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Copynaht I960. Ctiftii Pubtahing Co. An unfinished painting was on the easel In Norman Rockwall's studio Thursday. Norman Rockwell death saddens townsfolk A Rockwell self-portrait within a self-portrait depicted the graying, bespectacled artist painting a younger version of himself. "I paint life as I would want it to be," he said.

Mary died in 1959, and Rockwell Molly Punderson, now an 82-year-old retired school teacher who survives him along with three sons from his second marriage. Rockwell's last published work was an illustration showing a happy birthday ribbon tied around the Liberty Bell on the cover of the July 1976 American Artist magazine in honor of the American Bicentennial. Over 1,000 unclaimed storage, estate and trade-in garments. SOME ARE LIKE NEW! Included are mink, fox, raccoon, muskrat and more all at a fraction of their original cost. FU.v.,yiblUCk FlMJ 332-4321 lived for 14 years before moving to Stockbridge, residents paused in their chores to recall the popular artist best known for bis cover illustrations of small-town life for the Saturday Evening Post Arlington people, too, said they would remember Rockwell, not for his worldwide fame as an illustrator but for his neighborliness.

Carl Hess, 72, wiped tears from his eyes as he went about his work in the damp chill of his garage. Hess keeps copies of the artist's magazine covers in a glass case next to collections of dusty tires and rusted wheels. Hess, who used to service Rockwell's car, was depicted in a Rockwell painting entitled "Freedom of Speech" as standing up at a New England town meeting. Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein, 54, appeared in several of Rockwell's illustrations, including one of President John F.

Kennedy's inauguration. By George Esper Associated Press Sttclbridge, Mass. Townspeople who posed for artist Norman Rockwell said Thursday his drawings of Americana illustrated his own life: plaint unassuming, kindly- The people of the western Massachusetts town of Stockbridge awoke yesterday to learn that their friend and neighbor had died late Wednesday night, at 84, at his home in Stock-bridge. "I'm very sad," said Marty Salva-dore, a 32-year-old insurance agent Salvadore had posed for Rockwell while in grammar school and later as a college student for a 1966 Peace Corps illustration that appeared in Look magazine. "He was a lot of fun.

He made you try to understand what be was trying to paint He was more or less an adopted son. The town treasured him like a jewel," Salvadore said. In Arlington, Vt, where Rockwell "He didn't like the looks of the Secret Service man standing behind President Kennedy," recalled Obanhein, "so he took him out and put me in. He was just a regular guy who lived down the street and loved kids." Ironically, six years later, folksinger Arlo Guthrie would make Obanhein famous as a model for the laughably self-important "Officer Oble" of his satiric "Alice's Restaurant" an anti-authoritarian song popular with the rebellious young of the 1960s. Rockwell would call that generation "the very best we have produced, long hair and all." In the 1960s, Rockwell himself exhibited a strong social conscience, commenting on canvas on civil rights, the Vietnam War, poverty and the threatened environment.

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