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July 31, 2006 THE BAXTER BULLETIN, Mountain Home, Ark. Page 3A ALEDO Donald Jay Bertel, 80, a retired professional civil engineer, died Friday, July 28, 2006. A celebration of his life will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Aledo, Texas. Burial will be in Annetta Cemetery.

Visitation is from 6-9 p.m. today at Thompson's Harveson Cole Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 3301 W. Freeway, Fort Worth, Texas 76107; The Leukemia Lymphoma Society, 1200 Summit Ave 440, Fort Worth, TX 76102; Carter BloodCare Center, 2205 Highway 121, Fort Worth, Texas 76021; or to a Hospice of your choice. Donald Jay Bertel, 80 Mr.

Bertel was born May 21, 1926 in Brentwood, to Benedict and Viola (Becker) Bertel, the youngest of four children. He attended Brentwood schools, served in the U.S. Navy at the close of World War II and graduated from Rolla School of Mines and Metallurgy with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. Mr. Bertel was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Dorothy Witte; and nephew, Gene Witte.

Survivors include his wife, Carole; sons, Richard and Ronald of Ft. Worth; daughter, Donna Barker and her husband, Joel Eagle, Idaho; grandchildren, Chris Bertel and his wife, Wendy of Keller, Rhonda, Courtney and Robert Bertel of Fort Worth, and Christopher and Jeffrey Barker of Eagle, Idaho; his brother, Vernon Bertel and his wife Merle; sister, Ruth Carty and her husband, Bob, all of Mountain Home; mother-in-law, Dorothy Lang- ley of Aledo; and several nieces and nephews. Charlene Ann Blackburn, 93 Charlene Ann Blackburn, 93, of Mountain Home passed away Saturday, July 29, 2006 in Mountain Home. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug.

1, 2006 at the Roller Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Kenneth Taglauer officiating. Visitation will be held Tuesday from 10 a.m. until service time. Interment will be in Baxter Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Area Art Club, art department at ASUMH or Hospice of the Ozarks.

Mrs. Blackburn was born November 27, 1912 in Kansas City, to the late Charles T. and Grace A. (Freestone) McDaniel. She married Fred Blackburn Sr.

Feb. 14, 1935 in Kansas City, and they moved to Mountain Home in 1944. She was the cofounder of Blackburn Ranch and Resort on Lake Norfork and the Blackburn Real Estate Company. She was a member of the Area Art Club and East Oakland PTA. She also was a Cub Scout den mother and Sunday school teacher.

OBITUARIES Mrs. Blackburn is survived by one son; Fred D. Blackburn one granddaughter; Jill L. Blackburn and a cousin Landon C. Viles.

She was preceded in death by her husband Fred Blackburn one daughter Mary Ann Blackburn and one son Charles T. Blackburn. Arrangements are by Roller Funeral Home. Visit our online guestbook at www.rollerfuneralhomes.com. Dorothy Darlene Sanders, 80 A graveside service for Dorothy Darlene Sanders of Mountain Home will be 10 a.m.

Tuesday at Kirby's Tucker Memorial Mausoleum with Dr. Bruce McClendon officiating. Visitation will be p.m. today at Kirby-Boaz Funeral Home. Mrs.

Sanders passed away Thursday, July 27, 2006, at Baxter Regional Medical Center. She was 80. She was born May 25, 1926, at Heartha, to John and Anna Torreyson Stienmitz. She graduated as a registered nurse in 1947 from The Research School of Nursing in Kansas City, Mo. She married Nield J.

Sanders Oct. 30, 1940, at Kansas City and worked as a scrub tech for a group of neurosurgeons in Kansas City before moving to Arkansas in 1963. She served on the board of directors at Baxter Regional Medical Center and the board of directors at Twin Lakes Golf Club. She was an avid golfer and bridge player. She is survived by her sister, Doris Shields of Kansas City, and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers and one sister. Memorials may be made to Baxter Regional Medical Center Foundation or American Cancer Society. Arrangements are by Kirby-Boaz Funeral Directors. Visit an online obituary and guestbook at www.kirbyboaz.com. John Garrabrant, 75 A gathering of friends for John Garrabrant, 75, of Mountain Home will be noon today at St.

Peter The Fisherman Catholic Church hall. Mr. Garrabrandt died Thursday, July 27, 2006. He is survived locally by his wife, Carol Garranbrandt. Arrangements are by Roller Funeral Home.

Alice Ann Anderson, 60 Arrangements for Alice Ann Anderson, 60, of Mountain Home are pending at Roller Funeral Home. Mrs. Anderson died Saturday, July 29, 2006. Cooper Butt, 89 Arrangements for Cooper Butt, 89, of Mountain Home are pending at Roller Funeral Home. Cooper Butt died Friday, July 28, 2006.

Tennessee woman thrown from roller coaster HOT SPRINGS (AP) A Tennessee woman was is sta-. ble condition after she fell from an amusement park roller coaster in Arkansas. Felicia Robinson, 45, of Memphis fell about 15 feet from the Magic Springs Crystal Falls ride called Twist and Shout on Saturday afternoon, police said. She was taken to a local hospital and was listed in stable condition. As the ride came around a curve, the centrifugal force pushed Robinson out of the car, police said.

Magic Springs officials said Robinson fell about 10 feet, and they said the rides are safe. The accident was the first since the park reopened under new ownership in 2000, General Manager Jackie Arrison said. "I think the rides at the park are very safe, and I would think that fact that there have been no safety incidents prior to today speaks for the safety of the park," Arrison said Saturday. Rides are inspected each day before the park opens, according to officials. The Twist and Shout was inspected Saturday morning and was found to be in good operating condition, Arrison said.

Park officials said the Arkansas Department of Labor would inspect the ride before the ride would be reopened. The park has more than 51 rides and attractions, including six roller coasters. The tallest point of Twist and Shout is 15 feet. The roller coaster takes corners, drops down and goes up hills, but it has no loops, Arrison said. More states give shoppers tax-free holiday KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

(AP) With toddler Maggie on her hip and young Elijah at her hand, Sherry Stephenson looked through the aisles of colorful notebooks and binders at School Office Art Supply. They were picking up a few things for 7-year-old Elijah's first day of school, still a few weeks away. But they were going to wait to buy the big-ticket item, his school uniforms, on Aug. 4-6 Tennessee's first sales tax holiday. "I think it sounds swell," Stephenson said, "because we usually end up spending quite a lot of money on school supplies.

Every little bit helps." Thirteen states and Washington, D.C., have sales tax holidays pegged to back-to-school shopping. Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia: are new this year, and Maryland is offering a tax break again for the first time since 2001. The other sales tax holiday states are Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Missouri, New Donald Jay Bertel Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. New York, the first state to offer a sales tax holiday in 1997, switched in 2000 to a permanent sales tax exemption on clothing and shoes under $110. Most holidays fall on the first weekend in August and apply to moderately priced clothing, school supplies and sometimes computers.

They are wildly popular merchants say they boost sales, politicians say they give working families a tax break, and consumers say they can save hundreds of dollars. But the overall benefits are hard to quantify, and some critics consider the tax strategy little more than a gimmick. "Sales tax holidays are tremendously successful," said Craig Shearman, spokesman for the National Retail Federation. He has heard of sales gains of 10 percent to 100 percent during these holiday periods, but believes the actual number is somewhere in between. Everything Each! Summer Go Must 6 Hurry In For At Best Clearance: Cloud 9 Sleep shop bed bath baby furniture boutique For consumers, the holidays may have a significance greater than any actual savings.

It's the idea simply of "not paying sales tax," Shearman said. "Americans have hated paying taxes all the way back to the Boston Tea Party." Laurie Peterson Aldrich, president of the Virginia Retail Merchants Association, expects her state's sales tax holiday, also Aug. 4-6, will be an instant hit despite the relatively modest savings. "It is one of those things you always have to pay, and suddenly you're getting one over the government and you're not having to pay it," she said. Verenda Smith, spokeswoman for the Federation of Tax Administrators, said a psychological element is at work.

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