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July 7, 2004ObituariesHAROLD JOSEPH ANTHONY, 91, of Traverse City, died at Munson Medical Center on Monday, July 5, 2004.Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, July 9, at Covell-Smith Funeral Home, with visitation from 10 a.m. until the time of the service. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. A complete obituary will appear in the next edition of the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Arrangements have been entrusted to Covell-Smith Funeral Home. A gathering to celebrate the life of DR. THOMAS CHAPLINE HALL, who died Feb. 25, 2004, will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 10, at the tip of Old Mission Peninsula, across from the lighthouse. RAYMOND "JOHN" HULBERT JR. passed away on June 8, 2004. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today, July 7, at Rose Hill Cemetery in Kasson Township. MARGARET C. 'MAGGIE' McCLAIN, of Traverse City, died at Munson Medical Center on Saturday, July 3, 2004. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, July 9, at the Traverse City Chapel of Covell Funeral Homes, with visitation one hour prior to the service. Rev. James Gardiner will officiate. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery in Elk Rapids. Arrangements have been entrusted to Covell Funeral Homes. GRACE E. MELVIN-ST. DENIS, 77, died Monday, July 5, 2004, at her home in Kalkaska. Visitation will take place Thursday, July 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. at Wolfe Funeral Home in Kalkaska, with a scripture service at 7:30 p.m. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday, July 9, at St. Mary of Woods Catholic Church in Kalkaska. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, St. Helen. Funeral services for DONALD R. RUARK, 71, of Beulah, who died Monday, July 5, 2004, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, July 9, at Eden Bible Church, with Pastor Dan Ingersoll officiating. Interment will follow in Benzonia Township Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 8, at the Benzonia Chapel, McElduff Funeral Homes. KEWADIN - A former Kewadin resident who attended Elk Rapids schools, Eugene Ruggles died June 3, 2004, in Petaluma, Calif. Betty Beebe of Eastport borrowed her book title, "Breathes Escaping Envelopes," from a poem he authored. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Ruggles wrote "Lifeguard in The Snow" in 1977. His poetry won wide acclaim. He was published in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and Poetry Magazine, among others. He won the highly respected Great Lakes Colleges Award in Poetry. Ruggles was known in the San Francisco area for organizing large-venue poetry benefits for Amnesty International, political causes and other charities. He was a passionate voice for human rights and social justice. In one poem, "Masses," Ruggles asked: "Who will speak for the simple and the dumb?" In "A Woman Inside El Salvador," Ruggles commemorated Archbishop Romero's murder. In one stanza he wrote: "There is only one country on earth, all wars are civil wars - Light falls down the dark well of her long hair and remembers. She listens to the Archbishop kneeling, the fourteen bullets of the fourteen families, the fountains rising from them. She moves her finger along the scar that is in every ear of corn to be eaten… Monsignor, Monsignor, Monsignor." Lawrence Ferlinghetti, former poet laureate of San Francisco, said, "His most astounding characteristic is his heart." Ruggles attended the University of Detroit and Lake Superior College, and served in the U.S. Marines. Ruggles is survived by his three children, Adam and Benjamen Ruggles, and Sara Tompson; grandchildren, Jenny, Tyler and Braydon; his brother, Glenn Ruggles; and his sisters, Mary Ruggles and Margaret (Meg) Walton. Another brother, Charles, died four years ago.
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