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Hi Dawn!
Could you please send the following obit at your convenience? Thanks in
advance! Wanda
COSBY, Donald Ray; 85; Knoxville TN; Knoxville N-S; 1998-3-7; dmbischoff
Houston Chronicle
Houston, TX
February 19, 1998
MAURINE ``MO'' WILLIAMS COSBY, age 77, of Houston, died Feb. 16, 1998. A
member of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Maurine is survived by
her husband, J.T. Cosby, Jr., of Houston; two daughters: Debra Gail Cosby
and Elizabeth Cosby Deden, both of Houston; a sister, Mary Beth Lozo, of
San Antonio; four grandchildren: Kennady Cosby, Robert Taft Deden, II,
Michelle Elizabeth Deden, Kathryn Ann Deden, all of Houston; and a number
of nieces and nephews. Graveside Services were held Wednesday 2:00 P.M.,
Nixon Cemetery, Nixon, Texas, with arrangements by Finch Funeral Chapel,
Nixon, TX (830) 582-1521. A gathering of friends will be held in the chapel
of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Friday, Feb. 20th, 11:00 A.M.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or the
charity of donor's choice. 31941
Richmond Times Dispatch
Richmond, VA
March 4, 1998
COSBY Joseph Anthony Cosby of 2300 Hildreth St., Richmond, departed this life
Sunday, March 1, 1998. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Cosby Jr.;
two sisters, Pamela J. and Venus I. Cosby; and a host of other
relatives and friends.
Remains rest at the Mimms Funeral Home, 1827 Hull St. Funeral
services will be held
Thursday, March 5, 11 a.m. at Cedar Street Baptist Church, 23rd and
Cedar Sts. Rev.
Benjamin W. Robertson, Pastor, officiating. Interment in Evergreen
Cemetery. After 10
a.m. Thursday remains will rest in the above named church until hour
of service.
Relatives and friends attending funeral services assemble at the
church Thursday,
10:30 a.m.
Forwarding the latest update on the Rootsweb statistics for January. If
you are not a Rootsweb sponsor and you can afford to do so, now would be a
great time! Remember - contributing to Rootsweb is voluntary and not
mandatory for participation in the mailing lists.
>Resent-Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:41:49 -0800 (PST)
>To: ROOTS-L(a)rootsweb.com, usgenweb-all-l(a)rootsweb.com,
> rootsweb-help(a)rootsweb.com, listowners-announce(a)rootsweb.com
>cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc
>Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
>Subject: RootsWeb in January -- 451,786,000,000 Bytes Served
>Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:42:03 -0800
>From: Brian Leverich <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
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>
>I guess this is a new first -- we're posting the January
>statistics after, in principle, we could have computed the
>February statistics.
>
>Oh well. It's been *extremely* busy around here, dealing
>with the explosive growth and the many problems caused by
>the El Nino storms.
>
>The executive summary is that we had about 33% growth during
>just the month of January:
>
> o 27,751,946 Web files (20,835,802 in Dec) from 2,400
> Websites (2,240 in Dec).
> - 8,308,561 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin)
> (5,903,137 in Dec).
> - 3,574,701 were cgi-bin database searches and such.
> (2,911,509 in Dec).
> - 15,784,790 were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs (1,255,586)
> (11,849,905 in Dec were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs
> (947,279).
>
> o 618,762 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb
> Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (472,838 in Dec).
>
> o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we
> shipped about 88,649,000 pieces of mail to the
> 2,600+ (2,300 in Dec) mailing lists we host.
>
> o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles
> to hosts on three continents (same as Dec).
>
> o Approximately 451,786,000,000 bytes in total
> (321,408,000,000 in Dec).
>
>Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists in
>January, we also added new servers and a third and fourth T1
>connection to the Internet. (A T1 is about 50 times faster
>than a standard modem.) These additions have significantly
>increased our costs of operation, but they were essential if
>we were to continue to properly support the Internet
>genealogical community.
>
>As always, RootsWeb remains supported by user contributions.
>Folks who would like to become a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor
>(the cost is very modest) are invited to visit:
> http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html
>
>*** You can become a Member easily using your credit card
> and our new secure server. ***
>
>Now is a particularly good time for folks to join, because we
>have had a huge increase in utilization since Christmas. Our
>bandwidth rate has jumped from 321 to 451 gigabytes/month, and
>we're having to do numerous upgrades to our servers to support
>the load. Your membership can help our capacity keep up with
>the demands of the Internet genealogical community.
>
>Thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb -- clearly folks
>are continuing to exchanging a great deal of information! -B
>
>
>--
>Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
>RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/
>P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich(a)rootsweb.com
>