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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Jan 4, 1996 Death Notices THURSDAY SAN ANGELO - Dorothy Martin Goertz, 85, of Big Spring, at 11:30 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Belvedere Memorial Park. SAN ANGELO - Marjorie Hall, 82, at 10 a.m. at Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Wade Allen ``Bill'' McCarty, 76, graveside service at 3 p.m. in Montvale Cemetery in Sterling City; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Coy Morris, 90, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Grape Creek Cemetery. SAN ANGELO - Leandro Valles Sr., 75, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Nora Chavez Winton, 66, at 2 p.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral; burial in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Gutierrez Funeral Chapels. BALLINGER - Dale W. Rains, 81, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church; Masonic graveside service at 3 p.m. in Hillside Memorial Garden in Snyder; arrangements by Rains-Seale Funeral Home. BANDERA - Charlie Wyatt, 73, at 1 p.m. at Bandera United Methodist Church; burial in the Wyatt Ranch Family Cemetery; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. BIG SPRING - Mary Raley, 93, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BRADY - Ollie Emma Wright, 74, at 2 p.m. in Leatherwood Colonial Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Live Oak Cemetery. OZONA - Elpidio Martinez Sr., 60, at 3 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church; burial in Lima Cemetery; arrangements by Preddy Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Modelle K. Hardy, 91, graveside service at 1 p.m. in Sweetwater Cemetery; arrangements by Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home. WINTERS - Johnie D. Frierson, 62, of Tulsa, Okla., at 2 p.m. in Winters Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lutheran Cemetery. FRIDAY SAN ANGELO - Mark R. Decker, 49, at 10 a.m. in Robert Massie Riverside Chapel. KERRVILLE - James Wayne Hamilton, 49, memorial service at 2 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels. MONAHANS - J.A. ``Bud'' Mathews, 81, of Grandfalls, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Tamrisk Cemetery in Grandfalls; arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 5, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Mark R. Decker, 49, at 10 a.m. in Robert Massie Riverside Chapel. SAN ANGELO - Jesse E. Kennemer, 75, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Nina H. Morton, 80, at 10:30 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; graveside service at 2:30 p.m. in Foster Cemetery in Sterling City. BIG SPRING - Billie Walraven, 80, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BOERNE - Mary Helen "Polly" Chenault Majirus, 72, at 2 p.m. at Ebensberger Funeral Home; burial in Junction Cemetery in Junction. FREDERICKSBURG - Leroy W. Treibs, 66, at 10 a.m. at Beckmann Funeral Home; burial in Der Stadt Friedhof. KERRVILLE - James Wayne Hamilton, 49, memorial service at 2 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - Kriss Lee Keeran, 31, memorial service at 10 a.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - Charlie "Jr." Nesby, 74, at 4 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Garden of Memories North. MASON - Lee Roy Stengel, 75, at 10:30 a.m. at First United Methodist Church; burial in Gooch Cemetery; arrangements by Mason Funeral Home. MONAHANS - Flossie Bingham, 72, memorial service at 2 p.m. in Harkey Funeral Home Chapel; inurnment in Monahans Cemetery. MONAHANS - J.A. "Bud" Mathews, 81, of Grandfalls, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Tamrisk Cemetery in Grandfalls; arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. PECOS - Curtis Carlson, 80, at 10 a.m. in Pecos Funeral Home Chapel; second service at 2 p.m. Saturday at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Norse; burial in Norse Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Jewell Laverne Williams Brown, 66, of Roscoe, at 10 a.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; graveside service at 2 p.m. in Breckenridge Cemetery in Breckenridge. SATURDAY SAN ANGELO - Dow Tate, 85, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. MODESTO, Calif. - Roger W. Ebright, 56, at 1:30 p.m. in the Colonial Chapel of Franklin & Downs Funeral Home; burial in Lakewood Cemetery. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 6, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Margie Bonita ``Nita'' Bennett, 59, at 11:30 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Dow Tate, 85, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Carolyn Yates, 58, graveside service at 3 p.m. in Belvedere Memorial Park; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Alice B. ``Sweetie'' Cotten, 88, at 10 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Lamesa Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - Rubye Earl Simpson, 95, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church; burial in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BRADY - ClomaRoberts, 76, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Rest Haven Cemetery; arrangements by Heritage Funeral Home. DEL RIO - Ruth Frances Wallen, 88, of Cisco, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Masonic Cemetery; arrangements by G.W. Cox Memorial Funeral Home. KINGSLAND - Carl Otho Birmingham, 83, graveside service at 3 p.m. in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Corpus Christi; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. LAMESA - Cecil O. Speck, 90, at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church; burial in Lamesa Memorial Park; arrangements by Branon Funeral Home. LAMPASAS - Donald E. Biggs, 62, of Lometa, memorial service at 2 p.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories.; burial in Lometa City Cemetery. LAMPASAS - Ruben Claude Farquhar, 83, at 11 a.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories; burial in Straley Cemetery in Adamsville. LAMPASAS - Gay Lewis Perkins, 58, of Briggs, memorial service at 4 p.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories. MODESTO, Calif. - Roger W. Ebright, 56, at 1:30 p.m. in the Colonial Chapel of Franklin & Downs Funeral Home; burial in Lakewood Cemetery. MONDAY KERRVILLE - Paul Bischoff, 80, memorial service at 10 a.m. at Point Theater in Ingram; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. Toxic Fumes Kill Three Workers Near Snyder From staff and wire reports FLUVANNA - Three men died and two were injured, one critically, from inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning a 500-barrel oil tank near Snyder. A Scurry County sheriff's dispatcher said authorities found five men inside the tank and overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes at about 7 p.m. Thursday. The Department of Public Safety said the men were cleaning the tank near Fluvanna, about 75 miles southeast of Lubbock. Two of the men - Buddy Drum, who owned the cleaning company, and Juan Guardado - were dead when authorities arrived. Their ages were not available. A third man died early Friday at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. Hospital officials were withholding his identity until they notified his relatives. Max Drum, son of Buddy Drum, was listed in critical condition at Methodist Hospital Friday, and Arturo Guardado, 39, remained in stable condition Friday at Cogdell Memorial Hospital in Snyder. Hydrogen sulfide, a natural byproduct of oil and other organic materials - is an odorless, colorless gas considered dangerous in even small concentrations, said Brian Schaible, a Railroad Commission spokesman in Austin. "In a situation like this one, if you have people inside a tank with very little or no ventilation, the hazard is magnified,'' he said. "It's a dangerous material, and it's one that we have recognized in terms of the hazard that it presents. We have outlined fairly extensive requirement s in our rules for operators.'' Federal labor regulations permit concentrations no greater than 20 parts per million for workers exposed to the gas over an eight-hour period. Greater amounts of hydrogen sulfide can kill the sense of smell within minutes, burn the eyes or throat or render a person unconscious if protective equipment is not worn. Concentrations of 700 ppm or more will cause breathing to stop and could easily result in death, Schaible said. Oil lease workers and contractors are well aware of the dangers of hydrogen sulfide and Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules, making fatalities rare, he added. "But once in a while you'll have situations where someone will ignore the safety precautions and procedures, try and get a job done real quick without thinking about what can go wrong, and accidents will happen,'' he said. It was not clear Friday whether the victims were wearing protective masks and air packs as they cleaned the tank. Susan Hannaman, assistant director of the Railroad Commission district office in Midland, said fatalities are most likely when operators or contractors become complacent. "It's kind of like you know if you don't pay attention, you can get killed in your car,'' she said. "You have to keep reminding yourself that yeah, this is dangerous, you can get killed if you're around it." © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 7, 1996 Death Notices SUNDAY SAN ANGELO - Margie Bonita "Nita" Bennett, 59, at 11:30 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Dow Tate, 85, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Carolyn Yates, 58, graveside service at 3 p.m. in Belvedere Memorial Park; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Alice B. "Sweetie" Cotten, 88, at 10 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Lamesa Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - Rubye{CQ} Earl Simpson, 95, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church; burial in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BRADY - Cloma{CQ} Roberts, 76, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Rest Haven Cemetery; arrangements by Heritage Funeral Home. DEL RIO - Ruth Frances Wallen, 88, of Cisco, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Masonic Cemetery; arrangements by G.W. Cox Memorial Funeral Home. KINGSLAND - Carl Otho Birmingham, 83, graveside service at 3 p.m. in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Corpus Christi; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. LAMESA - Cecil O. Speck, 90, at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church; burial in Lamesa Memorial Park; arrangements by Branon Funeral Home. LAMPASAS - Donald E. Biggs, 62, of Lometa, memorial service at 2 p.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories; burial in Lometa City Cemetery. LAMPASAS - Ruben Claude Farquhar, 83, at 11 a.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories; burial in Straley Cemetery in Adamsville. LAMPASAS - Gay Lewis Perkins, 58, of Briggs, memorial service at 4 p.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories. MODESTO, Calif. - Roger W. Ebright, 56, at 1:30 p.m. in the Colonial Chapel of Franklin & Downs Funeral Home; burial in Lakewood Cemetery. MONDAY KERRVILLE - Paul Bischoff, 80, memorial service at 10 a.m. at Point Theater in Ingram; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. Standard-Times News: January 8, 1996 Woman Dies In Apartment Fire By BOB BECKNELL An unidentified woman was killed about 6 p.m. Saturday in an apartment fire in northwest San Angelo. The woman's body was discovered by firefighters battling a blaze at The Windmill apartment complex in the 1900 and 2000 blocks of Raney Street. ``Flames and smoke were shooting out an upstairs window when fire units arrived,'' Fire Battalion Chief Charles Schiller said. ``Firefighters found the body of a woman in a bedroom,'' Schiller said. He said the body was badly burned, preventing an immediate identification. The apartment at 2009 Raney St., No. 100, is occupied by Lonnie Ray and Pamela Biggs. Lonnie Biggs, who was not at home when the fire broke out, was located and advised of the fire. He was in seclusion late Saturday. Pamela Biggs has not been located yet and preliminary indications are that she was the woman killed in the fire, fire officials said early Sunday. However, no definite identification will be made until the results of an autopsy are received. Schiller said the interior of the one-bedroom apartment sustained heavy fire damage, as well as the couple's furniture and personal property. The death is being investigated by San Angelo Fire Marshal Ken Land. He was unavailable for comment late Saturday. Bob Becknell is a staff writer for the Standard-Times Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - John Harry Davidson, 77, of Carlsbad, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Carlsbad; burial in Water Valley Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Joe Sain, 43, military graveside service at 11:45 a.m. in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Maurine ``Rena'' King Wolfrey, 74, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Fairmount Cemetery. BIG SPRING - Mary Louise Garner, 60, at 11 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - Jeff Grant, 79, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - Weldon Nuckolls, 75, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BRADY - John Everett Black, 85, at 2 p.m. in Leatherwood Colonial Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Rest Haven Cemetery. FORT STOCKTON - Jesus ``Patricia'' Quintela, 81, at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church; burial in St. Joseph Cemetery; arrangements by Fort Stockton Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - Mrs. Ernst (Selma Biermann) Herbort, 93, at 2 p.m. at Holy Ghost Lutheran Church; burial in Greenwood Cemetery; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - Paul Bischoff, 80, memorial service at 10 a.m. at Point Theater in Ingram; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - Vicenta H. De Los Santos, 39, rosary at 7 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; service at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Notre Dame Catholic Church; burial in Panteon del Norte Cemetery in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. KERRVILLE - Modesta Ayala Marines, 70, rosary at 8:30 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; Mass at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Notre Dame Catholic Church; burial in Mountain View Cemetery. KERRVILLE - Victoria C. ``Vickie'' Schonlau, 88, at 2 p.m. at Notre Dame Catholic Church; burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery; arrangements by Kerrville Funeral Home. MARFA - Alberto C. Cortez, 85, of Presidio, at 10 a.m. at Santa Teresa Catholic Church; burial in Desert Hills Cemetery; arrangements by Memorial Funeral Home. OZONA - Juan Aranda Fierro Sr., 56, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church; burial in Lima Cemetery; arrangements by Preddy Funeral Home. PECOS - Doyce Stroade, 55, at 2 p.m. in Pecos Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Mount Evergreen Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Marcella Hubbard, 72, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Sweetwater Cemetery. TUESDAY MASON - Mrs. Floyd (Alma) Capps, 98, at 10:30 a.m. in Mason Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Gooch Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Raymond Hill, 83, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Palava Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Wanda Lackey Saunders, 66, of Blackwell, at 2 p.m. at Blackwell United Methodist Church; burial in Blackwell Cemetery; arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 9, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Delfina Trevino Cortez, 75, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in Melvin Cemetery in Melvin; arrangements by Gutierrez Funeral Chapels. BALLINGER - Melvin L. Gillespie, 68, at 2 p.m. at the Bethel Lutheran Church; burial in Old Runnels Cemetery; arrangements by Rains-Seale Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Christine T. Moreno, 81, of Sand Springs, at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church; burial in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Merejildo ``Shorty'' Rodriquez, 56, at 2 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church; burial in Mount Olive Memorial Park; arrangements by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - Vicenta H. De Los Santos, 39, at 10 a.m. at Notre Dame Catholic Church; burial in Panteon del Norte Cemetery in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - Martha W. LeBrock, 71, at 2 p.m. in Kerrville Funeral Home Chapel. KERRVILLE - Modesta Ayala Marines, 70, at 2 p.m. at Notre Dame Catholic Church; burial in Mountain View Cemetery; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. LAMPASAS - Ben L. Long, 86, at 11 a.m. at the Adamsville Baptist Church in Adamsville; burial in Lometa Cemetery in Lometa; arrangements by Sheppard Memorial Funeral Home. LLANO - Minnie Dorothea Williamson, 103, of Abilene, at 11 a.m. in Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Llano City Cemetery. MASON - Mrs. Floyd (Alma) Capps, 98, at 10:30 a.m. in Mason Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Gooch Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Raymond Hill, 83, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Palava Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Wanda Lackey Saunders, 66, of Blackwell, at 2 p.m. at Blackwell United Methodist Church; burial in Blackwell Cemetery; arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home. WEDNESDAY BIG SPRING - C.L. ``Chuck'' Richardson, 68, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; Masonic graveside service at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa. Investigators Probe Deaths of Toxic Fumes Victims By MARLA DIAL Staff Writer State and federal officials continued their investigation Monday into the deaths of three men from hydrogen sulfide fumes in Fluvanna. The victims - 60-year-old Buddy Drum, 30-year-old Juan Guardado and 26-year-old Jerry McNew Jr. - were overcome by toxic fumes while cleaning a 500-barrel oil tank Thursday evening. Drum's son, Max Drum, remained in intensive care at a Lubbock hospital Monday, but a fifth man, 39-year-old Arturo Guardado, was released from a Snyder hospital Friday, officials said. According to preliminary reports, the men found inside the tank at Drum's salt water disposal facility were not wearing breathing apparatus to safeguard against the deadly hydrogen sulfide gas, Railroad Commission spokesman Brian Schaible said. ``This tank the people were working in was brought in from some other place to be cleaned out at the location of this disposal facility'' 75 miles southeast of Lubbock, he said. The disposal site in Scurry County is located in what should be a hydrogen sulfide-free zone, he said. The conclusion Railroad Commission officials have drawn: ``The hydrogen sulfide that was in the tank just rode in from another location,'' Schaible said. Railroad Commission workers are testing a stock tank on the property to ensure that hydrogen sulfide - an oil by-product - was not already present at the site. ``We just don't know where the tank came from at this point,'' Schaible said. Drum and his son operated the cleaning company. Other employees were not available Monday to say to whom the tank belonged. Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials also are investigated the deaths but said little Monday. The OSHA area director in Lubbock, Patricia Bradley, said investigators could spend up to the next three weeks looking into the case. A written report could take another month depending upon a work load deepened by the recent federal shutdown. Federal citations could be issued once the investigation is complete, but it was far from clear whether they would be aimed at R.L. Drum, Inc. or another company. ``The purpose of the inspection is to determine what happened, if there's anything we could do to prevent it, and were there standards violated. We don't know that yet,'' Bradley said. Hydrogen sulfide - a colorless, almost imperceptible gas - acts quickly to deaden the sense of smell and can knock a person unconscious or stop their breathing in even small amounts, officials said. The Railroad Commission requires oil field operators to post signs if hydrogen sulfide is present on the property, and inspectors check facilities for leaks. Companies also must determine what concentrations of the gas may be present and calculate how far the exposed area could reach. All employees of the company and any contractors must be trained in safety techniques, and operators must have a contingency plan in case a leak occurs, Schaible said. ``Most companies will provide equipment for their employees. You wear the breathing apparatus just like a fireman would, you have the masks and the big tanks on your back,'' said Susan Hannaman, assistant director of the Railroad Commission district office in Midland. Although hydrogen sulfide is a well-known hazard, making fatalities rare, they are still too common in West Texas, director Mark Henkhaus said. ``We in the Permian Basin have, I hesitate to give you a number, but typically it's more than one or two a year related to (hydrogen sulfide),'' Henkhaus said. ``It's way too much - one's too many.'' © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 10, 1996 Body Of Woman Who Died In Fire Identified By BOB BECKNELL Staff Writer A body discovered in a Saturday evening apartment fire in the northwest section of the city has been positively identified as Pamela R. Biggs, 40, San Angelo Fire Marshal Ken Land said Tuesday. The identification was made by the Bexar County Medical Examiner on the basis of dental records obtained from Wichita Falls and other evidence, Land said. ``The cause of the death and cause and origin of the fire is still under investigation,'' Land said. Biggs was apparently killed about 6 p.m. Saturday when a fire erupted in the one-bedroom apartment she and her husband, Lonnie Biggs, rented at The Windmill apartment complex at 2009 Raney Street. Firefighters discovered the badly burned body in the bedroom while battling a blaze that caused extensive damage to the upstairs apartment. Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Frances Gale Newman, 85, memorial service at 11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Gene Keeney, 77, at 11 a.m. in Robert Massie Riverside Chapel; burial in Fairmount Cemetery. SAN ANGELO - Clyde Allen Parry, 83, of Barnhart, at 10 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Jo Nell Rogers, 61, at 3:30 p.m. at Johnson's Funeral Home; burial in Fairmount Cemetery. BALLINGER - Frances Mary Droll, 86, at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church; burial in St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery; arrangements by Rains-Seale Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Dora Jackson Cobb, 42, of Houston, at 2 p.m. in Myers & Smith Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Iatan Cemetery near Colorado City. BRADY - Bobby Schrier, 49, of Highlands, at 2 p.m. in Heritage Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Hext Cemetery. BIG SPRING - C.L. ``Chuck'' Richardson, 68, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; Masonic graveside service at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa. KERMIT - Florence A. Deaton, 88, of Salado, at 10 a.m. at Community Church; burial in Kermit Cemetery; arrangements by Cooper Funeral Chapel. KERRVILLE - Julio ``Cass'' Casillas, 64, at 10 a.m. at Notre Dame Catholic Church; military graveside service at 2 p.m. in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. MONAHANS - Bertha Moore, 73, at 2 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; burial in Monahans Memorial Cemetery; arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Nancy Nadine Langham, 66, at 4 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Garden of Memories. SWEETWATER - Harold ``Bugger'' Moore, 66, of Trent, at 2 p.m. at Highland Baptist Church; burial in Garden of Memories; arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 11, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Eloy Ponce Trevino, 43, at 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral; military graveside service in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Zemma Lovelace Cox, 94, of Garden City, at 10 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Garden City Cemetery. BIG SPRING - Sallie Veta Griffith, 98, of Forsan, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - C.L. ``Chuck'' Richardson, 68, Masonic graveside service at 2:30 p.m. in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BRONTE - Grace Perkins, 88, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Blackwell Cemetery in Blackwell; arrangements by Shaffer Funeral Home. ODESSA - Wayne Swift, 77, at 10 a.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Risen Lord; burial at 4 p.m. in Old Runnels Cemetery in Ballinger; arrangements by Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors. FRIDAY SAN ANGELO - Ruby Leona Probst, 79, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Paula Ammons, 53, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Roby Cemetery. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 12, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Ruby Leona Probst, 79, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. BRADY - Betty Burris Ellison, 67, at 2 p.m. in Wilkerson Memorial Chapel; burial in Rochelle Cemetery in Rochelle. KERMIT - Goldie Tidwell, 96, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Memorial Park in Amarillo; arrangements by Cooper Funeral Chapel. SAN ANTONIO - Eva Pynes Willbern, 89, at 1 p.m. at Mission Park Funeral Chapels North with burial in Mission Burial Park North. SAN SABA - Rita Hufstutler Fleming, 85, memorial service at 2 p.m. at St. Michael and All Angels Church in Dallas; graveside service at 2 p.m. Saturday in Senterfitt Cemetery in Lampasas County; arrangements by Howell-Doran Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Paula Ammons, 53, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Roby Cemetery. SATURDAY SAN ANGELO - E.L. Balkum, 79, at 10 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Comments? E-Mail us: Comments@texaswest.com Standard-Times News: January 13, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - E.L. Balkum, 79, at 10 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Melissa Joan Counts, infant daughter of Larry and Susan Counts, graveside service at 1 p.m. in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Ralph Frank ``Rick'' Rickard, 62, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel. SAN ANGELO - Mercer Windrow Slaughter, 65, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church; burial in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Inez Bowen Thomson, 70, graveside service at 11 a.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Houston E. Wooten, 89, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - James Marshall Cook, 80, of Athens, at 2 p.m at First Baptist Church in Garden City; burial in Garden City Cemetery; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BANDERA - Royce E. Jackson, 67, of Medina, at 11 a.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Oak Rest Cemetery in Medina. BRADY - Roy F. Hoover, 76, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Rest Haven Cemetery; arrangements by Leatherwood Colonial Funeral Home. BRADY - Birdie Ellen Nixon, 92, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Rest Haven Cemetery; arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home. COLEMAN - Patsy Jo ``Pat'' Farmer, 49, of Abilene, at 2 p.m. in Stevens Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Coleman Cemetery. FREDERICKSBURG - Willie Schumann Jr., 75, of the Albert community, at 1 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Albert; burial in Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. LAMPASAS - Weldon D. Bell, 80, at 2 p.m. in Sheppard Memorial Chapel of Memories; burial in Oakhill Cemetery. LLANO - Evelyn L. Schulz, 80, of Bluffton, a 2 p.m. at Goetz Funeral Home in Seguin; burial in Riverside Cemetery; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. SAN SABA - Rita Hufstutler Fleming, 85; graveside service at 2 p.m. in Senterfitt Cemetery in Lampasas County; arrangements by Howell-Doran Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Mona Faye Schubert, 81, of Longworth, at 2 p.m. in Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Longworth Cemetery. WINTERS - Viola Duke, 86, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Resthaven Cemetery in Lovington, N.M.; arrangements by Winters Funeral Home. Two Dead in Bus Wreck BIG SANDY (AP) - Two people died Friday when an automobile collided with an empty school bus near this Northeast Texas town. The dead were identified as two teen-agers. Law officers said both died at the scene. The driver of the bus was en route to a Tyler hospital with chest injuries. Authorities said the teens' vehicle ran into the bus near the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1002 and Texas 155, about 10 miles north of Big Sandy, at 4:25 p.m. No children were said to be aboard the bus. Big Sandy police referred calls to Upshur County sheriff's officers who would not comment on the wreck. The Texas Department of Public Safety was also investigating. Big Sandy is located about 100 miles east of Dallas. Standard-Times News: January 15, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Julia Trevino Samaripa, 90, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Wilford Emit ``John'' Walls, 79, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - L.V. ``Pete'' Perryman, 69, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Reta{CQ} D. Weeg, 83, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Episcopal Church; burial in Mount Olive Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. CRANE - Odessa Walker, 75, at 1 p.m. at Mount Zion Baptist Church; burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Richard W. Box Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - James W. Goins, 44, at 10 a.m. at Squaw Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Doss; burial in Squaw Creek Cemetery; arrangements by Beckmann Funeral Home. KINGSLAND - Dovie Lee Dyer, 46, graveside service at 9 a.m. in Llano City Cemetery; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. KINGSLAND - Annette Eleanor Woodcock, 80, graveside service at 3 p.m. in Llano City Cemetery in Llano; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. LLANO - Jay Floyd, 72, at 3 p.m. at Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home; burial at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Meadowbrook Gardens Memorial Park in Paris. LLANO - Clarence A. Wilson, 73, graveside service at 11 a.m. in Llano City Cemetery; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. SANTA ANNA - Casey Herring, 79, at 2 p.m. at the Cleveland Church of Christ; burial in Cleveland Cemetery; arrangements by Henderson Funeral Home. SAN SABA - Winnie Harris, 102, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Hillcrest Cemetery; arrangements by Howell-Doran Funeral Home. SAN SABA - Margaret Lucille McFarland, 82, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Hillcrest Cemetery; arrangements by Howell-Doran Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Gerald D. Stevenson, 87, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; military graveside service in Garden of Memories. TUESDAY SWEETWATER - Martha Evelyn Oden, 92, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Garden of Memories. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 16, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - LaKendra Glass, 23, at 10 a.m. at St. Margaret's Catholic Church; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Sara B. Johnston, 77, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - David Craig Hodnett, 36, of Buda, at 4 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - Geraldine Benton Hoffman, 63, at 2 p.m. at First Church of the Nazarene; burial in Mount Olive Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. CRANE - Elizabeth Garrett, 82, formerly of Iraan, at 2 p.m. at Mother Home Baptist Church in Sheffield; burial in Sheffield Cemetery; arrangements by Richard W. Box Funeral Home. FORT STOCKTON - Josefina Barrera Martinez, 62, of Coyanosa, at 2 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church; burial in St. Joseph Cemetery; arrangements by Fort Stockton Funeral Home. GOLDTHWAITE -Ernest Wayne ``Buddy'' Shelton, 84, at 1 p.m. in Stacy-Wilkins Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Goldthwaite Memorial Cemetery. JUNCTION - Stephen Graham, 21, of Austin, at 11 a.m. at St. Theresa Catholic Church; burial in Junction Cemetery; arrangements by Graham Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - Clarence B. Bray, 73, memorial service at 10 a.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - Elsie M. Whelan, 89, at 10 a.m. at Notre Dame Catholic Church; burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery; arrangements by Kerrville Funeral Home. MIDLAND - Billy Carr, 75, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Luke's United Methodist Church; Masonic graveside service in Resthaven Memorial Park; arrangements by Ellis Funeral Home. SAN SABA - J.C. Ramirez, 70, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in San Saba City Cemetery; arrangements by Howell-Doran Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Christopher Robert Gomez, 22, at 11 a.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church; burial in Sweetwater Cemetery; arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Martha Evelyn Oden, 92, at 2 p.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Garden of Memories. WEDNESDAY BIG SPRING - Naomi Wright, 91, at 10 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. KERRVILLE - Ellsworth Earl Rhoads, 79, at 2 p.m. at Kerrville Funeral Home; burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 17, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Mary F. Pelzel, 92, at 10 a.m. at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Wall; burial in St. Ambrose Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Naomi Wright, 91, at 10 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BRADY - Othel J. ``Pad'' Buntyn, 78, of Sonora, at 2 p.m. in Heritage Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Union Band Cemetery. COLORADO CITY - Clydia McCormick, 62, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Colorado City Cemetery; arrangements by Kiker-Seale Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - Ellsworth Earl Rhoads, 79, at 2 p.m. at Kerrville Funeral Home; burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. KERRVILLE - Jim Westfall, 68, of Bandera, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Ozona; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. SONORA - Victoria Almaguer Virgen, 79, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Ann's Catholic Church; burial in Sonora Cemetery; arrangements by Kerbow Funeral Home. THURSDAY SAN SABA - Andy Coffman, 80, at 2 p.m. in Howell-Doran Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Locker Cemetery. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 18 1996 Traffic Accidents Kill Three West Texans By BOB BECKNELL Staff Writer Three people died and five other people were injured Wednesday in separate rural traffic accidents investigated by the Department of Public Safety in Nolan and Brown counties. Dead are: Ronald Wayne Claxton, 39, Sweetwater; Sam Steven Williams, 39, Colorado City; and Deeann Larsen, 31, of Brownwood. Injured are: Jesse Martinez, 37, Colorado City; Alex Larsen, 11, Johnathan Larsen, 14, Robert Larsen, 15, and David Sheffield, 14, all of Brownwood. Claxton and Williams were killed about 1:46 a.m. Wednesday when a car and a truck-tractor rig collided on Interstate Highway 20 about 3.4 miles east of Sweetwater in Nolan County. They were pronounced dead at the scene by Deputy Patrick Sheridan. The bodies were taken to McCoy Funeral Home in Sweetwater, a Department of Public Safety official said. Martinez, a passenger in the car, which was driven by Claxton, was taken by ambulance to Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene for treatment of head trauma, internal injuries and numerous broken bones. He was in critical condition Wednesday afternoon, the DPS reported. Betty Mae Swigelson of Lubbock, who was driving the truck-tractor, was not injured. Highway Patrol Trooper E.J. Nunez said the accident occurred when Claxton apparently got confused and was driving east in the westbound traffic lane. He said the heavy rig was westbound and that the two vehicle collided head-on in the westbound traffic lane. Larson was killed about 7 a.m. Wednesday when the car she was driving veered off Farm-to-Market Road 585 north of Bangs in Brown County. She was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace Ron Lappe. Her body was taken to Davis Morris Funeral Home in Brownwood, the DPS reported. One of four children in the vehicle, 15-year-old Robert Larson, suffered head and internal injuries when he was thrown from the vehicle, Highway Patrol Terry Griffin reported. He was in critical condition Wednesday evening. Alex Larsen, Johnathan Larsen, 14, and David Sheffield, 14, were listed in fair condition at the Brownwood hospital. Griffen said Larsen was traveling south on FM 585 and lost control of the car on a curve. He said Larsen locked her brakes, causing the car to go off the roadway and roll over on its top. Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Lois Frances ``Peggy'' Hasty, 82, at 11:30 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Fairmount Cemetery. SAN ANGELO - Herminia ``Minnie'' Hernandez, 89, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Hazel Neeper, 91, at 11 a.m. in Robert Massie Riverside Chapel; burial in Fairmount Cemetery. SAN ANGELO - Dewey D. Wiley, 67, at 2 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; military graveside service in Belvedere Memorial Park. SAN ANGELO - Francis G. Culhane, 72, vigil service at 7 p.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home; service at 11 a.m. Friday at Holy Angels Catholic Church. FREDERICKSBURG - Erwin A. Pfiester, 80, at 10 a.m. at Beckmann Funeral Home; burial in Greenwood Cemetery. GORMAN - Barbara Ann Martin, 53, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Gorman Cemetery; arrangements by Higginbotham Funeral Home. OZONA - Juan Z. Castellanos Sr., 86, at 10 a.m. at Templo Bautista Jerusalem; burial in Lima Cemetery; arrangements by Preddy Funeral Home. SAN SABA - Andy Coffman, 80, at 2 p.m. in Howell-Doran Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Locker Cemetery. SWEETWATER - Matthew Don Jackson, 9, of Keene, at 3 p.m. in Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Sweetwater Cemetery. FRIDAY BIG SPRING - Dana Thurman, 63, at 10 a.m. in Myers & Smith Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. EDEN - Freddie Belle Polk, 84, at 10 a.m. in Eden Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Stacy Cemetery in McCulloch County. Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan Dies At Age 59 AUSTIN (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan, whose eloquent defense of the Constitution inspired the nation during the Watergate hearings, died Wednesday. She was 59. The first black woman elected to Congress from the South, Ms. Jordan was remembered as a figure who transcended partisan politics to set an example of ethics, public service and the pursuit of justice. And always, there was her voice - formal, eloquent, deep and powerful, befitting the daughter of a Baptist minister. ``Barbara's words flowed with heartfelt conviction and her actions rang of indefatigable determination as she challenged us as a nation to confront our weaknesses and live peacefully together as equals,'' President Clinton said. Added Vice President Al Gore, ``Her impassioned defense of the U.S. Constitution during Watergate will ring in America's collective memory forever.'' Ms. Jordan died at Austin Diagnostic Medical Center of pneumonia thought to be a complication of leukemia, said George Christian, a friend of Ms. Jordan and former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Ms. Jordan also had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis, and used a wheelchair and walker. She nearly drowned in 1988 when she lost consciousness in her backyard swimming pool. Democratic former Gov. Ann Richards, to whom Ms. Jordan served as ethics adviser, described herself as ``brokenhearted'' by Ms. Jordan's death. ``America has lost a patriot, a trailblazer, a hero. Barbara Jordan conquered overwhelming obstacles: racial discrimination, gender bias, growing up poor and physical infirmity. She opened fields to women and minorities, unequaled by anyone in our history,'' Richards said. ``Barbara in a sense was the conscience of the nation. She could always be counted on to rise above whatever was the political fray of the moment and say what was the right thing to do,'' she said. Richards' successor, Republican Gov. George W. Bush, expressed the same sentiment. ``I think that is what Barbara Jordan's great legacy to a fellow like me is - that you can get in the arena, you can defend the cause you think is important ... but you can do so in a way that holds the public confidence, in a way that is unquestionably honest and aboveboard,'' he said. State Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, recalling Ms. Jordan's ``awesome'' presence from his days as a state Senate clerk, said, ``I thought I heard God speaking, and it turned out to be Barbara Jordan.'' Once considered a possible vice presidential candidate, Ms. Jordan left politics after three terms in the U.S. House, choosing to teach at the University of Texas. She shunned the limelight and devoted her energy to her students, who fondly called her ``B.J.'' Her life was a series of firsts: Her 1972 election to Congress came six years after she made history as the first black woman ever elected to the Texas Legislature and the first black elected to the state Senate since 1883. Former U.S. Rep. Peter Rodino, then chairman of the Judiciary Committee, recalled his first meeting with her. ``She came in to see me, I'll never forget, opened her mouth, spoke a few words, and I remember thinking, `This is a woman I certainly want on this committee.''' It was during the committee's 1974 hearings on whether to impeach President Nixon that Ms. Jordan won a national reputation. ``The gentle lady from Texas,'' as Rodino called her, stirred television audiences across the country when she declared: ``My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.'' One person in the audience said at the time it sounded ``as if the gates of heaven had opened.'' Ms. Jordan went on to give a stirring keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter. And she repeated her keynote role in 1992, challenging delegates and the nation: ``We need to change the decaying inner cities from decay to places where hope lives. As we undergo that change, we must be prepared to answer Rodney King's haunting question `Can we all get along?' I say we answer that question with a resounding yes.'' King was the black Los Angeles motorist whose videotaped beating sparked protests in 1992. At the time of her death, Ms. Jordan was chairwoman of the independent U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. In recent years, she had devoted herself to her students at UT's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, whose faculty she joined in 1979. Ms. Jordan, who was born in Houston in 1936, said her father demanded that she bring home A's when she was growing up. She graduated with honors from Texas Southern University - where she was a member of the debating team that defeated Harvard - and studied law at Boston University. Ms. Jordan practiced law in Houston and got her start in politics licking stamps in the Kennedy-Johnson campaign of 1960. ``They put me to work licking stamps and addressing envelopes. One night we went out to a church to enlist Negro voters and the woman who was supposed to speak didn't show up. I volunteered to speak in her place and right after that, they took me off licking and addressing,'' she said. Ms. Jordan made two unsuccessful bids for the Texas House of Representatives. Then in 1966, after the Supreme Court's one-person, one-vote ruling, the Legislature divided Houston into electoral districts. Ms. Jordan ran for the state Senate and won. Her legislative achievements included co-sponsoring the state's first minimum wage bill, sponsoring a workers' compensation bill and leading opposition to a bill intended to disenfranchise blacks and Hispanics by tightening voter registration requirements. A delegate to the turbulent 1968 Democratic National Convention, Ms. Jordan worked hard to keep Texas delegates unanimously in support of a platform plank expressing support for President Johnson's Vietnam war policy. In 1976, her Democratic Convention speech was so remarkable, it quickly spawned rumors she might be the vice presidential nominee. But in 1977, she announced she would not seek another term. ``The longer you stay in Congress, the harder it is to leave,'' she said then. ``I didn't want to wake up one fine sunny morning and say there is nothing else that Barbara Jordan can do.'' Ms. Jordan is survived by two sisters and her mother, Arlyne, all of Houston. Ms. Jordan's body will lie in state from noon Thursday until noon Friday at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum. The funeral service is Saturday at Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Houston. Burial will be Saturday at the State Cemetery in Austin. A memorial service is planned Jan. 28 at the Erwin Special Events Center at UT. (The Barbara Jordan Memorial Fund has been established at Texas Commerce Bank, P.O. Box 550, Austin, Texas 78789. It will benefit the Barbara Jordan Scholars Program at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Houston and the three Texas schools that bear Ms. Jordan's name in Odessa, Houston and Austin. Contributions to the fund are requested in lieu of flowers.) Friends, Colleagues Mourn Jordan WASHINGTON (AP) - Words rolled like gentle thunder from her lips. With forceful ideas, crisp diction and a baritone voice, Barbara Jordan could hush the most crowded convention hall, congressional hearing room or classroom. She also could be intimidating. Sen. Alan Simpson - no wallflower himself - found that out the hard way. With a single sentence and a stern stare, Jordan made the lanky 64-year-old Wyoming Republican feel like ``I was in the fourth grade and been the truant.'' Showing up late for a hearing of his own immigration subcommittee last year, Simpson tossed off a perfunctory apology as he took his seat. Jordan, the leadoff witness, looked up from her wheelchair and told the 18-year Senate veteran it was good of him to show up. ``She nailed me,'' Simpson recalled Wednesday, as he paused to mourn Jordan's death. ``I felt like a little kid and I said `It will never happen again; I'm sorry.''' Ever the teacher, Jordan told Simpson after the hearing that he had overdone the apologies. ``She said, `You didn't have to quite do all that,''' Simpson said. ``What a woman.'' Political and civic leaders of all persuasions agreed Wednesday that Jordan was a larger-than-life figure who left lasting legacies on many fronts - civil rights, defense of the Constitution, ethics reform and immigration among them. ``Barbara in a sense was the conscience of the nation,'' said former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, who on taking office in 1991 appointed her longtime friend state ethics czar. ``She could always be counted on to rise above whatever was the political fray of the moment and say what was the right thing to do,'' Richards added Wednesday, calling herself ``absolutely brokenhearted'' by Jordan's death. In tribute after tribute Wednesday, friends and colleagues spoke of Jordan's golden voice. ``When Barbara spoke with that deep, booming voice it was as though she was speaking from tablets of stone. She had a presence as few people do,'' said former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Jordan's debate coach at Texas Southern University, Thomas Freeman, said: ``Once the voice was perfected, it was difficult for you not to listen to the voice. ... It would grab you.'' Bud Myers, who was Jordan's top aide during her House years, said Wednesday: ``She had a way of expressing clear thoughts and doing it in such a way that not only the most humble of men could understand and identify with what she was saying, but so could presidents and kings and everyone else.'' Her singing skills didn't match her oratory, though, Myers and University of Texas Lady Longhorns coach Jody Conradt said. Conradt's team was adopted by Jordan, who later was made an honorary coach and was a fixture at most home games, her wheelchair three chairs down from Conradt's seat. ``Periodically, I would ask her to come into the locker room and give a pregame motivational speech,'' Conradt said. ``I saved her for the most significant games obviously, because she was the ultimate motivator.'' Added Conradt: ``I always said when I heard her voice, I should go out and join something.'' From college lockerrooms to Democratic National Convention halls, Jordan kept her audience entranced. Many recalled Jordan's spellbinding speech during the 1974 House Watergate hearings where impeachment proceedings were considered against President Nixon. ``This was an occasion for her eloquence to allow her to stand out in the din of conflicting commentary about the significance of the Watergate hearings,'' said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who served with Jordan on the Judiciary Committee during Watergate. ``She brought an irrefutable logic to the conclusion that we had to vote articles of impeachment,'' But Conyers, who is dean of the congressional black caucus, refuses to see Watergate as Jordan's shining moment. ``Her total career speaks for itself,'' he said. ``She had several public lives.'' State senator, congresswoman, university professor, chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, the list goes on and on. In the history of this country, only 14 black women have served in the House of Representatives. Jordan was the first black woman ever elected from a Southern state, arriving on Capitol Hill in 1972. Ever the trailblazer, Jordan had been the first black state senator in Texas since Reconstruction. ``Her life symbolized, from the humble beginnings of starting her law practice on the kitchen table of her family's home, that even from the most humble beginnings, if one worked hard and persevered, you could achieve the highest heights,'' said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, who now represents Jordan's former 18th District. Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, said Jordan was a role model for all. ``The outstanding contributions she made were far beyond simply being one of the first black leaders to emerge in Texas,'' he said. ``She was a leader for everybody.'' Of late, Jordan had been a leader in the contentious area of immigration reform. Simpson, the Senate immigration subcommittee chairman, and his House counterpart, GOP Rep. Lamar Smith of San Antonio, said Jordan's death gives them additional incentive to pass immigration reform this year in her honor. ``That was a marvelous woman, that really was,'' Simpson sighed. Quotations From Barbara Jordan By The Associated Press * ``My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.'' (During impeachment debate, July 1974.) * ```We, the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that `We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in `We, the people.''' (During impeachment debate, July 1974.) * ``If you're going to play the game (politics) properly, you'd better know every rule.'' (Ebony magazine interview, February 1975.) * ``Friends in the Democratic Party, the American dream is not dead. It is gasping for breath, but it is not dead. ... The American dream is slipping away from too many black and brown mothers and their children; the American dream is slipping away from the homeless of every color and sex; it's slipping away from those immigrants living in communities without water and sewer systems.'' (Keynote speech, Democratic National Convention, July 13, 1992.) * ``To deny birthright citizenship would derail this engine of American liberty. ... Do not let debate on birthright citizenship distract you from the urgent business of controlling illegal immigration, which is essential to the credibility of our commitment to the national interest in legal immigration.'' (Testifying in Congress in 1995 as chairman of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, opposing a measure that would deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.) © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 19, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Francis G. Culhane, 72, at 11 a.m. at Holy Angels Catholic Church; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Grace Rector, 92, of Santee, Calif. and formerly of San Angelo, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Annie S. Thompson, 97, of Sterling City, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Belvedere Memorial Park; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Rita Ray Lewis, 59, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - Dana Thurman, 63, at 10 a.m. in Myers & Smith Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BRADY - Laura Mae Hampton, 83, at 2 p.m. at Sunset Ridge Church of Christ; burial in Live Oak Cemetery; arrangements by Leatherwood Colonial Funeral Home. BRONTE - Dottie Hageman Lee, 79, at 2 p.m. at Central Baptist Church; burial in Fairview Cemetery; arrangements by Shaffer Funeral Home. EDEN - Freddie Belle Polk, 84, at 10 a.m. in Eden Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Stacy Cemetery in McCulloch County. GOLDTHWAITE - Ada Elizabeth Slaughter, 89, of Tow and formerly of Goldthwaite, at 10 a.m. in Stacy-Wilkins Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Goldthwaite Memorial Cemetery. JUNCTION - Richard Collins Yarbrough, 77, at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church; burial in Junction Cemetery; arrangements by Aubrey Fife Funerals. SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Myrtle Eunice Richardson, 87, graveside service at 11 a.m. in Glen Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita, Calif.; arrangements by Pacific Beach Mortuary. UVALDE - Tommy Clint Jones, 50, graveside service at 11 a.m. in Jones Cemetery in Utopia; arrangements by Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary. Kidnapped Girl Found Dead On Creek Bank ARLINGTON (AP) Less than a week after 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was dragged screaming off her bicycle in the middle of the afternoon by a man in a pickup, her body was found face-down along a creek bank, her throat cut. On Thursday, the gruesome discovery hit hard in the neighborhood where the Girl Scout was kidnapped Saturday. Pink bows and balloons tied to homes and cars fluttered cheerlessly in a cold, stiff wind. ``It's just so overwhelming to think that somebody could do something like that to a small child,'' said Archie Price, 71, who lives down the street from the home of Amber's grandparents, where the girl had been playing before her disappearance. ``I hope whoever has done it is caught quickly.'' Amber's body was found late Wednesday by a man walking his dog outside an apartment complex. The area was about eight miles north of the working-class neighborhood where a witness saw a man drag Amber as she fought and screamed. Texans Pay Respects to Jordan AUSTIN (AP) - People of all ages and all walks of life paid their respects Thursday to former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan, the woman some called the conscience of the nation. Ms. Jordan's body, clad in a gold-trimmed black suit, was presented for public viewing in a flag-draped, mahogany coffin on the second floor at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Towering over the casket was a black granite obelisk, each of its four sides containing words from President Johnson in gold. Among them: ``Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.'' Ms. Jordan, who died of pneumonia at age 59 Wednesday, was the first black woman elected to Congress from the South and the first black woman ever elected to the Texas Legislature. She joined the faculty at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in 1979. ``LBJ was the civil rights president ... In Barbara Jordan, his hopes had been realized at the ultimate,'' said Liz Carpenter, former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson and a friend of Ms. Jordan's. ``Anybody who made that much of an impact is going to live forever,'' she said. Gary Burton, 24, doesn't remember Ms. Jordan's impassioned defense of the Constitution during the 1974 Nixon impeachment hearings, which first thrust her into the national spotlight. But after paying his respects with his wife, Sonja, Burton recalled how moved he was by Ms. Jordan's keynote speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention. ``Her voice just echoed across the room, and you could see everybody in that convention just crying, and their eyes lit up,'' said Burton, who works for an environmental cleanup company in Houston. ``She was a beautiful woman.'' Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library and Museum, said Ms. Jordan is the third person whose body has been presented for public viewing at the facility. The others were President Johnson and Frank Erwin, who served as chairman of the University of Texas regents and chairman of the LBJ Foundation board of directors. ``It just seems to me to be totally appropriate,'' Middleton said. ``Barbara Jordan was almost a protege of President Johnson's. He was an early supporter of hers when she ran for the Congress from Houston. They were great personal friends.'' Among the first to go by Ms. Jordan's coffin was Ann Coffey, 55, a volunteer at the library and museum. ``I've always been an admirer of Barbara Jordan and felt that she stood for such high integrity and principles, and these are all things that I feel our country should be reminded of,'' she said. Republican Gov. George W. Bush paid his respects accompanied by U.S. Rep. Pete Geren, D-Fort Worth. ``She looked at peace and very beautiful. I am confident she is with her maker,'' Bush said. ``For me, her life was evidence that you can enter the political arena, fight hard and advocate your position and emerge with your dignity and integrity intact.'' There were also visitors from out of state, including Jack and Tillie Alexander of Topeka, Kan., who stopped by on their way to a meeting in San Antonio. ``The one thing that always stood out in my mind was her willingness to speak, and her eloquence in speaking on any issue, whether it was the Democratic convention or at the Watergate hearings or if you just tuned in and listened to a debate,'' said Alexander, a member of the Kansas Corporation Commission, which regulates utilities, oil and gas. The Rev. Floyd Dell Baker Jr. of the African Methodist Episcopal Church said he got to know Ms. Jordan when she was serving in the state Senate and he was an assistant sergeant-at-arms. ``Her style was very bold, very assertive, but a kindness behind it. And that's what made it work for her,'' said Baker, 45, of Austin. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 20, 1996 Arson Suspected In Fatal Coleman Fire COLEMAN - Accelerants were found in soil samples taken from a home where a mother and her two sons died in a Jan. 12 fire, the Coleman County Sheriff's Department said Friday. The presence of accelerants could mean that the fire was deliberately set, but a sheriff's official said no official rulings have been made in connection with the deaths of Cari Lyn Gifford Harrison, 26, Michale Harrison, 5, and Jonathan Harrison, 3. ``At this time, we are not at liberty to state what accelerants were used,'' the official said. An autopsy indicated the mother died of smoke inhalation, but no ruling has been made regarding her death, Sheriff Wade Turner said. Wade said efforts are underway to locate a white vehicle, possibly a pickup, that was seen going north on State Highway 206 about 15 minutes before the fire was discovered about 2:30 a.m. by a passing truck driver. The dwelling was engulfed in flames when fire units arrived, officials said. A deputy state fire marshal was called into to aid the investigation, but the cause of the fire was unknown Friday, officials said. Anyone with information which will help investigators determine the circumstances surrounding the fire and deaths should call the sheriff's office at (915) 625-3506 or (915) 625-2030. Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Harry Joseph Barnhizer, 76, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Sandra Ruth Cervantez, 30, at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Carlsbad; burial in Grape Creek Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Jimmie D. ``Jim'' Dewbre, 89, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Martha Owen, 86, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO Cecil Earl Stanley, 73, of Mertzon, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Mertzon Cemetery in Mertzon; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - Bedford John Gottlieb, 76, of Johnson City, at 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Stonewall; burial in Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. LAMPASAS - Jeff Lenz, 24, of Phoenix, at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church; burial in Oakhill Cemetery; arrangements by Sheppard Memorial Funeral Home. NACOGDOCHES - James Marshall Wynne Jr., 81, of Mount Enterprise and formerly of San Angelo; at 2 p.m. at Isabel Chapel Church in Rusk; arrangements by Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors. PECOS - Sylvia Martin, 85, at 2 p.m. in Pecos Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Fairview Cemetery. SANTA ANNA - Beulah Minton, 77, of Lake Worth, Fla., graveside service at 11 a.m. in Santa Anna Cemetery; arrangements by Santa Anna Funeral Home. WINTERS - J.B. Guy Sr., 75, at 2 p.m. in Winters Funeral Home chapel; burial in Wingate Cemetery in Wingate. SUNDAY BANDERA - Lucille Clark Adams, 74, at 2 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Bandera Cemetery. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 21, 1996 Death Notices TODAY BANDERA - Lucille Clark Adams, 74, at 2 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Bandera Cemetery. BIG SPRING - E.S. ``Pat'' Murphy, 94, of Abilene and formerly of Big Spring, at 2 p.m. in Meyers & Smith Funeral Home Chapel; private burial in Trinity Mausoleum. KERMIT - Emroy Christenson, 88, at 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church; burial in Kermit Cemetery; arrangements by Cooper Funeral Chapel. LLANO - Mildred Odessa Frazier, 80, graveside service at 2 p.m. in the Llano City Cemetery; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. MONDAY SAN ANGELO - George Robert Nash, 68, of Fort Worth, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Ella Ruth Morton, 74, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. LLANO - James Morris Grantham, 76, at 10 a.m. in Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Llano City Cemetery. MONAHANS - Deon Kyeen Brown, infant son of Cosondra Brown, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Monahans Memorial Cemetery; arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. OLNEY - Troy F. Frazier, 89, at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church; burial in Restland Cemetery; arrangements by Lunn Funeral Home. Standard-Times News: January 22, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Gene Everette Cope, 66, of Irving, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Foster Cemetery in Sterling City; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Dolores K. Higgins, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Bea Mierzwik, 90, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - George Robert Nash, 68, of Fort Worth, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Fairmount Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Jesse W. ``Jack'' Archer, 81, of Ackerly, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church; burial in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - Ella Ruth Morton, 74, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. COLEMAN - Willie Darrel Henson, 66, of Irving, at 10 a.m. at Kirkwood United Methodist Church of Irving; graveside service at 4 p.m. in Coleman City Cemetery; arrangements by Walker Funeral Home. ELDORADO - Herman Edward Jones, 90, at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church; arrangements by Kerbow Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - Ralph Edwin Hazer, 76, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Greenwood Cemetery; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. GOLDTHWAITE - Jessie Undean Wasserman, 95, of Mullin, at 2 p.m. in Stacy-Wilkins Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Duren Cemetery in Mills County; arrangements by Stacy-Wilkins Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - LaWanda Irving, 65, of Center Point, at 11:30 a.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Center Point Cemetery. LLANO - James Morris Grantham, 76, at 10 a.m. in Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Llano City Cemetery. MONAHANS - Deon Kyeen Brown, infant son of Cosondra Brown, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Monahans Memorial Cemetery; arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. OLNEY - Troy F. Frazier, 89, at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church; burial in Restland Cemetery; arrangements by Lunn Funeral Home. PECOS - Roy Easter, 94, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Fairview Cemetery; arrangements by Pecos Funeral Home. ROSCOE - Kate Freeman, 91, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church; burial in Roscoe Cemetery; arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home. TUESDAY SAN ANGELO - Charles Henry Ellison, 73, of Big Lake, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Glen Rest Cemetery in Big Lake; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Mary ``Juanita'' Griffin, 64, at 2 p.m. in Robert Massie Riverside Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 23, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Charles Henry Ellison, 73, of Big Lake, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Glen Rest Cemetery in Big Lake; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Mary ``Juanita'' Griffin, 64, at 2 p.m. in Robert Massie Riverside Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. SAN ANGELO - Olene Loftin Mims, 84, of Big Lake, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Rankin Cemetery in Rankin; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. COLEMAN - Alice Jane Brooks, 70, at 2 p.m. in Stevens Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Coleman Cemetery. DE LEON - John Henry Pilcher, 96, of San Angelo, graveside service at 11 a.m. in De Leon Cemetery; arrangements by Nowlin Funeral Home. JUNCTION - Eugene Hugh Jones, 80, at 10 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church; arrangements by Aubrey Fife Funerals. KERMIT - Nathan Boatwright, 39, at 10:30 a.m. at Grace Temple Baptist Church; burial in Kermit Cemetery; arrangements by Cooper Funeral Chapel. KERRVILLE - Maggie Kramer, 77, at 3 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Nichols Cemetery. KERRVILLE - Loraine Simmons, 77, at 2 p.m. in Kerrville Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. KERRVILLE - Bill Studstill, 71, of Pipe Creek, graveside service at 11 a.m. in Pipe Creek Cemetery; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. WINTERS - A.N. Crowley, 77, of Canyon, at 1 p.m. in Winters Funeral Home Chapel; graveside service at 5 p.m. in Breckenridge Cemetery. Standard-Times News: January 24, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Don C. Baker, 59, graveside service at 1 p.m. in Archer City Cemetery in Archer City; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Leta Tarpley Dixon, 77, graveside service at 1 p.m. in Rose Hill Cemetery in Merkel; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. BALLINGER - Fidel R. Molina, 84, at 10 a.m. at Rains-Seale Funeral Home; burial in Latin American Cemetery. BIG SPRING - Jimmy D. Fortenberry, 34, at 4 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Colorado City Cemetery in Colorado City. BIG SPRING - Neva (Patton) Hille, 78, at 2 p.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - H.E. McMahan, 83, graveside service at 2:30 p.m. in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio; arrangements by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. BIG SPRING - R.Z. Smith, 84, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home. FLOYDADA - August Schwertner, 68, at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church; burial in Englewood Cemetery in Slaton; arrangements by Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - Elise Wallendorf Kuhlmann, 86, of San Antonio, at 1 p.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in St. Mary's Cemetery; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - Rose Lee Weinheimer Schmidt, 62, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. FREDERICKSBURG - Elsie Eckhardt Stroeher, 90, at 3:30 p.m. at Holy Ghost Lutheran Church; burial in Der Stadt Friedhof; arrangements by Schaetter Funeral Home. IRAAN - Earl "Tooter" Malone, 56, of Sheffield, graveside service at 4 p.m. in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Ozona; arrangements by Richard W. Box Funeral Home. LLANO - Malcolm Francis Crowder, 74, of Tow, at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Tow; burial in Tow Cemetery; arrangements by Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home. MONAHANS - Isabela Ramero Viasana, 63, at 11 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church; burial in Monahans Memorial Cemetery; arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. THURSDAY BANDERA - J.D. Stephens, 59, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Bandera Cemetery; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. COLEMAN - Ella Mae Teal, 78, of Brady, at 2 p.m. at St. James Baptist Church in Brady; burial in Mason Jackson Cemetery in Mason; arrangements by Baker's Mortuary. Standard-Times News: January 25, 1996 Death Notices TODAY BANDERA - J.D. Stephens, 59, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Bandera Cemetery; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. COLEMAN - Ella Mae Teal, 78, of Brady, at 2 p.m. at St. James Baptist Church in Brady; burial in Mason Jackson Cemetery in Mason; arrangements by Baker's Mortuary. CORPUS CHRISTI - Addie D. Allen, 84, formerly of San Angelo at 11 a.m. in Cage-Mills Funeral Directors Everhart Chapel; burial in Seaside Memorial Park. McCAMEY - George Edward Hopper, 57, at 10 a.m. at the Seventh Street Church of Christ; burial in Resthaven Cemetery; arrangements by Richard W. Box Funeral Home. ODESSA - Rena J. Kuck, 73, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church; burial at 3 p.m. in Belvedere Memorial Park in San Angelo; arrangements by Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. ROBERT LEE - Joe Harmon Barrett, 60, graveside service a 3 p.m. in Robert Lee Cemetery; arrangements by Shaffer Funeral Home. FRIDAY FORT STOCKTON - James Lynn Hutchens, 61, at 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church; burial in East Hill Cemetery; arrangements by Fort Stockton Funeral Home. Standard-Times News: January 27, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Joe G. Acosta Sr., 52, at 1 p.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church; burial in Calvary Cemetery; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Ella Ray ``Bo'' Bowen, 75, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Trinity Memorial Park in Big Spring; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Jerry A. McDonald, 62, at 11 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Fairmount Cemetery. BIG SPRING - Ellen Mae Schafer, 103, of Garden City, at 10 a.m. in Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel; burial in Trinity Memorial Park. BIG SPRING - The Rev. Floyd Wallace, 78, at 3:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church; burial in Trinity Memorial Park; arrangements by Myers & Smith Funeral Home. DEL RIO - Esiquio Benavides Jr., of Corpus Christi, at 9:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church; burial in San Felipe Cemetery; arrangements by G.W. Cox Funeral Home. FORT WORTH - Inez Daniel, 97, graveside service at 1 p.m. in Fairview Cemetery in Winters; arrangements by Lucas Funeral Home. GOLDTHWAITE - Clemmie Venable, 97, at 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church; burial in Center City Cemetery; arrangements by Stacy-Wilkins Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - Miriam Elaine Buxton Felt, 81, memorial service at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church; arrangements by Kerrville Funeral Home. KERRVILLE - Harriett K. Matlock, 76, memorial service at 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. SNYDER - H. Worth Sayner, 89, at 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church; burial in Hillside Memorial Gardens; arrangements by Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home. SWEETWATER - Olan Ensminger, 81, of Nolan, at 10 a.m. at Normandy Avenue Church of Christ; burial in Nolan Cemetery; arrangements by Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home. WACO - James ``Jim'' Harkins, 69, formerly of San Angelo, graveside service at 11 a.m. at Waco Memorial Park Mausoleum; arrangements by BrookView Funeral Home. WIMBERLEY - Osco Bailey Bynum, 94, memorial service at 9:30 a.m. in Johnson's Funeral Home Chapel in San Angelo; graveside service at 3 p.m. in Ector County Cemetery in Odessa; arrangements by Thomason Funeral Home. Standard-Times News: January 28, 1996 Death Notices TODAY ODESSA - Mamie L. Warnock White, 93, burial at 1 p.m. in City Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford; arrangements by Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. WINTERS - Eura Lloyd, 96, of the Pumphrey community, at 2 p.m. at Wingate Baptist Church; burial in Fairview Cemetery; arrangements by Winters Funeral Home. MONDAY SAN ANGELO - Patsy Irene Foster, 55, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Glen Rest Cemetery in Big Lake; arrangements by Gutierrez Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - V. Geraldine Howerton, 67, of Ingram, at 2 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Nichols Cemetery. KERRVILLE - Jesse D. Moore, 84, of Utopia, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Waresville Cemetery in Utopia; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. SWEETWATER - Verbie Elva Thompson, 82, at 11 a.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Sweetwater Cemetery. TUESDAY KERRVILLE - Walter A. Dube, 96, at 2 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Alice; burial in Alice Cemetery; arrangements by Kerrville Funeral Home. Former U.S. Senator Yarborough Dead at 92 By MICHAEL HOLMES The Associated Press AUSTIN - Ralph Webster Yarborough, a populist known for flamboyant oratory during his nearly 14 years in the U.S. Senate, died Saturday at age 92. ``He was a giant, not just of Texas politics but of national politics,'' said former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, who was a legislative aide to Yarborough in the late 1960s. ``He was really a hero, a guy willing to take on the powers-that-be, take 'em by the scruff of the neck and go right after them. I wish we had 10 more like him in national politics today,'' Hightower said. Yarborough died at his Austin home, said DeAnna Dicuffa, an assistant who worked in Yarborough's law office. Despite his age, Yarborough had continued to practice civil law, focusing primarily on the oil and gas business. ``Up until this year he was quite active. He just was ill this past year,'' she said, adding he suffered from congested lungs and a broken hip, among other problems. Yarborough, in the Senate from 1957 to 1970, the year he lost a primary to Lloyd Bentsen Jr., described himself as ``teacher, lawyer, soldier, judge, United States senator.'' The onetime leader of liberal Texas Democrats was the only Southern senator who voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ``Ralph Yarborough really never flinched from being labeled a liberal, and I salute him for that,'' said Liz Carpenter, an author who was press secretary to former first lady Lady Bird Johnson. ``He contributed a lot to the soul of the Democratic Party by knowing what it stood for and speaking out in its behalf all his life. He will be missed,'' Ms. Carpenter said. In November 1963, Yarborough rode in the second car of the Dallas motorcade in which President John F. Kennedy was killed. Friends said Yarborough might have been riding with the president except for a feud between him and Vice President Lyndon Johnson and then-Gov. John Connally. It was to heal a split in the party between factions led by Yarborough and more conservative party leaders, including Connally, that Kennedy came to Dallas, said Bill White, state Democratic Party chairman. Kennedy hoped ``to urge the leaders in the two groups to work together and to put aside some of the feuding so that Texas would not be divided in the presidential election of 1964,'' he said. White said Yarborough's death marks ``the passing of an era in Texas politics.'' ``Ralph Yarborough would campaign in front of courthouses and have a blanket down where people could place pocket change and dollar bills,'' he said. ``That's the way he raised most of the funds for his campaigns.'' During his Senate career, Yarborough chaired the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, authored legislation that created the Padre Island National Seashore, sponsored a Cold War GI Bill to extend education benefits to 5 million post-World War II veterans, and pushed numerous pieces of health care legislation. ``You have to have the feeling that you can accomplish something for mankind that you could not have accomplished if you hadn't gotten involved,'' he told an interviewer before the end of his Senate career. ``And I have that feeling, particularly about the legislation I have passed through Congress.'' Yarborough also was author or coauthor of measures including the first Bilingual Education Act, pollution and crime control laws, and increases in Social Security benefits. Battling conservative Democrats, Yarborough unsuccessfully ran for governor in 1952, 1954 and 1956. In 1957, he won a special election for the U.S. Senate after Price Daniel resigned to become governor. After losing to Bentsen, Yarborough tried in 1972 to return to the Senate, but lost a primary bid to challenge Republican Sen. John Tower. In a 1970 interview with The Dallas Morning News, Yarborough reflected on his nearly 40 years in public life: ``A political career is terribly difficult on your family. You take a terrific loss financially if you play it straight; so your family suffers, of course. ``You have to regret all the hardships on your family. But I don't regret at all having gotten into politics. I am always encouraging young people toward public service, although I warn them about the sacrifices and the pressures and the disappointments. But I certainly have no regrets about my own career.'' A native of Chandler in Henderson County, Yarborough was born in 1903, the seventh of 11 children. After commuting to Tyler to finish high school, he attended Sam Houston State College for one term and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for a year. He taught school for three years and graduated from the University of Texas Law School with honors. Yarborough worked for a law firm in El Paso, where he specialized in land law. In 1931, he became an assistant attorney general to represent the Permanent School Fund and the Permanent University Fund. In the case of Magnolia Petroleum Co. vs. Texas Land Commissioner J.H. Walker, he helped save for the Permanent School Fund the petroleum bonus and royalty interest money on nearly 4 million acres of land. In 1936, Yarborough was elected as a district judge in Austin, where he served until 1941, when he joined the Army. As a lieutenant colonel from 1943-46, Yarborough served under Generals Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton in Europe and General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific. He earned both the Bronze Star and the Battle Star, and he served as one of 11 provincial governors of occupied Japan under MacArthur. Yarborough also married the girl next door, Chandler neighbor Opal Warren. They had one son, Richard, who preceded his father in death. He is survived by his wife, Opal; a brother, Donald V. Yarborough of Tyler; sisters Nell Yarborough Mallet of Chandler and Margaret Yarborough Pickett of Houston; and three grandchildren. A public viewing is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday at the Senate chambers in the Capitol. The funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church in downtown Austin. Burial will follow at the Texas State Cemetery. The family requested that memorials be directed to the Ralph W. Yarborough Library at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin or the Ralph W. Yarborough Scholarship in Law at the UT Law School. Standard-Times News: January 29, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - Patsy Irene Foster, 55, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Glen Rest Cemetery in Big Lake; arrangements by Gutierrez Funeral Chapels. KERRVILLE - V. Geraldine Howerton, 67, of Ingram, at 2 p.m. at Grimes Funeral Chapels; burial in Nichols Cemetery. KERRVILLE - Jesse D. Moore, 84, of Utopia, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Waresville Cemetery in Utopia; arrangements by Grimes Funeral Chapels. SWEETWATER - Verbie Elva Thompson, 82, at 11 a.m. in McCoy Chapel of Memories; burial in Sweetwater Cemetery. TUESDAY KERRVILLE - Walter A. Dube, 96, at 2 p.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Alice; burial in Alice Cemetery; arrangements by Kerrville Funeral Home. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 30, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - John James Burlingame, 78, at 10 a.m. at Griffin Funeral Home in Hobbs, N.M.; local arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - McCutchon ``Mac'' Snodgrass, 74, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Coleman City Cemetery; memorial service at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Belva McCutchen, 85, at 10:30 a.m. at Lake View Baptist Church; burial in Robert Lee Cemetery in Robert Lee; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Ernest Joe ``Toddy'' Tomlinson, 59, at 10 a.m. at Gutierrez Funeral Chapels; graveside service in Belvedere Memorial Park. ALPINE - Josefa Cordova, 86, of Marathon, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in Marathon Cemetery; arrangements by Geeslin Funeral Home. BALLINGER - Willard C. Renfro, 91, at 10 a.m. in Rains-Seale Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens in San Angelo. CORPUS CHRISTI - James J. Bailey, 71, at 10 a.m. in Sawyer-George Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Rose Hill Memorial Park. MIDLAND - Thomas Leigh McClatchy, 57, of Odessa, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Resthaven Memorial Park; arrangements by Ellis Funeral Home. PECOS - Gertie Martin, 76, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Mount Evergreen Cemetery; arrangements by Pecos Funeral Home. PECOS - L.A. ``Bird Dog'' Richards, 74, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Fairview Cemetery; arrangements by Pecos Funeral Home. STANTON - Berne Henderson Lee, 78, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Evergreen Cemetery; arrangements by Gilbreath Funeral Home. WINTERS - Fred Louis Voss, 76, of Wingate, at 11 a.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church; burial in Lutheran Cemetery; arrangements by Winters Funeral Home. © San Angelo Standard-Times, a Harte-Hanks Communications Newspaper Standard-Times News: January 31, 1996 Death Notices TODAY SAN ANGELO - John James Burlingame, 78, at 10 a.m. at Griffin Funeral Home in Hobbs, N.M.; local arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - McCutchon ``Mac'' Snodgrass, 74, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Coleman City Cemetery; memorial service at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church; arrangements by Johnson's Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Belva McCutchen, 85, at 10:30 a.m. at Lake View Baptist Church; burial in Robert Lee Cemetery in Robert Lee; arrangements by Robert Massie Funeral Home. SAN ANGELO - Ernest Joe ``Toddy'' Tomlinson, 59, at 10 a.m. at Gutierrez Funeral Chapels; graveside service in Belvedere Memorial Park. ALPINE - Josefa Cordova, 86, of Marathon, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church; burial in Marathon Cemetery; arrangements by Geeslin Funeral Home. BALLINGER - Willard C. Renfro, 91, at 10 a.m. in Rains-Seale Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens in San Angelo. CORPUS CHRISTI - James J. Bailey, 71, at 10 a.m. in Sawyer-George Funeral Home Chapel; burial in Rose Hill Memorial Park. MIDLAND - Thomas Leigh McClatchy, 57, of Odessa, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Resthaven Memorial Park; arrangements by Ellis Funeral Home. PECOS - Gertie Martin, 76, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Mount Evergreen Cemetery; arrangements by Pecos Funeral Home. PECOS - L.A. ``Bird Dog'' Richards, 74, graveside service at 10 a.m. in Fairview Cemetery; arrangements by Pecos Funeral Home. STANTON - Berne Henderson Lee, 78, graveside service at 2 p.m. in Evergreen Cemetery; arrangements by Gilbreath Funeral Home. WINTERS - Fred Louis Voss, 76, of Wingate, at 11 a.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church; burial in Lutheran Cemetery; arrangements by Winters Funeral Home.