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"UNITED METHODIST DAILY NEWS" by SUSAN PEEK on Aug. 11, 1991 at 13:58 Eastern,
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NOTE:  This story may be used as a sidebar to the year-end wrapup
story UMNS #606 {3318}.

Prominent United Methodists
die during 1996

     Bishops Ernest T. Dixon and Paul Hardin Jr., country comedian
Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon), journalist Arthur J.
Moore, and presidential advisor Arthur S. Flemming were among
prominent United Methodists who died during 1996.
     Dixon retired in 1992; Hardin in 1972. Moore retired in 1987
after serving for 34 years as editor of New World Outlook mission
magazine. Flemming had served as advisor to presidents from FDR to
Reagan and was head of the U.S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare during the Eisenhower Administration.  He was also
president of two colleges and the National Council of Churches.  
     Other episcopal family members who died during the year were
Billye Underwood, widow of Bishop Walter Underwood; Mary Jane
Tullis, wife of retired Bishop Edward L.Tullis; Annie Belle
Taylor, wife of retired Bishop Prince Albert Taylor; and Katherine
Higgins Howard, widow of Bishop Paul E.V. Shannon and Bishop J.
Gordon Howard.
     Among well-known political figures who died during the year
was former Iowa Gov. Howard Hughes.
     United Methodist educators who died in 1996 included the Rev.
Grant S. Shockley, retired faculty member at Duke University
Divinity School and former president of Philander Smith College,
Little Rock, Ark., and the Interdenominational Theological Center,
Atlanta; Broadus N. Butler, president of Dillard University in New
Orleans from 1969 to 1973; and the Rev. Ralph L. Woodward,
president of United Methodist-related Central Methodist College,
Fayette, Mo., from 1950 to 1970.      
     The Rev. Gusta A. Robinette, the first woman district
superintendent, appointed while serving in the Sumatra (Indonesia)
Conference in 1959, died during the year.
     Several retired and active staff members of churchwide
agencies died during 1996: the Rev. Eugene Stockwell, pastor,
missionary to Latin America and leader in the world ecumenical
community; Donald A. Theuer, former vice president of the United
Methodist Publishing House; Dwight E. Newberg, a retiree of the
Board of Discipleship;  Lula M. Garrett, staff member of the Board
of Global Ministries; Ladonna Bogardus and Edward D. Staples, both
retired staff members of the Board of Discipleship; the Rev. Bruno
Caliandro, original producer-director of the "Catch the Spirit" 
United Methodist television series and more recently director of
new program development at United Methodist Communications; the
Rev. A. Dudley Ward, retired General Secretary of the Board of
Church and Society.
     United Methodists mourned the loss of several church members
who died in airline crashes during the year. Five youth members of
Faith United Methodist Church in Montoursville, Pa., were among 16
high school students from that community who died July 17 in the
crash of TWA flight 800. 
     Among those killed in the crash of ValuJet flight 592 in the
Everglades the Saturday before Mothers Day were two members of St.
James Paseo United Methodist Church in Kansas City, three members
of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Gainesville, Ga., seven
members of the Mt. Pisgah UMC in Alpharetta, Ga., and a couple
from Miami who were on the way to Atlanta to attend their
granddaughter's graduation from United Methodist-related Emory
University.  
     Adam Darling, son of the Rev. Darrell Wayne Darling, retired
United Methodist clergyman living in Santa Cruz, Calif., was one
of the Americans killed in the crash of a U.S. military plane near
Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 3. 
     Alice Hawthorne, killed in the bomb explosion at the Olympics
Centennial Park in Atlanta July 27, was a member of West Town
United Methodist Church, Albany, Ga.
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