Life In Legacy - Week of November 9, 2004 Hold pointer over photo for person's name. Click on photo to go to brief obit. Click on name to return to picture.

News and Entertainment
Walter “Salty” Brine (89) Rhode Island radio personality who was known state-wide for his weather reports and the line “No school in Foster-Glocester,” who was the morning host on AM WPRO for fifty years, died of unknown causes on November 2 in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Vincent Brome (94) Author who wrote for nearly 80 years, producing articles, essays, plays, novels, books of history, and biographies of J. B. Priestley, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Frank Harris, Havelock Ellis, and H. G. Wells, whose biographies were often deemed “wormlike” by critics, died on October 16.
Ann Cottrell Free (88) Journalist who covered war-time Washington, D.C., who was the first woman to be a full-time correspondent for Newsweek, the Chicago Sun and the New York Herald Tribune, who during World War II was one of the only women to cover Washington and also managed to keep the job when the veterans returned, who also was an avid animal-rights activist, managing to spur federal hearings on conditions at the Food and Drug Administration's animal labs and who was awarded the Schweitzer Medal from the Animal Welfare Institute in 1963, the Rachel Carson Legacy Award in 1987, died in Washington, D.C. on October 30 of pneumonia.
Dave Godin(68) Music writer and a leading champion of black American music in Britain, who coined the term “Northern Soul” to describe the highly-danceable ‘60s R&B that became a cult hit in his country, who founded the Tamla Motown Appreciation Society to celebrate and promote the work of the Motown record label and is considered largely responsible for the success of Motown music in the UK after he was named UK promotional consultant by the label, who wrote for “Blues & Soul” magazine, opened the first record shop in Europe to specialize in black music, and recently completed a compilation series entitled “Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Taken from the Vaults”, died of lung cancer on October 15 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
Theo van Gogh (47) Controversial Dutch filmmaker who angered many with his short TV anti-Islamic movie “Submission” (which criticised the Koran for sanctioning domestic violence in Islamic communities) and outspoken unpopular beliefs, was stabbed and shot to death in a park (a note was pinned to him contained a death threat to the writer of the film) as he was riding his bicycle. The 26 year-old suspect in the murder is being charged with terrorism related charges.
Michal Hambourg(85) British pianist descended from three great piano traditions (her father was virtuoso Mark Hambourg; her grandfather, Mikhail Hambourg, was the “great artist” to whom Tchaikovsky dedicated his Elegaic Trio), who herself became a popular and influential pianist both before and during World War II and was considered the last living link to major 19th century music traditions, died on October 13.
Lilian Kallir(73) Concert pianist known for her elegant Mozart performances, both as a soloist and in duet recitals with her husband, pianist Claude Frank, who was also a devoted chamber music player, playing recitals with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, and who performed with the Juilliard, Emerson, Guarneri, Cleveland, and Tokyo String Quartets, died of ovarian cancer on October 25 in New York City.
Sheila Keith(84) British actress who appeared on numerous British sitcoms, soaps, and dramas and was a regular fixture in British cult horror films of the ‘70s, including “Frightmare” and “House of Whipcord,” (she specialized in playing demented matriarchs who gleefully torture and kill their way through younger costars), who also enjoyed a successful career on the stage, died on October 14 in Chertsey, Surrey, England.
R. Scott Martin (42) Freelance photographer whose photos appeared worldwide, including recent photos of Hurricane Charley making a direct hit on Punta Gorda, Florida, who also was known for his sports photographs of the 2004 Stanley Cup Finals in Tampa, the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, World Series champion Boston Red Sox during their annual spring training in Fort Myers, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Lightning and Devil Rays, died in a car accident on November 2 in Charlotte County, Florida, where he swerved his vehicle to miss traffic and was ejected from the vehicle.
Vaughn Meader(68) Stand up comedian who gained instant fame with a flawless spoof of John F. Kennedy and satirization of JFK’s presidency, wealth, and large family in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family”, which became the fastest-selling record of its time, racking up 7.5 million copies and winning the Grammy for album of the year (he found a fan in the President himself, who bought 100 copies of the album to give as Christmas gifts), but whose humorist career was abruptly halted when the president was assassinated, died on October 29 in Auburn, ME, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after he refused to be taken to the hospital.
Lorenzo Morris (52) Texas convict who was convicted of murdering a 70 year-old man-the man was beaten and stabbed during a purported robbery attempted, was found later in a coma in his driveway and was hospitalized and later moved to a nursing home, where nine months following the assault he developed gangrene and had to have his leg amputated, during which he died-who claimed his victim died of “natural causes” and not the beating nine months earlier, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas on November 2.
Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (86) President of the United Arab Emirates who spearheaded the transformation of a cluster of tiny desert Persian Gulf sheikdoms into a leading oil and business hub with skyscrapers and sprawling shopping malls, who was one of the richest leaders in the world and worked to keep close ties with the United States and the western countries, who led daily court to let citizens air their concerns and often attended weddings of ordinary citizens when he was invited, and who had led the nation since its independence from Britain in 1971, died November 1.
John Peel(65) Legendary BBC disc jockey whose enthusiasm for the offbeat, the eclectic and the obscure launched the careers of dozens of bands (including New Order) by being the first to play the demo tapes of little-known performers, who hosted a radio program on Radio 1, the BBC's flagship pop music station, and exerted a huge influence for more than 30 years, promoting reggae, hip-hop and punk on the sometimes conservative BBC, died of a heart attack on October 25 while vacationing in Peru with his wife.
Graham Roberts (75) British actor who was best known for his role as gamekeeper George Barford on Radio 4’s soap opera “The Archers,” a role he played for 31 years, whose fruity and avuncular voice brought him many parts in radio plays, who recorded over 100 audio books, whose voice could also be heard in countless plays for BBC Radio 3 and for Radio 4, and whose TV credits included Z Cars, Lizzie Dripping, and Adam Smith, died in York on October 28.
Peggy Ryan (80) Dancer and actress who was often partnered with dancer Donald O’Connor in movie musicals in the 1940’s such as "This Is the Life" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," who was later known for her role on the television police drama "Hawaii Five-O" as Jenny Sherman, secretary to Jack Lord's Steve McGarrett, who was teaching and dancing up to a few days before her death, died after suffering two strokes on October 30 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sports
Bobby Avila (78) Three-time Major League Baseball All-Star and Hall of Famer who won the American League batting title in 1954 (edging out batting great Ted Williams) and became the first Latino to win the batting crown, who played for 4 teams during 11 seasons in the big leagues, including the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles, and who is widely considered the first Mexican to spark major interest in US baseball in his homeland, died of diabetes and a lung ailment on October 26 in Veracruz, Mexico.
Don Kennedy (97) Men’s basketball coach who was the helm of the St. Peter’s College (Jersey City, NJ) from 1950 to 1972, ending with a record of 323-195 which makes him the winningest coach in the school’s history, whose teams were known for their fast-break style and high scoring and went to three National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics tournaments and five NITs -- in 1957, 1958, 1967, 1968 and 1969, died after collapsing on October 26 in Nyack, New Jersey.
Art and Literature
Edward T. Cone (87) Musicologist, composer, and pianist who was a member of the faculty of Princeton University for almost 40 years, who produced two of the 20th century's most influential books about Western music, ''Musical Form and Musical Performance'' and ''The Composer's Voice'', and who was one of the first recipients of a master of fine arts degree in music at Princeton, died of complications from open-heart surgery on October 23 in Princeton, NJ.
Bob Davidoff (78) Palm Beach, Florida photographer who was perhaps best known for his work photographing the Kennedys at The Breakers, who was named "Winter White House" photographer for UPI while John F. Kennedy was in office, who was more of a social photographer than a paparazzi and would never allow unflattering photos of his subjects to be printed, who captured images of Pres. Kennedy attending church, laughing with his brothers, and playfully lifting his children over his head and who continued to photograph the family through the 1990’s, died October 9 in West Palm Beach, Florida of pneumonia.
Terry Dintenfass (84) Art dealer who ran the Terry Dintenfass Gallery in New York City for nearly 40 year, whose gallery was shaped with a strong social consciousness and brought together several currents from outside the mainstream of 20th-century art (in addition to being one of the few that exhibited black artists at a time when almost all artists showing in NYC galleries were white), and who was one of the last generation of women dealers who dominated the New York art world during the 1950's to the late 1970's, died on October 26 in New York City.
William Dobelle (62) Electrical engineer who created a system to aid the blind through artificial vision, whose system-the Dobelle Artificial Vision System-uses a miniature camera attached to glasses worn by a blind person, and the images are relayed to a portable computer, which transmits them to electrodes fixed to the brain – a system designed to improve mobility, and whose early start in engineering began when he was 13 when he applied for his first patent for artificial hip improvements he’d developed with his father, died from complications from diabetes in New York on October 5.
Joe Eula(79) Fashion illustrator whose vibrant sketches captured the work of designers such as Halston, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, and Versace for more than half a century, who contributed numerous illustrations for American Vogue and created album covers and concert posters for Miles Davis, Liza Minnelli, the Supremes and other performers, who designed sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet, a line of china for Tiffany & Co, and the logo for the famed NYC nightclub Studio 54, and who won a Tony award for his work on the Broadway production of “Private Lives” in 1968 and directed TV fashion specials for Lauren Bacall, died on October 27 in Kingston, N.Y., after being hospitalized for pneumonia and a bad reaction to chemotherapy.
Brig. Gen. Frank Kendall Everest Jr. (84) Fighter pilot and legendary test pilot who flew some of the country’s most advanced aircraft and for a time during the 1950s held the title “fastest man alive,” after he piloted the Bell X-2 aircraft at more than 1,900 mph, or Mach 2.9, surpassing the record set by the legendary Chuck Yeager, who flew 94 combat missions during WWII before being taken as a POW, and who was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and honored on the Aerospace Walk of Honor (along with Neil Armstrong), died on October 1 in Tucson, AZ .
Clark Fitz-Gerald (87) Sculptor who did commissions for various cities, churches and universities, including Uris Hall at Columbia University, Independence Hall in Philadelphia and Coventry Cathedral in England, who worked in wood, metal and stone and who took his inspiration from nature, died October 18 in Castine, Maine.
Herbert (Henry) Katzman (81) Expressionist painter who was known for his textured paintings, who used a palette knife to put thick layers of paint on canvas to give it a dense look, whose favorite subject was New York City (after his death, he was found with an unfinished drawing of New York Harbor on the table in front of him,) died of obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in New York on October 15.
Nathan Miller(77) Former reporter for the Baltimore Sun newspaper and the author of more than a dozen notable books on American history and biography, including “The US Navy: A History” and “Theodore Roosevelt: A Life”, died on October 22 in Washington, DC, having suffered a stroke two years ago.
Basil Thompson (67) Ballet dancer and ballet master for the Joffrey and Milwaukee ballet companies who was on sabbatical from the University of Iowa, where he had taught since 2000, who was trained by the Sadlers Wells Ballet School in London, who taught ballet in Los Angeles until 1960, when he became a dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, died of cardiac arrest in Lynchburg, Virginia on November 2.
Everett M. Rogers(73) Communications pioneer, professor and chairman of the communication and journalism department at the University of New Mexico, whose wrote hundreds of articles and chapters in the fields of communication, sociology, marketing, and political science and 30 books, including “Diffusion of Innovations”, was selected by Inc. magazine in 1996 as one of the 10 classic books on business, died of kidney cancer on October 21.
Marco Augusto Quiroa (67) Guatemalan painter, sculptor, and writer who, as a vocal Socialist, often drew on his rural working-class upbringing for his works used bright colors based on the designs of traditional Guatemalan fabrics, who formed the Vertebra group with politically outspoken artists including Elmar Rene Rojas and Roberto Cabrera, died of throat cancer in Amatitlan (outside Guatemala City) on October 31.
Horst M. Rabura (78) German textbook author and former University of Washington professor who was best known for the three-part text series "Mosaik”- which consists of a core grammar text, cultural-literary reader and workbook, to promote German reading, writing, speaking and listening and is still used on some United States campuses, died of cancer in Tucson, Arizona on October 24.
Charles Seaver(93) Father of Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver and a top amateur golfer in the ‘30s, who competed in 39 consecutive Bing Crosby National Pro-Am tournaments; often paired up with celebrities such as Douglas Fairbanks and Howard Hughes, and who was the namesake of the Seaver Cup, an amateur golf tournament in California, died on October 25 in Pebble Beach, CA.
Ezra Stoller (89) Architectural photographer who worked closely with the architects of the day, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, I.M. Pei, Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen, to create images that helped define modern architecture, who worked primarily in black and white and laid meticulous groundwork, often spending days watching the light move across the surface of a building before he ever clicked the shutter, died as the result of a recent stroke on October 29 in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Politics and Military
Princess Alice (102) Aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and the oldest member of the British royal family, whose son Richard is the current Duke of Gloucester, and who was active with charitable work and remained so well into her 90s, died on October 29 in London.
Nestor Baguer (83) Cuban state security agent who gained international attention after it was revealed that he had long posed as an independent journalist to gather information about 75 Cuban opponents for the Communist government that helped put them behind bars, died on October 25 in Havana, Cuba.
Roger W. Bruett (60) Former Washington State Patrol Chief, who rose through the ranks in his 27 years with the Washington State Patrol but his two years as chief were difficult and filled with conflict with rank-and-file troopers and state legislators, and who later served as senior manager of international security for Microsoft Corp., died on October 30 in Seattle after suffering a stroke.
Meredith Docking (78) Former Kansas first lady whose husband, Robert Docking, was governor from 1967-1975, who herself was involved in numerous philanthropic ventures, civic organizations, the promotion of adult literacy in the state, died of pancreatic cancer on October 27 in Lawrence, KS.
Sir David Gore-Booth (61) Former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia and High Commissioner in India who was considered one of the more-abled members of a group of Arabian ambassadors, who quit the Foreign Office five years prematurely after clashing with Robin Cook, the former Foreign Secretary, over the Queen’s controversial visit to India in 1997, died on October 31 in London of cancer.
Edward Oliver Leblanc (81) Former Dominica Premier Edward Oliver Leblanc who had often been called a founding father of the Caribbean island in it’s struggle for independence, who was chief minister in the British colony starting in 1961, and when the island was granted internal self-government in 1967 became premier-a post he held until he retired in 1974, died from unknown causes on October 29 in Vieille Case.
Lester Lanin(97) Bandleader known for performing at presidential inaugurations, Queen Elizabeth’s 60th birthday party, the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Dianna, and gatherings hosted by the Rockefellers, DuPonts and Chryslers, whose band played Dixieland, swing and light rock ‘n’ roll for every presidential inauguration since Eisenhower’s (except those of Jimmy Carter, who thought he was too expensive, and George W. Bush, who didn’t invite him), who specialized in the debutante party scene in New York City and over the years played about 20,000 wedding receptions, 7,500 parties and 4,500 proms while recording more than 30 albums, and who was a member of the Big Band Hall of Fame, died on October 27 in New York City.
Social and Religion
Sharifa Alkhateeb (58) Advocate who spent her life trying to bridge the gap between Islamic and American cultures, who, after September 11, 2001, took a leading role in the Community Resilience Project of Northern Virginia, a counseling and education effort sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and who founded the North American Council for Muslim Women, edited an English translation of the Koran, chaired the Muslim caucus at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, and helped get Arabic introduced as a subject in Northern Virginia public schools, died October 21 in Ashburn, Virginia as the result of pancreatic cancer.
Cardinal Gustaaf Joos Cardinal in the Catholic church who, early in 2004, said that some gays and lesbians were “sexual perverts,” who was appointed Cardinal last year after spending time studying with Pope John Paul II, and who led the same congregation in Landskouter, Belgium since 1970, died November 2.
Betty Jane Spencer (71) Victim rights advocate who began crusading after she became the lone surviving victim of a 1977 home invasion that left her son and three stepsons slain (her testimony helped to win first-degree murder convictions against all four intruders), who went on to found the Parke County Victims’ Advocate Foundation, direct the Florida operations of MADD and serve on the board of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (she was honored by President Reagan for her work as a victim advocate), died on October 26 in Clinton, Indiana.
Business and Science
George Benson (85) Tuba-playing pharmacist and longtime Seattle City Council member who established a popular waterfront streetcar line and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Public Transit Association in 1997, died of Parkinson’s disease on October 25 in Seattle.
Dr. George F. Cozzetto (55) Hospital executive who helped to establish the emergency medical system in Everett, Washington, during his own 25-year battle with multiple sclerosis, died on October 23 in Seattle.
William Dobelle (62) Electrical engineer who created a system to aid the blind through artificial vision, whose system-the Dobelle Artificial Vision System-uses a miniature camera attached to glasses worn by a blind person, and the images are relayed to a portable computer, which transmits them to electrodes fixed to the brain – a system designed to improve mobility, and whose early start in engineering began when he was 13 when he applied for his first patent for artificial hip improvements he’d developed with his father, died from complications from diabetes in New York on October 5.
Lord James Edward Hanson (82) Industrialist who amassed a great fortune by acquiring poorly-run low-tech companies and turning them into money-makers, who was the creator of the one of Britain’s richest conglomerates, Hanson Trust, whose companies made everything from cigarettes, bricks and batteries, who was a close confidant and supporter of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and who was once engaged to Audrey Hepburn, died of cancer near Newbury, England on November 1.
Paul Falknor Iams (89) Animal nutritionist and founder of the Iams Food Co., who got his start in the business as a dog food salesman for a grain company, then started Iams Food Co. in Tipp City, Ohio in 1946, where one of the products was Iams Plus, one of the first meat-based dog foods, and Iams Chunks for adult dogs, and Eukanuba, a high-end line made with fresh meat (named after an expression of the singer Hoagy Carmichael), whose pet foods, made now under a division of Procter and Gamble, are used in 70 countries worldwide, died of complications from a broken hip in Chappaqua, N.Y on October 26.
Joseph Jacobs (88) Chairman and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies, who used his success to develop a foundation that provided $32 million in grants to various nonprofit organizations, and who was presented with the Hoover Medal by President Reagan in recognition of his contributions in engineering, education and humanitarian efforts, died on October 23 in Pasadena, CA.
Bill Liebowitz (63) Business executive who walked away from a successful corporate career in real estate and turned his passions for comic books, yo-yos, girlie magazines, and doo-wop music into the southern California pop-culture institution called Golden Apple Comics, which became a multimillion dollar business boasting such famous customers as Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, and Robin Williams, and celebrated its silver anniversary in 2004, died on October 27 in Los Angeles, having been in failing health in recent months.
Sebastian “Bas” Pease (81) Physicist and pioneer in the area of nuclear power who was the former director of fusion research at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) for 20 years, and who was a leading member of the Pugwash Group, the international movement of scientists concerned about the social impact and misuse of science and dedicated to drawing attention to such issues as disarmament and the control of nuclear weapons testing, died on October 17 in Oxford, England.