Life In Legacy - Week of December 17, 2004 Hold pointer over photo for person's name. Click on photo to go to brief obit. Click on name to return to picture.

Sports
Tom Fitzgerald - (53) Led UCLA soccer team to an NCAA title in 2002; left UCLA in '03 to return to his family and to become soccer coach at U of Tampa; had also coached the school's Spartans (1987-96), leading them to a Division II championship in '94 and to the Final Four three times; with UCLA's 2002 title win, became only the third coach to win a championship in the top two divisions; coached the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer (1996-2001); while motorcycling to Bradenton FL to scout players at a tournament, was fatally injured in traffic accident; died in Tampa FL Dec. 4, 2004.
Bill Brown - (73) Former Scotland goalkeeper and a member of Tottenham Hotspur's 1961 double-winning side; made 272 appearances during his seven-year spell with Spurs; helped the Londoners clinch the league and FA Cup double; won another FA Cup winner's medal in 1962 and a European Cup Winners' Cup winner's medal in '63; remained in Canada after he ended his playing days with the Toronto Falcons; died following a long illness at Simcoe ONT Nov. 30, 2004.
Cristiano De Lima Jr. - (25): Brazilian soccer player with Dempo Sports Club playing his second year in India, and one of the highest-paid foreigners playing for Indian clubs, who was his team's top scorer in the current Federation Cup tournament, collapsed and died after scoring his second goal during a game on December 5. The cause of death was not immediately known; the game continued after Lima was taken from the field and his team won the game 2-0, on the strength of his two goals.
Gary Lundy - (49): Award-winning sports columnist; graduate of U of TN; sports journalist for 27 years; worked for the afternoon Knoxville Journal until it folded in 1992, then moved to the News Sentinel; was named Tennessee Sportswriter of the Year four times by the Tennessee Sports Writers Assoc. and twice by the National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Assoc.; also won honors from the AP Sports Editors; died of an apparent heart attack after becoming ill at work Nov. 22, 2004.
Jim Reding - (62): Former sports editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and high school sports coordinator of the Seattle Times; was honored in November by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Assoc.; the state's high school football coaches gave him the Silver Helmet Award in the fall of 2003, and he was honored years earlier by the regional track-and-field officials association; died of an apparent heart attack in Seattle Nov. 25, 2004.

Art and Literature
Joseph Hansen - (81): Mystery novelist; created one of the genre's first gay protagonists in the character of Dave Brandstetter; had already published five novels and a collection of short stories dealing frankly with homosexual subject matter under the name James Colton when Fadeout, the first of 12 Brandstetter mystery novels, was released in 1970; wrote nearly 40 books; taught fiction workshops, published poems in the New Yorker, and produced a local radio show in the '60s called Homosexuality Today; died of heart failure in Laguna Beach CA Nov. 24, 2004.
Francess Lantz - (52) Author of fiction for teen and preteen girls, including the "Luna Bay" surfer girl series; wrote more than 30 books in 20 years, including several juvenile best- sellers; won the American Library Assoc.'s Best Book for Young Adults Award for her romance, Someone to Love (1997); her novel, Stepsister from Planet Weird, was made into a Disney Channel movie in 2000; became an agile body boarder and learned to surf at 47; reviewed restaurants for the Santa Barbara Independent and co-wrote a restaurant guide under the pseudonym The Three Little Pigs in the '90s; died of ovarian cancer in Santa Barbara CA Nov. 22, 2004.
Shirley Sargent (77) Wheelchair-bound writer who dedicated her life to describing Yosemite National Park's towering granite faces and deep valleys; suffered for much of her life from dystonia, a neurological disorder that made her shake and forced her to steady one hand with the other while she typed with one finger; became one of Yosemite's foremost historians and wrote nearly two dozen books about the park; was so well-known in Yosemite that letters addressed simply to "Shirley, Yosemite National Park" found their way to her isolated home; died in Mariposa CA, Dec. 3, 2004.

Politics and Military
George Street Boone - (87) Constitutional scholar and former KY legislator; in 1972, was influential member of a group known as "The Young Turks"; the small group of liberal representatives, outraged over Nixon's presidency and the stern administration of then-Gov. Wendell Ford, would gather over martinis in Boone's Frankfort hotel room to discuss the day's legislative sessions; lost his bid for reelection in 1973 and never served another term; became counsel for the new Legislative Board of Ethics, created by the 1972 General Assembly, initially taking the job without pay; served in the Navy during WWII; died in Elkton KY Nov. 22, 2004.
Group Capt. Frank Carey - (92) One of the highest scoring British fighter pilots of the 1939-45 War; entered the RAF in 1927 as a 15-year-old apprentice; earned 25 kills in the Battle of Britain and in Burma; was awarded the US Silver Star and appointed CBE in 1960; retired from the RAF in '62 and joined Rolls-Royce as its aero division representative in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji; retired to Britain in '74; died Dec. 6, 2004.
Gerald FitzGerald - (90) 8th Duke of Leinster British peer who put aside family misfortune, scandal, and tragedy to pursue a successful career in business; was premier Duke, premier Marquess, and premier Earl in the Peerage of Ireland; his family, the FitzGeralds, were at one time the most powerful in that country; was Master of the North Kilkenny Foxhounds (1937-40), the West Percy Foxhounds (1945-46), and of the Portman Foxhounds (1946-47); died Dec. 3, 2004.
Robert Perry Gemberling - (82): Former FBI special agent who investigated John F. Kennedy's assassination; served 20 years with FBI in Dallas; prepared reports for the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination; after retirement from the FBI in December 1976, continued to defend the notion that Oswald acted alone; began work with the FBI as a stenographer and clerk in 1941 before moving to Costa Rica to continue in that role at the US Embassy; served in the Marines Corps during WWII, winning a Purple Heart after being wounded at Iwo Jima; died of stomach cancer in Dallas Dec. 4, 2004.
Pauline Gore - (92) Mother of Al Gore, Jr., presidential hopeful in 2000 and vice president from 1992 to 2000, who was frequently seen on the campaigns of both her son and her husband, Al Gore, Sr. (who served in the House from 1939-1953 and in the Senate from 1953-70) and who was known to be a central figure in the campaign strategies, and who was trained as a lawyer, died of a heart attack in Carthage, Tennessee on December 15.
Arthur Howes - (54): British documentary filmmaker and Sudan expert; spent his 20s teaching in London before answering an ad for teachers in the Sudan; returned to England to attend the National Film & Television School; his 2002 film, Nuba Conversations, was shown to key players in the conflict; soon afterward a peace treaty was signed in Switzerland; following cancer diagnosis early in '02, went to Brazil and made his last major film, Bacchanalias Bahianes; worked on music performances with the avant-garde group Towering Inferno; died of lung cancer in London Nov. 29, 2004.
Stanley Kimmitt - (86) Montana native who became secretary of the US Senate; was a longtime associate of Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.); dubbed Montana's "third senator" for his influence and political know-how; died after collapsing at a party in Washington DC Dec. 7, 2004.
Floyd H. Schenk - (82): Retired Orange County (CA) Superior Court judge who sentenced young drunk drivers to spend time in trauma centers and the county morgue to witness consequences of the crime; in 1987 was believed to have been among the first jurists to penalize drunk drivers with an object lesson; about two weeks after the program began, a state law took effect authorizing state judges to mete out such sentences; first-time offenders ages 18-21 were eligible for the program, which also required them to write a 1,000-word essay on the experience; died of Alzheimer's disease in Newport Beach CA Nov. 20, 2004.
Joseph Bernard Young ("Joe") - (86) Journalist who spent his career observing and decoding government bureaucracy; was the longtime syndicated federal columnist for the old Washington Star and publisher of Federal Employees News Digest, his weekly newsletter dealing with the impact of new legislation on federal employees; several times, Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon canceled plans leaked to Young by federal employees who knew of the impact of his columns; died of leukemia in McLean VA Dec. 3, 2004.

Social and Religion
Jay Van Andel - (80): Co-founder of Amway Corp.; helped parlay a neighborhood soap sales business into a billion-dollar firm and later became a philanthropist for conservative causes; his company now operates in more than 80 countries and territories around the world, with 13,000 employees and millions of distributors; was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about nine years ago; died of apparent heart failure in Ada MI, Dec. 7, 2004.
David Wellington Chappell - (64) Author, scholar, and educator on the history of Buddhism; peace advocate; principal founder of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies; 30-year professor of religion at U of Hawaii; moved to southern California in 2000 to become professor of comparative studies at Soka U of America in Aliso Viejo; books include Buddhist Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace, Buddhist & Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society, Tien-Tai Buddhism: An Outline of the Four-Fold Teachings, and Unity in Diversity: Hawaii's Buddhist Communities; died of heart failure in Laguna Hills CA Dec. 2, 2004.
Robert E. Ellingwood - (77) Former mayor of Ontario CA (1978-85); helped create the local Redevelopment Agency and oversaw City Hall's move to a new Civic Center; declared Oct. 15-22 National Joke-Telling Week in Ontario; was the local American Legion post's historian; City Council dedicated the library's new history room in his honor in November; a former child actor, was a pastor in the '60s and had worked in commercial real estate for 40 years; a few weeks before his death, he said "I've had a hell of a life. It's been a great ride, but I can feel it slowly and surely slipping away." Died of cancer in Ontario CA Dec. 3, 2004.
Ruby Haight - (nE`e Olson) (94) Wife of late Mormon apostle David B. Haight and grandmother of Utah Gov. elect Jon Huntsman Jr.; was the youngest of 11 children; David B. Haight was mayor of Palo Alto, Calif. (1959-63); resigned to serve as president of a Mormon mission in Scotland and became an apostle in the church in 1976; was oldest member of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles when he died July 31, 2004 at age 97; Ruby Haight died in SLC Dec. 5, 2004.
Donald Crawford McCoy - (72) Owner of the houseboat where Otis Redding purportedly wrote "Dock of the Bay"; known as "Papa Don", ran a commune in Marin County in the '60s; fourth-generation Californian who could trace his genealogy back to the Revolutionary War; with his brother Douglas, developed the first modern houseboat marina at the Sausalito heliport; some of the most popular musicians and performers of the day lived in the eclectic houseboat community, including comic Bill Cosby; died of a heart attack in San Rafael CA Oct. 11, 2004.
Joseph N. Mitchell - (82) Former president of Beneficial Standard Life Insurance Co.; LA community leader; returning to LA in 1946 after WWII, joined the company his father started in '40 to sell low-cost disability insurance; was chair of the LA Area Chamber of Commerce; the Music Center Unified Fund Campaign; United Crusade and its successor, United Way LA; the LA Bonds for Israel campaign; and the United Jewish Welfare Fund; headed board of directors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; died of Parkinson's disease in Beverly Hills CA Dec. 7, 2004.
Cornelius J. Pings - (75) Former USC provost (1981-93) and a past president of the Assoc. of American Universities; oversaw academic and research programs in the university's schools and libraries, and student affairs and community and governmental relations; in '93, won USC's highest honor, the Presidential Medallion; was active in civic affairs, having served several years on the Pasadena Redevelopment Agency, including acting as chairman (1974-81); had a leadership role in the LA Central City Assoc.; served on many corporate boards and in several capacities with the Archdiocese of LA; died of cancer in Pasadena CA Dec. 6, 2004.
Marcel X. Rocca - ("Jack") (75) Owner and operator of Washington DC language school and translation service; started the Institute of Modern Languages of Washington in 1960; expanded to include translation for government agencies and private companies; produced multilingual recorded audio tours of Washington and opened a private high school, the Washington Academy; was trustee of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins WV; in the '80s he dusted off his trumpet-playing skills and formed the Metrotones, a Dixieland jazz band, which performed at Washington area restaurants and retirement homes through the '90s; died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma in Bethesda MD Oct. 28, 2004.
Arnold Zucker - (77) Rutgers U official who headed the NJ Broadcasters Assoc. for nearly 30 years, serving in that post until '92; began his professional career at Rutgers in 1952, producing and moderating public affairs and educational programs, including the Rutgers University Forum, which aired on radio stations throughout the state; in 1972 became the university's director of state relations, holding that job until moving to Vancouver, BC, in '92, where he died Dec. 2, 2004.

Business and Science
Jack Daniels - (92) Austin and Morris engineer; affectionately known as the man who was '90 per cent perspiration behind Alec Issigonis's 10 per cent inspiration' in designing the Morris Minor and the original BMC Mini; was the first MG apprentice; died of cancer near Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
Dudley Davis - (83): Former banker who helped businesses as diverse as Ben & Jerry's and IDX Systems get their start; joined Merchants Bank as assistant cashier in 1946; became its 10th president in '68; toward the end of his career, he and the bank's loan procedures came under scrutiny by federal regulators; reluctantly retired as president in 1994 and left the board altogether in '96; died less than a week after his family announced a $4.6-million donation to the U of Vermont for its planned student center, to be named after him; in Shelburne VT Nov. 29, 2004.
George Swift Schairer - (91) Scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets; was Boeing's VP for research and development (1959-73) and for research until he retired in 1978; his awards included the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for great achievements in aeronautics, and the Spirit of St. Louis Medal; went to Boeing in 1939 after completing studies in aeronautical engineering at MIT; worked with the US Army Air Corps in WWII; used the wind tunnel discovery in designing such landmark aircraft as the B-47 and B-52 bombers and the 707 passenger jet; died of Alzheimer's disease in Kirkland WA Oct. 28, 2004.