A6 Tuesday, June 4, 2013 OBITUARIES
Roberta Anne Barbour Willis
Mom was ushered into heaven at home on Friday, May 31, 2013, in the presence of her loving family. We were honored to be at Mom’s side, for she brought us into this world and we were at her side as she ascended into heaven. She was cremated according to her wishes. A private family burial of her ashes will be Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at South Park Cemetery. Roberta was born April 16, 1932, in Kirksville, Mo. Her parents were Dr. L.D. Barbour and Kay Barbour. Her parents preceded her in death. She is also preceded in death by her brother John Barbour. Those left to cherish her memory are her husband Maurice Willis of Roswell; sons, Stephen Willis and wife Paula of Roswell, Dr. Donald Willis of Roswell and John Willis and wife Samantha of Las Cruces; daughter Leaslee Neff and husband Edsel of Roswell; brother Dr. L.J. Barbour and wife Nancy of Roswell; sister Donna Kay Fergeson and husband Ted of Midland, Texas; sister-in-law Jean Willis of Roswell; brother -in-law Ken Willis and wife Kay of Colorado, Dotty Barbour of Roswell, Margy Barbour of Roswell, her aunt Freda Harris of Albuquerque; her grandchildren, Shannon Willis, Erika Willis, Steven Willis, Sean Willis, Jaren Willis, Jason Willis, Chris Neff,
NATION/OBITUARIES Alycia Neff, Cameron Neff, Jeremiah Willis, Myranda Willis, Jalyn Willis and Charitee Willis and numerous beloved nieces and nephews. Roberta was a lifelong resident of Roswell. She was a longtime member of First United Methodist Church and for the past 15 years she attended Christ’s Church. She was a past member of the Roswell Assistance League. Roberta traveled with her husband throughout his military career and spent the majority of her time as a super fan of her kids and grandkids. She would attend as many activities as her kids and grandkids participated in. Roberta was an avid Packer fan. She could do anything with arts and crafts and was an outstanding cook. Her arts and crafts were very unique and creative; everyone looked forward to receiving them. Christmas was especially her favorite time of the year. Every family member had their own special stocking, even the dogs. She will greatly be missed, but her love and memories will be cherished forever. We look forward to the day that we will all be reunited in heaven. The tears of grief we shared today will be replaced with tears of joy.
Mom There is a Friend whose heart I know, Her heart with me everywhere I go. Mom’s faith so strong for her family, Bound that faith to justify in me. In her eyes there is Hope she can see, Despite my faults, much good in me. Mom’s love pure as the most beautiful day, With all my Love I wish to repay. So selfless my Mother, my Angel Divine, My debt to you eternal, dear Mother mine… Your Loving Family
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Psalm 116:15 In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorials be made to the charitable organization of your choice. Arrangements have been entrusted to Ballard Funeral Home & Crematory. An online registry can be accessed at ballardfuneralhome.com.
William S. Marshall
Bill Marshall passed away on May 31, 2013. He was dearly loved by his family and countless friends, all of whom appreciated him for his optimism, integrity, sense of humor and generosity. Bill was born on Oct. 8, 1929, in Los Angeles, to Edith and Samuel Marshall. In 1938, he moved with his family to Roswell. He graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in 1947. In 1951, Bill received a B.A. in geology from Cornell University. He then served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army. Following his military service, he attended graduate school at Columbia University and received a M.A. in geology. He was employed by Schermerhorn Oil Corporation in Hobbs and Midland, Texas, from 1954 to 1956. Bill joined Marshall & Winston Inc. as a geologist in 1957, and became the president and CEO in 1967, following the death of Samuel Marshall Sr. Under
Bill's leadership, Marshall & Winston grew from a small royalty company to become a substantial, independent oil and gas exploration and production company. While he served as president, Marshall & Winston made many important discoveries, including the Blackard-Clinta complex in Borden County, Texas, the Lonesome Dove II Field in Concho County, Texas, and a significant step-out and expansion of the South Francis Hill gas field in Edwards County, Texas. In 2007, along with his father, Samuel Marshall and partner Don Winston, Bill was inducted into the Petroleum Hall of Fame in recognition of his accomplishments in the industry. Bill loved Midland, and enjoyed contributing to the community in many ways. He served as president of the Board of the Museum of the Southwest, president of the Board of the Midland College Foundation, president of the Board of the Midland Racquet Club, and president of the Board of the Petroleum Club of Midland. He also served as trustee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation, deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Midland, and founding director of Texas Commerce Bank, Midland. Bill is survived by his wife of 52 years Sue Heidelberg Marshall; one son William S. Marshall Jr.; daughter-in-law Tracy Marshall; grandchildren, Caroline, Luke, Adrienne, and Lillian, all of Midland; brother James R. Marshall of Gardnerville, Nev., as well as many nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 4 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Texas Ave. Midland, Texas 79701, with Dr. Steve Schorr officiating. A reception will follow. In lieu of flowers, the family would like donations
Roswell Daily Record to be made to First Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Texas Ave. Midland, Texas 79701, or the charity of your choice. Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Midland. Online condolences can be made at npwelch.com.
Thelma Stuart
Graveside services are scheduled for 10 a.m., Thursday, June 6, 2013, at South Park Cemetery, for Thelma Evelyn Stuart, 92, who passed away on Saturday, June 1, 2013, at Mission Arch Care Center. Rev. Troy Grant of Berrendo Baptist Church will be officiating. Thelma was bor n in Golden, Okla., on Oct. 28, 1920, to Joseph Noe and Mary E. Lowe. Her parents preceded her in death. She is also preceded in death by her husband William B. Stuart, son-in-law Wallace C. Warick, and her brothers, Richard, Gavon, Dalton and Lawton. Those left to cherish her memory are her two daughters, Norma Jean Warick and Connie Stuart; her sister Sadie Green from Springfield, Ore.; grandchildren, Sabra, Robbyn and Troy; great-grandchildren, Cory, Brandon, Nicki, Tonya, Kenny and Thatcher; great-great-grandchildren, Gage, Brody, Hayden, Shane, Kaitlin, Ava, Rylee and Addison, along with numerous nieces and
nephews.
Thelma moved from Broken Bow, Okla., to Ruidoso when she was 14 years old and attended high school in Ruidoso and worked for the Ruidoso Junction as a cab driver and a waitress during World War II. In high school she played basketball for Hondo High School. She moved to Roswell in 1948, she was a lifetime member of DAVA and was the president of the American Legion Auxiliary and a member of the Chaves County Sherrif f Posse. She also was baptized in her teenage years in the Ruidoso River into the Baptist faith and a member of Berrendo Baptist Church. Thelma took in ironing; she met and made numerous friends. She also drove a school bus for Pollards from 1974 to 1985, from where she retired. She loved fishing and camping in Lincoln County. Her hobbies included gardening, working in her yard and all sorts of needle crafts. Thelma also loved watching high school football and the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos play. She always had the American flag flying and loved what it represents. Thelma loved to tell everyone about her life and what she endured and how lucky and blessed they were, she lived every day of her life to the fullest.
Pallbearers will be Rusty Jones, Tommy Dove, Brandon Dove, T roy Warick, Kenny Warick, and Harold Whitaker.
Thelma’s family expresses gratitude to the staff at Mission Arch Care Center, the ICU staff at Easter n New Mexico Hospital and the medical floor staff, respiratory staf f for all the kindness, care and concern they showed Thelma.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Ballard Funeral Home and Crematory. An online registry can be accessed at ballardfuneralhome.com.
New Jersey Sen. Lautenberg dead at 89 Hawaii TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The next time a flight attendant reminds you there’s no smoking or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank Lautenberg. The liberal Democratic senator from New Jersey left his mark on the everyday lives of millions of Americans, whether they know it or not. In the 1980s, he was a driving force behind the laws that banned smoking on most U.S. flights and made 21 the drinking age in all 50 states. Lautenberg, a multimillionaire businessman who became an accomplished — if often underestimated — politician, died Monday at a New York hospital after suffering complications from viral pneumonia. His funeral will be Wednesday in New York City. At 89, he was the oldest person in the Senate and the last of 115 World War II veterans to serve there. “He improved the lives of countless Americans with his commitment to our nation’s health and safety,” President Barack Obama said in a statement, “from improving our public transportation to protecting citizens from gun violence to ensuring that members of our military and their families get the care they deserve.” Lautenberg served nearly three decades in the Senate in two stints, beginning with an upset victory in 1982 over Republican Rep. Millicent Fenwick, the pipe-smoking, pearl-wearing patrician who was the model for the cartoon character Lacey Davenport in “Doonesbury.” Possessed with neither a dynamic speaking style nor a telegenic face, he won his last race in 2008 at age 84, becoming the first New Jersey politician ever elected to five Senate terms. Over the years, he was a reliable Democratic vote on such issues as unions, guns and the environment. A native of one of the most congested and heavily industrialized and polluted states, he worked to secure hundreds of millions of dollars for mass transit projects,
ardently defended Amtrak and pushed for money for the Superfund toxic-waste cleanup program. He was the author of a 1984 law that threatened to withhold federal highway money from states that did not adopt a drinking age of 21, a measure that passed amid rising alarm over drunken driving. At the time, some states allowed people as young as 18 to drink. By 1988, every state was in compliance with the law, which has been widely credited with reducing highway deaths. A former smoker, Lautenberg was one of two prime sponsors of the 1989 law that banned smoking on all domestic flights of less than six hours, one of several antismoking laws he championed. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called Lautenberg “a patriot whose success in business and politics made him a great American success story and a standout even within the fabled Greatest Generation.” Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who frequently tangled with Lautenberg, said: “I think the best way to describe Frank Lautenberg — and the way he would probably want to be described to all of you today — is as a fighter. Sen. Lautenberg fought for the things he believed in, and sometimes he just fought because he liked to.” “I give him praise on a life welllived,” the governor added. Christie will appoint an interim successor. A special election could be held in the fall, or the appointed successor could serve until the 2014 election. Because New Jersey law is vague on the matter, the courts might have to sort it out. Along with Lautenberg’s legislative accomplishments, he had a string of electoral coups, including his upset over Fenwick, whom he called “the most popular candidate in the country,” and a victory in a strange, abbreviated, back-fromretirement campaign two decades later. He initially retired in 2000 after 18 years in the Senate, saying he did not have the drive to raise
weather changing
HONOLULU (AP) — Part of what makes living in Hawaii so pleasant is the gentle breeze. Arriving from the northeast, it’s light enough that it is barely noticeable but strong enough to chase away the humidity.
Nowadays, experts say, these breezes, called trade winds, are declining, a drop that’s slowly changing life across the islands.
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In this Aug. 2, 2012, file photo, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., walks in the Capitol after the final votes before a five-week recess, on Capitol Hill.
money for a fourth campaign. He served on the boards of three companies, two graduate schools and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. But New Jersey Democrats recruited Lautenberg out of retirement in 2002 as a replacement for Robert Torricelli, who had abandoned his re-election bid just five weeks before Election Day in a campaign finance scandal. Republicans went to court to prevent the ballot “switcheroo.” When that failed, they attacked Lautenberg as a political relic illsuited for dangerous times. But Lautenberg surged to an easy victory over Republican Douglas Forrester and returned to the Senate in 2003 at age 78, resuming his role as a leading liberal. He was in the headlines in December 2008 — this time as an apparent victim. After Bernard Madoff was accused of a $50 billion fraud scheme, Lautenberg’s family foundation said the bulk of its investments were managed by him. A lawyer for the foundation declined to discuss any possible losses, but tax records in 2006 indicated Mad-
off managed more than 90 percent of the foundation’s nearly $14 million in assets. Lautenberg made his fortune as chairman and CEO of Automatic Data Processing, a New Jerseybased payroll services company he had founded with two friends in 1952. It became one of the largest such companies in the world. Lautenberg had been diagnosed in February 2010 with B-cell lymphoma of the stomach and underwent chemotherapy until he was declared cancer-free June 2010. Born in urban Paterson, N.J., the son of Polish and Russian Jewish immigrants, Lautenberg often recounted what government did for him — and what it could have done to help his widowed mother as she struggled to pay his father’s medical bills. He served in the Army Signal Corps during World War II. With the help of the GI Bill, he attended Columbia University and received a degree in economics. Lautenberg, who lived in Cliffside Park, N.J., is survived by his wife, Bonnie, and four children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce in 1988.
The winds also help bring the rains, and their decline means less water. It’s one reason officials are moving to restore the health of the mountainous forests that hold the state’s water supply and encourage water conservation. “People always try to ask me: ‘Is this caused by global warming?’ But I have no idea,” said University of Hawaii at Manoa meteorologist Pao-shin Chu, who began to wonder a few years ago about the winds.
Chu suggested a graduate student look into it. The resulting study, published last fall in the Journal of Geophysical Research, showed a decades-long decline, including a 28 percent drop in northeast trade wind days at Honolulu’s airport since the early 1970s.
The trade wind decline may be too subtle to affect the state’s biggest industry, tourism, and keep away any of the 8 million travelers who visit Hawaii each year. After all, even without trade winds, Hawaii’s humidity is mild compared to Hong Kong or Tokyo. And the heat is nothing compared to summer in Texas or Arizona.