Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 170, Ed. 1 Friday, June 5, 2009 Page: 3 of 22
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Friday, June 5, 2009 ■ Page 3
SHIRLEY JEAN CHRISTMAN
SHIRLEY JEAN CHRISTMAN
Private family services for Shirley Jean Christman,
64, of Midland and formerly of Sweetwater, will be held
later this week with B.G. Sanders officiating. Burial
will be at Garden of Memories,
under the direction of McCoy
Funeral Home.
Christmas died Wednesday,
June 3, 3009, at Midland
Memorial Hospital.
She was born April 13, 1945,
in Amherst. She married Steve
Christman Nov. 13,1982, in Las
Vegas, Nev. She was a graduate
of Sweetwater High School and
San Angelo State University in
1979. Slie had lived in Midland
for the past 30 years and was an
accountant. She was a devoted
Harley-Davidson rider.
Survivors include her hus-
band, Steve Christman of
Midland; daughter, Danna
Flemons and husband Jerry of Allen; sister, Kay Kropp
of Sweetwater; brother, Tony Tharp and wife Jamie of
Leander; mother, Imogene Tharp of Sweetwater; and
two granddaughters.
EDITH REEI) FULLER
Funeral services for Edith Reed Fuller, 87, of
Sweetwater, are pending with McCoy Funeral Home.
Fuller died Thursday, June 4, 2009, at Hendrick
Medical Center in Abilene.
ETERNITY NICOLE ORTEGA MARTINEZ
Eternity went to be with the Lord Thursday, May 28,
2009, in Abilene.
Survivors include her mother, Marina Ortega and
father, John Paul "JP" Martinez of Sweetwater; mater-
nal grandparents, Armando "Pipo" and Lori Ortega of
Sweetwater; paternal grandparents, Albert Martinez of
Dallas and Melba Lopez ol Sweetwater; and numerous
aunts, uncles and cousins.
Eternity went to be an angel of the Lord and she will
be loved and remembered by her family. The Ortega and
Martinez families thank everyone for their prayers. No
services are planned.
CECELIA ANN SANDERS
Funeral services for Cecilia Ann Sanders, 63, of
Sweetwater, are pending at Cate-Spencer & Trent
Funeral Home.
Sanders died Friday, June 5, 2009, at Nolan Nursing
and Rehab.
Buchenwald survivor. Each one laid a long-stemmed white
rose at a steel memorial. They were later joined by Volkhard
Knigge, head of the Buchenwald memorial.
"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust
never happened," Obama said. "This place is the ultimate
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piodding the international community to redouble efforts rebuke to such thoughts, a reminder of our duty to confront
a.ni! ,Pal.<;Stinian states in hopes those who would tefl lies about our history."
"This place teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about
the spread of evil in our own time," Obama added.
It was a pointed message to Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who has expressed doubts that 6 million
Jews died at the hands of the Nazis.
"fie should make his own visit" to Buchenwald, Obama
told NBC in an interview earlier Friday. He added "I have
no patience for people who would deny history."
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as others are also trying to
catch calfs, and there are
less animals in the corral
than there are students.
Nonetheless, White has
found success in the event,
winning $800 in San
Antonio in February and
$1,250 while in I louston in
March. Instead of a check
or a stack of cash, the FFA
awards sort of a coupon in
the amount, that can then
be redeemed when pur-
chasing livestock. White
opted lor a heifer, and now
shows the animal in com-
petitions. His next event
will he held at Texas A&M
in June.
According to FAA advi-
sor and Ag instructor for
Blackwell schools, Dale
Archer, the organization is
a positive influence in the
lives of students involved.
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WASHINGTON (AP)
Sonia Sotomayor told the
Senate on Thursday that
the White House never
questioned her about cases
or issues she might have to
decide as a Supreme Court
justice, a disclosure gleaned
from reams ot documents
that reveal she lias spoken
repeatedly about how her
gender and Litina heritage
affect her judging.
The federal appeals court
judge divulged new details
about her finances and pro-
vided three decades of writ-
ings, speeches and rulings
that give both supporters and
critics fresh fodder for the
coming debate on her confir-
mation They include more
instances in which she said
she hopes a "wise Latina
would reach a better deci-
sion than a man without that
experience.
The comments in 2002 anil
2003 echo a much criticized
remark she made in 2001 at
the University of California-
Berkcley law school that has
prompted a furor among
conservatives who say they
suggest President Barack
Obama's first Supreme Court
nominee brings a personal
bias to her legal decisions.
()hama has said lie is sure
she would have restated it.
In fact, she said it almost
precisely the same way in
speeches to the Princeton
Club in 2002 and one at
Seton Hall law school in
2003, according to copies
she sent the Senate
Sotomayor lias told sena-
tors in private meetings this
week that while her back-
ground shapes who she is.
rtie believes judges should
follow the law above all.
"It's a great educational
program," he said. "And
it helps them earn money,
too."
White is required to
keep records on the live-
stock he earns in events
like the calf scramble, and
must show the same ani-
mal at the competition the
following year.
of resolving a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation's post-
Holocaust creation.
"These sites have not lost their horror with the passage
of time," Obama said after seeing crematory ovens, barbed-
wire fences and guard towers at the Buchenwald camp.
'More than half a century later, our grief and our outrage
over what happened have not diminished."
Earlier in Dresden, alongside German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, the U.S. president pressed for progress toward
Mideast peace, saying: "The moment is now tor us to act."
He added: "The United States can't force peace upon the
parties" but America has "at least created the space, the
atmosphere, in which talks can restart."
The president also announced he was dispatching special
envoy George J. Mitchell to the region next week to follow
up on his speech in Cairo a day earlier, in which he called
for both Israelis and Palestinians to make concessions in
the standoff.
Fresh from visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Obama
said that while regional and worldwide powers must help
achieve peace, responsibility ultimately tails to Israelis and
Palestinians to reach an accord.
He said Israel must live up to commitments it made
under the so-called "Road Map" peace outline to stop
constructing settlements, adding: "I recognize the very dif-
ficult politics in Israel of getting that done." He also said
Palestinians must control violence-inciting acts and state-
ments, saying Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "has
made progress on this issue, hut not enough."
Merkel, for her part, promised to cooperate on the long-
sought goal. She said the two leaders discussed a time
frame for a peace process but did not elaborate.
"With the new American government and the
there is a truly unique opportunity to revive this peace
process or, let us put this very cautiously, this process of
negotiations," Merkel said.
Added Obama: "I think the moment is now for us to act
on what we all know to be the truth, which is each side is
going to have to make some difficult compromises."
While Obama did not address benchmarks, he told
international reporters Thursday in Kgvpt: "I don't want
to impose an artificial timeline."' He added: "When things
stall, everybody knows it... I want to have a sense of move-
ment and progress."
Touching Friday on an issue that has strained American-
German relations, Obama also said he didn't seek any com-
mitments from Germany to take a dozen terrorism suspects
when the United States closes its prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. German officials have said most should be
resettled in America.
Merkel said her country is prepared to "constructively
contribute" to U.S. closure efforts and said she was con-
fident of eventually reaching a "common solution" on the
prisoners' fate.
The two leaders spoke to reporters after meeting pri-
vately at a castle in this east Germany city with hitter
wartime memories. Starting on the night of Feb. 13,1945,
first British, then American bombers pounded the defense-
less and largeh non-strategic architectural gem, igniting a
firestorm in which 25,000 people died — and in so doing,
creating an enduring controversy.
Obama did not address the firebombing, and was in
Dresden at the invitation of Merkel, who nails from her
country's East.
Later, Obama became the first U.S. president to visit the
Buchenwald concentration camp. An estimated 56,000
people, including some 11,000 Jews, perished there at
the hands of Nazis. The stop was personal. A great-uncle
helped liberate a nearby satellite camp, Ohrdruf, in early
April 1945, days before other U.S. Army units overran
Buchenwald.
Accompanying Obama was Merkel; Elie Wiesel, a 1986
Nobel Peace Prize winner, author and Holocaust survi-
vor whose father died of starvation at Buchenwald three
months before liberation; and Bertrand Herz, another
Separately, the president told reporters: "The interna-
tional community has an obligation, even when it's incon-
venient, to act when genocide is occurring."
After the tour, Obama was flying to Landstuhl medi-
cal hospital, also in Germany, for private visits with U.S.
troops recovering from wounds sustained in Iraq and
Afghanistan. His day was ending in Paris, with a reunion
with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha,
who planned a brief Holiday in the City of Light after
Saturday’s commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the
Allies’ D-Day invasion in France.
AP White House Correspondent Jennifer Loren in
Dresden, and Associated Press writers David Rising and
Geir Moulson in Berlin, Melissa liddu in Dresden and
Jochen Wiesigel in Ohrdruf contributed to this report
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