The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 9

School Board seating changed That's only first of several 'streamlining' moves planned by new president By NANCY BUTTERFIELD The News Tribune Cathy Pearsall, Tacoma's new school board president, has followed a tradition started by former President Mignonne Peterson: one of her first official acts was to change the seating arrangement of the board. At Thursday night's school board meeting, Pearsall rearranged seating so board members are to her left and Superintendent Del Cross and Business Manager Nick Schaefer are seated on her right "This way, the board is all together, and the superintendent is close enough that I can communicate with him when necessary," Pearsall told The News Tribune in an interview. Peterson, during her recent presidency, had moved Cross and Schaefer to one end of the table, apart from board members, and had seated herself at the center of the other four members. Previously, Cross had sat among board members at meetings. Peterson said she believed that if the board were to function as a unit, members should be seated together.

She felt it was inappropriate for staff members to sit between board members, she had said. But her new arrangement raised some eyebrows in the district, where board-staff seating had not been addressed formally before. Cathy Pearsall made the seating changes after calling for a board vote, and said that while the new arrangement in itself is not important, the process she used is one that will characterize her presidency. "The way I handled it is the way I intend to handle everything this year," she said. "All decisions this year, in an effort to strengthen the board, will be made by majority vote or consensus.

I put the decision of The News Tribune, Tacoma, Dec. 14, 1985 A-9 Trapper, wife, daughter missing along trap line; sheriff appeals for help By JIM ERICKSON The News Tribune The Pierce County sheriff's office has issued a public appeal for information on a Puyallup man, his wife and their 2-year-old daughter who have been missing Nisqually River since Thursday. Sheriff's Lt. Merl Sterling said a search by airplane Friday failed to locate 26-year-old Michael Riemer, a roofer who failed to show up at work Friday as expected. Riemer's wife, Diana, 21, and their daughter, Crystal, went with him on trapping trip along the Nisqually.

Sterling said they were not equipped to spend the night in subfreezing conditions. "We covered miles and miles of the river and couldn't find anything," he said. Trying to cover hundreds of miles of roads on the ground without any clue is too difficult, he said, adding that a ground search would not be started until it was known where to begin. Lloyd Riemer, the missing man's father, believes his son's vehicle must have slipped on black ice and gone over a bank somewhere. "If he was not over a bank upside down, he would have been out a long time ago," he told The News Tribune.

The missing family's pickup truck a red 1982 Plymouth Arrow with a white canopy and a 5-year-old killed in A 5-year-old child was killed in a multiple-car accident on River Road near 76th Avenue East Friday night, according to the State Patrol. Information was sketchy, because the Patrol still was on the Obituaries More obituaries, Page C-12 NEW SYNCHILLA Today's most versatile fabric High warmth to weight ratio Unequaled stretch New vivid colors Very low pilling quality- -stays looking nice longer Available in 4 styles Including full zipper liners 472-4402 BASE CAMP SUPPLY "Your Outdoor Gift Store" 38th and So. Pine Tacoma, WA 98409 small blue boat on top has not been located. Its license plate number is HR 9218. Lloyd Riemer said his son generally parks the truck by the side of the road while he checks traps set along the Nisqually at various points.

Michael traps "any furbearing animal," his father said, including muskrat, mink, otter, beaver, fox and coyote. "He usually starts by the (Nisqually) Delta near the freeway and then goes past Frank's Landing, where he crosses the river in his boat and returns," Lloyd Riemer said. He said his son's route continues onto Weyerhaeuser Co. land, hitting the Nisqually River in different spots and following the river to Alder and up to Elbe. Across the bridge at Elbe toward Morton, he said, his son checks a couple of spots, then returns home via Ohop Lake and Kapowsin.

Riemer said Michael makes the circuit in a day, getting home at night. Occasionally, he will take Diana and Crystal with him, Riemer said. Michael had warm clothing but Diana and Crystal only had light coats, Riemer said. They had no sleeping bags in the vehicle. "They weren't prepared to be out overnight," he said.

Anyone with any information that might aid sheriff's officials is asked to call the Lakewood precinct at 593-4970. Cathy Pearsall has plans to seating to all board members to make, not just myself." Pearsall said another change she plans to make during her one-year presidency is to streamline the board's decision-making process so meetings don't run on for hours. Tacoma School Board meetings frequently last until 11 p.m. and sometimes go on until after midnight. "If we can't make our decisions in one-and-a-half to two hours, maybe we're in the wrong business," she said.

"That problem comes up when one or two board members have not done their homework," she said. "If they have questions of the staff, they should get answers before the She believes her Legislative experience, particularly her ex- Holmes Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary. In addition to her husband, survivors include three daughters, Jan Cook of Puyallup, Julie Nauman of Steilacoom and Jenifer Sobeck of Tacoma; a son, John of Sandy, Utah; her mother, Martha Hilbert in North Carolina; two sisters, Eugina Dockter in California and Lillie Putz in North Dakota; 19 grandchildren and 22 greatgrandchildren. Powers Funeral Home, Puyallup, is in charge. Jensen, and a sister, Carley Jensen, both of Pierre; three brothers, Viggo Jensen of Corpus Christi, Texas, Carl Jensen of Rancho Cordova, and Hans Jensen of Pierre and eight grandchildren.

Buckley-King at Brookside is in charge. Chole lian Sedlor in North Carolina and Miriam Ames of Puyallup; a son, Isabel Markovich Isabel L. Markovich, 79, a lifelong resident of Gig Harbor, died Thursday. Mrs. Markovich was a member of St.

Nicholas Catholic Church, St. Frances Guild and the Gig Harbor Fisherman's auxiliary. Survivors include a daughter, Frances Peterson of Tacoma; two sons, Nick and Peter, both of Gig Harbor; four sisters, Marian Samuelson of Portland, and Angeline Tveter, Pearl Peterson and Mary Strittmatler, all of Gig Harbor; a 10 brother, grandchildren Lee Jr. of and Gig Har- nine great -grandchildren. Gaffney Cassedy Allen Funeral Home is in charge.

LYLE Memorial services for Curtis M. Jessie M. Lyle will be held at 12:00 Noon Monday in the Mountain View Valley Chapel with Chaplain Karl W. Berg officiating. Remembrances may be made in the form of donations to the American Lake Veterans Hospital Library.

Jessie Lyle is also survived by a brother, Jim Robinson of Seattle and a sister, Agnes Bush of Kalama, WA. Their grandchildren Ian Dylan Schatz of Maple Creek, CA. COLE Mass of Christian Burial for Philip L. Cole will be celebrated Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. at St.

Leo's Catholic Church. Rev. Michael Pope, S.J., Celebrant. Interment, Calvary Cemetery. Rosary to be recited Monday, 7:30 p.m.

at St. Leo's Catholic Church. Contributions may be made in the name of Philip L. Cole Heart Fund, Puget Sound National Bank, Port of Tacoma Branch. Gaffney-Cassedy Allen Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

COULTER Services for Douglas Coulter will be held Monday, 3:00 p.m. at Haven of Rest Funeral Home. Services will conclude in chapel. Interment in Haven of Rest Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers: Sam Crook, Hal Hyatt, Roy Hennington, Larnence Crusoe, Fred Smythe, Norman Hemley.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to Hospice of Tacoma. BUCKLEY-KING at HAVEN OF REST, GIG HARBOR in charge. GLOYNE Mass of Christian Burial for Peter John Gloyne will be celebrated Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church. Rev.

Desmond McMahon, Celebrant. Rosary to be recited Monday, 7:00 p.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church. Entombment, Calvary Cloisters. Gaffney-Cassedy Allen Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

KROLL At his request, here will not be any funeral services for Ret. Navy E-6 Robert G. Kroll. Arrangements by HILL FUNERAL HOME, Puyallup. streamline the Tacoma pertise in the parliamentary pro-.

cess, will be valuable during her board presidency. Pearsall served one term as a state Representative from the 29th District in the 1970s. "I'll take votes much quicker you'll notice a big difference in that," she said. "I think that will help move things along." Pearsall said she also wants to improve communication among board members, and between board and staff. "I've developed a 'Tacoma Board-a-Gram' that will go out to all board members twice a week with information and coming events listed," she said.

"It also will provide for two-way communication, because board members can send notes back to me." Pearsall, 53, who owns a dra- Grant Richards Grant Grant Shelton Richards, 75, of Des Moines died Friday. Mr. Richards, who was born in Tacoma and graduated from Stadium High School, was an Army veteran of World War II. He re- Bertram Simon Bertram T. Simon, 73, of Fife died Friday.

A native of Tacoma, Mr. Simon resided in Fife most of his life. He was owner of Bert's Automotive for 40 years and also worked as a shipfitter at Todd Shipyard during World War II. He was a member of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Fife.

Survivors include his wife, Bess; two daughters, Janet Simon of Buckley and Michelle Oaks of Gig Harbor; four sons, Gerald of Denver, Robert of Seattle, Paul of Spanaway and John of Auburn; 20 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Powers Funeral Home, Puyallup, is in charge. Shedrick Boone Shedrick L. Boone, 56, of Yelm died Thursday. Mr.

Boone was born in Allegheny, and resided in the Tacoma-Olympia area since 1968, moving to Yelm recently. Mr. Boone, a retired Army sergeant first class, was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. Survivors include his wife, Ila; two daughters, Phoebe Boone of Yelm and Yonnvon Woodly in Pennsylvania; and two sisters, Gladys Saunders and Robbie Turner, both in Pennsylvania. Mountain View Funeral Home is in charge.

BILLINGSLEY Graveside services for Myrtle M. Billingsley, age 91 of Enumclaw will be held Monday, December 16th, 2:00 p.m. at Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Enumclaw. Friends are asked to meet at the cemetery. Visitation Sat.

4-9 p.m. Memorials are asked for the Enumclaw Aid Car or Enumclaw Senior Center. ENUMCLAW FUNERAL HOME in charge. SIMON Holy Rosary services for Bertram T. Simon will be held Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.

at St. Martin of Tours in Fife. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Wednesday, 10:00 a.m., St. Martin of Tours. Rev.

Patrick O'Brien, Celebrant. Interment, Gethsemane Cemetery. Family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society. POWERS FUNERAL HOME of Puyallup in charge. COWAN Services for Walter James Cowan will be held Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.

at the First United Presbyterian Church in Puyallup. Rev. Jack Terry officiating. Interment, Woodbine Cemetery. Family suggests memorials to the American Heart Association or the First United Presbyterian Church.

POWERS FUNERAL HOME of Puyallup in charge. MILLER Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church for Kenneth G. Miller on Monday, 11:00 a.m. Father Dennis Wood officiating. The Rosary will be recited at Fir Lane Memorial Chapel on Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Interment in Fir Lane Memorial Park, ABEEL, JR. Memorial Services will be held for John Howard Abeel, Jr. December 18th, 11:00 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 310 North Street, with Rev. Patrick Tomter officiating.

ARMSTRONG Graveside services for Richard Logan Armstrong will be held 9:30 a.m. Monday, Punchpowl National Memorial of Pacific, Honolulu, HA. He was a life member of the Hawaiian Joint Police Association. Staff photo by RUSS CARMACK School Board process. pery and interior design business, hopes her system will ensure that everyone is kept abreast of information they need to be effective board members.

Pearsall said she is looking for ways to increase parent and community involvement in Tacoma schools, and believes school officials may have to consider having staff available during some evenings so working parents can visit school buildings, meet with teachers and get information. She believes the toughest challenge facing the board next year will be deciding which programs the district can afford to keep and which it must cut. "Our charge is to educate all children in Tacoma School District, so basics have to be our No. 1 priority." Richards tired after 47 years as an employee of Hunt and Mottet Hardware Co. Surviving is his wife, Irene.

Washington Memorial Funeral Home, Seattle, is in charge. John Abeel Jr. Memorial services for John Howard Abeel 60, a former Tacoma resident who died Nov. 30 in Alaska, will be held Dec. 18 at Christ Episcopal Church.

Born in Los Angeles, Mr. Abeel moved to Tacoma in 1928 then to Alaska in 1975. He graduated from Stadium High School and the University of Puget Sound, and owned an excavating business. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Surviving are two daughters, Candis Carbone of Tacoma and Merry Abeel of Medina, King County; a son, John of Tacoma; a sister, Mary Schaut of Beverly Hills, and five grandchildren.

Kenneth Miller Kenneth G. Miller, 74, a lifelong resident of Tacoma, died Thurs- day. Mr. Miller retired after 35 years as a meat cutter for Hygrade Food Products Corp. He was a member of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church.

Survivors include his wife, Helen; two daughters, Elizabeth Gore of Olympia and Nancy Ryan of Redmond; two sons, George Federal Way and Richard of Spanaway; 18 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Fir Lane Funeral Home is in charge. HOLMES Memorial services for Anne M. Holmes will be held Monday, 2:00 p.m. at St.

Joseph-St. John Episcopal Church with Father Mark Miller officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your favorite charity. BUCKLEY-KING at BROOKSIDE in charge of arrangements. PTAK Services for Matt A.

Ptak will be held Monday, 11:00 a.m. at Brookside Mortuary Chapel with Chaplain James Saxman officiating. Interment, New Tacoma Cemetery. Donations may be made to the American Heart Association. -KING at BROOK SIDE in charge of arrangements.

WINCHESTER Memorial services for Ardis S. Winchester will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday, December 16, 1985 at the Oakwood Hill Chapel. Rev. Elmer Church officiating.

Inurnment, Oakwood Hill Columbarium. Arrangements and services under the direction of OAK WOOD HILL FUNERAL HOME. WISNER Graveside services for Homer J. Wisner will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, December 20th in the Riverside Mausoleum Chapel, Spokane, WA with Rev.

Weymeth McGrew officiating. Mr. Wiser will lie instate in the Mountain View Funeral Home from 10:00 a.m. Saturday through Thursday. WALKER Memorial services for James V.

(Jim) Walker will be held at 7:00 p.m. Monday in the Highland Hill Baptist Church with Rev. Stanley Tarr officiating. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Highland Hill Baptist Church Memorial Fund in his memory. Arrangements by Mountain View Funeral Home.

CHOLE Services for Ida B. Chole will be held Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints, Puyallup Ward. Interment, Miller Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bremerton. POWERS FUNERAL HOME of Puyallup in charge.

River Road crash scene late Friday, hours after the accident, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. The identity of the child, information on whether there were other injuries and details on the crash were unavailable. Anne Mrs. William J. (Anne Holmes, 70, a resident of Tacoma since 1946, died Thursday.

Mrs. Holmes was born in Pierre, S.D. She was a retired elementary school teacher, having taught in the Tacoma and Fife school districts. She was a member of the Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts and Rainbow Girls and had been an officer with the American Red Cross during World War II. She was a Toastmistress and a member of the Corinthian Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, and the Veterans of Ida Mrs.

Helmut (Ida Chole, 80, of Puyallup died Thursday. Mrs. Chole, who was born in Harvey, N.D., resided in Bremerton for 38 years before moving to Puyallup. In addition to her husband, survivors include two daughters, Lil- Robert Kroll Robert Guy Kroll, 57, of Puyallup died Thursday. A native of Bellingham, Mr.

Kroll moved to Puyallup years ago from Garden Grove, Calif. Mr. Kroll, who retired after serving 22 years in the Navy, was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. He worked as an accountant for Arco. Survivors include his wife, Leonora; two daughters, Barbara Gobozy of San Diego, and Catherine Casteel of Escondido, a son, Robert Jr.

of Riverside, Calif. and six grandchildren. Hill Funeral Home, Puyallup, is in charge. Funeral notices LEACH Memorial services for Clif Leach will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday in the University Place Presbyterian Church, 8121 West 27th St.

Pastor James E. Mead officiating. Viewing, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday in the Mountain View Funeral Home, 4100 Steilacoom Blvd.

SW. No flowers by request. If friends so desire, donations may be made in his memory to the Alzheimer's Disease Related Disorders Association (ADRDA), 120 Northgate Plaza, Room 345, Seattle, WA. 98125 or the American Heart Association, 120 Tacoma Ave. Tacoma, WA.

98403. Honorary pallbearers: Sonny Achziger, Burrell Brown, Jim Drummond, Herb Horner, Neil McConaghy, Robert P. Mallon, Roger Schuck, Wilt Thompson, James M. Will, James W. Will, Steve Yadeskie, Bud Younie and Al Zatkovich.

ALLOTTA Mass of Christian Burial for Leo Allotta will be celebrated, 10:00 a.m. Monday at St. Rita's Catholic Church, The Rosary will be recited, 7:00 p.m. Sunday at the church. Father Carmine J.

Sacco, S.J., Celebrant. Entombment, Calvary Cloisters. Pallbearers: John Messina, Frank Messina, Stan Jordan, John Wonder, John Fortino, Michael Fortino. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Rita's Catholic Church or the American Lung Association.

Arrangements and services under the direction of MELLINGER FUNERAL HOME. MARKOVICH Mass of Christian Burial for Isabel L. Markovich will be celebrated Monday, 10:00 a.m. at St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Gig Harbor.

Rev. Michael Angelovic, Celebrant. Rosary to be recited Sunday, 7:00 p.m. at St. Nicholas Catholic Church.

Interment, Calvary Cemetery. Pallbearers: Nick L. Markovich Mitch A. Markovich, Joseph P. Markovich, Peter J.

Markovich Paul A. Peterson, Mark S. Peterson, David M. Peterson. Contributions may be made to ones favority charity.

Gaffney-Cassedy Allen Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Leo Leo Allotta, 71, of Tacoma, died Friday. Mr. Allotta, a retired grader for North Pacific Plywood, was born in Italy and resided in the Tacoma area for 54 years. He was a member of St.

Rita's Catholic. Church, Tacoma Elks Lodge and Sons of Myrtle Billingsley Myrtle M. Billingsley, 91, of Enumclaw died Tuesday. Mrs. Billingsley, a resident of Enumclaw for many years, born in Rockland, Idaho.

She was a member of the Enumclaw Senior Center. Survivors include a daughter, Verda Bartoy of Enumclaw; five grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Enumclaw Funeral Home is in charge. Allotta Italy and was a life member of AmVets. Survivors include his wife, Anna, and a sister, Rosina Brancato in Italy.

Morley-Mellinger Funeral Home is in charge. Oscar Hawthorne Oscar Waldo Hawthorne, 76, of Tacoma, died Wednesday. Born in South Carolina, Mr. Hawthorne resided in the Tacoma area for the past 15 years. He retired from the Army as a mechanic and was a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

He was a Mason and a member of the Disabled Veterans Association. Surviving is a sister, Pearl Bonner of Baltimore, Md. Oakwood Hill Funeral Home is in charge..