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THE HAYS DAILY NEWS FOR THE RECORD WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2005 Albert L. Terry Albert L. Terry, 86, Russell, formerly of Waldo, died Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at Russell Regional Hospital. He was born June 5, 1919, near Waldo to Lester Uriah CO and Anna Marie (Bodmer) Terry. He was a U.S.

Army veteran of World War Il. He married Mildred Catherine Hall on Oct. 19, 1945, in Baltimore. He was a farmer-stockman and was a blade operator for Paradise Township. He retired in 2002.

Survivors include his wife, of the home; a brother, Earle Terry, rural Waldo; and a sister, Frances Matheson, Russell. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Waldo United Methodist Church in Waldo; burial in the Grand Center Cemetery near Waldo. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Thursday at the Pohlman-Heise Mortuary, Russell. Memorials are suggested to the Waldo United Methodist Church or the Waldo Senior Center and in care of the mortuary. Dorothea N. Dreiling Dorothea N. Dreiling, 83, Hays, died Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at her home.

She was born Jan. 16, 1922, in rural Graham County to Guy G. and Edna (Mummert) Blakely. She graduated from Trego Community High School and received her teaching certificate from Fort Hays State University. She taught In a one-room school.

She married Alfred Dreiling on Feb. 20, 1944, in Los Angeles. She was an avid volunteer and devoted crafter. She was a member of the St. Therese Altar and Rosary Society and a member of the St.

Therese Parish Council, both in Aurora, Colo. She was a member of the YWCA in Denver and the Arch Diocese Deanery Council of Denver, She was a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Altar Society Christian Mothers, VFW Auxiliary, St. John's of Hays Auxiliary, Hays Medical Center Auxiliary and volunteered at Hays Senior Center, all in Hays. Survivors include her husband, of the home; two sons, James Dreiling, Columbia, S.C., and Larry Dreiling, Hays; a daughter, Donna Jeanne Ayala, Watkins, a brother, Beverly Blakely, East Providence, R.I.; two sisters. Norma Seibel, Oakley, and Patricia Beeby, Plano, Texas; and seven grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers. John Blakely and Ed Blakely. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church; burial in the Christ the King Cemetery, WaKeeney. There will be a combined Hays Medical Center Auxiliary rosary, Altar Society Christian Mothers' rosary, VFW Auxiliary rosary and a St.

John's of Hays rosary at 5 p.m. Friday followed by the parish vigil service at 6:30 p.m. at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 20th and Fine. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 to 9:45 a.m.

Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the Dreiling-Schmidt Cancer Center in Hays or the Multiple Myeloma Association. Kevin Burns Foulke Kevin Burns Foulke, 37, Denver, died Monday, June 6, 2005, at his home. He was born Aug. 4, 1967, in Ottumwa, lowa, to Jerry and Penny Foulke.

He graduated from Ness City High School in 1985. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He was employed at the V.A. Hospital in Denver and was studying to become an X-ray technician.

Survivors include his father, Stockton; his mother, Ness City; a brother, Troy Bean, Englewood, four sisters, Susan L. Rupp, Ness City, Michell Wall, Russell, Amy Hagans, Ness City, and Jill Foulke, Orlando, and his grandmother, Katherine 1 E. While, Minneapolis. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Kansas Veterans Cemetery, WaKeeney.

Fitzgerald Funeral Home, Ness City, is handling arrangements. Memorials are suggested to New Chance 2500 E. Wyatt Earp PO Box 43, Dodge City, KS 67801 or Denver Rescue Mission, 1130 Park Denver, CO 80205. Walter B. Hart Jr.

Walter B. Hart 66, Cambridge, died Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at Hammond-Henry Hospital, Geneseo, Ill. He was born Nov. 28, 1938, in Rock Island, to Walter Sr. and Evelyn (Duncan) Hart.

He married Kathryn Knieling on July 24, 1966, in Ellis. He worked at John Deere Maleable Works, Hydraxtor, Marley Pump Allied Farm Equipment and Penberthy, retiring in 2004. Survivors include his wife; a son, Steven Hart and wife, Tyna, Cambridge; a daughter, Dawn Seabloom and husband, Steven, Woodhull, his mother, Silvis, a brother, Larry Hart and wife Nina, Milan, two sisters, Nancy Ball and husband, Bob, Colona, and Jeanette Claussen and husband, Kent, Mahomet, his mother-in-law, Alberta Knieling, Ellis; grandchildren, Erika and Andrea Seabloom and Wiley Hart; and several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. Memorial services were May 21 at Stockhouse-Moore Funeral Services, Cambridge. Condolence cards can be sent to Kathy Hart at 207 E.

Upper Cambridge, IL 61238. Mary Lou Franklin Mary Lou Franklin, 82, Goodland, died Sunday, June 5, 2005. She was born Mary Lou Wilshire on Nov. 30, 1922, in Collinsville, Ill. Survivors include a son, Mark Franklin, Castle Rock, two daughters, Susan Franklin, Littleton, and Patrice Henden, Albuquerque, N.M.; a brother, Vincent Wilshire of Belleville, 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Wilbert Franklin, and her second husband, Ralph Boyington. Services will be at 10 a.m. Mountain time Thursday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Goodland. A vigil service will be at 6:30 p.m. Mountain time today at Koons Chapel, Goodland.

Visitation will be from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Mountain time today at the funera) home. Memorials are suggested to the Mary Lou Franklin Memorial. Mary Margaret Fehrenbach Mary Margaret Fehrenbach, 89, Ness City, died Monday, June 6, 2005, at the Ness County Long Term Care, Ness City, She was born June 9, 1915, at Blessing, Texas, to Vinzenz and Emma (Beck) Fehrenbach. She was a homemaker and lived in Ness County since 1919.

Survivors include three brothers, Carl Fehrenbach and Frank Fehrenbach, both of Ness City, and Thomas Fehrenbach, El Dorado. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Ness City; burial in St. Ignatius Cemetery, Nonchalanta. Visitation will be until 9 p.m.

Alberta F. McCall, 92, Norton, died Saturday, June 4, 2005, at the Andbe Home, Norton. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Enfield Funeral Home, Norton; burial in the Norton Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 8:30 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Dorothy Lee Kasper, 73, Raymore, formerly of Russell, died Saturday, April 16, 2005, at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Russell City Cemetery. Heise Mortuary, Russell, is in charge of arrangements.

Elleen McChristian, 88, La Crosse, died Sunday, June 5, 2005, at her home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at United Methodist Church, La Crosse; burial in La Crosse City Cemetery. Visitation will be until 8 p.m. today at Janousek Funeral Home, La Crosse, with the family present to greet friends from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

VIsitation will be from 9:30 to 10:20 a.m. Thursday at the church. today and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Fitzgerald Funeral Home, Ness City.

A parish vigil will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, in care of the funeral home. Ivan H. 'Swede' Fiene Ivan H.

'Swede' Fiene, 85, died Monday, June 6, 2005, at Smith County Memorial Hospital, Smith Center. He was born Nov. 12, 1919, in Smith County to August "Gus" and Georgia Belle (Courton) Fiene. He married Elsie F. Wehe on Nov.

11, 1945, north of Kensington. He was a farmer. Survivors include his wife, Kensington; three daughters, Cheryl Synoground, Athol, Sharon Reed, Jenks, and Jeannie Montgomery, St. Louis; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Friday at First St. John Lutheran Church, Kensington; burial in the Myer Cemetery, Athol. Visitation will be until 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thursday at Simmons-OlliffBoeve Chapel, Smith Center, and until 10 a.m. Friday at the church. Memorials are suggested to the church. Debra K. Albers Debra K.

Albers, 40, Muncie, died Sunday, June 5, 2005, at Ball Memorial Hospital. She was born in Pittsburg on Sept. 8, 1964, to Gene and Betty (O'Hara) Cunningham. Debra graduated from Chanute High School and Neosho County Community College. She attended Emporia State University and received her master's degree in speech- language pathology from North Eastern State University in Tahlequah, in 1996.

She moved to Muncie in 1996 and began working as a speech therapist at Ball Memorial Hospital. She left the hospital and began working as a self-employed Speech Pathologist for area nursing homes in 2000. She was a member of the Union Chapel United Methodist Church. She also enjoyed cooking. Survivors include her husband, John D.

Albers, Muncie; her parents, Betty and Gene Cunningham, Chanute; two daughters, Erin Faith Albers and Grace Elizabeth Albers; a brother, Steve Cunningham and wife, Lisa, Olathe; a sister, Brenda Swayne SERVICES Alice F. Geyer, 91, WaKeeney, died Sunday, June 5, 2005, at Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, WaKeeney; burial in WaKeeney City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

today at Schmitt Funeral Home, WaKeeney, with the family present to greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Ronald Wade Peacock, 57, Zurich, died Friday, June 3, 2005, at his home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Vine Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas; graveside services to follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Odessa, OBITUARY POLICY The Hays Dally News will pubWish a basic, standard obituary free of for people with direct ties to the newspaper's circulation area. If survivors desire to add informalion to an obituary, they may do so for an additional charge.

Completely custom obituaries are handled as paid advertising. For more information, call (785) 628-1081. and husband, Dr. Marlyn, Hays; and several aunts, uncles and nieces and nephews. Services will be at 4:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Union Chapel United Methodist Church. Visitation will be until 2:30 p.m. at the church. The Meeks Mortuary and Crematory, Muncie, is in charge of arrangements. A memorial service and rosary will be recited at 11 a.m.

Monday at the Penwell-GabelGibson Chapel, 16 N. Forest, Chanute, KS 66720. Graveside ser. vices will follow in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Parsons at 2 p.m. Monday.

Memorials are suggested to The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Dept. 95, P.O. Box 6069, Indianapolis, IN 46206-6069 or to the Union Chapel United Methodist Church, 4622 N. Broadway, Muncie, IN 47303.

Dorothy Dawn Crumbaker Dorothy Dawn Crumbaker, 89, Brewster, died Monday, June 6, 2005, at Prairie Senior Living Center, Colby. She was born June 3, 1916, in Eureka Valley near Manhattan to Jesse A. and Mary "Pauline" Stagg. She graduated from Manhattan High School in 1934 and Kansas State University in 1938 with a degree in home economics. She taught home economics at Gardner High School.

She married Don E. Crumbaker on May 22, 1942, at the family home in Eureka Valley. The family moved to Colby in 1946 and to a farm south of Brewster in 1950. She enjoyed following the school and church activities of her children. She enjoyed bridge clubs, Shakespeare and Beta Federated Clubs.

Survivors include a son, Ray Crumbaker and wife, Linda, Lindsborg; two daughters, JoAnn Daniels and husband, Marvin, Liberal, and Jane Keck, Colby; two sisters, Helen Glotzbach, Minneapolis, and Pat Andres, Alta Vista; 11 grandchildren; and 14 greatgrandchildren, She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and a sister Marguerite Shandy. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Brewster United Methodist Church; burial in the Brewster Cemetery, Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Kersenbrock Funeral Chapel, Colby. Memorials are suggested in her name to be designated at a later date and can be left in care of the funeral chapel or Farmers Bank Trust, Brewster.

Military prosecutors: Protecting drug trade was motive in homicide FORT RILEY Despite a clouded memory caused by war and drug use, Sgt. Eric Colvin says he can recall watching his friend gun down two people on the night of Sept. 13, 2004. Colvin testified Tuesday during a court martial that he watched Sgt. Aaron Stanley shoot and kill Staff Sgt.

Matthew Werner, 30, of Oxnard, and Spc. Christopher D. Hymer, 23, of Nevada, at Stanley's farmhouse in Clay Center, about 30 miles west of Fort Riley Now, clean of drugs and facing murder and conspiracy charges, Colvin acknowledged that he hoped to clear his name by taking the stand against Stanley, who faces two counts of premeditated murder. "There are certain parts that are hazy," said Colvin, 23, of Papillion, who testifled under a plea agreement with prosecutors. ELLIS: Barbecue offered to first 300 visitors CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 Events will be at Walter P.

Chrysler Park on both days, beginning with the opening of the Riverfest beer and merchandise booths at 4 p.m. The museum and Ellis Chamber of Commerce will serve barbecue to the first 300 visitors at 5:30 p.m., sponsored by Midwest Energy, the museum and Golden Belt Telephone. Riverfest food booths open at 6:30 p.m. Other events that evening include the crowning of the Chrysler King and Queen at 7 p.m., followed by the um's tion of the marble monument at the park. The band No Parking will entertain at 8.

p.m., presented. by Lewis Ellis Riverfest Chrysler celebration 6th Cottonwood Dorrance -Chrysler To Hays via Chrysler Old U.S. 40 Boyhood Home Chrysler, for the official kickoff. Saturday will be a full day of events. From 9 a.m.

until 5 p.m., Passport to Ellis tickets can be picked up at Southridge Redevelopment, the corner of 19th and Monroe streets. If the passports are validated at all four Ellis locations the campgrounds, Southridge, Chrysler Boyhood Home and the Ellis Main Street booth are visited by 5 p.m. and the card is returned to the Ellis Main Street Inc. booth by 7 p.m., the card will be entered in a draw. ing.

The grand prize is $1,000 cash, with other prizes of $500 cash and a mystery prize. Riverfest and Chrysler Museum events will begin at 9:30 a.m. with the museum's Mopar Classic Parade. Parade entries will include Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge and Jeep model cars and trucks, along with floats. At least 100 cars are expected.

Riverfest booths open at 10 a.m. The Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home will be rededicated to the citizens of Ellis at 11 a.m. During the rededication, Chrysler's great Frank Rhodes, will give personal testimonials. A ground-breaking for the car museum addition is also scheduled at this time, as well as the Ellis Recreation Commission's Riverfest Conquer the Courts three-on-three basketball tournament.

An Ellis Main Street welcoming ceremony will begin at noon. Noon is also the deadline to register for the kid's Wild West Fest Karaoke Contest for children ages 17 and under. Warm-ups begin an hour later, and the qualifying contest will be at 2 p.m. The adult registration deadline for the contest is 4 p.m. Warm-ups will follow and the contest begins an hour later.

Lewis Chrysler is presenting the band Common Ground at 8 p.m. for the evening entertainment. The Ellis Passport drawing will also be held. The Ellis Main Street Inc. and Ellis United Methodist Church Kids Activity Corner, funded by Auto World of Hays, takes place at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m.

and 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Midwest Energy will put on high voltage safety demonstrations at 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Badges are $1, and badge numbers will be called out for door prizes all day long. Reporter Stacie R.

Sandall can be reached at (785) 628-1081, ext. 136, or by e-mail at JAZZ: Weekend serve as fund-raiser CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 been choreographed to the tune of "I Hate to See That Evening This weekend's jazz and blues Sun Go Down," a favorite of Vanfestival will be one of the histor- Duvall's. ical society's biggest fund Ernestine VanDuvall died just ers, according to Bates. two weeks before last year's festiKicking off this year's cele- val, but she has been a namesake bration will be the Nicodemus for the Ernestine's Bar-B-Q that First Baptist Church choir, was the impetus for starting the which will provide an hour of festival. gospel music.

This year, Bates said she is This years event will include turning over preparation of the BMW Brothers Making Waves barbecue ribs to Tom. Lovewell, a group that is based in the owner of the new House of Fire Kansas City area and Mud Bone, Pit Bar-B-Que that is being built an acoustical blues band from north of Interstate 70 off of Vine Hays. Street. The event will also feature Lovewell is working with jazz vocalists SueAnn Stutheit Bates and will be using Ernesand Ed Bethea. Big John and the tine's rib rub and sauce for the 39th Street Blues Band also will festival.

appear. Tickets are $8 in advance and There will also be a special $10 at the door. In Hays, they can dance performance by Ernestine be purchased at Coors. VanDuvall's great niece, Managing editor Mike Corn can Monique Jones, a professional be reached at (785) 628-1081, ext. dancer from Los Angeles.

She 129, or by e-mail at will perform a routine that has FHSU: Online offers mixed bag CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 Huang-Fu, who's taking an online course in conflict manageMartin said teaching online ment, also prefers to interact facecourses is a mixed bag, to-face with his instructors. "It's convenient as heck for me. When he graduates in July, I can teach it from home if I Huang-Fu's going to teach at SIAS want," said Martin, who prefers International University of Busito teach from campus because of ness and Management in China, a the faster Internet connection. partner school of FHSU. But first, But at the same time, conve- he's got to get through this class.

nience doesn't necessarily mean "It's my first time to take an less work. online course and it's really have to interact with all ferent," Huang.Fu said. "It's a lit50 of them individually via e-mail tie bit hard for an international or via discussion board more of- student." ten than you do in a classroom Reporter Joseph Galante can be where you have the ability to re- reached at (785) 628-1081, ext. 139, the lesson to all 35 of them at or by e-mail late at once," Martin said. Stocks Stocks higher, oil lower NEW YORK (AP) Positive Dow Jones industrial average company news gave stocks a rose 42.49, or 0.4 percent, to moderate lift today, as Tracinda 10,525.56, Corp.

carried out a plan to sub- The broader gauges also adstantially raise its stake in Gen- vanced. The Standard Poor's eral Motors Corp. and Texas In- 500 index was up 3.82, or 0.32 peroutlook, struments Inc. issued a brighter cent, at 1,201.08. The Nasdaq combut higher oil prices posite index advanced 4.64, or 0.2 muted the market's advance.

percent, to 2,071.80, after In early afternoon trading, the sliding into negative range. briefly By JOHN MILBURN ASSOCIATED PRESS "But I have a good assessment of what did edged shooting Werner and Hymer, but his athappen." torneys contend he did so to defend himself The post hasn't decided whether Colvin and Colvin, In previous proceedings, Stanwill face a court martial. Officials haven't ley's attorneys have attempted to portray made public details of Colvin's agreement Colvin as the leader of the drug trafficking with prosecutors. operation. "It's a tragedy that two men lost their In his testimony, Colvin acknowledged that lives," Colvin said.

"This is the way that jus- he suffered from post traumatic stress disortice will be brought to the families." der, which is brought on by traumatic experiThis morning, crime scene investigator ences such as combat and can cause psychoAlexander Jason testified that Colvin's story logical problems, including flashbacks and was consistent with evidence found at the memory loss. He said he was hospitalized durcrime scene. ing April 2004, after returning from a tour in Jason, who has been an investigator for Iraq, and occasionally suffered blackouts durmore than 30 years, spent the morning de- ing periods of stress. scribing the location of shell casings, blood He also admitted using methamphetasplatters, positions of the victims and bullet mines, which he said resulted in him having marks in the kitchen. "a lot of crazy ideas in my mind." Jason was the 14th witness to testify for the During cross examination, Stanley's lead prosecution, which could conclude its case to- attorney, Capt.

Anita Robbins, asked Colvin, day. "After the (plea) deal got better, your memory Stanley, 23, of Bismarck, N.D., has acknowl- got better?" range. 4.

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