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Show 6ft Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, September 5, 1984 Obituaries Child Custody Battle Centers On Adoptive Mother's Rights APRIL ADAMS Review Stall OGDEN Should the natural father or an adoptive mother retain right to custody of a child? Local courts struggling with this complicated question, unprccen-dente- d in court history, have awarded custody to the adoptive mother. In the most recent hearing last Friday, a second judge upheld a previous ruling that the child remain with the mother for eight months of the year. The father is fighting the decision. The court case involves Hill Air Force Base Capt. Christopher Bonwlch and his Capt. Rosemary J. Bonwich, presently stationed at Mrytle Beach Air Force Base, and Bryan -. ex-wif- e, Bonwich. During another trial last Friday, Bonwich was found guilty in a court marshal proceeding on base of failure to obey a lawful order. The order was to submit to a urinalysis. The sentence was dismissal from the Air Force. However, there is an appeal process 'set up under which Bonwich which he can request a re-tri- wilthe said. The Air Force routinely tests servicemen for. traces of drugs in urinfc. H . said the dishonorable discharge will go into effect in anywhere from three weeks to three months. Bonwich claims a blood test Jvould have sufficed, but that he did submit to a urinalysis a month after the order was issued in April. THe custody issue is being heaijl by the Utah State Supreme Court and a decision should be madi? this fall. Tle ABC Televison program will air a segment -- News-Mag-azin- jf on the issue Sept. 20. In one of the first battles over the child, a Second District Court judge had switched custody from the natural parent, Bonwich, to Bonwichs and the childs. adoptive mother when both were found fit and responsible. Bonwich married Rosemary Kelsey, also an Air Force Captain, when they were stationed at Hill Air Force Base in June of cx-wi- fe 1981. They then each adopted child. Pursuant to a court order, Bonwich was to have returned the child back to his adoptive mother last Friday, at Myrtle Beach Air Foce Base, S.C. where she was transferred after their divorce. However, as of Tuesday morning, Bonwich still had the child. He said Mrs. Bonwich had not phoned about the return of the boy. Bryans natural mother, who now lives in California, and Bonwich never married. She chose not to raise the child .and surrendered him to his father. Shortly afterward, Bonwich married and three weeks later, each adopted the others child: Bryan, then not yet month old, and Rosemarys son, also born out of wedlock from a. previous relationship. Adoptive parents are entitled to all the rights a natural parent may have. The hearing Friday was held at Bonwichs request that his visitation rights, now four months out of the year, be extended for an unspecified period of time until the State Supreme Court decides on the matter. At the hearing. Second District Judge Ronald O. Hyde ruled in favor of the unprecedented decision made previously by Second s the-other- 1 -- ing. Bonwich also requested that Wahlquist disqualify himself from the case because of his pretrivious ruling after a three-da- y r, self, makes him the only one who can care for the child. Bonwichs attorney, Robert said Bonwich had requested that Wahlquist disqualify himself from the case because the judge Ma-cr- i, is in a position where he is under a lot of pressure since his decision was unprecedented." Mrs. Bonwichs attorney, Pete N. Vlahos, argued that we kdep talking of the childs bests interests here. My client has the best interest of the child in mind, too. Today was the day he was too have returned the child to his adoptive mother in South Carolina, pursuant to a court order. All we are asking is that the child be returned, he told the judge. Hyde remarked that the whole procedure bothers me. You are what the asking me to Supreme Court is going to do. Vlahos added that he has already briefed the state Supreme Court on the issue. pre-jud- was He d reared and in Brigham City, graduating from edu-cate- al. step-brothe- - WEST POINT Gary Olsen Barker, 40, of 4533 W. 200 S., died Thursday, Aug. 23, 1984, at Humana Hospital Davis North of cancer. He was born Sept. 2, 1943, In Brigham City, a son of Rex P. and Grace Olsen Barker. He married Leslie (Cookie) Adams Nov, 19, 1965, in the Logan LDS, Temple. District Jugde John Wahlquist. Both ruled that the case should rest until the Supreme Court ruled on the matter, and that the child should be returned to his adoptive mother for the time be- Walhquist found that, though both were fit and responsible, the adoptive mothers talents were the greatest. The boy would also be able to associate with his who is the natural child of Mrs. Bonwich. Hyde ruled in favor of the adoptive mother also, saying that I dont see where the natural (status of the) parent, in and of it- Thelma Baker Ford Gary Olsen Barker HAYNES FULLER District Gets New Member For Board Box Elder High School in 1961. He attended Weber State College. He was active in the LDS Church, serving as a Sunday School president in the Layton 16th Ward; he was a Cub Scoutmaster and 1st assistant to the high priest group leader in the West Point 1st Ward: he served an LDS mission to the New Zealand North Mission from 1962 to 1964. He was a member of the Utah Highway Patrol from 1968 to 1970. He had worked as a sales representative for Olsen Chevrolet, Roy Price Chevrolet, and Clover Club Foods. At the time of his death he was working for McCormick & Co., Schilling Spice Division. He was active in the Clearfield Club, and had been serving as president. Surviving are his widow of West Point, four sons, Rusty Barker, Brad Barker, Chris Barker, and Rex Barker, all of West Point. Also surviving are his parents of Brigham City, and two brothers, Brent O. Barker, Price: and Bruce O. Barker, Lubbock, Texas. Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at Lindquists Clearfield Mortuary, 1050 S. State, with Bishop Blaine Thurgood of the West Point 1st Ward officiating. Friends may call at tbe mortuary Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Monday one hour prior to services. Interment in the Brigham City Gov. Scott M.atheson has appointed Haynes Filler of Eden to replace Boyd Storey as a member of the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District board of directors. Fuller will represent the Eden area. The position on the board opened when Boyd K. Storey, a Weber County commissioner, was called to serve a mission for the LDS Church. Matheson was granted rights to appoint conservancy district directors under Senate Bill last year. Previously, the board had approved the members. A resident of Eden for 56 years, Fuller has been the secretary of the Eden Irrigation Company since 1949. He has also served as a member of the Weber County Planning Commission 1 1 since 1972. He has always been heavily involved with the. distribution of agricultural water, he said, and is nss Mi In She was born July 20, 1934, L.. Albert of a Chester Ky., daughter and Vergle Sizemore Baker. , She married James G. Ford on Aug.--2'I 1953, In Long Beach, Calif. She had worked at Hill Air forcM'M , Base as a contract administrator. She was reared In Kentucky. She Ih had lived in Ohio. She had served the U.S. Air Force in California and had" lived In Texas and Bermuda. She had lived in Clearfield the past 20 years. She graduated from high school in Kentucky. , She was a member of the Cleartieicj 2nd LDS Ward. Slje had been Girl . , " der of Eastern Star. -Clear- Surviving are her husband of D. Johnr,... field; three daughters, Virginia son,' Layton; Brenda J. Edgington?""" Clear- Ogden, and Elizabeth A. Ford, three field; grandchildren. Also surviving are her mother of Holton, Ind.; three brothers and five sisters, Horace Baker, Madison, lnd.;n Ben Baker, Johnny Baker, Norma Hen son, Barbara Sue Baker, all of Lexing ton, Ky.; Winona Sexton, McKee, Ky.;;; Eunice Wolfe, New Lebanon, Ohio; Ge "",1 neva Crawford, Kettering, Ohio. Also surviving is a grandmother,-Elizabet- ' ' Sizemore, Holton, Ind. Interment in the Clearfield City Cem Ii h - 1IIIKM farmer. Fuller is e one of the first farmers ever to serve on the panel. He received his bachelor degree in business at Utah State University and also attended the University of Utah. One provision of SB is that one director must be a farmer who owns irrigation rights for use. on his farmland. a - Baker,,, , Mrs. Th0 CLEARFIELD Ford. 50, of 987 S. State, died Friday. v Humana H8P' !:r; Aug. 17, 1984, at the Davis North In Layton of a sudden III;. , self-employ-ed full-tim- 1 BUSINESS SERVICE DIRECTORY,. Got o ofa fo do ? Coll on someone who knows how1 1 vf tTtO Focus on America's Future o isi t . Utl i flAAM RELAXING at home are Capt. Christopher son Bryan who Bonwich and his Hill Landfill the Sept. APRIL-ADAM- Review , Staff A HILL AIR FORCE BASE landfill near the east perimeter ' of Hill-AForce Base has been submitted as a site for possible cleanup finding to the' Environmental Protection Agency. The possible leaching of the landfill through underground water has been a soufee of contention between stat& health officials and base officials for months. These chemicals shouldnt be released. They dont have a permit o discharge waste water that is gding into the waters of the state; said the states Division of Environmental Health Assistant Director Marvin Maxell. Itfs an illegal contamination discharge. he said. The base is currently constructing a clay cap and. slurry wall over and around the landfill that should contain the chemicals that are leaching out, said Len Barry, of the base public relations department. But Maxell said he couldnt say whether this effort would be satisfactory. The division has submitted the list as part of a proposed legislation package that would givefit the authority to order cleanup of hazardous waste materials 'sites throughout the state. The bill may go before the legislature for consideration during ir chemi-calstfro- m " 5 is the subject of a custody battle involving Bonwich and his ex-wif- niwr e. Cleanup Site? special session.The would establish a $500,000 revolving fund that proposal could be used to respond to emergency situations, said Maxell. We could respond immediately, rather than going through the EPA, which takes at least one week. The money would also be used to clean up hazardous waste material sites if the responsible party isnt willing to cooperate, he explained. The funds would be returned when the party is either willing to participate, or is sued for the amount. The state would also be given the authority to negotiate consent agreements with firms, ordering them to comply with state hazardous waste cleanup laws, Maxell said. Now we can tell them what we think, but we have no legal jurisdiction over them, he said. This situation has handicapped us. We had no authority to do . anything. The bill would give some authority over hazardous waste cleanup on base where, before, the state had no authority to deal with federal entities. The cap and wall effort is part of the base's installation restoration program, which began three years ago. It gave federal military installations the right to identify IHUU a iia4 rt and control possible sources of pollution. 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