Donata "Donna"� (Coletti) Howe, 86 of Santa Clara, Calif. died Sept. 20, 2007 at the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center Hospital after a sudden illness. She was the wife of the late Robert Howe, Jr. and resided in Santa Clara, Calif. for the past four years. Previously she had lived in Brockton, Mass. for over 20 years. Mrs. Howe was born in Quincy, Mass., the daughter of the late Loreto and Lucia (Lucy) F. Coletti and was a graduate of Quincy High School. During WW II she was employed as a time clerk at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass. She also worked as a chef for the Jordan Marsh restaurant at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Mass. before retiring in 1989.

She was a sociable, active, engaged, compassionate, and lively woman, who made friends easily, loved talking to people, and enjoyed life. She was ecumenical in her love of God and as such was a member of the Pearl Street Methodist Church in Brockton, Mass. as her home church, but also a member of Temple Beth Emunah in Brockton, the chaplain for the Striar Organization in Stoughton, Mass., and a member of the Brockton Interfaith Council. While living in Brockton, she was an active member of the Chatham Chatters and even at 86 was "the life of the party" at the Westmont Retirement Community where she lived in Santa Clara, Calif.

She is survived by three sons and their wives; Robert and Deborah (Miller) Howe, III of Valdosta, Ga., Richard W. and Debra (Silver) Howe of Brockton, Mass., and Ronald D. and Claudia (Antes) Howe of Sunnyvale, Calif. She was the grandmother of six (Robert Howe IV, David (Howe) Eaker, Lindsey M. Howe, Sarah E. Howe, Christopher G. Howe, and Jennifer L. Howe); one step grandchild of (Amy Starr); and two great-grandchildren, Jayne E. Howe and Katelyn Howe. She is survived by an older sister Marie (Coletti) Hayes of Fla. and a twin sister Loretta (Coletti) Shipman of Vancouver, Wash., previously of Holbrook, Mass. She was the sister of the late Carmine Coletti and was preceded in death by step granddaughter Kimberly Miller.

Visitation will be held Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 from 4-7 p.m. at the Conley Funeral Home, 138 Belmont St. (Rte 123), Brockton, Mass. Funeral service will be held at 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept., 29, 2007 at the Pearl Street United Methodist Church, 415 Pearl Street, Brockton, Mass. Burial will be held in Blue Hills Cemetery, Braintree, Mass.

Donations in memory of Donata may be made to The Jimmy Fund/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline Place West, 6th Floor, Brookline, MA 02445-7226 Attn: Contributions Service, for online donations www.jimmyfund.org

For condolences and directionswww.conleyfuneralhome.com — Conley Funeral Home, Brockton, Mass.

THOMASTON

Charles Woodrow Brannon, Sr.

Funeral services for Mr. Charles Woodrow Brannon, Sr., 91, of Thomaston will be held today, Sept. 25, 2007 at 11 a.m. at Southview Cemetery, Thomaston with the Rev. Dr. Edwin L. Cliburn officiating. Internment will follow.

Mr. Brannon died on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007 of natural causes while working in his grape arbor.

Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home, Thomaston is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Brannon was born on Nov. 13, 1915 in Manchester, Ga. He was the youngest child of the late Jessie Travis Brannon and the late Nancy Rugenia Sinclair Brannon. He graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute, Thomaston in 1934. He was a lifelong employee of Thomaston Mills, Inc., retiring in 1985 with 51 years service.

Mr. Brannon devoted his life to amateur athletics in Georgia. He officiated football, baseball, and basketball at both high school and college levels. He also contributed countless hours service to the Thomaston Recreation Department. He began officiating high school athletics in 1934 at age 18 and called his last, also a high school game, at age 81, having officiated basketball for 48 years, baseball for 55 years, and football for 63 years, the tenures being the longest in the history of Georgia sports. He officiated a state high school basketball tournament for 23 consecutive years. He was honored with the Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame's Service to Sports Citation in 1972, by the Atlanta Tip-off Club's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, by the National Federation of State High School Association's Award for Service to Sports in 1988, by the National Federation of Interscholastic Officials Association's Distinguished Service Award for the Southeastern United States in 1989, and by the Georgia High School Association's Sam Burke Service to High School Athletics Award in 1990 and was a charter inductee into the Thomaston-Upson Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

Among Mr. Brannon's proudest achievements was to have been selected in 1967 on the basis of both ability and sensitivity along with Leroy Hambrick of Atlanta to officiate the first state tournament after integration for the largest classification of Georgia high schools. He was a stellar high school athlete himself, having lettered at Robert E. Lee institute in track, football, baseball, and basketball, In 1934, he set the record at Lee for the 440-yard dash, a record that was never broken.