DANNY L. HEYSQUIERDO PORT LAVACA Services Danny L. Heysquierdo Chapels, Port La Pallbearers: Juan Medina, Jose Delgado, Kraig Kennemer, and Daniel Honorary Martinez III, Tommy Sanchez Benny Hinojosa, nieces and nephews, and dear friends. OBITUARIES Heysquierdo, 27, of Lavaca, who Wednesday, be 10 a.m. today Our Lady of Gulf Church Lavaca.
Burial will Seadrift tery in Artero Memorial Lavaca, 361-552-2300. Ronnie Camacho, Chris Heysquierdo, Bobby Fidencio Heysquierdo Jr. pallbearers: Martin A. Martinez, Juan Edward Camacho, and all LOUISE D. SMITH BEEVILLE Louise Dobie Smith, 92, of Beeville, died Saturday, Nov.
13, 2004. She was born Sept. 18, 1912, Beeville; to the late Edward C. and Emma Lou Dobie. She was retired, an Eastern Star member, and a Methodist.
Survivors: daughter, Peggy Louise Wheeler; four grandchildren; five great -grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by: husband, Walter Smith; sister, Francis Herron; brother, E.C. Dobie; and one granddaughter. A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at John Wesley Methodist in Victoria.
Burial will be at Seaside Memorial Cemetery in Corpus Christi. Memorials: Driscoll Children's Hospital, Corpus Christi. ORVILLE BARD EL CAMPO Orville Bard, 86, of El Campo, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. Services are pending at Wheeler Funeral Home, El Campo, 979-543- 3512.
A. G. GARRETT YOAKUM Garrett, 69, of Yoakum, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. He was born March 23, 1935, in Fordtran, Dewitt County, to the late Jack and Mattie Vick Garrett.
He was retired after 32 years of teaching agriculture for the Yoakum Independent School District. He was also a rancher, a Baptist, and member of the Yoakum Lion's Club and Masonic Lodge. Survivors: wife, Patricia Loudermilk Garrett; daughters, Alison Garrett Adams of Schertz and Jennifer Garrett Crow of Gholson; sons, Randal Garrett of New Braunfels, Kirby Garrett of Victoria; Russell Garrett and Phillip Garrett, both of College Station, and Jack Garrett of Cuero; sisters, Margaret Malina and Bessie Lee Hart, both of Victoria, Inez Nobles of Yoakum, and Minnie Mae Haney of Corpus Christi; brothers, Earl Garrett, Sylvan Garrett, and Jake Garrett, all of Yoakum; and 13 grandchildren. Preceded in death by: sister, Martha Brandenburg; and brothers, Charles Garrett and James Ed Garrett Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today at Buffington Funeral Home chapel.
Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church 1 in Yoakum, the Rev. Mickey Ewing officiating. Burial will be at County Line Cemetery. Buffington Funeral Home, Yoakum, 361-293-2333.
ESTEBAN MOLINA GONZALES A rosary for Esteban "Steve" Molina, 46, of Gonzales, who died Friday, was recited 7 p.m. Sunday at Buffington Funeral Home chapel. Services will be 2 p.m. today at the, church, the Rev. Alejandro DeBosque officiating.
Burial will be at St. James Cemetery. Buffington Funeral Home, Gonzales, 830-672-3322. Pallbearers: Enrique Molina, Jose Molina, Elias Molina Hector Molina, Armando Melchor, Damian and Estevan Gonzales. Honorary pallbearers: Cosme Molina Jr.
and Lucas Jon Molina. RUTH VORWERK Mrs. Ruth "Omi" Vorwerk, age 85, passed away on November 14, 2004. She was born October 17, 1919 in Koenigslu*tter, Germany. She worked as a medical secretary.
She is survived by: 1 Daughter; Barbara Moore of Bay City, Texas 2 Sons: Juergen Vorwerk and Michael Vorwerk of Kassel, Germany 5 Grandchildren: Julia Franz of Yoakum Christa Zimmerman of Yoakum Stephanie Crain of Bay City Kathy Vorwerk and Andrea Vorwerk of Germany 3 great grandchildren Graveside services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Monday, November 15, 2004 at the Pilot Grove Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Houston. for Port died will at the Catholic Port be at CemeSeadrift. Mendez, Barrios, Henry Perez, close BENNYE R.
BAYER Bennye Ruth Bayer, 85, of Victoria, died Friday, Nov. 12, 2004. The family will receive visitors 6-8 p.m. tonight at Rosewood Funeral Chapels Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral I home, the Rev.
Barney Matocha officiating, Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Rosewood Funeral Chapels, Victoria, 361-573-4546. Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.memn.com. Thanks to Healthforce HHS, Hospice, Dorothy Perez, and Paula Padgett. Memorials: PA.W.S.
or Trinity Lutheran Church. TRUMAN TOLLEFSON Truman Tollefson, 64, of Victoria, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. Services are pending at Lamprecht-Janssen Funeral Home, Yorktown, 361-564-2277. REUBEN A.
PAKEBUSCH Reuben A. Pakebusch, 83, of Victoria, died Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. Services are pending at Colonial Funeral Home, Victoria, 361-578- 3535. PATRICIA A.
BENNETT POINT COMFORT Patricia Ann Maxwell Bennett, 67, of Point Comfort, died Friday, Nov. 12, 2004. She was born April 28, 1937, in Damon, to Walter Russell and Marion Barth Maxwell of New Braunfels. She was a restaurant cook and a member of the First Baptist Church in Point Comfort. Survivors: husband, Travis Ervin Bennett; daughter, Brenda Ann Krause of Brazoria; sons, Travis Eugene Bennett of El Campo, and Kenneth Ray Bennett of Victoria; sister, Norma Jean Broaddus of New Braunfels; brothers, Walter Brian Maxwell of Clarksville, and Lawrence Wayne Maxwell of Las Vegas; 12 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Visitation was held be 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Richardson-Colonial Funeral Home chapel. Services will be 2 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church of Point Comfort, the Revs. John Fisher and Joe Stansell officiating.
Burial will be at Olivia Cemetery. Richardson-Colonial Funeral Home, Port Lavaca, 361-552-2988. Pallbearers: Byron Carr, Alfred Schneider, Rick Brush, Terry Backen, Scott Abraham, and Clarence Lawson. Memorials: First Baptist Church Awana Club of Point Comfort, Texas. ANNIE M.
0. HAM HARWOOD Annie Mae Owens Ham, 91, of Harwood, died Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. She was born June 30, 1913, in Gonzales County, to the late Ed and Bessie Carmichael Owens. She was a homemaker and a member of Harwood United Methodist.
Survivors: son, Jimmy L. Ham of Harwood. Preceded in death by: husband, Deward Ham. Family will receive visitors 5-8 p.m: Monday at Seydler-Hill Funeral Home chapel. Services will be 10 a.m.
Tuesday at the funeral home, the Rev. Leonard Shanklin officiating. Burial will be at Thompsonville Cemetery. Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, Gonzales, 830-672-3232. CECIL L.
WELCH WHARTON -Cecil Levone Welch, 67, of Wharton, died Friday, Nov. 12, 2004. He was born Aug. 28, 1937, in Oakdale, to the late Clint and Mary Brooks Welch. He was a Crisis Line Operator for Texana MHMR, a veteran of the U.S.
Army, and a member of Bible Truth Apostolic Church in El Campo. Survivors: wife, Elaine Welch; daughter, Debra Rab of Wharton; sons, Willie Welch of Wharton and Daniel Welch of Woodville; sister, Margie Stanley of Oakdale, brothers, Clint Welch Jr. of Lake Charles, La. and Gilbert Welch of Oakdale, seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by: sister, Elaine Stanley; brothers, Leonard Welch and J.C.
"Pete" Welch. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Bible Truth Apostolic Church. Burial will be at Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery. Wharton Funeral Home, Wharton, 979-532- 3410.
Memorials: Bible Truth Apostolic Church, E. First and S. Wharton El Campo, Texas 77437. KARL A. KUNTSCHIK JR.
NEW BRAUNFELS Services for Karl Arthur Kuntschik 67, of New Braunfels, who died Friday, will be 2 p.m. today at the funeral home, the Rev. John Murdock officiating. Burial will be at Gonzales Memorial Park. Seydler-Hill Funeral Home, Gonzales, 830-672-3232.
Pallbearers: Charles Burrier Darryl Wiley, Robert Hardcastle, Henry Kuntschik, Johnny Kuntschik, and Melvin Kuntschik. One killed in wreck Advocate Staff Report One fatality was reported in a wreck on U.S. Highway 59 near Inez at about 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the Department of Public Safety. Further details were unavailable as of press time Sunday night.
DEATHS ELSEWHERE Former columnist Kay Powers AUSTIN (AP) Kay Powers, a longtime reporter and columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, died Saturday at her home after a yearlong battle with cancer. She was 84. Powers began working as a secretary at the newspaper in the 1960s, and went on to hold a variety of editing and writing jobs. She retired in 1985, but began writing a monthly column, opening many of her pieces with the words: "Listen, "In every generation of a newspaper's life, there are a handful of writers who touch readers. Kay Powers was one of those writers," American-Statesman Editor Rich Oppel said.
"Her death is a loss to the newspaper and the community." FALLUJAH Continued from Page 1A hiding "in numerous buildings throughout the city," the statement added. Fighting in Fallujah was ebbing, but insurgent attacks appeared to escalate elsewhere in Sunni Muslim areas of central and northern Iraq. Saboteurs set fire Sunday to four oil wells in Iraq's northern fields, setting off successive explosions in Khabbaza, 12 miles northwest of Kirkuk, oil officials said. Heavy explosions rattled central Baghdad near the Palestine and Sheraton hotels after nightfall Sunday, followed by bursts of sporadic gunfire. The U.S.
military said initial reports indicated rockets or mortars had struck the area, killing two Iraqis and wounding another. About an hour later, about four more large explosions rocked the Green Zone, headquarters of the U.S. and Iraqi leadership. At least one private security guard was killed. Clashes were also reported on Haifa Street, a center of insurgent support in the heart of the capital.
More than a dozen insurgents attacked the Polish Embassy in Baghdad with automatic weapons Sunday, and embassy guards returned fire in an exchange that lasted for a half hour, a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Warsaw. No one was reported killed or wounded. In Mosul, where an uprising JOURNALIST Continued from Page 1A mosque, Qaisi took shelter behind the blast barriers near the mosque. Insurgent fighters on foot rushed an oncoming barrage of American attacks in an apparently suicidal charge. A freelance Iraqi cameraman who had also decided to spend the night at the mosque stood outside filming the clash.
Qaisi warned his colleague to hide, but the cameraman did not budge. He was shot to death in the cross fire. Qaisi ran, hiding in a garden. A woman and her three daughters were also hiding in the house connected to the garden. They offered him some canned food.
TRIAL Continued from Page 1A represented by Jim Beeler. The first two tapes contain a statement given by Quintanilla to Investigator Abel Arriazola, with the Victoria County Sheriff's Office, and Tom Copeland and Al Santiago, both detectives with the Victoria Police Department. Arriazola was the first witness brought in by Hernandez. Arriazola said Quintanilla was Obituaries are provided as a free public service by the Victoria Advocate. More detailed or specially worded obituaries, which appear in a box, are available for a fee of 45 cents per word.
Information submitted by funeral homes for either free or paid obituaries must first be verified and approved by a family member of the deceased. Fax number for the obituary clerk is 361-574-1212. VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Monday, November 15, 2004 114 Associated Press FIVE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH San Antonio firefighters survey the wreckage of about three miles away. Five people aboard the a small plane that crashed near the Walnut plane were killed. No one on the ground was hit Manor Apartments on Sunday in San Antonio.
by the wreckage, although a piece of debris The Piper Navajo was on approach to San An- knocked a hole in an apartment, authorities tonio International Airport when it crashed said. Man runs vehicle into library HOUSTON (AP) A man described by police as an Egyptian national was arrested Sunday after authorities say he rammed his car into the Houston Public Library as part of an attempt to be deported. Houston Sgt. David Crain said the 33-year-old suspect was being charged with felony mischief to broke out last week in support of the Fallujah defenders, militants raided two police stations, killing at least six Iraqi National Guards and wounding three others. One insurgent was killed and three others were wounded before Iraqi security forces regained control of both stations, witnesses said.
Insurgents also set fire to the governor's house, destroying it and damaging his car in northern Mosul. Governor Duraid Kashmoula also said the curfew will continue to be imposed on the city from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. in the morning. A gunbattle erupted Sunday between militants and U.S.
troops in the main market in the northern town of Beiji, killing at least six people and wounding 20 others, according to witnesses. The clash followed an attack in Beiji against American soldiers, who responded with tank rounds and Hellfire missiles, the U.S. military said. A dozen explosions rocked an American base in the western part of Ramadi, about 30 miles west of Fallujah, after insurgents fired missiles. Witnesses reported seeing flames and smoke billowing from the base.
One U.S. soldier was injured when a suicide bomber blew up his car near a U.S. convoy traveling between Balad and Tikrit, the military said. A Bradley fighting vehicle was damaged by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, injuring one soldier, the military said. At dawn Tuesday, he ventured back onto the street and saw dozens of dead bodies, mostly those of insurgents.
He continued reporting, venturing to another mosque more securely under insurgent control, the Firdous mosque in the Nazal neighborhood. Insurgents used the major mosques as headquarters, with one area set aside to treat the wounded, another to store weapons and ammunition, and a third to plan and coordinate attacks. At Firdous, wounded insurgents screamed from bullet wounds or burns from phosphorus. "Some of them were bleeding from their noses, eyes, and ears," Qaisi said. given snacks, a beverage, and allowed smoke breaks during the 4 hours of questioning on Jan.
15, 2003. Cihal seemed to focus his questions on whether Quintanilla was given his Miranda rights before Santiago and Copeland began their questioning. Arriazola, who interviewed Quintanilla first, testified that he had indeed given Quintanilla his rights before starting. Santiago and Copeland interviewed Quintanilla in the same room at the sheriff's office as Arriazola and began talking to him immediately after Arriazola. Santiago said that 15 minutes into his interview, Copeland prompted him to reread Quintanilla his rights and he did.
When Cihal asked why Santiago hadn't reread Quintanilla his rights immediately, Santiago said, the Jesse H. Jones Library in downtown Houston. The damage occurred about 4:45 p.m. Sunday. The suspect was to be released into immigration officials' custody after criminal charges are processed, Crain said.
He said the incident appeared to be isolated to an individual with a history of mental illness who ad- One Marine and an Iraqi soldier were hurt when five mortar shells struck a checkpoint outside Fallujah. In an interview with Iraqi television Sunday, interim Prime Minister Allawi defended his decision to order the attack on Fallujah, saying he decided to strike after security forces arrested "two very important" terrorist organizations. He did not elaborate. Allawi said up to 400 insurgents have been captured, including fighters from Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Morocco but he gave no figures. Despite the ongoing violence, Allawi ordered Baghdad International Airport to reopen Sunday and opened all but one border crossing with Syria.
They were: closed under a state of emergency announced Nov. 7 on the eve of the Fallujah attack. In Fallujah, Marines reopened the infamous bridge over the Euphrates River where Iraqis strung up the charred bodies of two American contractors in March. The brutal slaying and mutilation of the four Blackwater Security Consulting employees touched off a Marine assault in April. That fight was halted but U.S.
forces attacked again this week, retaking Fallujah and its bridge from rebels. "It's symbolic, because the insurgents closed the bridge and we reopened it," said Maj. Todd Des Grosseilliers, of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines before Marines rolled After midnight Tuesday, horrified by the scene, Qaisi fled to an abandoned house, taking shelter from the bombardment under an air conditioner. "I don't know whether it was fear or stupidity that made me go there," he said. Within a half-hour, he said, the front line shifted, and the house lay square in the no man's land between the Americans and the insurgents.
A shell struck the house. "I thought, this is it, I will die," he said. He immediately thought of his parents and who had abandoned their home in Fallujah months ago for the comparative safety of Baghdad. "Because he had already been given his Miranda rights." Santiago said during questioning by Hernandez that he had discussed with Arriazola whether he should reread the rights before beginning his interview. "The conclusion was I didn't have to because he had already been informed." Santiago said Quintanilla responded to his rereading the rights by saying, "I know.
I know. I am here because I want to talk about the crimes in Victoria." Santiago said Quintanilla was willing to talk. "In his own words, he just wanted to admit to all the crimes he did in Victoria, or words to that effect," Santiago said. "I made it clear to him he could stop talking anytime he wanted to. He made it clear that he was there because he wanted to be there." The third tape shows officers finding in the Victoria Barge Canal mitted he refused to take his prescribed medication.
Police set up a two-mile perimeter around the site and evacuated the library while they checked out the man's car, he said. Nothing was found, Crain said. No one was injured and the library sustained minimal damage. away a coil of concertina wire and crossed the span over the Euphrates River on foot. On Sunday, Marine and Army units were still battling small bands of militants scattered in buildings and bunkers across the Sunni Muslim stronghold.
Behind them, Iraqi troops were painstakingly clearing weapons and fighters from every room of Fallujah's, estimated 50,000 buildings. ABC pool video footage showed Marines continuing to search door-to-door, blowing the gates off houses with explosives. A bit of bright color stood out on one of the city's ubiquitous gray, rubblestrewn streets a pink dress on the body of a small child crumpled next to the curb. Sunni Muslim militants have cut a swath of terror across the country with a string of recent highprofile kidnappings. The disemboweled body of the woman was wrapped in a bloodsoaked blanket on a street in Fallujah, Marines said.
Margaret Hassan, 59, director of CARE international in Iraq, and Teresa Borez Khalifa, 54, a Polish-born longtime resident of Iraq, were abducted last month but the body could not be identified without further tests. Associated Press reporters Harris in Fallujah and Robert H. Reid, Sameer N. Yacoub, Mariam Fam, Sabah Jerges, Katarina Kratovac and Maggie Michael in Baghdad contributed to this report. "I tried to call my family to tell them what happened to me," he' said.
"I wanted them to know who owes me money and whom I owe, so that I could die with a clear con-, science." But he could not get through by phone. He crouched in the house, listening to shouts of Americans and Arabs. At dawn Wednesday, climbing from yard to yard, he managed to reach his family home in an area under U.S. control. He saw another Iraqi journalist, who told him that mujahideen had executed a freelance cameraman the previous night, accusing him of sending footage of Fallujah's streets to' American troops.
the weapon that was used during the robbery that killed Billings, of Edna. Santiago said Quintanilla, who' was taken with them to show offcers where the weapon was' thrown, was read his rights at the start of the tape. Judge Robert Cheshire will rule on the admissibility of the tapes today before the trial opens. The trial is expected to take between two and three weeks. If Quintanilla is found guilty of capital murder, then the trial will; enter the punishment phase, thei second portion of the trial, where, he will either receive life in prison or the death penalty.
Had District Attorney Dexter! Eaves not intended to seek the death penalty, then a guilty verdict during the first portion of trial, would mean an automatic sentence of life in prison..
