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David Dennis Wammock LOUISBURG David Dennis Wammock, 66, a prominent busi- ness owner, died Monday, July 4, 2005 at his home. He was born November 25, 1938 in Swainsboro, GA, the son of Gordan C. Wammock and Anna Susie Wammock. He was the owner of Wammock, Inc. in Louisburg, formerly Wam- mock Furniture.

Surviving: children, Rebecca Stall- ings and husband, Bobby, David T. Wammock and wife, Barbara, Susan Wammock, Malisa Heick, and Emily J. Wammock, all of Louisburg; spe- cial aunt, Jeanette Wammock of Swainsboro, GA; grandchildren, Jes- se and Justin Stallings, Erica and Chase Wammock, Kristi and Parker Smith, Mischa Mohamed and Kerra Wammock, all of Louisburg; and many beloved friends, nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conduct- ed Wednesday, July 6, 2:00 p.m., at Lancaster Memorial Park Funerals and Cremations in Louisburg. Burial will follow in Lancaster Memorial Park.

Visitation was held Tuesday, July 5, p.m. at Lancaster Memori- al Park Funerals and Cremations. Douglas Wood RALEIGH Silas Douglas Wood, 63, died Monday, July 4, 2005. Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 7, 2005 at Piney Grove Baptist Church.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mr. Wood was preceded in death by his parents, Hurley and Mae Wood; a brother, Paul Wood and a sister, Gladys Lunday. He is survived by his wife, Maxine Baker Wood; son, Larry Douglas Wood and Amy Thomas of Clayton; stepdaughters, Lisa Korner and husband, Floyd and Robin Kor- ner and husband, Dean, all of Bunn Level; grandson, Ryan Douglas Wood; seven step-grandchildren; one step-great grandchild; sister, Fannie Miller and husband, Horace of Raleigh; brothers, Louis Wood and wife, Hazel of Apex, Earl Wood and wife, Barbara of Angier; sister- in-law, Dot Wood of Angier. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, July 6 from 7 9 p.m.

at Thomas Funeral Home, 401 N. En- nis Street, Fuquay-Varina and other times at the home, 6004 Meadow- brook Road, Raleigh. In lieu of flowers, memorial con- tributions may be made to the Piney Grove Baptist Church Building Fund, 3217 Piney Grove Wilbon Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. Obituaries 9BTHE NEWS OBSERVERWEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2005 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 9B, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2005 WAKE COUNTY TERESA D. DEBOSE, 56, Knightdale, June 28.

Arrangements by L. Harold Poole Funeral Service. MARTHA W. GRANT, 87, Raleigh, July 4. Arrangements by Montlawn Fu- neral Home.

MILDRED M. JOHNSON, Oakton, formerly of Raleigh, June 29. Grave- side 1:30 p.m., today, Carolina Bibli- cal Gardens, Garner. Arrangements by Lea Funeral Home, Raleigh. DOREEN MCCORD, 57, 328 S.

Franklin Wake Forest, July 5. Arrange- ments by Bright Funeral Home Cremation Center. LARRY D. MCDADE, 49, Raleigh, July 2. Arrangements by Funeral Home, Garner.

MYRTIES MONTAGUE-LUCAS, 70, Ze- bulon, July 4. Arrangements by William Funeral Home. HAROLD ROLLINS, 69, Wen- dell, July 5. Arrangements by William Funeral Home, Zebulon. GLORIA E.

SALMERON, 40, Raleigh, June 29. Funeral 1 p.m., today, fu- neral home chapel. Arrangements by Carlton L. Gray Funeral Cre- mation. RICHARD D.

SESSOMS, Cary, July 4. Arrangements by Brown-Wynne Fu- neral Home, Cary. ANGELIA J. SHEPARD, 37, Richmond, formerly of Raleigh, June 29. Fu- neral 1 p.m., today, New Caanan In- ternatioa Church.

Burial, Roselawn Memory Gardens, Richmond, Va. Arrangements by Funeral Chapel. ADELAIDE S. SMETANA, 76, Raleigh, July 3. Memorial 2 p.m., July 23, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

Arrange- ments by Mitchell Funeral Home, Glenwood Avenue. DOUGLAS WOOD, 63, Raleigh, July 4. Arrangements by Thomas Funeral Home, Fuquay-Varina. DURHAM COUNTY JAMES D. MCMILLAN, Durham, July 1.

Memorial 2 p.m., Thursday, funeral home chapel. Arrangements by Clements Funeral Home. HENRIETTA K. YEATES, Durham, June 20. Memorial 3 p.m., Monday, New Ahoskie Baptist Church, Ahoskie.

Arrangements by Cremation Society of the Carolinas, Raleigh. ORANGE COUNTY ELLEN HARDY, 85, Chapel Hill, July 4. Arrangements by Cremation Society of the Carolinas, Raleigh. TAPON ROY, 47, Bethel, for- merly of Chapel Hill, June 27. JUDITH SUTHERLAND, 81, Chapel Hill, July 4.

HENDERSON EDNA D. PEGRAM, 83, July 4. Funeral 2 p.m., Thursday, funeral home chapel. Burial, Sunset Gardens. Arrangements by J.M.

White Funeral Home. DOUGLAS K. WORTHAM, 73, July 5. Fu- neral 11 a.m., Thursday, South Hen- derson Pentecostal Holiness Church. Burial, Flat Rock United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Arrangements by J.M. White Funeral Home. JACKSON RONALD JOYNER, 58, July 2. Arrange- ments by H.D. Pope Funeral Home, Roanoke Rapids.

KINSTON DONTRELL E. JONES, 18, July 2. Arrangements by Mills Funeral Home. LUMBERTON DEBORAH G. PARKER, 55, July 5.

Arrangements by Biggs Funeral Home. MOREHEAD CITY ALBERT HEWITT, 74, July 4. Graveside 11 a.m., today, Bayview Cemetery. Arrangements by Munden Funeral Home. NEW BERN CHRIS B.

WOOD, 64, July 4. Memo- rial 10 a.m., Thursday, 825 Spring Garden Road. Arrangements by Cot- ten Funeral Home Crematory. NEWPORT ROBERT L. MICKELSON, 82, July 5.

Arrangements by Brooks Funeral Home Crematory, Morehead City. PIKEVILLE JOSE E. ROCHA, 28, July 4. Arrange- ments by Casey Funeral Home, Princeton. PINEHURST MATILDA D.

GRINEVICH, 89, July 3. Graveside 2 p.m., Thursday, Pinelawn Memorial Park. Arrange- ments by Boles Funeral Home cre- matory, Inc. PITTSBORO MICHAEL A. VANNEST, 62, July 2.

Arrangements by Griffin Funeral Ser- vice Cremation. ROANOKE RAPIDS MABEL R. FAISON, 74, July 4. Grave- side 11 a.m., today, Crestview Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements by H.D.

Pope Funeral Home. ROCKINGHAM EDITH MEACHAM, 85, July 5. Arrange- ments by Watson-King Funeral Home. ROCKY MOUNT CECIL E. GURGANUS, 75, July 3.

Graveside 11 a.m., today, Rocky Mount Memorial Park. Arrange- ments by Bowling Funeral Home Crematory. VALLIE JORDAN, 73, July 4. Arrange- ments by H.D. Pope Funeral Home.

SANFORD GLADYS WICKER, July 4. Funeral 2 p.m., Thursday, Turners Chapel Church. Burial, church cemetery. Arrange- ments by Rogers-Pickard Funeral Home, Inc. JAMES F.

YARBOROUGH, 71, July 4. Fu- neral 4 p.m., Thursday, Memphis United Methodist Church. Burial, church cemetery. Arrangements by Rogers-Pickard Funeral Home. SOUTHERN PINES RUTH H.

BOWMAN, 79, July 4. Arrange- ments by Powell Funeral Home. ROBERT J. BRAUER, 78, July 5. Arrange- ments by Boles Funeral Homes Crematory.

STEM MARIE W. LIGON, 59, July 4. Funeral 3 p.m., Thursday, Pleasant Grove Bap- tist Church. Burial, Carolina Memo- rial Gardens. Arrangements by Hud- son Funeral Home, Creedmoor.

WALSTONBURG MILTON O. EVANS, 53, July 1. Fu- neral 2 p.m., Thursday, St. Delight Missionary Baptist Church. Burial, St.

Delight Cemetery. Arrangements by Hamilton Funeral Chapel, Wilson. WILSON GEORGE A. WHITLEY, 87, July 4. Fu- neral 7 p.m., today, funeral home chapel.

Burial, Evergreen Memorial Park. Arrangements by Fu- neral Home. ZEBULON COLEMAN ARNOLD, Old Halifax Road, July 5. Arrangements by Massey Fu- neral Home. DEATHS The News Observer provides summary obituary information free of charge.

Call the obituary staff at 919-829-4545 for more information. DEATH NOTICES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8B Johanna Wilfinger RALEIGH Johanna Wilfinger, died peacefully at Springmoor LCRC on June 19. Johanna was born in Chicago, August 21, 1909 and moved to Austr ia when she was i ve She returned to Chicago in 1925 where she mar- ried and lived until 1964. After living in St. Petersburg (Kenneth City) Florida for 30 years she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina.

She enjoyed her 11 years at Springmoor as it enabled her to participate in the social and cultural life of the Trian- gle almost of the very end. Johanna was predeceased by hus- band of 58 years, John Wilfinger and is survived by sons, Raymond, John Wilfinger, Kenneth Michael Wilfin- ger; daughter-in-law, Dawn Wilfin- ger; her grandchildren, Raymond, Kenneth, Mark, Michelle, Christo- pher, Amanda; her great-grandchil- dren, Coletta and Joshua. Interment will be at the St. Fran- cis of Assisi Columbarium Leesville Road, Raleigh. A service in her honor will be held there at two in the afternoon on Thursday, July 7.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to a charity of choice. HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY! Daisy Eva Ayscue JULY 6, 1905 NOV. 9, 1951 Mama, your wisdom, love and prayers still bless me! Mary Ayscue Simmons HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Jeffrey Wayne Oakley JULY 6, 1967 OCT. 25, 2003 It breaks my heart that I say Happy Birthday to you in person. God called you home because he takes only the best.

We love you with all our hearts. Mama, brothers, family, friends and your special lit- tle buddy, Kyle. a big boy now. BY JOE HOLLEY THE WASHINGTON POST Thomas Cannon, a retired Rich- mond, postal worker who lived much of his life on the edge of poverty so he could give away a portion of his modest income to those in need, died Saturday of colon cancer at Richmond Com- munity Hospital. He was 79.

The self-described poor philanthropist, he gave away more than $150,000 over the past 33 years, mostly in thousand-dollar checks, to people he read about in the Richmond Times-Dispatch who were experiencing hard times or who had been unusually kind or courageous. Recipients included a Richmond woman who started a youth cen- ter in her low-income apartment complex, a retired postal worker who was a faithful volunteer at his neighborhood elementary school, a man and woman who wanted to return to Vietnam to visit their home town, a Rich- mond crime-victim advocate, a Petersburg, teenager who had been abandoned as an infant and recently had been named Boys and Girls Youth of the Year for Virginia. He gave to people of all ages, races, nationalities and incomes, usually by mailing a check to the Times-Dispatch and asking re- porters to deliver it. He was never sanctimonious about it, noted one of his occasional delivery people, Times-Dispatch writer Bil Lohmann. one of his favorite words, would be a better Lohmann wrote in a weekend column rec- ollecting life.

Cannon traced his penchant for benevolence to his time in the Navy. While he was away at signal school, many of his shipmates were killed in a shipboard explosion at the Port of Chicago. He concluded that he had been spared to help others and be a role model, to help people see oneness of it In 1995, a group of admirers and recipients of his benevolence set up a trust fund for him and his wife, who had suffered debilitat- ing strokes and required her hus- full-time care. They also bought the Cannons a house to re- place the modest dwelling, which lacked central heating and air con- ditioning, where they had lived for 30 years. In 1998, Oprah Winfrey gave him the computer he had long dreamed of owning and inducted him into her Last year, he published Phi lanthropist The Thomas Cannon with San- dra Waugaman.

Cannon was born in Richmond, the youngest of four children. His father died when he was 3, and his mother moved the family to Chase City to live with her mother and stepfather in a three-room wooden shack with no electricity or run- ning water. He left school after the seventh grade to help support the family. After serving in the Navy dur- ing World War II, he returned to Richmond and enrolled in the eighth grade. He got his high school equivalency degree and then received an undergraduate degree in fine arts from Hamp- ton University in 1954.

He worked briefly as a school art consultant and joined the U.S. Postal Service in 1957. He made his first donation in 1972. Cannon supported his wife and himself, their two sons and his char- itable efforts on a salary that never topped $20,000 a year. When he re- tired from the postal service in 1983, he and his wife lived in vir- tual poverty on his pension.

wife, Princetta Can- non, died in 2000. Survivors include his sons, Thomas Cannon Jr. of Va- rina, and Calvin M. Cannon of Opelika, and 11 grand- children. Thomas Cannon, 79 Thomas Cannon, shown here in 1995, with his wife, Princetta, whom he took care of after she suffered two strokes.

AP FILE PHOTO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale, a for- mer prisoner of war and Ross running mate in 1992, has died, the Navy announced Tuesday. He was 81. The Navy did not provide a cause of death but said he was suffering from dis- ease. He died at his home in Coronado, Calif.

In the 1992 presidential election, Stockdale became i a i a vice presidential run- ning mate, initially as a stand- in on the ticket but later as the candidate. Stockdale gave a stumbling performance in the nationally televised vice presidential de- bate against Dan Quayle and Al Gore, and later said he did not feel comfortable in the pub- lic eye. When asked by Jim Lehrer in 1999 about the debate, Stockdale recalled: was terribly frustrating because I remember I started with, am Why am I and I never got back to that because there was never an opportunity for me to ex- plain my life to During the debate, he com- mented on an exchange be- tween Quayle and Gore: think America is seeing right now the reason this na- tion is in gridlock. The trickle- downs and the tax-and-spends, or whatever you want to call them, are at When Perot ran again in 1996 as the candidate of his Reform Party, Stockdale had rejoined the Republican Party. Stockdale was born in Abing- don, and graduated from the U.S.

Naval Academy in 1947. During the Vietnam War, he was a Navy fighter pilot based on the USS Oriskany and flew 201 missions before he was shot down Sept. 9, 1965. He became the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, the Navy said. He endured more than years as a prisoner, spending four of them in solitary con- finement, before his release in 1973.

He was tortured repeat- edly, according to the Navy. Stockdale received 26 com- bat decorations, including the Medal of Honor, the highest medal for valor, in 1976. A portion of his award ci- tation reads: de- liberately inflicted a near mor- tal wound to his person in order to convince his captors of his willingness to give up his life rather than capitulate. He was subsequently discov- ered and revived by the North Vietnamese who, convinced of his indomitable spirit, abated their employment of excessive harassment and torture of all prisoners of He retired from the military in 1979. Survivors include his wife, Sybil, and four sons.

partner in 1992 election Stockdale was POW Vietnam.