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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS" by SUSAN PEEK on Aug. 11, 1991 at 13:58 Eastern,
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Note 3102 by UMNS on Aug. 5, 1996 at 16:47 Eastern (3039 characters).

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Bombing victim, Alice Hawthorne,
was a community activist

                 by United Methodist News Service

     United Methodist Alice Hawthorne received national attention
during the week that followed her death in the bombing at
Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta.
     From the Atlanta of her childhood, the 44-year-old woman had
traveled far, yet died and was buried in the Georgia capital.
     A resident of Albany, Ga., at the time of her death, she was
a member of the small-membership West Town United Methodist Church
there. She had taken her daughter Fallon to the concert in the
park to celebrate her 14th birthday, and they were both struck by
flying shrapnel when the bomb exploded in the early hours of July
27.
     Hawthorne first moved from Atlanta to attend Albany State
University in 1970, but left to serve in the Air Force, including
a stint in Vietnam. Returning to the school more than 20 years
later, she completed her bachelor of science degree in marketing
in 1994.
     The mother of Fallon and 22-year-old Adoria Minor had worked
hard for her community. She brought the Ebony Fashion Fair, which
benefits the United Negro College Fund, back to Albany. She tried
to develop a complex where black young adults could gather, but
had to close it last year when fighting erupted. She was a member
of the city's Chamber of Commerce.
     An ardent fan of the Albany State football team, she
sponsored radio broadcasts of the games.
     Hawthorne was campaign manager for Winfred Dukes's election
bid for the State House of Representatives, an unpaid job she
"evolved" into because she and Dukes shared like views about
education, minority business incentives and community
responsibility, he said.
     Her first marriage had ended in divorce, but her second
marriage of nine years duration, to John Hawthorne, was deemed a
success by their friends. Alice Hawthorne's daughter Adoria worked
with her mother at her restaurant, Fallon's Hot Dog & Ice Cream
Parlor, which was named for her younger daughter.
     Three services were held for Hawthorne. The first was in
Mount Zion Baptist Church in Albany, because West End United
Methodist could not accommodate the approximately 800 people who
strained the capacity of the larger church. 
     "She was a pacesetter. She took the ministry beyond the walls
of the church," said her pastor, the Rev. Willie Lucas, who
celebrated her life at the rite.
     Services in Douglasville and Atlanta followed before
Hawthorne's body reached its final resting place, Westview
Cemetery, about eight miles outside the Olympic Ring in Atlanta.
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