Stories from Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Olen "Jack" Archie, 69, of Mountain Home, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2003, at his residence. Per his request no services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Jack was born July 30, 1934, in Turrell, Ark. He worked in the Rochester area of New York and retired and moved to Mountain Home in 1994...

Geraldine "Kay" Bond, 63, of Mountain Home, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003, at her home after a long fight with cancer. Per her request no services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel of Mountain Home...

Wallace "Wally" K. Gilbertson, 93, of Mountain Home, died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, at a local nursing home. Graveside services were held Tuesday, Feb. 4, at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Alejandro "Alex" Donez, 79, of Thermal, Calif., died Jan. 19, 2003, at John F. Kennedy Hospital in Indio, Calif. Vigil services were held at Fitzhenry in Coachella, Calif. Funeral mass on Jan. 22 was followed by burial in Fitzhenry View Cemetery in Coachella, Calif...

Mattie M. Kingery, 72, of Meridian, formerly of Mountain Home, died Friday, Jan. 31, 2003, at home, surrounded by her husband and family. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the Second Baptist Church, 10375 W. Overland Rd., Boise. Following the funeral a graveside service was held at the Meridian Cemetary...

Winnie Steiner, 51, is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital after suffering burns over 37 percent of her body when her trailer was destroyed by fire at Meadows Mobile Home Park Sunday morning. Steiner, who is bound to a wheelchair, apparently suffered her burns when she had to pass through the flames of the fire in order to get out of the trailer...