4-A THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1988 Ex-aide pleads guilty to assault By ARLENE BATTISTA Daily News GALVESTON A former volunteer teacher's aide in the La Marque school district pleaded guilty Friday to the aggravated sexual assault of three children. John Wayne McKinney, of Texas City, was accused' of assaulting several children between 1986 and 1987, said first assistant district attorney Richard McKinney pleaded guilty to three charges, and admitted but did not enter a plea in two other assault cases. McKinney had been a volunteer teacher's aide at the Inter-City Elementary School at the time of the assaults, Branson said. Some, not all, of the cases involved students at the school. Judge Ed Harris of the 10th Dis- Man gets By ARLENE BATTISTA The Dally News GALVESTON Michael O'Lee Hefflin, 37, was sentenced to a 53-year prison term Friday after admitting to strangling his landlady and then torching her mobile home.
Hefflin confessed to the June 17, 1987, strangulation of Simone Louise Fleming, 58, whose was found her bedroom after OBITUARIES Kenneth G. Auzston GALVESTON Kenneth G. Auzston, 56, died Friday at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston. Arrangements are pending with Broadway Funeral Home in Galveston. Carrie D.
Letsinger CLEAR LAKE CITY Carrie Dale Letsinger, 74, died Friday at her residence. Arrangements are pending with Jack Rowe Funeral Home in League City. Margaret E. Hejtmancik WATERFORD, Miss. Margaret E.
Hejtmancik, 62, died Thursday at her residence in Waterford, Private family graveside services will be held at noon today at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchco*ck, the Rev. Curtis Holland officiating. Burial will follow, under the direction of J. Levy Bro. Funeral Home in Galveston.
Mrs. Hejtmancik was born Sept. 1, 1925, in Galveston. She was a housewife and lifelong resident of Galveston before moving to Waco in 1951, then later to Waterford. Mrs.
Hejtmancik was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Junior League. Survivors include her husband, Dr. James Hejtmancik of Waterford; a son, James F. Hejtmancik of Waterford; daughters Lois Elizabeth Fielding of Houston and Margie Sue Hejtmancik of Waterford; and two grandchildren. James E.
Langham Jr. TEXAS CITY James Elbert Langham 53, died Thursday at his residence. Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Memory Yuchanel Funeral Home, Wyndal and the Rev. Hoshaw officiating.
Burial will follow at Shady Grove Cometary in Laurel, under tion of the funeral home. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today in Laurel, Miss. Local Emken-Linton arrangements Funeral are by Home Texas City. Mr.
Langham was born Nov. 23, 1934, in Mobile, Ala. He was a production manager at Todd Shipyard, Galveston Division. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Texas City. Survivors include his mother, Ethelyn Langham of Pasagoula, his wife, Linda Welborn Langham of Texas City; sons Donald Dwayne Langham of Ocean Springs and Douglas Keith Langham of La Marque; daughters Sharon Lachelle Langham of Texas City and Denise Fryfogle Pasagoula, a sister, Winfred Cecchi of Wilmer, five grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Sidney Anderson. Lee Cecchi, Emery Simmons Perry Malone, Keevan Spivey and Jimmy Ward. Memorials may be sent in lieu of flowers to The Wyndal Hudson Cancer Ministry, P.O. Box 3128, Texas City, 77592. The Galveston Daily News U.S.P.S.
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Several of the children involved in the assaults are undergoing professional counseling. 10-YEAR TERM GALVESTON Bobby Eric Walker, 34, of Texas City, was given a 10-year prison term Friday after pleading no contest to a sexual assault charge. 53 years firefighters extinguished a blaze at the trailer, located at 4422 Third St. in Bacliff. The Trinity County man was questioned by police shortly after the murder, but was not arrested, said First Assistant District Attorney Richard Branson.
Hefflin was arrested the following August in Houston on an attempted murder charge, and while in police custody he confessed to the Bacliff crime. Helen M. McCartney CLEAR LAKE SHORES Helen May McCartney, 67, died Thursday at her residence. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Jack Rowe Funeral Home in League City, the Rev.
Jesse M. Harris officiating. Mrs. McCartney was born. Dec.
6, 1920, in Baltimore, Md. She was homemaker and resident of Clear Lake Shores for 20 years. Survivors include her husband, Edward E. McCartney of Lake Shores; a son, Harry Leroy McCartney of Seattle, a daughter, Helen Jane Wilhite' of Grand Prairie; two sisters and two grandchildren. John J.
Langer SANTA FE John Joseph "J.J." Langer, 76, died Friday at Hospital-Clear Lake in Webster. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Haves Funeral Home in Santa Fe, the Rev. John C. DeForke officiating.
Burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchco*ck, under the direction of the funeral home. Visitation will be after 6 p.m, today at the funeral home. Mr. Langer was born Aug. 18, 1911, in Taiton.
He was a retired longshoreman and resident of San55 years, formerly of Hitchco*ck. He a member of ILA Maritime Union, Local 307, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the AARP and Good Sam RV Club. Heurvivors anger include a Santa son, Fe; John a sister, Rosie Delesandri of Santa Fe; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be George Gates, James Gates, Lynn Weems, Tommy Buckley, Nolan Byerly and Johnny Johnson. Ola Mae Tims FORT WORTH Ola Mae Tims, 72, died Tuesday at her res- idence.
Services will be 2 p.m. today at Mayfields Baptist Church in Fort Worth, the Rev. R.V. Jones officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth under the direction of the funeral home.
Local arrangements are by Fields Funeral Home. Visitation and wake were held Friday at Gregory W. Spencer Funeral Directors of Fort Worth. Mrs. Tims was born July 15, 1915, in Opolussa, La.
She was a retired homemaker and resident of Fort Worth for more than 30 years and she was a member of Mayfields Baptist Church. Mrs. Tims was formerly a resident of Galveston, where she was an usher at Mount Olive Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Rodney Tims and Patrict Tims, both of Fort Worth; a daughter, Mary Pollard of Elton, three brothers, Lloyd Jack, Joshua Jack and Roy Jack, all of Galveston; three sisters, Edolia Mansfields, Letha Sams and Joyce Brewster; three grandchildren and other relatives and friends. Memorials may be sent to Gregory W.
Spencer Funeral Directors, 4146 Miller Fort Worth, 76119, Lottie M. Hillmon FRIENDSWOOD Lottie Mariea Camirebecca Hillmon, 30, died Sunday at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston after a long illness. A memorial service for family and friends will be 11 a.m. today at Friendswood Methodist Church, Ms. Hillmon was a graduate of Clear Creek High School and the University of Houston.
Survivors include her parents, Lillian and Harvey Hillmon; brothers Jarron David Hillmon and Christopher Hillmon; and Judge Roy Engelke of the 212th District Court found Walker guilty of the crime, which occurred on Nov. 11, 1987. The sexual assault courtrecords known to Walker, state. Assistant district attorney Brian Abbington was prosecutor. Walker was defended by attorney David Jameson.
ROBBER TO TDC GALVESTON Ray Garcia, 35, of Galveston, pleaded guilty Friday to committing two aggravated robberies on May 9. At 11:15 a.m, Garcia walked into a Strand street liquor store and robbed the clerk at gunpoint. At 3:30 that afternoon, he robbed an employee at a. 39th Street tavern in Galveston. No one was injured neither case.
Garcia was sentenced to a 10- year prison term for each ag- for Hefflin has two prior convictions, including a 1974 rape from Harris County and a 1976 murder in Dallas, Branson said. Under state statutes, Galveston officials did not have sufficient evidence to charge Hefflin with capital murder, Branson said. That crime is punishable by death by lethal injection. On Friday, Hefflin appeared before 10th District Court Judge Ed sister Katrina Hillmon of Friendswood. Memorials may be sent to the Friendswood Methodist Church playground fund, in lieu of flowers.
Gerald P. D'Agostino ROCHESTER, N.Y. Gerald Patrick "Jerry" D'Agostino, 64, died Wednesday at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Services will be 7 p.m. today at Church of the Nativity BVM in Brockport, N.Y., the Rev.
Mike Schrammel officiating. Burial will be 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Buffalo, N.Y., under the direction of Webster's Funeral Home in Brockport. Mr. D'Agostino born March, 29, 1924, in Port Washington, N.Y.
He was a professor of health and education at the State University, of alma New mater. York Mr. at D'Agostino also was a former longtime Galveston County resident and coach. He coached at Ball High and Hitchco*ck schools and at Blocker Jr. High in Texas City from 1954-1962.
Survivors include his wife, Irene D'Agostino of Brockport; two sons, Gerald D'Agostino Jr. and Charles D'Agostino, both of California; two daughters, Mary D'Agoslino and Anne Marie D'Agostino, both of California; and a sister, Rose Mattocks of Dickinson. The family requests that memorials be sent to "Coach Memorial Fund, Brockport Foundation, SUNY at Brockport, Brockport, N. Y. 14420.
Marion W. Caskey CHARLESTON, W.Va. Dr. Marion William Caskey died Thursday at the Arthur B. Hodges Center in Charleston, W.Va.
Dr. Caskey was a graduate of Baylor University, with a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and an M.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He was a native of Waco and had practiced medicine in Wichita Falls since 1940.
Survivors include his wife, Edith M. Caskey; his son, the Rev. John Caskey of Galveston; and his daughter, Mrs. William T. Brotherton Jr.
of Charleston. Memorials may be sent to the Caskey Trust, Kanawha Valley Foundation, 1426 Kanawha Blvd. East, Charleston, W. 25301, or to any other organization serving the elderly. FUNERALS TODAY Nicki Lynise Warren -Williams, 21, of Houston died Saturday; services 11 a.m.
today at Shiloh A.M.E. Church in Houston. Lucille J. Anizan of La Marque died Thursday at Mainland Center Hospital in Texas City; services 1 p.m. today at Queen of Peace Catholic Church of La Marque; burial will follow at La Marque City Cemetery, with arrangements by James Crowder Funeral Home of La Marque.
Dan T. Perez, 52, of Houston died Thursday; services 11 a.m. today at Niday-Southpark Funeral Home in Pearland; burial will follow at South Memorial Park Cemetery in Pearland. Oscar E. Ladd, 80, of Galveston died Thursday; services 9:30 a.m.
today at Sacred Heart Church in Galveston. Sarah Elizabeth Dostal, 76, of La Marque died Thursday; services 10 a.m. today at at James Crowder Funeral Home in La Marque; burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchock. Edward Henry "Soup" Kolenovsky 59, of Galveston died gravated robbery, with the being served concurrently. Assistant district attorney Yancy was prosecutor; was defended by attorney Bloom.
40-YEAR TERM GALVESTON August Garibaldi 36, of Galveston, was sentenced to a 40-year term Friday after pleading to selling heroin on eight different occasions to undercover police ficers. Between Jan. 22 and March Garibaldi sold small amounts herion, court records state. was arrested May 25, along about 40 others in a major bust conducted on the island. the time of his arrest, Garibaldi was in possession of heroin $955.
The money has forfeited to the strangling Harris pleaded guilty ing Ms. Fleming, who worked waitress. He also pleaded guilty arson. Hefflin was sentenced to 53-year terms, one for charge, Branson said. He also previously convicted of the County attempted murder, was given a 53-year prison for that offense.
All three of sentences will be served at same time. Thursday; services 2 p.m. at Malloy and Son Funeral in Galveston; burial will follow Galveston Memorial Park Hitchco*ck, under the direction the funeral home. Mary Ellen Perussina Brouillard, 90, of Galveston Thursday; services 10 a.m. at St.
Patricks Catholic burial will follow at Galveston Memorial Park in Hitchco*ck. Ralph H. Price, 93, of died Wednesday; memorial ice 10:30 a.m. today at Corley Funeral Chapel, Austin. Sarah Mary "Meme" Behrens, of Houston died.
funeral Mass a.m. today at Queen of Catholic Church in Houston; terment at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery. Louis Julius Koester, 86, of veston died Thursday; services a.m today at First Lutheran Church in Galveston; burial at Galveston Memorial Park Hitchco*ck. TUESDAY Frances Jane Smelley, 63, Galveston died Tuesday; graveside services 10 a.m. day at Galveston Memorial arrangements are by J.
Levy Bro. Funeral Home in Galveston. OBITUARY RULES Regular Galveston Daily News obituaries are published free of charge and edited to conform with News-Associated Press style. If an obituary includes a photo, survivors outside the immediate family, honorary pallbearers or other extra material, the entire obituary is charged at our regular Classified Ad rate. Families and funeral homes are urged to make sure information supplied to the News is check carefully for accuracy and correct spelling.
The News assumes no responsibility for incorrect information submitted to us. All obituaries shuold be typed or clearly printed. Deadline for all obituary information is 7 p.m. For further information, contact the News' obituary desk at 744-3611, extension 211. Ester Clark Greb GALVESTON Ester Clark Greb, 95, died Friday, July 1, 1988, at Turner Geriatric Center in Galveston.
Services will be 2 p.m. today, July 2, 1988, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, the Rev. John Kellick officiating. Burial will follow at Old City Cemetery in Galveston, under the direction of Malloy and Son Funeral Home in Galveston. Visitation will be after 8 a.m.
today at the funeral home, where a rosary was recited Friday. Mrs. Greb was born Dec. 16, 1892, in Galveston. She was a retired housewife and lifelong member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
She also was a member of the Women's Club of Sacred Heart Parish, past president of the Navy Mothers' Club, Democratic Precinct No. 7 chairwoman for many years, and survivor of the 1900 storm. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Jessie Greb Kirkendall and husband, John L. of Galveston; a son and daughterin-law, William O. Greb Jr.
and wife, Mary of Port Bolivar; two granddaughters, Sharon Kirkendall Marullo of Texas City and Laurie Greb Payton of Port Bolivar; three grandsons, John L. Kirkendall Jr. of Galveston, William O. Greb III of Houston and Robert Greb of Port Bolivar; and 10 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be grandsons and nephews.
Memorials may be sent to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 1302 Broadway, Galveston, Texas, 77550. terms Doug Garcia Gerson Albert prison guilty of- 4, of He with drug At and been murderas a to two each was Harris and term the the today Home at in of died today Church; Austin servWeed- 9:30 Peace in- Gal10 today in of TuesPark; Pa. union goes on strike HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A union representing 12,000 state clerical Thursday, its workers president and counselors went on strike at said. Paul Krissel, president of the Pennmidnight sylvania second-largest Social state Services Union, said 56 percent of Pennsylvania's contract offer.
employees the union voted to reject a three-year erations in welfare Krissel would affect statewide opsaid strike and unemployment offices, some bureaus under the Department of Labor and Industry, and some counselservices in prisons and mental institutions. Plant cleanups to cost billions WASHINGTON (AP) Cleaning up environmental contamination and correcting existing problems at the nation's nuclear weapons plants could cost between $40 billion and $70 billion, according to a government report released Friday. And the Department of Energy, report said the price tag could be high as $110 billion in order to maintain the environmental, safety and health standards at the plants through the year 2045. The report was released by Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who had requested it as chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
Glenn said the report puts a price tag on the department's "shameful neglect" toward the Glenn and safety of the public. "We have a choice of paying the health price with money or with the health and safety of our children and grandchildren, Glenn said. Propagandist st dead at 87 World COLUMBUS, War II Ohio (AP) Mildred Gillars, known during as Axis Sally for her propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany, has died. She was 87. Ms.
Gillars, died Saturday, where she here after her release in 1961 from federal prishad moved on, served 12 years for treason. During her trial in 1949, Ms. Gillars said she was born in Portland, Maine, in 1900. She said she attended Ohio Wesleyan University but left before in 1940. graduating After and the traveled to Germany, where she took a radio job war, American military officials found her living in cellars of out buildings in Berlin.
Saturday named Literacy Day WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan has proclaimed Saturday as national literacy day, saying that "the burden of illiteracy keeps some of us from taking full advantage of all our country has to offer and from contributing all we can. Fortunately, dedicated citizens have been working hard to help their neighbors earn to read and write," the president said, "'We can be are proud of the volunteers and the public-private carrying America's promise to their fellow partners who INF inspections begin WASHINGTON visits (AP) U.S. and Soviet teams were beginning which inspection the Friday to verify compliance the treaty siles, officials said. The Soviet government notified the United requires destruction of superpower medium misearly Friday that five teams were landing in San FranStates tion cisco, Agency, said Kendall created Pease, spokesman for the U.S. On-Site Inspeclast January to monitor compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.
Ford offers settlements LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Ford Motor Co. has offered settlements of less than $1 million to each of the families of 24 children killed in a fiery church bus crash, The Courier-Journal reported per Friday. also Citing reported that unidentified Ford, lawyers which close to the case, the newspathe bus involved in the accident, offered chassis of manufactured the payments to the estates of the three adults who died and to the 40 survivors of the May 14 crash, Skeeters, a based on spokesman the for severity the of their injuries. Lawyer Don would neither confirm nor deny the report.
many of the firm that represents families, Demos want high-tech look to have ATLANTA a (AP) look Even at the this balloons and bunting are supposed Convention. high tech, the people to see this as an month's Democratic National said Dan in Lee, an deputy chief executive officer for the July 18-21 event, ized, unified convention people who've got theirs, act together," organinterview Friday. Bold tones of red, white and blue will be replaced by "soft blues, soft reds and gray tones" um. Lee said this "more on the podifuturistic look" will be used around The Omni and, to some degree, will replace traditional bunting. Lyng: Drought remains serious WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Secretary Richard E.
Lyng said Friday the drought remains "very, very serious" despite some rainfall and said the federal government likely will support financial aid to farmers once losses, are more fully known. "If you look 30-day forecast or the 6- to 10-day forecast, the prospects are bleak," Lyng told reporters after briefing President Reagan at the White House. "We did have some showers in the last few days that helped in some places and the weather's cooler, so those are good Lyng said, "but the weather forecasts inReagan ing dicate and that is it has not broken and is continuwho heads a a a a a a a a a a drought task force very, Reagan set last Lyng, still very serious." said that "sooner or later I suspect that the Congress and the up month, administration will see that we need to help with money if the thing continues as bad as it's Human error may have caused crash FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) Pilot error most likely caused the collision of two Army helicopters that killed 17 soldiers night released training at Fort Campbell last March, according to a report during Friday. "Pilot error, to wit, a reasonable mistake in judgment is the most probable explanation for the cause of this the Army report said.
But the report concluded: "There should be no action taken against anyone as no foundation for negligence can be established. The accident was not due to lack of diligence, nor unreasonable or unprofessional p*rno outlets charged in mailings sible WASHINGTON much of the (AP) p*rnography dealers said to be responcountry's sexually oriented mailings were charged materials Friday in federal indictments with distributing obscene named in through the indictments mails. Twenty people and 14 companies were unsealed in eight states as part of an investigation dubbed "Project Postp*rn," which targeted mailings mailings arrive depicted or indiscriminately advertised hard-core p*rnography. The that children at homes addressed to adults, or simply "resident," said Brent Ward, U.S. attorney for Utah and chairman of the attorney general's subcommittee on obscenity.
Student faces deportation Thursday PHILADELPHIA to trying to (AP) sneak A Japanese student pleaded guilty weapons onto an airplane at Philadelphia International Airport. Yoshino Kosugi, 18, was placed on five years' probation and fined $3,000, and will be Japan on Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marsha McClellan deported said. to The former Drexel University engineering student was arrested June 12 while trying to board a flight to Japan. Foreign labor hearing planned cipal WASHINGTON authors of the (AP) Rep.
Lamar Smith and one of the prin1986 immigration reform act will conduct a congressional hearing in San Angelo on the difficulties ranchers face in hiring cowboys now that it is labor. The hearing is scheduled Monday, impossible" July to use at "virtually the foreign San 11, Angelo Convention Center, Smith's office announced. Smith, a San Antonio Republican, has introduced legislation to ease restrictions on the use of foreign labor by ranchers..
