The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 138

Sunday, March 5,2000 DEATHS IAST WEEK Section 13 Chicago columnist Crabb; political talk-show host's mom I Associated Press Don Crabb, a nationally syndicated Sun-Times columnist on computers and the Internet, died Feb 26. He was 44 and had been hospitalized since December with a disease of the pancreas, according to the Sun-Times. Crabb wrote about the Apple Macintosh computer and articles for several computer magazines. He also had a program on WGN- AM radio in Chicago. The Ohio native was also associate director of a computer science program at the University of Chicago.

He helped set up the computer instructional lab there and taught a popular course linking computers and the liberal arts. Crabb is survived by his fiancee, Janet Viane of Darien; his parents Marilyn and Donald Eugene Crabb, of Cincinnati; and a sister, Diane McHenry. Mildred "Millie" Limbaugh, the mother of talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, died Thursday. She was Limbaugh sang professionally for a short time in Chicago and was a member of the church choir at Centenary Methodist Church. She was also a former committeewoman for the Cape Girardeau Women's Republican Club.

Peggy Johnson lacocca, ex-wife of former Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee lacoeca, died Tuesday in a Florida hospital of a heart attack. She was 49. A native of Kinston, N.C., she was a flight attendant and part-time publicist when introduced to lacoc- ca by former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk.

They worked together on the team that raised money to restore Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty to celebrate the landmark's 1986 centennial. lacocca headed the project. lacocca had rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy and written a best-selling autobiography. The couple's courtship and brief marriage generated a wave of curiosity and media coverage around the country. They separated in October 1986 and were divorced the next year.

Mrs. lacocca moved to Miami Beach and never remarried. John B. Perkins, a former state representative, newspaperman and longtime aide to Mississippi congressmen, died Friday. He was 61.

Perkins worked for the Meridian Star and The Daily Corinthian (Corinth) newspapers in the 1960s and served one term in the Legislature from 1968-72. He graduated from Miilsaps College in 1961 with a major in history and served in the Army Reserves. He joined the staff of former Rep. David R. Bowen, D- in 1972 before becoming press secretary two years later for Rep.

Thad Cochran, R- Miss. He stayed with Cochran when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978. Survivors include his wife, a son and a daughter. Don Crabb John Perkins Lyndon "Mort" Allin, who served as deputy press secretary for former President Ronald Reagan, died Monday of chronic lym- phocytic leukemia.

He was 59. Allin was active in the Young Republicans while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in 1967 moved to Washington to be director of Youth For Nixon. When Richard Nixon won the presidency, Allin was responsible for editing news summaries to keep him apprised of public opinion. He also worked in the White House as an assistant to President Gerald Ford. Allin later was assistant information officer at the American Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, and press and cultural counselor at the American Consulate in Leningrad.

After retiring from the U.S. Information Agency in 1991, Allin worked as a program instructor for the Close-Up Foundation, teaching young people about the inner workings of government. Harold M. Mulvey, the former Superior Court Judge who presided over the highly-charged Black Panther trial in the early 1970s, died Feb. 27.

He was 86. The six-month murder trial of national Black Panther leader Bobby G. Seale and local leader Ericka Huggins ended in a hung jury- Seale, chairman of the militant group, was accused of ordering the killing of a local Panther member, Alex Rackley, a suspected police informer. Mulvey dismissed the charges against Seale and Huggins on May 24,197 Mary Bodne, an owner of New York's Algonquin Hotel for 41 years, died Monday. She was 93.

Bodne lived at the elegant hotel, the literary hangout of the Jazz Age, from 1946 until her death. Along with her husband, Ben, she purchased the 200-room hotel in 1946 for about million from Frank Case, who had catered to writers and editors including Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Edna Ferber and Alexander Wooll- cott. The Bodnes owned the hotel until 1987, when it was sold to the Aoki Corp. A decade later, it was sold again. Bodne, whose family had immigrated to South Carolina from Ukraine when she was a child, spent most afternoons greeting regular guests from an armchair in the lobby of the French Renaissance style hotel built in 1902.

Ben Bodne died in 1992. Louisa Matthiasdottir, a painter in postwar America, died Feb. 26. She was 83. The quality of their custom mirrors and shower doors has always exceeded our expectations.

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Her similarly cryptic painting style reduced the world to a series of simple, block shapes and angled planes of clear, ringing color, all dispatched with a crisp, unfettered directness. Matthiasdpttir's work included portraits, still lifes, interiors and light-filled paintings of the coastal landscape of Iceland. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirschhprn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the Indiana Art Museum in Bloomington and the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik. Sandra Schmirler, among the first Olympic gold medalists in curling and a three-time world champion, died Thursday of cancer. She was 36.

She was part of the Canadian women's team with Jan Betker, Joan McCusker, Marcia Gudereit and Atina Ford that won the gold medal at the Nagano Olympics in 1998. It was the first time curling was a medal sport at the Olympics. Schmirler also won three Canadian championships and three world championships in the 1990s. Her cancer was diagnosed last year, and she underwent surgery in September, followed by radiation and chemotherapy. Dennis Danell, a guitarist for the punk band Social Distortion, died Tuesday of an apparent brain aneurysm.

He was 38. Mike Ness wrote most of the band's songs, and Danell collaborated with him periodically. Danell and the group's bassist also played in their own band, Fuel, in 1994 while Ness was working on material for a new album for Social Distortion. Baron Enrico di Portanova, a jet-setter and grandson of Texas oil magnate Hugh Roy Cullen, died Monday of throat cancer. He was 66.

Di Portanova's life included high- profile legal wrangling over the immense Cullen family estate, elaborate parties attended by the rich and famous, and lavish homes in Acapulco, Italy and Houston. By the mid-'80s, di Portanova was said to have a net worth of more than $50 million. He and his wife, Alessandra di Portanova, regularly entertained such guests as Sylvester Stallone, Bank One's i8-month CD. 6.30 APY Barbara Walters, and Henry Kissinger. Their Acapulco mansion served as a backdrop for the James Bond movie "License to Kill." George Duning, the composer nominated for Academy Awards for scoring the movies "Picnic" and "From Here to Eternity," died Tuesday of heart disease.

He 92. Duning was hired in the 1930s as musical director of the NBC radio show "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical When he returned from the Navy after World War II, he joined Columbia Pictures, where he scored the movies "Let No Man Write My Epitaph," "My Sister Eileen," "Houseboat," "That Touch of Mink" and "Bell, Book and Candle." He also wrote the music for such television series as "The Big Valley" and "Naked City." Charles O'Nesti, a former congressional aide who pleaded guilty to serving as a go-between for mob bribes, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 71. O'Nesti resigned as a district office assistant to Democratic Rep. James A.

Traficant after pleading guilty in 1998 to perjury and racketeering conspiracy. Last year, testifying at the trial of Mahoning County Sheriff Phil Chance, O'Nesti said he delivered mob bribes to Chance, who was convicted of racketeering. O'Nesti, a former fire chief, joined Traficant's Capitol Hill staff when Traficant was elected to Congress in 1984. He returned to Youngstown in 1989 to work in Traficant's district office. Traficant has not been charged in connection with any bribes and has denied any wrongdoing.

Walter Kelley, a former jockey and trainer of several stakes-winning horses, died Wednesday. He was 93. Kelley trained Blue Swords, who ran second to Triple Crown winner Count Fleet in the 1943 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, and his John's Treasure was second to Danzig Connection in the 1986 Belmont Stakes. Kelley also trained stakes winners such as Prince John, Belle's Gold, Nickel Boy and Boy at New York tracks. He tied for leading trainer at Saratoga in 1960.

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