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RECORDS merly of Charleston, died after battling Lupus and heart disease Jan. 13, 2008, in Florida. A memorial service will be conducted from 2-4 p.m. Saturday at Calvary Temple Church in Arcola. The MullerThompson Funeral Chapel, Naples, was in charge of Florida arrangements.

He was born Oct. 1, 1971, in Rice Miami, Fla. He married Mandy Renee Adams in 1996; she survives in Arcola. Other survivors include two sons, Austin and Garrett Rice of Arcola; his mother, Rose Rice Mishler of Naples, one brother, Michael Rice of Naples, and two sisters, Deborah Carrabba and Alison Guiter both of Naples, Fla. Mr.

Rice was a former manager of Domino's Pizza in Charleston. He and his wife were Domino's Pizza franchise owners in Muncie and Marion, Ind. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the family for sons, Austin and Garrett. Betty Shorter ROLLA, Mo. Betty Shorter, 68, of Rolla, formerly of Mattoon, died Feb.

3, 2008, in Rolla, Mo. The funeral will be 10 a.m. Thursday at New Life Ministries in Evening Shade, with Pastor Judith Routh officiating. Burial will be in Palace Union Cemetery Evening Shade, Mo. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m.

today at the James and Gahr Mortuary in Rolla, Mo. She was born March 3, 1939, in Detroit, daughter of James and Rita Stevens Hoback. She married Bill Shorter; he preceded her in death. Survivors include a daughter, Debbie Wilhelm of Doolittle, brother, Jim Hoback of Decatur; and two grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her parents, a daughter and sister.

Mrs. Shorter was a member of New Life Ministries in Evening Shade, Mo. Memorials may be made to New Life Ministries in Evening Shade, Mo. University donor built his fortune on picture frames, Christian books OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) As a kid, Mart Green made 7 cents for every picture frame he glued together for his father's arts and crafts business. But before he went out and bought baseball cards with his money, the 9-year-old gave 10 percent to charity.

"That was just culture for me," Green says. "It wasn't even something you debated or thought about. It was just natural." Today, Green is 46 and he is still giving. This time though, it's $70 million of his family's fortune to rescue Oral Roberts University, the evangelical Christian school engulfed in a spending scandal and burdened with tens of millions of dollars in debt. In return for the donation, Green becomes chairman of the university's new board of trustees, and hopes to restore the public's trust in the student institution.

The wealth comes in part from Hobby Lobby, the company Green's father, David, founded in his living room with a $600 loan and built into a $1.8 billion craft supply giant with nearly 400 stores in the U.S. The money also comes from Mardel, the Christian bookstore and office supply chain that Mart Green started when he was 19. Green announced the donation in November, five days after televangelist Richard Roberts stepped down as president amid accusations he misspent school funds to live in luxury. Up until then, Green had no connection to the school and hadn't met either Roberts or his father, Oral. Green, an evangelical Christian and member of the Assemblies of God, says he decided to step in for the sake of the alumni, faculty and students.

"When Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart had their situations, a lot of people suffered," Green says, referring to the two TV evangelists Wednesday, February 2008 B7 Juanita Stroud of Mattoon; three nephews, Ronald Stroud and his wife Wilma of Goreville, Illinois, David Kraus and his wife Barbara of Roseville, Michigan, and Tom Kraus and his wife Kris of Sacramento, California; and several great, and great-great nieces and nephews. She leaves one great-great-great nephew. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Ruel Stroud and Roland Stroud; one nephew, Robert Stroud; and one niece, Donna Smith. Mrs. Zoole attended the First General Baptist Church and had worked as a Registered Nurse.

As an avid reader, Eunice enjoyed reading newspapers and books. She studied the Bible and taught Sunday school throughout the years, including her years at Brookstone. She was also interested in genealogy and family history and kept track of current generations. Her other hobbies included flower gardening, cooking, and quilting. In addition, she loved to travel and had especially fond memories of her trip to the Holy Lands.

Eunice will be remembered for her devotion to her family and will be sadly missed. To light a virtual candle or share a memory with her family, please visit www.mitchell-jerdan.com. To sign the online guestbook, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries. wife Julie of Charleston, and William L. "Bill" Sterling and wife Micki of Rockford; six grandchildren, Larry Truckenbrod, James Sterling, Mark Sterling, Curt Sterling, Grant Sterling, and Vickie Sterling Conti; nine great-grandchildren, numerous great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Bruce "Bud" Zeigler of Paris; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, one sister Mabel Tyler, and two brothers, Owen Zeigler and Ivan Zeigler. Inez was a homemaker. She was famous for her noodles and dinner rolls, which she sold in the community, but carefully guarded the recipe. She was a member of the Brocton United Methodist Church. She loved to crochet baby items, quilt full quilts by hand, and tend to her flowers and indoor plants.

To sign the online guestbook, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries. the Mode United Methodist Church. She married Kenneth W. Gallagher in April, 1935. He died on April 13, 1964.

She married Max Prosser on October 22, 1967. He died on July 3, 1994. Surviving are her son, Fred Gallagher and wife Joan of Mode; sisters, Ruby Roberts of Effingham, Ruth Reed of Mode and Virginia Becker of Effingham; two grandsons, Steve Gallagher and wife Kendra of Mode and Jeff Gallagher and wife Denise of Seymour, Indiana; and five great grandchildren, Cody, Brock, Dustin, Haley and Daniel Gallagher. She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Kenneth and Max; brothers, Elmer, Olin and Junior Syfert; and sister, Wandalee Jones. To sign the online guestbook, go to www.jg-tc.com and click on obituaries.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Steven W. Pedigo and Joyce Ann Hill, both of Mattoon PERSONALS Memoriams BELATED BIRTHDAY wishes for Geneva" Wirth 2-5-1924 12-22-2004 We love miss you. La Verne Berdena www.jg-tc.com 6, Woman testifies accused ex-cop coached her on what to say CANTON, Ohio (AP) A longtime friend of a former police officer charged with murder testified Tuesday that the defendant picked her up in his truck one morning and told her the body of his young son's pregnant mother was in the back. Myisha Ferrell said that she went with Bobby Cutts Jr. to a park where he dumped Jessie Marie Davis' body and that he coached I her on what to tell investigators later.

Her voice shook when she testified about what she saw as Cutts took out the body, which was wrapped in a blanket. "Her feet," she said. "I didn't want to see nothing else." Ferrell is a key witness against Cutts, who could face the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder. Prosecutors say Cutts, who was feeling the pressure of his crumbling marriage, financial debt and supporting several children, strangled Davis in her home and disposed of her body with Ferrell. The 2-yearold son Cutts had with Davis was found 1 home alone.

Cutts led investigators to Davis' body, but the defense says he had nothing to do with her death. Cutts, 30, a former Canton patrolman, has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and other charges in the death of Davis and her female fetus. Thousands searched for Davis near her northeast Ohio home in the days she was missing after her June death. Ferrell was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to authorities and complicity to gross abuse of a corpse. She testified Tuesday that she had drunk alcohol and smoked marijuana all night before Cutts showed up at her house after 6 a.m.

June 14, Cutts looked nervous that day, like she'd never seen him before, she said. After Cutts told Ferrell the body was in his truck bed, she asked him what happened. "He just said he kind of used his arm," said Ferrell, then held up her right arm at the level of her neck, re ing what Cutts demonstrated for her. Ferrell testified that after Cutts dumped Davis' body, he dumped two garbage bags in a trash bin. She didn't know where.

"What were you doing?" prosecutor Dennis asked. "Trying to stay sane," Ferrell said. Cutts called Davis' cell phone at 7:11 that morning, according to phone records. Davis' cell phone was missing from her home and investigators have not been able to find it. Ferrell testified that she threw a pink cell phone out a window, but that she did not know whose phone: it was.

Cutts stopped at a gas station to buy mulch at a gas station. Their next stop was at his house, where he showered to get ready for football practice at the local high school, where he was an assistant coach. Later, when investigators wanted to interview her, she said, Cutts told her what to tell them. "He told me just tell him that I was going to baby-sit his son and his mom never showed up to drop him off," she said. On cross-examination, defense attorney Myron Watson asked Ferrell whether Cutts had ever been violent or used his position as a police officer to intimidate anyone.

She said he hadn't. Testimony concluded Tuesday afternoon with two women Cutts was seeing that summer. Stephanie Hawthorne testified that she was pregnant with Cutts' child and had an abortion June 15 the day Davis was reported missing. Hawthorne had told Cutts of her decision several days before. Cutts left Hawthorne's home about four hours before he picked up Ferrell the morning of June 14.

He had never been abusive with her and did not appear to be angry that night, Hawthorne said. Mart Green, who donated $70 million will become the chairman of the pictured during an interview in caught in sex scandals. "When the Catholic priests had their situation, a lot of people suffered. If ORU goes down it affects all the Christian colleges." One of his first tasks will be finding a new president for the university, which is saddled with about $45 million in debt and more than $60 million in deferred maintenance costs. Green's involvement sounds like a huge financial gamble not unlike the time his father decided to close Hobby Lobby stores on Sundays for religious reasons and forgo millions in sales.

AREA DEATHS W. "Bill" Easton GREENUP Wilmer "Bill" Leroy Easton, 82, of Greenup, died at 3:14 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 3, 2008) at Cumberland Rehabilitation and Health Care in Greenup. The funeral Easton will be 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at the Bishop Funeral Home, in Greenup, with Pastor Irvin Figgins officiating. Burial will be in the Greenup Cemetery with full military rites conducted by the Cumberland County Veterans. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Jewett Community Church.

Maude Richards LAPORTE, Ind. Maude Virginia Richards, 86, LaPorte, formerly of Casey, died Friday (Feb. 1, 2008) at Beverly Living Center in LaPorte, Ind. The funeral will be noon Saturday at Haverstock Funeral Home in LaPorte, with the Rev. Fred Davis officiating.

Burial will in the Door Village Cemetery in LaPorte, Ind. Visitation will be 10 a.m. Saturday until service time at the funeral home. She was born June 19, 1921, in Clark County, daughter of Grover Orndorff and Imogene Hackett Orndorff. She married Morris D.

Richards in 1939; he died in 1996. Survivors include her daughter, Sharon Barhydt of LaPorte, and three grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by a son, two brothers, and three sisters. Mrs. Richards was employed by American Home Foods for 10 years and had worked for Boris Smolers and Five Star Food Center.

She was a member er of the Church of Christ in Michigan City, Ind. Memorials may be made to the LaPorte County Animal Shelter, LaPorte, Ind. Chris Rice NAPLES, Fla. Chris Rice, 36, of Naples, for- Associated Press to. Oral Roberts University and school's new board of trustees, is Oklahoma City, Jan.

22. "We were always taught that 90 is greater than 100," Green says. "We believe if you give God his 10 percent, that he can do more with the 90 percent than the 100 percent that you keep." Green is the kid who never finished college he dropped out of now-defunct Tomlinson College in Cleveland, to go into business but now finds himself the chairman of one. He is a fast talker who friends say still gets butterflies in his stomach when he speaks in public. He did not set foot in a movie theater until 2001, when he saw Jim Carrey's "The Eunice Zoole MATTOON Eunice Zoole, age 97, of Mattoon, passed away at February 4, 2008 stone Estates in Mattoon surrounded by her family and caregivers.

The funeral service will be held at 12:00 p.m., Thursday, February 7, 2008 at the Friendship Illinois, 5:15 p.m., on at Brook- Zoole Rice Majestic," about the magic of an old movie theater. He now owns a movie company, which has produced films about missionaries in Ecuador and AIDS in Africa. "This is a man who has a new dream every Thursday," says Rob Hoskins, president and chief executive of Book of Hope International, a Floridabased organization that distributes Scripture around the world. Forbes magazine lists David Green's net worth at $1.8 billion, making him one of the 400 richest Americans. Because of the gift to Oral Roberts University, the Green family ranked 27th out of 50 on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of Americans who gave the most in 2007.

Mart Green parries questions about how many millions of dollars his family has given to charity over the years. Green's pastor, Rodney Fouts, says that in some cases, the Greens have asked that their names not be attached to gifts. "When you read in the papers about a big gift, you draw assumptions about people," Fouts says. "But he's very down to earth, very humble." Green lives comfortably but not lavishly in a home in an Oklahoma City suburb with his wife and four children. He has driven three Acuras over the past 18 years and says his greatest extravagance was the Hummer he bought his wife for Christmas four years ago.

He goes on an extended fast each year, the longest lasting for 40 days, and reads from Scripture every morning. "I feel like some day, when this life is over, it'll be just me and God," he says. "It won't be my mom, it won't be my dad, it won't be the cynics that are out there. It'll just be me accountable for my life, and I want to live a life that I can say I did the best I could." General Baptist Church in Goreville, Illinois, with Reverend Alan Milligan officiating. A local visitation will be held Wednesday evening from p.m.

at the First General Baptist Church. in Mattoon. with a time of remembrance held at 5:45 p.m. There will also be visitation one hour prior to the service at the church in Goreville. Burial will be in Friendship Cemetery, also in Goreville, Illinois.

Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home of Mattoon is assisting the family with arrangements. Mrs. Zoole was born December 31, 1910 in Johnson County, Illinois, the daughter of Eugene E. and Alice A. (Toler) Stroud.

She married Dr. Asher Zoole on December 22, 1941 in St. Charles, Missouri. He preceded her in death on December 25, 1995. Mrs.

Zoole is survived by a sister, Rosalie Sykes of Sacramento, California; two nieces, Ruth Jedlick and her husband Roland of Mattoon, and Inez Sterling BROCTON, IL Inez L. Sterling, age 103 of Paris, formerly of Brocton, passed away at 12:44 a.m., Monday, February 4, 2008 at Paris Healthcare Center in Paris. A funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, February 9, 2008 at Standard Funeral Home in Oakland, with Reverend Virgil Haynes officiating. Burial will be in Payne Cemetery, north of Brocton.

Visitation with the family will be held on Satur day from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m., immediately prior to the funeral. Inez was born on February 16, 1904 in Brocton, Illinois, the daughter of Clarence and Margaret Hood Zeigler. She was raised and educated in the Brocton area. On February 5, 1924 she married Paul Walter Sterling in Paris. He preceded her in death on December 24, 1974.

Survivors include three sons, Paul W. "Bus" Sterling, Jr. and wife Jean of Paris, Robert W. "Bob" Sterling and Edna M. Prosser MODE er, 92, of Mode, at 10:36 a.m.

Prosser Edna May ProssIllinois, died Monday, February 4, 2008 in Shelby Memorial Hospital, Shelbyville, Illinois. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday in Howe and Yockey Funeral Home, Shelbyville with Rev. Kevin Bonifacius officiating. Visitation from p.m.

Friday. Burial will be in Hubbartt Cemetery, near Beecher City, Illinois. Memorials may be given to the Mode United Methodist Church or Camp New Hope, Mattoon, Illinois. Mrs. Prosser was born on August 13, 1915 in Holland, Illinois, the daughter of Roy E.

and Tenna Anna Holmes Syfert. She was a member of SIREN REPORT Charleston police Leah Reeves, 2409 Eighth St. Apt. 15, reported that at 3:24 p.m. Thursday her vehicle spun on snow, went off the road and struck a traffic sign on Illinois Route 16 near Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center.

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