Tuesday, March 19, 2013 www.yourwestvalley.com DAILY NEWS-SUN Death Notices/News A9 Arizona GOP says it won’t need to alter immigration views to attract Latino vote HOWARD FISCHER CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES PHOENIX — Arizona Republicans say they don’t need to change their stance on immigration or even their message to attract the Latino voters who largely defected last year. Sen. Don Shooter, R-Yuma, said the GOP already has the right message for Hispanics who are a growing percentage of the state’s voting-age population. “We all want a decent education for our kids; we all want a good-paying job; we all want to live in peace and security,’’ he said. Shooter said the party needs to “accentuate the positive and negate the negative.’’ Shooter acknowledged 71 percent of Latinos voted House passes reduced requirements for legal notices CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES PHOENIX — State lawmakers are moving to cut by half what cities and counties have to pay to publish their legal notices. The measure approved 31-27 Monday by the House would eliminate the need of all counties and cities of more than 100,000 to buy space in newspapers for their notices. Instead, they would be able to put the information online. But Rep. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, was able to line up the votes only by promising to alter the measure when it now goes to the Senate. First, Petersen agreed to what he called a 5050 rule. “As I understand the law, if it’s a daily notice it has to be published four times, four days in a row, for a city or county,’’ he said., “If it’s a weekly notice it has to be published two weeks.’’ The promised modiﬁed version of HB 2533 would slash those publication requirements in half, meaning just two daily or one weekly notice. In exchange, cities and counties wanting that reduced mandate would also be required post the same notices on a web site. Second, Petersen said the ﬁnal version would apply to all cities, no matter how small, allowing all of them to take advantage of the reduced publication mandate. The legislation still drew some opposition. “Transparency can’t be 50-50,’’ said Rep. Lisa Otondo, D-Yuma. She said the legislation undermines the intent of the publication requirements, which is to have an outside third party ensure that notice is given. And Otondo, seeing this as a ﬁrst step toward totally eliminating newspaper publication, said web postings cannot be archived in the same secure ways as an actual ink-on-paper notice. And Rep. Bruce Wheeler, D-Tucson, said the complaints about the cost of publishing to taxpayers are overstated. He said the total annual publishing bill for all the counties was less than $380,000 out of total budgets of $6.3 billion. DEATH NOTICES FOLEY, James E., 92, of Peoria died March 17, 2013, in Peoria. He and his wife, Marilyn, were from Campbellsport, Wis., and he was an airport director. He served in the Army Air Corps. Service is in Wisconsin. Sunland Mortuary handled arrangements. 623-933-0161. NELSON, Robert J., 87, of Sun City died March 17, 2013, in Peoria. He and his wife, Eeleen, were from Illinois and he was a police sergeant. He served in the Navy. Menke Funeral Home handled arrangements. 623-979-6451. last time for Barack Obama, with the Republicans’ stance on illegal immigration and a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented already here being a factor. But he said that’s because people are confusing the issue of border security, on which he said the GOP has taken a strong stance, with immigration policy. “They should be two separate issues,’’ he said. That 2012 outcome, however, suggests they are not, at least not in the minds of Hispanics. On Monday, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee unveiled the results of what essentially amounted to a post-mortem of last year’s race. And while that report found no one reason for the result, it concluded at least part of what happened was the party’s failure to reach mi- POLICY: The Daily News-Sun publishes death notices in a speciﬁc format at no charge. Customized obituaries and memoriams can be purchased through the classiﬁed advertising department for $10 per column inch plus $10 for posting the obituary on Legacy.com. All obituaries and death notices can be accessed for up to 30 days after publication by visiting www.Legacy.com. Please visit Legacy. com to sign or read the guest books or link to the mortuary. Deadline for submitting obituaries is 2 business days prior to publication. Obituaries can be EMAILED to sunclassads@ yourwestvalley.com. Call 623-972-1121 for information. SWINEHART, Robert B. “Bob” Robert B. “Bob” Swinehart, of Sun City, AZ for 21 years passed away peacefully in his sleep with his wife by his side on March, 12, 2013. He was born on January, 28, 1929 to Veda (nee “Kaserman”) and William Swinehart in New Philadelphia, Ohio, the youngest of eight children. Bob married his ﬁrst love, Mary (nee “Kinsey”) in 1948 through 1981 when she passed away. They had two children together, a daughter Cynthia from Spearﬁsh, SD, and a son, James from Chicago Heights, Illinois. In 1984 Bob met his second love Theresa, from the south suburbs of Chicago also. Not minding their 21 years age difference the married in 1990. It lasted almost 22 1/2 years. Bob enjoyed golf, billiards, bowling and roller skating. He treasured nothing more than his wife, children, grandchildren, family and friends. Bob was a loving family man and would stop and help anyone in need. He and Theresa worshiped at All Saints of the Desert Episcopal Church in Sun City for 21 years. They both had been very active participants and enjoyed meeting new parishioners. Bob is survived by his wife There (nee “Mary Roark” & “Walwer”); his sisters, Vivian Maxine, 88 and Ruth the oldest at 96, both still living in parts of Ohio; his daughter and son-in-law Cynthia (Cindy) and Paul Edwards; his ﬁve grandchildren: Christy, Jennifer, Brandon, Corey and Nicholas; his three great-grandchildren: Olivia, Abigail and Brandon Jr.; many wonderful nieces and nephews; his two step-sons, John and Matthew Walwer and their families. Not to be left out his two small spirited Chihuahua’s Toby and Tara. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his beloved son, James (Jim) Hart 58, who passed away in 2008. Also, Bobby’s ﬁve older brothers: David (Dave), William (Bud), Howard (Howie), Donald (Duck), and John (Jack) all of which served and returned home from World War II. Bob wanted to serve also, but being only 16 when the war ended, his mother said, I have ﬁve sons already in the service I’m not letting you go. Visit this person’s Guest Book at NSLT2X.50 www.yourwestvalley.com nority voters. “We weren’t inclusive,’’ Priebus said. To that end, the report recommends spending $10 million to attract minorities. And Priebus seems particularly focused on the rapidly growing Hispanic population, saying it would be a “tremendous beneﬁt’’ to have a presidential candidate who speaks Spanish, with the report saying the party “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.’’ But Rep. Steve Smith, R-Maricopa, said the party already has a good message for the Latino community. “What do people like? God? Family? Pro-life? Protraditional marriage?’’ he said. “Boy, that sounds a lot like our platform.” WRIGHT, Alta Lea (Smith) Alta Lea (Smith) Wright, 79, of Sun City West and Berthoud, CO passed away peacefully at home on February 22, 2013. She was born on February 12, 1934 at Oshkosh, Nebraska and was preceded in death by infant daughter Cheri Ann. Alta is survived by her husband Arnold, sisters Alliene and Brenda, brother Syd, sons Brock and Steven, daughters Deborah and Michele. She also leaves behind 7 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Life memorial service will be held at Sun City West Christian Church, 20803 N. 151st Ave. (corner of R.H. Johnson and 151st Ave.) on March 27th, 2013. The service will be at 11am, Pastor Wayne Dykstra ofﬁciating. The family suggests that in lieu of ﬂowers, donations may be made to the Friends of the R.H. Johnson Library, where Alta volunteered until becoming ill with multiple myeloma in February of 2011. Visit this person’s Guest Book at www.yourwestvalley.com SENN, Donald F. Donald F. Senn, age 85, of Sun City, Arizona, passed away on Sunday, March 10, 2013. He was born in Marshﬁeld, Wisconsin on July 14, 1927, the son of Eugene and Adeline (nee Disbrow) Senn. He was also a long time resident of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He was married April 16, 1949, in Marshﬁeld, to Beverly Gnotke. He will be sadly missed by his wife, Beverly, his children; Tom (Sue) Senn, Cindy Kunkel, Tim (Cindy) Senn, and Julie (Jeff) Mallow; thirteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. He is further survived by his sister, Marilyn (Eugene) Engebrecht. He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Paul and sister Susan Strand. Donald, along with his father, were the founders of Senn Plywood & Door, New Berlin, Wisconsin. He was a long time member of the Rotary Club of New Berlin, Metropolitan Builders Association, Elks Lodge of Waukesha, Church of the Palms, Sun City and First Congregational United Church of Christ, Oconomowoc. Donald also served in the United States Navy. Services will be held at a later date. 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