The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 3

B10 EVENING JOURNAL Monday Feb. 25, 1980 IN MEMORIAM BAHR -In memory of Charlotte M. Bahr, on her Birthday, February 25th. Mom, Dad, Sister Margaret Family Dearly loved sadly missed BARCUS In loving memory of husband, Charles S. Barcus, who passed away years ago February 24.

I want to know each step you take, So I may take the same. For some day, down that lonely road, You will hear me call your Sadly name. missed by Wife Edith DALBOW In memoriam, Mary Josephine Dalbow, on her birthday, February 25. Deeply loved, sadly missed and never to be forgotten, Daughter Marie husband George DIBIASO- -In loving memory of Ralph Paul DiBiaso, who died three years ago February 24, 1977. Sadly missed by Friends and Family and never to be forgotten.

Loved Forever Barbara, Nickey and Jimmy 1EZZ- In loving memory of our beloved son and brother, Joseph J. lezzi Jr who passed away 2 years ago February 25, 1978 Loved and missed by all Mom, Dad, Tommy, Marie, Florence, Rory and Bob KELLER In loving memory of Max who passed away I year ago today, February 1979. Never forgotten. Sadly missed by Sister Vera Mamie LUCATAMO loving memory of my sister, Mary Scarano Lucatamo who left me one year Feb. 25th, 1979.

God watched you as you suffered knew you had your share He gently closed your weary eyes And took you in His care. heart aches with sadness My secret tears still flow What it meant to lose you No one will ever know. Each time I see your picture You seem to smile and say Don't cry I am only sleeping We'll meet again someday. Sadly missed by Sister Margaret Brother-in-law Palmer, Nephew Louis Shores and Family LUCATAMO In loving and beautiful memory of my wife, Mary, who passed away February 25, 1979. Sadly missed by, Husband Rocky.

MONGILLO In loving memory of my mother and grandmother, Margaret E. Mongillo, who passed away 3 years ago, Feb. 25, 1977. The one we loved, remains with us, For love itself lives on, and cherished memories, never fade, because our loved one is gone. The one we loved, can never be more than a thought apart, For as long as there is memory She'll live on in our hearts.

and grandchildren. Sadly a missed by daughter Peggy, son in law Joe NEWLOVE In loving Memory of Mary P. Newlove on her Birthday, February 25. Always loved and never forgotten By Husband, Daughter and Family. SMACK In loving memory of my husband Harry B.

Smack, who passed away I February 25, 1974. miss you, wife Iris. SMACK who passed In away loving memory 25, 1974. of Harry B. Smack, Feb.

Dearly loved and sadly missed by his mother and brother. CARD OF THANKS THOMPSON We wish to express our sincere thanks to relatives, friends and neighbors for cards, flowers and other acts of kindness shown to us during our recent bereavement in the death of our Son and Father, James Thompson. THE FAMILY VREKEN The Family of Johanna F. Vreken would like to express their sincere thanks and deep appreciation for the many acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our many friends, neighbors and relatives during our recent loss. Highway and Duncan Road on Wednesday, Febru27 al 11 a.m.

with interment in Gracelawn Memorial Park. Friends may 7. call at the funeral home on Tuesday evening after MAYS In St. Francis Hospital, 1980, after Wilmington, short Illness. Delaware N.C.

on Mays February Tatnall 24, Street, Wilmington, Husband of Sarah M. Mays. Shirley Father Nesmith, of Delaware. L. Mays, Arthur L.

Mays, Carolyn Marie, Charles of Patricia Wilmington, Ronald, Delaware, and Deborah Azzilee Riley and Marie Grayson both of Mays all Brother of Mary Brown of Syracuse, N.Y.. Wilmington, Mays of Wilmington, Pearl Bailey of Washingion, D.C., Remell Harrison D.C., of Ollie Wilmington, Pressey Olliner of Andrews of Annie Washington, Lee Robinson of Barnwell, 5.C. Also survived by 23 other grandchildren, relatives a host and of 57 years. Relatives and friends are nephews, cousins, invited to attend funeral services at New Calvary Aged Baptist Church, 610 S. Heald 28 Street, al 8 o'clock.

Wilmington on Thursday evening, February Memorial Park on Friday may call at the church on Gracelawn morning. Friends until by CONGO FUNERAL N. Gray Avenue DEATH NOTICES BLACK in the Memphis, Tennessee V.A. Hospitai on February 22, 1980. Thomas husband of Pearia Black 2620 Whitman Drive, Heritage Park.

Aged 54. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Tuesday, February 26, 11 a.m. at the NICHOLS FUNERAL HOME, 212 Justis Street, Newport. Interment will be in Silverbrook Friends may call at the funeral home Monday evening from 7 to 9. BOYD her residence on Friday, February 22nd, 1980.

Bertha wife of the late J. Henry Boyd of 2004 Kirkwood Brack-Ex. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the services on Tuesday morning February 26 af 11 o'clock at the MCCRERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, Kirkwood Hwy. and Duncan Rd. where friends may call on Monday evening after 7.

Interment will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Lancaster Ave. and Dupont Rd. CARPENTER the Delaware Division on Friday, February 22, 1900. Priscilla M. Carpenter of 2901 Cherry Street, Roselle.

Aged 58 years. Relatives and Friends are invited to attend the service from the McCRERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, Kirkwood Hwy Duncan Rd. on Wednesday afternoon, February 27th 1PM. Interment in Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call the Chapel one hour prior to service.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests that contributions be made to your favorite Charity. CONNER In this city on February 24, 1980. George A. "The Waffle Man" Conner. husband of Ethel L.

Conner of Route 71, Bear, Delaware. Aged 79 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services the SPICER FUNERAL HOME, DuPont Parkway and East Van Buren Avenue, Wilmington 9 Wednesday afternoon, February a o'clock. Interment Cemetery. Friends may call SPICER-MULLIKIN on Tuesday evening after 1.

GREEN In this city on February 22, 1980, Theima M. (Boots) Green, wife of the late Claude Green of Champlain Richardson Park, aged 56 vears. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services at the rial Chapel of Gracelawn Memorial Park on Monday afternoon, Feb. 25 at 12:45 o'clock. ment the Memory Gardens of Gracelawn Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the SPICERMULLIKIN FUNERAL HOME, DuPont Parkway E. VanBuren Wilmington Manor on Sunday evening after 7. HARDEN in the Delaware Division on February G. Arerendaul (Rendaul) Harden of 1121 5th Sireel, Wilmington, Delaware. Father of Arerendaul Warren Harden of Wilmingion, Delaware, Brother Rosanna Harden of Wilmington, Delaware, four nephews, two nieces, host of cousins and other friends.

Aged 56. Relatives and friends invited to attend funeral services CONGO FUNERAL HOME, 201 N. Gray Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, February 12 o'clock, Interment at Rolling Green Memorial Park immediately following services. Friends may call at funeral home on Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 12 noon.

KEENE in this city en February L. Keene, 1900. Winnwood Wilson) Keene, Windy Hills, Newark. 70 wife of Herbert Relatives and friends the are SPICER invited to MULLIKIN attend services FUNERAL HOME, 24th Markel Streets, minion on Tuesday morning February Cemetery. 26 al Friends o'clock.

Interment at Riverview may call SPICER- MULLIKIN on Monday ning after 7. LEWIS In this city on February 24, 1900. Charles husband of Mary Childrey Lewis of 216 Eighth Avenue. Aged 01 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Mass of Christian Burial af St.

Elizabeth's R.C. Church, Cedar and Clayion Streets on Wednesday morning, February 27 af 10 o'clock. Interment Cathedral Cemetery. There be no viewing. in lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations Lovering be sent Avenue.

to the American Arrangements Cancer by the Society. MEALEY HOME. MACK Suddenly wife this of Alan city F. on Mack February No. 23, Barbara Road, Newark.

Aged 52. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the services from the McCRERY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, Kirkwood SILVERBROOK CEMETERY COMPANY large selection of choice lots in Cametery and Memorial Park. Lawn Crypts, Mausoloum and Niches also available. Convenient terms. 658-0953 Lancaster Ave.

Du Pont Rd. 1st 2nd EDITION Obituaries Mrs. Joseph J. Thompson GEORGETOWN Ethel M. Thompson, 80, of near Georgetown, died yesterday in Beebe Hospital, Lewes, after a long illness.

Mrs. Thompson worked at the Hospital for the Mentally Retarded at Stockley for 17 years during the 1930s and 1940s. Her husband, Joseph died in 1970. Surviving are a son, Joseph J. Jr.

of Georgetown; three daughters, Beatrice Calhoun of Chester, Violet Richardson of South Point, and Louise Bradley of N.J.; two brothers, Granville S. Scott Claymont and Glenn F. Scott Sr. of Georgetown; three sisters, Blanche of Claymont, and Florence Ingram and Helen Macklin, both of Lewes, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Services will be Thursday afternoon at 2 at the Dodd-Carey Funeral Home, Georgetown.

There will be no viewing. Burial will be in Henlopen Memorial Park, Milton. Dorothy Rose Pearson MILFORD Dorothy Rose Pearson, 60, of 206 Fisher died Saturday in Milford Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Pearson is survived by her husband, Ray a son, Chester L.

Shedlebower of Toms River, N.J.; three brothers, Tom and Eugene Passwaters, both of Milford, and Harry Passwaters of Ridgely, three sisters, Helen Bennett of Wilmington, Betty Getty of Newark and Ann Pritchard of Woodside, and three grandchildren. Services will be tomorrow afternoon at 1 at the Lofland Funeral Home, 219 S. Walnut where friends may call tonight. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milford. Elsie E.

Holzapfel LEWES Elsie E. Holzapfel, 78, of Venice, formerly of Carrcroft, was dead on arrival Friday at Beebe Hospital after a short illness. She had been visiting her daughter, Audrey Conaway of Lewes. Her husband, Winfield, died in 1968. Her daughter is the only immediate survivor.

Services and entombment will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 in the mausoleum at Gracelawn Memorial Park, Wilmington. There will be no viewing. Ellen B. Raughley DOVER Ellen B. Raughley, 93, of 41 S.

Governors died Friday in Crescent Farm Nursing Home after a short illness. Mrs. Raughley's husband, Arthur, died in 1962. Surviving is a niece, Elizabeth Feeley, with whom she lived. Services will be tomorrow afternoon at 1 at Torbert Funeral Chapel, Bradford and Reed streets, where friends may call an hour earlier.

Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden. DEATH NOTICES MITCHELL in Boca Raton, Florida on February 20. 1900, George E. husband of Erna Mitchell of 34 view Lane, Clifton Park. Aged 73 vears.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the services the Bethel Baptist Church, 1217 Wilson on Wednesday, February 27th, at 11 o'clock. Interment in Gracelawn Memorial Park. Friends may call McCRERY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, 3924 Concord Pike, Talleyville on Tuesday evening from 7 until PERRY in this city on February 22, 1980, Willie Mae Perry, of 812 Washington Street, Sister of Florence Parrish of Belvedere, DE and Eleanor Brinkley of Dunleith. Aunt of Adele Williams of Wilmington, DE. Also survived by a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Age 73 vears. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services from The Rock of Ages Baptist Church, Meadowbrook Avenue, Belvedere, on Tuesday afternoon February 26 1 P.M. Interment MI. Zion Cemetery. Friends may call al the Church on from 11 A.M.

until P.M. Arrangements ON THE EDWARD R. BELL FUNERAL HOME. In Lewes, Delaware on 23 J. Harry husband late Seines Milton, Delaware formerly of Wilmington.

Aged years. Relatives and 26 friends A.M. Armstrong Lode No. invited to attend the McCRERY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, Concord Pike, Interment Riverview morning, Cemetery. Friends may call at at 11 mingion on Friday afternoon, February 29 at 1 o'clock, Interment af Gracelawn Memorial Park immediately following services.

Friends may call al the church on Thursday evening from 6 until o'clock and on Friday morning one hour prior 10 funeral service. Arrangements by CONGO FUNERAL HOME, 201 N. Gray Avenue. in Wilmington Center Delaware Division on February Martha C. Smallwood, of 2614.

Tatnail Street, Wilmington, Mother of Mrs. Joan M. Davis, of Tacoma, Miss Elsie Smallwood, of Sal. Boston Paul John Smallwood, Everett, Edwin Welter, Dennis K. and Mona Smallwood, of Wilmington, Del.

Foster mother of Miss Delores Hinson, of Wilmington. Daughter of the late Marian and Edwin C. Elbert. Sister of Mrs. Hannah E.

Evens, of Newark, Del. Also survived by thirty grandchildren, three great -grandchildren, one aunt, one niece, three nephews, one brother In-law, a host of cousins and friends. Age 61 Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services Ezion MI. Carmel United Methodist 000 N. Walnut Street, on Tuesday noon, February 1 clock.

Interment Delaware City immediately following services. Friends amy call of the church on Tuesday from 11am until Tom. There will be no viewing after 1 o'clock. Arrangements by CONGO FUNERAL 201 N. SANTH her residence on February 1980.

Sallie Smith of 1338 Lancaster ton, Del. Wife of the late Gordon Smith. Mother of Luewill Hornbuckie of New Castle, Del. and Ruby Ruffin of Wilmington, Del. Sister of Vienna Gill of Detroit, Mich.

and Leo V. Jones of Wilmington, Del. Also survived by six grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Aged 73 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at munity Presbyterian Church, Rodgers Road, Wil- WOODALL In this city on February 23, 1980.

Margaret E. Woodall, wife Reynolds C. Woodell, Sr of 1603 W. 13 Wilmington. Aged 65 years.

Relatives and friends are invited DOHERTY-WICKER- to attend funeral services at SHAM FUNERAL HOME, 1900 Delaware Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, February 26 al 2 o'clock. interment at Silverbrook Cemetery. There will be no viewing on Monday evening, however, friends o'clock until service time at 2 o'cloci Valet parking FUNERAL HOME the on Tuesday afternoon from service. FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS MeCREADY the Floriet Chr. 470-7347 Charge Carde Mary H.

McNeilly, state justice's wife REHOBOTH BEACH Mary Helen McNeilly, active in her church and community and the wife of state Supreme Court Justice John J. McNeilly, died Saturday morning at their home in Rehoboth Beach after a long illness. She was 54. Mrs. McNeilly grew up in Sussex County and was graduated from the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C.

She served on the board of The Children's Bureau of Delaware, and helped deliver Meals on Wheels to Sussex County residents confined to their homes. She was active in St. Ann's Chapter of the Episcopal Dorothy Miller, high school French teacher Dorothy I. Miller, 72, of 1100 Lore was dead on arrival yesterday at Delaware Division after an apparent heart attack at home. Mrs.

Miller had taught French at Mount Pleasant High School and at Friends School until her retirement eight years ago. She is survived by her husband, Thomas, former director public relations for Hercules two sons, Dr. David T. of Lancaster, and John E. of Boynton Beach, two sisters, Sara Grove and Mrs.

L. Eldred Grimes, both of Wilmington; and two grandchildren. A memorial service will be Wednesday morning at 11 in St. Mary's Chapel of St. John's Cathedral, 10 Concord Ave.

There will be no viewing. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. Instead of flowers, contributions may be made to the Delaware Humane Association, 701 A Street, Wilmington. O'Shaughnessy, 86, of 105 N. Front St.

was dead on arrival yesterday at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack at home. Her husband, John, died in 1944. Surviving are a son, Thomas J. of Seaford; a daughter, Rita 0. Manning of Charlestown, a brother, George Fota of San Jose, two sisters, Ann Rozboril of Johnson City, N.Y., and Lena Pecka of Binghamton, N.Y.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Mass of Christian Burial will be offered Wednesday morning at 10 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 532 Stein Highway, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow night at Watson Funeral Home. Instead of flowers, the family requests contributions to the memorial fund of the church. Sophia F. O'Shaughnessy SEAFORD Sophia Fota George A.

Conner George A. Conner, 79, of Delaware 71, Bear, died yesterday in Delaware State Hospital after a long illness. Mr. Conner retired in 1959 as a machinist at the old Pusey Jones where he had worked for 27 years. For many years, he also sold waffles in the city from a red, white and blue truck, his family said.

He is survived by his wife, Ethel a daughter, Ethel I. Packo of Wilmington; grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Services will be Wednesday afternoon at 1 at the Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home, Du Pont Parkway and E. Van Buren Wilmington Manor, where friends may call tomorrow night. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Polly F. Kramer Polly F. Kramer, 86, of 215 Weldon Lane, North Hills, died Saturday in Riverside Hospital after a long illness. She is survived by her husband, Clarence two sons, Earl W. Agnew of Dunlinden Acres and Warren Agnew of Wilmington; stepdaughter, Phyllis of Hillcrest; a sister, Billie Jesterof Parkwood; and 20 grandchildren.

Services will private; there will be no viewing. Instead of flow. ers, the family suggests contributions to a favorite charity. Church and with All Saints' Episcopal Church in Rehoboth Beach. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Carol Wakefield of Rehoboth Beach and Ann Wooton of Towson, a brother, Dr.

Matthew J. McDermott of Wilmington; and three grandchildren. Services will be tomorrow morning at 11 in All Saints' Episcopal Church, 18 Olive with burial in All Saints' Cemetery, Angola. There will be no viewing. Instead of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the church or to Beebe Hospital Building Fund, Lewes.

Martin L. Murray HOLMES, Pa. Martin L. Murray, 81, formerly of Selbyville, died Saturday at his home here after a long illness. Mr.

Murray was a retired marine engineer. He is survived by his wife, Anna three sons, Martin of Springfield, Wilson of Upper Darby and Edmund of Phoenixville; two daughters, Christine Morrison and Louise Carpenter, both of Holmes; 12 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Services will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 at the Watson Whaley Funeral Home, Selbyville, where friends may call at 1. Burial will be in Redmen's Cemetery, Selbyville. day at Peninsula General Hospital, Salisbury, after a short illness.

Her husband, Morris, died many years ago. Mrs. Hurley is survived by a son, L. Randolph, of Dover, with whom she lived; two sisters, Mamie Bowden and Mildred Ward, both of Snow Hill; two brothers, Clarence and Albert Smack, of Snow Hill; three grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Services will be Wednesday afternoon at 2 at the Burbage Funeral Home, Berlin, where friends may call tomorrow night.

Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Ollie Beatrice Hurley BERLIN, Md. Ollie B. Hurley, 85, formerly of Berlin, died yester- Charles R. Lewis Charles R.

Lewis, 81, of 216 Eighth died yesterday in Delaware Division after a long illness. Mr. Lewis retired 10 years ago as a heavy equipment steam and operating engineer. He is survived by his wife, Mary and a daughter, Kathleen Hann of Washington, N.J. Mass of Christian Burial will be offered Wednesday morning at 10 at St.

Elizabeth's Catholic Church, Cedar and Clayton streets. There will be no viewing. Burial will be in Cathedral Cemetery. Instead of flowers, the family suggests donations to the American Cancer Society, 1925 Lovering Ave. 19806.

Charlotte B. Jackson REHOBOTH BEACH Charlotte B. Jackson, 85, of 206 Scar. borough Ave. died Friday at Lewes Convalescent Center after a long illness.

Mrs. Jackson's husband, Irving, is the only immediate survivor. Services were to be today at All Saints Episcopal Church, Olive Street, with burial in All Saints Cemetery, Lewes. Instead of flowers, the family suggested donations to the church. Harry H.Seimes MILTON Harry H.

Seimes, 86, of near Milton and formerly of Wilmington, died Saturday at home after an apparent heart attack. Mr. Seimes owned the old Five Points Dairy in Richardson Park before retiring 30 years ago. His wife, Sara, died last year. Surviving are three sisters, Ethel and Elizabeth B.

Seimes, both of Wilmington, and Ivy Stout of Carneys Point, N.J. Services will be Wednesday morning at 11 at McCrery Memorial Funeral Home, 3924 Concord Pike, Talleyville, where friends may call an hour earlier. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington. YMCA's board backs decision to drop dances By Anita Manning Staff writer The board of managers of the Walnut Street branch of the YMCA has approved the decision of its executive committee to suspend weekend dances. Board members wouldn't comment on the decision, except through a press release saying the disco will be suspended "until the program council can review current programs and how disco dance activity relates to total youth programming to insure the incorporation of standards." That statement, said dance organizer Larry Morris, "sounds like it will take forever to do, and will never come off." Calling the situation "a classic generation gap," Morris said most of the board members are "out of touch with the needs of youth." He said, "It's frustrating to see people like that govern an agency geared to young people.

They talk about the image of the Y. What is the image of the if they don't serve He said that since the Friday and Saturday night dances were started in June, up to 200 teen-agers had attended. YMCA Board President James Newton has said board members were concerned about reports of drug use and fighting, and complaints from neighbors about teen-agers hanging around the area. But Morris said that when fights, the result of cross-town rivalries, broke out, the offenders were made to leave the dance. Smoking and fighting were not permitted, he said, and often the young people who attended the dances policed each other.

Wilmington Police Inspector Kenneth Miles said "there were a few problems with the dances, but not very serious ones. "The dances were not really a problem. The problems came when the dances would end and large groups would be out on the streets." Miles said the police department had a "working relationship" with Morris and had marked cars patroling the area as a deterrent to loitering. "You can't have a dance without some problems and should be understood by an agency which works with kids," Morris said. He said one of the advantages of the dances was that they gave young people an outlet on weekends.

The dances were canceled abruptly two weeks ago. Since then, groups of teen-agers have called and come to the NewsJournal papers to complain. One youngster told a reporter, "I've got one brother i in Smyrna (the Delaware Correctional Center) and another in Ferris (School for Boys). My mom is worried. She don't want me to wind up like that.

She was glad when I went to the dances because they were nice and she knew where I was at night." Dearirich Hunter, a student at Howard Career Center, wrote an editorial in The Eye, a student news magazine, about the closing of the dances. hard being a teen-ager," he wrote, "and perhaps even harder? you live in the city. Lots of people, no space, no jobs." On weekends, he continued, "you want to do what you enjoy. want to dance." Calling on other teen to petition Newton to allow the dances, Hunter said, "It's more than just the closing of a dance. It is an example of the low prestige of Tanker skipper still says his ship had rig right-of-way Associated Press TAMPA, Fla.

Standing by his earlier testimony, the captain of the SS Capricorn says his oil tanker was correctly navigating the Tampa Bay channel Jan. 28 when it collided with the Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn. Capt. George McShea contended Seminar on safety is set for Delmar The third annual Delmarva Safety Seminar is scheduled for tomorrow at the Del-Mar-Va Convention Hall in Delmar, Md. The program will emphasize occupational safety and health problems in the work place.

It is being sponsored by the Delaware Cooperative Extension Service in cooperation with the Delmarva Safety Association, Delmarva Poultry Industry and the Maryland extension service. Beachfront house destroyed by fire BETHANY BEACH Fire officials say a beachfront house in Sea Del Estates off Delaware was destroyed by fire last night. Deputy State Fire Marshal Ralph Banks was investigating the cause of the fire today. Volunteers from the Bethany Beach, Millville, and Roxana fire companies were called to fight the fire about 6:30 last night, but the house was engulfed in flames when they arrived. Officials weren't sure today who owned the house.

yesterday the Capricorn was in the correct part of the shipping channel near the Sunshine Skyway bridge and said the cutter cut into his ship. Coast Guard crewmen have testified that the Capricorn cut into the Blackthorn as the two ships tried to pass in the night. Members of the Capricorn's crew who were on watch when the ships collided have yet to testify before a Marine Board of Inquiry investigating the worst peacetime disaster in Coast Guard history. The Blackwithin seconds of the collision, taking 23 seamen to their death. Under questioning from members of the board, McShea, a graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy, told attorneys his instructions to Capricorn lookouts were to report "any small craft and dimly lit vessels." Lawyer Jerome Flanagan, who represents Blackthorn skipper Lt.

Cmdr. George J. Sepel, asked whether the Blackthorn would be considered a "large" ship and therefore unnecessary to report. McShea said, "It would be a ship, correct." McShea also praised the actions of harbor pilot Harry Eugene Knight, who was guiding the tanker into port. "I told him I thought he did everything possible," McShea testified.

The captain testified that a Soviet cruise ship which passed the Capricorn heading out to sea was "lit up like a Christmas tree," but had only a "minimal effect" on his vision. Before the hearing, board members visited the drydock where the Blackthorn is resting to survey underwater damage to the cutter's hull. But Rear Adm. Norman Venzke, chairman of the inquiry board, said the trip was not very informative because most of the damage was above the waterline and the board had already seen it. Man, crippled son take their own lives By Jerry Hager Staff writer A 71-year-old man, weakened by three battles with cancer, and his handicapped son were found dead in the garage of their home at 705 Edgemoor Road yesterday morning.

A state police spokesman said Dennis M. Hughes and his son, Robert, 48, took their own lives. Cpl. Barry I. Beck said the men apparently died of carbon monoxide poisoning less than 12 hours before they were found.

The medical examiner's office will do autopsies. The father and son were found shortly before 11 a.m. by state and county police who were called to the home by Herman Hughes, Dennis Hughes' brother, who had gone to the house to check on the men. Beck said the car had been running, and the men were sitting in the garage next to it. Investigators found a suicide note, but wouldn't disclose what it said.

Dennis Hughes was the brother of state Sen. Charles M. "Pete" Hughes of Silverside Heights. Sen. Hughes said both his 1 brother and his nephew were depressed.

His brother's wife, Doris, had been in the hospital for about a month, recovering from second heart attack. Dennis Hughes was frail from three bouts with can- cer. He and his wife had cared for their son, who had been confined to a wheelchair throughout his life. Because of his own health problems, Dennis Hughes decided to send his son some place where he could be cared for, the senator said. "He couldn't cope with lifting his son out of the wheelchair.

I talked to him Thursday. He had put the son in a health care facility, which I'm not going to name right now. He told me his son wasn't treated properly. He said his son was abused and insulted. He had never been put in such a facility and wasn't used to it.

Both became depressed," Hughes said last night. "It was a life that apparently they couldn't cope with." He said his brother brought the handicapped son home after only a day. The elder Hughes had retired as a detective from the Wilmington police force in the 1950s. After that he worked for about 10 years in general services department of the Du Pont Co. before his deteriorating health forced him to leave.

Besides his wife, who was listed in fair condition in Delaware Division today, and his two brothers, the elder Mr. Hughes is survived by four sisters, Clara Hall, Irene 1 Floyd, Helen Hallam, and Alma Loveless, all of New Castle County..