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Paul Irving Borschow
Paul Irving Borschow, who died recently, was a founding partner in the accounting firm of Lauterbach, Borschow and Co. and a lifelong resident of El Paso. He will be remembered for his many activities at Temple Mount Sinai and his faithful attendance at the Downtown Rotary Club where he was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow.
Paul was born in El Paso May 13, 1926, to Sam and Selma Herskowitz Borschow. He had one brother, Julian, who spoke of their ancestry.
“Our grandfather migrated from Russia, married in London between 1885-1890, went to Ellis Island and moved to Galveston where my father was born,” Julian said.
“The family moved to El Paso in 1916 where my grandfather established the Texas Store on Overland Street, Our mother’s folks came from Hungary. My brother Paul and I had a very close relationship. We went to Dudley School, El Paso High and the Navy together. We both enrolled in the College of the Mines, then he transferred to the University of Texas at Austin.”
While in high school, Paul became a major in the ROTC department, graduating in 1943. The Navy took him to the Pacific during World War II. He was one of those at Okinawa. Paul returned to college, where he met Dorothy Zimmerman of Texarkana.
“We met on a blind date,” Dorothy said. “And a year after Paul graduated, we were married, April 15, 1951. Paul loved golf and took his clubs with him everywhere he went. He even took them with him on our honeymoon.”
In 1971 Paul was president of the El Paso Country Club and head of the trust committee for the club.
“He was an avid golfer,” Larry Francis said. “He was fierce in competition and especially at the Swingtime Tournament, always held the weekend after Labor Day, called the member-guest tournament. Just the other day we were talking at the 16th hole near an old tree, which we called the Borschow tree because Paul always hit that tree with his ball.”
Following college Paul worked with his father in the accounting business. His father died in 1952.
Bernard Lauterbach told about the establishment of their firm: “I worked for Paul’s father part-time while attending College of Mines. Then I went to New York to study at a national accounting school. Paul wrote me, and I came back to El Paso.Together we formed the firm of Lauterbach and Borschow. We were together 47 years and became close friends.” Jack Cardwell, a longtime client of Paul’s, spoke of their close relationship. “He took charge of my accounts and we developed a great friendship over the years.”
His Rotary Club membership was important to him. When arriving in another city, he would first find where and when the local Rotarians were meeting so he could attend.
“I remember one meeting was at the YMCA in Jerusalem in 1982,” Dorothy said. “Another, in Edinburgh, Scotland, was in a pub.”
Paul was active at Temple Mount Sinai and was a past president of B’nai B’rith, an international service organization dedicated to helping children and the elderly.
“As the 100th anniversary of Temple Mount Sinai approached in 1997-98, a committee was chosen for a two-year preparation of festivities,” Dorothy recalled.” Paul acted as secretary and I was treasurer. The program was titled ‘The year of the Torah,’ a very rich experience.”
Paul died at age 73 on Sept. 1. The funeral service was at Temple Mount Sinai and interment at the Temple Mount Sinai Cemetery with Rabbi Kenneth Weiss and Rabbi Larry Bach officiating.
There is a story about the request for memorial contributions to the Temple’s Meditation Garden Fund: “Earlier this year Dick Scherotter and Paul’s brother Julian were working at landscaping the grounds” Dorothy said. “Paul thought of a certain section as a meditation garden, envisioning an area where people could sit and find comfort and peace of mind. He was not able to see the conclusion, yet to come, but Paul was able to help start the gardens.”
Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Dorothy Borschow; children Tina and her husband Michael Novick from Seattle, Sandra and her husband David Veeder of Dallas; brother and sister-in-law Julian and Barbara Borschow; and four grandchildren.
John Leslie Cady
John Leslie Cady, organist, pianist, harp and harpsichord player for the First Presbyterian Church the past 14 years, an orchestra teacher in the El Paso Independent School District and a member of the American Guild of Organists, died at age 51.
John was born Oct. 2, 1947, in Tucson, Ariz., the only child of John and Iola Cady. He attended elementary and high school in Tucson, then enrolled in the University of Arizona at Tuscon where he graduated with a bachelor of music degree. Desiring more musical education, he chose the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and was graduated with a master’s of music degree.
Before moving to El Paso, John taught for a time in Japan. Rev. Lynette Meyer, who wrote the eulogy said, “He loved the color, quiet and beauty of the Orient.”
Betty Tritton, long time member of First Presbyterian said, “He always seemed perfectly content when playing the harp. He played for my daughter’s wedding and I’ve observed him at private parties, playing two hours straight without a break. It was as though he was in another world. He was a person that appreciated and got excited about small things. A very nice gentleman of quiet demeanor who had a pretty full plate of activities as far as the church and community were concerned. He was an over-extender.”
When John first came to El Paso in the fall of 1985, he was as an accomplished musician and orchestra leader. After teaching for a time, he became organist for the First Presbyterian church in 1986.
At the memorial services, Rev. Lynette Meyer read additions to the eulogy of remembrances written by choir members and assembled as one voice:
“John Cady loved music. Everyone spoke about his outstanding talent, and artistry. He could play anything, do anything musically — it was amazing.”
One choir member spoke of a special event where John shared his love of the harp, and his vast knowledge of all aspects of the instrument. Those who participated were given a new experience and wonderful appreciation of the harp.
Richard Glasser, minister of music for First Presbyterian, said, “John was one of the finest harp players I have ever heard. Last Christmas Eve we had an Early American Suite for harp, brass, and women’s voices. He played solo harp and on one occasion a baroque concerto for harpsichord and orchestra.”
As a teacher and orchestra conductor he showed his care for people and love of music.
“The children may have thought of him as a demanding taskmaster,” one of his friends said, “but they knew he cared about them and was only trying to out their potentials.”
Richard Glasser added, “As a conductor he (John) understood the choral voice and how to interpret any piece of music given to him to play or conduct. His accompanying skills put John in high demand for soloists, instrumentalists and choral groups.”
John was a member of a National Harp Society, and Texas Music Teacher’s Association. He died suddenly on Aug. 8. Two hundred people appeared at his memorial service at First Presbyterian church on Aug. 14.
Richard Glasser prepared the program, which included the Quintessential Brass quartet, and solos by Irma Portillo from composer Johannes Brahms’ Requiem and selections from the Messiah by George Frederick Handel. She was accompanied by Dr. Aaryl Paul. Officiating were Rev. John Withers and Rev. Lynette Meyer.
A memorial organ fund is being established to honor John’s life. For information call 533-7551.
“John’s music and life will remain with us as a cherished treasure,” one choir member said.
Alyce Outlaw Carroll
Alyce Outlaw Carroll once ran a dance studio, played a lot of golf, was a member of First Christian Church and lived in El Paso for 83 years. She died at the age of 92.
Alyce was born April 24, 1907, in Slidall, La., to P.R. Outlaw and Allie Motor Outlaw. Her one sibling was a brother, Drew. The family moved to El Paso in 1916 where her father, a doctor, became the city county health officer. Alyce graduated from El Paso High School in 1925. Many who grew up with her during that time remember the band she organized, “Alyce Outlaw and her Border Bandits.”
During the 1920s her mother chaperoned her to New York City where she was a tap dancer in the Earl Carroll Vanities. Her niece, Eleanor Outlaw Barrick said, “The story I heard repeatedly as a child was about the time Aunt Alyce was on stage and, as she was executing a particularly energetic dance step, the diamond that her father had given her flew off her hand and into the audience, never to be seen again.”
Alyce studied dancing in New York, Chicago and in Hollywood while attending UCLA. She became a member of the Chicago Association of Dancing Masters.
But she gave up a professional dancing career to come back to El Paso.
She opened her own dance studio on Montana Street in 1936. One of her students was a young architect, Edwin Carroll, who had come to the firm of Trost and Trost where he helped make plans for at least 14 churches in El Paso, and many other buildings such as the El Paso Natural Gas Building, the Sun Bowl, and the Civic Center. One of the churches was First Christian.
“Alyce always said that she grew up on the back steps of the old church on Oregon Street,” said Sallie Pierce. “The mothers of the church in those days were always in the kitchen, cooking for dinners in order to raise money.”
When the church began planning a new building, Alyce was serving as president of the Christian Women’s Fellowship, and had frequent consultations with the architect. Alyce was also as a member of the Christian Education Department.
She played the piano for the Oregon Street church’s primary department and often jazzed it up to excite the youngsters. Alyce and Edwin were married March 27, 1937.
Alyce’s mother, Allie Outlaw, who lived to be 99 years old, was at the first service in the new sanctuary on Feb. 24, 1952. A little while after that Alyce was driving by her mother’s residence and found her on the roof cutting some limbs from the trees leaning over her house. Alyce insisted that her mother come and live with them, which she did until the end of her life.
Alyce’s hobbies included golf. She was one of the first members of the Coronado Country Club Women’s Golf Association. She won many local competitions and traveled extensively with her husband. In November 1983 Lt. Gen. Richard Cassidy and Ed Carroll were invited to a tournament on the golf course of King Hassan II. Through the courtesy of Jim Hilderman, an American, who had charge of the tournament, the El Pasoans received their invitations.
“It was one of the most delightful trips,” Cassidy said. “My wife Annette and I joined Ed and Alyce and were met by the king’s plane in New York, which took us to the lovely Mamounia hotel in Marrakech, Morocco. After a gorgeous luncheon we went to the Dar-es-Salaam golf course at Rabat.”
Elizabeth (Libby) Carroll, a sister-in-law, remembered her first meeting with Alyce: “When I came to El Paso in 1940, to become the bride of Ed’s youngest brother Kenneth, I met Alyce. A few days before the wedding, she had broken her arm, but she went dancing down the aisle with her arm in a cast. For 59 years Alyce has shared my joys and sorrows. I have truly lost a sister. There were many acts of kindness toward all of us during her long illness and death. They have never been acknowledged. I would like to say thanks to everyone in behalf of myself, her husband Ed, and her niece Eleanor.”
Edwin planned their split-level home when the Coronado Country Club Estates was first opened. Their friend and neighbor of 35 years, Frances Axelson, said, “Alyce was just so full of life. She loved to dance, hold parties, buy pretty clothes. She loved to cook and entertain, and had every gadget known to man in her kitchen so she could experiment with them.”
In 1992 Ed and Alyce sold their home and moved to White Acres. Alyce died Sept. 1 at Good Samaritan Retirement Village. Her funeral service was held at First Christian Church with Pastor Carol Vaccariello and Rev. Keith Pierce officiating.
“Every one with whom I had spoken about Alyce told me about her adventuresome spirit, her love of life, her wit and daring, her sparkle, her deep joy,” Pastor Vaccariello said. Interment was in Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery in Santa Teresa.
She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Edwin Carroll, her brother Drew Outlaw and his wife Anna Lee, her niece Eleanor Outlaw Barrick, and her sister-in-law Libby Carroll.
Mark Franklin Howell
On Labor Day Mark Franklin Howell was playing tennis at the El Paso Country Club when he suffered a heart attack and died.
He was born in El Paso, Nov. 19, 1934, the son of the late Ben R. and Romaine Safford Howell and a grandson of the late Dr. and Mrs. Henry Towne Safford.
His mother, Romaine Safford Howell, was an early “founding mother” of Planned Parenthood and a member of its first board of directors in 1937. His father, Ben Howell, a lawyer, represented El Paso Natural Gas Co., was a president of the Texas Board of Education. Mark, age 64, was listed with 52 of El Paso’s top-rated lawyers among the 13,802 in their professions nationwide.
“He was a plaintiff lawyer, specializing in personal injuries, and practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Eliot Shapleigh, the Texas state senator who composed Proclamation No. 425 in memory of Mark. “A man of exceptional integrity, Mark gave unselfishly of his time to others and his wisdom, warmth, and valued counsel will not be forgotten by those who knew him.”
His cousin, Frank Safford, former associate dean of social sciences at Northwestern University, said, “I remember his sense of humor, love of jokes and his broad smile. But Mark was also built of toughness. As a child he was badly paralyzed with polio, but worked hard to rebuild himself, ultimately playing football and rugby in high school and college.”
Mark graduated from El Paso High and from Stanford University, with an undergraduate degree in 1956. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army then enrolled in the U.T. School of Law, earning his degree in 1961.
For Stanford’s 40th Homecoming Class Book, Mark wrote: “For 40 years I’ve been struggling to figure out what life is about. I’ve spent 40 years being father, husband, grandparent, divorcing, marrying, laughing, crying, losing a child. I’ve spent 35 years trying jury cases with some success.”
When he heard of Mark’s death, college roommate Ben Heirs of Geneva, Switzerland, wrote Mark’s wife Linda saying, “A lot of goodness just walked out of our lives.”
His memorial service was held at Pro-Cathedral of Saint Clement Episcopal Church, with the Rev. William Francis officiating.
Robert Skipworth said: “My fondest memory was Mark’s friendly smile. He loved the practice of law.”
He was appointed by Gov. Ann Richards to the board of the Texas Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Fund, headed by Marvin Kelly who said, “It is not often that you meet people that live up to the meaning of a true Christian. Mark’s honesty and integrity are beyond reproach.”
Mark was vice chairman and commissioner of the El Paso Housing Authority. He was a faculty member of the UT Law School Trial Advocacy program, a member of the Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee, a board member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, and a founding member of the local chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
“Mark founded El Paso’s Legal Aid Society at a time when few believed such an institution was necessary,” Frank Safford said.
Edward Nevin of San Francisco remembered a trip they made to Prague to attend an international meeting of lawyers. Mark gave a paper on war crimes, touching the subject of “Totalitarianism vs. Democracy.”
“He was a source of warm wisdom,” Nevin said. Mark’s wife Linda said, “In an act of physical bravery Mark broke through the glass of a wrecked automobile to pull its driver to safety shortly before the car exploded.”
Linda also recalled a client who became injured, couldn’t work, didn’t receive compensation from his insurance company, and had almost become homeless.
Mark supported this person with rent and food.
“He used to say ‘there are givers and takers in this world — and he was certainly the former,” Linda added. “He was a voracious reader and was so proud of his word book, entitled ‘Mark’s Attachable Words’ which is a reader’s list of hard-to-remember words and their meanings, which can be attached to the book you are reading. He stood tall because of his convictions and acted on them. He was a scholar with broad intellectual interests.”
Survivors are his wife, Linda Way Howell; daughters Celia Hilton, Cara Howell, Sarah Forsman and Courtney Frisbie; and cousins Mardee de Wetter, Helen Hackett, and Frank and Joan Safford.
“We will miss him greatly,” Linda said. “But missing is a way of remembering.”
George E. Malooly
George E. Malooly, a lifelong El Paso resident and entrepreneur in establishing business ventures, was a member of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church. He died at age 74.
George’s father, Esau Malooly, came to El Paso in 1907. He made frequent trips to Lebanon where he purchased Persian rugs from the nomads and resold them in El Paso. It was on one of these trips that he met 17-year-old Afifi, whose father had been made head of all the orthodox schools in the area by Nicholas II, Czar of Russia, and was instrumental in opening numerous schools.
Esau and Afifi were married in 1921. George, born on Feb. 16, 1925, was one of five sons and a daughter born to Esau and Afifi. Dr. Frank Schuster, who was credited with establishing Providence Hospital, delivered the babies. Schuster’s wife Eugenia named the Malooly children after the kings of Europe: Albert, George, Edward, Richard, Raymond. The daughter was named Josephine. George attended the old Morehead elementary school on Arizona Street.
His father sent him to high school in El Rito, N.M. One of George’s teachers was Ralph Seitsinger, who became one of El Paso’s mayors.
With the advent of World War II, George and his brother Eddie went to California to work in the shipyards. In 1943 George enlisted in the Army and was sent to Seattle. He was discharged as a sergeant in 1946.
After returning to El Paso, his business ventures began with a filling station, which Esau bought for his sons.
“Four previous owners had gone broke,” brother Albert said, “but George and Eddie made it into a profitable business — first by offering gasoline at 3 cents discount per gallon, and later a free soft drink for every gallon of gas. They were the original retail discounters in the city of El Paso.”
Another brother, Raymond, commented, “One of their customers was Fred Francis, father of former Mayor Larry Francis. Fred recognized the true salesmanship of George and urged him to sell appliances. George believed in treating all customers as number one in his sincere and beautiful approach to the public.”
George and Eddie built a two-story store. People began asking for furniture. George remembered his father’s interest in oriental rugs.
This evolved into Carpet City, and Carpet Warehouse and a branch of Carpet City in Las Cruces. In 1929 Esau bought the DeGroff farm in the Lower Valley near North Loop, and ran it until 1936. When he found he could only get 3 cents for a bale of cotton and it cost 6 cents to produce, he let it go.
George bought a second farm, near Vado, N.M., where he raised pecan trees. In 1975 he established the Valley View Dairy.
George’s wife, Mary Haddad, whom he married Sept. 17, 1950, started a restaurant on Dyer Street, called Sorrento Italian Restaurant.
While George put his family members first, he expected them to help him out in time of trouble just as he would do for each of them.
His son Bobby remembered one particular New Year’s Eve in the 1970s when all the help had celebrated early and became unable to work the evening shift.
“We all had other things planned, but when my father called us in to work we had no choice but to cook and serve the dinner crowd. One customer said it was the best meal he had ever eaten.”
Albert, oldest of the living brothers said, “That man had more common sense than anyone in the world. Many at the memorial service said, “You’ll only find one George.”
Raymond said, “He had a gift very few have today. His business acumen was both innovative and intuitive.”
Daughter Marsha said, “He had an unexpected solution, no matter what problem arose.”
Before he died March 22, he had allocated various businesses to his children. Bobby took over Carpet City and Carpet Warehouse in El Paso, Georgette and Barbara the Carpet City in Las Cruces, and Marsha runs Sorrento Restaurant.
His wife Mary and their son Michael preceded him in death. He is survived by his daughter Marsha Chanoux and husband Jack, Georgette Todd and husband Norman, Kathleen Campbell and husband Gary, Barbara Quigg and husband Mark, his son Robert and wife Nancy, four brothers, one sister and 12 grandchildren. Interment was in Restlawn cemetery .
Paul Michael Cutler
Paul Michael Cutler, a champion speed skater, started El Paso Packing Co. where he was president and CEO for 19 years. He was a longtime member of El Paso Country Club and known as an avid golfer. He died at age 78.
Charles Nieman, pastor of the Abundant Living Faith Center, presided over the memorial service at Martin Funeral Home West.
“Paul was a man who enjoyed life,” Nieman said. “Every time I saw him he was happy, smiling, and excited about something. He walked around with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eyes like he knew a joke you didn’t know.”
Paul was born in Philadelphia Feb. 24, 1921, the youngest of 10 children born to Jacob Cutler and Anna Rabinovich Cutler. His father died when Paul was 3 years old, leaving his mother with nine children to raise. Everyone shared in the work of making a living. Paul’s first job was selling newspapers.
At age 14 he was in charge of passing out the “Philadelphia Ledger” to other carriers. He also spent many hours as a grocery clerk in the family market.
As a lifelong lover of classical music, he often played hookey during his high school days to visit symphonies and other musical benefits. He heard such men as Fritz Kreisler and Benny Goodman.
He learned to skate, borrowing ice skates from his older brother, and became the Pennsylvainia State Champion of the Silver Skates in 1941.
Paul graduated from Overbrook High School in Philadelphia and moved to Baltimore, joining Martin Aircraft as a sheetmetal worker. He wrote in his memoirs, “With the war heating up in Europe, we were working a lot of overtime and building planes for England and France. I worked on the first PBN for the U.S. Navy and the first B-26 (bomber) for the U.S. Army. I went to Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1941, driving a Model T-Ford, which had been sold to me for $10.”
Paul was at Antioch, studying for an engineering degree, when he was drafted into the Army and sent to Fort Knox, Ky., for training. He was selected for Officer Candidate School and received a commission in the armored cavalry, then was shipped to Fort Ord, Calif., and from there sent overseas to a tank corps training center in the Philippines with the 25th Infantry Division.
After the war he was sent to Japan during the occupation. He was discharged with the rank of first lieutenant, but was called back into the Army in 1950 to help train recruits at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Discharged a second time, he joined two brothers who were doctors and had started a hospital in Hollywood, Calif. They asked Paul to be their administrator. While in Southern California he rode with the West Hills Hunt Club and the Los Angeles County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse. His interest in horsemanship led to his participation in Olympic Trials for the Equestrian Three-Day event.
In 1970 Paul moved to Dallas to work with International Meat Products. In 1971 he was transferred to the El Paso office. In 1982 he started his own El Paso Packing Co.
“He supported the UTEP golf team,” his wife Gail said. “He participated in the yearly event at Pebble Beach in California. He loved the exercise, the focus, the friends he met at golf. He had a motto: ‘If you shoot over 90, you go no business playing golf; if you shoot under 90 you got no business.’”
“He found great joy in playing golf,” said Scott, his son from a previous marriage. “He achieved atleast two holes-in-one.”
Paul married Gail Benford, an interior decorator for Charlottes', July 18, 1980.
“It was 1978 when he first walked into the store,” Gail said. “He came in eating an ice cream cone and we struck up a conversation. Six weeks later he came again and we started dating. He was the kind of man who could listen to opera in the garage then run in and turn on TV to get the football scores. The whole essence of his life was people.”
Paul died on May 3.
“He was a veteran of two wars, and always wanted a military funeral,” Scott said. “We arranged with a bugler to be there to play ‘Taps.’”
Seven brothers and sisters preceded him in death.
He is survived by his wife Gail, son Scott, (who is curator for the Centennial Museum at UTEP), daughters Linda Wade, Susan Cutler, Lisa Saunders, stepdaughter Laura Musgrave, brother Hilton, sister Lillian, and six grandchildren. He was buried in Fort Bliss National Cemetery.
