Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 6

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1987 BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER Obituaries 67, of 12252 Road, died Thursday at his home. He was born in Parma and lived in the Marshall area all his life. He worked for the former Sherer-Gillett Co. in Marshall and its successor, the former Warren-Sherer Corp. until it closed.

He served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific during World War II. Later, he worked on the water crew for the Marshall Electric Light and Water Department, retiring in January 1986. Owens and his wife worked part time at the TriLake Trailer Park in Marshall during the camping season. He was a life member of Claude E.

Hale Post 4073 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a member of the Moose Lodge 676. He and his wife were avid campers for many years. He was active in Marshall bowling! leagues and was a member of the former Cereal City Four Wheel Drive Club. He enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Emily L.

Pike, who died in 1982 and a brother, Mason who died in 1978. Surviving are a son, Roland "Ron" M. of Marshall; four grandsons; brothers, W. Say Owens and Glen A. Owens, both of Marshall; and sisters, Lila E.

Hyso and Lois Walsh, both of Marshall; Jennie E. Winnans of Battle Creek and Ruth Worthington of Webster, Fla. Services will 2 p.m. Monday at Craig K. Kempf Funeral Home.

Memorial donations may be made to the Michigan Heart Association. Max E. Owens MARSHALL Max E. Owens, Daisy M. Smith Daisy M.

(Cushman) Smith, 69, of 16943 10-Mile Road, died Friday at Marshall Manor after a lengthy illness. She was born in Lee Township and lived in the area all her life, moving to her present address from Marshall in 1960. She was a former waitress at Schuler's in Marshall. She was a kitchen manager at Wattles Park Elementary School, retiring in 1970. She was a member of the First Assembly of God in Battle Creek and was a Sunday school teacher, a member of the women's ministries and a church campground volunteer.

She was a former 4-H leader. She was preceded in death by a son, Gordon Hones; a daughter, Janet Galley; and sisters, Marie Reed and Vila VanArman. Surviving are her husband, Leonard W. Smith; a daughter, Cheryl Ann Smith of 1 Bradenton, a stepson, Leonard W. "Bud" Smith Jr.

of Marshall; stepdaughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Joan) Peterson of Battle Creek and Mrs. Walter (Terry) Arntson of Flint; six grandchildren; brothers, Donald Cushman of Marshall and Seth Cushman of Battle Creek; and sisters, Mrs. Gus (Isabelle) Olson of Palmetto, Mrs. Earl (Hazel) Midlam and 1 Mrs.

DuWayne (Donna) Sundberg, both of Marshall. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Assembly of God in Battle Creek. Memorials donations may be made to the First Assembly of God. Arrangements are by Craig A.

Kempf Funeral Home in Marshall. Fern L. Radee ALBION Fern L. (Benedict) Radee, 71, of 814 N. Ionia died Friday at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids after a lengthy illness.

She was born in Bankers and lived most of her life in Albion. She was a secretary for more than 20 years with Southeastern Michigan Gas Co. in Albion and was a member of the DAR. Surviving are her husband, Elmer; a daughter, Rena Behling Macie of Sparta; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a sister, Doris Saxon of Litchfield. No services are planned.

Arrangements are by Tidd-Williams Funeral Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to the DAR. Dorr E. Robinson Dorr E. Robinson, 84, 256 Laural Drive, died Friday at Mercy Pavilion, where he had been a patient four months.

He was born in Bedford and lived in Dowling, Athens and Battle Creek. He lived in Marshall for six years prior to his illness. He had been employed by Advance Rumley Co. and then Clark Equipment Co. for 24 years.

He retired in 1945 when he began to farm in Athens. He trained and raced trotters and pacers until December. He owned harness-racing horses since 1935 and began racing them in 1946. After his wife, the former Evelyn Bolo, died in 1980, he moved to the Calhoun County Fairgrounds where he continued to horses. He is a life member of the Michigan Harness Horseman's Association, a member of the United States Trotting Association and past master and life member of Bedford Masonic Lodge 207 He is a Past Worthy Patron and Life Member of Bedford Order of the Eastern Star 471.

He is survived by a sister, Vera Blonigan of Battle Creek, brothers, Dayle Robinson of Bedford and Harold M. Robinson of Battle Creek. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Royal Funeral Home. Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society.

Martha R. Packard Martha R. (Osborn) Packard, 60, of Belleair Bluffs, died Wednesday at Largo Medical Center in Largo, Fla. She was born in Battle Creek and graduated from St. Philip Catholic Central 1 High School in 1944.

She moved to Florida in 1981. She is survived by her husband, Damon C. Packard; three sons, Timothy Packard of Detroit, Daniel Packard of Pendleton, and Patrick Packard of San Diego; two daughters, Jane Hunter and Jean both of Battle Creek; 10 grandchildren; four brothers, Patrick Osborn of St. Petersburg, Omar Osborn of Las Vegas, Richard Osborn of San Diego and Maurice Osborn of Battle Creek; three sisters, Mary Fish of Battle Creek, Gertrude Odette of Climax and Margaret Coffman of Hollywood, Fla. Services will be 10 a.m.

Monday at St. Philip Catholic Church. Memorials may be given to the American Heart Association. Arrangements are by Richard A. Henry Funeral Home.

Joseph V. Ortiz ALBION Joseph V. Ortiz, 69, of 1010 Fitch died early Friday at the University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, after a brief illness. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved to Albion in 1935. He served in the U.S.

Army during World War II. He was employed as a sheet metal specialist for Union Steel Products, retiring in 1979. He was a member of St. John's Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus Council 5255, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3672 and DAV Chapter 10. He is survived by his wife, the former Mary C.

Torre; a daughter, Gera A. Wade of Kalamazoo; a son, Gerard J. Ortiz of Albion; three grandchildren; brothers, Pete and Felix Ortiz Jr. of San Antonio; sisters, Vera, Lupe, Delthina and Tony of San Antonio and Sophia of Pontiac. Services will be 11 a.m.

Monday at St. John's Catholic Church. Arrangements are by Tidd-Williams Funeral Chapel. Coston Jeannette C. Coston, 87, 24 N.

28th died Friday at Community Hospital. Arrangements are pending at Richard A. Henry Funeral Home. Flights to aid farmers By ELAINE KULHANEK Assistant City The Battle Creek Balloon Club is organizing participants for the Great Balloon Lift for Farmers on May 16, a national effort to raise money for farmers facing foreclosure. People who donate $100 to the cause will receive a balloon ride in the Battle Creek area.

Pilots will donate their services. The Balloon Federation of America is sponsoring the lift as a thankyou to farmers for allowing balloonists to launch from and land on their individual properties. Terry Elliot, local organizer, said he thinks that at least 20 of the club's 32 pilots will participate. The national fund-raising goal is $250,000, which will be issued in increments of $50,000 to farmers facing foreclosure who are chosen from a lottery. Lori Greenstein, a BFA spokeswoman, said she is working with organizations that help farmers in crisis to set lists of names for the lottery.

She did not yet know if any from Michigan would be included. Elliot said the $100 donation set by the Battle Creek club is a bargain for a passenger, since most commer- Photo by Singleton Up close and personal William, left, and Sherina Glover were eyeball to camera lens Friday as they checked out a photographer making Men's bodies found in capsized The Associated Press Divers found the bodies Friday of two Michigan men who drowned a week ago when the dredge they were riding on capsized and sunk in Lake Michigan, officials said. When the dredge capsized early Sunday morning, authorities believed the two men had donned life jackets, tied themselves together and jumped into the frigid lake, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Donald Jarman of the Milwaukee unit. But Jarman said divers working Dem expected to The Associated Press LANSING Four years ago, leaders of the state Democratic Party devised a system for selecting national convention delegates that drew bitter complaints and court This time around, fewer fireworks are expected.

The presidential delegate selection plan that is to be considered today by the Democratic State Central Committee backs away from the controversies of 1984, when candidate Jesse Jackson condemned Michigan's process as "official backroom politics" and unsuccessfully challenged it in court. Party leaders will be asked to 2 indicted over drug The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS A federal grand jury has indicted an attorney and a businessman on charges they conspired to conceal the businessman's alleged drug sales income from the Internal Revenue Service, Hart outpolls Republicans The Associated Press LANSING Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart made a strong showing against leading Republican presidential hopefuls in a poll of Michigan voters released Friday. Lansing-based Marketing Resource Group Inc.

conducted a random statewide telephone survey. Democrat Hart ranked ahead of Vice President George Bush, 49 percent to 30 percent; U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, 48-29; U.S. Rep.

Jack Kemp, 51 percent; and television evangelist Pat Robertson, 68 percent. Courts Three men charged in connection with burglaries have been bound over to Calhoun Circuit Court. Scott D. Hammock, 18, of Greentree Apartments, waived examination and is to be arraigned April 20 on two counts of breaking and entering. John Dowd, 19, of 34 Elm is to be arraigned April 24 on two counts of breaking and entering.

Christopher A. Young, 19, of 1054 N. Wattles Road, has a pretrial hearing scheduled April 24 before Calhoun Circuit Judge Stephen B. 1 Miller. He is charged with concealing and receiving stolen property over $100, not breaking and entering as previously reported.

Young, also charged in Calhoun County with malicious destruction of property, faces a pretrial hearing May 4, and faces a charge of one count of breaking and entering in Kalamazoo County where a preliminary exam is scheduled Thursday. 3 HOME CUSTODIAL INTERMEDIATE SKILLED CARE The Also Life Insurance up to 85 years old with no physical exam. All Perms of Health and Decker Insurance 118 S. Cattle Creek PHONE 069-1788 Bill would protect wilderness: Sen. Carl Levin, introduced legislation Friday to set aside 83,000 acres of national forest in Michigan as federally protected wilderness where commercial development would be banned.

Similar legislation, which would designate 92,000 acres of Michigan wilderness, passed the House carlier in the week. The Housepassed bill would set aside 11 wilderness areas in the state, 10 of them in the Upper Peninsula. The 11th would be the Nordhouse Dunes tract along Lake Michigan. The Senate bill is similar, but does not include two wilderness areas in the Hiawatha National Forest. Help offered as insurers fold: Michigan customers of five California insurance companies will soon get termination notices from insurance officials in that state, says Michigan Insurance Commissioner Herman Coleman.

The policies are being ended because California's Insurance Department has placed the companies in permanent receivership and liquidation. The firms are Mission Insurance Mission National Insurance Mission Reinsurance Enterprise Insurance Co. and Holland. Insurance he said. He said Michigan is cooperating with California and other states to help process claims.

GAO to study Zilwaukee Bridge: The General Accounting Office has agreed to investigate the structural soundness of the Zilwaukee Bridge being built on Interstate 75 in Michigan, Rep. Bill Schuette, said Friday. Schuette requested the investigation earlier this week, saying there were reasonable doubts about whether the bridge is safe in the wake of various reports about potential problems and a 1982 incident in which a segment of the bridge shifted and almost collapsed. No charges slated in abandonment: Charges will not be filed against a young woman who abandoned a newborn girl outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Benton Harbor, Berrien County Prosecutor Paul L. Maloney said.

Maloney said Friday the woman's actions were motivated by fear and panic and not by criminal intent, negating the need for criminal charges. The baby girl appeared to be only a few hours old and about six weeks premature when she was discovered Feb. 25 on the steps of the clinic, authorities said. School officials weigh offer: Pontiac school officials are considering a new offer from Chrysler which is attempting to avoid a lawsuit over use of school taxes for development. The offer would come close to fulfilling a 1985 agreement between Pontiac schools and Auburn Hills.

The agreement limits Pontiac to using half, rather than all, of new school tax dollars for economic development as Chrysler had proposed. Couple, baby die in fire: A young couple and their 9-month-old killed Friday in a fire in their Flint home, officials said. The onestory, single-family dwelling in Genesee County's Flint Township was engulfed when firefighters arrived five minutes after it was reported, Fire Chief Don Rowley said. Police identified the victims as Michael Robert June, 21, his wife, Cynthia Lynn, 18, and daughter, Pennylynn. dredge for the dredge owner, C-Way Construction Co.

Ferrysburg, found the two men's bodies Friday inside the dredge's engine room. He said the dredge, a barge with a crane attached, sank offshore about three miles east of Buffington Harbor, Ind. "Both of them had life jackets on but they were trapped in the engine room," Jarman said. He identified the two men as Richard Lewis, 32, of Spring Lake, and Russel Dahl, 36, of Fruitport. delegate-selection plan reduce friction agree to March 26 as the date for Michigan's 1988 presidential preference caucus.

They also plan to endorse a system for turning caucus votes into 151 delegates and 46 alternates at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. If the caucus date is ratified Saturday, Michigan will secure a niche in the Democratic presidential sweepstakes right behind Illinois but before many other large states. The state party chief said few Democrats took advantage of a 30- day comment period to offer opinions about the proposal for picking Michigan's national convention delegation. earnings officials said Friday. Kalamazoo attorney Joseph J.

Jerkins, who had been an FBI agent from 1960 to 1961, and Traverse City businessman Matthew J. Myers were indicted Thursday, said U.S. Attorney John Smietanka. Compiled from The Associated Press About Town Computer club to meet The Mar-Creek Apple Macintosh Club will hold a question-and-answer session from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Willard Library.

SIGI, the library's computerized career guidance system, will be demonstrated by Stephen Ohs, club president. SIGI may be used by the public free of charge, but use time must be reserved in advance. Historical group to gather: The Albion Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Naomi Lane Room at Albion Public Library. Craig Hoernschemeyer of Albion Downtown will speak on the architectural history of Albion.

Stress workshop scheduled: Stress and single parents will be the topic of a free workshop for single parents from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Kellogg Community College Quiet Dining Room. The workshop is sponsored by the Community Action Agency of Southcentral Michigan and KCC Single Parents Support Project. Police and Fire Fire damages apartment: A fire at 7:04 p.m. Friday caused $3,500 damage to a kitchen in an Brewer St.

Battle Creek firefighters was cooking when, grease caught fire. apartment at Forest Hills Apartments, 118 said the occupant, Fred Cunningham, No injuries were reported. cial pilots give individual rides for $125 to $150. He said balloons will not launch from a common site, but will spread throughout the Battle Creek area so they will be visible to more residents. Rain date for the event is May 17.

People interested in riding can contact Elliot at 965-4723, contact a member pilot, or write the balloon club at P.O. Box 1166, Battle Creek, 49016. The BFA balloon lift also is accepting donations from the public. Checks payable to the Balloon Federation -of America can be sent to The Great Balloon Lift for Farmers, 839 Country Heights Court, Manchester, Mo. 63021.

Set It Straight The former' Myrtle DePlanche, wife of Frederick D. Johnson, died in 1980. Her name was incorrect in the obituary Friday for Johnson. His surviving brother, Lawrence, lives in Flint. His hometown was incorrect.

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