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-7-14V 1 i -4 I 5 1 rug dealer going on trial al OBITUARIES Monday kM June 24 1991 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Section Page 3 )1 -1 -) 7 I 71 1 -in fatal 1988 kidnapping The Associated Press Austi 9 9 ne Hearst 72 wife Gene Smith Bertha Marie Cropper 41 4 Business owner Homemaker i 1 -1 Camacho and three associates were of heir to FORT WORTH newspaper chain COLLEYVILLE -11--nr i DALLAS A former drug king- trying to collect a drug debt )ti pin and Death Row inmate whose After Camacho shot and killed Gene Smith 1 Bertha Marie 4 1 i it 4 1990 murder trial included testimo- Wilburn the federal indictment al- The Assortated Press then publisher of the New York owner of Ma- 4 4 Cropper a home- t- 1 i fly about a woman's body being leges Camacho and Jackson kid- NEW YORK Austine Journal-American onatriparound chine Inc died Sat- maker died Satur- ground by a tree mulcher faces trial napped Evellyn Banks 31 and her McDonnell Hearst a onetime the world Mrs Hearst wrote articles urday at a Decatur -1'- i -7 day at a nursing 1 i this week on federal kidnapping son Andre from the house Washington reporter and society co- based on her interviews with the hospital He was 55 ki home in Fort it )-' married -charges Prosecutors decided not to try Aumnist who the editor in wives of world leaders and women Funeral will at ---4 Worth She was i (' Genaro "Geno" Ruiz Camacho Camacho on murder charges in the chief of the Hearst newspapers died of all classes in the nations they visit- 10 am Tuesday at 101 11-1 1 36 will be tried in the May 1988 deaths of the two victims after he Sunday at a Manhattan hospital ed Bluebonnet Hills Visitation will be i i abduction of a woman and her 3- received the death penalty in Wil- She was 72 For the past 40 years Mrs Hearst Funeral Home in Colleyville Burial from 6 to 8 tonight at Harveson a year-old son who were held for ran- bum's slaying Mrs Hearst who lived in Man- supported and worked for charita- will be in Bluebonnet Hills Memori- Cole Funeral Home Funeral will be Jackson suspected of being part hattan died at Memorial Sloan- ble causes including the Girl Scouts al Park at 11 am Tuesday at Polytechnic som in a drug debt and later shot to dr 'death in a shallow grave near Lake of a Dallas-based marijuana ring Kettering Cancer Center after a long the Audubon Society and the Abi- Mr Smith was born in Lamar United Methodist Church where that Camacho ran fled Dallas after battle with lymphoma said Hearst gail Adams Smith Museum in New County and had lived in Colleyville she was a member Burial will be in Texoma US Attorney Marvin Collins the kidnapping The FBI captured Corp spokesman Jim O'Donnell York for 1 I years Rose Hill Memorial Park Harveson 1 I federal authorities are trying him in January in Los Angeles after Her husband William Randolph She wrote The Horses of San Survivors: Wife Carolyn Smith of Col- Cole Funeral Home is in charge of ie said Camacho on kidnapping charges de- he was featured on the TV program Hearst Jr and their two sons were at Simeon a book about the breeding leyville daughter Karen Ann Smith of arrangements Colleyville two sons Ricky Gene Smith of "in America Most Wanted her bedside and raising of Arabian horses at San Mrs Cropper was born in Ober- I spite his death sentence because "In Decatur and Curtis Lynn Smith of Colley- Jackson also faces state murder In 1946 Mrs Hearst joined the Simeon Calif location of the Kan and had lived in Fort in ei years past in excess of 40 percent of ville father Olen Smith of Bedford the death penalty sentences in Texas and kidnapping charges now-defunct Washington Times- Hearst Castle She continued to brother Ken Smith of Fort Worth two Worth for 39 years She was acti ve in have been reversed on appeal" Camacho also is charged in state Herald as a reporter and also wrote raise Arabian horses there until her sisters Opal Anders of Fort Worth and the former Glad Hand Class and the i If convicted on all five charges in court with the beating death of for- a society column Under My Hat illness worsened Neva Moore of Smithfield and two grand- United Methodist Women of the their indictment Camacho and co- mer girlfriend Pamela Miller 23 Later she wrote a syndicated col- Her two sons are William Hearst sons United Methodist Church il defendant Juan Jackson 27 could Witnesses at the capital murder trial umn From the Capital for 10 years III publisher of the San Francisco The family suggests that memori- last year testified that Camacho and was a radio commentator for Examiner and Austin Hearst vice John Ralph Lallood als be made to Polytechnic United )1 A receive three life sentences in feder- Methodist Church or a favorite killeier by beating her and CBS president of Hearst Entertainment el al prison with no chance of parole Mll Newspaper district manager charity Camacho was convicted fling over her with a car He later ran She met her husband in Washing- and Syndication a division of the last year her body through a tree mulcher in ton and they were wed in 1948 Hearst Corporation in New York wm LI 4' of killing David Wilburn 25 who Stephenville according to testimo- Mrs Hearst gave up her job in Funeral arrangements were pend- FORT WORTH Survivors: Daughter Frances Spear-an of Fort Worth son Dale Crop 1 m' per of John Ralph I14 'F Fort Worth brother Waldo Lohoefener of 'on May 20 1988 unwittingly ny FBI agents found her 1956 to accompany her husband ing k' LaHood a district Oberlin six grandchildren and eigti walked into a Dallas house where dismembered remains t' manager of distri- great-grandchildren Glenn IL Long John 'Bill' Meserole bution for the Star- i Kelli Elizabeth Sanders Telegram died tc i Welder Furniture salesman k' I' of Alamo banner Friday at a Fort 'sop' 0' Student 4 FORT WORTH '7'7' FORT WORTH -4 Worth hospital He A' 4- emob KELLER Kel- 11 in Memco hard to pin down Long John William te retired welder died i "Bill" Meserole qt Graveside service will be at 10 li Elizabeth Sand- v10 am Tuesday in Shannon Rose Hill ers a Tarrant a 4 4 Saturday at a hospi- fumiture salesman The Associated Press picture of it he said 0 Memorial Park Shannon TCU Fu- County Junior Col rk16 I' -4 tal in Dallas He I died Wednesday at 1-4 i- HOUSTON If Texas officials Three Mexico City museums was 67 4 his Fort Worth resi- el neral Home is in charge of arrange- lege student died --414 'expect Mexico to return a battle flag have kept the flag Mexican officials Funeral will be at 1 dence He was 63 -1 ments Friday in a Dallas a pi 1 captured during the fall of the say But the director of each muse- I I am Tuesda -A Funeral ill A' I we at dr Mr LaHood a Fort Worth na- hospital after a hit- t''' Alamo they'll have to find it first um says the flag is in one of the other Emerald Hills Fu- 0 11 am today at tive had worked for the Star- and run accident to The Texas Legislature approved a institutions useum neral Home Burial will be in Emer- Greenwood Funeral Home Burial Telegram for about 10 years He She was 20 resolution that asks Mexican Presi- The flag was taken from the Na- ald Hills Memorial Park Emerald will be in Greenwood Memorial was a member of Calvary Baptist Funeral will be at 10:30 am 1 dent Carlos Salinas de Gortari tional Mf History and ex-Hills Funeral Home is in charge of Park Greenwood Funeral Home is Church Tuesday at Lucas Funeral Home on return or lend the flag to Texas On 1- hibited for the 1981 inauguration of arrangements in charge of arrangements will be in Laurel Land Cemetery in Survivors: Two daughters Brenda Karen Perez of San Diego and Sherri Precinct Line Road in Hurst Burial I June 16 Gov Ann Richards al- the National Museum of I nterven- Mr Long was born in Climax Mr Meserole a Fort Worth na- LaHood of Fort Worth three sisters and f' lowed the resolution to take effect tions said Monica Cuevas director Collin County and had lived in Fort tive was a Navy veteran of World two grandchildren Dallas without her signature of the intervention museum The Worth about 30 years He was an War II and the Korean War He Ms Sanders was born in Dallas But Mexican officials may have to Army Air Forces veteran of World graduated from Texas Christian flag remained there until January and was a lifelong resident of Keller i 4 conduct a bureaucratic wild goose 19 86 when it was returned to the War II a member of the Veterans of University and attended Texas Deaths elsewhere She was a 1988 graduate of Keller chase to find the flag which was history Foreign Wars the American Legion museum Cuevas said High School 1 flown by a group of Louisiana vol- 4 But the history museum's dire and Disabled American Veterans Mr Meserole worked for the Fort c- 4 Survivors: Father and stepmother Glen tor Salvador Rueda said he doesn't Atwood: Stet- and Kay Sanders of Keller mother Terri 1 unteers and was captured when Mr Long worked for Esco Eleva- Worth Star -Telegram for 20 years i have the banner It is kept at the la Franklin At Lynn Stewart of Dallas half sister Jeni more th an 3000 exican soldiers National Museum of Anthropology tors before his retirement as a district circulation manager He wood a homemak- pgy Lyn Herndon of Dallas grandparents Sib I stormed th he said locked away in a basement Alamo on March 6 Survivors: Wife Joan Long of Fort also worked as a salesman for Levitz en died Friday at an I'P ley and Elizabeth Hall of Dallas Anita lik f'''''' 'Y 1836 Worth daughter Lea Long of Fort Worth Furniture for 17 years Daniel of Fort Worth Charles and Lila vault his mother Betty Mae Long of Greenville Oklahoma ospi- 1 This isn't the first time Texans He was active in Golden Gloves I 4 Jenkins of Fort Worth and Jerry Crocker 4s---' have sought the return of flag In At the anthropology museum and sister Katherine Converse of Green- baseball and bowling He was a Ma- tal She was 59 of Dallas and great-grandfather Al Espi- 1 staffer David Morales said the vault vine 1985 Sen Phil Gramm R-Texas son and a member of the Fort Worth Mrs Atwood had if 3 i noza I Dallas contains only old documents pre- previously lived iz i 1 visited Mexico City to try to repatri- Hispanic art and valuable objects of Elks Lodge and Arlington Heights Fo Worth for 40 Dee ate the flag rt Moore Franklin Baptist Church He was a former -j In this go-round officials are call- gold and gems James ran Emerson years She was a Baptist Area survi- Laborer I ut a museum anropologist Mill vors include five daughters Stella ing on President Bush for help Ti Te th employee member of the West Side Lions The family suggests that memori- 1 through his envoys at the free-trade who spoke on condition of anonym- Lavozas Gloria Sobak Janie Dut- GRAHAM Dee Moore of '11 resolution asks Bush to request als be made to Arlington Heights ity told the Houston Chronicle aptist Church or a favorite charit cle that GRAHAM James Franklin ton Melody Atwood and Sherry Graham a retired general laborer talks that Mexico return the flag as a the flag is indeed in the vault Emerson of Graham a retired em- Survivors Wife Alberta Meserole of Redfield all of Fort Worth son died Saturday in a Graham nursing ii He said the flag was moved from ployee of Graham Mill Elevator Jimmy Atwood of Fort Worth two measure of good will Fort Worth two sons William Glenn home He was 84 But the Mexicans are unwilling the history museum to the anthro- died Saturday at a Graham hospital sisters Jenise Corder and Virginia Meserole and Roderick John Meserole Graveside service will be at 4 pm i or unable to clarify the flag's pology museum without anyone He was 82 both of Dallas daughter Margaret Lynn Tarver both of Fort Worth and today at Oak Grove Cemetery in whereabouts knowing why The move was not Funeral will be at 2 pm today at Meserole Sutton of Dallas and two grand- three brothers Charles Franklin Graham Morrison Funeral Home officially documented he said Remington Street Church of God children Richard Franklin and Joe Franklin is in charge of arrangements We have it hidden away We The anthropology museum's di- where he was a member Burial will all of Fort Worth Funeral: 10 am Mr Moore was born in Reed OkI knew you would come after it rector pleaded ignorance about the be in Pioneer Cemetery Morrison Tuesday at Jesus Name Church of la He had lived in Palo Pinto before again i joked Manuel Vallejo the flag Funeral Home of Graham is in Dorothy Putman Rendon Burial: Anadarko Ceme- moving to Graham in 1933 He was 1e gatekeeper at the National Museum Museum directors greeted the charge of arrangements ten)' in Anadarko Okla under the a member ofthe Assemblies of God Homemaker of Interventions in Mexico City Texans' request for the flag with Mr Emerson was bom in Coman- direction of Guardian Funeral Survivors: Son Joe Moore of Dripping which specializes in the history of bemusement che and was a longtime resident of MINERAL WELLS Dorothy Home Springs brother Dee Moore of Canyon Mexico's invasions by foreign pow- "This flag also forms part of our Graham "Dot" Putman of Mineral Wells t-' ers history" Cuevas said "If they want Survivors: Wife Davie Emerson of "We're not sending you the flagon the flag so badly and we loan it they Graham two daughters Mary Wade of died Saturday at a Mineral Wells it" Graham and anything else We might send you a might not want to return at Barnett of Weatherford nursing home She was 80 sister Dora Nantz of Graham four grand- Funeral will be at 10 am today at FUNERAL NOTICES children and four great-grandchildren White's Funeral Home in Mineral Wells Burial will be in Holders Death Notices are provided by funeral homes to the Classified Advertising COmputer hackers create Department Please call the funeral home for additional information Jessi Chapel Cemetery east of Mineral Fay McCarty Wells 1 TAYLOR RANGEL MILLS SeCtIntY ConSUlting firITI Homemaker Mrs Putman was a homemaker MILDRED TAYLOR GREGOR IA RUBAL- FRANK MILLS JR She was bom in Parker Count an 68 Passed away Satur- CABA RANGEL 87 passed away Saturday GRAHAM Jessie Fay McCar- had lived in Mineral Wells for about day Services 1:00 PM passed away Friday Arrangements to be an- The Associated Press Monday Greenwood She was born in Laredo nounced by -1'! "i Garden Chapel Rev moving to Fort Worth in GREENWOOD 't HOUSTON The Legion of tell you how to protect agains So these guys are purporting to ty of Graham a homemaker died 40 years She was a member of the folks Saturday in a Graham hospital She Church of Christ Wm Swank officiat- 1920 She was Catholic 3100 White Settlement Doom a group of computer hackers like them It strikes me that people was 66 Survivors: Two sons Thomas Billy Put- Ing Interment Green- and was a Fort Worth at University Drive wood Memorial Citizen Volun- 336-05134 who caused chaos in the industry should refuse to hire them just on Funeral will be at I 0 am today at man of Mineral Wells and Billy Putman of Arrangements Park enior feet' Survived by: during the mid- and late 1980s is principle although from what Morrison Funeral Home im Seagoville three daughters Coez Spurlock GREENWOOD Daughter Fel icitas Del- allitommollooloolosimmull 3100 White Settlement gado Fort Worth forming a computer security con I ve seen they re qualified sons 'i" Graham Burial will be at Pioneer of Mineral Wells Faye Smith of San Anto- at University Drive Servando Rubaicaba Fri suiting firm to help prevent the type But Linda Laskey of the Comput- nio and Betty Mahaffey of Saginaw three 336-0584 Fort Worth Margarito sisters Chessie "Jack" Putman of Mineral AKE Avila Racine Wiscon- r' of crimes they committed en Security Institute in San Francis- eM etery in raham rs McCarty was a lifelong sin brother Meliton The Legion Doom co praise 7 of D' activities the service Graham resident She wasa Baptist INells 011ie Kuzner of Granbury and Syl- via Holland of Luflcin brother Elzie toSCOTT AKE age 29 of Mata Racine Wiscon- Arlingn on Saturday sin 29 grandchildren 82 were a primary motivation for Op- They know what they're doing as Survivors: Three daughters Patsy "Pete" DeBusk of Granbury 16 grandchil- Survived by daughter great-grandchildren 53 unera CO' AmeItt-st Q1111 nPuti nn cttirinune tarne cprilritucuctemc on Cn 1 ri i nc- lit -1-- 1 Whitney Lynnette Ake great great-grandchil- Drug dealer going on trial in fatal 1988 kidnapping The Associated Press DALLAS A former drug king- pin and Death Row inmate whose 1990 murder trial included testimo ny about a woman's body being ground by a tree mulcher faces trial this week on federal kidnapping 4- -charges Genaro "Geno" Ruiz Camacho Pie 36 will be tried in the May 1988 abduction of a woman and her 3- '4 year-old son who were held for ran' som in a drug debt and later shot to death in a shallow grave near Lake Texoma ri Attorney Marvin Collins ef said federal authorities are trying e-- Camacho on kidnapping charges despite his death sentence because "in rr years past in excess of 40 percent of the death penalty sentences in Texas have been reversed on appeal" If convicted on all five charges in their indictment Camacho and co defendant Juan Jackson 27 could receive three life sentences in federal prison with no chance of parole Camacho was convicted last year of killing David Wilburn 25 who on May 20 1988 unwittingly 1- walked into a Dallas house where Location of Alamo banner in Mexico hard to pin down The Associated Press HOUSTON If Texas officials expect Mexico to return a battle flag captured during the fall of the Alamo they'll have to find it first The Texas Legislature approved a 1 resolution that asks Mexican Presi- dent Carlos Salinas de Gortari to return or lend the flag to Texas On June 16 Gov Ann Richards al' lowed the resolution to take effect without her signature But Mexican officials may have to conduct a bureaucratic wild goose chase to find the flag which was flown by a group of Louisiana volo unteers and was captured when more than 3000 Mexican soldiers 4 stormed the Alamo on March 6 1836 This isn't the first time Texans have sought the return of flag In 1985 Sen Phil Gramm R-Texas 4 visited Mexico City to try to repatrii ate the flag In this go-round officials are calling on President Bush for help The resolution asks Bush to request c- through his envoys at the free-trade talks that Mexico return the flag as a measure of good will But the Mexicans are unwilling or unable to clarify the flag's whereabouts "We have it hidden away We knew you would come after it again" joked Manuel Vallejo the gatekeeper at the National Museum t7 of Interventions in Mexico City which specializes in the history of Mexico's invasions by foreign powers "We're not sending you the flag or anything else We might send you a Computer hackers create security consulting firm The Associated Press l'! HOUSTON The Legion of Doom a group ofcomputer hackers who caused chaos in the industry during the mid- and late 1980s is 4 forming a computer security con- suiting firm to help prevent the type of crimes they committed 1 7 The Legion of Doom's activities were a primary motivation for eration Sun Devil a nationwide Camacho and three associates were trying to collect a drug debt After Camacho shot and killed Wilburn the federal indictment alleges Camacho and Jackson kidnapped Evellyn Banks 31 and her son Andre from the house Prosecutors decided not to try Camacho on murder charges in the deaths of the two victims after he received the death penalty in Wilbum's slaying Jackson suspected of being part of a Dallas-based marijuana ring that Camacho ran fled Dallas after the kidnapping The FBI captured him in January in Los Angeles after he was featured on the TV program America's Most Wanted Jackson also faces state murder and kidnapping charges Camacho also is charged in state court with the beating death of former girlfriend Pamela Miller 23 Witnesses at the capital murder trial last year testified that Camacho killed Miller by beating her and running over her with a car He later ran her body through a tree mulcher in Stephenville according to testimony FBI agents found her dismembered remains picture of it" he said Three Mexico City museums have kept the flag Mexican officials say But the director of each museum says the flag is in one ofthe other institutions The flag was taken from the National Museum of History and exhibited for the 1981 inauguration of the National Museum of Interventions said Monica Cuevas director of the intervention museum The flag remained there until January 1986 when it was returned to the history museum Cuevas said But the history museum's director Salvador Rueda said he doesn't have the banner It is kept at the National Museum of Anthropology he said locked away in a basement vault At the anthropology museum staffer David Morales said the vault contains only old documents pre-Hispanic art and valuable objects of gold and gems But a museum anthropologist who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Houston Chronicle that the flag is indeed in the vault He said the flag was moved from the history museum to the anthropology museum without anyone knowing why The move was not officially documented he said The anthropology museum's director pleaded ignorance about the flag Museum directors greeted the Texans' request for the flag with bemusement "This flag also forms part of our history" Cuevas said "If they want the flag so badly and we loan it they might not want to return it" "So these guys are purporting to tell you how to protect against folks like them It strikes me that people should refuse to hire them just on principle although from what I've seen they're qualified" But Linda Laskey of the Computer Security Institute in San Francisco praised the service "They know what they're doing as far as security systems go" said OBITUARIES Austine Hearst 72 wife of heir to newspaper chain The Associated Press NEW YORK Austine McDonnell Hearst a onetime Washington reporter and society columnist who married the editor in chief of the Hearst newspapers died Sunday at a Manhattan hospital She was 72 Mrs Hearst who lived in Manhattan died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center after a long battle with lymphoma said Hearst Corp spokesman Jim O'Donnell Her husband William Randolph Hearst Jr and their two sons were at her bedside In 1946 Mrs Hearst joined the now-defunct Washington Times-Herald as a reporter and also wrote a society column Under My Hat Later she wrote a syndicated column From the Capital for 10 years and was a radio commentator for CBS She met her husband in Washington and they were wed in 1948 Mrs Hearst gave up her job in 1956 to accompany her husband Glenn IL Long Welder FORT WORTH Long a retired welder died Saturday at a hospi- tal in Dallas He was 67 Funeral will be at 4 I I am Tuesday at Emerald Hills Funeral Home Burial will be in Emerald Hills Memorial Park Emerald Hills Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Mr Long was born in Climax Collin County and had lived in Fort Worth about 30 years He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars the American Legion and Disabled American Veterans Mr Long worked for Esco Elevators before his retirement Survivors: Wife Joan Long of Fort Worth daughter Lea Long of Fort Worth his mother Betty Mae Long of Greenville and sister Katherine Converse of Greenville James Franklin Emerson Mill employee GRAHAM James Franklin Emerson of Graham a retired employee of Graham Mill Elevator died Saturday at a Graham hospital He was 82 Funeral will be at 2 pm today at Remington Street Church of God where he was a member Burial will be in Pioneer Cemetery Morrison Funeral Home of Graham is in charge of arrangements Mr Emerson was born in Comanche and was a longtime resident of Graham Survivors: Wife Davie Emerson of Graham two daughters Mary Wade of Graham and Pat Barnett of Weatherford sister Dora Nantz of Graham four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren Jessie Fay McCarty Homemaker GRAHAM Jessie Fay McCarty of Graham a homemaker died Saturday in a Graham hospital She was 66 Funeral will be at I 0 am today at Morrison Funeral Home im Graham Burial will be at Pioneer Cemetery in Graham Mrs McCarty was a lifelong Graham resident She wasa Baptist Survivors: Three daughters Patsy and then publisher of the New York Journal-American on a trip around the world Mrs Hearst wrote articles based on her interviews with the wives of world leaders and women of all classes in the nations they visited For the past 40 years Mrs Hearst supported and worked for charitable causes including the Girl Scouts the Audubon Society and the Abigail Adams Smith Museum in New York She wrote The Horses of San Simeon a book about the breeding and raising of Arabian horses at San Simeon Calif location of the Hearst Castle She continued to raise Arabian horses there until her illness worsened Her two sons are William Hearst Ill publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and Austin Hearst vice president of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication a division of the Hearst Corporation in New York Funeral arrangements were pending John 'Bill' Meserole Furniture salesman FORT WORTH John William "Bill" Meserole qt furniture salesman at died Wednesday at his Fort Worth resi- 11 dence He was 63 Funeral will be at 11 am today at Greenwood Funeral Home Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park Greenwood Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Mr Meserole a Fort Worth native was a Navy veteran of World War 11 and the Korean War He graduated from Texas Christian University and attended Texas Mr Meserole worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for 20 years as a district circulation manager He also worked as a salesman for Levitz Furniture for 17 years He was active in Golden Gloves baseball and bowling He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Elks Lodge and Arlington Heights Baptist Church He was a former member of the West Side Lions The family suggests that memorials be made to Arlington Heights Baptist Church or a favorite charity Survivors: Wife Alberta Meserole of Fort Worth two sons William Glenn Meserole and Roderick John Meserole both of Dallas daughter Margaret Lynn Meserole Sutton of Dallas and two grandchildren Dorothy Putman Homemaker MINERAL WELLS Dorothy "Dot" Putman of Mineral Wells died Saturday at a Mineral Wells nursing home She was 80 Funeral will be at I 0 am today at White's Funeral Home in Mineral Wells Burial will be in Holders Chapel Cemetery east of Mineral Wells Mrs Putman was a homemaker She was born in Parker County and had lived in Mineral Wells for about 40 years She was a member of the Church of Christ Survivors: Two sons Thomas Billy Putman of Mineral Wells and Billy Putman of Seagoville three daughters Coez Spurlock of Mineral Wells Faye Smith of San Antonio and Betty Mahaffey of Saginaw three sisters Chessie "Jack" Putman of Mineral Wells 011ie Kuzner of Granbury and Sylvia Holland of Lufkin brother Elzie "Pete" DeBusk of Granbury 16 Monday AM June 24 1991 Fort Worth Gene Smith Business owner COLLEYVILLE i Gene Smith I owner of GO Ma- chine Inc died Sat- i urday at a Decatur 1 i 41 hospital He was 55 t- 0 Funeral will be at ---47 10 am Tuesday at Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home in Colleyville Burial will be in Bluebonnet Hills Memorial Park Mr Smith was born in Lamar County and had lived in Colleyville for I I years Survivors: Wife Carolyn Smith of Colleyville daughter Karen Ann Smith of Colleyville two sons Ricky Gene Smith of Decatur and Curtis Lynn Smith of Colleyville father Olen Smith of Bedford brother Ken Smith of Fort Worth two sisters Opal Anders of Fort Worth and Neva Moore of Smithfield and two grandsons John Ralph La Hood Newspaper district manager FORT WORTH ir --------'1 John Ra1ph'4'' 'f LaHood a district" manager of distri- Tz bution for the Star-r Telegram died Friday at a Fort Worth hospital He 'i was 48 Graveside service will be at 10 am Tuesday in Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park Shannon TCU Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Mr LaHood a Fort Worth native had worked for the Star-Telegram for about 10 years He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church Survivors: Two daughters Brenda Karen Perez of San Diego and Sherri LaHood of Fort Worth three sisters and two grandchildren Deaths elsewhere Atwood: Stet- (''' 1 la Franklin At wood a homemak- er died Friday at an RN PIW Oklahoma hospi- tal She was 59 ''s-- Mrs Atwood had A previously lived in i 11 Fort Worth for 40 years She was a Baptist Area survivors include five daughters Stella Cavozas Gloria Sobak Janie Dutton Melody Atwood and Sherry Redfield all of Fort Worth son Jimmy Atwood of Fort Worth two sisters Jenise Corder and Virginia Tarver both of Fort Worth and three brothers Charles Franklin Richard Franklin and Joe Franklin all of Fort Worth Funeral: 10 am Tuesday at Jesus Name Church of Rendon Burial: Anadarko Cemetery in Anadarko Okla under the direction of Guardian Funeral Home FUNERAL Death Notices are provided by funeral Department Please call the funeral TAYLOR MILDR ED TAYLOR 68 passed away Saturday Services 1:00 PM Monday Greenwood Garden Chapel Rev Wm Swank officiating Interment Greenwood Memorial Park Arrangements GREENWOOD 3100 White Settlement at University Drive 336-05S4 RANGEL GREGORIA RUBALCABA RANGEL 87 Passed away Friday She was born in Laredo moving to Fort Worth in 1920 She was Catholic and was a Fort Worth Senior Citizen Volunteer Survived by: Daughter Felicitas Delgado Fort Worth sons Servando ubalcaba Fort Worth Margarito Avila Racine Wisconsin brother Meliton Meta Racine Wisconsin 29 grandchildren 82 great-grandchildren 53 great AKE SCOTT AKE age 29 of Arlington on Saturday Survived by daughter Whitney Lynnette Ake Star Telegram I Section Page 3 Bertha Marie Cropper Homemaker FORT WORTH Bertha Marie e- 1 Cropper a home- tmaker died Saturday at a nursing home in Fort Worth She was i 101 Visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Harveson Cole Funeral Home Funeral will be at 11 am Tuesday at Polytechnic United Methodist Church where she was a member Burial will be in Rose Hill Memorial Park Harveson Cole Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Mrs Cropper was born in Oberlin Kan and had lived in Fort Worth for 39 years She was acti ve in the former Glad Hand Class and the United Methodist Women of the United Methodist Church The family suggests that memorials be made to Polytechnic United Methodist Church or a favorite charity Survivors: Daughter Frances Spearman of Fort Worth son Dale Cropper of Fort Worth brother Waldo Lohoefener of Oberlin six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren Kelli Elizabeth Sanders Student KELLER Kel- 7 li Elizabeth Sand- ers a Tarrant 44 County Junior Col- f' lege student died Friday in a Dallas hospital after a hit- and run accident She was was 20 Funeral will be at 10:30 am Tuesday at Lucas Funeral Home on Precinct Line Road in Hurst Burial will be in Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas Ms Sanders was born in Dallas and was a lifelong resident of Keller She was a 1988 graduate of Keller High School Survivors: Father and stepmother Glen and Kay Sanders of Keller mother Terri Lynn Stewart of Dallas half sister Jeni Lyn Herndon of Dallas grandparents Sibley and Elizabeth Hall of Dallas Anita Daniel of Fort Worth Charles and Lila Jenkins of Fort Worth and Jerry Crocker of Dallas and great-grandfather Al Espinoza of Dallas Dee Moore Laborer GRAHAM Dee Moore of Graham a retired general laborer died Saturday in a Graham nursing home He was 84 Graveside service will be at 4 pm today at Oak Grove Cemetery in Graham Morrison Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Mr Moore was born in Reed Okla He had lived in Palo Pinto before moving to Graham in 1933 He was a member ofthe Assemblies of God Survivors: Son Joe Moore of Dripping Springs brother Dee Moore of Canyon NOTICES homes to the Classified Advertising home for additional information MILLS FRANK MILLS JR passed away Saturday Arrangements to be announced by GREENWOOD 3100 White Settlement at University Drive 336-0584 almommonnomoommonon Cropper (er 1e P''' I- i id a N'- 1 misimuomaj 1 Harveson 7 uneral will be it Polytechnic lurch where arial will be in ark Harveson is in charge of born in Ober-lived in Fort le was active in I Class and the Vomen of the iirch that memoriechnic United or a favorite Frances Spear-Dale Cropper of Ido Lohoefener of ken and eigii 0 cc 1 rwrr McCarty Maxcine McCarty Imogene Charles all of Graham sister Dorothy Booth of Graham and three grandchildren Hoy Harrison Homemaker BOYD Roy Harrison of Boyd homemaker died Saturday at a Bridgeport hospital She was 94 Funeral will be at 2 pm today at Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home in Boyd Burial will be in Boyd Cemetery Mrs Harrison was bom in Spring-town and was a longtime resident of Wise County and Boyd She was a Pentecostal Survivors: Son CI Harrison Jr of Boyd daughter Cathafay Wilson of Fort Worth two brothers Ulysses Shearin of Bridge City and Forest Shearin of Atlanta Texas sister Ruby Fannon of Atlanta Texas five grandchildren five great-grandchildren and two Card of Thanks M843 Cemetery Lots M844 Death Notices M840 Florists M841 Funeral Komea M846 Legal Services M847 M841 Florists 332-2265 Metro 429-9116 Mercedes Flower Shoo 244-534 A Touch Of Class Florist Free Delivery 656-5588 M843 Card Of Thanks Thank you St Jude for Prayers answered AK M844 Cemetery Lots 2 or more choice spaces Laurel Land section a sel 1 50 under value 577-3427 Greenwood 2 spaces Garden of Restful Oaks 51000 292-74134 4 spaces Greenwood Live Oak Garden 5850each or 4 toc S3200 281-5678 Rose Hill 3 spaces in beautiful Lake View section 1138-5754 4 lots Garden of Meditationo Mt Olivet Cemetery 737-9819 Greenwood 2 space under' trees $450ea 921-4236 Mt Olivet 1-6 spaces Good location 282-7050 choice letV Mount Olivet I-817-694-7721 Goicb 4 ROWOLS METRO 265-ass3u ower Shoo 343 lass Florist 656-5588 IMINEMEEMOI ci Of Thanks Jude for red AK ENEMIIIMMMMEIM metery Lots spaces Lau18 sell 50un3427 daces Garden laks S1000 44 enwood Live 150each or 4 fos 1 ces in beauti1J1 lion 938-5754 of Meditationo etery 737-9819 9 s2p1 UMW( V-51113 4-77 Nount 21 Olivet grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren Lela Thornton Homemaker MINERAL WELLS Lela Thornton of Palo Pinto died Saturday at her home after a long illness She was 83 Funeral will be at 10 am today at First Baptist Church of Palo Pinto where she was a member Burial will be in New Hope Cemetery in Palo Pinto County Baum-Carlock-Bumgardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Mrs Thornton was a homemaker She had lived in the Palo Pinto and Lone Camp areas all her life Survivors: Three sons Joh Thornton of Palo Pinto Charlie Thornton of Beeville and Jerry Thornton of Stephenville two daughers Alta Mae Thornton of Fort Worth and Sherry Salters of Palo Pinto two sisters Dell Owen of Odessa and Annabelle Sharp of California 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren To reach the obituary desk call 390- 7780 There is no charge for obituaries wh ich are based on information provided by funeral homes and relatives of the deceased Photographs must be dated Las-key whose company will be among Comsec's first clients The Legion of Doom gained a high profile from run-ins with the Secret Service and BellSouth a regional phone company Robert Riggs Franklin Darden Jr and Adam Grant were sentenced Nov 16 1990 in federal court in Atlanta They broke into BellSouth's computers and stole a document on the administration of the emergency 91 I system Chasin will be joined in the firm by Chris Goggans 22 and Ken Shulman 21 Comsec will be managed by Robert Cupps 24 a graduate of Emory University and a former securities trader "From a marketing standpoint we've got a real strong presentation" said Cupps who is not a computer expert "What we will do is a brief demonstration When you can walk into someone's office and get right on their system that says something in itself: that maybe you're the person they should be talking to about securing their systems" The only member of Comsec who has faced criminal charges is Shulman who pleaded no contest in 1989 to misdemeanor charges of credit card fraud I I I 1 1 I 1 I i 1 1 i 1 I 1 1 great-grandchildren Rosary to be recited at 7:00 PM Sunday Greenwood Chapel Christian Burial at 10:00 AM Monday Immaculate Heart of Mary Rev Gre7ory Coicoechea and Rev Francisco Fernandez celebrants Interment Greenwood Memorial Park Arrangements GREENWOOD 3100 White Settlement at University Drive 336-0584 I Ake all of Arlington sister Sherry Dianne Ake Dallas grandparents Helen Johnston Red Oak Leonard and Bil lie uth Ake Fort Worth great-grandmother Anne Strong Fort Worth Services 1:00 PM Tuesday Tate Springs Baptist Church 4201 Liffie Road Rev Charles Clary officiating Interment in Moore Memorial Gardens Arrangements HUGH MOORE SONS 1219 NDavisArlington 275-2711 Opv crackdown on computer crimecoordinated by the US Secret Service 71 according to government documents The investigation landed several members of the Legion in jail 7-t But remaining members in tin and Houston who say they were not connected with an incident in- 44t volving the BellSouth telephone company say they plan to stay on ot the right side of the law They're 0' creating a company called Comsec Computer Security -4 "People need us We're the best" said Scott Chasin whose computer rr nickname is Doc Holliday "Ten 1 years from now we'll be the leaders 47: in data security" i Officials estimate that the indus1 try loses from $500 million to more than $2 billion from computer hackl ers Most of the damage is from long-distance phone service theft or credit card fraud ft Some industry observers wel' corned Comsec's creation while others said it's only a new twist on a familiar theme "4- "There's lots of precedent for that" said Richard Shaffer of New ''t York editor of the industry publication ComputerLetter "Crooks of all types try to hire themselves out I afttr the fact I 4 4 i I 4 1 i i 't A li 1 7 1 BA LEEMAN CAREY CANADIAN LEEMAN on Saturday evening June 22 in his 86th year Preceded in death by his wife Ethel Brown Leeman Mr Leeman was a retired masonry contractor He Is survived by his sisters-in-law Mrs St Clair Leeman Fort Worth and Mrs Hope Leeman Jasper Alabama sever nieces and nephews including his guardian Mike Leeman of Fort Worth Friends may call at Robertson Mueller Harper-Eighth Avenue until 1:30 PM Tuesday Services at the grave 3:00 PM Tuesday June 25 Mount Olivet Cemetery Should friends desire donations may be made to Hospice Ca re Inc or to a favorite charity Arrangements by: Robertson Mueller HARPER 1500 Eighth Avenue 924-4233 HOWELL JL HOWELL JR Fort Worth on Saturday June 22 1991 A native of Fort Worth retired enginner for TU Electric member of the First United Methodist Church Survivors: Daughter and son-in-law Lynn and John Teschner grandson Zack Teschner all of Atlanta Georgia Friends may call at Robertson Mueller Harper-Eighth Avenue where services will be held 2:00 PM Monday June 24 Rev Larry Grub officiating Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery Should friends desire memorials may be made to a favorite charity Arrangements by: Robertson Mueller HARPER 1500 Eighth Avenue 924-4233 I 641111 I 1 870-1692 EXTRAVAGANZA I U--- z-- -7 L4----1 7 -4 womoloot444444 044 4'4 ms sidosoOpAt4011imohLoomormole0000monwitaLite not.

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