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June 07, 2000 Permian Basin Obituaries _________________________________________________________________ ODESSA Mass for Yolanda Banuelos, 59, of Odessa, a homemaker, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church with the Rev. Gilbert Rodriguez officiating. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation will today and Thursday at 409 Overton St. Mrs. Banuelos died Tuesday, June 6, 2000, at Medical Center Hospital. She was born Feb. 7, 1941 in Ojinaga, Mexico, to Estefana Guerrero and the late Blas Tavarez. She married Manuel Banuelos on Nov. 29, 1963. She was Catholic. Mrs. Banuelos was preceded in death by her father and a sister, Amalia T. Venegas. She is survived by her husband, Manuel Banuelos of Odessa; four sons, Martin Banuelos and his wife, Delma, Jose Banuelos and his wife, Aurora, and Efren Banuelos, all of Odessa, and Oscar Banuelos and his wife, Rosa, of Mexico City; two daughters, Elva Ogaz and her husband, David, of Delicias, Mexico, and Rosarillo Banuelos of Odessa; mother, Estefana Banuelos of Odessa; two brothers, Oscar Tavarez of Abilene and Blas Tavarez Jr. of Odessa; seven sisters, Elia T. Orla of Taylor, Vickie T. Urias, Consuelo T. Rodriguez, Bertha T. Carrasco, Aurora T. Tercero and Dolores T. Alaniz, all of Odessa, and Olga T. Morales of Houston; eight grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Services are by Martinez Funeral Home. _________________________________________________________________ MIDLAND Micheal Kent Chilcoat was born August 16, 1996, in Midland, Texas, to Steven Kent and Cindy Renea (Rankin) Chilcoat. Micheal died at a local hospital on Sunday, June 4, 2000. Micheal is survived by his parents, Steven and Cindy Chilcoat; his brother, James Hoyt Chilcoat; his grandparents, Jim and Ann Chilcoat; his great-grandmothers, Pearl Chilcoat and Jean Rankin; his aunt, Kathy Chilcoat; his uncle, Jim Hollis; his great-aunt, Bennie McAlister; and his great-uncle, Ronnie Chilcoat, all of Midland. Funeral services have been scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, at 1 p.m. at Ellis Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Laura Deaderick of St. Johns Episcopal Church of Odessa officiating. Ellis Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. _________________________________________________________________ SANTA FE, N.M. F. Delmar Groos, 88, prominent Texas architect and recent resident of Santa Fe, N.M., died Tuesday, May 16, 2000, following complications from a fall. It was because of his love for the arts that his family encouraged him to move to Santa Fe, N.M., in 1997 to live with his daughter and son-in-law, Jane and Dwight Hume. He frequented art and musical events and painted the scenes around his new home. "The essence of Santa Fe is spiritual," he often remarked, "an eternal presence one feels and tries to capture with the brush." The son of Grace Dellmare and Paul Groos, Delmar grew up in Austin, back in the days when there were no traffic lights on Congress Avenue on his drive to work at Barton Springs as a lifeguard. Upon graduation from the University of Texas School of Architecture, Delmar accepted a position with the Austin architectural and engineering firm of Giesecke, Kuehne & Brooks, where his designs included Barton Springs Bathhouse and the Sunken Garden at the lower spring of Bartons. When World War II began, he served as a gunnery officer in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. After the war, he and his wife, Rose Lynch, settled in Odessa, raising two children, Paul and Jane, founding the firm of Groos, Clift & Ball Architects and enjoying a successful life designing residential, industrial, medical, educational and municipal buildings while assisting his wife, Rose, and her business partner, Maurine Parker, with set designs for the Groos-Parker Dance Studios performances. From coliseums to theaters, from hospitals to schools, from fine residential homes to industrial buildings, the firms presence still dots the Texas landscape. In 1969, Delmar and Rose returned to Austin, where he served as architectural supervisor for the Austin Independent School District until his retirement. Known for his love for life, Delmar enjoyed recounting experiences of being one of the first scuba divers in West Texas and fighting a cougar at his residence in northwest Austin. It actually happened that the neighbors did have a pet cougar that broke through its cage into Delmars backyard, grabbing him from behind. He had fonder memories of playing host to Frank Lloyd Wright when Delmar was a fledgling architect and having a personal meeting with Albert Einstein when attending Princeton while in the Navy. During his last night, his son and daughter-in-law, Paul and Honey Groos of Magnolia; Jane and Dwight Hume of Santa Fe, N.M.; and grandson, Dwight DellMare Hume of Los Angeles noticed that, although unconscious, Delmar lifted his hand as if making those all-too-familiar brush strokes on a canvas. Perhaps, they commented, Dad is working on his next series. Following his cremation on May 17, memorial services are planned in Austin at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be sent to the Delmar Groos Memorial Fund at Brush Ranch Camps, P.O. Box 5759, Santa Fe, N.M. 87502 or the Delmar Groos Memorial Fund at the Parks and Recreation Department, c/o Barton Springs, 200 S. Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78704, Attention: Directors Office. _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2000 Odessa American. All rights reserved.