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TIMES-ADVOCATE, Escondido. Tuesday. Apr. 6, 1982 C3 Obituaries Navy Chaplin Joe Fraser will officiate. Burial will be In El Camino Memorial Park.

Poway-Bemardo Mortuary Is in charge of arrangements. Viola G. Walton POWAY Viola G. Walton, a nurse active In Scouting organizations, died Sunday at a San Diego convalescent hospital. She was 59.

Bom in Paducah, Mrs. Walton had lived in this area for nine years. She had been employed as a nurse at the Cloisters of the Valley Hospital for eight years. Mrs. Walton had been active in Boy and Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls for 35 years.

She was a Cub Scout den leader for Pack 617 In Poway and a member of the San Diego Catholic Scouting Committee. She was also a member of St. Gabriels Catholic Church. She is survived by her husband, Thomas sons, Thomas L. of Michigan, Rodney R.

of San Diego and Patrick L. of Clairemont; daughters, Sheila Jo Nlcol of Poway and Toni Childers of Prescott; four brothers; four sisters; 10 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Gabriels Church.

The Rev. Charles Dollen will officiate. Burial will be In Dearborn Memorial Park. Poway-Bemardo Mortuary is In charge of arrangements. David L.

Swift RAMONA David L. Swift, a retired San Diego County Roads Department foreman, died Saturday at a San Diego convalescent hospital. He was 63. Mr. Swift was bora in Tennessee and lived in California 42 years.

He had resided in Ramona since 1955. Mr. Swift had a private pilots license and was a member of the Quiet Blrdman Club of San Diego. He was a United States Navy veteran of World War n. He Is survived by his wife, Edith; son, Roger of Ramona; daughters, Linda McCallum of Colorado and Kathryn Lessig of Utah; three brothers, all of Tennessee; and three grandchildren.

No formal services are planned. Bonham Brothers Ramona Mortuary is in charge of cremation and scattering arrangements. Felicitas Amador VISTA Felicitas Amador, a homemaker for 59 years, died Monday at a local hospital. She was 81 and a native of Mexico. I She Is survived by her children, Julian and Pedro, both of Vista, Jose of Escondido, Antonia Jamenez of Vista and Jesus Moreno of Mexico; sister, Estfana Rico of Mexico; 39 grandchildren, 51 great-grand children and two great-great-grandchildren.

The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Allen Brothers Chapel. Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis Church.

Father Fernandez will officiate. Allen Brothers Mortuary Is In charge of arrangements. Daniel R. Edwards ORANGE Daniel R. Edwards, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth E. Edwards of Escondido, died Sunday at University of California Medical Center In Irvine. He was 24. He was bom In Palm Springs.

He Is also survived by his brother, Kenneth E. of San Mateo. No formal services are planned. The Telophase Society Is In charge of arrangements. Feliciana Soliz Herrera ESCONDIDO Feliciana Soliz Herrera, a homemaker, died Saturday at a San Diego hospital.

She was 56. She was bom In Alice, Texas and had lived hi Escondido since 1957. She is survived by her husband, Isabel; daughter, Guadalupe C. Glllenberg of San Diego; brother, Edwardo Gonzalez of Escondido; sisters, Aurora Soliz and Victoria Gonzalez, both of Escondido and Gua- dalupe Hernandez of Texas; and four grandchildren. Burial will be In Casa Blanca Cemetery In Sandia, Texas.

The Walker-Mora Funeral Home in Alice, Texas will be In charge of arrangements. Alhlser-Wilson Mortuary Is in charge of local arrangements. Edwin F. Bitler ESCONDIDO Edwin F. Bitler, assistant post- master at the Beverly Hills Post Office for 30 years before retiring, died Sunday at Palomar Memorial Hospital.

He was 79. A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bitler had lived In California 50 years, 14 In San Diego County. He served with the United States Army for five years and was a member of the Army Reserve, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He was a member of Resurrection Catholic Church.

He is survived by his wife, Carol sons, Don of San Diego and Edward of Costa Mesa; 'daughters, Clara Carls of Pennsylvania and Suzanne Wilson of Santa Ana; and 12 grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6:30 until 7:30 tonight at Resurrection Catholic Church. The rosary will be recited at 7 30. Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Wednes- day at the church.

The Rev. Joseph Finnerty will officiate. Burial will be In the Rosecrans National Cemetery at a later date. McLeod Mortuary Is In charge of arrangements. Chester G.

'Chet' Woods ESCONDIDO Chester G. "Chet Woods, an electrician employed by Solar Turbine for 18 years, died Sunday at Palcmar Memorial Hospital. He was 64. Mr. Woods was born In Amerstburg, Ontario, Canada and lived In Escondido 29 years.

He was a member of the I.P.E.W. Union and a charter member of the Escondido Moose Lodge. He Is survived by his wife, Gladys sons, Beresford of Valley Center and Douglas of Escondido; daughters, Pamela and Leslie Woods, both of Escondido; brother, Alfred of Michigan; sisters, Mary Rita of Michigan, Eileen Bussey and Mary Louise Brassier, both of Ontario; a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, James and Elsie Rodle, also of Ontario; and six grandchildren. Visitation will be from 4 until 9 p.m. today at the San Marcos Mortuary and Valley Chapel.

Services will be held at the chapel at 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Myron Hetland will officiate. San Marcos Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Javier Ortiz ESCONDIDO Javier Ortiz, a farm laborer employed by the Del Rey Avocado Company In Fall-brook for 10 years, died Friday at a local hospital. He was 37 and a native of Mexico. He Is survived by his wife Teresa of Mexico; sons, Gorje and Jamie, both of Escondido, Fernando and Armando, both of Mexico; daughters, Berta and Teresa Ortiz, both of Mexico; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anastlzio Ortiz of Mexico; two brothers; and five sisters.

The rosary will be recited at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Eternal Hills Chapel. Padre Miguel of the Old Mission San Luis Rey will officiate. Burial will be In Guadalajara Cemetery In Guadalajara. Eternal Hills Mortuary Is In charge of local arrangements.

William McIntosh POWAY William McIntosh, who was serving aboard ship with the United States Navy as an E2-2, died March 27. He was 34 and had been In the Navy for six years. Bom In Chester, he was a resident of Poway for five years. He is survived by his wife, Joan; son Jason and daughter Carrie. Visitation will be from 5 until 9 p.m.

Wednesday at Poway-Bemardo Mortuary. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Miramar Chapel in Mira Mesa. Deaths Elsewhere Ann Richards LOS ANGELES Funeral services for one-time band singer Ann Richards, the former wife of bandleader Stan Kenton, will be Thursday at the All Saints Episcopal Church In Beverly Hills. Miss Richards died from a gunshot wound In the head, the county coroner's offece reported.

She was found last Thursday after her estranged husband, William Botts, became concerned because he had not heard from her In three weeks. She reportedly was despondent over financial problems after her 10-year engagement at the Bel-Air Hotel ended and she was unable to find a new job. Miss Richards learned to play the piano when she was 10 years old, and In 1956 was voted the Downbeat poll No.l band vocalist. She worked with Charlie Barnet and George Redman and In 1955 joined the Kenton band. She and the bandleader were married the same year.

Miss Richards put her career aside upon the births of Dana Kenton and Lance Kenton, but divorced the bandleader In 1961 and later married Botts. Mary Tibbitts WOODLAND (AP) A rosary Is to be recited Tuesday for Mary Tibbitts, a newspaperwoman and publisher in her native Laramie, and North-emn California. Mrs. Tibbitts died Friday of lung cancer at age 67. The first woman editor of the Daily Bulletin In Laramie, Mrs.

Tibbitts was also the advertising manager of two Laramie dallies, and was the Wyoming correspondent for Life magazine for seven years. She and her husband George, who died last December, came to Woodland from Laramie In 1946 and purchased the weekly Woodland Record. For the next 14 years, they and associates operated weekly and daily newspapers in Davis, West Sacramento, Fairfield, Vacaville, Napa, Ukiah, Willits and Fort Bragg, In addition to the Woodland paper. They also founded El Hispano, the first newspaper for Hispanics In Northern California. Philip D.

Brown LOS ANGELES Philip D. Brown, a veteran planner and onetime legislative analyst for the Los Angeles City Council, has died of kidney failure at age 61. Browns clients ranged from the cities of Honolulu to Detroit, and his projects were as diverse as petrochemical complexes In Turkey and electrical plants in Arizona. Most recently he had been a private consultant Involved In the formation of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, the organization charged with the planning and growth of that mountainous area adjacent to Los Angeles. Brown died March 27 in Los Angeles.

John G. Peterson MINNETONKA, Minn. John G. Peterson, a former chairman of the board of Cargill Inc. and an expert on International commodity financing, Is dead at the age of 91.

Peterson died Sunday at his home In Minnetonka. As chairman of Cargill from 1953 to 1956, he played a major role In expanding the Minnetonka-based grain company's domestic and International merchandising services. Born on Saba, a Caribbean island in the Nether-land Antilles, Peterson earned bachelors and masters degrees from Brown University In Providence, R.I. He was a Brown trustee from 1949 to 1954. He joined Cargill in 1933 as vice president of finance after serving as vice president of Chase National Bank In New Tork.

He was elected a Cargill director In 1936. In 1956, Peterson resigned to become chairman of Tradax, Cargills overseas trading affiliate based In Geneva, Switzerland. He retired In 1961. Survivors include his wife, Gladys, a son, John and a daughter, Betty. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon.

Florence Douglas WORLD DANCE CENTER Paid Political Advertisement Whats the Shark That Eats the Park? Proposition One would eat up the citys fine approved plan to enlarge and improve 'X Kit Carson Park and the whole city park system, a plan citizens in Escondido have worked foryears to achieve. Our city is asked to relinquish 772 acres of beauti- ful new park land and wouldn't have the money to maintain and improve whats left. Proposition One is a bad one. The Bad One Vote No on 1 Escondido No on 1 Committee, 213 W. Grand Escondido 92025 Co-Chairs: Howard Kay, Joy C.

Fuenzalida, Joe Ovies Honorary Co-Chairs: Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Mathes.

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Her father, a carpenter, brought her to Vallejo shortly after her birth In San Francisco. At age 18, Florence Hall married Harold Douglas, who took her back across the bay to San Francisco, where she lived until his death In 1955. Mrs. Douglas, Involved In a battery of civic organizations on both sides of the bay, was credited with organizing the first Girl Scout troop In San Francisco. She was a director of the Golden Gate International Exposition, a guest columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, a member of the San Francisco Draft Advisory Board and the Fair Rent Board, and she served 10 years as secretary to the city comptroller.

In 1970, she ran for governor In the Democratic primary, gamering 38,996 votes In losing to Jesse Unruh. She is survived by two daughters, Dorothy Elizabeth Hamby of Redwood City and Florence Isabel Williams of Carmel Valley; one brother, William Hall of Vallejo; sister Maybelle Jarman of Delevan, 8 lx grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Services are pending. Alden H. Sypher WASHINGTON Alden H.

"Bud" Sypher, 75, editor of Nations Business magazine from 1953 to 1964, died of a heart attack Thursday at his home In Long Wood, Fla. FREE HEARING TESTS Escondido Free electronic hearing tests will be given on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5, 6 and 7, from 9 AM to 5 PM at NuEar Hearing Aid Center. hearing test may reveal that newly developed methods of correction will help, even for those who have been told in the past that a hearing aid would not help them. For those wishing the free test but want to avoid waiting, an appointment for a specific day and time may be arranged by phoning 743-5544. These free hearing tests are given for the purpose of making selections and adaptations of electronic hearing instruments.

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