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Sixto Molina Sr., retired miner
Sixto Molina Sr., a mine worker, World War II infantry sergeant, and the father of South Tucson Police Chief Sixto Molina Jr., died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 74.
Mr. Molina died at Kino Community Hospital, where he went yesterday after not feeling well. Family members said he had heart problems and that his health had declined in the past four years.
Mr. Molina would not have wanted to become incapacitated, his son said. ”He didn’t want to be on life support,” he said. ”He said when his time came, his time came. He was not afraid of death.”
Mr. Molina was born in Solomonville, an unincorporated area about five miles east of Safford, where his family settled in the mid-1800s.
At age 17, Mr. Molina joined the Army, where he served as an infantry sergeant during World War II. Three years later, when the war ended in 1945, he received an honorable discharge.
After leaving the Army,Mr. Molina sold furniture, then worked as a truck driver at Magma Copper Co. in San Manuel.
Mr. Molina moved his family to Tucson in 1958. He wanted to ”have my sister and I essentially grow up in a community where there were more opportunities,” his son said.
After moving to Tucson, Mr. Molina worked as a truck driver at the Anamax mine in Green Valley until his retirement about 10 years ago.
Much of Mr. Molina’s life revolved around family activities, his son said.
”He was a real social butterfly in that regard,” he said.
Mr. Molina also had a great love for dog racing, his son said.
Mr. Molina belonged to the Eagles and was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He is survived by his ex-wife, Alice Molina; brothers Rudy and Fred Molina; sisters Aurora Huerta and Nellie Vindiola; son Sixto Molina Jr.; and daughter Brenda Gradillas.
Mr. Molina also is survived by grandchildren James Molina, Joseph Molina, Michael Molina, Lisa Molina, Elizabeth Gradillas and Monique Gradillas, and numerous nieces, nephews and great-grandchildren.
Mr. Molina divorced the mother of his children 20 years ago, but the two remained the best of friends, family members said. Neither remarried.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
(Dated Dec 29, 1998)
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Aviation pioneer Herman A. Zierold, 89
SUN CITY – Aviation pioneer Herman A. Zierold, whose love for flying was ignited by a demonstration by the Wright brothers, died yesterday. He was 89.
Born in Wilkensburg, Pa., in 1908, he moved to Kansas City in 1925 to learn aircraft carpentry and learned to fly in 1927, the same year he went to work at the original Lockheed plant in Hollywood, Calif.
He and his wife Betty, whom he married in 1937, began the fledging Zierold Manufacturing Co. in Los Angeles in 1938, and developed full-scale operations a year later in Burbank. Mr. Zierold became an expert in deep-drawn aluminum and was awarded a number of patents on his processes.
The company, which ultimately became Zero Manufacturing, was sold in 1952, and the couple thereafter became involved in farming in Montana and mining in Idaho. The Zierolds moved to Sun City in 1975.
Mr. Zierold also was a member of the OX5 Aviation Pioneers, which took its name from the engine used in the Jennys flown in World War I and by many barnstormers.
Mrs. Zierold died in January. Mr. Zierold’s survivors include daughter Diane, and son and daughter-in-law Nelson and Karolyn.
Cause of death wasn’t disclosed.
Services were set for 11 a.m. tomorrow at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Sun City.
(Dated Dec 30, 1998)
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Patricia Hartwell, war correspondent
KANEOHE, Hawaii – Patricia Lochridge Hartwell, a former war correspondent, newspaper publisher and UNICEF administrator, died at her home Monday, her family said. She was 82.
Hartwell’s 55-year career began during World War II when she joined CBS Radio. She then wrote about the Pacific and European theaters for Collier’s and Women’s Home Companion magazines.
Hartwell continued her journalism career after the war before joining UNICEF as director of information. That position required her to travel the world and buy paintings for use as UNICEF Christmas cards.
In 1961, Hartwell left New York to run The Arizonian, a weekly newspaper that she and second husband Dickson Hartwell had purchased in Scottsdale.
While running the paper by day, she taught international relations and Chinese history at Phoenix College by night.
The Hartwells later sold the paper, and she became the first director of the Scottsdale Fine Arts Commission, overseeing the construction of that city’s Center for the Arts.
In 1971, the Hartwells moved to Hawaii, where they began the monthly newsletter Cultural Climate and where she served as director of the Arts Council of Hawaii.
Hartwell also edited a newsletter for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and taught magazine writing at the University of Hawaii.
Hartwell is survived by her brother, sister, four sons and five grandchildren.
Services will be held today at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
(Dated Dec 31, 1998)
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Shaffer Mabarak, tavern owner
• The best known of his establishments may have been Grant Road Tavern.
The proprietor of Grant Road Tavern, a popular hangout for college students and business and working people for two decades, died Thursday after a lengthy illness. Shaffer G. Mabarak was 79.
Mr. Mabarak also ran several other Tucson eating and drinking establishments, including the Knotty Pine, the Apache Bar, the State Lounge, the Townhouse and the Outpost.
”I guess it was his social nature that probably prompted him to stay in this business,” said Mr. Mabarak’s son-in-law, Harry Richmond. ”He always liked to have people around him.”
Mr. Mabarak’s prominence came with Grant Road Tavern, at 2425 E. Grant Road until it burned down in 1987, Richmond said.
”Anybody who has been in town very long had been in that tavern at one time or another,” he said.
Mr. Mabarak was an infant when his parents moved to Tucson in 1919 from Scranton, Pa. He attended Tucson High School, where he played football, before joining his parents in their produce business.
He also served as a ship builder, aircraft maintenance worker and cavalryman in the military during World War II.
Mr. Mabarak began his career in Tucson’s night-life scene as a bartender at the Santa Rita Hotel downtown.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Virginia; sisters Dodo Morgan and Marie Anthony of Tucson, and Judy Nowinski of Whittier, Calif.; son John Mabarak of Kayenta; daughters Linda Richmond and Debbie Nielson of Tucson; six grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, 1946 E. Lee St. Interment will follow at Holy Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, 3555 N. Oracle Road.
(Dated Jan 05, 1999)
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Attorney George Carlock
• ‘Old-fashioned lawyer’ served the legal community for half a century.
George Read Carlock, who spent half a century practicing law and overseeing the nation’s legal community after graduating first in his class at the University of Arizona’s law school, died of cancer Sunday at age 76.
A partner in the Phoenix law firm of Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite for 50 years, Mr. Carlock also spent 20 years as a delegate to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.
He served as chairman of the State Bar sections on antitrust law and corporation, business and banking law, and was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Committee on Examinations and Admissions.
In 1987, Mr. Carlock testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of Robert Bork during hearings on Bork’s failed nomination to the Supreme Court.
”He was an old-fashioned lawyer who believed in a level of service to clients, ”said his daughter, Judy Carlock. ”He lamented that some of the changes in the law business pained him because he cared so much about his clients. He saw the state and the law business change a lot.”
His law education was interrupted in 1943 when World War II took him from the University of Arizona School of Law to combat with the U.S. Army in the Rhineland and central Europe.
He returned to UA in 1946, and graduated at the top of his class two years later.
”I took my last law school exam during the last week of January 1948 and reported to work for Frank Ryley the next day,” Mr. Carlock used to say. ”I wanted to get on somebody’s payroll.”
During the early years of his practice, Mr. Carlock attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
Over the years, he served on the boards of the Arizona Historical Society, Goodwill Industries of Central Arizona, the Arizona Club and Lawyers Club of Phoenix. He also was a member of the city of Phoenix Human Relations commission, and president of the Phoenix branch of the English Speaking Union.
In the early 1980s, he represented former U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst after the President Nixon-appointee was indicted for lying under oath during an investigation by the State Bar of Arizona.
Mr. Carlock also was instrumental in the formation of the Arizona Artist Blacksmith Association.
”I’ve been a novice blacksmith for over 60 years, and when you don’t have any talent and no time to practice, you don’t get any better,” he once quipped.
Judy Carlock, a Tucson Citizen copy editor, said such comments were typical of his sense of humor.
”He was very curious, very interested in life and the world – history, geography,” she said.
And Mr. Carlock had an ”unbelievable” collection of books on Arizona history, she said. ”He knew a lot and read voraciously.
”He was a good man . . . . He genuinely cared about people.”
Mr. Carlock is survived by his wife of 48 years, Wanda Carlock of Phoenix; children Robert Carlock of Mesa, John Carlock of Bellingham, Wash., and Judy Carlock of Tucson; and two grandchildren, Nicolas and Natalie Carlock.
His son Jim Carlock died in 1996.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
(Dated Jan 05, 1999)
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