FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006
LAREDO MORNING TIMES | 19A
OBITUARIES
ARTHUR E. ‘ART’ OCHOA
Arthur Ernest Ochoa, of 204
Leyswood Dr., Greenville, S.C.,
died peacefully in his sleep on his
78th birthday, Nov. 5, 2006.
He was born in Laredo, Texas,
to the late Luis Felipe Ochoa and
Rafaela Prieto Ochoa.
Art Ochoa graduated from
Laredo Martin High School in
1947, where he played football as
one of the famed Eleven Iron
Men. Art was also a member of
the track team where he still
holds the Laredo High School
boys long jump record. He was
the UIL State Long Jump Champion in 1946 and 1947. He later
graduated from East Texas State
Teachers College, now Texas
A&M University-Commerce, on a
full athletic scholarship, earning a
degree in Industrial Arts Education.
He taught jet engine repair at
Shepherd AFB, Wichita Falls,
Texas, and then enlisted in the
U.S. Army, serving two years at
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio,
Texas.
Following military duty, he
went to work for Otis Engineering & Pressure Control in Falfurrias, Texas, and later Corpus
Christi, Texas, transferring in
1958 to Venezuela as Office Manager. In 1960, he joined Gulf Oil,
Mene Grande Division, serving
as Transportation Director for
Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, until
1964.
In 1964, he returned to the
United States and studied air conditioning and refrigeration at
Greer Technical
Institute in Chicago, Ill.
Upon graduation, he opened
The Ochoa Company on April 1,
1965. For many years, it was Laredo’s largest air conditioning service and installation company.
He retired on his birthday, Nov.
5, 1993.
On Jan. 11, 1996, in Laredo, he
married Debbie Davis-Newton of
Greenville, S.C. They later moved
to Greenville, where he helped
her establish Debbie O Draperies.
Art & Debbie attended St.
Mary’s Catholic Church and were
active members of the 9 OClock
Dance Club where they enjoyed
dancing and their many friendships.
Art was well known as a positive and upbeat man with a kind
heart, fun-loving attitude, and the
ability to fix anything.
Many who knew his youthful
spirit felt “the party started” when
he walked into a room. He will be
missed by all, including the many
young people whom he mentored.
Mr. Ochoa is survived by his
loving wife of 10 years, Debbie
Davis-Newton; his three sons,
Arthur Ernest (Nancy Roemer)
Ochoa Jr., Mark Frederick (Isabel Santos) Ochoa, and Philip
Lawrence (Sharyn Choate)
Ochoa; his daughter, Claire
Louise Ochoa; two stepchildren,
Shelly Newton (Ben) Stokes and
Aaron (Rebecca) Newton; and his
brothers Edward (Lisa) Ochoa
and Richard (Marilyn) Ochoa.
He is also survived by his
grandchildren, Edward (Analee
Gutierrez) Ochoa, Louis Ochoa,
Richard Ochoa, Chase Ochoa,
Preston Ochoa, Tennison Stokes,
Giles Stokes; three
great-grandchildren; and numerous other relatives.
Art was preceded in death by
his five brothers, Louis, Albert,
Fred, Peter and Rod Ochoa; and
his grandson, Jason Ochoa.
A Rosary will be recited by
Msgr. Alex Salazar at noon on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006, at Joe Jackson North Funeral Chapels, 1410
Jacaman Rd. Visitation will be
from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Private interment will follow
at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family
suggests that memorials be made
to the Boys and Girls Clubs of
Laredo, of which Ochoa had been
honored as a Lifetime Director.
Funeral services were also
held in Greenville on Nov. 9,
2006.
The family encourages you to
sign the guest book online at
www.joejacksonfuneralchapels.com.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Joe Jackson North
Funeral Chapels, 1410 Jacaman
Rd.
CONSUELO GUADALUPE NORWOOD
Consuelo Guadalupe Norwood, 51, passed away Monday,
Nov. 6, 2006.
In loving memory of a beloved
wife, mother, daughter and a wonderful sister.
You will be greatly missed. We
know you are in the hands of God,
our Lord.
Our hearts are in sorrow, but
you are in the hands of our joyful
father almighty of God.
Connie, now that you are at
the right side of our Father, look
after us, our saddened hearts.
You were a beautiful person,
physically and in spirit. You were
the sunshine of our life. Remember our mother, give her the
strength to surpass one more
challenge in her life, as you know
this will really break her heart.
Look after your family that we
will always love and miss you.
Mrs. Norwood is survived by
her husband, Jimmy Norwood;
son, Rafael (Eusebia) Ramirez;
daughter,
Gina Jaqueline
(Teodoro) Dovalina; mother, Rosa
Maria (+Leon) Ramirez ; brothers
and sisters, Jose (Josie) Ramirez,
Modesta J. (Ricardo) Ramirez,
Leon (Adriana) Ramirez Jr., Isabel Ramirez, Amado (Mirella)
Ramirez and Rosa Maria (Alfonso) Ramirez; grandchildren,
nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles
and many near relatives.
Visitation will be Friday, Nov.
10, 2006, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at
Nieto-Dickey Funeral Home with
a Rosary recited at 7 p.m. A prayer
service will be held at 7:30 p.m.
with Brother John Lauterbach of
Church of Christ officiating.
Funeral services will be held
on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006, from
Nieto-Dickey Funeral Home to
San Francisco Javier Church.
Holy Mass will be celebrated at 9
a.m.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Nieto-Dickey
Funeral Home, 802 Coke St.
Former East German
spymaster Wolf dies at 83
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Markus Wolf, the
“man without a face” who outwitted the West as communist
East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, died Thursday. He was
83.
Wolf died in his apartment in
Berlin, his stepdaughter Claudia
Wall said in a statement. The
cause of his death, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Wall, was not released.
He planted some 4,000 agents
in the West — most famously,
placing Guenter Guillaume as a
top aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. The agent’s
unmasking forced Brandt to resign in 1974.
Wolf, who said he spurned a
CIA offer of a safe new life in California after the Cold War, managed to steal NATO secrets for the
Soviet bloc that could have been
decisive if war had broken out in
Europe.
Because of his elusiveness, his
rivals nicknamed him “the man
without a face.”
Born Jan. 19, 1923, in the
southwestern town of Hechingen,
Wolf and his family followed his
father — a Jewish communist,
doctor and writer — into exile in
France in 1933 after the Nazis
came to power.
BEATRIZ V RUIZ
Beatriz V. Ruiz 74, passed
away on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006,
in Laredo, Texas.
She was a devoted wife,
mother, grandmother, sister,
aunt and friend to many Laredoans. Mrs. Ruiz graduated
from Martin High School in
1949. She later worked for her
father at Villarreal Electric Co.
located at 1400 Lincoln Street
here in Laredo Texas.
Mrs. Ruiz is preceded in
death by her parents, Raul Villarreal and Manuela C. Villarreal.
She is survived by her husband, Jose M. Ruiz Sr.; children,
Jose M. Ruiz Jr. and David Ruiz;
grandchildren, Beatriz A. Ruiz,
Vanessa B. Ruiz, and Amy N.
Ruiz; brothers and sisters, Lilia
(Jose Humberto) Vasquez, Raul
(Clara) Villarreal, Mike (Victoria) Villarreal, Ruth de Luna
and Guillermo (Rosalinda) Villarreal.
She is also survived by numerous nephews, relatives and
friends.
A religious service will be
held on Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, at
7 p.m. at the Hillside Funeral
Home Chapel. Visitation will be
held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Funeral services will be held
on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006, at
9:30 a.m. from Hillside Funeral
Home to Sinai Presbyterian
Church, located at 420 Washington Street.
Religious service to begin at
10 a.m. Interment will follow in
the family plot of the City Cemetery.
Arrangements are under the
direc-tion of Hillside Funeral
Home, 310 Hillside Road.
JACK PAUL ‘BUDGE’ DILLINGHAM
Jack Paul “Budge” Dillingham, 65, of Anadarko, Okla.,
passed from this life on
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, at Edmond Medical Center in Edmond, Okla.
Jack was born Dec. 11, 1940,
to Jack and Frankie Pauline
(Doughty) Dillingham, in
Mathis, Texas. He served his
country in the United States Air
Force.
Jack was united in marriage
to Nola Beth Robuck on Dec.
26, 1968, in Encinal, Texas. She
preceded him in death on Jan. 1,
2005.
He was a rancher for many
years in Encinal, Texas. He then
CBS journalist
Bradley dies at 65
FLORENCIO ‘POSTI’ MIRELES JR.
By FRAZIER MOORE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Florencio “Posti” Mireles Jr.,
70, passed away on Wednesday,
Nov. 8, 2006, in Laredo, Texas.
Mr. Mireles was born in
Laredo, Texas and had been a
resident of Laredo all of his
life.
In the 1950s, Mr. Mireles was
a member of the United States
Marine Reserves. He then went
on to join the United States Marine Corps during 1963 and held
the rank of Corporal.
He had been employed with
Formost Dairy products for numerous years, He also was employed with the Texas Liquor
Control Board and The Frito
Lay Company. He later owned
and operated Laredo Equipment and Supply for many
years.
He was preceded in death by
his parents, Florencio Mireles,
Sr. and Maria del Rosario T.
Mireles.
He is survived by his daughters, Laura Mireles Rangel,
Zelma (Daniel) Ruiz, Clarissa
(Luis) Lara; by his son, Jerry
(Elena) Mireles; grandchildren,
Ram Rangel Jr., Mike (Marrisa)
Rangel, Christy Rangel, Carlos
(Veronica Ugalde) Rangel, Zeli-
worked as the warehouse manager in the oil field.
After that, he worked for the
Wal-Mart Distribution Center
until his retirement.
Survivors include one
daughter, Denise Salinas and
husband Jorge of Anadarko,
Okla.; four grandchildren, Brandon Paul, Justin Alberto, and
Mayme Kathryn, all of
Anadarko, and Jorge Jr. and
wife Olga of Laredo, Texas;
three aunts, Charlene McDaniel of Anadarko, Okla.,
Bridget Taylor of Bixby, Okla.,
and Toots Long of Anadarko,
Okla.; one uncle, Bud Doughty
of Anadarko, Okla.; numerous
cousins and many loving
friends.
He is preceded in death by
his parents, stepfather Arvin W.
Wells, his wife, Nola Beth; and
one aunt, Marie
Wilson.
Graveside funeral services:
11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006,
Encinal Cemetery, Encinal,
Texas. Local arrangements are
under the direction of Smith
Funeral Home, Anadarko,
Okla.
Graveside services are under the direction of Joe Jackson
Funeral Home, Laredo, Texas.
na Ruiz, Danielito Ruiz, Luis
Lara Jr., Jerry Mireles II, and
Jenny Mireles; great-grandchildren, Mikey Rangel, Matthew
Rangel, Vyaney Rangel and Dylon Bryant; brothers, Antonio
(Mary) Mireles and Ricardo
Mireles; sisters, Maria Del
Rosario Costilla, Gloria (Daniel)
Campos and Sylvia (Eddie)
Young. Also, nieces, nephews,
numerous other relatives and
many friends.
Visitation will be held on Friday, Nov. 10, 2006, from 4 p.m. to
9 p.m. and a Vigil of the Deceased will be held at 7 p.m. in
the Hernandez, Lopez and Sons
Northside Chapels, 800 Boston
St.
Funeral services will begin
at 9:20 a.m. on Saturday, Nov.
11, 2006, departing from the funeral home chapel. Holy Mass
will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at
St. Jude Catholic Church.
Interment will then follow in
the Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
NEW YORK — Ed Bradley,
the award-winning television
journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a
distinctive, powerful body of
work during his 26 years on “60
Minutes,” died Thursday. He
was 65.
Bradley died of leukemia at
Mount Sinai hospital, CBS
News announced.
He landed many memorable
interviews, including the Duke
lacrosse players accused of rape,
Michael Jackson and the only
TV interview with Oklahoma
City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Bradley “was tough in an interview, he was insistent on getting an interview,” said former
CBS News anchor Walter
Cronkite, “and at the same time
when the interview was over,
when the subject had taken a
pretty heavy lashing by him —
they left as friends. He was that
kind of guy.”
With his
signature earring
and
beard, Bradley
was “considered intelligent, smooth,
cool, a great
reporter,
BRADLEY
beloved and
respected by all his colleagues
here at CBS News,” Katie Couric
said in a special report.
Bradley’s consummate skills
were recognized with numerous awards, including four
George Foster Peabody awards
and 19 Emmys, the latest for a
segment on the reopening of the
50-year-old racial murder case
of Emmett Till.
Three of his Emmys came at
the 2003 awards: for lifetime
achievement; a report on brain
cancer patients; and a report
about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. He also
won a lifetime achievement
award from the National Association of Black Journalists.