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RIALTO, Calif. — Damon Sherril Hall, 74, of Rialto, Calif., passed away on Sept. 4, 2013. He was born April 7, 1939, in Enola, Ark., to Lawrence (L.A.) and Dessie Bailey Hall. He was a retired carpenter, a U.S. Army veteran, and a Baptist. Preceded in death by his parents, he is survived by one sister, Virginia Smith of Dittmer, Mo.; three brothers, Randall Hall (Joyce) of Mabelvale, Joe A. Hall (Amy) of Cabot, and Melvin Hall (Becky) of Bigelow.
After graduating from Mabelvale High School and serving in the Army, Damon worked as a commercial carpenter in Arkansas, Hawaii, Alaska and California. He also worked several years in construction on the Trans-Alaska pipeline. While living in Alaska, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and piloting his small airplane. After moving to Rialto, he pursued a variety of hobbies, including gardening, beekeeping, raising rabbits and pigeons, quilting, and making pottery. He was a retired member of Carpenters Local 944 of San Bernardino.
Damon never met a stranger, and the family is grateful to his many friends who visited him and cared for him during his final illness. A memorial service will be held in Arkansas at a later date. Arrangements by Arrowhead Aftercare.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nicholas B. Williams, of Washington D.C., passed Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. Brother of Justin Williams Jr. of Arlington, Va. Survived by his first cousins, Becky S. May and Alice Farrell, of Little Rock, Ark., and Adgie Lou Dirom, of Lynchburg, Va., and many dedicated nieces and nephews. Interment private. Memorial contributions in memory of Nicholas B. Williams, Class of 1955, may be made to Antioch College, One Morgan Place, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 45387. www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com.
WALDORF, Md. — Martha Laverne Dunn, age 88, of Waldorf, Md., (formerly of North Little Rock, Ark.), passed away Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, at Genesis Healthcare in Waldorf. She was born on March 30, 1925, in Water Valley, Miss.; and she was the daughter of John Prescott and Senie Samantha Van Winkle-Prescott.
Martha retired from Baptist Health Medical Center in Memphis after serving as a Service Department Manager. She was a hard worker who was very shy. She was a faithfully religious member of the Baptist faith and held a membership at Pike Avenue Baptist Church while in North Little Rock.
She is preceded in death by husband, Hugh Wallace Dunn; her parents; twelve brothers and sisters; and a grandson, Wesley James Harmuth.
Survivors include her two children, John W. Dunn of Hot Springs, Ark., and Brenda Harmuth and husband, Christopher, of Waldorf, Md.; grandchildren, Christina Harmuth-Davis, Jennifer Dunn and Jessica Dunn; great-grandchildren, Hailey Dunn, Hayden Dunn, Chelsea Courter, Mikayla Harmuth and Breanna Davis; and nieces Jeanie Carr, Jimmie Kay Sanders, Linda Temple and Debbie Stewart.
Visitation will be held on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. at Huson Funeral Home at 6400 Mabelvale Pike, Little Rock, Ark., followed by a Graveside Service at 11 a.m. at Little Rock National Cemetery.
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COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. — Ethel Marie Rosenfeld passed away Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, at the home of her son, Peter Rosenfeld and his wife, Ann Babb, who cared for Ethel during the past few years with great love and thoughtfulness. Her granddaughter, Leah, and Martha, her caretaker, were by her bedside when she passed away in the early morning.
Born in Trenton, N.J., Ethel’s father, George Washington Hanners, was a Methodist minister, and religion was a great comfort to Ethel throughout her life. Although she was comfortable with all denominations, Ethel later converted to the Episcopal Church, and enjoyed the ceremony and theology associated with it. Born with a great zest for living, Ethel participated in field hockey, equestrian competitions, basketball and any activity that allowed her to be active and outdoors. Ethel attended Maryville College and Johns Hopkins University, and proved to be an independent thinker early in life. Although Ethel’s initial educational goal was to attend medical school, she changed her academic pursuit to Nursing School while her first husband, George O. Beall, served in WWII as a Navy Pilot. As highest ranking officer, George was first to fly over a small island in Japan. His plane was destroyed by Japanese gunfire, and he was found and buried by the island natives, who graced his grave with flowers. Ethel continued her studies at Johns Hopkins University as a young widow and graduated in 1948. It was during her tenure at Johns Hopkins that Ethel met fellow student, Jerome Rosenfeld, who was pursuing his doctorate in bacteriology. Post their marriage, they had five children and eventually settled down in Little Rock, Ark., where Jerome (Jerry) served on the staff at the University of Arkansas Medical Center.
Ethel went on the raise her five children, while completing a master’s degree at Arkansas State College of Nursing in 1971, receiving the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence. She continued her passion for psychiatric nursing as a Clinical Practitioner and Clinical Instructor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, in addition to serving as an Assoc. Professor in Nursing at the University of Central Arkansas Graduate Program. During her career, Ethel was Co-Chair of the Joint Practice Committee of Arkansas Medical Society and Arkansas State Nurses Association, was in Who’s Who of American Nursing and produced a plethora of articles and presentations. Ethel will be remembered by the many people she supported and helped with kindness and patience, both in her psychiatric nursing practice and with family and friends. She was an intelligent, fearless, progressive, and kind person, who also had a ‘sense of humor,’ which attracted others. Ethel was the epitome of the mother and grandmother every child and grandchild would wish to have.
Jerome Rosenfeld predeceased Ethel as did her daughter, Rachel Ann Rosenfeld of Chapel Hill, N.C. Her other living children are Deborah Kohls and spouse, Jamie Kohls, of Chapel Hill, N.C., Diana Rosenfeld and spouse, Dr. Jim Pang, of Cordova, Tenn., Peter Rosenfeld and spouse, Ann Babb of Collingswood, N.J., and George Rosenfeld of Collingswood, N.J. Ethel is grandmother to Rachel ‘Shay’ Crow of Denver, Colo., (husband, Mike Crow), Nathan Pang of Bartlett, Tenn., (wife, Jennifer Fossett Pang), Leah Babb Rosenfeld of Manhattan, N.Y., Jessica Kohls of Raleigh, N.C., Josh Pang of Memphis, Tenn., and Reid Kohls of Carrboro, N.C.; and great-grandmother to Vivian Rose Crow, Jerome Fossett Pang and Vaughn George Crow.
The family is forever appreciative of the love provided by caretakers Tenoa, Martha and Carla.
Arrangements for a graveside service at the Old Carrboro Cemetery in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, N.C., are being made by Walkers Funeral Home and Episcopal Church of the Holy Family.