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THE NEWS-PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2002. 5B DEATHS, FUNERALS for To Information place archived an in the obituary obituaries. Deaths call and 335-0324. Funerals Please column visit is paid advertising. Dennis Patrick, 84, veteran actor who played J.R.

Ewing's banker LOS ANGELES Dennis Patrick, a veteran actor who played the Ewing family's banker on "Dallas," has died after a fire at his home. He was 84. The actor, whose career spanned five decades, was found Sunday in the Hollywood Hills home, said Michael Riddle, a supervising investigator with the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. Many of Patrick's roles leaned toward the macabre, including appearances on "The Twilight Zone," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and the campy '60s soap opera "Dark Shadows." His more recent appearances include the 1988 TV miniseries "War and Remembrance," and the 1994 movie, "The Air Up There." He was on the long-running Body found Authorities believe it's The Associated Press HARRY ARNOLD OCTOBER 7, 2002 Harry Arnold, beloved husband of Marian T. Arnold, passed away Oct.

7, 2002. Son of Sadie and Herman Arnold. He was born July 11, 1916. He was the owner of Radionic, Inc. of Everand a meatber of green IL the Fort Myers Amatuer Radio Club.

A Memorial Mass will be held 11:00 Wednesday, Oct. 16, St. Cecelia's Catholic Church. EDWARD H. GILSON OCTOBER 14, 2002 Edward H.

Gilson, 93, died Monday, October 14, 2002. Mr. Gilson had been a resident of Cape Coral since 1973 moving from Columbus, OH. Mr. Gilson was a veteran of WWII serving with the US Army.

He had been employed a purchasing agent General Motors retiring in 1973. Mr. Gilson was a member of St. Andrew Catholic Church. Survivors include his dear friend Ethel Hicks of Cape Coral and her children; Charles and Kathy Counselman, Cape Coral, Virginia Payne of Alva; and her grandson Bruce Payne of Lehigh.

DEATHS Lee County BOUSHAY, SHARONE MARIE, 46, Cape Coral, died Saturday. Arrangements by Coral Ridge Funeral Home. FALLS, ERNEST 87, Fort Myers, died Sunday. Cremation arrangements by Horizon Funeral Home Cremation Society. The Associated Press MIAMI A body found Monday in Biscayne Bay was likely that of a man reported missing in one of two crashes that killed two other that boaters drew during a thousands holiday, regatta rowdy participants, authorities said.

In the first wreck, a boat was being towed by another vessel late Saturday off Elliott Key when third boat hit them both, Coast Guard spokeswoman Anastasia Burns said. A man on the boat doing the towing died of severe trauma. Three other people injured in that crash were taken to Jackson Friends are invited to call Fuller Funeral Home, (formerly Kath-McFarlandSchmidt Funeral Home), 1910 Del Prado Blvd. Cape Coral, (239) 574-3434; Thursday, October 17, from 10:00 a.m. to Noon.

A funeral service will be held in the Funeral Home Thursday at Noon. Interment will follow in Coral Ridge Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Catholic Relife Fund. Fuller Funeral Home Cape Coral 239-574-3434 MARY ANN HAZARD OCTOBER 13, 2002 Mary Ann Haszard, 65, of Lehigh Acres, passed away on Sunday, October 13, 2002. Cremation arrangements entrusted to: HORIZON.

FUNERAL HOME CREMATION CENTER FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED THERESA LOUCHART OCTOBER 12, 2002 Theresa Louchart, 84 a resident of North Ft. Myers since 1978 from Michigan, passed away Saturday, October 12, 2002 while under the compassionate care of Tandem Health GABRIEL, JULIA EPPICH, 95, North Fort Myers, died Monday. Arrangements by Harvey-Engelhardt-Metz Funeral Home, Fort Myers. GILLEY, NELLIE 94, Fort Myers, died Saturday. Arrangements by Anderson Funeral Home, Fort Myers.

HELMINEN, AUDREY, Fort File photo LONG-RUNNING ROLE: Dennis Patrick is character Vaughn Leland in the television show "Dallas" i in this November 1980 photo. prime time soap "Dallas" from 1979 to 1984 as Vaughn Leland, a banker who is double-crossed by in Biscayne man missing from crash Memorial Hospital, she said. Two were released; the third was still being treated Monday. Then on Sunday morning, the Coast Guard received a report of a missing 28-foot go-fast boat. Antonio Enrique Lauria said he lent the boat to two friends late Saturday to take from Coconut Grove Marina in Miami south to where the Columbus Day Regatta was overnighting off Elliott Key.

a Two kayakers spotted the boat later Sunday, lodged deep in a mangrove shoreline on the western side of the bay in southern Miami-Dade County. One body was aboard but there was no sign of the second man, Burns said. The body of a man was found in Care. Mrs. Louchart was born June 27, 1918 in St.

Charles, MI to the late Joseph and Mary (Wozniak) Domogalski. She was a loving wife and devoted mother. Mrs. Louchart was a Roman Catholic by faith. She was preceded in death by her husband Leo 1969; a son James in 1988; and her four brothers and four sisters.

Mrs. Louchart is survived by six children and their Louis and Joanne Louchart, N. Ft. Myers; Memorial Harold and Carol Louchart, Ft. Myers; Gerald and Shirley Louchart, Beaverton, MI; Richard and Helen Louchart, N.

Ft. Myers; Ronald and Janet Sue Louchart, S. Ft. Myers; Sharon and Mike Sackos, N. Ft.

Myers; a daughterin-law Joyce Louchart, Au Gres, MI; 32 grandchildren, 64 great grandchildren, and 5 great great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held 7:00 p.m. Thursday, at the North Ft. Myers Memorial Funeral Home, 3453 Hancock Bridge Parkway, Fr. Mario Konobrocki of St.

Francis Xavier Catholic Church, officiating. Friends may call one hour prior to the service. Cremation arrangements by North Ft. Myers, Memorial Funeral Dignity Memorial Provider. Myers, died Sunday.

Arrangements by National Cremation Society. HOLLETT, PATRICIA 63, Fort Myers, died Saturday. Arrangements by National Cremation Society. KELLEY, ERNESTINE 84, Fort Myers, died Saturday. Arrangements by Kiser Funeral Home.

Obituaries State RICHARD MC DERMOTT OCTOBER 13, 2002 Mr. Richard McDermott of Ft. Myers died at Hope Hospice on Oct. 13, 2002 after a long illness. He was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on January 17, 1927.

He was the son George F. and Nellie McDermott. Mr. McDermott served in the U.S. Navy and saw action in the Pacific during World War I1.

He retired from the New England Telephone Co. in 1984. He was employed at the Church of the Resurrection through 1989. He was a volunteer at Lee HealthPark and a member of the Resurrection Men's Club. Survivors include two sisters, Nellie Smith of Lenox, Massachusetts, Evelyn Duquay of California, five nieces and nephews, and his Fort Myers family Bernie and Gina DeWolfe and daughters.

A Memorial Mass will be held at Church of the Resurrection on Friday, October 18, 10:00 a.m., with Fr. Stephen E. McNamara officiating. DOREEN STANTON OCTOBER 12, 2002 Doreen Stanton, 44, of Fort Myers, away on Saturday, October 12, 2002. Cremation arrangements entrusted to: LOUCHART, THERESA, 84, North Fort Myers, died Saturday.

Arrangements by Farley Memorial Funeral Home. RIZZO, LOIS 59, Fort Myers, died Sunday. Arrangements by Anderson Funeral Home, Fort Myers. SAPP, MARY 69, Lehigh Acres, died Sunday. Arrangements L.H.

Fountain, 89, served Congress for three decades RALEIGH, N.C. Fountain, who served in Congress for three decades, died Oct. 10 after a long illness. He was 89. Fountain represented North Carolina's 2nd District from 1953- 83, championing consumer issues and leading investigations into federal agency corruption.

He chaired the House Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee, which examined waste, inefficiency and corruption in federal government. He was instrumental in the creation of independent inspector general posts within several federal agencies. Fountain was born in Edgecombe County in 1913. After receiving his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fountain returned to Edgecombe County to practice law. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army as a private and served until 1946.

He left the service as a major in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Office. A year later, he was elected to the state Senate, serving three terms before his election to Congress. Fountain served 14 years on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Eddie Hausner, 76, The New York Times photographer NEW YORK Eddie Hausner, an award-winning, photographer for The New York Times, died Saturday at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 76.

Hausner joined the staff of the Times in 1946 and worked at the newspaper as a photographer and editor for five decades. His work, for which he received awards from the Newspaper Guild of New York and the New York Press Photographers Association, is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. His subjects included former professional football star Joe Namath and poor people in the South. In 1950, he shot his favorite photograph, an umbrella salesman waiting for customers. Messmer, florist 3366 Cleveland Ave.

936-2131 HORIZON. FUNERAL HOME CREMATION CENTER FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED DONALD J. TAYLOR OCTOBER 13, 2002 Donald J. Taylor, 74, Ft. Myers, passed away Sunday, Oct.

13, 2002. He was born. in New York City and a U.S. Marine veteran. He was an art dealer until his retirement and moved to Fort Myers from the Pocono Mountains in 1992.

He was an active member of Old Hickory Country Club. He is survived by his loving wife of 9 years, Catherine; three a ugh Memorial (DO Brown, Hampton, NH, Lisa (Kevin) Conklin, Broadheadsville, PA, Linda (Mark) Monahan, Greentown, PA; two sons, Glenn (Ana Lisa) Taylor, Cresco, Richard (Holly) Taylor, Boca Grande, FL; two brothers, Kenneth (Barbara) Taylor, Levittown, NY, Robert (Moireen) Taylor, New York; thirteen grandchildren and one great-grandson. Visitation will be held on Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to by Lee Memorial Park Funeral Home. SPENCER, AUDREY AYLENE, 84, Shell Point Village, died Sunday.

Arrangements by Harvey-Engelhardt-Metz Funeral Home, Fort Myers. SWAGLER, LARRY 63, Fort Myers, died Friday. Arrangements by Fort Myers Memorial Gardens DEATHS ELSEWHERE Born in 1926, Hausner fought as a rifleman in World War IL. After the war, he was transferred to the E.T.O Army Pictorial Service. Tooru Joe Kanazawa, 95, -American fighter LOS ANGELES Writer Tooru Joe Kanazawa, one of the oldest members of World War II's legendary, Japanese-American fighting unit, died Oct.

2 of emphysema. He was 95. Kanazawa, who grew up in Seattle and Alaska, escaped the internment of 110,000 JapaneseAmericans when he moved to New York in 1940. He went to work for the Japanese American Citizens League in Washington, D.C., and advocated reversing federal policy to allow Japanese-Americans to serve in combat. More than 3,000 first-generation Japanese-Americans, also known as Nisei, fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, including several hundred who volunteered from the internment camps.

At 36, Kanazawa was one of the oldest volunteers when he joined the regiment in 1943. He was the author of two books: "Close Support, A History of the Cannon Company of the 442d Regimental Combat Team," and "Sushi and Sourdough," a 1989 novel, completed when he was 83, that is taught in many AsianAmerican studies courses. 8:00 p.m. at the Fort Myers Memorial Gardens Funeral Home with a Memorial Mass of Burial celebrated on at 10:00 a.m. at Christian, the Church of the Resurrection Catholic Church: Inurnment will be at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Building Fund of Blessed Pope John XXIII Catholic Church, 6401 Techster Fort Myers, FL 33912. IN MEMORIAM ABBEGAYLE ANN CHERRY Such a long five years Since we shed our first tears Your smile, those big blue eyes, Running to give us hugs kisses Messy blond hair fills our minds Not just a memory, our daughter, our sissy Our angel Abbey living in our hearts And our minds, for eternity. Love Forever Mommy, Daddy, Alexa Meghan in the Deaths column is printed free To place a listing call 335-0324. Information of Funeral Home. Out of Area EGBERT III, HAROLD "JOEY," 41, Des Moines, Iowa, formerly of Fort Myers, died Wednesday.

Arrangements by Hamilton Funeral Home, Des Moines, Iowa. The novel described the struggle of Japanese immigrants in Alaska's salmon canneries during the 1920s. James Searles, 90, pillar of game of pool checkers the show's scheming J.R. Ewing. Neighbors said Patrick was battling cancer and needed kidney dialysis.

Investigators believe he may have died from smoke inhalation. An autopsy was pending. "He was having some problems," family friend Siobhan Burns-Walden told reporters. "He was getting pretty weak." It took about 50 firefighters to extinguish the blaze that broke out around 1:15 p.m. He was the second performer to die in a house fire in the city in less than a week.

Actress Teresa Graves, who starred as a sassy undercover cop in the 1970s television police drama "Get Christie Love!" died Thursday in a fire at her home. She was 54. Bay the water Monday five miles from where the crash into the mangroves occurred, Burns said. "There's a very strong probability that it was in fact the person that was missing," said Capt. Sam Cory of the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Authorities haven't determined the cause of the crashes or if alcohol was involved, Cory said. The names of the victims weren't immediately released. The annual regatta attracted thousands of people who lined their boats up off Elliott Key to watch a boat race Saturday and Sunday. Many seem more interested in partying than racing. By late Sunday, police had arrested 18 people for being under the influence while operating boats.

Man gets 10 years for attacking priest Victim was in a coma for two days following severe beating in church The Associated Press VIERA A Merritt Island man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for severely beating a Catholic priest in a Cocoa Beach church. Robert Rutkowski, 36, also was given five years of probation. Rutkowski was found guilty on Aug. 14 of a felony aggravated battery with great harm for the Feb. 1 beating of Father Sean Heslin, pastor of Our Saviour Catholic Church.

Heslin was in a coma for two days and hospitalized with brain and facial injuries for 12 days after the attack. There was no indication that Rutkowski knew his victim. During the trial, a witness testified she saw a "very angry" man clenching his fists near the altar and talking to himself. She said the man knelt on the altar and screamed at a large crucifix, "You NEW YORK James Searles, who excelled at the lightning-fast form of checkers and even drafted a constitution for the game, died Oct. 5.

He was 90. Searles, whose friends called him "Step," organized the Brooklyn Elite Pool Checker Club so that he and other players could have a regular place to play. The group would gather several nights a week, where they would play their particular form of checkers. "Checker players is really a brotherhood like family," Searles said in an oral history included in David Isay's 1995 book, "Holding On." Searles learned how to play pool checkers, in which single pieces can jump forward or backward diagonally, while working a bellhop at a Philadelphia hotel. He said he used to play checkers with members of Duke Ellington's band and once played Count Basie.

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