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Milestones is a daily page of obituaries, births and other news of record. FRIDAY-7B AUGUST 22,1997 Methodist Church. Surviving are widow, Patricia of Reno, two daughters, three sons, two brothers, three sisters, 10 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. No funeral is scheduled. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Saturday at O'Brien-Rogers and Crosby Funeral Home. Cremation will be at Sierra Crematory. NEXT GENERATION How to send us Next Generation The Gazette-Journal has a feature called Next Generation that includes a photo and short announcement about your baby's birth. To participate in this free feature please submit the form (available at Reno-Sparks hospitals) with a color or black and white newborn photo (baby only) within five days after the birth. Please note that announcements in Milestones will be published on a first-come, first-served basis.

We cannot guarantee that all will run in the newspaper. There is no charge for this announcement. Questions? Call: 788-631 0, 788-6397 or fax 788-6458. Society: Volunteers are needed to drive cancer patients to and from doctors' offices. Volunteers will drive their own vehicle.

Details: 329-0609. Boys and Girls Club: The youth center needs arts and crafts supplies, videotapes (G, PG, PG-13), plastic gallon milk jugs, books, new or used sports equipment or games, camping gear, fabric, pillow stuffing, clothes, pens, pencils and paper. To donate, call 331-3605 or drop off at 2680 E. Ninth St. Ex-smokers: American Cancer Society needs volunteers to be facilitators of its self-empowering smoking cessation program.

Call Robin, 329-0609. Make-A-Wish Foundation: The group needs people to help wishes come true for children with life-threatening or terminal illnesses. Wish-granting, fund-raising and help with special events are activities needing volunteers. Details: 329-2440. Juvenile services: Adult volunteers 2 1 or older are needed in all divisions and programs of Washoe County Department of Juvenile Services.

Call 328-2779. The Stork's Nest: An incentive program to encourage women to seek early and regular prenatal care needs volunteers. Details: Darlene, 849-2224. Senior exercise leader: Senior citizens are needed to lead groups in a safe, easily followed program of exercises researched, designed and tested on seniors to keep them walking and reducing their risk of falling. After a brief training session, volunteers are expected to help seniors 2-3 hours per week.

Details: Glen E. Martin, 882-0449. Horsemanship program: Experienced horse riders or gymnasts are needed to help with the therapeutic school program by Sierra Nevada Handicapped Riding Association. Volunteers are needed during school hours, 9:30 a.m. -3 p.m., for a whole or a half day.

Walking and some lifting are required. Details: Terri Colthorp, 828-7433. Parent patrol: Parents and grandparents are needed for the before- and after-school patrol to help ensure that children get to and from school safely. Time commitment is 1 0-20 minutes a day. Details: Valerie, 673-6152, 9 a.m.-l p.m.

Planned Parenthood: The group is recruiting high school and college-age adults to train as volunteer peer educators. Volunteers will work in 1 997-1998, and will receive a cash stipend. More information is available at Planned Parenthood, 455 W. Fifth or by calling 688-5555, ext. 266.

replacing the plaque. Proof of insurance is required. Details: Barb Prudic, 687-131 1. Tutoring: Tutors are needed to help students at Truckee Meadows Community College who have learning disabilities in a variety of subjects for 2-20 hours per week. Training and a small stipend provided.

Contact: Jeanie or Sandra, 673-7285. VA Medical Center: Volunteers are needed for many tasks at the Veterans Administration center, including doing office work, circulating books, walking with patients, helping patients with meals, doing crafts, driving, helping with laundry, escorting patients, delivering charts and papers, and doing housekeeping. Most jobs are done between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Volunteers are specifically needed to serve coffee and pastry at a.m. on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Volunteers who work at least 5 hours a day get lunch. Details: Priscilla Davis, 328- 1491. A Barrel of Monkeys: The day-care center for low-income families in Lyon County seeks help from grant-writers and bookkeepers with knowledge of federal and state tax laws.

The organization also seeks contributions of $25 or more. Details: (702) 629-0 111, or send donations to 59 1 5 Apache Drive, Stagecoach, NV 89429. Reno Pops Orchestra: Volunteer musicians on all instruments are encouraged to join the orchestra, which plays a variety of music in enjoyable venues for the community. Rehearsals are held at 7 p.m. Thursdays at First Baptist Church, Hunter Lake and Foster Drive, Reno.

Most concerts are held on Sunday afternoons, no more than seven per year. Details: 673-2276. North Valleys: Desert Heights Family Resource Center needs working sewing machines, material, thread, needles, straight pins and other sewing items to help teach families learn to sew and repair clothing. Non-perishable food, powdered milk and diapers are needed for area families. Drop off donations at the school, 1 3948 Mt.

Bismark, or call 677-5437 Project Restart: The agency needs volunteers to help work with homeless individuals and families. Other volunteers would work to find donations of coloring books, crayons, markers, diapers, office supplies, nonperishable food and powdered milk. Call Leigh Ann McGinnis, 324-5166, ext. 1. Bike safety: The Reno traffic engineering division is seeking volunteers to fit helmets and teach bike safety to students in grades 3-5.

Details: Alan Felker, 334-2231. National Ski Patrol: The ski patrol is recuiting volunteers to work Castle Peak, Tahoe Meadows and other backcountry areas on weekends during the 1997-98 season. For more information, call Mary Chance, (415)389-8206. United Blood Services: People interested in donating blood should contact the agency at 324-6454. Nevada AIDS Foundation: Volunteers are needed for the food bank and Hand-to-Hand training.

Call Ted. 329- 2437. American Cancer donated to the St. Mary's Foundation. Details: 851-TACK.

Tri-County Fair: The Winnemucca Convention Visitors Authority is seeking volunteers for the fair, Aug. 29-Sept. 1 in Winnemucca. Volunteers are needed to work the children's Potato Critters Contest, the Chocolate Lovers Extravaganza baking contest and the pie-eating contests. Details: JoLyn White, (702)623-6458.

American Heart Walk: Volunteers are needed to be team captains for businesses at the walk, set for Sept. 1 at Wingfield Springs. For more information, call Christy Jefferson, 322-7064. Braille transcribers: A two-semester course in personal transcribing for deaf-blind and touch-impaired readers is offered by Northern Nevada Braille Transcribers beginning at 7: 1 5 p.m Sept. 2 and Tuesdays through May at Emmanuel First Baptist Church, 1100 12th Sparks.

Regular attendance and homework in the college-level course is required. Cost: $35 registration fee and first five classes, $5 per class thereafter. Includes supplies. Register by Aug. 16.

Details: Lois Baskerville, 358-2456. CAAW: The Committee to Aid Abused Women will conduct training Sept. 1 0 for volunteers for its 24-hour crisis line and for the children's program and advocates to work in the protection order office at the Washoe County Courthouse. Contact Trish, 329-4150, by Sept. 5.

Crisis Call Center: Volunteers are needed for the center's Sexual Assault Support Services program. Training will begin Sept. 9 and class size is limited. Details: Kathy Jacobs or Jana Anderson, 784-8085. Nevada Historical Society: A 10-week volunteer training session will begin Sept.

15 at the History Society museum, 1650 N. Virginia St. Volunteers lead museum tours, present school programs, staff the gift shop and research des, and host gallery openings. Details: 688-1 190. American Intercultural Student Exchange: Host families are needed to host high school foreign exchange students for the 1997-98 school year.

AISE students come from over 50 countries. Details: 1-800-SIBLING or the AISE web site at www.sibling.org. National Automobile Museum: Volunteer training will be held p.m. Thursdays Sept. 25-Oct.

30. Volunteers must be age 1 8 or older. Details: Mary Lou Atwood, 333-9300. Habitat for Humanity: The group seeks donations for raffle and silent-auction prizes or underwriting for a fund-raising Oktoberfest Oct. 9.

Proceeds help build affordable homes for qualified families. Volunteers are needed to sell tickets and work at the event. Details: Martha Rugg, Reno Grand Prix: Volunteers are needed to work the event, held Oct. 17-19. Volunteers must join the Reno Grand Prix Race Association, 1 0, and work 30 hours prior to the race, or all three days of the race weekend, or a combination of both.

Association members receive free admission to the races, T-shirts and lunch. Details: 827-7711. Library tutors: Volunteers are urgently needed to tutor people of all ages for the Reading Information and Referral Center of the Washoe County Library. Details: 829-7323. Museum tour guides: The Nevada State Museum needs docents to provide educational information to school and tour groups, or to work in various museum departments.

For details, call Denise Sins at 687-4810. Historical markers: Organized volunteer groups are needed to help restore the state markers in Reno, Sparks and Carson City. The work involves removal of the text plaque, sanding and repainting the stanchion and Cremation is under the direction of Evergreen Funeral Home. A memorial is being established with the Pikes Peak Hospice, 3630 Sinton Road, Suite 302, Colorado Springs 80907. Harold Lawrence Hull Harold Lawrence Hull, 7 1 of Sparks, died Aug.

20, 1997, at his residence. A native of San Bernardino, he was born Jan. 30, 1926, to Logan Lawrence and Golden Syvilla Leasure Hull, and had lived in the Sparks-Reno area for the past 30 years, coming from Hanford, Calif. Hull was a professional musician for 35 years known as "Hal Diamond." He also assisted inventors in patent ideas and was president of the Inventors Association of Reno. Surviving are widow, Betty, sons, Dan and Bill, and daughters, Sharon Nelson and Cathy Santa Cruz, all of Sparks; brother, Warren of Los Gatos, Calif; 1 1 grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Cremation is under the direction of Northern Nevada Memorial Cremation and Burial Society. Robert Lee Mulligan HENDERSON, Nev. Robert Lee Mulligan, 68, died Aug. 14, 1 997, at St.

Rose Dominican Hospital. A native of Elbert, he was born May 20, 1 929, and had lived in Henderson since 1978, coming from Sparks, where he lived since the mid-1950s. Mulligan was a retired engineer for the Department of Transportation. He was an Army veteran, serving in the Korean War. Surviving are widow, Beverly and sons, Eric L.

and Michael all of Henderson, and sons, Blake R. and Bret both of Las Vegas. A memorial service was held at Palm Mortuary. A memorial is being established with the American Cancer Society, for Sarcoma Research, 7 1 2 Mill Reno 89502. Tessie Fisher Nanson PORTOLA, Calif.

Tessie Fisher Nanson, 7 1 died Aug. 1 8 1997, at her residence. A native of Idaho, she was born May 31, 1926, to William and Gwendolyn Fisher, and had lived in Portola since 1967, coming from Herlong, Calif. Mrs. Nanson was a retired clerk for Sierra Federal Army Depot.

She was past matron and a 25-year member of Mountain View Chapter 522, Order of the Eastern Star. She attended schools in Idaho. Her husband, Walter Lyle, died April 27, 1993. Surviving are son, Gary, of Santa Clarita, Calif; daughters, Linda Geist of Palmdale, Cheri Digenarro of Mississippi and Lori Jackson of Oregon; brother, Bill Fisher and sisters, Mary Troge, Zella Pallis and Geraldine Yost, all of Washington state; sister, Nita Bishop of Nevada; 1 1 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Visitation is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m.

Sunday at the Masonic Hall, A graveside funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at Whispering Pines Cemetery, under the direction of Mani Funeral Home. A memorial is being established with the O.E.S. Home, 11725 Sunset Los Angeles 90049-2918. Donald George Poer Donald George Poer, 56, died Aug.

19, 1997, at Washoe Medical Center. A native of Phoenix, he was born May 18, 1941, to JohnBramwell and Mary Alice Goodman Poer, and had lived in Reno for the past four years, coming from West Virginia. Poer was a field engineer for MCI and a retired Air Force veteran, serving from 1961 to A look at local programs that need volunteers, sponsors or other kinds of help: Friends of Special Children Respite Program: Volunteers are needed to commit six to 1 0 hours per month to care for a child with special needs Volunteers will give parents a break from caring with a child with special needs. Training is provided, and the next training session will be held Sept. 1 3.

For more information, call Noel Trim, 688-1341 Voice Mail Box No. 309, by Sept. 5. 24 Hour Relay Challenge: Entertainers of all types are needed to volunteer for the 24 Hour Relay Challenge, a fund-raiser for northern Nevada youth programs set to be held Oct. 4 and 5 at Hug High School.

Details: Amy Moore at Community Chest, 847-9511. Mentors: Volunteers for the Friends for Life program have their choice of one three-hour session on Sept. 1 1 1 2 or 1 3 at the Plumb Lane Armory, 685 E. Plumb Lane, Reno. Sessions will be held at 1 0 a.m.-l p.m.

all three days and at 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 1 1-12. Volunteers are asked to commit one hour a week for the school year. The program, sponsored by the Nevada National Guard's drug demand reduction office, pairs volunteers one-to-one with at-risk students at seven area schools: Anderson, Virginia Palmer, Stead, Roger Corbett, Grace Warner and Lois Allen elementaries, Fernley Intermediate School and Seeliger Elementary school in Carson City.

Adults will be positive role models and help children develop resiliency and self-worth. For more details, call Sgt. Ron DeMet, 677-52 19 or 677-5221 during business hours. Friends of Washoe County Library: Volunteers are needed to help with the Book sale Bonanza, a communitywide book sale. Training sessions will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 9 and at 10 a.m. Sept. 1 1 at the Sierra View branch library in Old Town Mall, 400 1 S. Virginia St.

Training sessions last two hours. Details: 785-4585. American Host Foundation: Families are needed to host teachers, school administrators and librarians from Australia and New Zealand Dec. 28-Jan. 1 8.

The foundation is a nonprofit, nongovernmental, nonsectarian program designed to show the American way of life to overseas educators. Details: write to P.O. Box 803, Garden Grove, CA 92842, call 800-525-9866, or emailtoamhstfdnaol.com. Child Assault Prevention: The project needs many volunteers to assist staff members in teaching all Washoe County second-graders strategies to keep themselves safe from abuse. Training will be held in early October.

Details: 348-0600. Nevada Museum of Art: Volunteers are needed in the administration office and gift shop-reception areas and to provide help with hospitality and exhibitions. New docent training classes will be held at 1 0 a.m. Aug. 28, Sept.

4, 1 1 and 1 8. For more information and to make reservations for the orientation and classes, call Amy Whitten, 329-3333. Vendors needed: Saint Mary's Foundation is seeking vendors for its benefit craft fair, tack swap, flea market and tree plant sale to be held Aug. 23 at W.W. Ranch, 16500 Pyramid Highway.

Cost to rent a space is 1 5, for parking is $2. Fees will be v. Cremation Burial Society No Unnecessary Cost or Delays Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center KOXZUTH To Christopher A. and Tamara L. of Sparks, a son, Aug.

20, 1997. RAMIREZ-PALOMINO To Graciela P. Ramirez and Armando F. Palomino of Sparks, a daughter, Aug. 20,1997.

UTER To Everton W. and Vira S. of Sparks, a son, Aug. 20, 1997. MEMORIES How to send us Memories Tell us about someone who lived in northern Nevada and was special to you, and who died within the last 30 days.

Letters should be no longer than 1 50 words. Write to Memories, Reno Gazette-Journal, P.O. Box 22000, Reno, 89520-2000. List the funeral home and writer's daytime phone number, and the deceased's name, age and date of death. Editors will decide if the quality of a submission merits publication.

Questions? Call: 788-6310, or fax 788-6458. Kathleen Dawn Demaree Bean CARSON CITY Visitation for Kathleen Dawn Demaree Bean, 76, who died Aug. 20, 1997, at Washoe Medical Center, Reno, is scheduled from 4 to 9 p.m. today at Walton's Chapel of the Valley, Crematory and Cemetery. A native of Tacoma, she was born Oct.

27, 1920, to Paul H. and Mary Demaree, and had lived in Carson City since 1 962, coming from Las Vegas. Mrs. Bean was a retired physical education teacher for the Carson City elementary schools. She was a wedding hostess and a member of the First United Methodist Church and its Bell Choir.

She graduated from high school in Anaheim, in 1938 and attended Santa Barbara College, received a Nevada teaching certificate. Her husband preceded her in death. Surviving are son, Jerry M. Trigueiro of Ventura, and Michael A. Bean of Areata, daughter, Annette Mankins of Carson City; sisters, Gania Trotter and Ruth Preston, both of Redlands, eight grandchildren and 1 1 greatgrandchildren.

A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at the church, with a graveside funeral and burial scheduled for 3 p.m. at Mottsville Cemetery, Mottsville, Nev. Memorials are being established with the church's Bell Choir or the Small Blessings Preschool, both of 412 W. Musser Carson City 89701.

Clifford C. Breese COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Clifford C. Breese, 9 1 died Aug. 1 3, 1 997, at Memorial Hospital.

A native of Riley, he was born April 20, 1 906, to Matthew Winfield and Edna Arminta Hood Breese, and had lived in Colorado Springs for the past seven years, coming from Exeter, Mo. He also lived in Sparks for 25 years. Breese was a retired railroad worker and farmer. A daughter, Elsie Francis Breese, four brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. Surviving are widow, Evoda Dora Pearl (Major); daughter, Terry Lyn Burrill, both of Colorado Springs; son, Leon Clifford of Sandy, Utah; daughter, Mary Helen Melroy of Three Rivers, sister, Mildred Francis Leiser, of McLouth, nine grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren; and one great-greatgrandchild.

Affidavit By Robert Macy ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS The owner of a Las Vegas spy shop told his wife he murdered a 20-year-old customer because she "got in his face and he snapped," according to an affidavit obtained Thursday by a television news station. John Flowers, 26, also told his wife, Chery Ciccone, he would kill her if she told anyone hat he had done, the affidavit obtained by KLAS-TV Channel 8 said. Flowers is being held in Los Angeles on a murder warrant issued bv Las Vegas authorities. The body of Ginger Rios, a 20- MEHEULA GEORGE P. MEHEULA George P.

Meheula passed away at his residence in Sparks, Nev. on August 19, 1997. He is survived by his wife and 10 children, two brothers and a sister. George Meheula had a distinguished career in the martial arts spanning almost fifty years. For well over twenty five years, Master Meheula was affiliated with the late Si Jo John K.

Wong of Fairland, California. Before his death in 1994, Si Jo Wong, founder of the Wu Shmg Tai Chi for Health System, ranked George Meheula a 6th degree black belt. Throughout his years in the Arts, Master Meheula trained with such notable figures as his mentar Si Jo Wong, world famous Prof. Wally Jay, the legendary Emperados of Hawaii, Calvin Shin, Tony Ramos and Henry ifonderen. As a competitor, Master Meheula won many tournaments, including Black Belt Forms in the 1978 prestigious Long Beach, CA Tournament.

Over the years of operating and becoming disillusioned with the commercial aspects of the Martial Arts wortd. Master Meheula spent the last years of his life with a few trusted associates, teaching a handful of students in a close family type setting. Master Meheula founded the C.O.A.M.A.H., (Coalition of Oriental and American Martial Arts of Hawaii) System of Self Defense. Master Meheula painstakingly perfected and cataloged his own system which would have earned him a professorship in the Martial Arts Community. Unique features of his system included lessons on verbally disarming an opponent, Hawaiian language and culture, as well as music, cooking and philosophy.

Master Meheula was know throughout Hawaii. California and Nevada as being one of a truly rare breed, a true Martial Artist. Memonal Service will be held on Monday, August 25 at 1 p.m.. Ross. Burke, and Knobel Mortuary in Sparks, Nevada.

customer "They found her, they found her." Ciccone escorted authorities on Aug. 15 to the desert area 18 miles east of Florence, where she believed Flowers had buried Rios. The body was positively identified Thursday as Rios. On Aug. 16.

authorities searching the Spycraft store in Phoenix found a back of concrete mix and a shovel with dried concrete on it. Authorities also talked to the store manager, Richard Harmon, who said he noticed a large trash bag laid out fiat on the floor of Flowers van. When Flowers picked the bag up some4Hd spilled on him and "he seemed disgusted about it getting on him. Arrangements By Phone or at Home One Low Price Covers Everything CARD OF THANKS FRANK MARGRAVE JR. FEB 8, 1916 AUG 14,1997 To all who attended the service for Frank Margrave the family wishes to thank you for your outpouring of care and concern.

Also to those who made donations, to the Assistance League, we wish to thank you for your thoughts of remembrance. The Margrave Family Ciccone and their baby to a desert area. Flowers made his wife get out of the van and drove off with the baby, leaving her by the side of a dirt road for about two hours. "Flowers did not tell her why he left her but she knew he was leaving her there so she would not know where he buried the body." the affidavit said. A week later, they drove to the desert are again and Flowers walked away from the van carrying the concrete, water and a shovei.

Ciccone said she and Flowers made a third trip to the desert and Flowers parked the car and walked away. A short time later, he came running back to the car saying. spy shop owner killed v4 Up Plpfine Cnrmn Afinrnnrac Spnirp Ti Pledge Caring. AJjoTdame Service Call 24 Hours 322-9200 She asked her husband why he killed Rios and he said Rios gave him a note from two former employees who were apparently attempting to extort money from him. He said.

"Ginger got in his face and he snapped." punched her in the nose, at which time she fell backwards and was dead. Ciccone said she never saw the note and believes it as a lie. Ciccone also said Flowers sent a new employee out to buy garbage bags, and Flowers then spent the next couple of hours in the back room ith the door locked. The couple drove to Phoenix that night. The neyl day, Flowers drove 1981.

He was a member of the Wife says year-old singer and dancer, was found Friday in a shallow grave near Phoenix. The woman disappeared April 4 after going to the Spycraft store to buy a book on restoring her credit. Authorities also believe there is a "distinct possibility" Flowers maybe linked to a second body found buried in a remote desert area. In the affidavit, Ciccone, 20, said Rios entered the store on the afternoon of April 4 and was looking at a book. Ciccone left the store to run an errand when it looked like Rios did not need assistance.

When Ciccone returned to the store about five minutes later, she noticed Flowers was "white and visibly shaken." Rios' husband, Mark Hollinger, then entered the store, and Flowers told him his ife purchased two books and left. Flowers told Ciccone he could not tell her what he had done and told her not to go into the back room, the affidavit said. Ciccone did go into the back room and saw Rios' body on the floor ith a pool of blood around her head. Ciccone also saw a drag mark from the doorway to where the body on the floor. Ciccone also noticed bloodstains on the carpet.

Flowers then grabbed Ciccone by the throat and told her if she told anyone he ould kill according to the affidavit..