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November 17, 2006

In Our Prayers

Many members of the Belmont community have experienced losses over the past week. Please continue to keep the following people in your thoughts and prayers:

- It is with great sadness that we must inform the campus community of the death of Alice Annastas. Alice, an 11 year employee of Belmont's Student Financial Services office, passed away this weekend after a brief battle with cancer. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alice Annastas Scholarship Fund in care of Belmont University. Please keep the family and her colleagues in your thoughts and prayers during this very difficult time.

- Kathryn Culbertson, the mother of Joan Eakin (College of Visual & Performing Arts), passed away Wednesday, November 15. She was 89 and the widow of a Baptist minister, who pastored churches in Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Michigan. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Bowlin Funeral Home in Dresden, Tenn., with Joan's husband, Dr. Rodger Eakin, officiating. Visitation will be today from 4-8 p.m. and Saturday until the time of the service.

- Minister Harry Williams, Jr., brother of Stephanie Babb in Belmont's HR office and pastor of New Beginnings Church of Christ in East Nashville, was killed by a drunk driver on Stewarts Ferry Pike on Friday evening. Minister Williams is survived by his wife, seven children and 14 grandchildren. Stephanie's twin sons, Taylor and Tyler, loved their uncle as a father. Funeral Services will be held today, Friday, November 17. Visitation is from Noon-1 p.m. with the funeral immediately following. Services will be held at the Cathedral of Praise Church at 4300 Clarksville Highway in North Nashville. The church is on the corner of Kings Lane and Clarksville Pike.

- Please keep Josephine and Terry White in your thoughts and prayers at the loss of her mother on November 9. Terry is Director of Security and Josephine recently retired from Belmont.


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