primarily in the Pacific theater, as well as a stint with Marine Headquarters at the Pentagon. After retiring from the Marine Corps, he first worked as an engineer specialist for LTV in the Dallas area.

He then decided to immerse himself in what he loved most besides his wife, Maidie, and flying: words and ideas. He first received a BA in journalism from the University of Texas at Arlington, and then went on to graduate work at TCU and East Texas State. A jaunty and engaging storyteller, he self-published two books of poetry and yarns (mostly humorous) about his growing years in Paris and his war experiences. His unique way of looking at the world, his sense of humor and a singular way with words won him friends, delighted listeners and periodically led him into mischief all his life. These qualities also created an enduring legacy for his family, bequeathing both talents and vivid memories.

By the time he returned to Paris in 1973, he had begun studying jewelry craft through technical schools and seminars. In 1972, he became a teacher at VOTEC, and then director of the jewelry school at Paris Junior College. He also became a lay reader with Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Paris. He retired again in 1987 and later was elected to the Paris Junior College Hall of Fame, where his portrait resides near that of his wife, also a Hall of Fame winner.

In 2008 his storytelling was again put to good use when representatives of the Library of Congress interviewed him for more than half a day regarding his war experiences.

He is survived (and missed!) by his beloved wife of 65 years, Maidie Sackett Barr; three daughters, Bette Barr, Anne Drake and Kathleen Bryant; grandson, Cory; two granddaughters, Julia and Natalie; and two great-grandchildren.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Paris Junior College scholarship fund.

Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.fry-gibbs.com.