RODGER DALE NEWMAN RODGER DALE NEWMAN, 65, OF RT. #2, PHILIPPI, DIED SATURDAY, APRIL 16, AT HIS HOME, FOLLOWING AN UNEXPECTED ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN MAY 4, 1945, AT PHILIPPI, A SON OF THE LATE MARCELLUS AND NELLIE (CROSTON) NEWMAN. ON AUGUST 31, 1986, HE MARRIED THE FORMER BARBARA ELLEN (MAYLE) CAIN, WHO SURVIVES AT RT. #2, PHILIPPI. ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWO DAUGHTERS, REBECCA “BECKY” COLLINS AND HUSBAND, ISSAC “JUNIOR” COLLINS, PHILIPPI, MELISSA NEWMAN, CULPEPPER, VA; FOUR STEP-cHILDREN, ANDRA “TIM” CAIN, COLUMBIA, MD, ROSE MAYLE AND HUSBAND, HIRAM MAYLE, PHILIPPI, SIDNEY CAIN AND WIFE, TABITHA CAIN, PHILIPPI, LINDA SEYMOUR AND HUSBAND, DR. CHRIS SEYMOUR, DUBLIN, GA; TWO SISTERS, WILMA JEAN WALKER, IN MISSISSIPPI AND JOSEPHINE DALTON, WARREN, OH; ONE BROTHER, LARRY NEWMAN, CANTON, OH; FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SISTERS, GLADIS POE AND SHARON DEE NEWMAN AND BY SIX BROTHERS, ARNOLD LEE NEWMAN, HUBERT NEWMAN, BURTIS NEWMAN, LENNIS NEWMAN, NORMAN NEWMAN AND PAUL NEWMAN. MR. NEWMAN WAS A RETIRED CONSTRUCTION LABORER AND WAS A MEMBER OF LABORERS LOCAL 1015, IN CANTON. HE WAS A MEMBER OF OKEY’S GOSPEL CHAPEL. HE WAS AN AVID HUNTER AND ENJOYED RIDING MOTORCYCLES AND FOUR-wHEELERS. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 2:00 P.M. ON THURSDAY, APRIL 21, FROM OKEY’S GOSPEL CHAPEL WITH THE REV. MENELUS MAYLE OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW IN THE WELCH CEMETERY. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT THE STEMPLE & FORMAN FUNERAL HOME, 385 SO. MAIN STREET, PHILIPPI, FROM 7:00 UNTIL 9:00 P.M. ON TUESDAY, FROM 9:00 A.M. UNTIL 9:00 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY AND FROM 9:00 UNTIL 11:00 A.M. ON THURSDAY, WHEN MR. NEWMAN WILL BE MOVED TO OKEY’S GOSPEL CHAPEL WHERE FRIENDS MAY CALL FROM 12:00 UNTIL 2:00 P.M., THE FUNERAL HOUR. STEMPLE & FORMAN FUNERAL HOME WAS ENTRUSTED WITH ARRANGEMENTS.
