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NEWS-PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1995 5B OBITUARIES DEATHS is To Information printed place a free in listing of the call charge. Deaths 335-0324. column George Abbott, 107, stage legend Lee County neral Chapel. and burial in Rittman, Ohio. ArCARDOZO III, RALPH NUNEZ, rangements by McFarland-Schmidt PETKO, MARY 89, of Fort 72, of Naples, died Wednesday.

No Funeral Home, Cape Coral. Myers, died Tuesday. Arrangements services. Fort Myers Memorial Gardens Arrangements by Hodges Funeral Home. Funeral Chapel.

Hendry County SCHRACK, JOHN 33, of Cape CLEMONS, WILLIAM 78, of HOWE, VIOLA CATHERINE, Coral, died Tuesday. Services Naples, died Wednesday. Memorial 83, of Glades County. Services Saturburial and services Friday. Arrangements by in North Tonawanda, N.Y.

the Johnson of the Johnson- day. Arrangements by Akin-Davis Arrangements by McFarland- Chapel Funeral Home, LaBelle Chapel. Pittman Funeral Homes. Schmidt Funeral Home, Cape Coral. De YOUNG, GEORGE 67, of Out of Area SOSSONG, ANN TENNA, 87, of Naples, died Wednesday.

Services Lehigh Acres. Arrangements by Na- Sunday. Arrangements by Hodges BALTON, FRANK 81, of St. tional Cremation Society. Funeral Chapel.

Petersburg, died Jan. 24. Memorial services 1 p.m. Feb. 7, Cape Coral KENNER, LAWRENCE 79, of First United Methodist Church.

Collier County Naples, died Wednesday. Arrange- ROBERT ments by the Johnson Chapel of the WILSON, BRITTAIN, Johnson-Pittman Funeral Homes. 74, of Miami Beach, died Monday. ADAMS, BERTRAM 88, of Funeral services Friday. ArrangeNaples, died Tuesday.

Services Sat- PATTERSON, SNOWIE MAE, ments by Charlotte Memorial Funeurday. Arrangements by Hodges Fu- 75, of Naples, died Tuesday. Services ral Home, Punta Gorda. DEATHS, FUNERALS To column Information place is an paid in the obituary advertising. Deaths call and 335-0324.

Funerals Memorial services will be held Friton Hill. H.M. Patterson and Son, 1157 day, a February 3, at 2:30 p.m. CanOld Canton Marietta, Georgia. STANLEYF.

RHODES Fort STANLEYF. RHODES Stanley F. Rhodes, 83, was a resident of Buccaneer Estates since moving here March 1975 from Belchertown, Mass. Stanley was a member of the Vernon Masonic Lodge AF AM and was a Past Master of the lodge. He was a member of the Scottish Rite Valley of Springfield, a member of Araba Shrine Temple of Fort Myers, and a member of Thomas A.

Edison Congregational Church of Fort Myers since moving here. Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Helen M. Rhodes of North Fort Myers; his sons their wives, Stanley F. and JoAnn Rhodes of Rutland, Vermont, Kenneth W. and Dorothy Rhodes of Belchertown, a daughter, Eleanor A.

Rhodes of Holyoke, nine grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. The family will receive friends TODAY from 1:00 pm until Service time at 2:00 pm at the Harvey Engelhardt's North Fort Myers Funeral Home, with Pastor Joseph Cook of the Thomas A. Edison Congregational Church officiating. The family request that flowers be omitted and memorials be given to the Shriners Crippled Children Hospital through the Araba Temple of Fort Myers. CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL WESTNEY Christopher Russell Westney, 25, of North Fort Myers died Saturday, December 10, 1994.

He was born and lived in San Diego, CA until he was 18 years old. He then moved to North Fort Myers. Christopher is survived by his wife, Judith; his mother and father, Nancy and Larry Westney of North Fort Myers; sister, Jeanne of North Fort Myers; and a brother, Michael of San Mateo, FL. Memorial services will be conducted Saturday February 4, 1995 at in the Club House at Pine Lakes Country Club with the Rev. Jerry Griffin officiating.

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Myers, FL 33907 Since 1913, he worked as The Associated Press MIAMI George Abbott, a Broadway legend who earned a Pulitzer Prize and scores of other honors while writing, directing, producing or acting in more than 120 plays, has died of a stroke. He was 107. Abbott died Tuesday night at his home in Miami Beach, his wife said. "It was very peaceful," Joy Abbott said. "We were holding his hand.

It was so peaceful. No pain or anything." Abbott first appeared on the New York stage as an actor in 1913, when he was 26. He was still going strong well past the age of 100. He directed a revival of his 1926 hit, "Broadway," that opened on his 100th birthday in 1987, and in 1989 he wrote and directed "Frankie," an off-Broadway musical adaptation of "Frankenstein." In 1994, he helped revise the book Broadway revival of his '50s hit "Damn Yankees." "I loved George Abbott as a man and as a friend and as a great gentleman of the theater," Gene Kelly said in a statement. "He was for me a teacher, a mentor and I will never be able to repay what I learned working for him and with him on several shows in the Broadway theater." Abbott said he kept busy because "I'd hate not to have a job of some kind." Shortly before his 104th birthday, he joked at benefit at Carnegie Hall that he was going to write a pamphlet on "100 Tidy Tips for Longevity" including a chapter on "how to get out of a chair." Twice, in 1934 and 1939, he was the director of five different plays that opened on Broadway in the same year.

During an extraordinary 15-year stretch, 1948 through 1962, Abbott shows won 40 Tony awards, including five for himself personally as author, director, or both. The Tony-winning productions were "Where's Charley," "Call Me Madam," "Wonderful Town," "The Pajama Game," "Damn Yankees," "New Girl In Town," "Take Her, She's Mine," and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." EDWARDA. WHITEHILL, SR. Moving to Ft. Myers in 1955.

from Bulter, PA, he worked as a real estate agent in the Ft. Myers area until his retirementin 1974. survived by his wife of 59 years, Carolyn B. Whitehill, two sons, Edward A. Whitehill, Jr.

of Plano, TX and Joseph A. Whitehill, of Brandon, FL; six daughters: Judith Ezell, of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Anne Irvin, Janet all of Ft. Myers. Also surviving are 23 Mary Thompson and Sylvia Bartlett Morando, Carolyn Jane Jennings, grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

A daughter grandson Laura and Thomas Drouin preceded him in death. Private funeral services officiated by Father John T. Doyle of St. Cecelia's Catholic Church, were held in the chapel, of Ft. Tuesday, Myers January Memorial 31.

Gar- IN MEMORIAM RAYMOND JONES ON HIS 74TH BIRTHDAY God took you home on You're at rest and peace now, but tore my heart and world apart. Honey, you're always in my heart and dreams forever. No one will ever take your place. You are the one and only love of my life. I love and miss you so much.

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Abbott's life achievements were recognized with a special Tony award in 1976. Two more Tonys came to his 1983 production of "On Your Toes," which he originally directed and wrote with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1936. Abbott's name appeared on the playbills of more than 120 productions between 1913 and 1987. He also was the last of a small group of theatrical miracle workers known as play doctors, who turned out-of-town flops into New York hits, sometimes anon- actor on Broadway ymously, other times for coauthor credit. "I think I see, when I see a play, what its faults are as far as construction," he told an interviewer.

The cure is "to clarify the story, which is muddled." Abbott also directed 10 movies, most of them in the late 1920s and early '30s. He went to Hollywood in the '50s to translate "Where's Charley," "Damn Yankees" and "'The Pajama Game" to the screen, and had a dialogue-writing credit in the 1930 classic, "All Quiet on the Western Front." A lanky, austere 6-foot-3, he was "Mr. Abbott" to all but his personal friends. His imposing presence made first-name familiarity unthinkable, even for a president of the United States. "I don't dare call him George, because I am temporarily between jobs," said Ronald Reagan at a White House reception when Abbott was honored at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1982.

"Mister Abbott" was the title of his 1963 autobiography. "No one can move actors around faster, get more laughs out of a joke or slide so gracefully over a play's weak spots," Time magazine said in 1978. Abbott was a brisk, no-nonsense director. When a performance worked, his highest praise usually was, "That's good." "I'm in a business so full of hyperbole that I shrink from it," he said. "I hate phonies, and I think phonies exaggerate praise or blame." Luminaries who worked for Abbott on stage included Carol Burnett, Ethel Merman, Zero Mostel, Gwen Verdon, Jean Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Elizabeth Ashley, Bob Fosse, Phil Silvers, Rosalind Russell and Van Johnson.

Lee County MARY GRACE BOTSFORD Mary Grace Botsford, 74, of Fort Myers died Tuesday, January 31, 1995, a 23 year resident, formerly of North Branford, Conn. Mrs. Botsford is survived by two daughters, Catherine Mary Willmann of Austin, and Terri Elizabeth Ricker of Springs; one son, Robert Paul Botsford of North Fort Myers; four sisters, Florence Penneno, Fannie Barilli, Frances Piscatelli, and Geraldine DiPlacita; and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted on Friday at 2:00 p.m. from the Chapel of the Harvey-Engelhardt Funeral Home, 1600 Colonial with Rev.

William Phillips, officiating. Interment will take place at Fort Myers Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday from 10 A.M. until time of services at 2 p.m. JOSEPH HAGUE Joseph Hague, 68, of Cape Coral, died 1-31-95.

He was born Feb. 28, 1926, in Philadelphia, the son of Andrew and Sarah Kunkel Hague. He is survived his wife, Clara K. Hague of Cape Coral; one daughter, Carol Pappas and husband, Bill of Athens, Greece; one son, Andrew Hague and wife, Janet of Philadel- el: phia, and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m.

Friday Feb. 3, 1995 at Harvey-Engelhardt's Cape Coral Funeral Home, 3740 Del Prado Blvd. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday morning from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service. Memorial donations may be made to The American Cancer Society "'Cape Coral 4575 Via Royale, Suite 209, Ft.

Myers, FL 33919. LESTER R. JOY Lester R. Joy, 76; of Fort Myers passed away suddenly while visiting friends in Concord, NC. His services and burial were in Corning, NY which was his hometown before moving to Fort Myers.

He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War 11 in the Pacific. He was retired from Corning Inc. His wife, Betty, survives along with two stepdaughters, nieces and nephews. A American Memorials Heart mass be Association.

made to the GLENNH. RHOADES Glenn H. Rhoades, age 74, of Marietta, Georgia, formerly of Fort Myers, died Monday, January 31, 1995. Surviving are his wife, Kathleen Rhoades of Marietta, GA; daughters, Kathleen Limp of North Salem, Ind. and Glenda Rhoades of Marietta, GA; four grandsons and two great-grandchildren.

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