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LATIMES.COM A37 War casualties TOTAL U.S. In and around Iraq: 4,489 Afghanistan: 1,879 Other locations: 113 military and Department of Defense-employed civilian personnel killed in action and in nonhostile circumstances as of Friday. Source: Department of Defense Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with improvised explosive devices and small-arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Gerardo Campos 23, of Miami, specialist, Army.

Campos died June 2 in Maiwand, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with small-arms fire. He was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Alexander G. Povilaitis 47, of Dawsonville, staff sergeant, Army. Povilaitis died May 31in Kandahar province of wounds sustained when the enemy attacked with an improvised explosive de- Defense Department identification of U.S.

military personnel who died in Afghanistan and Germany: Mathew G. Fazzari 25, of Walla Walla, first lieutenant, Army. Fazzari died Wednesday in Qarah Bagh, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his helicopter crashed. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

Scott P. Pace 39, of Brawley, captain, Army. Pace died Wednesday in Qarah Bagh, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his helicopter crashed. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

Vincent J. Ellis 22, of Tokyo, private first class, Army. Ellis died Monday in Landstuhl, Germany, from wounds suffered June 1at vice. He was assigned to 14th Engineer Battalion, 555th Engineer Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Joshua E.

Witsman 23, of Covington, lance corporal, Marines. Witsman died May 30 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province. He was assigned to the2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton. Kedith L. Jacobs 21, of Denver, specialist, Army.

Jacobs died May 27 in Chak-E Wardak Districtwhen his unit was attacked by enemy forces. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Leroy Deronde III 22, of Jersey City, N.J., private first class, Army. Deronde died May 27 in Chak-E Wardak District when his unit was attacked by enemy forces.

He was assigned to Company, 125th Brigade Support Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Sources: Department of Defense, Associated Press OBITUARIES tan Jolley was a senior set designer at 20th Century Fox in 1953 when he got a call from his artist friend Herb Rymanat Walt Disney Studios. Ryman was working on the original drawings for a theme park Disney was planning and suggested Jolley meet the legendary movie mogul. With his architectural and motion picture background, Ryman told Jolley, be a perfect said, under contract at Jolley recalled in a 2009 interview for Disney historian Scott MouseClubhouse said, you can get a loan-out.

only be here about nine Eight or nine months turned into two and ahalf years to design it and find out where we were going to build of the origi- nalart directorswho designed Disneyland andwho later worked on Disney film and Mon- dayat a hospice facility in Rancho Mirage, said his family. He had gastric cancer. His film career included sharing an Oscar nomination for best art direction and set decoration as production designer for the 1985 movie and seven years as an art director at the Disney studio. As part of the Disneyland design team, he worked on projects that included the Golden Horseshoe saloon in Frontierland, the Autopia ride in Tomorrowland, and the Storybook Land Canal Boatsattractionand interiors of Sleeping BeautyCas- tle in Fantasyland. As Magic Kingdom in Anaheim began to take shape, Jolley recalled in the 2009 were working six days and a couple of nights a As time went on, first one and then two more nights were added to their workweek.

pressure was on to finish the he said, I had had it by that So much so that when Disneyland openedwith great fanfare and live TV coverage on July 17, 1955, Jolley was not there. He had given his opening-day tickets to his parents and was on atwo-week New York City vacation with his wife. When he informed his fellow art directors that he planned to skip the Disneyland opening, he was told not to expect to have a job when he came back. been my own man my whole he said in the interview, and he went ahead with his vacation plans, fully expecting to be fired. Instead, when he returned to the studio, had calmed and when Walt said to stay and get into TV and so At Walt Disney Studios, Jolley helpeddesign the western street on the back lot.

He also designed the studio-office set that Disney appeared in on his weekly TV anthology series, The series was called Disney when Jolley worked as art director for Nine Lives of Elfego 10-part miniseries that aired on the show in 1958. Jolley was also the art director for the Oscar-nominated 1959 cartoon short in MathMagic and anart director on the 1960 movie Tyler, or Ten Weeks With After leaving Disney in 1960, he worked as an art director on television series such as of the and to the Bottom of the as well as the pilot episode for the 1965-70 series He later was the production designer on the series and His film credits as anart director include (1981) and Grass (1995), and he was the production designer on films such as (1978), and Annie and Little (1981). The son of character ac- torI. Stanford Jolley, hewas born May 17, 1926, inNew York City and moved to Hol- lywood with his family in the After serving in the Navy during World War began working as an apprentice set designer for Warner Bros. while attending college.

He received a degree in industrial design from USC in 1951. Jolley is survived by his daughters, Karen Nauyokas and Christina Cortes; and two granddaughters. dennis.mclellan STAN JOLLEY, 1926 2012 One of original designers By Dennis McLellan Walt Disney Studios AN OSCAR NOMINEE Stan Jolley, left, with Walt Disney, was also the art director on many TV series and films. Warner Bros. Among film credits as production designer was (1978).

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Her death was announced by the UCLA Film Television Archives, which calls the theater home. The Billy Wilder Theater was right place, the proper for a permanent tribute to her husband because of his longtime love of film and art, Young told The Times in 2003. The couple had long lived in Westwood. Born Oct. 30, 1922, in Los Angeles, she was a contract player at Paramount appearing in mostly un- credited roles when she met Wilder in 1944 on the set of his film Lost which starred Ray Milland.

She had just wrapped up asinging engagement with the Tommy Dorsey band when she married Wilder in 1949. Young had roles in more than 20 movies, and sometimes appeared singing solo or in a group, including in such 1940s films as of This and the Bing Crosby vehicle After her marriage, she was in one final movie, Me or Leave (1955)with Doris Day and James Cagney. Young later served as a costume consultant on the Wilder films Like It (1959)and (1960). After her husband died at 95 in 2002, Young returned the legendary six Oscar statuettes to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She wanted to ensure that his Oscars would remain together, according to the academy.

Mary Perry, 69, a volleyball player from Burbank who played on the 1964 and U.S. Olympic teams and helped the U.S. national team win a gold medal at the 1967 Pan-Am Games, died June 3in Medford, her family said. A member of the Cal State Northridge athletic hall of fame, Perry had been suffering from a neuro- degenerative disease. staff and wire reports news.obits@latimes.com PASSINGS Los Angeles Times SINGER-ACTRESS Young, shown in 1981, was a contract player at Paramount in 1944 when she met Wilder, left..

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