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Conchita McAlpin active in many local civic groups
Conchita Navarro McAlpin, a civic-minded Tucsonan who was the third eldest of 24 children born in a two-bedroom adobe house downtown, died Monday night after a lengthy illness.
She was 94.
Mrs. McAlpin, who grew up where the Tucson Convention Center now stands, attended Immaculate Heart Academy until the eighth grade in 1916, when she quit to help support her family.
She worked at Martin Drug Store, which became Myerson Department Store, at Congress Street and Church Avenue. She worked as a clerk at Myerson’s until her retirement in the early 1970s.
After retiring, Mrs. McAlpin enjoyed being with family and supporting her grandchildren in their favorite sports.
In 1976, Mrs. McAlpin was runner-up in Tucson’s Dona del Dia celebration, which recognizes civic-minded women of Tucson.
Mrs. McAlpin was an active member of the Catholic Senior Citizens of St. Augustine Cathedral, the Court of St. Augustine Catholic Daughters No. 1227, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 549, American Legion Post 307, Eagles Post 180 and Disabled American Veterans.
Mrs. McAlpin was preceded in death by her husband, Richard McAlpin, who died in 1955, and 18 brothers and sisters.
She is survived by her daughters, Angie Williams of Tucson and Lillian Ulloa of Phoenix; sisters Hortensia Valenzuela, Fresia Gil, Becky Arino and Rachel Carrillo, all of Tucson; brother Ernie Navarro of Tucson; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
A rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at Carrillo Mortuary, 204 S. Stone Ave., with visitation the same day from 4 to 10 p.m.
Mass will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 S. Stone Ave. After Mass, interment will be at Holy Hope Cemetery, 3555 N. Oracle Road.
Mass will be celebrated by Monsignor A.S. Carrillo and Monsignor Tom Calahane, assisted by Deacon Charlie Gallegos.
Donations can be made in Mrs. McAlpin’s name to the St. Augustine Cathedral Maintenance Fund, 192 S. Stone Ave, Tucson, Ariz. 85705.
(Dated Apr 08, 1998)
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Bingham pioneer in dairy, ranching
Services will be held tomorrow for Dorothy Bingham, a member of a pioneer Tucson family who died Saturday at age 72.
She died of complications related to heart and kidney diseases, said Janet White of Tucson, one of her daughters.
Born Dorothy Manier, she married Lamar Bingham in 1942, and they took over operation of the Bingham dairy farm in Tucson, which had been started by Bingham’s father.
In 1953, they sold the farm and bought Bingham-Sacaton Ranch, about 50 miles northeast of Tucson near San Manuel.
The family raised cattle on the 27,000-acre ranch. They also operated a sand and gravel company. Mrs. Bingham continued to help manage the ranch until her death.
”She was very generous, very concerned about people,” White said. ”She was the type of person who will not only be missed by her family, but by her entire community.”
Mr. Bingham’s family settled in Tucson in 1893. The Maniers settled in Tucson in 1915.
Mrs. Bingham was living at Hodge’s farm at Swan and Fort Lowell roads when she met her future husband.
Every day, Lamar Bingham would take his milking cows from his farm at Fort Lowell Road and Columbus Boulevard to Hodge’s farm.
”They would take the cows to pasture for the day, and go and get them in the afternoon to do the second milking,” her daughter said. ”So they just caught each other’s eyes.”
Mrs. Bingham was an active member of the Garden Club and the Latter-day Saints Church Relief Society. She graduated from Tucson High School.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1996.
Mrs. Bingham is survived by sons Deryl of Mule Creek, N.M., Doug of Tucson, and Jim of Oracle; daughters Glenna Hablutzel and Lydia Bingham, both of San Manuel, and White of Tucson; 14 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be held tonight from 6 to 8 at Adair Avalon Chapel, 8090 N. Northern Ave.
Services will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3700 E. Fort Lowell Road.
(Dated Apr 14, 1998)
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Williams service planned May 17
A memorial service for Jane Welch Williams, art history professor at the University of Arizona, author and avid fisherwoman, is scheduled May 17 at Center for Creative Photography on the UA campus.
Professor Williams died April 18 at her home in Tucson after a long bout with cancer. She was 69.
Born Oct. 15, 1928, in Los Angeles, she attended school there and graduated from Bennington College in Vermont. She raised four children before going back to college to launch a second career in teaching.
She later earned a doctorate degree in medieval art history at UCLA, and taught in Chicago and Champaign-Urbana, Ill., before joining the UA art history faculty in 1988.
Professor Williams authored a book, ”Bread, Wine and Money: The Trade Windows at Chartres Cathedral,” and numerous papers, and lectured widely, receiving many teaching awards and nominations.
She was a lifelong lover of animals and was an ardent deep-sea fisherwoman.
Julie Anne Plax, an associate professor of art history in the UA art department, was acquainted with Professor Williams for seven years.
”She was a friend and a colleague,” Plax said. ”Jane was accomplished in many fields, and her accomplishments were only matched by the energy with which she undertook them.”
Plax added, ”Deep-sea fishing was beyond a hobby for her. It was very much a part of her life. Her daughters told me she knew every commercial fisherman on the coast of California.”
Janae Huber, an art student at UA, said attending Professor Williams’ art history survey class inspired her to change her focus and become an art major.
Survivors include two sons, Brian Davis of San Fernando Valley, Calif., and Steven Davis of Denver, Colo.; two daughters, Robin Dreyfuss of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Lorraine Roux of Houston, Tex.; nine grandchildren; and a dear friend of long-standing, Roy Williams of Tucson.
The family held private funeral services, but they invite friends to a May 17 memorial service at Center for Creative Photography at 1:30 p.m.
The family suggests memorials to the Jane Welch Williams Memorial Fund, The Associates of Art History, c/o Julie Plax, Ph.D., Department of Art and Art History, UA, P.O. Box 210002, Tucson, Ariz., 85721-0002.
(Dated Apr 25, 1998)
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Rev. Bardon was known for ‘powerful, sweaty preaching’
Funeral services for the Rev. John Brent Bardon, known for his ”powerful, sweaty preaching” as pastor of St. Odilia Parish since 1983, are scheduled tomorrow.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. at St. Odilia, 7570 N. Paseo Del Norte, with burial to follow at Holy Hope Cemetery, 3555 N. Oracle Road.
The Rev. Bardon, 56, died Saturday at the church rectory of complications of diabetes and congestive heart failure.
”He really was a churchman,” said the Rev. Richard Troutman, who had known him for 42 years. ”He seems to have been one since he was about 8 years old. He was an altar boy, served in the parish at Grafton, Ohio, loved the liturgies at the Benedictine Convent in Tucson.
”He was really, truly a great preacher. Someone once said he was known for his ‘powerful, sweaty preaching.’ ”
The Rev. Bardon’s mother, Alma Bardon, said, ”He never wanted to be anything else other than a priest. He was a very good boy from the time he was small.”
Faith Paddock, a family friend and member of St. Odilia Parish, said the Rev. Bardon was devoted to his mother. The day he is to be buried will be the 30th anniversary of his ordination as a priest, she said.
”His one big hobby was holidays,” Troutman said. ”He loved Christmas and Easter. And he loved to cook.”
The Rev. Bardon was born Jan. 20, 1942, in Grafton, Ohio, and moved to Tucson with his parents in 1953. He enrolled in the first class at Regina Cleri Seminary and was the first of its graduates to be ordained a priest.
He graduated from St. John’s College in Camarillo, Calif., with a degree in philosophy.
After his ordination May 1, 1968, he was sent to serve in Douglas, Miami and Clifton, as well as at St. Cyril’s and Our Mother of Sorrows in Tucson.
During a copper strike in 1983, he struggled to keep his Clifton parish united despite tensions between strikers and non-strikers.
Not long thereafter, he helped his Clifton parishioners survive the aftermath of flooding that left many of their houses with inches-thick layers of mud inside.
Troutman recalled that ”the bishop went out there Oct. 4, and asked Father Bardon what to bring. He told him to bring shovels to get the mud out.”
In addition to his mother, the Rev. Bardon is survived by a goddaughter, Marcella Mendoza of Phoenix; and several cousins.
(Dated Apr 30, 1998)
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Arthur Barleycorn was lawman here
Arthur W. Barleycorn, a retired Tucson police captain and one-time candidate for sheriff, is dead of a heart attack at age 80.
He died Friday. Funeral services were held last night.
”Arthur Barleycorn was the epitome of police professionalism,” said Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who served with Mr. Barleycorn from 1958 to 1971.
”He was a competent, dedicated cop. You always knew where Arthur stood, and that was for what is right and proper and moral. He was a good man, a good cop and a good father and a good husband. His family always had the highest priority in his life.”
Mr. Barleycorn was born March 17, 1918, in Manor Park, England, near London.
He moved with his family to the United States in 1926, settling in Columbus, Ohio. He attended school there, and had entered Ohio State University when World War II broke out.
Mr. Barleycorn was drafted in October of 1942, entered the Army Air Corps and was trained in South Dakota as a radio maintenance expert. He was assigned to DavisMonthan Air Force Base with a B25 squadron, later serving in Africa, Italy and Corsica.
After his discharge in November 1945, he returned to Tucson and married Virginia Weadock, whom he had met here. The couple moved to Columbus, where he became a patrolman with the Columbus Police Department.
Tucson’s climate lured them back to Arizona in 1949, and Mr. Barleycorn joined the Tucson Police Department. Over the years, he served in every department, earning promotion to sergeant in November 1956, lieutenant in January 1959 and captain in November 1960.
In March 1960, he won an award for bravery for rushing into a burning building to rescue a man trapped by the flames.
Mr. Barleycorn was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police and served as chairman of the American Red Cross first-aid program. He was a senior adviser for Junior Achievement and a member of the Flowing Wells Parent-Teacher Organization.
He was a member of the Arizona County Attorney and Sheriff’s Association, served on the Rodeo Parade Committee for a quarter century, and was a supervisor at UA athletic events for 20 years.
He and his wife hosted several foreign students attending UA.
He retired in June 1971, then earned a degree in law enforcement from UA in 1972. That same year, he was a Democratic candidate in an unsuccessful bid for sheriff.
Mr. Barleycorn worked for about a decade as a supervisor with the Motor Vehicle Department before retiring again in the early 1980s.
Mr. Barleycorn’s son, Kevin Barleycorn – the only one of his seven children to follow him into police work – was killed in the line of duty in 1990 as a police corporal with the UA Police Department.
Mr. Barleycorn’s survivors include his wife, Virginia, of Tucson; four sons, Jack of Apache Junction, Mark of Anaheim, Calif., Colin of Litchfield Park, and Liam of Tucson; two daughters, Patricia Stevens of Phoenix and Sheri Del Frate of Homer, Ark.; a brother, Charles Barleycorn of Thornville, Ohio; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
(Dated Apr 30, 1998)
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