Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 14

Star-Bulletin A-14 Monday, April 30, 1990 OBITUARIES wrestler from 1925 to 1935. then retired from the ring to become a machinist. During Work) War II, he worked as a contract machinist rebuilding the shipyard damaged in the Japanese atlack on Pearl Harbor, and he performed In benefit wrestling shows for servicemen. EOfl WllSOn, a Republican who represented Indiana Congress for 22 years, died Friday at age 84 in Bedford, Ind. Wilson served in the House from 1941 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1965.

earning a reputation as a watchdog" of the Pentagon and Treasury. He also was I state senator from 1969 to 1976. J. Walter Yeagley, an assistant s. attorney general for 1 1 years, died Saturday at age 81 In West Palm Beach, Fla.

Yeagley was appointed assistant attorney general In 1959 by President Eisenhower. He was also Oistnct ot Columbia Court of Appeals judge for mora than 10 years. He retired from the bench in 1984. achool officials at first refused, saying the equipment distracted other students. The family rallied legal and community pressure and school officials relented.

Miller graduated last June from Sonora High School. the musical 'Kiss Me died Friday at age 91 in New York. Born Bella Cohen in Bucharest Romania, she moved to the United States and worked as a ournalist on several New York newspapers and as a theatrical press agent before marrying Samuel Spewack in 1922. He died in 1971. The couple became a successful plsywriting and screenplay-writing team, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for -Kiss Me 0.1.

'Dutch" Tennant, who wrestled professionally across the southern United States as the "Flying Outchman," died of cancer Saturday at age 82 in Whitehouse, Tex. -Tennant, who died In nursing home, was a pro in Waipahu, interment to follow at Mililani Memorial Park. Wake on Wednesday at Mililani Memorial Park Mortuary, 7 p.m. No flowers, casual attire. Mlsao Kofcayashl of Kuia.

Maui, died Wednesday on Maui at Beverly Manor Nursing Home. Kobayashi, 84, was born in Kula. She is survived by husband Tsuchi-taro sons Henry T. and Richard daughters Chiyoko Ono, Thel-ma Liu and Arlene Honda; brothers Fukuo and Voshio Nagasue; sister Teruko Kunitake; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Services: 5 p.m.

Thursday at Na-kamura Mortuary. Burial Friday at 10 a.m. at Shofukuji Church. No flowers, casual attire. Ah But Mau of Waianae, a retired federal employee and member of the Waianae Chinese School Association, died April 19 at home.

Mau, 80, was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Yuk Yean; son Fook Tim; daughters Len Moi Ho and Arlene LC. Wong; brothers Arthur AT. and Richard A.G.; sisters Annie S.J. Jung and Mary S.M.

Ching; and six grandchildren. Services: 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Diamond Head Mortuary. Burial to follow in Diamond Head Memorial Park.

Casual attire. Robert H. Tanlguchi of Honolulu, a retired employee of Liberty House of Hawaii and a member of the Hopa Hongwanji Goji Kai and Hui 0 Kilauea senior citizens' club, died Friday in St. Francis Hospital. Taniguchi, 75, was born in Honolulu.

He is survived by wife Betty and sisters Ayako Sagara, Shizuko Takatsuka and Dorothy M. Onou-ye. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Ho-soi Garden Mortuary chapel. No flowers, casual attire.

Judith Ann Kaulukoa WOOdS of Nanakuli died Tuesday in Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. Woods, 53, was born in Honolulu. She is survived by husband Edward son Edward III; and sisters Ono Lapera, Doris Kekai and Louise Smitty. Services: 9 a.m. Saturdayat Borthwick Mortuary.

Burial to follow in Hawaiian Memorial Park. Wake, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at the mortuary. No flowers.

Ralph Yeoman of Ahuaioa, a retired accountant, died Tuesday in Hilo Hospital. Yeaman, 73, was born in California. He is survived by son James, daughter Heather Threlfall; and sister Hope Crank. Services were yesterday. Choreographer Shawn succumbs to AIDS was 77.

Clark, a native New Yorker, spent 43 years in the fields of investments and international banking. A director of the Export-Import Bank from 1969 to 1976, he was in charge of financing for bank operations and was responsible for all loans in Asia and the Middle East Josephine Gibson Eckert, a former food editor of The Pittsburgh Press, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at age 86 at her Rosslyn Farms home. Mrs. Eckert, who wrote under her maiden name, Josephine Gibson, was the Press food editor from 1937 until her retirement in 1961. In 1927, Mrs.

Eckert founded and directed the home economics department of HJ. Heinz where she developed and tested recipes and gave demonstrations to more than 80.000 people who toured the company's model kitchen each year. Peter Fuller, British art critic and founder of the magazine Modern Painters, was killed in an automobile crash in England Saturday at age 42. Fuller was appointed art critic last year of 'The Sunday Telegraph, which carried his final review in its Sunday edition. In 1987 Fuller founded and edited the quarterly Modem Painters.

DeWItt "Snuffy" Jenkins, known among banjo pickers for popularizing the three-finger roll on the five-string banjo, died yesterday at age 81 in Columbia, C. A cause of death was not disclosed. Jenkins played across the country, from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and Carnegie Han in New York to Bill's Music Shop and Pickin' Parlor in Columbia. Jenkins' longtime partner was fiddle player Homer ShernH. They first formed a band in 1939, known since 1949 as The Hired Hands.

Vincent P. McCorry, a Jesuit priest who led spiritual retreats around the nation, died of cancer on Friday at the infirmary of the Fordham University campus in the Bronx in New York City. He was 80 and lived at the Jesuit Retreat House in Auriesville, Y. McCorry, who entered the Jesuit Order in 1927, wrote extensively and lectured widely. He was a former associate editor of "America, the Jesuit magazine, and wrote a column called The Word for it for 20 years.

He wrote 11 books, including a novel, "Monsignor Connolly of St. Gregory's Parish." Jeremy P. Miller ot La Habra, who won the right to attend public school despite contentions his wheelchair and respirator were distracting, died Friday at age 19 after his breathing machine failed. He was hospitalized after his parents found him unconscious Tuesday and discovered that his air hose had become disconnected. His mother, Ella Miller, said an alarm on the machine failed to sound.

Miller suffered a paralyzing spine injury when he was struck by a car at age 3. He insisted on attending public school. La Habra Charlotte E. Capilia of San Jose, a Kaneohe native and mother of former major league pitcher Doug Capilia, died Saturday in California. Capilia, 57, moved to San Jose In 1968 and was employed by Lucky's Food Stores.

She is survived by husband Leslie also son Allen daughters La Verne Wills and Valerie Lono; brother Manuel Costa; and nine grandchildren. Services: Tomorrow in San Jose. Private interment in Hawaii. Family requests memorail contributions be made to American Cancer Society. IneneO Hanoa of miea, Hawaii, a resort security guard, died Thursday in Ililo Hospital.

Hanoa, 56, was born in Kau. He is survived by sons Claxton Fernandez and Elston Hooper; daughter Mili Fernandez; father Graciano Fernandez; brothers Lincoln, Robert, Kainoa, James and Henry Hanoa; sisters Caroline Hada and Lo-cardia Gouveia; and seven grandchildren. Service: 4 p.m. today at the Naa-lehu Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial: Naalehu Community Cemetery.

Shcjl "Sylvester" Kikuchl of Waipahu, a retired procurement officer at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, died Wednesday in Wahiawa General Hospital. Kikuchi, 73, was born in Waia-lua. He is survived by wife Dorothy sons Francis Paul S. and Raymond daughters Ann A. Kaneta and Catherine brothers Kazuyoshi, Koozo, George A.

and Lawrence sisters Tamiko Ki-mura, Florence K. Sasaki and Ma-sako Korenaga; and four grandchildren. Services: 9:30 a.m. mass Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church then decided he wanted to be a director and choreographer.

In his 27-year career, his Broadway credits as a choreographer included "Oh, Brother" and "On: ward Victoria." Off-Broadway he staged "Options" at the Circle Repertory Theater and Peter Link's "The River" at the Promenade Theater. In 1986 he created dances for the George Abbott production of "Damn Yankees" at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey and for "South Pacific" in Westbury. He taught dance for more than 20 years in New York. In the last year, Shawn chores graphed a production of "My Fair Lady" for a tour in Japan and another musical, "Deutschland Lied," which appeared in Germany. He is survived by his wife, Mary Rotella; his mother, Bonnie Henry of St.

Louis; two brothers, John and Chris, of St. Louis; and two sisters, Mildred Disko and Kathryn Marquart, also of St. Louis. By James C. McKinley Jr.

New York Times NEW YORK Michael Shawn, a director and choreographer, died of complications from AIDS on Saturday at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. He was 45 and lived in Manhattan. Shawn learned that he was infected with the AIDS virus in late 1987, shortly before he became choreographer for the 1988 Broadway musical "Legs Diamond." He was dismissed from the show and sued the producers for $2.75 million in 1989, charging that he had been discriminated against because of AIDS. The case was settled out of court earlier this year.

Shawn, who was born in Springfield, 111., began studying dance when he -was 6 and decided to make a career in the theater by the time he was 12, his mother said. After high school, he came to New York to pursue a dancing career. He first appeared on Broadway in the musical "Golden Rainbow" and later danced in "Promises, Promises" and "Golden Boy." He Bernard T. Plelmann of Ho- nolulu died Thursday in Straub njf'JJTwT Hospital. i1r 11 Pleimann, 73, was born in Ohio.

He is survived by wife Ruth; son Thomas; daughter Bernadette; and brothers Clifford, Earl and Herbert. Services: 7 p.m. mass tomorrow at Mystical Rose Chapel, St. Louis High School. Friends may call after 6 p.m.

Casual attire. Courtney C. Brown, the former dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, died at age 85 Saturday in New York. Brown headed the Business School from 1954 until 1969. He wrote six books, including his 1983 autobiography, The Dean Meant John C.

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