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Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from 1956-58, and at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from 1976 until her retirement in 1994. She was twice named Cedars-Sinai employee of the month, and was renowned for her conscientiousness and compassion. Shirley remained independent and sharp-minded, with her twinkling eye and realistic view of the world intact, despite health setbacks. As she would say, she in the solution, not the She left peacefully and quietly, while asleep, which was a gift. She cared for countless people in countless ways, and she was, and is, enormously loved.

For full obit, information regarding donations to be made in her memory, and plans for a celebration of her life, please visit htt braunstein.com FINK, Gerald (Jerry) January 12, 1928 August 29, 2010 Gerald Fink (1928 2010) Jerry Fink was born January 12, 1928. He was brought up by his mother Elsie along with his sister Rita in North Canton, Ohio. At 18 he joined the army, where his duties included alcohol distribution for the Pacific Theatre. After the war he came to Los Angeles and in 1950 went to work for American Mdse Co where he started out working in the warehouse. This company later came to be known as Barry-Owen Inc.

He eventually became a partner and then full owner of Barry-Owen, and ran the company with his sons, Scott and Brian, until his death. He enjoyed his work, where he became lifelong friends with many of his customer. He enjoyed sports, from UCLA Basketball to the soccer, baseball, basketball, and hockey games of his grandchildren. He and his longtime girlfriend Millie traveled, dined out, and went to movies. He was a loving and generous boyfriend, father, and grandfather and we will miss him so much.

He leaves behind his girlfriend of 13 years, Millie Nixon; his three children, Laurie Kossoff (Pearson Miller), Scott Fink (Beth), and Brian Fink (Patrick Figueras) and five grandchildren Ethan, Dana, Jenna Fink, and Nathan Darcy Miller. Services will be at 12 noon on Friday, Sept 3, at Mount Sinai (Hollywood) In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the following organizations that Jerry supported: The American Cancer Society City of Hope USC Norris Cancer Institute Shareamemory Tosignaguestbook pleasegoto latimes.com/guestbooks LosAngeles 1-800-286-6789 BelovedhusbandofSandra Leib.LovingfatherofMark (Judi)LeibandDavid(Caren) Leib.Adoringgrandfatherof Brady. Inlieuofflowersthefamily prefersdonationtotheCityof MountSinaiMemorialParks andMortuaries-Hollywood PassedawayAug.27,2010 attheageof90.Shewasborn Oct.2,1919,andhadbeena lifetimeresidentoftheSouth Bay.Mrs.Kurashigeissurvived byherdaughtersSharon Kurashige(MichaelRupert), Shiotsu. FuneralserviceswillbeTues- inthemortuarychapel.Inter- mentwillfollowinGreenHills MemorialPark. GreenHillsMortuary (310)831-0311 www.guerragutierrez.com grandsonsJasonandCary.

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Hethenbecameaprinterfor theL.A.timesfor33years. Heissurvivedbyhiswife, Therewillbeaprivateinur- nmentheldinNovaScotia, Canada. OBITUARIES ammie King Conlon, who jokingly lamented that she was famous for an experience she barely remembered, portraying Scarlett and Rhett ill-fated young daughter in the film With the has died. She was 76. Conlon, whose brief movie-acting career included voicing the fawn Faline in died Wednesdayof cancer at her home in Fort Bragg, said Bruce Lewis, a friend.

At 4, she was cast as Bonnie Blue Butler for her resemblance to her film-screen parents Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable but her memories of making the epic 1939 Civil War sagawere vague, more like she often said. She had adored the black Shetland pony that she rode and recalled how perplexed she was when she spotted what looked like a little girl, dressed exactly as she was, smoking a cigarette on the set. The actor was an adult male, a little person who was her stunt double when Bonnie Blue falls from her pony, which causes her death and a pivotal plot point profound depression. In the death scene that followed, she keep her eyelids from fluttering and wore a death mask when Gable picked her up. She was so frightened when the mask was being made, her tears left visible imprints on it, Conlon later said.

She also recalled how director Victor Fleminghad lectured her to remember her lines. He said, I have a daughter your age and all these men here have families, too, that depend on them to work here. They need to feed those children. But if you say your lines, they she told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in 1998. Conlon billed as Cammie King in the movie said she never flubbed another line.

She fondly referred to Gable as who looked out for her. they were doing a lot of takes of a certain scene, he would say, on, fellows. wrap it up baby is she told the Orlando Sentinel in 2003. As an adult, she appeared regularly with other actors from With the at retrospectives and events honoring the movie. In ablog promoting her memoir Blue Conlon said she was one of 10 surviving cast members.

she could, she used her fame to raise money for Lewis said. did it in a very light way. She full of herself at She was born EleanoreCam- mackKing on Aug. 5, 1934, in Los Angeles. Her parents divorced around the time With the came out.

Her mother, Eleanore, was a columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner and in the late 1940s married Herbert Kalmus, a scientist who founded the Technicolor Corp. Conlon graduated from USC with a degree in communications in 1956 and went to work as a production assistant on a CBS-TV anthology series. Her first husband, with whom she had two children, died of cancer. She later remarried but divorced in 1976. In 1980, Conlon moved to Northern California and had a long public-relations career that included working for the Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce.

After With the she had one more role, voicing Faline, who frolics with the title character in another classic, the 1942 Disney film I really remember is crawl- ing around on the floor of a sound booth. And probably that was to get me to giggle, because what I mostly as the character, Conlon said in 2005 on National Public Radio. Cast in another film in the early 1940s, Conlon came down with chicken pox the day shooting was to begin. was the end of my show biz she told The Times in 1967, but she later said her mother had wanted her to have a childhood. Of her part in one of the greatest films of all time, Conlon liked to say: peaked at age She is survived by her two children, Matthew Ned Conlon of Chicago and Katie Conlon Byrne of Hawaii, and three grandchildren.

Aservice will be held at Sept. 22 at St. Brendan Church, 310 S. Van Ness Los Angeles. valerie.nelson@latimes.com CAMMIE KING CONLON, 1934-2010 Conlon was 4 when she was cast to play Bonnie Blue Butler, the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett in With the She later voiced the fawn Faline in Actor played daughter in With the Valerie J.

Nelson BRIEF FILM CAREER Cammie King Conlon at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in 2009. was employed by them for the next three decades. Months after Mary death in 1964, Barrie and George Knapp were married. They lived together at the Glen-Donald apartment building until George Knapp died in 1968. Barrie died in Canada in 1992.

But her remains and those of George and Mary Knapp appear to be interred together at a cemetery in Glendale. All three names are inscribed on a single gold vault in a marble mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, near Clark final resting place. At a news conference on Thursday, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said that a major task for police now is to de- termineto whom the babies belonged to Janet Barrie, Mary Knapp or someone else. are able to speculate as well as we Beck said. He said police have contacted several of relatives in Canada.

agreed to give DNA samples for comparison with the babies. officials have not determined what caused the death of the babies, who were carefully swaddled in blankets and newspapers from the 1930s and placed in two leather satchels inside the trunk. One of the bodies was a fetus, said Ed Winter, a spokesman for the L.A. County office. The other appeared to have been carried to full term.

Winter said Thursday that a team of two pathologists and one forensic anthropologist had found no obvious signs of trauma. Investigators are awaiting results of toxicology and DNA tests to determine the cause of death and whether the babies were related. Police have chased a number of leads in the weeks since Gloria Gomez, the Glen-Donald building manager, broke the lock on the trunk to see what was inside. The trunk had been sitting unclaimed in storage for decades. Along with the bodies, it held books, postcards, clothing, photographs and the furstole pictured in the photo of Barrie.

Hector Madrigal, an officer with the Abused Child Section, said the postcards and letters suggest the owner was a independent type of The name inscribed on the trunk was Jean M. Barrie. At first, police believed it belonged to one of two Jean Barries either a San Francisco-born nurse or an East Coast performer who was related to J. M. Barrie, the author of Two clues found inside the trunk copy of and a membership certificate to a Big Bear resort called the Peter Pan Woodland Club seemed to point in the direction.

But police ruled out both women. They say Janet Barrie was born in Scotland in 1897 and immigrated with her family to Canada before making her way to the United States. Records suggest she used as a nickname. In a Los Angeles directory from 1929, a Jean Barrie lived with a woman named Ada LuRoss in an apartment near MacArthur Park. Census records from the following year list Janet Barrie living with LuRoss at the same location.

Beck said police would continue to work on the case because the babies were who deserved justice. even when delayed, is still he said. when you have no one to speak for you, we will speak for kate.linthicum Times staff photographer Al Seib contributed to this report. Police identify owner of a trunk containing bodies Babies, from Al Seib Los Angeles Times EVIDENCE: This ticket for the 1932 L.A. Olympic Games was among the items found in the trunk.

even when delayed, is still justice. Even when you have no one to speak for you, we will speak for Charlie Beck, LAPD chief, on the search for clues in the basement babies case.