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Pilot Ray Newhouse had love for flying
A memorial service will be held for the retired American Airlines pilot Saturday.
A memorial service will be held Saturday for Ray Newhouse, a retired American Airlines pilot who had an ”infectious love for aviation.”
He died Friday of a heart attack at age 79.
”His identity was definitely in the sky,” said his son James Newhouse.
Mr. Newhouse was born in Rocky Hill, N.J. He was taught to fly by his brother as he grew up near an airport in Princeton.
Hired by American Airlines in 1940, Mr. Newhouse flew for the airline for 38 years and logged more than 38,000 hours of flying time, his son said.
He retired as a commercial pilot in 1978 but continued to express his love of airplanes by restoring planes similar to those he had learned to fly in, James Newhouse said.
He restored an open-cockpit airplane and flew it for about the last eight years of his life.
James Newhouse said his father could be found anywhere a plane might be.
”He was involved with anything with aviation,” he said. ”He lived to fly.”
Mr. Newhouse taught flying during World War II and later instructed others as well, including his children.
In addition to his son James of Chicago, Mr. Newhouse is survived by his wife, Lorraine, of Tucson; three sons, Rich Newhouse of Phoenix, Bob Newhouse of Tucson and Russ Newhouse of Detroit; a stepson, Ronald Chandler of Tucson; 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
His ashes were scattered on Mount Lemmon.
The memorial service will begin at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at his home, at La Cholla Air Park. The family asks that those wishing to attend call 297-3729 to learn the address.
The family suggests donations be made to Casa de los Nie±os crisis nursery. The phone number is 624-5600.
(Dated Apr 24, 1997)
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Gilbert Mariscal Sr., Micha’s owner, served community
The South Tucson restaurateur is remembered as a generous, caring man.
Gilbert C. Mariscal Sr., owner of South Tucson’s popular Micha’s G and M Restaurant, has died, a victim of bone cancer.
He died Saturday at age 75.
”Gilbert was a very dedicated, kind, generous individual with his family, and he was always caring and sharing with his community,” said Dan Eckstrom, a longtime family friend and Pima County supervisor.
”Throughout his life, he was always there to help others, particularly those who were less fortunate and downtrodden.
”Every holiday season, when there was a lot of activity to provide gifts for children, Gilbert was always the first one to make himself available. He touched a lot of people’s lives.”
Eckstrom added that though he was Mr. Mariscal’s governmental representative for years, the restaurant owner frequently knew of community goings-on before Eckstrom himself did.
”He was always out and about in his truck, and everybody knew him, always talked with him. He knew the pulse of the community.”
His son, Gilbert Mariscal Jr., said, ”He ran the restaurant right up until Tuesday, when he just couldn’t function and had to go to the hospital.”
He added, ”For not having a high school education, he sure built a business.”
Mr. Mariscal and his wife, Artemisa, started the restaurant in 1975. He named it after his wife, whose nickname was ”Micha.”
It soon became one of the community’s most-popular eating spots, frequented by patrons from all over town and by many out-of-town visitors, famous and otherwise.
Artemisa Mariscal died in 1988.
Mr. Mariscal was born in Tucson and spent all his life here, except for military service during World War II, when he was stationed on Okinawa.
He worked for nearly four decades for Sandoval’s Tucson News Agency, which distributed out-of-town newspapers and periodicals.
Eckstrom said the county presented Mr. Mariscal with a distinguished community service award about a year ago. The honoree couldn’t attend personally, but sent one of his sons in his place.
”There were about 650 people there, and they all gave him a standing ovation,” recalled Eckstrom.
Said Gilbert Jr., ”All the nurses in the hospice remembered him giving candy to the kids during the holidays when they were growing up. Every person he came in contact with loved this man.”
Visitation is scheduled from 4 to 10 p.m. tomorrow at Carrillo’s Tucson Mortuary, South Chapel, 240 S. Stone Ave., with rosary to be recited at 7 p.m.
Mass will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Ambrose Church, 300 S. Tucson Blvd., with interment to follow at Holy Hope Cemetery.
Survivors include daughters Mary Silva, Margaret Mariscal, Bernadette Thompson and Deborah Martinez; sons Gilbert Jr., Richard, Danny and David Mariscal; a sister, Armida Mariscal Lopez; 13 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
The family said that in honor of Mr. Mariscal, Micha’s G and M Restaurant would be closed tomorrow and Wednesday.
(Dated Apr 28, 1997)
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Daniel Davis brought stability to Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Daniel E. Davis, credited with ”saving” the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum while he was director from 1979-89.
Mr. Davis died Sunday of heart failure at Tucson Medical Center. He was 74.
The memorial service will begin at 10 a.m. in the Desert Garden of the museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road. Friends are invited.
Mr. Davis, former museum officials said, brought stability to the museum after a period of institutional upheaval that involved the former director, the governing board, staff and volunteer docents.
”Dan really was responsible for saving the Desert Museum. I don’t think that’s an exaggeration in the least,” said Chris Helms, who worked as a public affairs director and then fund-raiser for the museum from 1978-92.
Major exhibits were built, including the Earth Sciences Center, the Mountain Habitats and the Tyler Hummingbird Exhibit. Also during this period, ”The Desert Speaks” PBS program was created.
Mr. Davis, born July 3, 1922, in Creston, Iowa, already had completed a distinguished 30-year career with the National Park Service when he and his family moved to Tucson in 1977.
His last Park Service position was associate regional director of operations in Omaha, Neb., where he was responsible for the operations of 40 national parks.
His wife, Joan Davis, said their five children grew up in national parks.
Mr. Davis is survived by his wife; children Daniel Davis of the Grand Canyon, Nancy Holt of Albuquerque, N.M., Terry Davis of Denver, Barbara Judd of Miami, and Michelle Gustafson of Seattle; sisters Martha Gray and Elizabeth Harvat of Denver; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
The family asks that donations be made to the Desert Museum in the name of Dan Davis.
(Dated Apr 29, 1997)
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Educator, baseball coach Gary Grabosch
Funeral services are set for tomorrow for longtime Rincon High School baseball coach Gary Grabosch, who died Sunday night at his Tucson home.
Grabosch, 63, had been battling cancer for three years.
Memorial services will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Saguaro Christian Church, 8302 E. Broadway. Visitation is today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at East Lawn Palms Chapel, 5801 E. Grant Road.
The Unionville, Mo., native retired in 1989 as baseball coach. He led the Rangers to a state title in 1971. Among the players he coached is Tom Pagnozzi, a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Grabosch, who also coached softball and junior varsity football at Rincon and taught drivers education and physical education, was acting commissioner for the Connie Mack Baseball League in Tucson since 1989.
He taught in the Tucson Unified School District for more than 25 years and coached baseball at Rincon High for 22 years.
Grabosch moved to Arizona in 1964 and worked for the Red Cross for two years. After earning a master’s degree, he began coaching baseball in 1968 at Townsend Junior High School.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara J. Grabosch; son, Jason Grabosch; and daughter, Lisa Valetine, girls volleyball coach at Rincon/University High.
Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1636 N. Swan Road, Suite 151, Tucson, Ariz. 85712, or the Connie Mack Youth Baseball Program, 609 S. Kenyon, Tucson, Ariz. 85710.
(Dated Apr 30, 1997)
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World War I veteran Katrina 11 days short of 100th birthday
The retired insurance broker lived in Tucson for the past 24 years.
Tucsonan Jack Katrina was planning a gala celebration when he turned 100.
Despite his age, he was a regular at activities organized by the retirement community where he lived in northwest Tucson.
But Friday morning – just 11 days before his 100th birthday – the veteran of World War I died of congestive heart failure, said his son, Robert J. Katrina, who lives in San Diego and is almost 80.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at The Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road.
Mr. Katrina’s ashes are to be buried at Holy Hope Cemetery at a date yet to be set next month.
Mr. Katrina was drafted into the U.S. Army when he was 21, about four months before the end of World War I.
”It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, but that’s not how it turned out,” he said in an interview just before Veterans Day in November. ”There was only peace for 25 years, then a second Great War broke out, one more brutal than the first.
”The day the armistice was signed was crazy,” he recalled.
He had the flu, at the time a deadly illness that killed more than 500,000 Americans during an outbreak from 1918-19.
”I didn’t see any of the dancing because I was quarantined to my quarters, but you can be sure they were dancing in the streets,” he said. ”We heard it all, and you can bet I wish I were out there.”
He was discharged Jan. 19, 1919, and given $26.37 in discharge pay – plus $3.51 to cover his train fare from the army post at Ohio’s Camp Sherman to Pittsburgh.
He was an insurance salesman in Pittsburgh before moving to California, where he worked as an insurance broker. After retiring, he moved to Tucson in 1973.
Besides his son, Robert J. Katrina of San Diego, he is survived by his daughter, Norma Stewart of Tucson.
(Dated May 01, 1997)
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