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A24 THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1991 LOS ANGELES TIMES Obituaries California IN BRIEF SINGER: Novelist Who Yiddish Culture Dies laughing mini-miscreants on a canvas that stretched across the ages. Perhaps the successes were the result of the storyteller's unwillingness to put himself between the character and the reader. "Events never become stale," he once wrote. "Commentary is stale from the very beginning. Commentary has almost destroyed the literature of our present century." He did not believe the Nobel Prize would ever come to a man who wrote in a language incomprehensible to most of the literary world.

When he won in 1978, he asked the man who notified him, "Are you sure?" He said in '1986 that the prize "did not really change me; it changed the public." He said he now found himself running "from the telephone to my manuscript and from my manuscript to the telephone." Nobel or no, Singer told the New York Times in one of his last interviews, "I've always felt I've never done well. I've always felt I should I should have done better. It was true when I was 30. It is true at 81. "Only today I know better what I'm doing when I write.

When I was 20 years old I didn't know what I was doing." The one thing he always knew, of course, was Yiddish. In 1961, as he first was becoming known outside the New York com- munity, he was asked why he continued to work in a dying language. His response: "I like to write ghost stories and nothing fits a ghost better than a dying geographical and chronological boundaries." Set, as always, in the 19th Century shtetls and ghettos-of Singer's fecund imagination, the humorous and affectionate tales dwelt with the often sexual and sometimes spiritual foibles of Jews trying to span the temptations of modernity. "The Magician of Lublin" followed in 1960, a story of a ribald circus performer with centuries of Jewish tradition behind him and years of temptation ahead. Singer's novels and collections of short stories began to appear almost annually: "The Spinoza of Market Street and Other Stories" in 1961, "The Slave" in 1962 and several more through the '60s.

In 1975, a play based on his "Yentl, The Yeshiva Boy" was produced on Broadway to passing interest despite its unusual theme of a Jewish girl who has to pose a boy in order to study the Torah. When Streisand made it a film vehicle for herself nearly 10 years later, Singer said after seeing the picture that "Streisand is always present while poor Yentl is absent." "TJnemies, a Love Story," a Jstory of love and pathos among World War II concentration camp survivors resettled in- New York, was a highly praised film of 1989. By the beginning of the 1980s, Singer had produced more than 20 novels and collections of short stories; three plays; an autobiography, "In My Father's Court," and a lengthy series of children's stories. He continued to bring to life the long-dead Jews of his youth, painting his often wailing, sometimes Continued from Al and humanity came such Singer classics as "Gimpel the Fool," "Satan in Goray," "The Magician of Lublin," "The Slave," "Enemies, A Love Story" and, thanks to Hollywood and Barbra Streisand, perhaps his best known if not his best, "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy." Although some critics found fault with the primitive 'instincts that propelled Singer's characters through their seas of demons, pretentiousness was never an issue in the Republic of Letters he ruled from his small apartment in New York City. Pretense? "God forbid!" one of his wizened old Jews would have said.

For the author of "The Family Moskat" a novel serialized in the 1950s in New York's Jewish Daily Forward, which provided Singer his first American audience was shaped by the Old World culture he was to chronicle throughout his life. And reality, not affectation, was the Old World order for the Jews of Europe's ghettos. Born in Radzymin, Poland then under control of the Russian czars Singer's grandfathers were rabbis and his father a Hasidic scholar. The boy, his brother and sister were raised in a ghetto tenement that also served as his father's Beth Din, or rabbinical court, where advice on religious and domestic disputes was disseminated daily in Yiddish. Singer thus learned at a young age of the philosophies of his faith and the despair and dreams of those who practiced it.

Yiddish is a form of German developed by Jews using their Hebrew alphabet and incorporating the Hebrew and Aramaic words of their ancestors. To that amalgamation was added the language of whatever country the religious nomads happened to occupy. Thus it became a bewildering mix of English, Russian, Polish and other tongues which spread throughout Eastern Europe with the widening migration of Jews in the 19th Century. It evolved to become the daily business language of the Jew, with Hebrew reserved for sacred or ceremonial occasions. And it was in Yiddish that young Singer read the translations of Shakespeare, Dos-toevsky and Tolstoy as he developed into a modern Jew in a traditional home.

The man who was to be the 20th Century's best-known teller of tales in that now dying idiom was both fascinated and challenged by those years in the Beth Din. "I was born with the feeling that I am part of an unlikely adventure, something that couldn't have hap- DEATH NOTICESFUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS RUIS, Minnie Pierce Brothers Griffith, Chlno SIDNEY, Jnnc Robinson passed away on July 21, 1991'. Private family services were held on July 23, 1991 in New York. Groninn Mortuary directors. KIUA, Hiromu 93.

Uclovcd husband of Sadayo; father of Satoshi Kira and Rui (Yukio) Sadaniura; grandfather of Nana 'Sadamura' (Craig) Bowman; uncle of many nieces and nephews in Japan. Funeral service was held Wednesday. July 24 at Fukul Mortunry, Chapel in (he Garden with Rev. Sam Tonomura from Japanese Evangelical Missionary SMITH. Wendell Bliss.

II DAUBER, Douglas nge 80 Pierce Brothers Griffin Brothers, CnmnriloH0.VlH2-27tl UAKNKTT, Mr. Mnrlon B. Forest Lawn Hollywood Hilts BEIL, Mnnuel heluvcd husband of Miiiijic: loving father of Jeffrey (Miiry) licit liarbara Finamorc; also slop-children, Susan Hurry) Goodman anil Lewis (Sunny) Wesley; adoring grandfather of Cheryl (1'at) Piper, Sybil. Anissa. Kelly, Darren.

Amy, Lane and Monica; dear great -grain I father of Casey ami llrillaney; dcvolcil brother. Services 2pm, Thursday at Courts of TaNaCIl Chapel. Mount Sinai Memorial Park. Mount Sinn! nuciciy oinciauug. Passed away on July 22, 1991.

Survived by his wife, Ruth; son, Wendell Bliss Smith HI; daughter. Theresa R. Smith Oct ting; grandsons, Georrrey Smith Oelting and Jonathan Randolph Octliug; brother, Oak Birchanl Smith. Memorial Service 11am, Friday, July 20, at the Church of Our Saviour. San Gabriel.

Private interment. The family request no flowers please. Turner Stevens, Alhnmbrn directors. KIKALLA, Jennie II, Born on June 12, 1900 in Duma, Lebannou; passed away on July 23. 1991 in Downey.

She is survived by her sons: Fred of Downey, John of Lake Arrowhead ami Nick of Whitlicr; seven grandchildren, Tour great grandchildren and two great -great -grandchildren. Prayer services Thursday at lusher Montcbcllo Mortunry. Funeral service Ham, Friday at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral (3n! and Alvaradu). Interment following in Inglcwood Park Cemetery.

KOLOMS, llcbn Glnsbnnd-Wlllcn West Hollywood KUST, Daniel Glnsbnnd-Willen. Valley Mortunry. COULHOKN, Ethel M. Armstrong FnniHy directors CROWLEY, Jana pansal away July 20, 1U9I at age fi7. Relovcd mother of Cameron ami Kimherly Crowley- and also survived by Ivan, Robert.

Leonard, Gary ami b'Arcy Kkclnnd. Funeral Services LllOnm. Friday, July 21), at the Church of Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Glendale. Pierce Brothers Mocllcr-Murphy, Snnln Monica directors.

Chronicled Singer. By 1935, the dangers posed to Jews in Europe by Hitler's Nazi machine forced him to choose between the literary life he enjoyed and his personal safety. He followed his older brother, Israel, a fellow writer Singer called "my master," to New York, leaving a wife and son, who later migrated to Palestine. He arrived in a strange land knowing only three words of English: "Take a chair." He told the New York Times more than 30 years later that he never even had an opportunity to use that expression "because there was only one camping chair in my furnished room and no one visited me." He became despondent and did not write for nearly a decade, despairing that "Yiddish literature was dead" (in America). He courted and, in 1938, wed a German Jew but was unable to persuade her that "I was a writer." His only published work was "Satan in Goray," written in Yiddish, a language his bride, Alma, could not read.

He continued to eke out a living as a free-lance Yiddish writer for the Daily Forward and he and his wife were able to move from his ghetto-like- existence into a series of rented rooms to Upper Manhattan. Soon, he became a full-time staff member of the Daily Forward. On the limited-circulation newspaper he was encouraged to resume his own Yiddish writings and in 1945 a year after his brother's death he felt comfortable enough to begin "The Family Moskat." The novel, which many say derived its structure from Israel Singer's earlier social works, spans the breakup of a prominent Jewish family in Warsaw in the half-cen tury that preceded the 1939 Nazi invasion. It was serialized in the Forward from 1945 to 1948 and broadcast weekly on an ethnic Jewish radio station and in 1950 was presented to publisher Alfred Knopf, who had it translated into English. Praised for its unsentimental look at Polish-Jewish life in the 20th Century, where political expediency and survival overcome religious tradition, its success brought forth an English translation of the earlier "Satan in Goray." Now not only Singer's wife but tens of thousands in the English-speaking world finally were able to read it.

In 1958, Saul Bellow translated "Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories" into English and Singer, said a glowing review in the New York Times, "took his place with the epic story tellers, transcending Theodore R. Wilson collection of songs, dances and recitations ho staged in Los Angel-cs in 1986. His survivors include two sons and a daughter. American Society of Clinical Pathologists in 1960 for his "original investigations." From 1950 to 1971 he was director of laboratories at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, where he organized the hospital's research program.

Ho did the same research startup for Providence Hospital in Portland, from 1971 to 1976, and the Soroka Medical Center at the University of Ben-Gurion in Beer-Sheva, Israel, from 1976 to 1980. While living in Southern California, Straus taught at USC; He published research papers in more than 70 journals, and wrote several textbooks. Among them was "Comparative Atherosclerosis" which followed his five-year study of Navajo Indians. Straus is survived by his Wife, Miriam, a son, "a daughter, a sister, a brother, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Angeles Gftmes SACRAMENTO Mild Summer Keeps Fire Damage Down Wildfires would normally have charred tens of thousands of acres in California by now, but mild weather has helped hold losses to 84 below average, officials say.

"This is like the year that summer forgot California," U.S. Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathes said. The loss of acres on lands protected by state agencies, which is one-sixth of normal, is mirrored in the low number of structures burned 13. By this time last year, more that 600 structures had burned in wildfires, most of them in a June 27 blaze in Santa Barbara that killed one person. California has been spared largely because temperatures have been lower, humidity higher, winds less dry and rains more frequent than normal, said state Department of Forestry spokeswoman Karen Terrill.

VISALIA Hiker's Body Found After Apparent Fall The body of a hiker who apparently fell from a steep cliff in Inyo National Forest has been found. The remains of John Packel, 43, of Bishop, who had been reported missing Friday, were found by fishermen near Camp Nelson. Tulare County sheriff's officials said Packel was an experienced backpacker traveling alone when he apparently encountered rough, rocky terrain and fell. From Times Staff and Wire Reports Funeral Notices -Beverly Hills Lodge 393 1JT.W KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS will congregate 1pm Thursday, July 25 at Eden Memorial Park to pay respects to our lale brother, LOUIS RAPOPORT In Mem or iam bi fond and loving memory ERNEST SROLOFF July 25. 1981 Today, tomorrow, forever, you will live in our hearts.

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or ouiWfirtHumitr I-80O5I8-461T. Dl. 77241 EosAnflelcetEimeo LinwusDC.iiur.lv, mum Glasbnnd-WHIcn West Hollywood SUG1YAMA, Ronald Mosaru Jr. Beloved son of ItonniO; brother or Janet (Henry) Miuami; nephew of Litlic Yoshizakl and Kuniyc Sugiyama of Japan; and father of Dawn Sugiyama. Family service was held Tuesday, July 23 al Fukul Mortunry Chapel with Rev.

Ted Esaki of Christ Presbyterian Church officiating. SZWEJCER, Rlchnrd Passed away on July 18. 1991 in Hollywood, California. Born In Poland on May 14. 1943; ho is survived by his parents.

Ignacy and Janina; his sister, Wanda and her family; as well as cousins in Chicago; and his friend, ICmilio Scnteno. A memorial art exhibition of his work will lie on display on Saturday, July 27. 1991 al the Alwater Library, 3379 Glendale Blvd, in Atwater Village, from 10am to 4pm. A Funeral Mass said bo held al 4pm at the close or the exhibition al Our Lady of the Bright Mount-Polish Parish. 3424 W.

Adams Blvd, Henry Irving 'Irv' in Laguna I nils on Horn near Mayvillo, November 27. 1899. of Detroit. Michigan 1919. when he moved California.

Mr. Lalhrop his business life in the field where he was known anil where he had He is survived by his his sons: Henry and grandchildren and two -grandchildren. 10am. Friday. July 20 al Mortuary, 25000 Theodore R.

Wilson; Actor in Many TV Comedies, Movies Alludes limes Isaac Bashevis Singer in 1981 pened but happened just the same," he told an interviewer in 1965 as his fame in America was spreading. "The astonishment that came over me when I began to read Jewish history has not forsaken me to this day." Unknown to Singer at that point in his life, he had set upon 'a path influenced by an older brother, who had begun to paint and write that was to make him the archivist of his Yiddish culture. In the 1920s he moved to Warsaw, joining his brother as a proofreader with a Yiddish literary journal. Writing in Hebrew, he began to critique books and publish articles in other small Warsaw publications. But since many of his fellow Jews were unable to read the classic Jewish tongue, he reverted to the language of his childhood, Yiddish.

He also translated from German to Yiddish such popular novels as Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain." By 1932, he had become an editor of Globus, another Yiddish literary magazine. That periodical soon contained "Satan in Goray," the first novel by Isaac Bashevis (adapted from his mother's first name, Bathsheba) Singer. (He had been born Icek-Hersz-Zynger.) It was set in a 17th-century sktetl, or small town, and its protagonist was an aging woman whose hallucinations were more satanic than messianic. The woman was dominated by superstition, plagued by sexual excesses and savaged by psychic violence. She was the seminal Jew occupying a profane Earth while anguishing over the often unfulfilled promises of Yahweh.

It was germinal Singer which, over the years, became vintage appearances included "Crazy Like a Fox," "Good Times," "The Redd Foxx Show," "Roll Out" and "You Can't Take It With You." His motion picture appearances were in "That's My Life," "A Fine Mess," "The River Niger," "Car-ny," "The Hunter," the upcoming "Blood In, Blood Out" and "The Vagrant," the latter another new Brooks film. He also made guest appearances on the television series "Quantum Leap," "L.A. Law" and "Gabriel's Fire." Wilson began acting with New York's Negro Ensemble Company. He moved to the Arena Stage Repertory Company in Washington before coming to Los Angeles in 1970. He wrote and directed "The Book of the Crazy African," Mortality of Famous Composers." He also linked doctors and music in a lecture in 1986 to the Barlow Society for the History of Medicme.

The Greeks worshiped Apollo as both the god of music and the god of medicine, he noted, and Homer wrote that the sound of music stopped the- blood flowing from Ulysses' wounds. Primitive societies, he, said, tried to heal the sick with religious rites including "rhythmic sound, dancing, chanting, singing, playing music." A Vienna doctor developed a diagnostic method involving percussion-like thumpings of the chest 200 years ago that is still used for diagnosis today, he added. As a physician, Straus, who earned his bachelor's and medical degrees at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, founded the College of American Pathologists. He earned the gold award of the Cos Los Angeles. Parkway.

Laguna Hills, TOWLE, Everett N. of Los passed away on July 22, be in Kauai, Hawaii on Call Kauai Garden 808332-7321 for information. P. Beloved mother Dawson and Rob Moore; survived by her Mary Ann. bo held at 1pm, Friday, at the Little Church of1 Forest Lawn Mortunry.

flowers please send the Foundation Tor the or the Exceptional Cynthia Anne Beloved daughter of Dennis and Claire; loving sister of Lindsay and Stephen Towlc; cherished fraixldaughlcr of Mrs. Belli ley worth. She was horn on December 17. 1970 and lived her life on the Palos Vc riles Pennisula attending local schools. She died in an auto accident on Sunday, July 21, 1991 in Colorado.

Cindy was class President, Treasurer and Historian of Ticklockers of National Charily League. She acquircil numerous high school achievements and earned Ihe Sharon Gasscll Service Award Tor Outstanding Service to her school. She attended the University or Colorado where she would nave been a Junior in the fall. She was active in Pi Beta Phi Sororlly and was Social Chairman. Cindy enlightened the lives of all who knew her and will bo sorely missed by her family and friends.

Visitation 3pm to 8pm, July 25 and 5pm to 9pm, July 20 both al Green Hills Mortuary, 27501 So. Western Ave, Rancho Palos Verdes. Memorial service 1pm, Friday. July 20 at the Neighborhood Church, 415 Pasco del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates, fn lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Cindy Towlc Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 7000.

CTM. Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274. Theodore R. Wilson, one of the busiest TV and film actors in Los Angeles and a regular on several situation comedy series including "That's My Mama," has died of a stroke at age 47. Wilson, who appears in the new Mel Brooks film "Life Stinks," died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his former wife, Naomi Pringle.

He had undergone open-heart surgery several years ago, she said. Wilson played Earl Chambers, the postman on the ethnic comedy "That's My Mama." He also starred as Phil Wheeler, the optimist who purchased Fred Sanford's old junkyard after "Sanford and Son" went off the air. His character tried to turn that run-down property into a hotel on the 1977 sequel, "The Sanford Arms." Wilson's other TV ounuauon. Margie A. of Lancaster, February 8, 1950 in Salt Utah; passed away on in Palmdale.

5pm to 9pm, Friday at Funeral services July 27. 1991 at the Oaks. Eternal Valley Park. Interment to Valley Mortunry, directors. Alfred I.

Beloved hus-band Jeannelte Nadler; loving Gary (Juliette) Nadler. Nadler and Robin Regan; devoted brother and Adolle Iff. Friday al MouiU Park Chapel. Mount In lieu of flowers prefers donations to The Dialic I es Association. LAT1IKOP, riV, CROAT.

Mcrwvn K. Pierce Brothers Ingolri, Fontnnn DUDA, Gnry Joseph Passed away on 20, 1091 in liakersficld. Services Saturday, July 27 at Grcenlnwn Memorial Chnpcl, 37110 River Blvil, BnltcrsfieM with Mr. Henry Lane officiating. Interment will follow in Grecnlawn Memorial Park, Uakersfichl.

CA. FLEISCHMAN, Irving M. Uclovcd husband of Goldic; loving father of Lcslcc (Jack) Strumpr and Rona (Robin) Riley; adoring grandfather of Marc and Paul; brother of Sam Flcischman of Montreal. He excelled in athletics ami was champion swimmer diver in Montreal. Ho was also an accomplished artist and musician, lie will be greatly missed.

Services Unm, Friday July 2li, 1901 at Hillside Memorial Park Mortuary Chapel, Hillside Morlnnry. Mou Hun awav on Julv 21. 1991 Director of Acquisitions for the Pul to Humes Corporation in Newport Reach. Survived by her husband, Thomas sister, Krislen Murray; mother and father. Charles and Eileen ad ley.

Memorial Services 7pm, Thursday at South CoasL Community Church, 5120 Honila Canyon Drive, Irvine. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Gisler Memorial Fund at South Coast Community Church. Interment will be private. Pierce Brothers Pacific yuiorous I' view monunry uuccior GLEISSNEH. Erik Beloved husband of Wllma Gleissnor; father of William, Vesta and Kirslen Cleissnor; also survived by six grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; and brother, Carl-Axel Gleissner of Denmark.

Memorial service 1 i30in. wewnnn 1 runty in i no Lutheran Church, 2582.1 Columbia St. Ilcmct. Forest I.nwn Mortunry. HABIT, Herman Ernest Forest I.nwn Hollywood Hills I1ISASHIMA, Minora 68.

Ilelovcd father or Jackie (Paul) M.itobo; grandfather of Daniel Kenji, Brandon Masao, and Slacic Akcmi Motobo; brother of Ilideko Nakano; hrolher-in-law of Helly llisashima and Doris Watanabc or Hawaii; uncle of many. Funeral services Friday, July 2R at Venice Hongwanil Buddhist Temple. 12371 Draddock Drive, Culver City. Additional parking available at Venice Japanese Community Center, 12448 Braddock Dr, L.A. Fukul Mortuary roresi Lnwn iiiauai-tn-ii directors.

Holltngsworth, Roberta. Mnybcllc ricrcc oroiners meycr-imicncn JIMENEZ, Kris! Inn Alexandra Scott 27. On Tuesday. July 23. at UCLA Medical Center, of a rare heart disease.

Loving wife of Jose Alvaro Jimenez: beloved daughter of Patricia Gill Michel and Joseph Scott; devoted sister of Stephen Joseph Scott. S.J. Funeral Mass 12 noon. Saturday, July 27, 1091 at Calvary Mausoleum Chapel with committal to follow immediately in Calvary Cemetery, 4201 Whittior Ulvil, Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to: Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, 10950 California Ave.

Lynwood. Ca 902U2 or the Jesuit Community Scholarship Fund, Loyola -Mary mount University, 7101 W. 80th St, Los Angeles. CA 90015. Pierce Brothers Cunningham O'Connor, Los Angeles Mortunry zi.i'iu-uzm aircciors.

KIIXEEN, Reverend John F. Retired pastor of St. Hilary Catholic Church in Pico Rivera, Fassed away on July 23, 1991. le is survived by a brother, Reverend Michael F. Killcen; and two sisters.

Mary and Sr. Colette. Holy Vigil Sunday, July 28 with Archdioccsan Mass lam, Monday. July both at St. Hilary's Catholic Church.

in Queen or Heaven Cemetery. Rowland Heights. Morrows Pico Ilivcrn Mortunry directors. American POPS, Ann loving mother Services 1991 at Chapel, Hillside Services McCormick Passed away July 23. 1991.

New York on A resident from 1915 to to Southern spent all of transportation nationally many friends. wife, Thelnia; John; four great, Services McCormick LOPE, Alleles, Burial will July 27, 1991. Island Mortuary further MOORE, Jean of Judith also granddaughter, Service to July 215. 1991 the Flowers. Glendale.

Forest Lawn In lieu of donations to Junior Rlind MOORE, born on Lake City, July 19, 1991 Visitation the mortuary. 2pm, Saturday. Chapel or the Memorial follow. Eternal NABLEK, of father of Peter (Patricia) (Steven) or Ruth Gross Services Sinai Memorial Sinni Mortunry. the Tamily Am i ca OCHOA, mother of Bcnnell and survived by three sisters.

Slumber Dpin. Friday, Lawn Hollywood service 11am, Grace Community 132-18 Roscoc OSTKANDER, husband of anil Robert, M. luui ai sciential programs, and a source of regions. Memorial July 27 at Church, Tarzana, In make donations Salvation PAXSON, H. Oakland.

30. 1927; California on as ho is survived son, Stan Julie Bodoh Paxson mother. Mrs. also by and Kyle Heather A memorial Ham, Friday, with the officiating. In lieu of contributions Reuben Straus; Founded L.A.

Doctors Symphony VON COVENHOVEN, Thomas (A.K.A.) Thomns Walter Conovcr Rassed away 23, July 1991 al his omc in Beverly I ills, Born in Rhincbock, New York on December 1, 1948, he has been a Los Angeles resident since 1983. He is prc-dcccascd by his Iwin brother, Timothy Brown Conovcr and by his brother, William Conovcr. Thomas is survived by his loving parents Margery Brown and Harold Conovcr of Milbrook, New York; brother, Peter of Manchester. CI'; anil three nieces. He is also lovingly 'mourned and remembered by many, many friends and colleagues who will miss his warmth, wit, boundless cneergy and love.

A memorial service will be 7pm, Thursday, July 25, al his home. In licit of flowers donations may be made ot the Cily of Angels in Los Knzuko Knto Beloved Jessie Ochoa, ICspcranza Carolina Smith; also five grandchildren and room visitation 2pm to July 20. 1991 at Forest Hills. Memorial Saturday, July 27 al Church Chanel, Blvd, Sun Valley. mortuary Ncill C.

Beloved Juno; falher of Clinton passed away on July AllgClCS. WESKE. Christian age Pierce Brothers Griffin Brothers, Cnmnrilto HU-V -182-271 1 WILSON, Theodore It. Actor and writer passed away on July 21, 1991; beloved father of Theodore Rnberl ami Nicole Wilson. Private services to be at Forest Lawn Glendale, Forest Lawn Mortunry.

age hj. inciu was a pioneering in the missle in using icebergs as fresh water for arid services 1pm. Saturday, St. James Presbyterian 19414 Ventura Blvd. lieu of flowers please to YMCA or the Army.

Gordon Jr. Born in California on December died in Pasadena. July 23. 1991. Sotf-cmploycd a safes representative, by his wife, Barbara; (Pamela); daughters: (Brad), and Sharon Thomson (Jim); and H.

Gordon Paxson grandchildren: Christopher Paxson, Sean Bodoh, and Thomson. service will bo hold July 20 at Ihe By MYRNA OLIVER TIMES SI AIM-' WltH'lilt Reuben Straus, a pathologist and violinist who founded Los Angeles' 37-year-old Doctors Symphony Orchestra, has died in Lake Oswego, Ore. He was 84. Dr. Straus died Friday in his sleep of congestive heart failure.

Although medical practitioners tried to organize a permanent symphony before World War II, the war thwarted their efforts. In 1954, Straus created the still-flourishing orchestra, and served as its first president. The group rehearses weekly and plays concerts to benefit medical charities. When Straus moved to Oregon, he served as president and violinist for the Portland Chamber Orchestra Assn. In 1987, Straus wrote a book combining his interests in music and medicine, titled "Illnesses and 54 HOURS Every Thursday in VIEW Paid Obituaries Rev.

Dave M. Spahn Interment is private. flowers memorial arc requested to the IN MEMORIAM PREDRIC P. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT, SIERRA CLUB LEGAL DEFENSE FUND "Whatever you can do, or dream that you can', begin it. Boldness has genius, power ami magic in Goethe The slaff and trustees or the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund will host a memorial service on Sunday.

July 28, 1991 to honor the memory anil celebrate ihe life of their colleague and friend, Rick whose commitment to the preservation of the environment atecrcd the course of the organization for the past fourteen years. For further Information regarding the location of the memorial service please call the Legal Defense Fund Beloved wife of Mike; of Gary anil Steven. Ham. Friday, July 20, Hillside Memorial Park Mortunry. Cancer Society.

5am, July 25 at Hawthorne Chapel..