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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1991 LOS ANGELES TIMES SINGER: Novelist Who Chronicled Yiddish Culture Dies Continued from A1 self 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.

iddish German is a developed by Jews form 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, Dostoevsky 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- Los Angeles Times 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- 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 shtetl, 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 Theodore R. Wilson; Actor in Many TV Comedies, Movies 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 openheart surgery several years ago, she said. played Earl Chambers, the postman on the ethnic comedy 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 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." 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-century 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 he staged in Los Angeles in 1986. His survivors include two sons and a daughter.

Reuben Straus; Founded L.A. Doctors Symphony By MYRNA OLIVER TIMES STATE WRITER 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 stillflourishing orchestra, and served as its first president. The group rehearses weekly and plays concerts to benefit medical charitics. 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 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," "Carny," "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 Book of the Crazy African," 2 Mortality of Famous Composers." He also linked doctors and music in a lecture in 1986 to the Barlow Society for the History of Medicine. 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- 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 American Socicty of Clinical Pathologists in 1960 for his "original investigations." From 1950 to 1971 he was direcLor of laboratories at St. Joscph Medical Center in Burbank, where he organized the hospital's research program.

He did the same research startup for Providence Hospital in Portland, from 1971 to 1976, and the Soroka Medical Center at the University of Ben in BeerSheva, 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. 54 HOURS Every Thursday in VIEW Los Angeles Times 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 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." nemies, a Love Story," a Listory of love and pathos among World War Il 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 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 litcrature 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 community, 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 language." California IN BRIEF 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 below average, officials say. "This is like the year that summer forgot California," U.S. Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathes said. The loss of about 5,200 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 DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS ANGOS, Aida I. Forest Lawn Glendale BARBER, Douglas age 89 Pierce Brothers Griffin Brothers, Camarillo BARNETT, Mr. Marion B. Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills BEIL, Manuel beloved husband of Margie: loving father of Jeffrey (Mary) Beil and Barbara Finamore; also step-children, Susan (Barry) Goodman and Lewis (Sandy) Wesley; adoring grandfather of Cheryl (Pat) Piper, Sybil. Anissa, Kelly.

Darren. Amy. Lane and Monica; dear great-grandfather of Casey and Brittaney; devotedl brother. Services 2pm. Thursday at Courts of TaNaCI Chapel.

Sinai Memorial Park. "Mount Sinni Mortunry. COULBORN, Ethel M. Armstrong Family directors CROWLEY. Jana passed away July 20, 1001 al aye 57.

Beloved mother of Cameron and Kimberly Crowley; and also survived by Ivan, Robert. Gary and D'Arcy Ekelund. Funeral Services Friday, July 26, 1901 at the Church of Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Glendale. Pierce Brothers Moeller- Murphy, Santa Monica directors.

DE GROAT, Merwyn E. Pierce Brothers Ingold, Fontann DUDA, Gary Joseph Passed away on July 20, 1991 in Bakersfield, Services Saturlay, July 27 at Greenlawn Memorial Chapel, 3700 River Blvd, Bakersfield with Mr. Henry Lane officiating. Interment will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park, Bakersfield, CA. FLEISCHMAN, Irving M.

Beloved husband of Goldie, loving father of Leslee (Jack) Strumpt and Rona (Robin) Riley: adoring grandfather of Mare and Paul: brother of Sam Ficischman Montreal. He excelled in athletics and WAH a champion swimmer and diver in Montreal. Was also all accomplished artist and musician. He will be greatly missed. Services 3pm, Friday July 26, 1991 at Memorial Park Mortuary Chapel, Hillside Mortuary.

GISLER, Lisa Marie age 29. passed awny on July 21. 1991. Sho Will the Director of Acquisitions for the Pulle Homes Corporation in Newport Beach. Survived by her husband.

Thomas N. sister. Kristen Murray: mother and father. Charles and incen Kadley. Memorial Services 7pm, Thursday al South Coast Community Church, 5120 Bonita Canyon Drive, Irvine, in lieu of flowers contribulions may be made to the Gister Memorial Fund at South Coast Community Church.

Interment will be private. Pierce Brothers Pacific View Mortuary directors. GLEISSNER, Erik Heloved husband of Wilma Gleissner; father of William, Vesta and Kirsten Glolasuer; also survived by six grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; and brother. Carl- Axol Gleissner of Denmark. Memorial, service Saturday, July 27, 1991 in the Meditation Garden of Trinity Lutheran Church, 25825 Columbia St, Forest Lawn Mortunry.

HABITZ, Herman Ernest Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills MISASHIMA, Minoru 68. Beloved father of Jackie (Paul) Matobo: grandfather of Danicl Kenji, Branion Masao, and Stacie Akcmi Motobo; brother of Hideko Nakano: brother-in-law. of Belly and Doris Watanabe of Hawaii: uncle of many. Funeral services Friday. July 26 Venice Hongwanji Burldhist Temple.

12371 Braddock Drive, City. Additional parking avatlable al Venice Japanese Community Center, 12448 Braddock Dr. L.A. Fukul Mortunry directors. Hollingsworth, Roberin Maybelle Pierce Brothers Meyer -Mitchell JIMENEZ, Kristina Alexandra Scott 27.

On Tuesday. July 23, 1991 al UCLA Medical Center, of a rare heart discase. Loving wife of Jose Alvaro Jimenez: beloved daughter of Patricia Gill Michel and Joseph Scull; devoted sister of Stephen Joseph Scott. S.J, Funeral Mana 12 noon, Saturday, July 27, 1991 al Calvary Mausoleum Chapel with committal to follow immediately in Calvary Cemetery, 4201 Whittier Bivd, Los Angeles. In of flowers the family requests that donations be made to: Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, 10950 Californin Ave.

Lynwood, Ca 90262 or the Jesuit Community Scholarship. Fund, LoyolaMarymount University, 7101 W. 80th St, Loy Angeles, CA 00015. Pierce Brothers Cunningham O'Connor, Los Angeles Mortuary directors. KILLEEN, Reverend John F.

Retired pastor of SC. Hilary Catholic Church in Pico Rivera, passed away on July 23. 1091. Ile is survived by brother, Reverend Michael Killeen; and two sisters. Mary and Sr.

Colette. Holy Vigil Sunday, July 28 with Archdiocesan Mans llam, Monday, July 20, both at St. Hilary's Catholic Church. Committal in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Rowland Heights. Morrows Pico Rivera Mortuary directors, KIRA, Hiromu 93.

Beloved husband of Sadayo: father of Satoshi Kira and Hui (Yukio) Sadamura; grandfather of Nana 'Sadamura' (Craig) Bowman; uncle of many nieces and nephews in Japan. Funeral service was held Wednesday. July 24. at Fukui Chapel in the Garden with Rov. Sam Tonomura from Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society officiating.

KIRALLA, Jennie M. Born on June 12. 1000 in Duma, Lebanon; passed away on July 23. 1091 in Downey. She la survived by her Fred of Downey, John of Lake Arrowhead and Nick of Whittier; seven grandchildren, four great -grandchildren and two great -great -grandchildren, Prayer servicca Thursday nt Risher Montebello Mortuary.

Funcral scrvice 11am, Friday at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral (3rdl and Alvarado). Interment following in Inglewood Park Cemetery, KOLOMS, Rebn Ginsband-Willen West Hollywood KUST, Daniel Ginsband-Willen, Valley LANDSBERGER, Alma Ginsband-Willen West Hollywood LATHROP, Henry Irving 'Irv' Passed away in Laguna Tills on July 23, 1991. Born near Mayville, New York on November 27, 1890. A resident of Detroit, Michigan from 1915 Lo 1919, when he moved to Southern California.

Mr. Lathrop spent all of his business life in the transportation field where ere he was nationally known and where he had many friends. lic is survived by his wife, Thelma; his sons: lenry and John; four grandchildren two great-grandchildren. Services 10am, Friday, July 26 aL McCormick Mortuary, 25000 Moulton Parkway, Laguna fills. LOPEZ, Everett N.

af Los Angeles, passed away on July 22, 1991. Burial will be in Kauai, Hawali on July 27, 1991. Call Kauai Garden Island Mortuary for further information. MOORE, Jean P. Beloved mother of Judith Dawson amt Rob Moore; survived by her granddaughter, Mary Ann.

Service to be hold at 1pm. Friday, July 26, 1091 the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Glendale, Forest Lawn Mortuary, In lien of flowers please send donations to the Foundation for the Junior Blind OP the Exceptional Children's Foundation. MOORE, Margie A. of Lancaster, born 011 February 8, 1950 in Salt Lake City. Utah: passed away on July 19, 1991 in Palmdale.

Visitation 5pm Friday at the mortuary. Funcrat services 2pin, Saturday, July 27, 1991 at the Chapel of the Oaks. Eternal Valley Memorial Park. Interment to follow. Eternal Valley Moriunry, Newhall directors.

NADLER, Alfred I. Beloved husband of Jeannette Naller: loving father of Gary Nadler, Peter (Patricia) Nader and Robin (Steven) Rogan; devoted brother of Ruth Gross and Adello Aff. Services 1pm. Friday al Mount Sinai Memorial Park Chapel, Mount Sinai Mortunry. In lieu of flowers the family prefers donations to The American Diabetes Association.

OCHOA, Kazuko Koto Beloved mother of Jessic Ochoa, Esperanza Bennett and Carolina Smith; also three survived sisters. by five grandchildren and Slumber room visitation 2pm to 9pm. Friday, July 26. 1091 at Forcat Lawn Hollywood Hills. Memorial service 11am, Saturday, July 27 al Grace Community Church Chapel, 13218 Roscoe Blvd, Sun Valley, Forest Lawn Mortuary OSTRANDER, Neill Beloved husband of June; father of Clinton and Robert, passed nway on July 20, 1901 at age 69.

Neill was it scientist pioncering in the misslo programs, and in using icebergs 418 a source of fresh water for arid regions. Memorial sorvices 4pm. Saturday, July 27 at St. James Presbyterian Church, 19414 Ventura Bival, Tarzana, In lou of flowers please make donations to YMCA or the Salvation Army. PAXSON, H.

Gordon Jr. Born in Oakland. California on December 30. 1927; died in Pasadena. California on July 23, 1991.

Selfcmployed as a sales representative, he is survived by his wife, Barbara; 5011, Stan (Pamela): daughters: Julie Bodoh (Brad), and Sharon Paxsou Thomson (Jim); and mother. Mrs. H. Gordon Poxson also by grandchildren: Christopher and Kyle Paxson, Sean Borioh, and Heather Thomson. A memorial service will be held 11am, Friday, July 26 it the Onconta Congregational Church.

1515 Garfield Ave, South Pasadena with the Rev. Dave M. Spahn officiating. Interment is private. In licu of flowers memorial contributions are requested to the American Cancer Society.

POPS. Ann Beloved wife of Mike; loving mother of Gary and Steven. Services flam, Friday, July 26, 1991 at Hillside Memorial Park Chapel, Ililiside Mortuary. ROBERTSON, Lester Services Dam, July 25 at McCormick Hawthorne Chapel. A al RUIS, Minnie Pierce Brothers Griffith, Chino SIDNEY, Jane Robinson passed away on July 21, 1991: Private family services were held oil July 23, 1991 in New York.

Groman Mortuary directors. SMITH, Wendell Bliss, IT Passed away 011 July 22, 1991. Survived by his wife, Ruth: son, Wendell Bliss Smith Ill, daughter. Theresa R. Smith Dotting: grandsons, Geoffrey Smith Octting and Jonathan Randolph Octling: brother, Oak Birchard Smith.

Memorial Service lam, Friday, July 26. at the Church of Our Saviour, Son Gabriel. Private interment. The family request 110 flowers please. Turner Stevens, Alhambra directors.

SUGIYAMA, Ronnid Masaru Jr. Beloved son of Ronnie: brother of Janet (lienry) Minami: nephew of Lillie Yoshizaki and Kuniyc Sugiyama of Japan: and father of Dawn Sugiyama. Family service was held Tuesday, July 23 at Fukui Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Ted Esaki of Christ Presbyterian Church officiating. S7WEICER, Richard Passed away on July 18.

1991 in Hollywood, California. Born in Poland on May 14, 1943; he is survived by his parents. Ignacy and Janina; his sister, Wanda and her family; well as cousins in Chicago; and his friend, Emilio Senteno. A memorial art exhibition of his work will be 011 display 0n1 Saturday, July 27, 1991 al the Atwater Library, 3379 Glendale Blvd, in Atwater Village, from 10am (o 4pm. A Funeral Mass said be held al 4pm at the close of the exhibition al Our Lady of the Bright MountPolish Parish, 3424 W.

Adams Blvd, Los Angeles. TOWLE, Cynthia Anne Beloved daughter of Dennis and Claire; loving sister of Lindsay and Stephen Towle; cherished granddaughter of Mrs. Beth licyworth. She was born 011 December 17, 1970 and lived her life on the Palos Verdes 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 Ticktockera of National Charity League, She acquired numerous high school achievements and. carned the Sharon Gassell Service Award for Outstanding Service to her school. She attended the University of Colorado where she would have been a Junior in the fall. She was active in PI Beta Phi Sorority and was Social Chairman. Cindy enlightened the lives of all who knew her and will be sorely missed by her family and friends.

Visitation 3pm to 8pm, July 25 and 5pm to 9pm, July 26 both al Green Ills Mortuary, 27501 So. Western Ave. Rancho Palos Verdes. Memorial service 1pm, Friday. July 26 at the Neighborhood Church, 415 Pasco del Mar, Palos Verdes Estates.

In tieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Cindy Towle Memorial Fund, P.O, Box 7000, CIM, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 00271. VON COVENHOVEN, Thomas (A.K.A.) Thomas Walter Conover passed away 23. July 1991 at his home in Beverly Born in Rhinebeck, Now York DI1 December 1, 1918, he has been a Los Angeles resident since 1983. He is pre-deceased by his twin brother, Timothy Brown Conover and by his brother, William Conover. Thomas is survived by his loving parents Margery Brown and Harold' Conover of Milbrook.

Now York: brother, Peter of Manchester, CT: and three nieces. Ho is also lovingly mourned and remembered by many, many friends and colleagues who will miss his warmth, wit, boundless encergy and love. A memorial service will be 7pm. Thursday, July 25, at his home. In lieu of flowers donations may, be made ot the City of Angels Los WESKE, Christian age 89 Plerce Brothers Griffin Brothers, Camarillo WILSON, Theodore R.

Actor and writer passed away on July 21, 1091; beloved father of Theodore Robert and Nicole Wilson. Private services to be at Forest Lawn Glendale, Forest Lawn Mortuary, Paid Obituaries IN MEMORIAM FREDRIC P. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT. SIERRA CLUB LEGAL DEFENSE FUND "Whatever you can do, or dream that you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in Goethe The staff and trustees of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund will host a memorial service on Sunday, July 28, 1901 to honor the memory and celebrate the life of their colleague and friend, Rick Sutherland, Whose commitment to the preservation of the environment steered the course of the organization for the past fourteen years.

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