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Services set for longtime ASDM docent Jackson
Memorial services will be held tomorrow for Dorothea B. Jackson, a lifelong volunteer and the longest-serving docent at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Mrs. Jackson, 85, died in her sleep May 26. She had suffered a stroke after having surgery May 7.
One month before her death, Mrs. Jackson was awarded the Luminaria Award at the Desert Museum’s Desert Gala.
She was described on the award as ”an unselfish, independent, curious and lively docent. She is an original in every way.”
”That sums her up quite nicely,” said her daughter, Harriet Marvin. ”She had life by the throat.”
Mrs. Jackson helped begin the docent program at the Desert Museum, and was a member of its first graduating class in 1972. A docent lectures and gives visitors tours of the museum.
She received a degree in teaching deaf and blind students from the University of Chicago in 1935. She supervised her church’s Sunday School for 26 years in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mrs. Jackson moved to Tucson in 1967.
”I got to Tucson on a Sunday and by Tuesday I was a member of the Homemaker’s Club,” she said in a UA College of Agriculture newsletter in June 1996.
At 68, she commuted to Tempe to earn a lichenology degree from Arizona State University.
She also was a consumer adviser at the Pima County Extension Office, where she joked: ”We have quite a crew of older women who’ve been keeping house all these years. We can answer about 90 percent of the questions that come in – without any help. We’ve been there, done that.”
She also was past president of the Arizona State Cooperative Extension; benefactor to the Sonora Arthropod Studies Institute, and an instructor of the ”55 Alive” drivers’ classes.
Mrs. Jackson is survived by two daughters, Maurine Jackson Harvey of Las Vegas and Harriet Marvin of El Paso, Texas; twin sons Ervin Jackson of Sutherland, Mass., and Earle Jackson of Three Points; eight grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
Services will be at Christ the King Episcopal Church, 2800 W. Ina Road. Interment of ashes will follow in the church’s Memorial Garden. She will be interred next to her husband, Maurice, who died in 1973.
Donations can be made to the following: Sonora Arthropod Studies Institute, P.O. Box 5624, Tucson, Ariz. 85703; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road, Tucson, Ariz. 85743; or Christ the King Episcopal Church Building Fund, 2800 W. Ina Road, Tucson, Ariz. 85741.
(Dated Jun 26, 1998)
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Author-governess Anna Hale dies
Anna W. Hale, a former governess who in her mid-80s wrote two children’s books, has died at age 89.
Miss Hale died Saturday in Tucson, two days after suffering a massive stroke.
Longtime friend Jackson Ravenscroft said Miss Hale put off a professional writing career until late in life because she was too busy caring for others. She worked as a governess in several countries.
At age 85, she produced her first book, ”Mystery on Mackinac Island,” in which three teens investigate bicycle thefts. It was published by Thunder Bay Press.
Her other book was ”Mayflower People,” a collection of non-fiction stories for pre-teens.
Her writing career was cut short by a corneal transplant in 1995 that left her blind, according to Pastor Scot Gillan of Grace Community Church.
Miss Hale was born in New York City and grew up on her family’s farm near Princeton, N.J. She never married. Survivors include 10 nephews and numerous godchildren.
A memorial celebration was to be held today.
(Dated Jul 02, 1998)
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Former T-birds pilot dies here
• Col. Charles Maultsby also played a role in the Cuban missile crisis.
Charles ”Chuck” Maultsby, a retired Air Force colonel who flew with the Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team, served as a NATO official and was a crucial factor in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, has died in Tucson.
Col. Maultsby died Aug. 14. He was 72. The cause of death was not given.
In the early 1960s, Col. Maultsby piloted U-2 spy aircraft and gained notice as the pilot detected over Russian airspace during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 – an incident with serious political repercussions.
The incident occurred in the midst of head-to-head confrontations between President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that brought the world’s two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.
The overflight, which was blamed on a navigational error, could have been interpreted as an attack on the Soviet Union at a time when the United States demanded that the Soviets remove missiles from Cuba.
However, subsequent negotiation produced a nuclear test ban treaty.
His son, Charles Maultsby II, said his father’s flight was featured on the NBC documentary about the missile crisis, ”One Minute to Midnight.”
Kennedy, hearing of the overflight and its detection by the Russians, is said to have exclaimed, ”There’s always some son-of-a-bitch who doesn’t get the word.”
Col. Maultsby was born June 7, 1926, in Greenville, N.C. Orphaned at age 8, he went on to become a highly decorated fighter pilot and aeronautical engineer, his son said.
He flew 14 missions in F-80 fighters during the Korean War before being shot down and spending 22 months as a prisoner of war in China.
In 1958, he became a member of the Fighter Weapons Team (the Air Force’s ”Top Gun” school) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and was ranked as one of the top five fighter weapons gunners in the world.
Later that year, he joined the Thunderbirds, flying the right wing position in the diamond formation.
From 1965 to 1968, Col. Maultsby flew F-4 fighters in Vietnam, completing 214 combat missions.
From 1974 to 1977, he served as inspector general for combat readiness with NATO forces in Naples, Italy.
Col. Maultsby was awarded 18 decorations for his military service including the Purple Heart, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with three oak leaf clusters and the Air Medal with 19 clusters.
No funeral service is planned.
Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Jeanne; sons Chuck II and Kevin of Tucson and Shawn of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and grandsons Chuck and Stevie of Tucson.
(Dated Aug 21, 1998)
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Family man, printer ‘Alex’ Ochoa, 52, dies
• The Tucson native is remembered by friends and TNI co-workers as a ‘good guy.’
”Alex always took care of his family. They always came first, and that’s very admirable.”
That was how George Urias, a prepress technician at Tucson Newspapers Inc., recalled Alejandro M. ”Alex” Ochoa Jr., a lifelong friend and co-worker for more than three decades.
Mr. Ochoa died Saturday of heart failure. He was 52.
He began work with TNI in late 1967, starting at the same time as several friends, including Urias, Vernon Scott and Jimmy Rodriguez.
”We all came together in the same car, as a matter of fact,” recalled Urias. ”We were like a family, you know?”
Scott said, ”Both his kids went to college. One’s a schoolteacher now, and one is a counselor. He sacrificed quite a bit so his boys could go to school, so they could have a better life than he did.”
Rodriguez said he had known Mr. Ochoa since they were children.
”We were altar boys together at Santa Cruz Church,” he remembered. ”Our families all knew each other because we grew up in the same neighborhood, close to Ochoa School. My parents knew his parents, and my father went to school with his father.
”He worked so hard here for 30-odd years, and was looking forward to his retirement. He had talked about retiring at age 55.”
Richard Matthews, supervisor of the composing room where Mr. Ochoa worked, said, ”Alex was one heck of a printer. His work was always clean. He was very meticulous with his work.
”He tried to get along with everybody. I don’t think he had any enemies. He was a hell of a good guy with a good attitude. We’re going to miss him.”
Mr. Ochoa was Matthews’ assistant for five years and Matthews praised his performance.
Rodriguez said Mr. Ochoa devoted about 15 years to coaching Little League and softball and coached a girl’s softball team that went to the Western regional championships two years ago.
His older son, Alejandro, said, ”He was a family man, a generous man. ‘Alex’ is (means) a helper of men, and he was. He thought about other people before himself. He had a very big, a very beautiful heart. The people he worked with at the newspaper were like family to my dad.”
Mr. Ochoa was born in Tucson, lived for a time in Los Angeles as a youngster, then returned to Tucson. He served six years in the Arizona Air National Guard with the 162nd Fighter Group.
He attended Safford, Pueblo and Salpointe schools.
Visitation will be from 4 to 10 p.m. tomorrow at Carrillo’s Tucson Mortuary South Chapel, 240 S. Stone Ave., with rosary recited at 7 tomorrow night. Mass will be celebrated Thursday at 9 a.m. at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 S. Stone Ave., with burial at Holy Hope Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Christina B. Ochoa; sons Alejandro A. Ochoa and David A. Ochoa; his mother, Carmen M. Ochoa; five sisters, Cecelia Mendoza, Carmen Wilkins, Arcelia Acevedo, Theresa Fass and Molly Murrieta; a brother, Rudy T. Ochoa; and many nieces and nephews.
(Dated Aug 18, 1998)
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Bilby, 67, recalled as court pioneer
• The jurist who died yesterday brought informality into serious settings.
U.S. District Judge Richard M. Bilby, who died yesterday in Flagstaff, will be remembered as a courtroom pioneer whose unconventional style led to changes in jury trials.
”He really prided himself on not being restricted by outmoded constrictions, like so many of our colleagues are, and he ran his court that way – without any stuffiness at all,” said Charles Ares, a former partner and University of Arizona law school dean.
Judge Bilby, 67, collapsed while walking his dog at his vacation home in Flagstaff.
The cause of his death is not yet known.
Judge Bilby, who was appointed to U.S. District Court’s Tucson bench in 1979, shunned the traditional judge’s black robe and wore a suit instead.
The Tucson native also broke down longstanding barriers between the bench and the rest of the courtroom, recalled Terry Chandler, chief assistant U.S. attorney for Tucson.
She said Bilby conducted jury selection ”like a talk-show host,” mingling with prospective jurors with a microphone and asking questions.
”He didn’t sit up on the bench and ask them. He got down among them. I think he did it so the jurors would be comfortable with him,” she said.
”He would manage the courtroom, but he let the lawyers argue their cases the way they wanted.
”He was innovative. He did things his own way. He was one of the first judges I know of to let jurors ask witnesses questions. That was certainly different, and they do that in state court now.”
Colleagues, many expressing shock over his death, said they will remember Judge Bilby as one of the nation’s top federal jurists.
”He’s one of the finest federal judges we’ve had,” said former U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini, who nominated Judge Bilby for the federal bench . ”He had a sterling reputation of integrity as a lawyer and gentleman.”
In 1987, DeConcini recommended Judge Bilby for the U.S. Supreme Court seat now held by fellow Arizonan Sandra Day O’Connor.
Only the clout of the late former Sen. Barry Goldwater tilted the appointment toward O’Connor, DeConcini said.
”He would have been excellent,” said the former lawmaker.
U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield, chief justice of Arizona’s federal courts, said Judge Bilby dedicated much of his career to reforming the legal system.
”He was always looking for a better way to do justice. He would do anything and everything to make the system better,” Broomfield said.
Phoenix attorney Marvin Cohen, a longtime partner of Judge Bilby’s, said the judge earned his pioneer reputation by not being afraid to try new things.
From the bench, Judge Bilby allowed unusual practices he would have embraced as a trial attorney, Cohen said.
”He had the cojones to do it because it was the right thing to do,” he said.
Cohen said Judge Bilby ”was like a character out of a Frank Capra movie. He just wanted to go in and do things right, get them done and go on to the next one.”
Recently retired state appeals court judge Michael Lacagnina said Judge Bilby’s innovation of empaneling two separate juries for trials with multiple defendants and trying them at the same time was a cost-saving measure that is common today.
”It was new when he did it and he had the guts to try it,” Lacagnina said.
Judge Bilby sometimes soothed sore feelings among attorneys in his courtroom by keeping them after jurors were dismissed to listen to recorded music together, Lacagnina said.
The judge, a scratch golfer, also encouraged irritated attorneys to unwind by putting golf balls in his chambers, recalled personal injury lawyer Richard Grand.
”He was an extremely fair judge,” said Grand, who studied for the bar exam with Judge Bilby in 1958. ”Even though we knew each other quite well, he still managed to rule against me (on motions) about 90 percent of the time.”
Judge Bilby, who presided over the fraud trial of savings and loan mogul Charles Keating, treated all defendants who entered his courtroom with equal respect, Grand said.
”Whether it was the Keating case or a run-of-the-mill personal injury case, he gave them all the same attention,” he said.
DeConcini agreed, saying the judge maintained an even hand in high-profile cases such as Keating’s civil trial.
”He wasn’t going to be run over by all of the publicity and hoopla,” he said.
Judge Bilby, who once chaired the Pima County Republican Party, transcended partisan politics.
He was appointed a federal judge by Democratic President Carter on DeConcini’s recommendation.
”He was really Republican, but he was his own person in everything he did,” said Cohen, who once chaired the county’s Democratic Party.
Judge Bilby cast a watchful eye on how the legal system treated minorities, Ares said.
”Richard was very sensitive to civil rights and civil liberties. He was very aware of the way in which women had been treated in the legal system and the lack of minorities in the profession,” Ares said.
”He had a very modern view of relationships between minorities and the system, and he was very outspoken about them.”
Word of the judge’s death ”devastated” the federal courts staffs in Tucson and Phoenix, cohorts said.
”This country has lost one of its most outstanding jurists, and I have lost a close friend,” said Broomfield.
Judge Bilby is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; daughters Claire Bilby and Ellen Bilby Moore; stepsons John, Stephen and Thomas Alexander; and two grandsons, Joseph and Andrew Moore.
BILBY BIOGRAPHY
1931 – Born in Tucson
1949 – Graduated from Tucson High School
1955 – Earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Arizona
1958 – Completed a law degree at the University of Michigan
1959-79 – Practiced as an attorney for Bilby, Schoenhair, Warnock & Dolph
1972-74 – Chairman of Pima County Republican Party
1979 – Appointed U.S. district judge by President Carter
1987 – Candidate for a seat on U.S. Supreme Court
1992 – Presided over class-action civil trial of Charles H Keating.
1994 – Presided over federal trial of Michael Elmer, a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of civil rights violations in the 1992 Nogales-area shooting death of a Mexican national.
1996 – Gained senior status and reduced work schedule in the Tucson court.
1997 – Spoke out against overcrowding in Arizona youth prisons and ordered fines for state Corrections Department if it accepted more than 652 youths in its prison facilities.
1998 – Died in Flagstaff.
BILBY SERVICES
Funeral services for Judge Richard M. Bilby will begin Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Phillips in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave.
The family asks that memorial donations be sent to the Ralph W. Bilby Professorship Fund at the University of Arizona Law School, P.O. Box 210176, Tucson, Ariz. 85721-0176.
(Dated Aug 12, 1998)
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