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Victoria Lynn Barnett Clark.

Victoria Lynn Barnett Clark died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, at her home in Vicksburg. She was 24.

She is survived by her husband, Dempsey Clark Sr. of Brookhaven; three daughters, LaDatra Williams, Nakatra Barnett and Demptre E. Clark; a son, Dempsey Clark Jr. of Vicksburg; her mother, Willie Mae Barnett of Vicksburg; four sisters, Gloristine Mason of Bolton, Deloris Forbes, Sheila Barnett and Felicia Barnett, all of Vicksburg; six brothers, Willie Barnett and Albert Barnett, both of Biloxi, Eddie Gray, Dennis Barnett, Donald Barnett and her twin, Victor Barnett, all of Vicksburg; and stepsisters, stepbrothers, nieces, and nephews.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at The Church of Christ, Culkin Road, with the Rev. Larry Harris officiating. Burial will follow at Clover Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and from 1 p.m. Saturday until the hour of service at the church.

Anthony Lamont Davis.

HERMANVILLE – Services for Anthony Lamont Davis will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Westhaven Funeral Home in Utica. Burial will follow at Springfield M.B. Church Cemetery in Hermanville. Visitation will be from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Mr. Davis died Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006, at River Region Medical Center in Vicksburg. He was 32.

Addie Rozell Johnson.

Addie Rozell Johnson died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, at her home. She was 80.

A homemaker, Mrs. Johnson was a lifelong resident of Vicksburg. She was of the Pentecostal faith.

She is survived by three sons, Earl Renfro, David Johnson Jr. and Timothy Johnson, all of Vicksburg; two daughters, Martha Harper and Rubie Pettway, both of Bay St. Louis; and 11 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Glenwood Funeral Home with the Rev. Frank Kendrick officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from noon Friday until the service at the funeral home.

Ronald Schnell.

Ronald Schnell, artist, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006, in Jackson.

He was born July 1, 1929, the only child of Frieda Woehrle and Otto Franz Schnell.

His earliest, most memorable years were spent in the Ticino of Switzerland at Brissago on Lake Lugano at school.

He was a member of the Stuttgarter Knabenchor and loved singing all his life.

He graduated with the Abitur from the Schickhard Realgymnasium in 1949, the Staatliche Academie der Bildenden Kunste in 1953 and the Eberhard Karis Universitaet Tuebingen in 1957. He met and married Ruthanne DeLong of Traverse City, Mich., while a candidate for the Ph.D. at Tuebingen.

He was an avid Latin scholar and corresponded with friends in Latin. He studied Old High and New High German literature and art history. He had a lifelong passionate interest in European church architecture and history and wrote many papers on the subject. He studied painting, life drawing (he was the first to introduce life drawing as a course in a Mississippi college). He was fluent in French, Italian, English and had a reading knowledge of Spanish.

He loved building and carpentry and recently charmed his grandchildren by making them a wooden xylophone. He restored a very old, dilapidated house in Edwards for his family and built a chalet to be used as a studio which his family affectionately call the &#8220Schnellet.”

He had just finished illustrating two children’s books and in June 2005 he once again visited his beloved Stuttgart and introduced his grandchildren to the Stuttgarter Schnells.

In 1958 he moved to Los Angeles after having visited his American aunt, Mathilda Neuwirth of Huntington Beach, where he worked in scenic art. He received many grants to paint and spent a year in Lugano, Switzerland, and New York. He was chosen to represent Mississippi in a show of Southeastern artists at the Brooks Memorial Gallery in Memphis, Tenn., by the curator of the Whitney Museum in New York.

His paintings have been widely exhibited in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Ocean Springs, Vicksburg and Germany.

He studied with the world-renowned Baumeister, a fellow Stuttgarter, and Otto Dix but was influenced by the German expressionists, Kokoscha, as well as the neoclassicists, Hans Von Maree and Puvis de Chavannes.

He founded several art programs in the Jackson area and was the first to introduce American art into the college curriculum. He helped to found an art collection with the help of many artist friends throughout the United States, particularly New York.

His teacher and mentor, C. Gollwitzer, hoped he would one day return to Germany and teach a course at the art academy but the lure of the exotic American South, Tougaloo College and his family kept him in the Jackson area.

He loved traveling and took many art historical excursions and his wife said their honeymoon was a month-long Italian trip.

He made many trips with local students to the art centers of the United States, Mexico and Europe and together with Eastern Michigan University.

He leaves behind his wife, Ruthanne; a son, David, and daughter, Inge Marianne; three grandchildren, Nefra, Otto and Emanuel; an aunt, Frieda Bueckle, and an uncle, August Schnell of Stuttgart; cousins, Rita Gork, Ursula Schnell, Patricia and Gabrielle Schnell, Tom Gork, Tim Gork, Cornelia Marx, Lulu Marx, all of Stuttgart.

Memorials may be sent to the building fund of the Tougaloo College Art Collections and the Ronald Schnell Visual Arts Scholarship fund at the school. He had retired as the founder/chair of the Art Department of Tougaloo College, where he taught 43 years.

The family would like to thank Broadmoor Baptist Church, Madison, the Tougaloo College family, and all those throughout Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana and throughout the country who prayed for our family during these most distressful hours.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Riles Funeral Home.