THE ROANOKE TIMES, Monday, September Monday, 2 p.m., at the Fairmont Cemetery, Bedford City. The family will receive friends Sunday from 7 until 9 p.m., at the Bedford Funeral Home. MR. BEVERLY DAVID TYREE ROCKY MOUNT Mr. Beverly Davis Tyree, 94, of 111.
Church St. passed away Saturday a.m. He was retired merchant and builder. Surviving are his wife. Mrs.
Martha Shoemaker Tyree; one daughter, Mrs. Ruby T. Delano, Warsaw, one son, Raymond C. Tyree, Rocky Mount; one stepson, Samuel T. Ayers, Rocky Mount; one sister, Mrs.
G. L. Reed, Richmond; one brother, James W. Tyree, Vinton: four grandchildren, six great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m.
at the Funeral Home Rev. Curtis L. Arrington Robertson. Interment will follow in the High Street Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.
Sunday at the Arrington-Bussey Funeral Home. MRS. LILLIE B. WARD INDEPENDENCE Mrs. Lillie B.
Ward, age 84, died Sunday in the Baptist Hospital, Winston- N. C. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Bill Ervin, High Point, N. Mrs.
Mary E. Morton, Independence: three sons, Fred Ward, Nottingham, Joe Ward, and Green Ward, both of Independence; also 10 grandchiland 28 greatgrandchildren. Funeral serwill be conducted Tuesday, 2 p.m., from the Saddle Creek Primitive Baptist Church, with Elder Jess B. Higgins, the Rev. Fred Jennings and the Rev.
Kenneth Miller officiating. Interment will be in the hurch cemetery. The body will remain at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home where the family will receive friends Monday from 7 until 9 p.m. MRS. MARTHA G.
WILLIS Mrs. Martha Guilliams Willis, age 74, of Melbourne, Florida, formerly of Roanoke, died at her home Sunday. She the widow of Morton M. Willis. Surviving are five sons, Otis M.
Willis, Lonis M. Willis, Melbourne, William C. Willis, Pittsburg; Eugene E. Willis, Roanoke; H. Dooley Willis, Springfield, daughter, Mrs.
David P. (Iris) Mitchell, Obituaries stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Russell and Mazada Reese, Ellisbrother, Kenneth R. Pierce, Salem; one half sister, Miss Debbie Reese, Elliston; one stepsister, Miss Janice Reese, Elliston; one stepbrother, Lynwood Reese, Elliston.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday from the Midway Baptist Church in Ironto, with interment in the Sessler family cemetery. Friends may call at Lotz Roanoke Chapel. WILLIAM ROGER RECTOR, SR. GALAX William Roger Rector, age 60, passed away Saturday in a Galax hospital.
Surviving are Mrs. Bessie Fielder Rector; one son, William Roger Rector, Vinton; his mother, Mrs. Cecil Lowe Rector, Galax; five sisters, Mrs. Mable Adkins, Mrs. Kathleen Hawkins, Mrs.
Shirley Boyer, all of Roanoke; Mrs. Maxine Harder, Anahiem, Mrs. Leone Baker, Galax; two grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2:00 p.m. in the Jerusalem United Methodist Church, with interment to follow in the Church Cemetery.
Vaughan- Guynn Funeral Home, Galax, is in charge of arrangements. MRS. MINNIE HORSLEY RICHARDSON BASSETT Mrs. Minnie Horsley Richardson, age 79. of Rt.
3, Bassett, died at Martinsville Memorial Hospital Sunday morning. She is survived by her husband. James L. Richardson; four daughters, Mrs. Katherine R.
Malcolm, Roanoke; Mrs. Violet R. Shepherd, Bassett; Mrs. Janet R. Goode, Ferrum; Mrs.
Louise R. Price, Grundy, one brother, A. L. Horsley, Bassett; one sister, Mrs. Gofrey Gauldin, Rt.
1, Martinsville; 8 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. at the McKee Chapel, with interment in Oakwood. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. ELZA JAMES ROOP MARION Elza James Roop, age 62, died Friday night in a Marion hospital.
Surviving are his wife, Imogene Barker Roop, Marion; two sons, Bobby Roop, Alexandria; Jack Roop, Troutdale; two step daughters, Mrs. Janice Bise, Chilhowie; Mrs. Susie Burkett, Johnson City, two brothers, Herbert Roop and J. Roop, both of Detroit, also five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday, 2 p.m., from SeaverBrown Chapel, with the Rev.
Bryan Childress and Rev. Franklin, follow Stikes in White officiating. Top Cemetery. MRS. MARY PLASTER RUTLEDGE STUART Mrs.
Mary Plaster Rutledge, age 91, died Sunday morning in a Stuart hospital. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Harry Plaster, Stuart; five granddaughters, J. E. Cregger, Troutville; Mrs.
D. W. Hartwell. Salem; Mrs. Marvin Brown, Mrs.
H. C. Lazenby, both of Roanoke: Mrs. N. E.
Williamson. Blue Ridge; two grandsons, William C. Duke, Troutville; Duke, Salem. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. at the Moody Funeral Home Chapel, Stuart, with burial in the Plaster family cemetery.
EDGAR G. SCAGGS FLOYD Edgar G. Scaggs, age 47, died Saturday in a Roanoke hospital. He was an inspector for the Virginia Department of Highways. He is survived by his wife, Reva Bishop Scaggs, Floyd; one son, Carson Scaggs, Floyd; his mother, Mrs.
Clara Akers Scaggs, Floyd. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday at the Pleasant Valley Church of the Brethren, with Rev. Everett Reed and Mr. C.
E. Mannon officiating. Burial in the Church cemetery. Friends may call at Maberry Funeral Home. ELISHA G.
THOMPSON BEDFORD Elisha G. Thompson, of Rt. 1, died Saturday in a Bedford hospital. He was in the U.S. Navy in World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Blanche E. Thompson, Bedford; mother, Mrs. Thompson, Bedford; Annie, brothers, Rase Thompson and William Thompson, both of Bedford: Jiles Thompson, Richmond; Percell Thompson, N.J.; one, sister, Mrs. Nellie Lestwich, Bedford; five step children and a host of nieces and nephews also survive.
Graveside services will be Doctor Unravels Poison Puzzle From Page 1 not uncommon. Disease, chronic and acute, overchallenges the life system. Breathing stops. The patient dies. Sometimes last-ditch surgery, intended to save life, overchallenges, too, and breathing stops, the patient dies.
In the first six months of this year, the VA hospital averaged six to eight respiratory arrests a month, with successful revival in only 30 per cent or so of the cases. Respiratory arrest flashes on lights of the doctor's call board as a "Code So, in July, with a heavy surgical load, it was easy at first to miss or dismiss increase of Code 7s an aberration caused by "a lot of very ill patients." But Dr. Ronald Bishop, chief of medicine, remembers fielding complaints from the respiratory staff of overwork. Dr. Hill was so troubled by the increase in Code 7s that she asked the acting chief of staff, Dr.
Duane Freier, to set up a study. He brought up her fears at an executive meeting on Monday, Aug. 4, and Dr. Hill and a cohort began digging back into the files, reviewing the charts to see what, if anything, the stricken patients had in common. The only thing they found was that all of the patients were on intravenous solution.
On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 13, Dr. Bishop was in his when a resident who had been on duty first night came in to report what had transpired on his shift. "You wouldn't believe it," he said. "We had nine Code 7s last night." Thinking back now, he says, he didn't over the report "as critically as I go should.
But the cases were mostly older patients with respiratory That same day he was preoccupied by another, unrelated development. A patient committed suicide. Also on Wednesday, Dr. Hill reported her findings on the chart check to Dr. Freier, and suggested a panel be convened to study the mounting respiratory arrests, specifically to interview closely those perwho were first on the scene of each of sons the cases.
Thursday, the 14th, there were additional Code 7s, but nothing like the number the day before. Anne Hill's suspicions grew, and she can't remember when or how the idea came to her whether it was during her troubled sleep, or whether she heard it from someone else, or whether it was just there when she blurted out the terrible idea to Dr. Freier. "Could there be someone running around doing this? It didn't seer like I was talking, but I was saying, 'nothing has been charted. Could it be that someone is not She was so astonished at the charges she was hurling into the air that "I didn't believe I was saying it." Friday, Aug.
15. Dr. Bishop went to the intensive care unit to see if he could find room for a critically ill patient. He went over charts, trying to set priorities. Could someone be moved to make room? It was 4:20 p.m.
Suddenly one of the patients in the unit stopped breathing. Quickly nurses and doctors applied an Ambu bag, a kind of rubber device that can be squeezed, forcing air into the pa- 15, 1975 Deaths -Funerals Roanoke Valley State Claude Watson Carter, 69, 715 Dale SE, died Sunday. Funeral Wednesday at 1 p.m., Lotz Funeral Home Chapel, Roanoke. Mrs. Mary E.
Wells, 80, 2018 Westover SW, died Sunday. Arrangements by Oakey's Funeral Home, Roanoke. Lauretta F. Lackes. 78.
1233 Hamilton SW, died Sunday. Arrangements by Oakey's Funeral Home, Roanoke. Earnest S. Brown, 62, 4937 Balsam SW, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 3 p.m., Oakey's Funeral Home Chapel, Roanoke.
Funeral for Roy L. Lee, who died Saturday, will be Tuesday at 2 p.m., Belmont Christian Church. Sherman Thomas Combs, 66, 3747 Garden City SE, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 2 Garden City Baptist Church. Arrangements by Lotz Funeral Home, Roanoke.
Clayton Evans Pierce, Allison SW, died 'Saturday. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., Midway Baptist Church, Ironto. Arrangements by Lotz Funeral Home, Roanoke. Mrs. Elizabeth Elliot, 213 Gilmer NW, died Friday.
Funeral Tuesday at 3 p.m., Deliverance Church of Christ. Arrangements by Fizer's Funeral Home. Joseph J. O'Connor, 72. 530 Camilla SE, died Friday.
Funeral Monday at 11:15 a.m., St. Andrew's Catholic Church. Arrangements by Oakey's Funeral Home, Roanoke. Funeral for Mrs. Frances C.
Fuller, who died Thursday, will be Tuesday at 1 p.m., Lotz Funeral Home Chapel, Roanoke. State ROCKY MOUNT Mrs. Roxie Mullins Young, 61, died Saturday. Funeral Tuesday at 11 a.m., Lynch Funeral Home Chapel. STUART Mrs.
Mary Plaster Rutledge, 91, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., Moody Funeral Home Chapel. GALAX William Roger Rector 60, died Saturday. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m., Jerusalem United Methodist Church. Arrangements by Vaughan-Guynn Funeral Home.
INDEPENDENCE Mrs. Lillie B. Ward, 84, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., Saddie Creek Primitive Baptist Church. Arrangements by Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Funeral Designs Due Alton Robertson, Pres.
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Dial 366-7651 a WE CARE A funeral Service IRONGATE John Adam Bryant, 58, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., Nicely Funeral Home Chapel, Clifton Forge. STUART Mrs. Judy I Bowman Lawson, 85, died Saturday. Funeral today at 2 p.m., Moody Funeral Home Chapel.
NATURAL BRIDGE STATION Winston Lee Agee, 51, died Saturday. Graveside service Tuesday at 11 a.m., Sunset Cemetery, Christiansburg. Arrangements by Harrison's Funeral Home, Lexington. BASSETT Mrs. Daisy Beatrice Millner, 68, died Sunday.
Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., Oak Hill Baptist Church. Arrangements by Collins Funeral Home, Bassett. DANVILLE Paul Lynwood Griffith, 71, died Sunday. Graveside service at Evergreen Cemetery, Roanoke. Funeral Tuesday at 11 a.m., Suicegood Chapel, Danville.
NARROWS Earnest Edward Bailey, 83, died Saturday. Funeral Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., Williams Chapel. Arrangements by Newberry Funeral Home, Bland. DUBLIN Sandra Kay Remines, died Friday. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m., Max Creek Baptist Church, Pulaski.
BLACKSBURG Albert Eugene Kessinger, 51, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Pembroke. Arrangements by WilliamsJamison Funeral Home, Pembroke. BASSETT Mrs. Minnie Horsley Richardson, 79, died Sunday.
Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m., McKee Funeral Home Chapel, Martinsville. BASTIAN Mrs. Mossie Dykes, 75, died Sunday. Funeral Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., Bastian Church of God. Arrangements by Newberry Funeral Home, Bland.
BLAND Mrs. Flora Thompson Baker, 81, died Saturday. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m., Bland United Methodist Church. Arrangements by Newberry Funeral Home, Bland. FAIRFIELD Porter Field Fix, 75, died Sunday.
Funeral Wednesday at p.m., McElwee Chapel. Arrangements by Harrison's Funeral Home, Lexington. FLOYD Funeral for Edgar G. Scaggs, who died Saturday, will be Monday at 2 p.m., Pleasant Valley Church of the Brethren. Out-of-State MELBOURNE, Fla.
Mrs. Martha Guilliams Willis, 74, formerly of Roanoke, died Sunday. Arrangements by Oakey's Funeral Home, Vinton. TULSA, Okla. Graveside service for Mrs.
Marie W. Beheler, who died Friday, will be Tuesday at 1 p.m., Evergreen Cemetery. RALEIGH, N.C. Nan Roberts McDuffie, 60, died Sunday. sister of Mrs.
J. Ed Lynch of Roanoke. Called On Egypt's People's Assembly called Sunday on President Anwar Sadat to sever relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization and end the 15-year friendship treaty with Moscow, the Middle East News Agency reported. The special four-hour meeting of the assembly, which serves as Egypt's parliament, was held mainly to counter criticism of the Egyptian-Israeli agreement for a further disengagement of forces in the Sinai Desert. WE'RE IN THIS BUSINESS BECAUSE WE CARE.
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HOMES. INC WE PROTECT MEMORIES AND PEOPLE WITH CONCERN AND CARE. MRS. FLORA THOMPSON BAKER BLAND Mrs. Flora Thompson Baker, age 81, died Saturday in a Wytheville hospital.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Marie Grimes, Prince Frederick, Maryland; Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, Louisa, Patsy Kimberling, Roanoke; three sons, J. C. Baker, Rocky Gap; William E.
Baker, Bland; Richard Baker, Prince Frederick, Maryland: two sisters, Dixie Patterson, Mrs. Lessie Kimberling, both of Bland; one brother, Ira Thompson, Bland; 1 17 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2:00 p.m. in the Bland United Methodist Church, with Rev. C.
V. Duff and Rev. Dale Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in the Bland Cemetery. Newberry Funeral Home, Bland, is handling arrangements.
MRS. MARIE WILLIAMS BEHELER Mrs. Marie W. Beheler, age 89, formerly of Roanoke, died Friday, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital. Surviving are one son, Marshall Beheler, Tulsa, Oklahoma; two daughters, Mrs.
Katherine Hatch, Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Marie Beheler Webber, Roanoke; six seven greatgrandchildren; one great-grandchild. Funeral services were held Sunday, September 14, at Harvard Road Baptist Church, Tulsa. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, at Evergreen Cemetery the Rev.
Albert Peverall, from First Baptist Church officiating. Oakey's Roanoke Chapel will be handling arrangements. EARNEST S. BROWN Earnest S. Brown, age 62.
of 4937 Balsam Drive, died Sunday in a Salem hospital. He was retired as the Assistant General Foreman, Car Department, Railway, and was a member of Cave Spring United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lerline Jacobs Brown; two sons, Robert Lewis Brown, Philadelphia, Donald Wayne Brown, Richmond; one grandson, Thomas Brandon Brown. Services will be at 3 p.m., Tuesday, from Oakey's Roanoke Chapel, with the Rev.
Robinson H. McAden officiating. Interment will be in Sherwood Memorial Park. Friends may call at Oakey's Roanoke Chapel. SHERMAN THOMAS COMBS Sherman Thomas Combs, age 66.
of 3747 Garden City died Sunday morning in a local hospital. He was a former American Viscose employee and former owner of Garden City Grocery. Surviving are his wife, Tabby Plunkett Combs; two daughters, Mrs. Herman (Betty) Doss, Galax; Mrs. Donald (Barbara) Shelton, Roanoke; one brother, Ernest Combs, Roanoke; one sister, Mrs.
William H. Jennings, Roanoke; 8 grandchildren, Dianne, Mark, Teresa and Kevin Shelton, all of Roanoke; Rhonda and Andy Doss, Galax; David and Davana Combs, Vinton. Funeral services will be conducted at Garden City Baptist Church, at 2 p.m., Tuesday, with the Rev. Luther V. High, Jr.
and the Rev. D. N. McGrady officiating. Burial will follow in Sherwood.
Friends may call at Lotz Roanoke Chapel. MRS. MOSSIE HYDEN DYKES BASTIAN Mrs. Mossie Hyden Dykes, age 75, died Sunday in a Bluefield, West Virginia, hospital. She is survived by five daughters, Mrs.
Marie Harless, Christiansburg; Mrs. Matanna Layton, Hot Springs, Mrs. Berthelle Deel, Jacksonville, N.C.; Mrs. Geneva Blankenship, Richlands: Mrs. Regina Harmon, Bastian; 17 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Bastian Church of God with Rev. Archie Covington and Rev. Kenner Kitts officiating. Interment will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery.
The body rests at Newberry Funeral Home, Bland, and will be moved to the residence at 5:00 p.m. Monday. Newberry Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. MRS. ELIZABETH ELLIOTT Funeral services for Mrs.
Elizabeth Elliott, of 213 Gilmer will be Tuesday, 3 p.m., from the Deliverance Church of Christ, Gainsboro NW. The Rev. Lorraine Samples will officiate. Burial will be in C. C.
Williams Memorial Park. Friends may call.at Fizer's Funeral Home Monday from 7 until 9 p.m. PORTER FIELD FIX FAIRFIELD Porter Field Fix, age 75, died Sunday morning in a Lexington hospital. He was born in Rockbridge County, January 2, 1900, a son of the late John Henry Fix and Betty Frances Madison Fix. He was a member of Old Stone.
Presbyterian Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. May- beth Blackwell, Stuarts Draft, Mrs. Diane Humphries, Fairfield, one brother, William H. Fix, Fairfield; two sisters, Mrs.
Otho Conner, Mrs. Jack Conner, both of Fairfield; 6 grandchildren. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at McElwee Chapel. Rev.
John Stanley officiating, with burial in McElwee Chapel cemetery. The family will receive friends at Harrison's Funeral Home, Lexington, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday. GEORGE SHACKFORD (SHACK) GARDNER, SR. George Shackford (Shack Gardner, age 66, of Rt.
2, Moneta, passed away Friday in a local hospital. He was a retired mining engineer. Surviving are his wife, Edna Equi Gardner; two sons, George S. Gardner, Sussex, N.J.; Joseph Patrick Gardner, Carolina Beach, N.C.: three daughters, Mrs. Janet, Zeleznock, Fredericksburg; Betty Jo Taylor, Kansas City, Mrs.
Martha Ann Murphy, Arlington; three brothers, J. 0. Gardner and R. M. (Bill) Gardner, both of Roanoke: Lewis Gardner, Northridge, also 5 grandchildren.
Funeral Mass conducted at 11 a.m., Monday, from Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church, with Father Dennis P. Murphy offi- ciating. Interment will be in Fair View Cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family suggests that contributions be made to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
Friends may call at Lotz Roanoke Chapel. ALBERT EUGENE KESSINGER BLACKSBURG Albert Eugene Kessinger, age 51, passed away at his home in Blacksburg Sunday. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Claudine Meredith Kessinger; four daughters, Mrs. Bobby B.
Scott and Mrs. Larry McCoy, both of McCoy, Mrs. Debra Meadows, Roanoke; Miss Derhonda Kessinger, Christiansburg; two brothers, Marion R. Kessinger and Harold R. Kessinger, both of Blacksburg; two sisters, Mrs.
Lucille Snider, Princeton, Mrs. Coburn Linkous, Dublin; also 4 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, 2 p.m., from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Pembroke Branch. Bishop Shepardson will preside at the services. Burial will follow in Birchlawn at Pearisburg.
The family suggests that flowers be omitted and memorial contributions be made to the Heart Fund. The family will receive friends at the funeral home after 4 p.m., Monday. Funeral arrangements are by the WilliamsJamison Funeral Home, Pembroke. ROY L. LEE Roy L.
Lee, 65, of 1135 Highland died Saturday in a Charlottesville hospital. He was a member of and custodian for Belmont Christian Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Minnie, Reynolds Lee; daughter, Mrs. Donna Lee Rexrode, Roanoke; a son, pa Larry A.
Lee, Vinton; two. sisters, Mrs. Goma Caldwell, Roanoke; Mrs. Lima Crosier, Wakefield, W.Va.; two brothers, Claude W. Lee, Roanoke; Ted R.
Lee, Salem; one granddaughter, Karen Michelle Lee; and two grandsons, Michael Alan Lee Kevin Scott Rexrode. Services will be at 2 p.m., Tuesday, from Belmont Christian Church, with the Rev. John O. Atkins officiating. Interment will be in Sherwood Memorial Park.
Friends may call at Oakey's Vinton Chapel. NAN ROBERTS McDUFFIE RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA Nan Roberts McDuffie, age 60, of 3939 Glenwood Raleigh, N.C., died Sunday morning in a Raleigh hospital. She is survived by her husband, James R. McDuffie; one son, Thomas A. Stanley, Greensboro, N.C.; one stepdaughter, Mrs.
Paul Rockefeller, Cary, N.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Lewis A. Marshall, Goodview; Mrs. J. Ed Lynch, Roanoke; Mrs.
Rose Lee Roberts, Roanoke; two grandchildren; four step-grandchildren. Graveside services will be at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at Crest Lawn Memorial Park, Atlanta, Ga. Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, Cary, North Carolina, is handling arrangements. JOSEPH J.
O'CONNOR Services for Joseph J. O'Connor, age 72, of 530 Camilla S.E., will be at 11:15 a.m. Monday from St. Andrew's Catholic Church, with interment in St. Andrew's Cemetery.
Oakey's Roanoke Chapel is handling arrangements. CLAYTON EVANS PIERCE Clayton Evans Pierce, age 32, of 405 Allison S.W., Roanoke, passed away Saturday. Survivors include his wife, Lilly Firestone Pierce; three sons, Roger Dale Pierce, at home; Clayton E. Pierce, Jr. and Carlton E.
Pierce, both of Salem; one step-daughter, Karen Lynn Lewis, at home; mother and Roanoke; three brothers, Charlie Guilliams, Roanoke; Albert Guilliams, Portsmouth: Emmett Guilliams, Front Royal; six sisters, Mrs. Mildred Aldredge, Mrs. Lou Willett, Roanoke; Mrs. Mary Likens, Salem; Mrs. Lottie Flora, Rocky Mount; Mrs.
Eva Nichols, W. Daisy Thomas, South Carolina; also 13 grandchildren and 2 greatgrandchildren. Her body will be brought to Oakey's Vinton Chapel. EDWARD WINSTON WINEGARD Edward Winston Winegard, age 70, of 1823 Westover Roanoke, died Saturday morning in a local hospital. He was a native of Hazel Hurst, and a graduate of Williams Technical School, Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a retired supervisor of Demonstration Water Project, Inc. and a member of the Mile Masonic Lodge AF AM of Pen Yan, N. Y. Surviving are his wife, Lucille Winegard; one brother, V. E.
Winegard, St. Petersburg, four sisters, Mrs. Edward Schlopy, Bedford, Mrs. Robert Gould, Wickliffe, Ohio; Mrs. Henry Schriber, Sarasota, Mrs.
Beulah Crafton, Placerville, Calif. A memorial service will be held in the Lotz Roanoke Chapel Monday, 7:30 p.m., with Reader James R. Richardson officiating. A courtesy service by the Virginia Heights Masonic Lodge, AF AM will also be held in the chapel. Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. The family will receive friends at the residence only. Lotz Roanoke Chapel is handling arrangements. MRS. ROXIE MULLINS YOUNG ROCKY MOUNT Mrs.
Roxie Mullins Young, age 61, of Rt. 4, passed away Saturday evening in a Roanoke hospital. Surviving are her husband, George Elton Young: three sisters, Mrs. Betsy Hudson, Vinton; Mrs. Elsie Hall, Roanoke; Brown, Salem; two brothers, Frank Mullins, Vinton; Fred Mullins, Rocky Mount.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. Chapel, by Rev. C. E. Reynolds.
Interment will follow in the family cemetery. Friends may call at Lynch Funeral Home. tient's lungs. It is only a temporary an- repeated the antidote. Again, he opened swer.
his eyes, and squeezed her hand so hard it Doctors followed up that emergency hurt. procedure by slipping a tube through the By now, she said, she was "very patient's mouth into his windpipe, and shocked, very worried, very upset." There hooking him up to a breathing machine. was a poisoner in the hospital. "I couldn't The human brain cannot last much believe it." longer than four minutes without oxygen After the third patient was treated, before suffering damage. The patient was she went back to her office and just sat for being artificially respirated within a min- a moment.
"I wanted to be alone." ute. Then she realized she had forgotten to While doctors and nurses stabilized get urine samples to test for the presence him, word came that a second patient had of the drug. They were drawn and placed stopped breathing across the hall in the under lock and key. coronary care unit. This patient was Dr.
Freier called the FBI. hooked up to heart monitors, they The investigation rocked the and showed that although his breathing had hospital. The Veterans Administration sent in a stopped, he had good pulse and his heart team from headquarters and brought in was beating normally. outside physicians. The hospital closed its doors to all but emergency cases.
Dr. Hill was meeting with her small Whatever the FBI investigation found staff in her office on the fourth floor. Her and she has not been disclosed. secretary had just left for the day, the time about 4:40 p.m. Her resi- But there are a number of possibiliplaced dent was on the phone in the outer office, ties.
Some doctors think the culprit never and she called to him to find out why he intended to kill, but only wanted to watch wasn't in the meeting. He told her he had the fight for life in the same dark way an heard there was a code call in the inten- arsonist relishes watching the fire he. has sive care unit, and he couldn't get through started. by phone. To support that contention, there is "We always respond to a code." she the fact that most stricken patients were shouted.
"Run." in situations where they were being closely watched, and respiratory arrest was She grabbed her resuscitation kit. sure to be caught in time. The one man They all ran down to ICU. whose failure regarded as respiratory is The patient who had arrested was a suspicious and who died was a ward pavery ill man. But he was already being giv- tient, not necessarily under close minute en artificial respiration.
Everything was by-minute care. He too was revived, but he under control. Then she heard the call had suffered severe brain damage already from the coronary care unit. She dashed and he died 11 days later. across the hall.
Among the clusters of doctors, nurses The patient was being ventilated by and orderlies passing through, was the poimask, and she tried to slip the endotra- soner among them, watching it all hapcheal tube into the windpipe, but the vocal chords closed around it and she had to pen? Not necessarily. He could have shut apply a local anesthetic to relax them. the tube, the Paoff intravenous injected Minutes later in the ICU, a third pa- vunol and gone away. Then, having loaded tient stopped breathing. He too was given the gun, it could have been triggered by artificial respiration.
anyone who saw the tube was off and Dr. Hill was now certain that the pa- turned it back on. tients had been administered some kind of No think of motive short of one can a drug that had paralyzed their breathing madness. The knowledge needed to do it ability. There are a number of such drugs could be absorbed by anyone of average available in the hospital.
They are used intelligence after six months working in a when doctors want to place a patient on hospital. artificial respiration. The question was, As one doctor who aided in the investiwhich drug? gation points out, many hospitals are vulShe to try a quick test. nerable to this kind of thing. And, he decided stimulating the nerves in the forearm with elec- reasons, if murder undetected murder trie needles and watching the contractions had been the intent, he poisoner's in the hand of her conscious but paralyzed would likely have suceeded by choosing patient.
Of the two leading candidates only one patient a month. That would not among the drugs, each leaves a different have inflated the statistics and alerted the signature in nerve response. hospital staff. The pattern matched the response There have been no "suspicious Code from a curare-like drug called Pavunol. 7s" since Aug.
15, and the hospital is back She called quickly for antidote an to routine operations. In the wake of the the ampule of neostigmine with atropine to poisonings, there have been charges of moderate the side effects. negligence, suggestions that the hospital "I I hoped I was wrong." she said. But did not act quickly enough. if the antidote worked it her worst But during the more than six weeks meant suspicions were true that someone was when the respiratory arrests exploded on running around the hospital paralyzing the hospital, the staff remarkably did repatients, and that someone was probably vive over 90 per cent of the stricken panot too distant.
tients. Before she injected the antidote, she "It will take a long time to find out asked the patient: "Open your Take eyes. whether the earlier cases were spontaSqueeze my hand. Lift your head. a neous or inflicted," says Anne Hill.
"But deep breath." thank God, they were all taken care of." He could do none of these things. Worse, and more lasting to her, is the But two minutes after the injection, fact that someone had entered a hospital, he opened his eyes and squeezed her hand. where the purpose is to save lives, to kill. She went to the second patient and "It was," says Anne Hill, "unthinkable.".
