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JAN 19 W54 Q) WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1994 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3B OBITUARIES 1 Natalie Dingus; Active In Veterans Services DEATHS ELSEWHERE Mary E. Baer, 88; Founded Herb Society At Garden sister, Anita Krueger of Seattle, three grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Memorial con-. i Mary Eudaley Baer, a gardener and volunteer, died of infirmities Tuesday Can.

18, 1994) at Missouri Baptist Hospital in Town and Country. She was 88 and lived in Chesterfield. In 1941 Mrs. Baer, formerly of Frontenac, founded the St. Louis Herb Society of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

She was active in the group until the late 1980s. She was a longtime member of the Ladue Garden Club. In World War II, she was head of the St. Louis branch of Bundles for Britain for the American Red Cross. She graduated from the School of Design at Washington University, where she was a member of the Eliot Society.

She had been married to the late Arthur Baer, head of the old Stix, Baer and Fuller department stores. He died in 1970. The funeral service and burial will be private. Among the survivors are a daughter, Mary Baer Fisher of St. Louis; a Natalie H.

Dingus, 72, who was active in veterans affairs, died Sunday Oan. 16, 1994) at her Overland home after suffering from leukemia. Mrs. Dingus became involved in veterans affairs after her son, Michael J. Dingus, a Marine, was killed in 1967 in Vietnam.

She was a past president of the St. Louis chapter of the American Gold Star Mothers, and a past national chaplain. She was a volunteer for many years with the Jefferson Barracks Veterans Administration Hospital, and for several years with the James S. McDonnell USO. Mrs.

Dingus was also instrumental in helping to get the chapel built at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. In 1982, AMVETS invited her to attend the dedication of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. She was a member of the Thoman-Boothe American Legion Post 338 Ladies Auxiliary in Overland. A funeral service will be at noon today at Ortmann Funeral Home, 9222 Lackland Avenue, Overland. Burial will be at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

Among the survivors are her husband, Joe B. Dingus; a daughter, Sandra Williams of Overland; four sisters, Thelma Thomas and Shirley Stewart, both of Lapel, Betty Cartner of Richmond, and LaRie Vernon of Brandywine, a brother, Eugene Richmond of Atlanta; and two grandchildren. iriDuuuns may Baer be made to the School of Fine Arts at Washington University, Box 1210, St. Louis, Mo. 63130, or to the St.

Louis Herb Society of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Brother I. Leo O'Donnell, 89; Retired Professor Of Chemistry Brothers University in Memphis. Last year, the university named its archives after him. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 3 p.m.

today at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 1695 Central Avenue, Memphis. Burial will be in the Brothers' Calvary Cemetery at La Salle Institute in Glencoe. There are no immediate survivors. Brother I. Leo O'Donnell, a retired chemistry professor and former high school instructor here, died Friday Oan.

14, 1994) at a hospital in Memphis after suffering a stroke. He was 89. Brother O'Donnell was a De La Salle Christian Brother for 73 years. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from De Paul University in Chicago and his doctorate from the Catholic University of America in Washington. He taught and counseled students at Christian Brothers College High School and other area high schools.

He also taught in Illinois and Canada. He was professor of chemistry for 12 years at St. Mary's College of Minnesota in Winona, Minn. He was an administrator and chemistry professor for 45 years at Christian WHY THE Living trusi IS REPLACING THE WILL AVOID PROBATE WORKSHOP Pianist GEORGES CZIFFRA, 72, who fled from his native Hungary after the Soviet army crushed the 1956 uprising and went on to a brilliant career, died after suffering a heart attack Saturday Qan. 15, 1994) in Senlis, France.

Mr. Cziffra's recordings of Liszt's rhapsodies set a world standard. He was born Nov. 5, 1921, in Budapest to Gypsy parents who performed in a circus band. He played before a big-top crowd for the first time at age 5.

His talent was quickly recognized, and at 9 he entered the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and studied under the conductor, pianist and composer Ernst von Dohnanyi. Mr. Cziffra gave several concerts in Europe from 1933 to 1941. Drafted into Hungary's Nazi-allied army in World War II, he was taken prisoner by the Soviet army in 1943 and not freed until 1947. He made a failed attempt to flee from the country in 1950 and was sentenced to three years hard labor.

Carrying stone blocks at a quarry forced him to wear a back brace and a leather bracelet on his right wrist for the rest of his life. Mr. Cziffra won the Franz Liszt Prize in 1955. A year later, Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian uprising, and Mr. Cziffra defected during a concert in Paris that December.

Within a few years, he had made his international mark with not only Liszt but also Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. But some critics turned on him in the 70s, finding his style too florid. Mr. Cziffra found other outlets. He founded the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu classical music festival in 1966, and restored the old Royal Chapel in Senlis into an auditorium where he taught and financed young virtuosos through his own foundation.

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Charles after a long illness. He was 89. For 68 years Mr. Witte, of St. Peters, owned and operated the Witte Nursery in Bridgeton.

He closed the business and retired in 1989. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 505 Church Street, Wentzville. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m.

Thursday at T.E. Pitman, 909 Pitman Avenue, Wentzville. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery in Bridgeton. Among the survivors are his wife, Mary Ellen Witte; a daughter, Mary Catherine Jaeger of Sullivan, five sons, Lawrence J.

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A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Ortmann Funeral Home, 9222 Lackland Avenue, Overland. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today and from 1 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Burial will be in St. Louis Memorial Delbert H. Lewis 76, a former official in Vinita Park, died Monday (Jan. 17, 1994) at his home after suffering from emphysema. Mr.

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