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Life In Legacy - Week of November 16, 2002

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Jay D. Hair - Powerful environmentalist Eddie Bracken - Comedic actor Peg Phillips - Northern Exposure actress Billy Guy - Coasters vocalist Merlin Santana - TV actor Jay Reed - Outdoors columnist Lawrence Rainey - 'Mississippi Burning' sherriff Johnny Griffith - Funk Brothers keyboardist Edmund Burke - Exercise/cycling expert Georgie Cook - Banjo player Ehud Sprinzak - Counterterrorism expert Jerry Sohl - S.F. author/screenwriter Iyad Sawalha - Terrorist (yes he's dead in this picture) Jerry Goodis - Member of the Travellers Henrietta Canty - Georgia legislator Ken Raffensberger - Major league pitcher Selden Rodman - Poet Joseph Tobul - Vintage airplane pilot Jim McGonagle - Minor league goalie Jack Gould - White Sox VP Charlotte Filmore - Educator Charles Mount - Restaurant designer James R. Glenn - Smithsonian archivist Frances Ames - South African activist Abram Clemens - Grocery chain founder Johannes Kerkorrel - South African rock star William Putnam - Georgia killer Elizabeth Fisher - Wealthy Detroit woman Mark Chavunduka - Tortured journalist Vincent Landano - Wrongly imprisioned Ansley Coale - Population expert Dan Noble - Colorado legislator Tim Hector - Noted Antiguan Charles Hamilton - Roycraft historian John Lynker - Radio newsman James Dworak - Disgraced Omaha mayor Irv Rubin - JDL leader Judy Trejo - Indian singer/songwriter H. Taylor Howard - Father of satellite TV Glenn Dobbs - Tulsa football legend Daisy Voigt - DC party-maker Rishikesh Shah - Nepalese diplomat William Barron - Corrupt West Virginia governor Juan Schiaffino - Soccer great Mir Aimal Kasi - Executed in Virginia Michael Stewart - We Five singer Joe Maltais - Franco American Hour host Mustafa Mashhur - Muslim Brotherhood leader Nicholas Mukomberanwa - Sculptor Jim Hester - NFL player Dr. James Grier Miller - Pioneering psychiatrist Myra Hindley - Notorious child killer Nathan Stark - K.C. redeveloper Roland Hanna - Jazz pianist Percy Maxim Lee - League of Women Voters prez Brig. Gen. Charles Smith - Decorated veteran Bill Berry - Cornettist Dan Moschetti - 'Golf Guys' host Sohn Kee Chung - Olympic marathoner Samuel Neaman - Retail conglomerate chairman William Packard - NY Quarterly editor Will Schutz - Developed FIFO questionaire Glenn McQueen - Pixar animator Terry Kendall - New Zealand golfer Charles Dupuis - Smurfs publisher George Chemeres - Boxing trainer Hilary Bader - Sci-Fi screenwriter Norma Lee Clark - Author, actress & Woody Allen secretary Tracy Coley - Actor & singer Chuck D'Hority - Investigated Kennedy assassination John Woods - CEO of AmSouth Bancorp Chris Fuller - Music journalist Dr. Herbert Weiner - Researched psychosomatic medicine Miggs Durrance - Olympic skier turned photographer Painting by Oris Robertson Sculpture by Nicholas Mukomberanwa

News and Entertainment
Hilary J. Bader - Emmy-award winning TV writer, including 3 series with big cult followings, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Batman Beyond” (2 Emmys), but who also was an avid comic book writer (“Batman & Robin Adventures”, “Gotham Adventures”), as well as a video game developer, died Nov. 7 of breast cancer at age 50.
Bill Berry - Jazz cornettist and bandleader who is notable as one of the first white musicians hired to play in Duke Ellington’s all black band in 1961, and who went on to play in the band on the Merv Griffin Show, died Nov. 13 at age 72.
Eddie Bracken - Frenzied, bumbling, stuttering comedic actor of the 1940’s and early 50’s who starred in such films as “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” and “Hail The Conquering Hero”, and who made a comeback with supporting roles in several films in the 80's and 90's including "National Lampoon's Vacation", died on Nov. 14 after surgery at age 87.
Tracy Coley - Singer, actor and gospel choir conductor who appeared on television shows like “The Wayan Brothers” and “Martin”, and who co-founded the Amazing Grace Conservatory with actress Wendy Raquel Robinson, died on Nov. 9 after surgery at age 38.
Georgie Cook - Banjo player and member of the Frankie Yankovic polka band from 1946 to 1951 who performed on their two biggest recordings “Blue Skirt Waltz” and “Just Because”, and went on to record 10 albums with his own band for Decca, died Nov. 3 at age 92.
Charles Dupuis - Belgium publisher behind the success of the Smurfs, who attracted the best cartoonists like Peyo (Smurfs creator) in a country where comic-strips are considered art, died Nov. 14 at age 84.
Chris Fuller - Veteran European music journalist who worked for Variety and Daily Variety, among others, and currently was news editor of Mipcom Daily News, died of a heart attack Nov. 9 while performing with his band Viking Blond. He was 42.
Jerry Goodis - Member of the Canadian folk music group The Travellers, best known for “This Land Is Your Land”, who was once a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and later left the Travellers to start an advertising agency that would go on to become Canada’s largest, died of cancer on Nov. 8 at age 73.
Ellen Griffin - Grandmother of LL Cool J who raised the rapper and was instrumental in his life and whom he called Mama, and who inspired several song including “Mama Said Knock You Out” from 1990 and “Big Mama (Unconditional Love)” from this year, died Nov. 10 of cancer. Her age was not stated.
Billy Guy - Tenor and original member of the R&B vocal group The Coasters, known for their serio-comedic recordings of Leiber & Stoller songs, who was heard on all of their big hits like “Searchin’”, “Yakety Yak”, “Charlie Brown” and “Poison Ivy”, and who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the original Coasters in the inaugural class of 1988, died Nov. 5 of cardiovascular disease at age 66.
Johnny Griffith - Keyboard player for the Funk Brothers, the set of studio musicians that played on many of the big Motown hits of the 60’s and 70’s, who was heard on such hits as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”, “Stop In the Name of Love”, and “Lonely Teardrops” among many others, and who had appeared at a Funk Brothers tribute at the Apollo Theatre on Nov. 7, died Nov. 10 of undisclosed causes at age 66.
Roland Hanna - Versatile jazz pianist and composer who performed both jazz and classical music with bandleaders like Benny Goodman and Charlie Mingus and orchestras like the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, died Nov. 13 of a viral infection of the heart at age 70.
Johannes Kerkorrel (real name Ralph Rabie) - One of South Africa’s biggest rock music stars, who sprang to prominence in 1986 and was known for his satire and criticism of P.W. Botha and the apartheid government, committed suicide by hanging on Nov. 11 at age 42.
John Lynker - Veteran radio news broadcaster who worked at major radio stations in New York, San Francisco, Detroit and finished his career at WTOP in Washington DC in a career that spanned nearly 50 years, died of heart and lung disease on Nov. 11 at age 75.
Joe Maltais - New Hampshire radio personality and host of The Franco American Hour, a program broadcast in French that helped French Canadian immigrants keep their culture alive, died Nov. 12 at age 84.
Glenn McQueen - Senior animator for Pixar Animation Studios, who helped mold beloved characters like Woody in “Toy Story” and Tiny Boo in “Monsters, Inc.”, who served as supervising animator for “Toy Story 2”, “A Bugs Life” and “Monsters, Inc.”, died on Oct. 29 of melanoma at age 41.
Peg Phillips - Actress best known for her role as shopkeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on the TV series "Northern Exposure", who wasn't an actor until she began taking acting classes after she retired as an accountant at age 65, died Nov. 7 of lung disease at age 84.
Jay Reed - Journalist who was twice a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his stories on Vietnam, and who was a longtime outdoor columnist, writing on hunting and fishing for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, died of lung and bone cancer on Nov. 8 at age 73.
Merlin Santana - TV actor best known for playing Romeo Santana in “The Steve Harvey Show”, but who also appeared in “The Cosby Show” (as Stanley, Rudy’s admirer), “Moesha”, “Major Dad” and “Sister, Sister”, was shot to death on Nov. 9 while sitting in a parked car in South Los Angeles. He was 26.
Michael Stewart - Leader of the Southern California rock/folk group We Five who hit #3 in 1966 with “You Were On My Mind” and charted with the original version of “Get Together” (later a big hit for the Youngbloods), who was the brother of folk great John Stewart, and went on to produce Billy Joel’s breakthrough album “Piano Man”, died Nov. 13 of undisclosed causes at age 57.
Judy Trejo - Paiute Indian singer, songwriter and linguist who worked to preserve the Paiute language thru education and song, and who recorded 2 award winning albums for Canyon Records, died on Nov. at age 62.
Eddie Worth - News photographer for the Associated Press known for his combat photographs during WW2 including the D-Day invasion at Normandy, who also covered the Nazi trials in Nuremberg, died Nov. 10 at age 93.

Sports
Edmund Burke - Exercise expert who trained Olympic bicyclists during the 1980, 1984 and 1996 Olympics, and edited several books on cycling, nutrition and sports physiology, died of a heart attack while cycling on Nov. 7 at age 53.
George Chemeres - Boxing manager and trainer who guided boxers Pete Rademacher, Eddie Cotton and Greg Haugen, died of lung cancer on Nov. 15 at age 87.
Sohn Kee Chung - Korean marathon runner who won a gold medal and set a world’s record for Japan at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, when Korea was a Japanese colony, who tried unsuccessfully for 66 years to get the IOC to revise the records to show Korea as the country under which the gold medal was won, died Nov. 15 of heart failure at age 90.
Glenn Dobbs - University of Tulsa football legend who played tailback from 1940 to 1942, and is generally considered to be the greatest player in that school’s history, who came back to coach at his alma mater from 1961 to 1968 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980, died Nov. 12 at age 82.
Margaret “Miggs” Durrance - Former Olympic skier who became a renowned photographer with pictures published in Life, Look, National Geographic and Sports Illustrated, and who was married to Aspen ski pioneer Dick Durrance, died Nov. 11 after a lengthy illness at age 85.
Jack Gould - Long-time executive with the Chicago White Sox who joined the team as an investor in 1975 and became a senior vice president (Isn’t that like buying a job? Could he be fired?), and who was one of the first executives in baseball to provide statistics via computer, died Nov. 11 of cancer. His age was unstated.
Jim Hester - High school and college basketball and football star who went on to play tight end in the NFL for the Saints and Bears, and later became a civic leader in Davenport Iowa, died Nov. 14 of heart and lung disease at age 57.
Terry Kendall - PGA golfer on the European seniors circuit who was a former New Zealand PGA champ, died on Nov. 15 after being badly burned in a suspicious car fire. He was 55.
Jim McGonagle - Minor league hockey goalie for the Williams Lake, B.C. TimberWolves, died Nov. 7 from injuries suffered in a car accident 2 days earlier. He was 19 years old.
Dan Moschetti - Host of the syndicated radio program “The Golf Guys’ Radio Show”, the humorous anything-goes golf fans’ program heard on 800 stations in 160 countries, died of a heart attack on Nov. 12 just minutes after being interviewed on a San Francisco radio station. He was 53.
Ken Raffensberger - Major league baseball pitcher for 15 years from 1939 to 1954 with the Cardinals, Phillies, Cubs and Reds, who twice led the league in shutouts despite a career record of 119-154, died Nov. 10 at age 85.
Juan Schiaffino - One of Uruguay’s biggest soccer stars, whose second-half goal put Uruguay ahead to stay in a surprising upset of heavily-favored Brazil in the 1950 World Cup championship, considered to be one of the biggest upsets in Cup history, died Nov. 13 at age 78.

Art and Literature
Norma Lee Clark - Author, actress and longtime personal assistant to Woody Allen, who is best known for the 15 romance novels she wrote under her own name and the nom de plume Megan O’Connor like “The Infamous Rake” and “Daring Duchess”, and who was the female lead in the TV series “Captain Video and His Video Ranger” from 1949 to 1955, died of cancer Nov. 8 at age 75.
Charles F. Hamilton - Historian and author of dozens of books and articles on Elbert Hubbard (19th Century megalomaniac writer who perished on the Lusitania) and the Roycroft, and a leader in the establishment of the Elbert Hubbard museum, and a founding member of the Roycrofters, an almost cult group of Hubbard followers, died Nov. 9 at age 87.
Charles Mount - Restaurant designer who designed nearly 300 different restaurants ranging from very expensive eateries to fast-food outlets and trendy chains, died Nov. 8 of a heart attack at age 60.
Nicholas Mukomberanwa - Highly-regarded sculptor from Zimbabwe known for his stone carvings like “Man In A Trance” (pictured) and whose works are displayed in galleries worldwide, died Nov. 11 after a short illness at age 62.
William Packard - Editor and founder of The New York Quarterly, a national poetry magazine, who also wrote poetry and novels, died of heart disease on Nov. 3 at age 69.
Oris Robertson - Mexico-based American artist who was known for his realistic, highly detailed paintings of flowers and vegetables, died Oct. 27 of cancer at age 64.
Selden Rodman - Author, poet and playwright who published more than 40 books of modern poetry, travel and folk art, and who was a tireless promoter of the art and poetry of Haiti and Africa, died suddenly Nov. 2 at age 93.
Jerry Sohl - Novelist and screenwriter best known for his science fiction books like “The Transcendent Man”, and writing for TV shows like “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek”, but I’m sure he’ll want to be remembered for the screenplays for the movies “Frankenstein Conquers the World” and “Die Monster Die!”, died Nov. 4 at age 88.

Politics and Military
Frances Ames - South African human rights activist who used her clout as professor of neurology at the University of Cape Town to investigate and expose reprehensible conduct (including the medical care of Steve Biko) of the apartheid government, and was awarded the Star of South Africa by Nelson Mandela in 1999, died Nov. 11 of leukemia at age 87.
William Barron - Governor of West Virginia from 1961 to 1965, who stood trial in 1968 on bribery charges in a bribery-for-contracts scheme for which he was acquitted, but later was charged with paying a $25,000 bribe to the jury foreman (Good lord!) in his 1968 case, was convicted and spent 3 ½ years in prison, died Nov. 12 at age 90.
Henrietta Canty - Georgia state representative from 1975 to 1980 and 1990 to 1998, who also served as state agriculture commissioner, and ran yet again for the Georgia House in last weeks elections but lost, died of undisclosed causes at age 74.
Mark Chavunduka - Zimbabwean journalist who was arrested and tortured with beatings and electric shock by Zimbabwe’s military in 1999 after writing about disaffection within the military, only to have the government refuse to acknowledge the arrest or prosecute the torturers, and whose health declined in the years following the incident, died Nov. 12 of unknown causes at age 37.
James Dworak - Popular mayor of Omaha from 1961 to 1965 who was elected at age 35, but was indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges in 1965 in a sensational trial involving secret tape recordings (he was acquitted by an all female jury, his co-conspirators were convicted), and was ruined in politics, died Nov. 6 of Parkinson’s disease at age 77.
Jay D. Hair - Respected environmentalist who headed the National Wildlife Federation from 1981 to 1995, during which time it became the nations largest membership-based environmental organization, who was a staunch adversary of conservative politicians whom he saw as a threat to the environment, died Nov. 15 of bone marrow cancer at age 56.
Tim Hector - Highly-respected Antiguan journalist, historian, social commentator, and political activist, who was a former senator in the Antigua Upper House and helped found the United Progressive Party opposition party, died Nov. 12 of heart problems at age 59.
Percy Maxim Lee - President of the League of Women Voters from 1950 to 1958, who was a vocal adversary during the McCarthy’s hearings, and whose father was ARRL and ACL founder Hiram Percy Maxim, died Nov. 9 at age 96.
Mustafa Mashhur - Leader since 1996 of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s illegal (but tolerated) Islamist political opposition group, whose goal is to implement Islamic shiria law by constitutional means, died Nov. 14 after a stroke at age 83.
Dan Noble - Colorado state Senate majority leader who served from 1970 to 1986, who worked to get funding for Fort Lewis College and had Noble Hall at the school named in his honor, died of cancer on Nov. 9 at age 73.
Irv Rubin - Leader of the Jewish Defense League, a radical social group whose purpose was to confront (often violently) those they viewed as enemies of Israel and the Jewish people, who had been arrested more than 40 times previously and was being held for a plot to bomb a mosque and the office of California state rep. Darrell Issa, died Nov. 13 of injuries suffered in an suicide attempt on Nov. 4. He was 57 years old.
Iyad Sawalha - Islamic Jihad leader who was accused by Israel of orchestrating at least 2 bomb attacks on Israel buses that killed 31 Israelis, was shot down by Israeli troops on Nov. 9 during a gunfight on the West Bank. He was 32 years old.
Rishikesh Shah - Nepalese scholar and pioneer in human rights in that country, who served as ambassador to the United States and was Nepal’s representative to the United Nations, died Nov. 14 of lung cancer at age 76.
Brig. Gen. Charles “Coburn” Smith - Highly-decorated naval officer who was awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and numerous other honors, and who managed the headquarters of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Gen. Mark Clark during WW2, died Nov. 7 at age 95.
Ehud Sprinzak - Israeli political scientist and counterterrorism expert who studied far-right Jewish groups and had warned Yitzhak Rabin about a possible assassination attempt by a “lone wolf” (Rabin was gunned down shortly after by a lone assassin), died of cancer on Nov. 8 at age 62.
Joseph Tobul - Korean War veteran and pilot of vintage airplanes, crashed his WW2-era fighter plane during an air show in Columbia S.C. on Nov. 10 and was killed. He was 68.

Social and Religion
Charlotte Filmore - Educator and community activist who opened the Charlotte Filmore Early Learning Center in a poor Washington DC neighborhood when she was 70 years old and operated it for 20 years, and was lauded by President Clinton in a weekly radio address in 2000, died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 19 at age 104.
Chuck D'Hority - One of Dallas Police Department’s lead investigators in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who was present when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald and rode in the ambulance with him trying to get a dying declaration, and refused several requests to write a book about his experiences, died Nov. 7 of a heart attack at age 79.
Elizabeth Fisher - Wealthy Detroit woman who was the daughter of Walter Briggs (Detroit Tigers owner), and married to Charles Fisher Jr. (president of the National Bank of Detroit) who was the son of Charles Fisher Sr. (founder of Fisher Body Corp.), died Nov. 11 at age 95.
Myra Hindley - Notorious British child killer jailed in 1966 for life in the “Moors Murders”, who with her boyfriend Ian Brady sexually abused, tortured and murdered three children ages 10, 12 and 17, and who in 1987 confessed to several other murders leading police to the bodies, died Nov. 15 of heart and lung ailments at age 60.
Mir Aimal Kasi - Pakistani man who in 1993, angry about meddling by the CIA in Muslim nations, walked along a row of cars stopped at a traffic light in McLean Virginia shooting a semiautomatic AK-47 killing two drivers, both CIA workers, was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 14. He was 38 years old.
Vincent Landano - New Jersey man who was convicted of killing a police officer during an armed robbery in 1977 and claimed his innocence for years, then was acquitted last July when it was discovered prosecutors had concealed evidence that incriminated their chief witness, and who sued the prosecutors and investigators for wrongful imprisonment (case is still pending), died Nov. 11 of a heart attack at age 63.
William Putnam - Georgia murderer convicted of the 1980 shooting deaths of a Kentucky couple at a rest stop in Georgia (they were traveling to Florida and had stopped to spend the night) in front of their 3 children and a niece, was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 13 at age 59.
Lawrence Rainey - Tobacco-chewing sheriff of Neshoba County Mississippi during the arrest and murder of 3 civil rights workers in June 1964, who was charge and acquitted of conspiracy in the case, which was chronicled in the movie “Mississippi Burning” (Rainey’s character portrayed by Gailard Sartain), died Nov. 8 of throat cancer at age 79.
Daisy Voigt - Former director of public affairs for the EEOC who became a prominent party (not political) consultant for political organizations in Washington DC, who was renowned for her huge network of friends, including artists, musicians, actors, journalists and others, and for her cooking, that she used in bringing together large and lavish affairs, died on Nov. 12 of a brain tumor at age 62.
Rev. Harold Blake Walker - Oft-quoted writer, columnist and theologian known for pushing racial integration and who worked to establish the multidenominational National Church Center in Washington, DC, died Nov. 4 of pneumonia at age 98.

Business and Science
Abram Clemens - Co-founder of the Clemens Family Markets, a Philadelphia area grocery chain, that has been in business since 1939 (pretty impressive), died Nov. 11 at age 89.
Ansley Coale - Princeton University professor who was a respected population expert and demographer, who wrote more than 125 books and articles including "Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries”, died Nov. 5 at age 85.
John “Jackie” Gaughan, Jr. - Son of legendary casino owner Jackie Gaughan and co-owner of several Las Vegas casinos with his father (El Cortez, The Union Plaza, Las Vegas Club, and Golden Spike), died Nov. 10 of undisclosed causes at age 54.
James R. Glenn - Senior archivist at the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian who is credited with organizing 100 years worth of poorly arranged and undescribed documents culminating in 1992’s “Guide to the Collections (Smithsonian Institution)”, died on Oct. 13 after surgery at age 68.
H. Taylor Howard - A former NASA scientist who built the first satellite television system in his home in 1976 and went on to found the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Assoc. (Satellite TV now has 18 million subscribers worldwide thru companies like DIRECTV), was killed in a plane crash Nov. 13 at the age of 70.
Dr. James Grier Miller - Psychiatrist who founded a field of study devoted to analyzing living systems which was termed “behavioral sciences”, which identified the common principles linking biological and social systems, and published a mammoth volume "Living Systems” in 1975, died Nov. 7 at age 86.
Samuel Neaman - Partner of corporate-takeover specialist Meshulam Riklis who became chairman of a corporate retail empire during the 60’s and 70’s that included the stores Lerner’s, McCrory’s, S. Klein, Best & Company and J.J. Newberry, died Nov. 13 at age 89.
Will Schutz - Noted psychologist who worked in the realm of conflict resolution, human potential and interpersonal behavior and who is known for developing the highly-used "Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation" questionnaire, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Nov. 9 at age 81.
Nathan Stark - Hallmark Cards executive who became the head of Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. which redeveloped a blighted area in Kansas City into the Crown Center shopping and entertainment district, died Nov. 11 at age 82.
Dr. Herbert Weiner - A major researcher in the field of psychosomatic medicine, who explored the way the brain and body interact in diseases like asthma and anorexia, died of lung cancer on Nov. 12 at age 81.
John Woods - CEO of AmSouth Bancorp from 1972 to 1995 who saw the company grow from $800 million in assets to $18 billion in assets during his tenure, and who is credited with transforming Birmingham, Alabama from an industrial city to a banking center, died on Nov. 10 after a brief illness at age 71.

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