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Page 18 - shelby shopper & info - 704/484-1047 www.shelbyinfo.com Thursday, January 12-January 18, 2023 be conducted at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 5th at the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with Reverend Ted Blankenship officiat- ing. Interment will follow in Hicks Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to service time at the funeral home. Memorial donations are requested to Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. Harrelson Funeral and Cremation Services has been entrusted with arrange- ments. An online guest reg- istry is available at www. harrelsonfuneralhome.com GARY RICHARD BLANTON Gary Richard Blanton, 59, of Grover, passed away on Thursday, December 29, 2022. A native of Cleveland County, he was the son of the late Toy and Elizabeth Rippy Blanton. He is survived by his daughter, Jada Blanton Holland and husband Chris of Forest City; his sister, Continued From Page 17 Sandy Blanton Washburn of Grover. A memorial service was held Monday, January 2, 2022 at Clay-Barnette Funeral Home Chapel. Arrangements are entrust- ed to Clay-Barnette Funeral Home & Aquamation Center. Online condolences: www. claybarnette.com MARIA ZOILA LUNA Maria Zoila Luna, 95 de Fallston Road, Shelby, falleció el jueves 22 de diciembre de 2022 en su residencia. Nacida en El Salvador el 10 de agosto de 1927, era hija del fallecido Alberto Arriaza e Isolina Luna. Le sobreviven sus dos hijos, Santiago Amado Luna, Sr. y esposa, Jessica de Shelby; Humberto Ernesto Crespo Luna de El Salvador; una hija Marta Alicia Luna de Canadá; doce nietos y cuatro bisnietos. Se llevará a cabo un servi- cio funerario a las 2:00 p.m. el sábado 31 de diciem- bre de 2022 en Stamey- Tysinger Funeral Home Chapel. El entierro seguirá al ser- vicio en Rose Hill Memorial Park, Fallston. Un registro de invitados está disponible en www. s t a m e y t y s i n g e r f u n e r a l - home.com. Los arreglos se han con- fiado a Stamey-Tysinger Funeral Home & Cremation Center, Inc., Fallston, NC. OBITUARIES OBITUARIES I N RE M E M B RA N C E I N RE M E M B RA N C E INFO INFO FLOYD L. BUCKNER Floyd L. "Papa Smurf" Buckner, age 93, of Mooresboro, passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2022. Floyd was born Friday, January 4, 1929 in Rutherford County to the late R.W. Buckner and Frances Mashburn Buckner. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three brothers, Keith, Raleigh and Paul Buckner; two sisters, Margaret Barnes and Allena Marlowe; a grandson; and a great grandson. Left to cherish fond mem- ories are his wife, Nancy Hill Buckner; sons, Gerald Buckner of Dundee, FL and Wyman Buckner of Mooresboro; daughters, Velma Stafford (Roger) of Mt. Holly, Martha Greene (Larry) of Union Mills and Zelda Murray (Darryl) of Mooresboro; ten grandchil- dren, twenty-nine great- grandchildren and two great great-grandchildren. The funeral service will D u k e E n e r g y h a s generously committed $40,000 to The Schiele Museum of Natural History to fund monthly Free Tuesdays for the public in 2023. Museum admission and planetarium tickets will be free and available to visitors on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Starting in January, The Schiele will offer Free Tuesdays during early evening hours. This shift from the current schedule of afternoon hours is intended to benefit local visitors who want to take advantage of free admission to the museum after school or work. While people from all over the country come through the doors of The Schiele every week, 97% of visitors on Free Tuesdays are from North or South Carolina, and nearly half are from Gaston County. "Duke Energy is proud to continue to support Free Tuesdays at The Schiele for another year. Education has the power to change lives. We want to make it easy for families in our community to learn together without worrying about the cost of admission," says Martha Wegner, Director of Government and Community Relations at Duke Energy. The 2023 lineup of Free Tuesdays powered by Duke Energy includes free planetarium tickets. Tickets for scheduled shows at the James H. Lynn Planetarium (inside The Schiele Museum) will be available for reservations one week prior and will be released on a first-come, first-served basis. Find details about Free Tuesdays in 2023, i n c l u d i n g d a t e s a n d ticketing information, at schielemuseum.org. Duke Energy funds a year of Free Tuesdays at The Schiele Museum Pictured L-R: Schiele Museum Director of Development Elysabeth Utick, Duke Energy Director of Government and Community Relations Martha Wegner, and Schiele Museum Director Dr. Ann Tippett at The Schiele on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (Photo/Tiffani Stewart) By Loretta Cozart At Cleveland County Schools' website, the community has been asked to weigh-in on op- tions for the 2023 -2024 school calendar. Three options are given, with the most obvi- ous difference being when the first semester ends. Options 1 and 3 have the first semester ending in December, while option 2 has it ending in January. O t h e r d i f f e r e n c e s ask preferences include opinions on the workday after parent conferences, whether the semesters should be balanced, num- ber of inclement weather days, workdays between semesters, and the num- ber of workdays in the school year. To share your opinion on the 2023-2024 Cleve- land County School Cal- endar, visit https://www. clevelandcountyschools. org/ and click on the header at the top of the page. 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