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LATIMES.COM/OBITUARIES A33 Toplace anobituary adpleasego onlineto: latimes.com/ placeobituary orcall Ms.Smith 1-800-528-4637 Ext.7724 2 TomBaumgartner passedawayon December2nd withhiswifeof54yearsby hisside.Tomwasaproud veteranoftheU.S.Navy.He servedontheUSSSoutherland duringtheKoreanWar.Tom Chevronfor43yearsuntilhis retirementin1992. Tomissurvivedbyhisloving daughtersKathy(Andy) MarafinoandChristyVoorhees; manylovingrelativesand friends.Hewasprecededin BruceandJim. FuneralMasswillbeheld FamilyCathedralinOrangeat atHolySepulcherCemeteryin Orange. Inlieuofflowerspleasesend Honoralife gotolatimes.com/placeobituary BERMAN, Jack Albert April 2, 1915 December 4, 2009 It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of Jack Berman, a great lover of life and people, on December 4th 2009. One of the few individuals who could genuinely be described as beloved without exaggeration, he is survived by his devoted wife of 21 years, Pearl, and his adoring children Wendy, Hilary, Steven and Mari, grandchildren Brian, Morgan, Jillian, Raven, Nina, Izella, Briana, and Alan and great grandchildren Cole and Gabby.

He also leaves step grandchildren Natasha, Josiah, Allison and Zoe. The son of Anna and Harry Berman, Jack was born in Centralia, WA and grew up in Chicago, IL. He sold newspapers from the age of 7 to help his family and graduated from high school at the age of 15, the youngest in his class. He attended Northwestern University as a journalism major, and began his career at Shure Brothers during the depression. His writing, marketing and interpersonal skills were so outstanding that he quickly moved up to become sales manager and was the original designer of the world famous Shure Unidyne microphone.

He moved to California in 1953 with his wife Bobbie to begin The Jack Berman Company as a representative in the growing electronics industry. His firm was recognized 35 times by 15 different principals as of the He was the only person ever awarded lifetime honorary membership in the National Electronic Distributors Association, and was the first rep in history to be elected President of the Electronics Distribution Show. He was installed into the Audio Industries Hall of Fame in 1981, the first rep to achieve that high honor. Jack then retired to devote more time to writing and developing his seminars. He conducted hundreds of sales training workshops and seminars throughout the world for salespeople from manufacturers, distributors, representatives, retailers and trade associations.

He remained an active teacher, writer and lecturer in the field until his death at the age of 94, always exhibiting the same energy, enthusiasm, curiosity, and genuine desire to improve the state of the art which made him so popular. He was predeceased by his second wife Rita, sister Ruth, brother Gene and daughter Hilary. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 9th at 1:00 PM at Hillside Mortuary (800 576 1994). In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be directed to The Harmony Project 817 Vine Street Holl wood, CA 90038. wasborninNew- discoveredhehad anaturaltalentfordrawingand painting.Inhisveryearlyteens, heattendedartschoolfora shorttimebeforehewasforced toquitandgetajobtohelp supporthisfamily.In1931he ladyhemetatadancein hiscountryinWorldWarII.

Albertwasoneofthefirst soldierstolandonthebeaches ofNormandy.Hereceiveda certificateofmeritoriousser- viceforhisparticipationinthe D-DayinvasionofEuropeon homefromhismilitaryservice, AlbertandDorothymigratedto Californiaandstartedafamily. In1949heopenedAlbert's DiscountsatthecornerofPico andFairfax.Afterasuccessful appliancestorebuthisin- livedon.Albertwasbotha MasonandaShriner.Atage paintingresurfacedinspiring himtocreatebeautiful watercolors.OnApril30th, familyandfriendsforreaching his100thbirthday! Albertissurvivedbyhistwo andPhyllis(Leonard)Lerner; RylandandJonathanLewis. Hillside Passedawaypeacefullyon DaughterofHoytMitcheland borninLosAngelesin1916, andattendedMarlborough SchoolandBeverlyHillsHigh School. earlyinlifetoimproviseand tothriveinthefaceofdiverse challenges. Herhusbandof63years, deathin2001.

Shewasacompanionand specialpartnertoReneasthey livedalifeofadventureand accomplishmenttogether.She servedasPresidentofthe AmericanWomen'sGroupin Parisandwasactivewithother Americanexpatriateorganiza- tions. Sheissurvivedbyherchil- grandchildrenCedricBesson, Aprivatefamilyservicewill beheldgravesideatForest LawninGlendale. awaypeacefullywithherfamily byhersideonDecember4, 2009.Lovingwifeoffortyyears andCari(Chris)Eggleston; adoredgrandmotherofRiley andJamie.Shefoughtavaliant battleagainstovariancancer Inlieuofflowerscontribu- tionsmaybesenttothe OvarianCancerResearch. HillsideMortuary (800)576-1994 1 93 5 impressedbyTechnicolor untilathree-colorsystem at im es co a hiv es Theyearthatwas CARLSON, Robert Charles Franklin September 10, 1918 December 1, 2009 Robert passed away peacefully while a resident of the Mountain View Center in Claremont, CA. Born of Swedish immigrants, he was raised in Gadsden, Alabama.

He received his A.B. Degree (Political Science) and LL.B. in 1941 from the University of Alabama where he was active in R.O.T.C. and was commissioned as 2nd Lt. He volunteered for active duty with the Army Air corps on July 22, 1941 where he served as a Commandant of Cadets in Florida and overseas with the Air Transport Command in India, Burma, and China where he served as a Wing Judge Advocate.

He achieved the rank of Lt. Colonel. Robert was admitted to both the Alabama Bar (1941) and the California Bar (1947). He spent most of his career as a defense civil trial lawyer and was a prominent insurance defense attorney. Robert was a retired senior partner with the law firm of Veatch, Carlson, Grogan Nelson of Los Angeles.

He was affiliated with the Pi Kappa Alpha college fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity; a Diplomate and Past President of the American Board of Trial Advocates; Past President, Association of Southern California Defense Counsel; American Bar Association; and was over a sixty year member of the Masonic Lodge and former member of the South Hills and Chaparral Country Clubs. He leaves his loving wife, Margaret (Peggy), and four daughters from a former marriage, Cathy Bethel, Cindy Jones, Marilyn Chadwick, and Carolyn Sheehan. He leaves grandchildren Daniel Bethel, Kristen Jones Bender, Brian Jones, Kimberly and Bianca Chadwick, Charlene and Johnny Sheehan. He also leaves two nieces, Harriette Schach and Sue Simmons, step-son, William Mozet, step-daughter-in-law, Donna, and two step-grandchildren, Jennifer and Billy Mozet. Robert loved his family, his country, the military, history, the Crimson Tide, the Dodgers Lakers, the legal profession, and traveling.

Private military services are pending at Riverside National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made to the Association in memory of Robert C. Carlson, Mountain View Center, 715 W. Baseline Road, Claremont, CA 91711. Toplaceanobituaryad pleasegoonlineto: latimes.com/placeobituary (1928-2009)Belovedwifeof Swain.GrandmotherofJulia andHannah.Friend,Dog-lover, andhonestspeaker.

Hillside Mortuary800-576-1994 MountSinaiMemorialParks andMortuaries-Hollywood motherofMichael(Barbara) proudgrandmotherofAndrew, Dancyger. Serviceswillbeheldat1 p.m.,Wednesday,December9, 2009, MountSinaiHollywood Hills (800) 600-0076. maybemadetoCityofHope, 91010. CIESZLAK, James January 29, 1950 November 23, 2009 James Bernard Cieszlak, 59, of West Hollywood CA died suddenly Monday, November 23, 2009 at his home. He was born January 29, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, son of the late Bernard F.

Cieszlak and Dorothy M. (Guyott) Cieszlak. He resided in Los Angeles for the past 30 years. His enjoyments included traveling, entertaining with jingles and show tunes, and was noted for his happy and outgoing personality. He will also be remembered for his generous outreach to other people.

James was hospitalized this past June and was awaiting a liver transplant at the time of his death. He was a 25 year participant in the UCLA Health Study and it was his wish to donate his body to UCLA to continue that research, his final generous gift. Surviving are his mother, Dorothy of Saginaw MI, sisters, brothers and their spouses, Sandra and Ed Barrera of Ft. Worth TX; Jerry and Joanne Cieszlak of Frankenmuth MI; Patricia Taylor of Reese MI; Mary Marlow and her husband Mark Kreher of Santa Monica CA; Judy Welles of Reese MI; Janet and Bud Schopp of Detour MI; Michael and MaryAnn Cieszlak of Federal Hts. CO; Roger and Sue Cieszlak of Dunedin FL; Karen and Steven Perkowski of Grosse Ille MI; fourteen nieces and nephews, many cousins, aunts, uncles and friends.

A memorial in celebration of his life will take place Saturday, December 12 at the Lake Shrine of the Self Realization Fellowhip 17190 w. Sunset Blvd. at 10:30 AM. A private family memorail to celebrate his life will take place in Tam a Florida on his birthda Toplace anobituaryad pleasegoonlineto: latimes.com/placeobituary orcallMs.Smith 1-800-528-4637 Ext.7724 2 PariDavidKochpassedaway familyrelocatedtoLongBeach whenhewasayoungboyand hegraduatedfromLakewood HighSchoolin1969.Pari Boeingfor30years.Pariwas theconsummateoutdoorsman spendinganyfreetimefishing, andcamping. Pariissurvivedbythelove ofhislifeJessicaisonly somanyfriendsandfamily.

AcelebrationofPari'slifewill PresbyterianChurchof Fullerton. AllPari'sfriendsandfamily arewelcome. vivedbyhiswifeof53years, inGermany. Knownforhisbrightsmile, Erwinwasoneofthefounding membersoftheSchuetzen GroupofthePhoenixClubof VisitationServiceswillbe FairhavenMemorialParkwith aFuneralServiceonFriday, at FairhavenMemorialPark 92705. HillsideMortuary800-576-1994 Lovingwifeandmother RoleneH.Duncan,58,ofLas ShehadresidedinLasVegas forthepast15yearshaving 1994.Shewasalovingwifeand motherwholovedtotraveland visitherchildrenand grandchildrenouteast.

Sheissurvivedbyherhus- LevonneBryantofAlabama; RolandDeanBryantofNorth grandchildren. ServiceswillbeheldinRose withthereceivingoffriendsand flowersthefamilyrequestsdo- nationsbemadetoJuvenile DiabetesAssociation. Fayelostheryear-longbattle withleukemiaandpassedaway peacefullyonDecember7, 2009.Shewasgreatlyloved andwillbemissedbyher SammyJackPerelmanandher brotherPhilipBeilin(Viola). Intermentwillbeprivate.In lieuofflowerscontributions maybemadetoArielHadassah ortheCharlesandFaye PerelmanFundoftheCulver PalmsFamilyYMCA. www.guerragutierrez.com 1stinRanchoPalosVerdes, California.ShewasbornJune andmovedtoSantaBarbara whenshemetherhusbandof 47years.Shefinallymovedto RanchoPalosVerdeswhereshe livedfor42years.

DaughterofthelateMaryM. DarrenandCammie. Amemorialservicewillbeheld atGreenHillsMemorialPark (310)831-0311onSaturday, visitationhourswillbehelda p.m. 2009.Survivedbysisters, AngelineFerrimaniandMinnie andnephews. p.m.,atRichardH.Keenan ationsChapel.

Donationsmaybemadeto terChapter. RichardH.KeenanFuneral Homes585-223-4840 585-223-0094 www.guerragutierrez.com Belovedwifeofthebelated JosephMedjes.Survivedby herlovinghusbandPhilipMill- er.DevotedmotherofIris (Kenneth)BragarandDavid grandmotherandgreat- grandmother. maybemadetoTheAmerican CancerSociety. Servicetobeheldon p.m.at MountSinaiMemorial ParksandMortuaries-Hol- FrankwasbornonAugust4, HepassedawayonNovember California. Frankissurvivedbyhistwo SisterRegina.

FuneralMasswillbeheldon (818)886-8600 LosAngeles 1-800-286-6789 CremationServices Sheissurvivedbyherhusband, ChieFujimoriandRuby Nakasako.Alsosurvivedby errelatives. Amemorialservicewillbe Familyrequeststhatflowersbe omittedandcasualattire. (213)749-1449 www.kubotanikkeimortuary.com SERVICE, Robert W. September 11, 1924 November 25, 2009 Robert W. Service, 85, long-time resident of Burbank, California, died peacefully on Wednesday November 25, 2009.

A compassionate and gentle soul, a Renaissance man and true gentleman and scholar. A memorial will take place on Sunday December 13, 2009 at 1pm in garden (834 N. Rose, Burbank). Remembrances may be made to the Burbank Tem orar Aid Center. ROSENBERG, Jordan (Jud) January 13, 1926 December 6, 2009 Jud was born in Cambridge, MA to Morris and Edith Rosenberg.

Jud served in the Army during WWII, and met his wife of 63 years, Addie, while still in the service. Jud and Addie moved to California in 1952. In 1970 Jud was Master of Melrose Masonic Lodge. Jud is survived by his loving wife Adeline, his daughter and son-in- law Gail and Glenn Mann, son and daughter-in-law Steve and Lauren Rosenberg, and his granddaughters, Becky Reily, Stephanie Mann and Bria Rosenberg. Jud was a dedicated husband and father, and a devoted friend.

His love and guidance will be dearly missed. He will always be in our hearts. Funeral service is Thursday, December 10th at at Eden Memorial Park, 11500 Sepulveda Mission Hills, CA. In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the American Heart Association. www.guerragutierrez.com PassedawaythisSunday homesurroundedbyfamilyand friends.ShewasborntoCaro- lynandAllenS.LaskyinSt.

1955.ShehaslivedinLos Angelesforthepast30years twosonsDavidandJeffrey.Jan wasuniversallylovedbythe largefamilyandmanydear friendswhohadtheprivilegeof havingherintheirlives. ServiceswillbeheldatMt. SinaiMemorialParkat2p.m. Donationsmaybemadeinher honortoeithertheWomen's CancerResearchInstituteat CedarsSinaiMedicalCenter, icanCancerSociety. www.guerragutierrez.com OBITUARIES ytautasCekanaus- kas, a former Hughes Aircraft electrical engineer who served as honorary consul general of Lithuania in Los Angeles for more than 30 years, has died.

He was 80. Cekanauskas died of cancer Nov. 30 at Los Robles Hospital Center in Thousand Oaks, said his daughter, Vida Bruozis. The Lithuanian-born Cekanauskas was appointedby the chief of the Lithuanian Diplomatic Service in 1977 and served in the uncompensated position until his death. In 1990, during his tenure, the Baltic legislature declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

care about my Cekanauskas, who became an American citizen in the 1950s said in a Times interview in 1986. consular and diplomatic service represents a continuation of our country. We are recognized officials of our country. It is important for us to have a continuity, just standing as a reminder that the U.S. government never recognized this illegal Cekanauskas gave numerous speeches to Lithuanian communities across the country and to local groups in Southern California, some of which were published in Lithuanian-language newspapers in the U.S.

and Lithuania. was a very loyal Ameri- can citizen; he loved this country for what it past presidentof the Lithuanian American Council, who knew Cekanauskas for more than fourdecades. the same time, he came from Lithuania as a boy, and he worked diligently in every possible effort toward the eventual restoration of freedom and in Lithuania, said Markevicius. Born in on March 7, 1929, Cekanauskas left Lithuania when the Soviets occupied the country in 1944 and finished high school after the war in Before immigrating to the United States in worked at the headquarters of the International Refugee Organization in the French Zone of occupation in Germany. While in the U.S.

Army during the Korean War, he served with the Korean Military Advisory Group and received a Purple Heart afterbeing wounded in action. After earning a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1957, he worked at North American Aviation from 1957 to 1963. He then worked at Hughes Aircraft Co. until 1991, first in the Space System Division and then in the Missile System Division. Before his appointment to honorary consul general, Cekanauskas served on the board of directors or as chairman in numerous organizations, including the United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America, the Lithuanian American Council, the Captive Nations Committee, the Lithuanian American Assn.

and the Lithuanian Republican Club. In addition to his daughter Vida, he is survived by his wife, Na- varretteand Rita brother, Algirdas Sprindziu- nine grandchildren. Afuneral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Casimir Catholic Church, 2718 Saint George Los Angeles.

dennis.mclellan@latimes.com VYTAUTAS CEKANAUSKAS, 1929 2009 Engineer served as honorary consul general of Lithuania Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times HERITAGE Vytautas Cekanauskas filled the uncompensated consul post more than 30 years. Warren Vanderschuit Actor in westerns Warren Vanderschuit, character actor who appeared in the John Wayne film dozens of TV westerns and who had an impressive athletic career as a young man in Los Angeles, died Nov. 27 at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena after battling lung cancer, his family said. Using the stage name Warren Vanders and often playing villains, he had numerous roles in TV westerns, including Chuck Big Smith and the West Was well as the big- screen Lead and Cold others. Born Warren John Vander- schuit in San Fernando on May 23, 1930, he served in the Navy during the Korean War and boxed for Navy teams.

After the war he continued boxing in the Golden Gloves program, capturing the 1954 Southern California light- heavyweight title in a tournament at the Hollywood Legion Stadium sponsored by The Times. He also was a standout quarterback for what was then Pepperdine College from 1954 to 1956. was studying drama, and when injuries ended his football prospects he turned to acting in film, TV and on stage, as well as to teaching in local schools. Eva Szorenyi Hungarian actress, activist Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress and refugee who was a leader of the World Federation of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, died Dec. 1 at her Studio City home of complications related to old age, her family said.

After actively participating in the 1956Hungarian Revolution, an anti-Soviet uprising that was crushed within two weeks, Szorenyi fled her homeland with her husband and three young children and settled in Los Angeles. She was born May 26, 1917, in Budapestand at 14 appeared in the first of many Hungarian National Theater productions. In 1935, Szorenyi graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art of Budapest. During World War II, she hid from the Nazis to avoid persecution because she refused to perform for them, her family said. When she arrived in the U.S., she had already made about 40 films.

Over the next 15 years she had guest roles on anumber of television shows, often credited as EvaSoreny. Since 1957, she had been active in the World Federation of Hungarian Freedom Fight- ers.In 1977, she was the national president when it raised funds to install amonument in MacArthur Park to Cardinal Jozsef Mind- exiled Catholic prelate of Hungary and symbol of opposition to communism. Alfred Hrdlicka Controversial Austrian artist Alfred Austrian artist whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public, died Saturday, gallery owner Ernst Hilger said. No cause was given. sculptures, drawings and paintings are known as much for their artistic subtlety as their controversial themes.

His religious works, in particular, drew protests from believers who considered them blasphemous. Among his better-known works is his cast iron sculpture in downtown Vienna of a prostrate figure covered by barbed wire. The starkly disturbing Against War and has occasionally been defaced since it was unveiled in 1991. Hrdlicka, born Feb. 27, 1928, also was a set designer on opera and theater stages across Europe.

staff and wire reports news.obits@latimes.com PASSINGS PHYSICAL As a young man, Warren Vanderschuit boxed and played football..