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B4 THE JOURNAL-NEWS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1987 OBITUARIES Murderer gets ill at sentencing By Shaun Assael Staff Writer A Connecticut man who murdered his mother because he thought she was a witch was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Thursday, shortly after becoming ill in front of the judge. Swaying unsteadily and nodding his head in a groggy manner, Wesley Wallace, 24, stunned the court-room by vomiting before Westchester County Judge Kenneth Lange. The incident occurred just seconds after his attorney, Robert McGrath, became concerned about his client's health and suggested Lange find out whether Wallace was on drugs. His illness prompted a brief recess, after which Lange said that officials at the Westchester County Jail reported Wallace was not taking any' medication and was capable of understanding his sentence. Wallace was convicted by a jury last month of killing 40-year-old Pernell Wallace of Mount Vernon by firing a Magnum point-blank in her face because he thought she was casting spells on him.

Lange cited a confidential probation department report that indicated Wallace had also threatened other members of his family and recommended he not be made eligible for parole because of the likelihood that he could commit murder again. or to the New Hempstead Presbyterian Church, New City. Arrangements were made by the Ferguson Funeral Home, 20 North Washingtonville. Eleanor R. Scanlan Eleanor Ray Scanlan, a former Rockland County resident, died Thursday in the Vista Manor Nursing Home, Titusville, Fla.

She was 75. She was born April 25, 1912, to Joseph and Mabel (Cameron) Quig-ley in Boston. Mrs. Scanlan, who lived in Upper Nyack from 1947 to 1974, moved to Cocoa, in 1974. She was a registered nurse and worked at Nyack Hospital for many years.

While in Upper Nyack, she was a member of St. Ann's Church. She is survived by her husband, George Vincent Scanlan of Cocoa; four sons, Paul of Knoxville, David and Michael, both of Upper Nyack, and Peter of Newburg, N.Y.; a daughter, Helen Tarbox of Clearwater, and nine grandchildren. Memorial services are Saturday at Blessed Sacrament Church, Cocoa. Burial is in Pine Lawn Community Garden Cemetery, Cocoa.

Mary DeGroat Mary DeGroat of Knights Corner, Stony Point, died Tuesday at the Yeager Health Complex, Pomona. She was 73. She was born June 10, 1914, to Andrew and Mary (Botti) Szabo in the Bronx and spent 58 years in the North Rockland area. the Joseph W. Sorce Funeral Home, West Nyack.

A memorial service is June 21 at 2 p.m. at the Center for Positive Living, Strawtown Road, West Nyack. Ronald E. Vail Ronald E. Vail, a retired electronics engineer and a longtime resident of Yonkers, died Wednesday at St.

John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers after a long illness. He was 65. Mr. Vail worked for the Sperry Rand Corp. in Great Neck, N.Y., for 24 years before retiring about 10 years ago.

He was born in Yorktown Heights on April 13, 1922, to Earl and Sadys Lord Vail. He moved to Yonkers as a child and attended Yonkers schools, graduating from Yonkers High School. Mr. Vail graduated from the RCA Institute in New York City. He served with the Army Air Corps from August 1942 to September 1945, serving in, among other places, central Europe, Italy and France.

He rose to the rank of technical sergeant and received the Distinguished Unit Badge and the European-African-Middle Eastern Service Medal. On Aug. 18, 1946, in Yonkers, he married Lorna Kristoff. She died May 30, 1982. Besides his mother of Tucson, Mr.

Vail is survived by three sons, Richard, William and Raymond, all of Yonkers; three daughters, Barbara Vail of Nyack, Ethel Vail of Yonkers and Catherine Spinney of Yonkers; and two brothers, William of Florida and Harold of Arizona. She was a homemaker. Her husband, Perry died earlier. Mrs. DeGroat is survived by a sister, Rose Coe of Stony Point; a brother, Joseph Szabo of Gar-nerville; and five nieces and nephews.

Calling hours are today from 12-2 p.m at the A.W. Dutcher's Sons Funeral Home, 18 Lincoln Hav-erstraw. Funeral services are 2 p.m. at the funeral home with the Rev. Richard Dudinak to officiate.

Burial is at Mt. Repose Cemetery, Havers-traw. Leroy Halpern Funeral services for Leroy Hal-pern, 56, of Fort Lee, N.J., a former Spring Valley resident, were held Wednesday. Mr. Halpern died Monday at Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, N.J.

He was born in Manhattan on March 10, 1931, to Herman and Evelyn Halpern. He later moved to Spring Valley as a young man and attended Spring Valley High School. He was a member of New York University's class of 1951 and a star of the school's basketball team. After college, Mr. Halpern served in the Korean War with the Marines.

He later moved to Manhattan, where he owned and operated a restaurant. He is survived by his mother of Suffern; a sister, Arlene Falk of Suffern; and a stepdaughter, Joann of California. A private funeral was held Wednesday, with arrangements by City, she was the daughter of Carl and Irita (Bradford) VanDoren. Before moving to Palisades five years ago, Mrs. Ross resided in Los Angeles for more than 20 years.

Surviving are her husband, Jerome a son, Andrew B. Ross of New York City; a daughter, Sarah Mallery of Los Angeles; two sisters, Barbara Klaw of New York City and Margaret Bevans of West Cornwall, and a grandson, Christopher Mallery of Los Angeles. The funeral service and cremation will be private. Arrangements are by Hugh E. White Funeral Home, 43 S.

Broadway, Nyack. Marie T. Rolandelli Maria T. Rolandelli, a former New City resident, died of cancer Wednesday at her Ewing Road home in Bloomington, Minn. She was 55.

Mrs. Rolandelli lived for many years in New City before moving to Bloomington in 1972. She was born in White Plains on Sept. 24, 1931, the daughter of Anthony and Josephine Trapasso. Her mother survives in White Plains.

A food specialist, she was employed for the past 12 years at various Minneapolis, firms including General Mills and Pillsbury. She also styled the photo arrangements for 50 cookbooks while working for Better Homes and Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to her mother, she is survived by her husband, William of Bloomington; three daughters, Susan Rolandelli of Minneapolis, Jean Hushagen of Bemidji, and Nancy Grandprey of Eden Prarie, two sons, William J. of Way- AiaiMTT A ijaaf i "TT I ZJUJ mm Ft mmm 7 1 l-W nr- IllliJ L-JU-JI III I I I onMHHiH 1 William H. Askew Sr.

William Henry Askew 75, a former Pearl River resident, died Tuesday at Nyack Hospital. He was born Dec. 18, 1911 in Plymouth, the son of William and Ruth (Jones) Askew. He lived in Pearl River for five years before moving to Montvale, N.J. in 1927.

For many years, he worked as a sheet metal worker with Weiner Bros, in Spring Valley. He retired in 1977. He belonged to the Sheet Metal Workers Union Local No. 38 of Westchester and Rockland counties. Mr.

Askew is survived by his wife, Margaret Catherine Scott; three sons, William H. Jr. and Robert, both of Montvale, and Lawrence of Chestnut Ridge; a daughter, Margaret Malizia of Chestnut Ridge; three brothers, James of Miami, Clarence of Montvale and David of Alexandria, and four sisters, Gertrude Henness of Plymouth, Geneieve McEl-wee of Plymonth, Ruth Jabour of Bogota, N.J., and Ellen House-nick of Norfolk, Va. He is also survived by 14 grandchildren and a great-grandson. Funeral services are 10 a.m.

today at the Robert Spearing Funeral Home, 155 Kinderkermack Road in Park Ridge, N.J. Cremation will be private. This obituary is being republished because of errors in the original. Dorothy Breland A memorial service for Dorothy Breland is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday at the Old Stone Church in Upper Nyack.

Mrs. Breland, a former Rockland resident and attorney, died May 30 at Auburn Memorial Hospital in upstate New York at the age of 84. Born Jan. 25, 1903, to W.W. and Helen (Newman) Cook, Mrs.

Breland lived in Rockland for 40 years, owning homes in South Nyack, New City and Grand View. She moved five years ago to Jordon Road in Jordon, a town outside Syracuse. Mrs. Breland graduated Barnard College in 1924 and Yale Law School in 1927. She was editor of the Yale Law Journal.

She passed the New York State Bar Association 9 examination in 1928. Mrs. Breland worked for the Root Clark law firm in New York City and then American Telephone Telegraph for many years. In 1955, she started working for Prudential Life Insurance in Newark, N.J. She retired in 1967 as an assistant counsel for the company.

Her husband, Homer who also was an attorney, died before her. She is survived by two sons, Ronald H. of West Nyack and Prentiss C. of Nyack; a sister, Mary C. Hall of Jordon; and two grandchildren, Carole Lynne Breland of West Nyack and Lucinda Breland of Nyack.

Mrs. Breland was cremated. Arrangements were made by Greenleaf Funeral Home in Syracuse. Anne Ross Anne Ross of Highland Avenue, Palisades, died Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern. She was 71.

Born Dec. 11, 1915, in New York CARD OF THANKS BOGUSZ, Michael The Family of Michael Bo-gust would like to expreis their deepest gratitude to all their relatives friends that came forth with their many acts of kindness love during this time of our terrible loss. A very special thank you to the Pearl River Fire Oept especially the Pearl River Hook Ladder Art Alnsworth Jr. and Father Dalton. Thanks also to the Sth floor Nurses at Nyack Hosp Drs.

Zimmerman and Rader. SPECIAL NOTICES THANK YOU ST. JUDE. L.D. SdlWKI.hH "HKAITIKU.

KI.OWKKS" 169 N. MiddMown PukI Rw. Y. PE.r-KI79 PE5-4070 To Publish: Death Notices Card of Thanks In Memoriams St. Jude Lodge Notices Call: 694-5147 Before) Day of Publication M-F: 7:30 am 8:45 pm 8 am 8:45 pm 3 pm 6:45 pm Obituaries Call Local Gannett Westchester Rockland Papers listed in Telephone Directory PR IRl ib4i 1 1 296 rX --210 223 jj i 1 a I 1 pu ng rrooucts torn.

i zata, and George of Bloomington; a brother, Victor G. Trapasso of Alexandria, and five grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial is 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Edward's Church in Bloomington, with burial at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are by the Wer-ness Brothers Chapel, 2300 W. Old Shakopee Road, Bloomington. Rev. Clayton Hall Jr.

The Rev. Clayton Hall a former Rockland County resident, died. Monday at Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains, after suffering a heart attack. He was 68. The Rev.

Hall of Helter Line Lane moved to Plains from Mount Ivy in 1983. He was born in Harrington, Maine, on Sept. 23, 1918, the son of Clayton Hall Sr. and Elizabeth (Lindsay) Hall. He graduated first in his class from the Providence-Barrington Bible College in Providence, R.I.

He was ordained a minister in the Baptist Church in 1949. He served as an Army medical aide during World War II. He preached in several churches in Maine and Montana and also at churches and prisons in New York state. He married Florence (Jacobson) Hall, in Coventery, R.I., on Aug. 21, 1948.

Mrs. Hall of Plains survives. He is also survived by three daughters, Julia Morris of Easton, Florence Gushee of Plains and Susan Griggs of Mahwah, N.J., and five grandchildren. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at the Assembly of God Church in Plains.

A military graveside service will follow at the Plains Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Coffelt-Bunch Funeral Home in Plains. Elaine Hamilton Services are planned this weekend for Elaine (Engle) Hamilton, 72, a former New City resident who died Thursday at Cornwall Hospital in Orange County. Mrs. Hamilton was a retired office manager with the Phelps Dodge Co.

in Suffern. She lived in New City for 25 years before moving to the Orange County community of Blooming Grove 25 years ago. She made her home on Tuthill Road. She was born in Old Tappan, N.J., on April 11, 1915, to Harry and Ruth (Demarest) Engle. Mrs.

Hamilton was a member of the Rockland County chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also a member of the Blooming Grove Congregational Church. Survivors include her husband, Robert a son, Robert P. of Blooming Grove; two daughters, Andrea Hamburger of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., and Jill E. Hamilton of Gardner, N.Y., a brother, H.

Philip Engle of Conway, N.H., and six grandchildren. Graveside services are Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Summit Park Cemetery in Spring Valley. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday at the Blooming Grove Congregational Church with the Rev.

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