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12 28 THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1980 Mare Connelly, 90, wrote 'Green Pastures' Associated Press NEW YORK Marc Connelly, the playwright whose classic "The Green Pastures" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1930, died yesterday in St. Luke's Hospital at 90. Mr. Connelly was a prolific writer for the stage who also directed and acted. He also wrote musical lyrics, novels, short stories, and for the screen and television.

His works include the 1926 play "The Wisdom the 1965 novel "A Souvenir From his memoirs in 1968, entitled "Voices off and the comedy Men in Flight" in 1968. He wrote and directed "The Green Pastures" in 1930 and directed it again on Broadway in 1951. It also appeared on television's Hallmark Hall of Fame program in 1957. Ralph E. Runels, 93 Owned Lowell construction firm LOWELL Ralph E.

Runels, former president of the R.E. Runels Construction Co. of Lowell, died in his home Friday. He was 93. Mr.

Runels founded the R.E. Runels Construction Co. of Lowell in 1921 and was president of that company until his retirement in 1967. Some of the structures his company built were the Bethany Congregational Church, Quincy, the University of Lowell Library on the north campus, the Lowell Cooperative Bank and the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank. Born in Lowell, Mr.

Runels was graduated from Lowell High School in 1906 a and received his engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1911. 1916 he founded, along with his associates, the Runels and Wyman Co. of Patent Developers in New York. Among the many patents his company developed was one for the Claxon horn that was the Model Ford. He was the superintendent of the Lowell Water Department from 1936 to 1942 and he was credited with saving the machinery at the filtration plant when the city was flooded in 1936.

Mr. Runels was a former vice president and a member of the board of directors of the Lowell Cooperative Bank, a former president of the Merrimack River Bank and was a trustee of Lowell General Hospital for 60 years. He leaves his wife, Maud (Fuller) White Runels; three stepdaughters, Shirley W. West of Grafton, Natalie Barron of Scottsdale, and Jane Wilcox of West Hartford, 14 grandchildren; and four great -grandchildren. Memorial services are planned for January.

Robert E. Dorr, at 64; official with Boy Scouts Services will be conducted at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Martha Mary Chapel, Wayside Inn road, Sudbury, for Robert E. Dorr, of Lincoln, area director of the Northeast Region of the Boy Scouts of America. He died Friday in his home after a long illness.

Born in LeMars, Iowa, Mr. Dorr started his career in scouting in 1943 in the Prairie Gold Area Council, Fort Dodge, Iowa. He served as a scout executive for the Northeast Iowa Council in Dubuque 1949-55 and for the Southwest Iowa Council at Council Bluffs 1955-65. Mr. Dorr also served as deputy scout executive of the Mid-America Council until he joined the national staff of the Boy Scouts of America in 1970 as an assistant regional executive of Region 1 in New England.

In 19721 he became manager of the Boypower Service, Field Operations at the national headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. He held that position until July 1973 when he returned to New England as area director. Mr. Dorr played a major role in the merger of the Southwest Iowa Council and the Covered Wagon Council of Omaha, Neb. in 1965.

He leaves his wife, Mildred J. (Bogh); a son, James P. Dorr of Evanston, a brother, Eugene L. Dorr and a sister, Dorothy Franklin, both of Arizona; his mother, Jessie Ciff of Iowa, and a granddaugther. Burial will be in LeMars, Iowa.

Grace V. Sato, 94 Was active Cambridge Republican Services will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Cambridge, for Grace V. (Woods) Sato, 94, of Cambridge.

She died yesterday in her home after a long illness. Born in Cambridge, Mrs. Sato was graduated from Cambridge High and Latin School. When she married Takayuki Y. Sato in 1915, she lost her citizenship and her right to vote.

Until that time she had been the warden in charge of her polling district for the Republican Club of Cambridge, and had been active in the women's rights movement. During the depression years, Mrs. Sato directed a public works program at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Cambridge, where clothes were made for people who could not afford to buy them. She regained her citizenship and her right to vote in 1938 when her husband died.

Mrs. Sato then returned to her job as a warden for the Republican Club. She worked for the Watertown Arsenal for three years during World War II, and during that period she was named Mother of the Year for the City of Cambridge. She leaves a son, Takayuki Yaokawa four daughters, M. Tamao Denniston of Cambridge, Shigao Ambush of Worcester, Takako Salvi of Cambridge and Sadako Holmes of Malden; 17 grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren.

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FOR ANYWHERE! $239' 96 GREAT SAVINGS ON. Electronic Panasonic Department Congregations unite for racial harmony Frank G. Fripp, 88 BRONXVILLE, N.Y. Frank Giles Fripp, 88, a retired sales executive, formerly of the Boston area, died yesterday in his home in Bronxville, N.Y. He was born in Albany, N.Y., attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was graduated from Harvard in 1916.

As a young man he lived in Newton, and at Harvard he was a third baseman on the baseball team that defeated the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game. He also was a gifted squash player and golfer. At Harvard he was a member of the Phoenix Club and the Varsity Club. He was a lieutenant in the Army in France during World War I. Mr.

Fripp was a sales executive for the General Railway Signal Co. in New York for 35 years, retiring in 1961. He leaves a son, William J. Fripp, a reporter for The Boston Globe; a daughter, Elizabeth Bennett of Washington, D.C.; five grandchildren; and a greatgrandchild. Services will be held in Albany, N.Y.

August L. Kuntz. 87 Was maitre d' at Boston hotels A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow I CHURCH Rev. Colman, acting as host, asked in Sacred Heart Church, Roslindale, for August L.

Continued from Page 21 each of the visitors to stand up and Kuntz, 87, of Roslindale, a former maitre d' for sev- Retha D. Hill, of the Grove Hall identify herself or himself. They came eral hotels in Boston. He died Saturday in Faulkner area, said she felt racial harmony in from Brookline, Newton and Brighton, Hospital in Jamaica Plain after a long illness. the city was improving, especially in as well as the South End.

Mr. Kuntz was born in Paris, and came to this the South End. Gatherings like this Fr. Laplante said after the service country when he was 17 years old. He was a medi- one, she said, "are the root of it." that the Baptists treat "God's house cal sergeant in the US Army during World War I.

is a need to spread out and like it was their He was known as Mr. Leon when he worked as a learn traditions, especially for the maitre d' at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel from 1928 to children. The old-timers can take care Dick Elliott of Boston said he feels 1939. He later worked at the Somerset Hotel and the of themselves." she said. there is a need for services like this for Hotel Vendome.

He retired from the Vendome in The choir from Our Lady of Victo- blacks and whites to "cross over and 1960 to become a part-time librarian for the New- ries was met with enthusiasm and get to know each man Preparatory School in Boston. He retired from warmth as they sang several songs the school in 1970. during the service. During a particu- "We certainly won't get to know each other unless we give ourselves a He leaves a son, Vincent L. Kuntz of Dedham; larly upbeat song entitled "Joy Is The three daughters, Rose Anne of Roslindale, Margaret Flag That Flies In My Heart," parish- chance," he said.

Killoran of Abington and Marie L. Dupuis of Fra- loners clapped and tapped their feet. Allen White of the South End said mingham; four grandchildren and six great-grand- Laura Jefferson of the South End "once we get it together in the church, children. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery, thought the service was friendlier we can go out and get people outside Mattapan. than the Catholic the church Just when you need it is when you have it least.

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