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Christopher Daniel Greene
Born in Greensboro, North Carolina on Oct. 21, 1977
Died Apr. 4, 2005 and resided in San Antonio, TX.
Visitation: Wednesday Apr. 6, 2005
Service: Thursday Apr. 7, 2005
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary North
cemetery: Chatham Cemetey
Christopher Daniel Greene, age 27, of San Antonio, died Monday, April 4, 2005.
He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Maria Elena Lawson. Survivors: wife, Regina Greene; mother, Cynthia Greene, Navarre, FL; father, Robert Greene and wife, Sue, Bulverde, TX; brother, Robert Ian Greene and wife, Olesia, Raleigh, NC; nephew, Damon Christopher Gard, MO; half sister, Jordan M. Powell, Phoenix, AZ; grandparents, Jack and Barbara Greene, Danville, VA; grandfathers, Billy Lawson, Navarre, FL and George Jaxel, NJ; uncle, Steve Jaxel, MS; step-sister, Laura Lowak; step-brother, Brenton Lowak, both of Bulverde, TX; aunt, Salenia Cole and husband, Roger, FL; aunt, Linda Cruciano and husband, Paul; uncles, Rev. Bill Greene and wife, Lila and son, Ron Greene and wife, Fonda, all of VA; and a large extended family.
He will be sorely missed by all.
James Dwight Barry
Born in Manhattan, KS on Nov. 25, 1942
Died Dec. 1, 2003 and resided in College Station, TX.
Service: Tuesday Dec. 9, 2003
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary
cemetery: Fort Sam Houstion National cemetery
Services will be Tuesday for Captain James “Jim” Dwight Barry, a decorated helicopter pilot whose 37-year career ranged from search-and-rescue missions in Viet Nam to transporting workers to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jim, a resident of College Station, TX, died Dec. 1 when the Bell 407 helicopter he was piloting crashed in the Gulf as he was returning from an oil rig. He was 61.
He was born Nov. 25, 1942 in Manhattan, KS, the son of a B-24 pilot who died in a crash in the Philippines near the end of World War II. He grew up in Corpus Christi, TX, dreaming of being a pilot.
As a student at Texas A&M; University, Jim was a member of the Corps of Cadets, the Ross Volunteers, and the Singing Cadets. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology in 1965.
He began Naval Officer’s Training School for the Navy the following year and soon began flight training to fulfill his dream. Jim served on the carriers USS Intrepid and USS Roosevelt, flying helicopters for anti-submarine and search-and-rescue missions around the world, including a tour in Viet Nam.
His nine medals and other decorations from his Navy years included the Air Medal for meritorious achievement. He was a security officer for the Pacific Missile Range in Hawaii before his honorable discharge as a Lieutenant in 1976.
Jim then began a 27-year career as a pilot with Lafayette, LA-based Petroleum Helicopters Inc., a major transportation source for workers and equipment in the oil and gas industry. He worked in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Rocky Mountains. He was a Captain for PHI when he died.
In addition to being a skilled and careful pilot, he also restored and flew vintage aircraft as a member of the Commemorative Air Force. A lifelong member of the Boy Scouts of America, Jim was an Eagle Scout, a member of the Order of the Arrow, and as an adult, held leadership roles in Scouts and Explorers. He enjoyed the outdoors, spending many days camping, hunting and fishing.
“He lived to fly, ” said his son Jason, also a pilot.
Survivors include his stepfather John K. Halloran of San Antonio, TX; sisters Helenan Polansky and Karen Halloran of San Antonio, and Kathleen Halloran of Oracle, AZ; sons Dwight of Denton, TX., Jason of Centennial, CO., and James of Bryan, TX.; and granddaughter Kate of Denton, TX.
Services are set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Porter Loring Mortuary, 1101 McCullough, San Antonio, TX. Burial with full military honors is to follow at 11 a.m. at Fort Sam Houston National cemetery.
The family suggests memorial contributions in Jim’s name to the Association of Former Students at Texas A&M;, 505 George Bush Drive, College Station, TX 77840.
Betty Claire Pickering
Born in San Antonio, TX on Sep. 7, 1918
Died Mar. 23, 2005 and resided in Alamo Heights, TX.
MEMORIAL SERVICE: Saturday Apr. 2, 2005
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary
cemetery: No Burial
Betty Claire Pickering, only child of Joseph L. Cunningham and Ruth Patterson, was born in San Antonio, TX on September 7, 1918, and passed away on March 23, 2005. She attended schools in San Antonio and Dallas, and was an Art Major at Southern Methodist University.
During World War II, she worked at the Pentagon; was an art instructor in Dallas, and a Hill Country goat rancher. She subsequently became a pioneer in educotherapy, working with children with learning disabilities from her home. It became a career that spanned over thirty-five years.
Betty’s Church activities included assisting in the development of the Dallas Episcopal parishes of St. Michael’s and All Angels and St. Luke’s. Later, she became a member and teacher at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Kerrville; St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, San Antonio; and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, San Antonio.
A talented artist, Betty created needlework and oil paintings for family and friends. As a teenager, she played the violin with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Betty was also a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority.
She is survived by a daughter, Lynne Miller; three grandsons, Scott, Jeffrey and Kenneth Miller; one great-grandson, Morgan Miller; and many honorary “grandchildren”, her beloved students.
The family would like to thank her caregivers Susan Farmer, Roy Johnson Jr., Dora Davis, Dalia Rios, Laura Lemkowitz, Louise Kinchen and the staff of Odyssey Healthcare for the kindness and compassion extended to her well being.
Dr. Amy Freeman Lee
Born in San Antonio, TX on Oct. 3, 1914
Died Jul. 20, 2004 and resided in San Antonio, TX.
Memorial Service: Thursday Aug. 5, 2004
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary
Amy Freeman Lee, beloved artist, teacher and humanitarian passed away peacefully at Methodist Hospital on Tuesday, July 20, in the company of loving friends.
Born to Julia Freeman and Joe Novich on Oct. 3, 1914 at Santa Rosa Hospital, she spent her early years in Seguin. After her mother's death in 1918, her grandmother, Emma Freeman, adopted her legally. In 1929 the family moved to San Antonio to enroll Amy in St. Mary's Hall.
Lee attended the University of Texas, and graduated from Incarnate Word College, where she went on to earn several degrees.
Born to a family with strong ranching roots, Amy was a skilled horsewoman, and under the tutelage of trainer Frank Heathman, she competed nationwide against equestrians including the young Jacqueline Kennedy. She broke her neck and back in separate riding accidents, yet never gave up her enthusiasm for horses. She took a principled opposition to circus, rodeo, bullfighting and other animal-based spectacle. But she was well skilled in ranch management, having helped run the extensive Freeman family holdings. She also counted the late Mary Nan West among her closest friends.
Dr. Lee's profound reverence for life was the guiding principle in her distinguished career as artist, educator and humanitarian. Although she was married
for three years to Ernest Lee, an aide to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower during World War II, Lee had no children of her own. But as a teacher and humanitarian she touched the life of innumerable people, young and old alike. A Quaker by choice, she described her spiritual convictions as based in the concept of reverence for the unity of life.
An internationally acclaimed artist, she had more than 1, 250 exhibitions of her work, from Maine, where she summered for years at Ogunquit to Monterrey, Mexico, where she developed many lifelong friends. She supported many literacy efforts and was a champion of the liberal arts. She was an honorary member of the advisory committee of International Peace University of Berlin and Potsdam, Germany.
She fought against racism and discrimination from her earliest years, and was among the staunch supporters of another young activist, Emma Tenayuca, during the notorious pecan shellers' strike in San Antonio. In recent years, she made many presentations on San Antonio's history with two close friends, Fay Sinkin and Helen Jacobson, who were among her allies in the struggle for racial and social equality in San Antonio. She was appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas to serve on the Grievance Oversight Committee, Lawyer Discipline Commission and was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism where she earned the reputation of “Maximum Lee”.
She played on the San Antonio Wolverines softball team with former mayor Maury Maverick, restaurateur-activist Mario Cantu and other political activists, and remained deeply concerned with American politics throughout her life.
One of the principal founders of the San Antonio Symphony, Lee also nurtured a passion for chamber music, and supported many musical organizations. Early exposure to the arts on family trips to museums and the theater in New York left her with a lifelong passion for all music. She was an avid ballroom dancer, and she often said her one unfulfilled ambition was to sing torch music with a jazz band.
But her life was spent in service to the arts, education and humanitarianism. In literally thousands of public lectures, she routinely credited her grandmother for instilling in her an abiding commitment to give back to others the gifts she received early in life. She was a prodigal artist, art critic, poet writer and philanthropist, and numbered many distinguished artists among her close friends, including painter Kelly Fearing and essayist Loren Eisley, whose parable "The Star Thrower" she often cited in lectures and written work. An early supporter of the Witte Museum, she was a founder of the San Antonio Art League, and later of the Texas Watercolor Society. She was a charter member of the University of Texas College of Fine Arts Council. She amassed a superb collection of art by many of the leading contemporary artists of her day, and made important donations to the McNay, the San Antonio Museum of Arts and other museums. This spring, she was honored by the Museum of Art for her many contributions to the visual arts.
For many years she was the lay member and was given honorary member status of the Texas Society of Architects. She was also involved in the Texas A&M; School of Architecture. Further, she was honored by the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M; University.
Beginning in the 50s, Lee served as a member of Incarnate Word College’s Fine Arts Advisory Council. In 1973 she assumed the Presidency of the Board of Trustees of the college, a position which she filled until 1990. During that time, she nurtured the college's theater, music and arts programs, even living for some years in the dorms, despite owning several homes here. She also spent many years as Chairman of the Board of the Houston-based Wilhelm Schole International, created by her dear friend Dr. Marilyn Wilhelm, and continued in that capacity to support the Wilhelm Schole International Teacher Training Institute.
She also was deeply involved with the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, and funded scholarship awards there in addition to serving on the board. She was a strong advocate of the Bexar County Humane Society, Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation and John Karger's Last Chance Forever refuge for injured birds of prey. She was also a member of the International Women's Forum, the University Round Table and many other organizations.
Although her life was lived largely in San Antonio, Lee traveled widely by car and rail for many years, most recently as a member of the board of directors of the Humane Society of the United States, which conferred it's highest honor, the Joseph Wood Krutch Medal, on her in 1985, the same year she was the subject of the inspirational “Reality is Becoming”, a CBS documentary on her life and accomplishments.
In addition to the Krutch medal, her most treasured honors included the American Civil Liberties Union's Maury Maverick Award, a lifetime achievement award from the University Roundtable and the Imperishable Star Award, a lifetime honor conveyed by Wilhelm Schole International. She received the first Living Treasure of San Antonio Award for Outstanding Achievement as Artist, Scholar, Humanist presented by the Center for Peace Through Culture. – The Woman That Makes a Difference Award presented by the International Women’s Forum in New York. She was elected to Texas Woman’s Hall of Fame by the Governor’s Texas Commission for Women.
While her creativity and intellectual prowess put her in the midst of many notable artists, writers and statesmen, she remained in touch with friends and admirers from all walks of life. A well-trained critic, she wrote for the Express-News and had a radio show on KONO for years. But her most influential outreach consisted in the literally thousands of lectures she delivered to groups throughout the nation, sometimes driving as far as New York or California to deliver lectures that invariably stressed her belief in the importance of civility, humane ethics and universal love. Her self-deprecating humor and razor wit contributed to the effectiveness of her presentation, and she remained among the most popular speakers in the state, even when bouts of illness slowed her pace in recent years.
She is survived by her foster daughter, Marilyn Wilhelm; her god-daughter Carol Karotkin; second cousin, Maxine “Jackie” Goodwin and many, many dear friends and admirers who will never forget her characteristic sign-off: "I'm loving you."
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to Wilhelm Schole International, 3711 San Felipe Road #3C, Houston, Texas 77027.
Dawn Marie McCabe
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii on Jun. 19, 1967
Died Mar. 20, 2005 and resided in San Antonio, TX.
Visitation: Wednesday Mar. 23, 2005
Service: Pending
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary North
cemetery: Pending
Dawn Marie Mikkelson McCabe, age 37, of San Antonio, died Sunday, March 20, 2005.
She participated in the neighborhood bunco club.
Survivors: husband, Paul McCabe; parents, Robert and Mary Mikkleson, Lacrosse, WI; brother, Scott Mikkleson and wife, Shaunette; 2 nephews, Dustin and Parker; mother-in-law, Wanda McCabe, all of San Antonio
Thelma E. Ploetz-Goodfleisch
Born in Pascagoula, Mississippi
Died Mar. 20, 2005 and resided in San Antonio, TX.
Visitation: Wednesday Mar. 23, 2005
Scripture Service: Thursday Mar. 24, 2005
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary North
cemetery: Fort Sam Houstion National cemetery
Our beloved mother, grandmother, and great grandmother Thelma Elaine Ploetz Goodfleisch passed away on Palm Sunday, March 20, 2005.
She was born the ninth child of Albert and Belle Bosarge in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
She was preceded in death by her husband Col. Frederick Ploetz and her second husband Col. Don Goodfleisch.
She is survived by her seven children: daughter Sherry Burns and son-in-law Don Burns, son Charles Ploetz and his wife, Thelma’s loving caretaker, Donna Ploetz, son Greg Ploetz and daughter-in-law Debra Ploetz, daughter Susie Dudley and son-in-law Brian Dudley, daughter Gail Baker and son-in-law Ron Baker, son Jim Ploetz and daughter-in-law Janis Ploetz, and son Gary Ploetz and daughter-in-law Kim Ploetz. She is also survived by three step children, Leigh Seberra, Jo Whitehouse, and Gretchen Reed.
Thelma also leaves behind her very special friend, Col. Keith West.
Thelma’s greatest joy was presiding as matriarch over her large, loving family which included 16 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She led an exciting life as a young woman in Miami Beach before marrying Fred Ploetz, a fighter pilot, at the end of WWII. Her life was further enriched traveling with Fred during their 27 years together in the US Air Force, while raising their family.
Thelma married
her second husband, Col. Don Goodfleisch in 1980. Don and Thelma spent 10 years together traveling the US and the world.
She always enjoyed a very active social life and had many wonderful friends whom she loved dearly. One of her mottos was “to have friends, you have to be a friend.”
Thelma was known for her strong faith and was a member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church for 36 years.
Thelma loved life and shared her many blessings with everyone she met. She performed the greatest miracle in this world, “LOVE”.
Leonor Gallegos
Born in Monterey, Mexico on Apr. 11, 1921
Died Mar. 18, 2005 and resided in Kirby, TX.
ROSARY: Tuesday Mar. 22, 2005
Funeral Home: Porter Loring Mortuary
cemetery: Private
Leonor Gallegos, age 83, passed away on Friday, March 18, 2005.
She is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 51 years, Charlie Gallegos and sisters, Victoria Amaro and Cruz Zapeda.
She is survived by her daughter, Guadalupe Poppo and husband, Jack, of Kirby, TX; sisters, Paula Bell of Gurnee, IL; Sara Arriaga of Austin, TX; and Janie Rubio of Round Rock, TX; brothers, Frank Rubio of Austin, TX; Mack, Manuel and Lawrence Rubio, all of Round Rock, TX; and numerous nieces and nephews along with many friends.
With heartfelt, kindness, Leonor never met a stranger.
She was a loving wife, wonderful daughter to her parents and a super, devoted mother to her daughter.
A simple, yet, extraordinary housewife, who gave so much of herself to others, always full of love and compassion and was the inner strength of our family.
