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Wednesday, January 31, 1996
The Boerne Star
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Mrs. Doris C. Lewis
20-Year Boerne Resident
Mr. Finis H. Kelley
Father of Boerne Man
Deadline for news
10 a.m. Mondays
319 EAST SAN ANTONIO
BOERNE, TX. 78006-2501
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All Red lined Clearance
Merchandise in Stock
Mrs. Asa H. Asher
nee Marguerite Mainz
Prices and Specials Good Thurs.- Sat. • Feb. 1-3
Discounts not good on prior purchases
Services for Mrs. Doris C. Lewis
of Boerne were held Thursday,
January 25, 1996 at 10 a.m. from
the Boerne First Baptist Church.
Rev. Bubba Stahl officiated. Burial
followed in Mission Burial Park
North in San Antonio.
Mrs. Lewis, age 97, died Monday,
January 22, 1996.
She was born in Peaster July 4,
1898. A resident of Boerne for the
past 20 years, she was formerly of
Helotes and San Antonio. She was a
member of the Boerne First Baptist
Church and a member of the Boerne
Cemetery.
Mrs. Asher died at the Comfort
sister, Barbara Daggett of Boerne;
and a brother, Charles H. Walter, Jr.,
Ebensberger
Juneral Thome
FAMILY OWNED SINCE 1882
Pre-needs • Cremation
Boerne Cemetery Sextant
111 Rosewood • Boerne • 249-2321
Services for Mr. Finis H. Kelley
of San Antonio were held 10 p.m.,
Saturday, January 27 from the
Manor Baptist Church of San
Antonio. Rev. Keith Herron officiat-
ed with interment following in the
San Fernando Cemetery No. 3.
Mr. Kelley died Tuesday, January
23, 1996 at the age of 93.
He is survived by his son-in-law,
Oscar Ney of Boerne; grandchil-
Mrs. Lewis of preceded in death
by her husband, Thomas W. Lewis
during 1975.
She is survived by her sisters,
Rubye C. Bascom of Granbury, Iva
C. Coston of Richardson; a sister-
in-law, Vivian Oltmans of San
Antonio; and several nieces and
nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial con-
tributions may be made to the
Boerne Public Library.
Arrangements were under the
direction of Mission Park Funeral
Chapels North in San Antonio.
Graveside services for Mrs. Cora
Dee Turner Hogue were held
Wednesday, January 24, 1996 in the
Boerne Cemetery at 3 p.m. with
Rev. Howard Surber of the First
United Methodist Church officiat-
ing.
Mrs. Hogue died Monday,
January 22 at the age of 99 at the
home of her only daughter, Ivory
Dee Hogue Logan and her husband
Perry W. Logan.
She was born September 1, 1896
in Hillham, Tennessee but spent her
childhood and young adult years in
Scottsville, Kentucky. She married
Dewitt T. Hogue December 18,
1918 in Oklahoma City. From there
they moved to Boerne.
Her husband preceded her in
death in 1989. After disabling
health problems occurred, Mrs.
Hogue spent more than five years in
the care of her daughter and son-in-
law.
Other survivors include a grand-
daughter, Karen Dee Logan Phillip
and her husband, James Phillip;
three great-grandchildren, Darren
and Jamie Phillip and Shannah Dee
Phillip Russell; and one great-great-
grandson, Eli Russell. All survivors
reside in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers were Richard Hill,
James Phillip, Darren Phillip, David
Babbitt, Grady Greene and Harry
Davis.
Funeral arrangements were under
the direction of Vaughan’s Funeral
Home of Boerne.
SOCKWELL PLUMBING CO.
Repairs - Remodels - New Construction
dren, Donna Lagleder and Billy
Ney; and four great-granddaugh-
ters.
In place of flowers, the family has
suggested that donations be made to
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf
Children, 103 Tuleta, San Antonio
78212.
Roy Akers funeral home of San
Antonio was in charge of arrange-
ments.
office 210-249-9128
toll free
1-800-929-0949
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Friday, January 19:
1:51 a.m. • A vehicle reported stolen from the 100 block of
North Wagon Wheel was returned at 3:30 a.m. that morning.
10:30 a.m. • Disorderly conduct charges were expected to be
filed against a Boerne woman who used abusive language
toward another woman in Wal-Mart regarding her fur coat.
1:07 p.m. • San Antonio Police reported finding an‘84 model
van registered to a Boerne man at a location in San Antonio
with bullet holes. The local man told authorities he had traded
the van off six months prior.
2:36 p.m. • Criminal mischief was reported from a location on
Amber Street.
3:35 p.m. • A Boerne High School student was held by police
after setting off fireworks, starting a fire in the area of Deer
Creek at Esser.
3:52 p.m. • Comfort EMS and Sisterdale VFD were dispatched
to Upper Sisterdale Road where a man had fallen off his horse
and was hit. He was taken to University hospital.
4:10 p.m. • Medication was found taken from a room with lim-
ited access at Riverview Care Center.
7:17 p.m. • A 32-year-old man was arrested for driving with
license suspended from a DWI conviction after being stopped
for a traffic violation.
Saturday, January 20:
1:45 a.m. • A “loud boom” was reported heard at a location at
Hwy. 27 and Pankratz in Comfort. Officers could not find an
explanation for the sound.
4:53 a.m. • Boerne VFD was unable to find a grass fire report-
ed on Hwy. 46 East past Bergheim.
10:17 a.m. • A hitchhiker at the 46 exit to Ranger Creek was
reported to look like a subject featured on the “Unsolved
Mysteries” television show The hitchhiker was checked out and
found “clear.”
1:51 p.m. • A woman on April Lane reported an encounter
with a suspicious man. The woman said the “strange man
watches kids very closely as they get on and off the school
bus." When she called the Sheriff’s Office, the man had just
gone to her door asking to borrow two packs of cigarettes. He
stayed off to one side of the door so she couldn’t see him.
8:56 p.m. • Officers and EMS were dispatched to a location on
Welfare/Waring Road where a woman reported her boyfriend
had thrown a bottle at her son. There was no transport.
9:09 p.m. • A juvenile party involving alcohol and drugs was
reported at a resident on North Creek Road out of Comfort.
Sunday, January 21:
1:11 a.m. • The Sheriff’s Office received two 9-1-1 calls from a
pay phone in front of the old IGA store. During the first call, a
woman could be heard screaming; during the second, a male
voice was heard cursing. Police officers were dispatched to the
scene but no subjects were found.
4:32 a.m. • A 37-year-old man stopped for a traffic violation in
the 100 block of River Road was found to have an active DPS
warrant for speeding. He paid the fine and was released.
11:59 a.m. • A man on Blue Heron Trail reported that a neigh-
bor was telling the complainant’s kids he was going to shoot
their dog and was using language he shouldn’t use.
12:39 p.m. • Comfort and Alamo Springs VFDs were called to
a grass fire on Alamo Road in Alamo Springs.
11:39 p.m. • A man, stopped for a traffic violation, granted a
search and was found to have a usable amount of marijuana,
pills and a syringe. He was arrested for possession of marijua-
na.
Monday, January 22:
2:18 a.m. • A 23-year-old man stopped for a traffic violation
was arrested for DWI, open container violation, a city warrant
and a Bexar County felony warrant.
9:39 a.m. • A woman on Los Indios Ranch Road reported she
woke to find the keys to her car keys gone from her dresser.
Her brother found his keys, also missing, in the door of his
truck and her keys on the front porch. Her car had been bur-
glarized.
10:09 a.m. • No injuries were reported from a one-vehicle
rollover on Hwy. 46 West, two and one-half miles west of 1-10.
1:00 p.m. • A person fell and suffered a head injury while leav-
ing HEB. The victim was taken to a San Antonio hospital.
4:06 p.m. • Forgery was reported from Guadalupe Pit Smoked
Meat near the Welfare Exit on 1-10. According to the report, a
former employee wrote a check on the company’s account for
$3,000.
5:00 p.m. • A man on Holiday Road outside of Comfort report-
ed that power tools had been taken from his property.
5:26 p.m. • Oil was reported spilled all over the rear of the
building that houses Saigon Cafe in the 1000 block of North
Main.
Mrs. Dorothy Agnes Draeger
Mother, Grandmother
Ladies’ and Kids’ Gently Worn Apparel
A Consignment Shoppe
Any Single Regular Priced
Item of your choice
Garden Club.
Mrs. Grace Irving Heusinger
Former Boerne Resident
Mrs. Cora Dee Turner Hogue
Longtime Resident of Boerne
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249-2441
249-4697
Free Estimates ~ Family Owned & Operated Since 1953
Serving the Boerne, Comfort, & Fair Oaks Areas
6:12 p.m. • A woman who lives on Blue Heron Trail reported
that someone shot at her dog.
6:16 p.m. • A man reported that someone shot at his daugh-
ter’s dogs on Red Bird Court.
Tuesday, January 23:
12:21 a.m. • A woman who lives on Adler reported that some-
one knocked on her door then ran behind the house. Officers
could not find any subjects.
7:16 a.m. • A woman in the 100 block of Bonecutter reported
hearing gun shots behind her home.
4:03 p.m. • A minor accident was reported in the 600 block of
High Street in Comfort when a vehicle rolled into a building.
4:05 p.m. • Several juveniles were said to be trespassing on
property in the 500 block of Johns Road. Officers were not
able to find the juveniles.
4:37 p.m. • Sisterdale VFD was called to a grass fire at FM
1376 and Cypress Bend.
4:57 p.m. • The Sheriff’s Office received the report of a nine-
year-old boy who keeps getting beat up by his older brother.
5:19 p.m. • A Boerne woman reported that something
wrapped in a blue blanket was on the side of Boerne Stage
Road an eighth of a mile from 1-10. Officers found it was a
dog.
7:49 p.m. • The Hill Country Stop store in Comfort reported a
gas drive-off of $10.45.
8:04 p.m. • A 19-year-old man stopped for a traffic violation
was found to be misusing a buyer’s tag.
Wednesday, January 24:
9:25 a.m. • A hitchhiker was said to be causing problems at
the First Baptist Church. When officers arrived, the person was
gone and could not be found in the area.
10:30 a.m. • A mail box stand was reported broken and
thrown in the street in the 200 block of Esser.
11:15 a.m. • A female at Boerne High School reported her
book bag had been stolen the day before.
11:46 a.m. • A guest at Texas Country Inn was reported as
being suspicious after having used an excessive number of
towels and was seen walking around with rubber gloves. The
same man was reported earlier to have walked into Riverview
Care Center on River Road, used the restroom, put on rubber
gloves and threw away a jacket before leaving the building.
The man was found by police and asked to leave town.
1:29 p.m. • A woman on Stonegate North called the Sheriff’s
Office when her estranged husband was in a shed taking
property forbidden for him to take. The lady was told it was a
civil matter.
1:56 p.m. • Boerne VFD was called to a grass fire on Buntline
Drive.
2:20 p.m. • A dog bite was reported from a location on Ranger
Creek Road.
3:37 p.m. • Comfort VFD was called to a brush fire three miles
out Lane Valley Road in Kerr County.
9:38 p.m. • A man stopped for a traffic violation on 1-10 was
arrested on a warrant from Hobbs, New Mexico.
10:05 p.m. • Three people were injured in a major accident
that occurred in the 100 block of Ranger Drive.
Thursday, January 25:
1:23 a.m. • Two men ages 19 and 18 were caught in Boerne
City Park after hours in a vehicle. The driver was cited for vio-
lation of the park curfew.
1:35 p.m. • A Boerne High School student was found to have
a master key to the high school buildings.
3:41 p.m. • A man was taken to Methodist Hospital from a
Boerne doctor’s office after he was hit on the head by a falling
compressor.
5:03 p.m. • Boerne VFD was dispatched to a grass fire in the
500 block area of Sisterdale Road, at 7:27 p.m., it was under
control.
5:54 p.m. • A Comfort woman on Giles Ranch Road reported
she was getting harassing phone calls.
7:30 p.m. • The owner of a dog was “counseled” after a report
that the animal was jumping fences and eating neighbor’s cat
food in the 200 block area of Becker.
9:24 p.m. • A portable CD player was stolen from a vehicle
while parked behind Saliano’s in the 100 block of North Main.
The burglars got inside through open windows.
10:55 p.m. • A subject was found and arrested on 1-10 after
officers received a call from Hill Country Stop that the subject
was possibly drunk.
Friday, January 26:
6:16 a.m. • An Arizona man reported his car was vandalized
while parked in the parking lot of Texas Country Inn. Items
estimated at a value of $10,450 were taken.
Services for Mrs. Asa H. Asher,
Sr., nee Marguerite Mainz of Center
Point were held Monday, January
29, 1996 at 2 p.m. in the chapel of
Schaetter Funeral Home of
Comfort. Rev. Jim Holt officiated
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with burial in the Comfort resident of Waring. She married Asa
Garden Home in Comfort
Wednesday, January 24 at 9:25 a.m.
She was 88.
Mrs. Asher was born September
9, 1907 in Houston to Joseph Mainz
and Laura Shelton and was a former
Thank you...
The family of John T. Noah wishes to extend heart-felt appreciation for
your expressions of concern and sympathy during the illness and loss of our
loved one.
Your kindness will always be remembered.
Jay and Ethelee McClure and Family
Clyde and Becky Noah and Family
Roy and Ruth McMullen and Family
OR U10
Deaths & Funerals.
H. Asher, Sr., December 12, 1926 in
Kerrville. He preceded her in death
October 15, 1990.
She is survived by one daughter
Betty Devon and her husband John
of Boerne; eight grandchildren; ten
great-grandchildren; a brother, Jim
and Jane Mainz of Stockbridge,
Georgia; and a sister-in-law, Phillis
Mainz of El Paso.
Schaetter Funeral Home of
Comfort was in charge of arrange-
ments.
Services for Mrs. Dorothy Agnes of San Antonio.
Draeger, nee Walter, were held at 10 Memorials may be made to the
a.m. Saturday, January 27 from Boerne EMS.
Ebensberger Funeral Home of Ebensberger Funeral Home of
Boerne. Rev. Tom Deviney and Rev. Boerne was in charge of arrange-
Howard Surber, Jr., officiated, ments.
Burial was in the San Geronimo
Cemetery in Seguin.
Mrs. Draeger died Wednesday,
January 24 in San Antonio. She was
76.
She was born October 5, 1919 in
San Antonio,
She is survived by a son and
daughter-in-law, Tom and Celeste
Draeger of Boerne; a granddaughter
and husband, Jennifer and Benny
Rittimann of Boerne; a grandson,
Brandon Draeger of College
Station; great-grandchildren, Leslie,
Taylor and McKenzie Rittimann; a
Graveside services for Mrs. ed her in death in 1969.
Grace Irving Heusinger, 93, of Mrs. Heusinger was a longtime
Arlington, were held at 2 p.m. resident of Boerne where she and
Saturday, January 27, 1996 at her husband farmed. She was also a
Mission Park South Cemetery in member of the San Antonio
San Antonio. Country Club.
Mrs. Heusinger died at 12:45 a.m. Survivors include three grand-
Thursday, January 25, 1996 in the children, Glen I. Scott of Arlington,
Town Hall Estates in Arlington. Bill Scott of Fort Worth and Diana
She was born August 18, 1902 in Scott of Clearwater, Florida; and
Summit, Mississippi, the daughter seven great-grandchildren.
of Clemont Lamartine Van Blessing Funeral Home of
Landingham and Emma Tennisson Mansfield was in charge of arrange-
Ratcliff. She was the widow of ments.
William A. Heusinger who preced-
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