INVERNESS, Fla. -- Ted Williams' oldest daughter, who is fighting her half siblings over their father's body, said Tuesday she will never waver from her belief that the baseball star wanted to be cremated and not frozen.

"I'm not going to change my mind,'' Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell told The Associated Press. "There's no way to reach a compromise. I want his will to be followed.''

Ferrell and her half siblings, John-Henry Williams and Claudia Williams, are battling in court over the final disposition of their father, who was frozen at a Scottsdale, Ariz., cryogenics lab shortly after his July 5 death.

Ted Williams' 1996 will says his body should be cremated and scattered off the Florida coast, but her siblings say he signed a pact with them in November 2000 agreeing to be cryogenically preserved so they could ``be together'' after they died.

"I'm not going to be bought off and I'm not going to shut up,'' Ferrell added. "There's no middle ground.''

Attempts at mediating the dispute have failed, and the executor of Williams' estate has asked a judge to decide what should be done with the body.

The judge, Circuit Judge Patricia V. Thomas, gently admonished the three children Tuesday to show more respect for each other as she rejected accusations from John-Henry and Claudia Williams that Ferrell had intimidated a potential witness for their side.

"Your clients and your clients are the children of Ted Williams and need to govern themselves accordingly,'' Thomas told attorneys for both sides.

Documents being filed in the case "are causing these relationships to move even farther apart,'' the judge said.

The potential witness, Eric Abel, was a family friend of Ted Williams and an attorney for John-Henry Williams. He contended that Ferrell had left a threatening message on his answering machine the day after Ted Williams died because of comments he had made about her to the media. Abel and Ferrell are neighbors.

"I find it amazing. Mr. Abel, that you would make a statement like that, about me to the press that's gone out into the Internet,'' Ferrell said on the answering machine. "Prepare thyself, sir!''

The judge said there was no need to issue a court order and added "if Mr. Abel needs to protect himself, he knows the legal remedies available.''

Abel's family was genuinely concerned since Ferrell's house is located behind the Abel home, said Robert Goldman, an attorney for John-Henry and Claudia Williams.

"Particularly, if you live right behind the person, matches, all kinds of things, can be used in a threatening way,'' said Goldman, who added he was satisfied with the judge's decision because she warned both sides to behave.

Ferrell scoffed at the notion that her statement could be considered a threat.

"Hey, I'm 100 pounds,'' said Ferrell, 53.

New documents filed in the case suggested that it could drag on for months. A hearing for partial summary judgment, in which one party asks the judge to rule on parts of the case without hearing testimony, was set for Oct. 3. A full-fledged hearing on the case could come later.

In addition, an attorney for Ferrell requested Ted Williams' medical records from Shands Hospital at the University of Florida, where the baseball great was treated for a variety of ailments. The attorney, Richard Fitzpatrick, said he wants documentation on Ted Williams' health and location when he supposedly changed his mind about wanting to be cremated and instead frozen.

Meanwhile, Ferrell has taken possession of the ashes of Ted Williams' dog Slugger, who died four years ago. She says Slugger was cremated so its ashes could be mixed with her father's when they were sprinkled at sea.

"It seems I could have half his wishes met by getting Slugger's remains,'' Ferrell said.