Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 36, Ed. 1 Monday, December 31, 1990 Page: 1 of 10
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Ambassadors install
Smith as president
The Burleson Star's ambassador
to the Burleson Area Chamber of
Commerce is now that organization's
top ambassador.
Cathy Smith, advertising direc-
tor of The Star, was installed as presi-
dent of the chamber's Good Life
Ambassadors at the annual ambassa-
dor's Christmas ball.
She succeeds Jim Argcrio, man-
ager of Eckerd's North (the old
Hillcy's location).
Smith has been in The Star ad-
vertising department for five years,
three of those years as ad director.
For four of those years she's been
associated with the newspaper, she's
also been an ambassador. She's held
office within that organization for
three of those years, serving as treas-
urer this past year.
Other ambassador officers in-
stalled were M.J. Barfield, Burleson
Minor Emergency Clinic, vice-presi-
dent; Liz Mitchell, First National
B;uik, secretary; Don Richmond,
Burleson Stale Bank, treasurer;
Johnny Tucker, Bob's Donut's, histo-
rian; and Howard Wright, Century
21 /Curt Apcl and Assoc., sergeant, at
arms.
Barfield won the President's
Outstanding Achievement Award and
John Jobe, of Jobe Business Systems,
was named the 1990 Ambassador of
the Year.
Smith has consistently been a
Please see GETTING, Page 2
Pickup Damages
Garage/House
A brown 1978 GMC pickup driven by 21-year-old Jeffrey Lee Smith of
Burleson plowed into the brick wall of the garage at 432 Flagstone Dec.
Jp7, damaging a 1990 Cadillac parked inside. Smith and two passengers
were westbound in the 800 block of Sierra Vista when the pickup plowed
through a fence and damged a crape myrtle tree at 433 Flag.<^tpne and
then went up the hill at 432 Flagstone and hit the garage. Smith was
treated and released at Hugley Hospital.
Transplant has complications
BY SALLY ELLERTSON
The Burleson mother-daughter
planned kidney transplant (Nov. 7,
1990 Burleson Star story) was suc-
cessful but complications have al-
ready cropped up.
Dora Castillo donated one of her
kidneys to her 25-year-old daughter
just the right amount of cyclosporum
and Dilantin."
Diane had an EEC test Dec. 26
to determine where the seizures origi-
nated in the brain. The EEG didn’t
Show anything.
"They arc going to keep me on
die Dilantin for three months while
who have a history of an acute infec-
tion such as a severe sore throat, ton-
sillitis, or scarlet fever. Approxi-
mately 70 percent of the glomeru-
lonephritis cases occur before the age
of 21.
Dora Castillo attributes the dis-
ease to strep thcoarthacsettled in
Christmas
brings the
house down
BY SALLY ELLERTSON
It was a strange holiday season
for some residents, who received a
.vehicle for Christmas, but not in a
good way.
Christmas Eve at 9:33 p.m., the
Couchman residence—560 N.W.
Loma—was hit by a green 1978
Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Betsy
Lynn Coker, 24, of Arlington.
According to the accident re-
port , Coker was southbound on Loma
in the 600 block and was going too
fast to stop at the intersection of Cin-
dy and Loma. The driver, (who ac-
cording to the police report had just
been involved in a domestic distur-
bance and was in a hurry to get away),
pressed the accelerator instead of the
brake and sped into the yard at 560
N.W. Loma, struck a parked white
1979 Oldsmobile Cudass in the left
side, then veered left into the house.
There were no reported injuries.
The driver in the second acci-
dent, 21-year-old Jeffrey Lee Smith
if Burleson, was taken to Huguley
Hospital where he was treated for a
concussion and nasal contusion and
released.
Smith and two passengers, 19-
year-old James K. Peaks and 21 -year-
old John Luke Buie, were westbound
in a brown 1978 GMC pickup in the
800 block of Sierra Vista at 6:20 p.m.
on Dec. 27. According to the report.
Smith said one of the passengers said
something funny and he began laugh-
ing. Smith said he did not remember
any of the events of the accident.
Passing of the Gavel
Cathy Smith assumed duties as the new Chamber Goodlife Ambassador
president with the passing of the gavel at the Ambassadors' annual
Christmas Ball. Last year's president, Jim Argiro, made the presenta-
tion.
Diane CastiBo on Dec. <v 1990,-at> m the critical period with the
Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Dora transplant, then they'll take me off
Diane's kidney/. Di&ie had-^ofc*. .The. «sidea» of, 432 and 433
iBHS Flagstone remember. AcconJfng to
Castillo went home from the hospital
Dec. 12 and they brought Diane home
Dec. 22, but Diane had to go back on
Christmas.
"On Jtfonday, the 24th, she be-
gan to have some kind of symptoms
and they (hospital personnel) thought
she might be having some side effect
to the cyclosporum (an anti-rejection
drug that Diane must take the rest of
her life) so they arc keeping her for
observation," Dora saidof her daugh-
ter. "She asked for a book on positive
thinking when she began to have the
symptoms on Christmas Eve."
A transplant is not an everyday
operation, so Diane is a little un-
settled about the current events.
"I'm nervous about everything
that's going on. They arc still trying
to find out what caused the reaction,"
Diane said. "When 1 was in the hos-
pital I started having seizures but
they didn't realize they were seizures
at first because I didn't lose con-
sciousness."
Diane was checked back into the
hospital where she had an MRI, a
spinal tap, chest x-ray, and EKG.
They also gave her some Dilantin, a
seizure-control medication.
"I felt instantly better after that,"
Diane said of the Dilantin, "but I feel
and sec what happens. They're going
to lower the cyclosporum for those
three months and lower the predni-
sone," Diane said.
The bright side to the story is that
so far, Diane's donated kidney is
functioning. The creatinine level in
her urine, which first alerted doctors
to a possible kidney disease, has gone
from 16 prior to the surgery, to 1.5 as
of Dec. 26.
"The first month is the most criti-
cal to check for kidney rejection,"
Dora Castillo said. "After that it
(checkups) should taper off."
Going back into the hospital
wasn't easy for Diane.
"She's in good spirits but she
was really depressed Christmas Eve.
It's a good time of die year when
you're healthy and happy. In a way it
should have been a jubilant time
because she received the gift of re-
newed life, but on the other hand she
wasn'tablc to do the things she would
usually do to celebrate Christmas.
We felt it (transplant) was her gift
from God," Dora said.
Diane, a 1983 graduate of Burle-
son H igh School and former Elk Strut-
ter, has been fighting membranous
glomerulonephritis for five years. The
kidney disease is caused by infiam-
throat when she was a jiunior at
and was diagnosed with the kidney
disease when she was a sophomore in
college. At the time of the diagnosis,
the doctor told Diane that she was al-
ready two years into the disease and
had severe scarring of the kidney
tissue. A transplant was suggested at
that time.
The doctor prescribed predni-
sone, a strong antibiotic, for Diane as
she was working for her interior
design degree from TCU, where she
graduated in 1988. She is now adraf-
tcr/storc planner for Tandy in Fort
Worth.
Please see DONOR, Page 2
the report, the pickup damaged a 35-
foot wooden fence and crape myrtle
tree at William Fisher's 432 Flag-
stone residence before charging up a
hill at Wayne Reid's 433 Flagstone
residence and driving through the
brick wall of the garage. The pickup
hit a 1990 Cadillac parked in the
garage.
The Dec. 27 accident report was
not complete at press time. Smith is
tentatively being cited for failure to
control speed to avoid a collision.
Coker was cited for failure to control
speed and no proof of insurance for
the Christmas Eve accident.
Ambassador of the Year
John Jobe, who was chairman of the July 4th Parade among other
activities this year,was named the Ambassador of the Y ear at the annual
Ambassadors' Christmas Ball.
like my thoughts jump around. They/ (nation of the nephrons of the kidney
really don't know why I had the sci- and can lead to scarring and dcstruc-
zurcs but they think cyclosporum tion of the nephrons and impairment
could cause it. They arc going to have of kidney function. The severe cases,
tojugglc my medicine so that I have like Diane's, usually occur in patients
Trai iplant Successful
Daughter and mother— -5-year-old Diane Castillo and her mother Dora
Castillo—are seen in this Burleson Star file photo before the Dec. 6 kidney
transplant surgery in which Dora donated one of her kidneys to her
daughter. Mother and daughter are doing fine.
A Christmas Offering
A young member of Kingswood United Methodist Church places aa
offering upon a bare Christmas tree during the Christmas Eve cere-
mony.
Saudi Arabia Profile
Montgomery considers
'
Burleson his hometown
One of the men deployed to Saudi Arabia is Cpl. John M.
Montgomery* 26, formerly of Burleson. He is a gunnery specialist,
leading a platoon of motorised guns, in the Marines. He Joined the
Marines six years ago.
Montgomery grew up in Burleson and attended Happy Honrs
in 1969 and went on to attend Note Dunn Elementary and Pauline
G. Hughes Junior High .School before he moved to Arizona to be
with h is father. His mother, GmaeBe Montgomery, and two sisters,
Linda Ivie and Marsha Ctaunch, live in Burleson. His brother,
David, graduated from Burleson High School in 1984. His grand-
mother, Belle Gabbert, lived in Corpus Christ!.
No picture was available, but you can write to Montgomery at
the following address.
Cpl. John M.Montgomery
' 527-89-9630
Sierra Btry 5/11
FPO San Francisco, Calif.
96608-5523
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