12 year old dies in Marfa van crash
A 12 year old Stockton California boy, Juan Vaca, died early Friday north of Marfa in a one vehicle crash on U S Highway 90. The van, driven by his father Jesus Pinentel Vaca, slid on a snowy road and rolled over in a pasture. Jesus Vaca was uninjured. The boy was pronounced dead at 9 21 a m at Big Bend Regional Medical Center and taken to Geeslin Funeral Home Alpine.
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Marfa
Stockton
Calif
Pecos Department of Public Safety
Juan Vaca
Eilene Conner
Big Bend Regional Medical Center
Geeslin Funeral Home
Alpine
Jesus Pinentel Vaca
DPS
Vaca
Jesus Vaca
Utility official resigns from Texas PUC amid cancer battle
Public Utility Commissioner Patricia Curran of Houston resigned Friday due to health concerns. Appointed by Governor George W. Bush in 1997, Curran said treatments for cancer have exhausted the time and energy needed for duties. A replacement search will begin, and Bush expressed regret and thanks for her service.
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Curran
PUC
Pat Curran
Bush
Pat
Texas
Curran & Corbett, PC
Inmate fatally stabbed at Lea County prison Hobbs NM
Hobbs police identify a suspect in the Thursday stabbing death of 44 year old Jose Montoya of Albuquerque. Montoya died at Lea Regional Hospital from multiple stab wounds at Lea County Correctional Facility. Autopsy pending. Five prior stabbings at the prison since August, four solved. No charges expected before next week.
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Hobbs, N.M
Hobbs
Michael Emerson
Jose Montoya
Albuquerque
N.M
Lea Regional Hospital
Lea County
Emerson
Wackenhut Inc
Montoya
Teeth and underwear found at murder suspect's former home
Items seized from Jonathan Drew's League City home included ski caps, a wooden and a flat metal bat, a T shirt, a roll of black underwear, a vial with human teeth, and other pieces as investigators linked him to the Nov. 30 killing of Tina Flood and related assaults. Police also probed connections to assaults in Austin and a November 1997 trafficking incident.
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League City
The
Houston Chronicle
Jonathan David Drew
Houston
Tina Flood
Drew
Austin
Charles Slade
Chronicle
Gary Ratliff
Ratliff
Texas Department of Public Safety
Ethel Chapman longtime Odessa piano educator dies at 78
Ethelston Chapman known as Eth Chapman died November 6 1998 in Fountainbleau France at 78 after a short illness. Born April 2 1920 in Waco she earned music degrees at North Texas State College and studied at Eastman. She taught in Odessa for years anchored the Odessa College Music Department and performed with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainbleau. Memorial services were held in France and Waco. burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Survivors include a sister and three nieces. Memorials honor Odessa College Music Fund or UNT Keyboard Scholarship.
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Mrs. Chapman
Waco
North Texas State College
Denton
Eastman School of Music
Rochester
N.Y
LaMarr Chapman
Odessa
Eth
West Texas
Eth Chapman
Fontainbleau
France
Mlle
Nadia Boulanger
American School of Arts Fontainbleau
Mlle, Boulanger
Chapman
Oakwood Cemetery
LaMarr
Elizabeth Provence
Brevard
N.C
Death notices from Odessa Pecos and area reflect 1998 obituaries
Odessa Earl Douglas Danley 70 owner of Danley Agency died December 10 1998 in Odessa services at Sixth amp Jackson Church of Christ burial Sunset Memorial Gardens arrangements Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home born Florence Alabama moved to Odessa 1968 Air Force veteran survivors Ruth Doug Darla and siblings. Pecos Helen Oglesby 98 homemaker died December 10 1998 services December 12 First Christian Church burial Mount Evergreen survivors William Oglesby and 12 grandchildren. Odessa James Richard JR Olive 70 retired service manager died December 10 1998 graveside December 15 Sunset Memorial Gardens born Hosston Louisiana moved to Hallsville 1928 Navy veteran World War II and Korean Conflict survivors include Dorothy Ben Judy Judy Gail Tammie eight grandchildren one great-grandchild.
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Earl Danley
Odessa
Earl Douglas Danley
Danley Agency
Medical Center Hospital
Sixth & Jackson Church of Christ
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Florence
Ala
Lubbock
Church of Christ
Ruth Danley
Doug Danley
Carrollton
Darla Patty
Hobbs
N.M
Everett Danley
Virginia
O.A. Danley Jr
Ray Danley
Tennessee
Claude Danley
Colorado Springs
Colo
Etoyle Abston
Stella Masterson
First Christian Church
Bruce Abbott
Mount Evergreen Cemetery
Pecos
James Richard “Jr
Olive
Paul Miller
Hosston
Hallsville
Dorothy Olive
Ben Duralk
Arlington
Judy Smith
Kaufman
Gail McCord
McAllen
Tammie’ Thomas
B.R. Olive
Richardson
Patricia Surratt
Mahank
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Tree of Life
First Baptist Church
Cody Davis
Nick DE LA Torre
Icppe Unique
E. Bth
Ethelston Chapman
Fountainbleau
Helen Oglesby
Pecos Nursing Home
James Olive
Elton C. Gober
R. J. Patel
M.D
Seabury Center
Cove Kerley
Oaoca.com
Seino
UL Leng
St. Mary's Central Catholic School
North Adams Street
Texas Catholic Conference Education Department
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