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Obituaries
For Obituary Information, call 281-4258013 or 281-422-8302
Althea Antoinette
Robey
Althea Antoinette Robey
of Baytown, Texas passed
away on June 29,2003.
Althea was born In
Houston, Texas to the late
Don D. Robey, Sr. and
Murphy 1“,. Robey on
February 8,1965. She
graduated from the High
School of Health
Professions in 1982. She
attended the University of
Houston and University of
Texas in Austin (Pre-Med).
Althea attended
Conunonweath Institute of
Funeral Services in
Houston, Texas, end
received her Associate
Degree of Applied Science
on November 12,1999.
She graduated with hon-
ors and was inducted into
the National Funeral
Service Honor Society.
Althea, was a Licensed
Funeral Director and
Embalmer. She was the
General Manager, Funeral
Director and Embalmer at
Robey Funeral Home.
The memory of her life
will be cherished by her
mother, Murphy L.. Robey;
two brothers, Don D.
Robey, Jr. and Errol K.
Robey, Sr,; sister-in-law /
Pamela Robey; grandfather
Anton Moore; two aunts,
Zenobia Robey Powell and
Ella Robey Holliday; uncle
Roger Moore; adopted
brother Dr. Albert L.
Lemons; favorite cousins
Jay and Glenda Williams;
and a host of nephews,
nieces, great nephews and
nieces, extended family
members and Mends.
A visitation will be held
on Monday, July 7 from
1 to 7 p.m. at Robey
= I Funeral Home, 403 W.
Sterling Avenue in
Baytown. She will lie in
state from 9 to 11 a.m. in |
Houston, Texas on Tuesday,
July 8,2003 at St. John
United Methodist Church,
2019 Crawford Street. The
funeral services will begin
at 11a.m., with Pastor
Rudy Ramus officiating.
In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be trade to
Mothers Against Drunk
Driving (MADD) in mem-
ory of Althea Antoinette
Robey. Send your contribu-
tion to 511 E. John
Carpenter Freeway, Suite
700, Irvington, Texas
75062. E-mail address:
www.madd.otg. Enclose a
note to request that the
family is notified of your
contribution.
Arrangements are under
the direction of Robey
Funeral Home, 403 W.
Sterling Ave., Baytown,
Texas 77520,281-428-
9911. “A Family of
Helping Hands”
Travis Loring Sisco
Travis Loring Sisco, 33,
passed away on Thursday,
july 3, 2003.
Travis was born in
Pasadena, Texas on August
2,1969 to parents Alvin
and Doris Sisco. He moved
to Baytown in 1987 and
attended Sterling High
School. Travis received his
associates degree in com-
puter electronics and
worked for IBM for a peri-
od of time.
Travis is preceded in
death by his father, Alvin
Sisco, and grandmothers,
Irmgard Wilson and
Barbara Wilson.
He is survived by his
parents, Doris and Terry
Boudreaux of Baytown,
Texas; sister Charlotta
Sisco of Houston, Texas;
stepbrother David
Boudreaux of Highlands,
Texas; stepsister Carlie
Boudreaux of Baytown,
Texas; grandparents Louise
and Jack Ozbun of
Grandbury, Texas, and
Louis and Ruby Wilson of
Baytown, Texas; niece
Solis Sisco Kearns of
Houston, Texas; aunts and
uncles Debbie and John
Loeffler of Dallas, Texas,
Donna Kelso of Baytown,
Texas, and Dewitt Wilson
of Tomball, Texas; and
numerous other relatives
and a host of Mends.
Family will receive
Mends from 3 to 5 p.m. on
Sunday, July 6,2003 at
Earthman Funeral Home,
3919 Garth Road in
Baytown. Graveside ser-
vices will be at 10 a.m.'
Monday, July 7,2003 at
Cedarcrest Cemetery.
Arrangements are under
the direction of Earthman
Funeral Directors, 3919
Garth Road, Baytown,
Texas. To view the obitu-
ary and to post a Mbute for
the family, go to
www.earthmanfunerals.com
Raymond H. Cunning
Raymond H. Cunning, 88, of Crosby,
passed away, Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at
the Baytown Nursing Home,
Ray was born January 17,1915 in
Sherman, California. Moving to Ohio at
an early age, there Ray met his wife,
Pauline Killian. Ray retired from the WC.
Zabel Co. in the late 1970s and along
with Pauline relocated to Texas to be clos-
er to their sons. A member of St. Jude
Thaddeus Catholic Church, Ray was
active in the Knights of Columbus and the
Sheldon Senior Citizens.
His wife, Pauline M. Cunning, preceded
him in death.
Survived by daughter and sons,
Maureen A. Russo of Austintown, Ohio;
Thomas R. Cunning of Edna, Tx.; Robert
P. Cunning of Houston and Charles D.
Cunning of Crosby.
Mass of Resurrection will be held at
11 a.mjRysday, July 8, 2003 at St. Jude
Thaddaif Church, Highlands, with the
Rev. John Zabelskas officiating.
In lieu of flowers donations may be
made to the Hospice center of your
choice.
Services are under the direction of
Sterling White Funeral Home, 11011
Crosby Lynchburg, Highlands,
281-426-3555.
Lilly C. Thompson
Lilly C. Thompson, 83, of Cleveland,
Texas died on Friday, July 4, 2003 in
Beaumont, Texas. She was bom in Polk
County, Texas on February 20,1920, the
daughter of Thomas S. Roberds and John
Bennett Justice Roberds. She is preceded
in death by her parents; A J. Thompson,
husband; Timothy Richey, grandson; one
brother and four sisters.
She is survived by daughter and son-in-
law, Glenda and Robert Cauble of Vidor,
Texas; two sons and daughters-in-law,
James and Patricia Richey of Bozeman,
Montana and Nathan and Mary Sue
Richey of Btytown, Texas; three grand-
sons, Michael Cauble and wife Jenny of
Huntington, Texas, Steven Richey of
Bedford, Texas, and Lloyd Richey of
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Baytown, Texas; five granddaughters,
Pamela Dods of Vidor, Texas, Susan
Duplantis and husband, Kyle, of Lake
Charles, Louisiana, Jennifer Richey of
Baytown, Texas, Annette Barnes and hus-
band, James, of Baytown, Texas, and
Adrianna Buonarroh and husband, Marc,
of Ann Arbor, Michigan; and four great-
grandchildren.
The family will receive Mends on
Wednesday, July 9,2003 at Cochran
Funeral Home Chapel in Livingston,
Texas from 6 to 10 p.m. Graveside ser-
vices will be held on Thursday, July 10 in
Cleveland, Texas at 2 p.m. Reverend
William L. Thompson will conduct the
services. Burial will be held at Cleveland
Memorial Park in Cleveland, Texas.
Cochran Funeral Home is in charge of the
arrangements.
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Associated Press photo/Kelley McCall
SAMANTHA PETERSON talks to a reporter from her front porch June 30 in Rolla, Mo. Peterson deco-
rated her porch .and front yard with yellow ribbons in honor of deployed family members in the military.
Yellow ribbon photo campaign
planned to support troops
By CONNIE FARROW
The Associated Press
FORT LEONARD WOOD,
Mo. — There isn’t a tree, porch
post or flower pot outside
Samantha Peterson’s house that
doesn’t have a giant yellow rib-
bon tied around it.
Peterson put them up April 3,
the day her husband, Army 1st
Lt. Donavan Peterson, was sent
to Iraq. She says he’s the only
one who can take the ribbons
down when he returns in 2004,
but she hopes he’ll get a pre-
view of the display in a pro-
posed book.
Peterson has submitted a pho-
tograph of her handiwork for
possible inclusion in a book
documenting yellow ribbon <Bs-
plays around the country, which
is being compiled for soldiers in
Iraq.
“I would love it if he were
looking through the book and
came across our house,”
Peterson said. “It would be a
really nice surprise for him."
Katherine Franz, photograph-
ic branch chief at the Training
and Doctrine Command at Fort
Monroe, Va., came up with the
idea for the book while walking
around the fort after the Iraq
war began.
“I was noticing all the yellow
ribbons, and I said to nyself,
‘You know, the soldiers need to
see this,’’’ Franz said.
It became even more pressing
when she received an e-mail
from her 22-year-old nephew,
an Army policeman serving in
Iraq.
“He said, ‘I’m hot and I’m
tired and being shot at makes
the day go by faster,”’ Franz
said. “Your heart just goes out.”
Franz has been working inde-
pendently on what she has
dubbed “Yellow Ribbon
Project.” She was still working
out details — including funding
— but envisioned a 200- to 300-
page book with pictures from all
50 states that would be distrib-
uted free to soldiers in Iraq.
“It’s a gift for American ser-
vice men and women to show
them what we see back here
while they’re gone,” she said.
“The war has been declared
over, but soldiers are still dying
over there.”
Yellow ribbons have become
a common symbol to remember
loved ones sent into combat,
although historians have debat-
ed the roots of the practice.
Many associate yellow rib-
bons with the song, “Tie a
Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole
Oak Tree.”
However, the late Gerald E.
Parsons Jr., a folklorist and ref-
erence librarian at the American
Folklife Center in Washington,
D.C., believed their use arose
from a folk tale involving a con-
vict coming home from prison,
according to his articles posted
on a Wef> site for the Archive of
Folk Culture at The Library pf
Congress.
In the folk tale, the man had
written his family and told
them that if they wanted him
home after his release, they
should put a white ribbon on an
apple tree near the railroad
tracks, Parsons wrote. If he did-
n’t see a ribbon, the man
promised to seek a new life
elsewhere. It was said that
when the train approached his
home, the tree was full of
ribbons.
Yellow ribbons became an
emblem during the Iran hostage
crisis in 1979, and use contin-
ued during the Persian Gulf War
in 1991.
The Army embraced Franz’s
book idea and gave her permis-
sion to seek help from Amy
units across the country.
Master Sgt. Yolanda Choates,
who is overseeing the project at
Fort Leonard Wfood, said she
received a half-dozen entries
within the first week. Peterson's
photograph was the first.
Slogans, patrols and checkpoints used to curb
drunken motorists in nationwide campaign
By MIKE SMITH
Associated Press Writer
INDIANAPOLIS -
Billboards posted along high-
ways and streets across
Indiana warn motorists:
"Sobriety Checkpoint
Ahead.” They certainly look
official, but authorities
acknowledge there isn’t
always a checkpoint there.
More than anything, they’re
meant to scare drivers into
keeping sober when behind
the wheel, said Jerry McCory,
director of Indiana’s Council
on Impaired and Dangerous
Driving.
The 300 yellow signs across
Indiana are part of a national
effort targeting drunken dri-
ving over the three summer
weekends that are traditionally
the deadliest of the year.
Each state has received fed-
eral money for the campaign to
curb drunken driving, which
lasts through July 13. The
National Highway Traffic and
Safety Administration also is
spending $11 million on tele-
vision commercials to promote
the national campaign.
Alaska, using the slogan
"Drive Hammered, Get
Nailed,” is funneling its feder-
al money for additional police
patrols looking specifically for
drunken drivers as part of the
17-day effort. Many other
states are using sobriety
checkpoints, or a combination
of patrols and checkpoints.
AAA estimated that
36.8 million people were
expected to travel the nation's
highways during this year’s
Fourth of July weekend, which
would be the highest total in
nine years.
The highway administration
estimated 560 deaths will
occur on the nation’s roadways
during the weekend, and a
majority — 55 percent — will
involve alcohol. %
Indiana’s effort includes the
billboards, as well as an
increase in actual sobriety
checkpoints and patrols look-
ing specifically for drunken
drivers. The state^rOceived
about $2.5 million iti federal
money for such efforts this
year, McCory said.
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