www.citizentimes.com SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019 9A Buckner, EnochVirgil 77 Marshall 24-May Madison Funeral Services Jr. FrankClinton Mills River 21-May Thos. Directors andCremationMemorial Center Jackson, Roy Lee (Gabby) 67 Marion 23-May BeamFuneral KatherineMcCrary 94 Asheville 23-May Groce Funeral HomeonTunnel Road Johnson, Ervin R. 77 Weaverville 23-May West Family Funeral Services Mitchell, Jr. Charles 68 Franklin 22-May Bryant-Grant Funeral HomeandCrematory Parker, Cleo 95 Niceville, FL 23-May Ivie Funeral Plemmons, JerryArthur 81 Hot Springs 21-May Madison Funeral Services Roberts, JohnnyM.
76 Weaverville 22-May West Family Funeral Services Taylor, HanselH. 85 Canton 23-May Crawford Funeral HomeandCremationService Whitson, Zella 70 Swannanoa 24-May HarwoodHome for Funerals Yates, Betty 61 Woodfin 23-May Yonce, Shirley 80 Murphy 23-May Townson-Rose Funeral Home Additional information in display obituaries Obituaries appear in print and online at www.legacy.com/obituaries/Citizen-Times OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES Name Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements ASHEVILLE Callie Katherine McCrary Jack- son, 94, completed her earthly journey on May 23, 2019. Born March 11, 1925 in Clyde NC to Wil- liam Jennings and Lucille Ratcliff McCrary. She was a life-long Asheville resi- dent and beloved wife to Raymond Hubert Jack- son. Loved dearly by all her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, as well as nieces and nephews and many children she shepherded through church.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband, all of her brothers, Sam, Gardner, Benton and Dale, and her sister, Doris. Katherine worked as a telephone switchboard operator for Bell System, in the early days of plug- in cords, as a real She was a long-time member and servant at Beverly Hills Baptist Church, devoted to loving and shepherding many children, faithfully declaring Loves the Little After raising her large and extended family and the death of her husband, she loved working at the Billy Graham Center at the Cove, which brought her great joy. She loved her family endlessly. Before her stroke in 2017, she prayed daily for each child and grand- child by name. She loved the Lord and truly rep- resented the epitome of Christian love.
Survivors include her children, Larry Jenkins (Patti), Ronald (Betty), Dale (Kathy), Bryan (Lisa), David (Lisa), and Kathy Higdon (Ron); grandchil- dren, Emily, Michael, Robbie, Cindy, Ashlee, Kris- tie, Amy, Bonnie, Zachary, Luke, Melanie, Lindsey, Brent, Lauren, Holly, Melissa, Spencer, Marcus, Nathan, and twenty-five great grandchildren. The funeral service will be Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at Groce Funeral Home Chapel, 856 Tunnel Road, with Rev. Dr. Billy King officiating.
Interment will follow at Sky View Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the funeral service. Flowers are appreciated or memorials may be made in name to the Billy Graham Center the Cove, 1 Porters Cove Asheville, NC, 28805. Katherine McCrary Jackson MILLS RIVER Frank Clinton Henry, Jr. went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 from his home in Mills River, NC.
He was pre- deceased by his parents, Frank Clinton Henry, Sr. and Ida Holloman Henry. Frank was Mainte- nance Supervisor at Ball Glass Co. in Skyland, NC for 30 years. He was a private pilot and active member of the Western North Carolina Pilots Association where he served as president, mem- bership chairman and board member.
He was highly experienced in the building and flying of miniature aircraft. He had a tremendous love for aviation airplanes of all sizes. A funeral service was held at 5:00 P.M. on Friday, May 24, 2019 at Thos. Church Street Chapel with Rev.
Rafe Allison. In lieu of flowers, the family requests in memory be directed to the Western North Carolina Pilots Association Educational Foundation, P.O. Box 1165, Fletcher, NC 28732 or Four Seasons Compassion for Life, 571 South Allen Road, Flat Rock, NC 28731. An online register book is available for fam- ily and friends by visiting www.thosshepherd. com.
Thos. Shepherd Son Funeral Directors and Cremation Memorial Center is in charge of arrangements. Frank Clinton Henry, Jr. Obituaries Gone from us, but leaving memories death can never take away, memories that will always linger while upon this earth we stay. SOURCE: The Book of Memoriams DUBAI, United Arab Emirates For years, supreme leader only criticized the West over nuclear deal with world powers.
Now, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is publicly chastising the elected president and his foreign minister as the accord un- ravels amid heightened tensions with the U.S. By naming President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as failing to imple- ment his orders over the deal, Khamenei is signaling a hard-line tilt in how the Islamic Republic will react going forward. That will include how Iran handles the ongoing maximalist pressure campaign of President Donald Trump, who has piled on new sanctions and dis- patched an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the region over threats the White House perceives to be coming from Teh- ran. Now U.S. say the Pentagon has present- ed a plan to the White House to send an additional 1,500 troops to the Middle East over Iran.
And while not calling for Rouhani and Zarif re- placement, his words limit the already-waning ence of their relatively moderate administration as they have only two years left in their term. now, Tehran is likely focused on building up leverage against the U.S. in the nuclear realm and regionally before it would agree to even limited wrote Henry Rome, an analyst at the Eurasia Group. Khamenei, 80, is only the second supreme leader Iran has known since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. The Islamic founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho- meini, had a dominating personality that saw him lead from the front a government formed around his ideas.
Khamenei, while also having say on all state matters, portrays himself more as a fulcrum be- tween the interests of elected politicians, its hard- line paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and the clerics of Shiite theocracy. But his words, like his public appearances, are carefully considered. The Ramadan lecture he gave Wednesday night to university students in which he criticized Rouhani and Zarif was no Last year, as Iran still reeled from nationwide pro- tests over its ailing economy that included calls for the overthrow, students at the lecture unusually frank criticism to Khamenei, whom hard-liners consider second only to God. On Wednesday night, the students gave no cri- tiques, instead reacting approvingly to comments and even drawing some laughter. One even a painting of a Revolutionary Guard sol- dier credited with laying mines targeting U.S.-escort- ed oil tankers in the Persian Gulf during 1980s war with Iraq.
The Guard says he was killed in a con- frontation with the U.S. Navy. Since publicly accepting the nuclear deal, un- der which Iran agreed to limit its enrichment of ura- nium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanc- tions, Khamenei issued a warning not to trust the U.S. A letter he sent to Rouhani in October 2015 said the deal had ambiguities and structural weaknesses that could big damage on the pre- sent and the future of the Yet his opinion of the deal hardened with election in 2016. While initially saying who was elect- ed in the U.S.
no to Khamenei has since declared: announce on behalf of the Ira- nian nation that Mr. Trump, you cannot do a damn On Wednesday night, that criticism expanded to Rouhani and Zarif over their crowning achievement of the nuclear deal. the way the (deal) was handled, I did not real- ly believe in it, and mentioned this to the president and the foreign minister and had warned them sever- al Khamenei said. Analysis: Iran leader comments signal shift in strategy Jon Gambrell ASSOCIATED PRESS Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly chastised the moderate president and foreign minister Wednesday, saying he disagreed with the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal they had negotiated with world powers. OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER VIA AP WASHINGTON Nearly two dozen progressive groups are launching a new push to persuade Demo- cratic presidential candidates to support dramatic spending cuts at the Pentagon.
The liberal groups are writing Thursday to all candi- dates in the crowded 2020 Democratic primary, urging the White House hopefuls to support slashing $200 billion or more from an annual defense budget that topped $700 billion for the current year. Dubbed People Over the and shared with The Associated Press before its release, the aims to elevate defense spending in a presidential race where energized progressive activ- ists are nudging candidates to embrace their agenda on a variety of issues. of billions of dollars annually should be shifted away from the Pentagon and to pressing needs from education to averting catastrophic climate said Robert Weissman, president of the watchdog Public Citizen. needs leaders who will speak plain truths about Pentagon excesses and Four senators vying for the Democratic nomina- tion to take on President Donald Trump last year vot- ed against the measure that authorizes the current Pentagon budget: Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Eliza- beth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Sanders and Warren have criticized defense spending levels as excessive, with the Vermont sena- tor vowing to challenge spending on the dustrial during a March rally that launched his 2020 campaign.
Besides Public Citizen, the other progressive groups behind push for defense spending cuts include MoveOn.org, Indivisible and Democracy for America. Nearly two dozen progressive groups are launching a new push to persuade Democratic presidential candidates to support dramatic spending cuts at the Pentagon. CHARLES FILE Liberal groups want 2020 Democrats to back Pentagon spending cuts Elana Schor ASSOCIATED PRESS.
