FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 2023 5A Obituaries To place an obituary in the Ledger-Enquirer call 706-571-8604 or email Hours: Monday-Sunday: 9am-5pm Georgia Mr. Ernest Reed, 90, of Columbus, GA died February 7, 2023, in Columbus GA. Fu- neral services will be held 12:00 noon EST, Saturday, February 18, 2023 at Gaines Chapel AME Church with Rev. Raymond Swafford and Rev. Alvelyn Swafford co-pastors, The Rt.
Rev. Harry L. Seawright, Presid- ing Bishop and Rev. Richard Carter, eulogist. Burial will follow in Green Acres Cem- etery, Columbus, Georgia.
Visitation is Friday, Febru- ary 17, 2023, from 1-5 p.m. EST according to Taylor Fu- neral Home. Mr. Reed was born Sep- tember 8 1932 in Phenix City, AL to the late Hobert and Bertha Reed. He served in the U.S.
Army and worked for Americold Refrigeration. Survivors include his daughter, Gwendolyn (Mar- vin) Menafee; two grand- children, Warrant Officer Marvin (Dannielle) Menafee and Shardae Menafee; three great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. Please visit www. thetaylorfuneralhome.com to sign the online guest reg- istry. Ernest Reed September 8, 1932 February 7, 2023 Augusta Georgia Mrs.
Natha Pearl Hinton, 97, for- merly of Hamilton, GA. transitioned her life Wednes- day, February 8, 2023, at her residence. Funeral ser- vice will be held 12:00 noon Saturday, February 18, 2023 at Friendship Baptist Church, 101 Friendship Hamilton. GA. with Rev.
Lcoy Day, Pastor officiating, according to Hill-Watson Memorial Chapel at Rose Hill LLC. 2919 Hamilton Rd, Cols. GA. Interment will follow in Church Cem- etery. Visitation will be held Friday, Feb.
17, 2023 from 4-6pm at the funeral home. Visit us at www.hwmemo- rialchapel.com to sign our Registry. Phone: (762) 524- 7709 Natha Pearl Hinton April 19, 1925 February 8, 2023 Columbus, Georgia Mrs. Lucy Mae Averett Baldwin quietly and peacefully en- tered into eternal rest at 2:15 AM, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, surrounded by her family at her home in Colum- bus, GA. Lucy Mae was born in Cusseta, Georgia on April 4, 1941.
She was the third oldest of ten children born to the late Rev. Jesse Averett, SR and Mrs. Martha Shipp Averett. In 1954, she gave her life to Christ and joined St. Paul CME Church in Cusseta GA.
Mrs. Baldwin was preceded in death by: her parents; her husband, Mr. Howard Alphonso Baldwin and two brothers, Rev. John Henry Averett and Presiding Elder Jesse Averett, JR. She is survived by three sons, Mr.
Glamis Sebastion Baldwin (Ada), Mr. Patrick Alphon- so Baldwin and Mr. Kenneth Lew Baldwin, all of Colum- bus, GA; six grandchildren and three great-grandchil- dren; seven loving and devot- ed siblings, Mrs. Geraldine Averett Parris (Joe-deceased) of Cusseta, GA, Mrs. Aman- da Louise Averett (Retired Colonel Charles) Thornton of Prince George, VA, Mrs.
Essie Averett Francis (Re- tired CPO Carl deceased) of Columbus, GA, Mr. James Averett (Helen) of Sickler- ville, NJ, Mrs. Ida Mae Av- erett Boykins of Columbus, GA, Ms. Eulanda Martha Ann Averett Patterson of Co- lumbus, GA, Retired 1st SGT Jeffrey I. Averett (Chantay) of Huntsville, AL, a dear sister-in-law, Mrs.
Corene McCray Averett, and a host of loving nieces, nephews, cousins, church members, friends, and neighbors. Lucy Mae was always a faithful and very active church mem- ber, as she was a Missionary, served on the Trustee and Stewardess Boards, attend- ed Sunday school, sang in the junior choir and senior choir, and was President of the senior choir. Lucy Mae was also a strong voice in the United Voices Choir, a community area choir. She loved the Lord and His Holy name in songs of praise and with her peaceful spiritual attitude, words, and deeds. Lucy Mae complet- ed her primary and second- ary education in the Chat- tahoochee County Public School District.
She was an exceptionally smart student who graduated one year early with honors from Cusseta In- dustrial High School in1958 with her brother, the late Presiding Elder Jesse Av- erett, JR. As a young child and throughout her life, Lucy Mae was known to be caring, friendly, pure in heart, strong, smart, eager to learn, a sing- er, a helper, a people per- son, friendly, and humorous. With these and other positive personality traits, Lucy Mae was destined to follow the career path of a Nursing As- sistant. She was employed as a Nursing Assistant at the Medical Center Hospital in Columbus, GA for 28 years. She was known as a diligent, loyal, and faithful Nursing Assistant on 6 pedics of the Medical Cen- ter.
Visitation will be held Friday, February 17th, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at St. Paul CME Church at 145 Boyd St. in Cusseta, GA and then 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Sconiers Funeral Home, 836 5th Columbus, GA 31901; Cel- ebration of Life will be Sat- urday, February 18th, 12:00 PM at Holsey Monumental CME Church at 6028 Bue- na Vista Rd. Columbus, GA 31907; Interment will follow in Mt. Olive Cemetery in Cusseta, GA.
Mrs. Lucy Mae Averett Baldwin was loved by everyone she met, loved everyone she met, and will be greatly missed. Lucy Mae Averett Baldwin April 4, 1941 February 7, 2023 Baldwin, Lucy Averett, 81 Columbus Feb 07 Sconiers Funeral Home Baldwin, Lucy Mae, 81 Columbus Feb 07 Sconiers Funeral Home Burkley, Patricia, 71 Ft. Mitchell Feb 09 Sconiers Funeral Home Cross, Leroy, 67 Columbus Feb 13 Progressive Funeral Home Fitzpatrick, James, 85 Columbus Feb 15 Hill-Watson Memorial Chapel Harris, Linda Brown, 72 Midland Feb 11 Sconiers Funeral Home Hassell, Elizabeth Cox, 107 Columbus Feb 11 Mortuary Hinton, Natha Pearl, 97 Augusta Feb 08 Hill-Watson Memorial Chapel Lewis-Hiley, Daisy, 77 Columbus Feb 15 Hill-Watson Memorial Chapel Morris, Betty Jean, 84 Columbus Feb 12 Vance Brooks Funeral Home Powell, Fannie Pearl, 91 Columbus Feb 12 Sconiers Funeral Home Reed, Ernest, 90 Columbus Feb 07 Taylor Funeral Home Scott, Betty 68 Columbus Feb 16 Hill-Watson Memorial Chapel Spencer, Akarlerius, 3mths Columbus Feb 11 Funeral Service Ward, Oren Ray, 82 Columbus Feb 12 McMullen Funeral Home Yarbrough, Robert Franklin, 68 Cusseta Feb 14 Vance Brooks Funeral Home OBITUARY INDEX Bold listings indicate expanded obituaries View and place obituaries at Contact our obituary at 706-571-8604 or NAME, AGE CITY DEATH ARRANGEMENTS Obituaries Obituaries NEW YORK Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and has died. She was 82.
Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna of the talent agency In- novative Artists. breakthrough came in campy prehistoric flick Million Years B.C.,” de- spite having a grand total of three lines. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded ptero- dactyls but not the notice of the public. just thought it was a goofy dinosaur epic be able to sweep under the carpet one she said in 1981. It turned out that I was the Bo Derek of the season, the lady in the loincloth about whom everyone said, God, what a and they expected to disappear She did not, playing Lust for the comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in their film in 1967 and playing a secret agent in the sexy spy spoof that same year.
Her curves and beauty captured pop culture at- tention, with Playboy crowning her the desired of the despite never being completely naked in the magazine. In 2013, she graced the No. 2 spot on Women of All list. In the film Shaw- shank a poster of Welch is used to cover an escape tunnel, the last of three women he used images of after Rita Hayworth and Mari- lyn Monroe. In addition to acting, Welch was a singer and dancer.
She surprised many critics and won positive reviews when she starred in the 1981 musical of the on Broadway, re- placing a vacationing Lauren Bacall. She re- turned to the Great White Way in 1997 in She knew that some people take her seriously because of her glamorous image. not Penny Marshall or Barbra she said in 1993. say, Welch wants to direct? Give me a Welch was born Jo- Raquel Tejada in Chicago and raised in La Jolla, California. Welch was a divorced mother when she met ex-actor turned press agent Patrick Curtis.
irony of it all is that even though people thought of me as a sex symbol, in reality I was a single mother of two small she wrote in her autobiography, Beyond the Curtis became her man- ager and second husband and helped shape her into a glamor-girl with hun- dreds of magazine covers and a string of movies, plus exercise videos and books like Raquel Welch Total Beauty and Fitness Though she would ap- pear in exploitative films, she also surprised many in the industry with fine performances, including in Richard Three which earned her a Golden Globe, and opposite James Coco in She was also nominated for a Globe in 1988 for the TV movie to Married and divorced four times, she is survived by two children, Damon Welch and Tahnee Welch, also an actress. CHRIS PIZZELLO file Raquel Welch appears at the Los Angeles premiere of to Be a Latin on April 26, 2017. Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness. She was 82. RAQUEL WELCH, 1940-2023 Actress was Hollywood sex symbol from 1st moment on screen BY MARK KENNEDY Associated Press LONDON independ- ence movement needs a new leader and a new plan.
With the resignation of First Minister Nicola Stur- geon, the decades-long campaign by Scottish nationalists to secede from the United Kingdom is losing its star politician and strongest communi- cator, at a time when ef- forts to hold a new vote on independence are at an impasse. The Times of London said Thursday that Stur- departure was a boost to and a set- to the independence cause. Financial Times columnist Robert Shrim- sley said simply: Sturgeon ran out of Sturgeon took the U.K. by surprise when she an- nounced her resignation onWednesday after eight years in office, saying she knew my head and in my it was time to leave. She will remain first minister while the Scottish National Party picks a new leader, a job for which there is no clear favorite.
Potential successors in- clude Angus Robertson, a Sturgeon ally who serves as constitution secretary, Finance Secre- tary Kate Forbes and Health Secretary Humza Yousaf. But none of the contenders has profile or proven political skills. Whoever wins will have to find a way to break the independence logjam. Scottish voters opted by to to remain in the U.K. in a 2014 refer- endum that was billed as a once-in-a-generation deci- sion.
Sturgeon took power in the wake of that defeat and tried to forge a path to a second vote. Brexit looked like it might give her a chance: The U.K. as a whole backed leaving the European Union in a 2016 referendum, but voters in Scotland strongly favored remaining. Sturgeon ar- gued that Brexit had made a new referendum essen- tial because it had dragged Scotland out of the Euro- pean Union against its will. But a binding refer- endum needs agreement from the U.K.
government, and the Conservative administration in London has refused to grant one. Sturgeon ruled out em- ulating Catalan separatists in Spain and holding an unauthorized vote, a deci- sion that struck some independence supporters as too cautious. Instead she unsuccess- fully challenged the British government at the Su- preme Court for the right to hold a new referendum. Then she said she would use the next U.K. national election, due by 2024, as plebiscite on independence though it was unclear exactly how that would work.
The SNP is scheduled to hold a special conference on its strategy on March 19, though departure may delay it. Recent polls suggest Scots are about evenly split on the issue of inde- pendence. John Kampfner of think tank Chatham House said that with Stur- geon gone possible of the air has gone out of the of the independence movement. He said that momentum could weaken even more if the opposition Labour Party wins the next U.K. election, due by 2024, as polls currently suggest it will.
He said Labour leader Keir Starmer is a more appealing figure to many Scots than English, divisive and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, long-time antagonist. Without Sturgeon, Scotland lacks clear path to independence BY JILL LAWLESS Associated Press A set of three wildlife crossings meant to pro- vide safe passage for bigh- orn sheep and other ani- mals has been added to the plans for a high-speed rail line project between Las Vegas and Southern California. The California Depart- ment of Fish and Wildlife, the state Department of Transportation and rail builder Brightline West announced on Wednesday their agreement to design and build the crossings over the planned 218-mile rail line, slated to occupy the center divider of In- terstate 15. and rail lines must be designed to connect, not Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a news release.
pro- ject will not only protect the precious wildlife and habitat of the Mojave Desert region but will also get people between Las Vegas and Southern Cali- fornia safely and efficient- ly preserving one of the most popular corridors in our The crossings, notably, stand to benefit bighorn sheep. When the project was proposed, conservationists voiced concern that the movements would be restricted just as drought and heat sent them searching farther afield for food and water. Crossings were not part of the initial plans for the rail. The project was touted as a win for zero-emission travel, with Brightline also claiming that travel time between destinations would be hours as trains reached speeds of 180 miles per hour. On its website, Bright- line claimed the rail line would reduce the number of vehicles traveling be- tween the two regions by 3 million per year, saving 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide.
Wildlife researchers noted in 2021 that three crossings in the Mojave Soda, Cady and Clark mountains could help sustain the diversity in the desert. Those are the areas that appear to be targeted with the crossings, which are planned for areas near Zzyzx and Rasor roads and the community of Mountain Pass. wildlife free- dom to roam despite the growing infrastructure needed to support Cali- robust human population is a top priority for the agencies said in a joint news release Wednesday. In addition to the cross- ings, the project will in- corporate plans to main- tain or improve hundreds of preexisting culverts and crossings under Interstate 15. Desert tortoise fencing and wildlife exclusionary fencing also will be re- stored or installed.
High-speed rail project to protect bighorn sheep BY CHRISTIANMARTINEZ Los Angeles Times.
