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OBITUARIES Defacement of sacred sites captured in 'spiritual' images Obituaries published by The Arizona Republic In its Pictures show art's destruction Frank Meaatna, 69, of Phoenix, a film director, died June 21, 1907. He was bomin Brooklyn, N.Y., and was an Air Force veteran. Survivors include his fiancess, Candi Torres; daughters, Anto nitte and Camille; and sister, Josephine Dianapoli. Visitation: 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Newcomer Family Mortuary Chaiel, 6812 E.

Thomas Road Scottsdale. Julie Anne Mlrhunovich, 41, of Scottsdale, a medical technician, died June 22, 1997. She was bom in Billings, Mont Survivors Include her parents, Rita and Burt Zambonini; and brothers, Steven and Daniel Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Hansen Mortuary, 8314 N. Seventh Phoenix.

Services: 10 a.m. Wednesday, at the mortuary. Contributions: American Diabetes Association Arizona Affiliate 2328 W. Royal Palm Road, Suite Phoenix, AZ ar021 and Hospice of the Valley, 1510 E. Flower St, Phoenix, AZ 85014-6669.

Joe R. Diaz, 76, of Phoenix, a retired employee of Pasadena, died June 22, 1997. He was bom in Phoenix. Survivors include his wife, Mary Louise; sons, John, James and David; brother, Edward and one grandchild. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Grimshaw Bethany Chapel, 710 W. Bethany Home Road, Phoenix. Services will be held in California Felipe Lopei Dimaa, 67, of Phoenix, a truck driver, died June 20, 1997. He was bom in Santa Monica, Calif. Survivors include his wife, Louise; daughters, Sonia Torres and Mary Lou Jones; sons, Roy, Hymie, Roland, Jerry and Samuel; sisters Delia Parelini and Connie Cruz; brothers, Juan, Gonzalo, Trifon, Aucencio and Julio; and 12 grandchildren.

Services: 10 am. Thursday, St Anthony Catholic Church, 909 S. First Phoenix. Newcomer Family Mortuary and Cremation. Beatrice Bertha FleischfreHser, 77, of Phoenix, a retired seamstress, died June 21, 1997.

She was born in Milwaukee. Survivors include her daughter, Susan Virgil; son, Frederick; sisters, Florence Rulf and Edith Carlson; six grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Greer-Wilson Funeral Home, 5921 W. Thomas Road, Phoenix, with rosary at 6:30 p.m.

Services: 10 am. Thursday, at the funeral home. Bernese Millliollin, 83, of Mesa, a retired retail sales manager, died June 17, 1997. She was bom in Obert, By Greg Toppo New Mexican SANTA FE Lorran Meares tells stories about what happens to Indian rock art and historic sites when nobodyfc watching: stories of thieves using power tools to chisel petro-glyphs from the rock, of vandals spray-painting over pictographs, of developers and mining companies obliterating ancient sacred sites. For the past 10 years, Meares and his wife, Charlotte, have crossed North America, photographing the vandalism, destruction and looting' of art and artifacts at hundreds of sites of American Indian culture.

The Elkhorn, couple travels to the Southwest every summer, often at the invitation of Native American groups or individuals. They visit sites and document their news columns are provided free of charge as a public service. It is the newspaper's policy to provide this service for residents of Maricopa and Pinal counties and the residents of other counties whose funeral or burial will be in Maricopa or Pinal counties. Photos of publishable quality are printed on a space-available basis, also free of charge. 77ie Republic cannot be responsible for returning unsolicited photos.

Parties desiring specifically worded funeral announcements may place them through their mortuaries In the paid classified advertising section. ANDRl'S, Mvrtle H. Nonny BLAC KARD, Waller F. BUYCK, Virginia C. CAM PAG NA, Juieph Michael CHR1SLER, Mary Jane CROSS, Freda Louise DIAZ, Joe R.

DIMAS, Felipe Lopez FLEISCHFRESSER, Beatrice GRIM, Harriet Virginia GL'SIIERT, Thomas E. MALE, Aaron Todd HAWKINS, France! T. HILL, Paul JORDAN, Helen S. LARGESSE, Victor Earl MARTZ, Barbara MALERMAN, Dean L. MELOTTE, Threon G.

MESSINA. Frank MICHUNOVTCH, Julie Anne MILLHOLLIN, Bernese MONCE, Robert D. PETTERSON, Cora J. ROC MASK A. Albert Joseph READ, Nelson Ralph RENDAHL, Milou ROHE, Katherine Annabelle SCIIIELER, George H.

SHELDRAKE, Minnie Ellen ZrTs "jr. i. if, k- Harriet Virginia Grim, 85, of Phoenix, a medical secretary, died June 18, 1997. She was bom in Harrisburg, Pa Survivors include her son, Dale sisters, Mildred Alter and Dorothy Lighty; five grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild. Services will be held in Pennsylvtjiia Contributions: American Heart Association, Arizona Affiliate, 2929 S.

48th St, Tempe, AZ 85282. Best Funeral Services and Chapel. Thomas E. Gushert, 68, of Peoria, a grocery manager, died June 20, 1997. He was bom in Akron, Ohio, and was a Korean War Army veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth, daughters, Barbara Barber and Kimberly Tabor; sons, David A and Thomas sister Sonna Ruth Snoke; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Wednesday, First Presbyterian Church, 12225 N. 103rd Sun City, AZ 85351 Contributions: to the church. Menke Funeral Home.

STONE, Larry Kent SI LLIVAN, Jack W. WIGHTMAN, Anne Brunhilde WILLETT, Joseph Arthur Lorran MeareVNew Mexican The National Park Service commissioned Lorran Meares to photograph sites such as the Pueblo Alto ruins near Chaco Canyon, N.M. Neb. Survivors include her daughters, H. Maurine Domian and Karen R.

Tackett No services are planned. Mesa Heritage Mortuary. Robert D. Monce, 67, of Phoenix, an aerospace laboratory technician, died June 17, 1997, and was a Korean War veteran. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy; daughter, Donna; son, Dennis; sisters, Dorothy Weaver and Barbara Jean; and two grandchildren.

Services have been held. Greenwood Memory Lawn Mortuary. Cora J. Petterson, 96, of Mesa, a homemaker, died June 22, 1997. She was bom in Detroit Lakes, Minn.

Survivors include her daughter, Ethel Forsberg. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Falconer Funeral Home, 251 W. Juniper Gilbert Services: 10:30 am. Trinity Baptist Church, 2130 E.

University Drive, Mesa Albert Joseph Prochaska, 77, of Mesa, a retired mechanic, died June 11, 1997. He was bom in Des Plaines, 111. and was a Marine Corps veteran. Survivors include his wife, Audrey daughters, Alana Snifka and Alice Mortensen; son Albert Prochaska; and four grandchildren. Services are private.

Mesa Heritage Mortuary. Nelson Ralph Read, 61, of Tempe, a mechanical engineer, died June 21, 1997. He was bom in Phoenix. Survivors include his wife Vera; daughters, Cindy and Ruth; sons, Jon and Danny; and nine grandchildren. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, 10th Ward, 1050 W. Grove Parkway, Tempe. Services: 10 am. Wednesday, at the church. Meldrum Mortuary.

Milou Rendahl, 72, of Phoenix, a real estate sales agent, died June 12, 1997. She was bom in Belgium. Survivors include her husband, Dean; daughters, Nancy Chaboun and Joan McNamara; brother, Pierre Labeau; and two grandchildren. Services: 5 p.m. Friday, Messinger Mortuary Chapel, 7601 E.

Indian School Road, Scottsdale. Katherine Annabelle Rohe, 67, of Phoenix, a bank bookkeeper, died June 15, 1997. She was bom in Phoenix Survivors include daughters, Linda Kay Smith and Laura Sue Stapieton; sons, Calvin Joseph Higgins and William Alfred Higgins; sister, Dolores Audrey; brother, Alfred Frank; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. There are no services. Guaranty Mortuary.

George II. Schieler, 74, of Glendale, a truck driver, died June 18, 1997. He was bom in Melrose Park, 111., and was a demise. They also photograph the sites as fine art in one-of-a-kind, often colorfully lighted scenes, which they "light paint" by means of homemade spotlights at nighL "It's his personal commitment he just enjoys doing it He doesn't expect any profit on it," said Zuni muralist Alex Seotewa, who worked with Meares to produce a poster of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church on the Zuni Reservation. The poster has helped the tribe raise money to maintain the historic structure and its interior murals.

Joe Pachak, a Blanding, Utah, sculptor who documents rock art for preservation archaeologists in Utah, said Meares' photos have "taught a lot of people the appreciation of both rock art and Anasazi ruins" in the Southwest "I think there's an intrinsic value to his photography it is a record of the way it was, the way the ruins and rock art happened to be. They're very, very crisp, clean images" Pachak said. For Meares, photographing sacred Indian sites is personal. It's a means of expressing the loss he feels at the disappearance of the natural surroundings of his youth. Meares, 49, grew up in Tampa, where, after World War II, developers drained swamps and phosphate mines killed rivers.

When he began photographing sacred sites, the remembrance of that loss "was paramount on my mind." Meares began taking pictures i in high school and became serious about photography as an undergraduate at Mercer University, a small private college in Macon, where he studied zoology. (Meares is) a visionary guy. I was terribly impressed with what he did. I think he wanted to prove to people that he was standing in spiritual places, and I think he did that very, very well. Jim Cohee sierra club books Myrtle H.

Andrutt, 91, of Glendale, a piano instructor, died June 21, 1997. She was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Survivors include her husband, William; daughters, DeEtte McC'lure, Paula Peterson, Mary Wilson Hovey and Wanda Wright; sons, Gerwin, Dennis and Reed Woodland; sister, Jewel Johnson; 47 grandchildren; 62 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Services: 10 am. Wednesday, Church of Jesus Christ of Utter-day Saints, 4748 W.

Orangewood Glendale, with visitation an hour prior. Chapel of the Chimes. Nonny Arena-Maxfield, 69, of Surprise, a homemaker, died June 19, was bom in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was a president of Tops Club. Survivors include her husband, Rufus A.

daughters, Bonnie Hansen and Jane Staats; sons, Bartolo and Frank Arena; sisters, Marie Burglar, Judy Latone and Loretta' Verni, brother, Frank Scanio; 21 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sunland Mortuary, 15826 Del Webb Sun City, with services at 3 p.m. Wednesday, at the mortuary. Contributions: Arizona Kidney Foundation, 4019 N.

44th Phoenix, AZ 85018. Walter F. Blackard, 85, of Mesa, a retired employee for Ironwood Public and Catholic schools, died June 21, 1997. He was born in Tennessee. Survivors include his wife, Kathryn; daughter, Polly Dagras; and son, Richard "Dick." Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Mountain View Memorial Gardens, 7900 E. Apache Trail, Mesa, with rosary at 7 p.m. Services: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mesa. Contributions: Hospice Family Care, 5037 E.

Broadway Road, Mesa. robbers. Meares photographed many of the sites for the committee, the U.S. Forest Service and tne federal Bureau of Land Management The photographs, around which Meares built slide shows on the subject of preservation, soon became his way of making people aware of the need to preserve the sites. The slide shows, as well as trips Meares continues to lead to the sites, also have encouraged students to begin photographing sites for preservation.

In 1993, the Sierra Club produced a photo calendar of Meares' sacred sites fine artwork, which won the Curator's Choice award as best single-photographer calendar of the year from the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown, N.Y. Jim Cohee, a senior editor at Sierra Club Books in San Francisco, which produced the calendar, said it was one of the more popular and unusual calendars the group has published "He's a visionary guy. I was terribly impressed with what he did," Cohee said. "I think he wanted to prove to people that he was standing in spiritual places, and I think he did that very, very well." Profits from the calendars or Meares' own prints go to preservation efforts. Meares said the biggest peril to sacred sites these days comes from "the sheer magnitude of population growth," such as a road project proposed for Petroglyph National Monument on Albuquerque's west side and the pressures placed on sites by mining.

Aaron Todd Hale, 46, of Laveen, an airline pilot, died Junetl4, 1997. He was bom in Des Moines, Iowa Survivors include his sister, Lucretia Knowlton. Private services will be held in Illinois. Arizona Aftercare. Frances T.

Hawkins, 87, df Litchfield Park, a retired teacher, died Junel8, 1997. She was bom in Erwin, Tenn. Survivors include her daughters, Frances Bliiir and Susan Hill; son-in-law, Robert Blair; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services have been held. Contributions: Hospice Family Care 7330 N.

16th Phoenix, AZ 85020. Paul Hill, 83, of Phoenix, a retired bus driver, died June 21, 1997. He was bom in Glenmary, and was an Army veteran. Survivors include his daughters, Jackie Brown and Sandra son, Paul Allen Hill brother, Charles; nine grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. No services are planned.

Arizona Aftercare. Helen S. Jordan, 88, of Scottsdale, a social worker for the Foundation for Blind Children, died June 19, 1997. She was bom in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Survivors include her brother-in-law, Kenneth Jordan; and niece, Barbara Kies.

Mass: 10 am. Wednesday, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 11300 N. 64th Scottsdale, with visitation 30 minutes before services. Messinger Mortuary. Victor Earl render the scenes in three dimensions a format Meares likens to peering through a keyhole into another world.

He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida in Orlando and a master's in fine arts at the University of Denver, where he taught as artist-in-residence. A show featuring Meares' stereo prints caught the attention of the National Park Service, which in 1989 commissioned him to create posters for Chaco Culture National Historic Park's United Nations designation as a World Heritage Site. "That was the start of the whole thing," Meares said. Meares began traveling frequently to the Southwest on photography expeditions, both with classes and on his own. Soon the Sierra Club offered him a spot on its Native American Sites Committee, formed to preserve Indian cultural sites.

Work for the committee took Meares each summer to sites plundered by relic hunters and grave World Warfl Army veteran. He was a member of the American Legion. Survivors include his wife, Wilma, daughter, Ella Mae Rundgren; sons, George H. Jr. and Donald sisters, Mae Schultz and One day in Macon, Meares stumbled upon Rose Hill, a Civil War-era cemetery, a place he recalls gave him his first taste of "resonance that came from the land." He began to use the cemetery as a backdrop for black-and-white photographs.

Soon he changed his major to art, returned to Tampa and took a job with the University of South Florida as a photographer. He began working in color as well, perfecting the art of stereoscopic photography with homemade cameras, the parts salvaged from military surplus bins. Those photographs, usually viewed in matching pairs through an old-fashioned stereoscope, Virginia C. Buyck, 76, of Scottsdale, a i Largesse, 65, of Mesa, a retired technical writer for AlliedSignal, died June 7, 1997. He was bom in Worcester, and was an Army veteran.

He was also a member of homemaker, died i June 21, 1997. She mt. Was born in Roch- f- ester, N.Y. Survi DEATHS 801 Funeral Announcements vors include her husband, John daughters, Barbara EARLY. Valencia Cutter, 51 of San Carlos passed She Pacifist monk Achaiya Tulsi, 83, leader of Jain sect in India away June 17th at Mesa Lutheran Hospl was porn Feb 4, 1946 In Apache Camp In it Mesa Lutheran Hospital, In the Arizona Wildlife Federation.

Survivors include his daughter Karen Baker; sons, Victor and Mark; sister Shirley AZ. She was a homemaker and, with her hus er husl iand, her Vale a Christian evangelist. She is survived by tea bv lentlna Betty Thompson; brothers, Charles Ker-ner and Herbert; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Services have been held. Best Funeral Services and Chapel.

Minnie Ellen Sheldrake, 83, of Peoria, a cafeteria worker for Washington School District, died June 21, 1997. She was bom in Canada Survivors include her daughters, Arvilla Todd, Marilyn Vellutato and Betty Louise Sims; son, Edward eight grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren. Services: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Shepherd of the Valley Methodist Church, 3039 W. Cactus Road, Phoenix, with visitation an hour prior.

Camelback Sunset. Chapel Funeral Home. Larry Kent Stone, 49, of Young, the owner of a cattle ranch, died June 18, 1997. He was a chairman of the Phoenix Comancheros. Survivors include his wife Diana Kaye; sons, Michael and Patrick; and grandchildren, Kathryn, Kassie and Darrel.

Services: 6:30 am. Saturday, Old MacDonalds Ranch, 26450 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 13, Scottsdale. Jack W. Sullivan, 76, of Mayer, a retired commercial truck driver, died June 22, 1997.

He was bom in Ramona, Okla, and was a World Warn Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife, Melissa; sons, Preston and Lanny; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Services: 10 am. Wednesday, Valley of the Sun Memorial Park, 10940 E. Chandler Heights Road, Chandler.

Valley of the Sun Memorial Park. Rebecca Early of Ear Preuss of Lansino, Glooe; a son Joseph Lee Early ot Peridot; two sisters. Alero Cutter of San Carlos and Krista Cutter of Phx; two brothers, Elkln and Aaron Cutter of San and Crooklyn. Carlos; fo A. Duesberry, Patricia J.

Waldman; and Susan V. Phelps; son, John W. Buyck; sister, Jeanne M. Halpin; brother, J. Richard Corcoran; and 13 grandchildren.

Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Messinger Mortuary arid Chapel, 7601 E. Indian School Road, Scottsdale. Mass: 2 p.m. Wednesday, St.

Patrick's Catholic Church, 10815 N. 84th Scottsdale. Contributions: Hospice of the Valley, 1510 E. Flower Phoenix, four sons-in-law, John Chippewa, Douglas Dale Gilbert and Chris Tnorman; and seven David's moore, i grandchildren. Services have been held pa' Sarford Funeral Home handled arrangements Services have been held Compiled from reports by the Associated Press.

PEARSON, Barbara Jean, beloved wife, mother and former apartment ownermanager In Globe, AZ, passed away on June 22, 1997. She was born in Buffalo, OK on March 1931. Survivors Include her husband, Bill, daughter Vicky, sons Randy, Ken grandchlt- lerry, aaugmers-in-iaw Kay people, rlsten A Kri! oren nikki, Amanoa, great-grandson Mosese, sisters, AZ 85014. Joseph Michael Campagna, 64, visitation 6 to 9pm on Lamont AAortuarv. 328 S.

of DeLage; and nine grandchildren. Services: 9 am. Friday, National Memorial Cemetary of Arizona, 23029 N. Cave Creek Road, Phoenix. Contributions: in lieu of flowers, Arizona Wildlife Federation, 644 N.

Country Club, Suite Mesa, AZ85201. ThomasHull Memorial Funeral Home. Barbara Martz, 73, of Mesa, a homemaker, died June 22, 1997. She was bom in Portland, Ore. Survivors include her daughter, Bonnie sons, Dave and Dennis; sister, Pat Shumway, brother, Lanny Legg; and one grandchild.

Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Bunker's Garden Chapel, 33 N. Centennial Way, Mesa Services: 10 am. Thursday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 977 E. Broadway, Mesa, with a visitation an hour prior to service.

25th af 1 wz i i Services will be af 9am Wednesday, Ji Wilson D. "Don" Palmer was born in Omaha Lamont Mortuary graveside services fo follow at Mountain Breeze cemetery. Throughout her long panie wim cancer, uaroara remained optimistic, Barbara was a devoted wife. friend who will be deeply tar iriy ot iuurdue mother, granatin missed by us all. car ng courageous.

mother, grandmother in 1915. He died June 21, 1997. 807 Don was a decorated World War II Pacific Funeral Directors Aviation Veteran, retired after 21 yrs of service in the Army Air CorpU.S.A.F. as a Chief Warrant Officer. GREEN ACRES MORTUARY 401 N.

HAYDEN RD. SCOTTSDALE Starting in 1956, he worked for the Bank of Douglas which became tne Arizona Bank in 1961. Don entered 945-2654 NEW DELHI, India Acharya Tulsi, a Jainist monk who preached non-violence to millions of people across India, died June 23 in western India following a heart attack, local news agencies reported. Mr. Tulsi, 83, was chief of the Terapanthi Jain Shwetambar Sang-ham, a sect of Jainism.

He died in Bikaner, 230 miles southwest of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India and United News of India news agencies reported. Many of the 4.5 million followers of Jainism, an offshoot of Hinduism, believe in not injuring any living organism. Monks wear face masks to avoid killing insects by breathing them in accidentally. Frances Foster, 73, actress co-founded Negro Ensemble RICHMOND, Va. Frances Foster, a character actress, stage director and founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company, died June 17.

She was 73. Ms. Foster was at the Negro Ensemble Company from 1967 until 1986, appearing in more than 25 productions. She won an Obie Award in 1985 for sustained excellence of performance. Her work in television included acting in the daytime dramas One Life to Life, Ryan's Hope and All My Children.

She also appeared in the Spike Lee movies Malcolm into politics in 1964. He was elected Tues 10:30 A.M. Tues. 4:00 P.M. CQNNELL, Mary Rita WILSON, Kathryn served as the Clerk of the buperior OAAM Tues.

11:00 A.M. Tues. 2:30 P.i EEK, Ruby PENDIN asm, ciara 622 Phoenix, a sheet metal superintendant, died June 21, 1997. He was bom in Chicago. Survivors include his daughters, Debbi McKenney, Beth Carlson, Gloria Rogers and Jami Kwaad; son Michael; sisters, Lillian Stockman and Joan Vasnik; and nine grandchildren.

Visitation: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Hansen Mortuary, 8314 N. Seventh Phoenix. Mass: 10:30 am. Wednesday, St Luke's Catholic Church, 19644 N.

Seventh Phoenix. Mary Jane Chrisler, 61, of Phoenix, a financial services employee, died June 18, 1997. She was bom in Cumberland, Wis. Survivors include her husband, Raymon; daughter, Karen Ann Willert, son Frank Jerome Allen; sisters, Sarah Lyksett, Loraine McGrew and Betty Zezza; brothers, John and George Schullo; and grandchild, Katheryn A. Willert Private services will be held.

Contributions: Arthritis Foundation, 777 E. Missouri Suite 119, Phoenix, AZ 85014. Lowmans Arizona Funeral Home. Freda Louise Cross, 75, of Sun City, a grocery store meat wrapper, died June 22, 1997. She was bom in Grove, Okla, and was a member of the Phoenix Antique and Collectible Club.

Survivors include her husband, Robert; and daughter, Sandra Culshaw. Services: 10 am. Wednesday, Ajo Cemetery, 400 W. First St, Ajo. Best Funeral Services.

Court for Maricopa County from 1967 until he retired in 1982. He was a Valley of the sun resident for over 37yrs. Don his wife Lucille moved to the Prescott Valley area in 1992. Don was a member of the Mingus View Presbyterian Church. He Florists Phoenix Flower Shops 40-1300 Open 7 days will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 56 yrs, Lucille, his three children: Anne Brunhilde Wightman, 86, of Scottsdale, a retired teacher, died June 21, 1997.

She was born in Spokane, Wash. Survivors include her husband, Walter. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Messinger Mortuary, 7601 E. Indian School Road, Scottsdale.

Services: 2 p.m. Wednesday, at the mortuary. Contributions: Animal's Benefit Club of Arizona, P.O. Box 26627, Phoenix, AZ 85068. Joseph Arthur Willett, 85, of Phoenix, a retired custodian, died June 19, 1997.

He was bom in Lynn, and was a World War II and Korean War Navy veteran. He was a member of of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors include his wife, Eleanor, daughters, Mary Celley, Jean Dollard and Joanne sons, Joseph E. and David and six grandchildren. Services: 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, St, James Catholic Church, 19640 N. 35th Glendale. Contributions: Veterans Hospital Memorial Fund, 650 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ 85012. Hansen Mortuary.

Dean L. Mauerman, 69, of Sun City, an electrician, died June 21, 1997. He was born in Olympia, and was a Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife, Mabel; daughters, Donna J. Smith and Carolene Jones; sons, Bob Rixe, Greg and Cleve; brother, Dale; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Visitation: 4 to 6p.m. Tuesday, Sunland' Mortuary, 15826 Del Webb Blvd. Sun City. Services will be held in Washington. Contributions: to a favorite charity.

Threon G. Melotte, 76, of Mesa, a retired X-ray equipment electrical engineer, died June 22, 1997. He was born in Fort Atkinson, and was a World War II Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife, Da Mae; daughters, Terri Sena, Michele Zind and Renee; son, Bruce; sister, Leah Rose Kctty; and eight grandchildren. Services: 9:30 am.

Wednesday, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 2475 N. 32nd St, Mesa, AZ 85213. Melcher's Mission Chapel. 659 Tery Wilson, Howard Irving Catherine Lou Joseph. He was the proud grandfather of two grandsons four granddaughters.

Cemetery Lots, Monuments Svcs Services will be held at Mingus view RESTHAVEN PARK CEMETARY Jtttern. Phx. Soace 1 7. Block 21. Lot 3.

43lf tlou' Section F. Presbyterian Church on June 26, 1997 Call (605)525-1018 daytime at 8310 E. Leigh Prescott Valley, AZ. Memorials may be sent to YRMC Hospice Restricted Services, 1003 Willow Creek Prescott, AZ Mt View Garden of Wells plots, $900 each obo garden sold out! 730-6016 1 slde-bv-side companion marble front niches In 86301, or Mingus View Presbyterian Church Building Fund, PO Box 27408, Prescott Valley, AZ 86312. open-air mausoleum at Memory Lawn Chapel Mausoleum, valued at SI 400, wit sea Tor WOO OBO.

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