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OBITUARIES THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1997 A9 BEATRICE STAUFFER Love of learning becomes lasting legacy 1 -P. I 1 1 Actor Charles Hallahan is perhaps best remembered as the police captain on the Hunter television series. Mr. Hallahan, often cast as a cop because of his rugged Irish countenance, played Capt Charlie Devane opposite Fred Dryer's Det Sgt Rick Hunter on Hunter from 1986 to 1991 and again in the 1995 television movie, The Return of Hunter. Mr.

Hallahan also appeared on such TV shows as Lou Grant, Trapper John, Hill Street Blues and The Paper Chase. His movie credits included character roles in Nightwing, Going in Style, Hide in Plain Sight, Twilight Zone The Movie, Silkwood, Vision Quest, Pale Rider, Dave and Body of Evidence. He died Nov. 25 of an apparent heart attack while driving his car. He was 54.

Audree Neva Wilson was the mother of three founding members of the Beach Boys. Her sons Dennis, Carl and Brian were the nucleus of the group that led the surf music wave in the 1960s. Mrs. Wilson tried to sue HarperCollins earlier this year for publishing her son Brian's autobiography, but a judge ruled it did not damage her reputation. Brian Wilson wrote in Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story that his mother watched passively as his father beat him as a child.

Mrs. Wilson is survived by sons Brian and Carl, and nine grandchildren, including pop singers Carnie and Wendy Wilson. She was 80. Well known for his acting in Second World War-based films of the 1940s and 1950s, such as God Is My Co-Pilot, Warren Douglas was also a successful screenwriter, lyricist and novelist. Some of the films he appeared in included Destination Tokyo, The Pride of the Marines, The Magnificent Rogue and Homicide for Three.

Mr. Douglas continued acting into the 1950s but began concentrating on writing novels, screenplays and teleplays for Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Lassie. He wrote two novels, The Man from Wells Fargo and One Came Alone. His 48 screenplays included the films Dragoon Wells Massacre, Jack Slade and The Night of the Grizzly. He was 86.

Adelma Grenier Simmons, called "the first lady of herbs" by the International Herb Association, was the author of dozens of books on herbs. She used her farm, founded in 1929, the Caprilands Herb Farm in Coventry, Connecticut, as a school of herbal lore and history. For decades, she delivered a one-hour lecture five days a week to visitors, who were then treated to an herbal lunch in the dining room of her colonial house. With the publication of Herb Gardening in Five Seasons in 1963, Caprilands and Mrs. Simmons herself assumed the dimensions of institutions.

She was 93. Citizen news services By Pat Bell The Ottawa Citizen Beatrice Stauffer didn't start her university studies until she was 64. But by the time she had completed her master's degree in 1980, she had made herself right at home on the Carleton University campus. So much at home in fact that during her final year there she practically lived in the little office she shared with another graduate student in the English department It was no big deal being a squatter on one floor of the Arts Tower, her son Ian recalls. Already able to sleep sitting up in a chair, she'd take some extra clothes and food from her home in Stittsville and very happily work away on her thesis on Ernest Hemingway.

At home her study space was a chair totally surrounded with hundreds of books, an area she dubbed her cockpit. She taught herself Spanish and Latin and pounded out essays on her typewriter, working year round until all her courses were completed. Born in Hoddlesden, Lancashire in 1910, Mrs. Stauffer died Tuesday in Ottawa. Her love of learning will be the lasting legacy for family members.

And a bursary to be established at Carleton University in her name will help other students pursue their goals. The bursary will be for mature students, under the age of 65, who are experiencing financial difficulty. The university already waives fees for those over 65. "Some people leave monuments. My mother left hundreds of people feeling better," says her youngest child, Ian, who was born a few years after his father came home from the war front.

"I don't know how she did it, but she was always able to be happy. When she went to university with students young enough to be her children or grandchildren she just continued on making more and more friends." From September 1939 to April 1945 Mrs. Stauffer was on her own raising three daughters. Her husband Jack, a radar technician, was one of the first to volunteer for war duty and because of his expertise in a newly-evolving system, she was told he'd either come home or be killed because the Allies couldn't afford to allow him to be captured and risk his knowledge falling into enemy hands. But this wasn't the first hardship she had faced.

When Beatrice DuRussel Torrance arrived in Canada at the age of three her father carried her off the ship, carefully concealing under his coat the heavy iron brace encasing one of her tiny legs. He feared immigration officials, spotting a disability, might refuse entry to his youngest daughter who had contracted polio before her second birthday. Her family figures all the immigration officials noticed in 1913 was her happy smile. The family settled in southwestern Ontario. Even after a series of braces and an operation, she lived with a severe limp her whole life.

But that neither slowed her down nor embittered her in any way. One of the first women in Canada to earn her amateur radio operator's licence, she and Jack spoke to the world under call sign VE3DF. After the war, he worked in the early development of microwave technology and in 1959 joined the federal government, bringing the family to Ottawa. A bursary, aimed at helping mature students pursue their goals, is being established at Carleton University in Beatrice Stauffer's memory. vived by daughters Diane and Valorie and her son Ian.

A funeral service was held yesterday. Those wishing to make a contribution to the Carleton bursary in Beatrice Stauffer's memory may write directly to the Carleton University Development Office, 1123 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa KiS 5B6. OTAHORA Anti-communist fought for human rights I I fli iwi i kiiiilj Ota Hora was a fervent anti-communist, a tireless freedom-fighter and human rights campaigner. A former member of parliament under the Czech free government of the 1940s, Mr. Hora fled to Canada in 1949 after the communists seized power in 1948.

A leading member of the Czechoslovak community in Canada, he devoted his life to fighting for democracy. Unable to speak English or French, he settled for odd jobs working in a laundry, repair IIORA ing ski boots while he studied. He qualified as an accountant, becoming director of finance for an electronics company. A writer in his homeland, he wrote books and countless articles cataloguing human rights abuses in Czechoslovakia and other communist countries, organized rallies and spoke at anti-communist rallies. While others despaired and gave up for hope of ever beating back the frontiers of communism, Mr.

Hora never wavered. Once described by associates as a "fanatic for freedom," he believed that the yearning for freedom would slay the communism dragon. He was right. A diminutive man, Mr. Hora had the heart of a lion.

His life, in fact, was a triumph of the human spirit against near-impossible odds. In 1990, after the communists were swept from power, Ota Hora returned to a free Czechoslovakia to address a massive pro-democracy rally in Wenceslaus square in Prague. They moved to the Stittsville area in 1963 where Beatrice Stauffer immediately became involved in both the his'-torical and horticultural societies. For many years she wrote for the Stittsville News both a gardening column and weekly poems about the beauty in nature. She was predeceased by her husband and daughter Joan and is sur el's parents risked their lives for three days by hiding Mr.

Hora while his friends plotted his escape. He finally escaped to Bavaria, leaving behind a wife and a young son. He was sentenced to death in absentia and several of his colleagues were hanged. Eventually, his wife and son joined him and the three found their way to Canada. Once here, Mr.

Hora simply resumed his crusade. He used to say that living in a free country like Canada made it impossible for him to accept LANG Senate in 1994. Mr. Lang studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He graduated from Osgoode Hall law school in 1941 and served in the naval reserve before joining his father's firm when he was called to the bar in 1947.

His father, Daniel Webster Lang, was a partner in Lang Michener, one of the city's top law firms. Roland Michener, the other partner, went on to become Speaker of the House of Commons and Governor General. Mr. Lang was one of the senators who caused grief to the Mulroney government. In his attacks on the GST, he called MPs who voted for the tax "automatons" who vote the wny their party whips tell them to.

"It's not a democracy in the Commons at all," he said during the debate. When Mr. Mulroney asked Senators to join MPs in a joint committee on the Meech Luke Accord, Mr. Lang said: "This is the invitation of the spider to the fly. We as a Senate will have been co-opted into the proceedings of the House of Commons." oppression anywhere.

His abiding dream was to set foot again in a free Czechoslovakia and walk hand-in-hand with his beloved Ludmilla along Prague's famed Wenceslaus Square. In 1990, only months after the communists were swept from power, Mr. Hora fulfilled his dream, returning triumphantly to Prague with his wife and son to stroll on the Wenceslaus. As icing on the cake, he addressed a massive pro-democracy rally in the square. But the crowning glory of his life occurred in 1992 when Mr.

Havel, in a twist of irony, awarded him the highest honour in Czechoslovakia, the Order of Masaryk, for his outstanding contributions to human rights and democracy. Mr. Hora's hope was to live until Feb. 25, 1998, the 50th anniversary of the communist takeover. It was not to happen.

But out of respect, his wife and son have decided that Mr. Hora will be buried in Prague on that date. "He was trying to live until that day, but if he had been alive, he couldn't have been there because he was too weak to travel," his son Ota, said. "But in death, he will be there." Mr. Hora died of heart failure at the St.

Vincent Hospital, a chronic care centre run by the Sisters of Charity. He was 88. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Ludmilla, his son Ota, and two grandsons, Michael and Alan. A memorial service will be held for him at the Unitarian church, 30 Cleary on Saturday, Dec. 13.

The Ottawa Citizen integrity Daniel Lang was a Liberal backroom politician who felt the only democracy was in the Senate. Mr. Lang is survived by his wife, Frances; four children: John Daniel, David, Nancy and Janet; and nine grandchildrea He was 78. 77ie Ottawa Citizen 1.1 ,11 I III I' GERALD UTTING Reporter thrived in world's trouble spots He was what every newspaper person strives to be: fearless in the path of danger and relentless in pursuit of truth. Gerald (Gerry) Utting, who travelled to almost every danger spot in the world during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and who could talk authoritatively on almost any subject, died in hospital Friday at the age of 64 after battling diabetes and cancer.

During his career as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, he set the standard in Canadian journalism and picked up two National Newspaper Awards, Canada's top journalism honour, along the way. "He laboured tirelessly in the most dangerous spots in the world so we could have our news in the morning," said Michael Peiri, the Star's foreign editor during Mr. Utting's rise to prominence. "His approach to every story was indefatigable," Mr. Peiri said.

"He approached every story with skepticism and wasn't satisfied until his work contained the absolute truth of any issue." During his career, danger was a constant companion. Mr. Utting was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon, shot in Cyprus, travelled with Vietnamese boat people and was forced to his knees at gunpoint in Afghanistan only to have his attackers shoot over his head. But Mr. Utting's worst experience came in 1977, when he flew to Uganda to interview dictator Idi Amin, who ruled his country with an iron fist and was deeply suspicious of the foreign press.

Upon arrival, Mr. Utting was thrown into a blood-splattered jail cell, where he remained for 22 days. But he got what he came for: near the end of his confinement, he was granted five hours of interviews with the dictator. Mr. Utting was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1933.

He began his newspaper career at the Auckland Star at the age of 17 and worked at two Australian papers before joining the Toronto Star In i960. He leaves his wife Avalinda and brother Joha The Ottawa Citizen Senator remembered for hard work, As a young parliamentarian, he was an unabashed anti-communist. It was not surprising that when the communist staged their coup d'etat in February, 1948, he was among the most wanted. He spent the first few agonizing days of communist rule hiding in the Cuban embassy. But with the communist security personnel closing in, friends moved him to the home of the parents of Vaclav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 'Velvet Revolution' in 1989.

Mr. Hav DANIEL followed what he asked because you trusted his motives and his judgments. He remained beyond personal reproach," Liberal Senator Jerry Graf-stein said last week in a tribute to Mr. Lang in the Senate. "He felt the that the Senate was the supreme source of sober second thought and that he could better serve the country by being free of party restraints, though he never ceased to consider himself other than a liberal member of the Liberal Party," Senator Grafstein said.

But Mr. Lang objected to many of the Liberal tinkerings with Canadian traditions. For example, he was a vehement and vocal opponent of the Trudeau government's decision to change the name of Dominion Day to Canada Day. He also argued that Mr. Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Freedoms would transfer power from the country's legislatures to the courts.

When the Trudeau government went ahead with putriation in 1981, Mr, Lang sat as an independent. lie retired from the Daniel Lang was a Liberal backroom politician who spent 30 years trying to improve the Senate. One of Toronto's most powerful lawyers, Mr. Lang came to believe that "the only democracy is in the Senate," because of the heavy hand used by political parties to keep members of the House of Commons in line. Through most of his Senate term, which ended three years ago, Mr.

Lang sat as an independent so that he could be free to vote his conscience on controversial bills. Mr. Lang, along with Keith Davey, Koyce Frith and John Aird, re-built the Liberal organization in Toronto during the Diefenbaker administration, paving the way for the first Pearson minority government. lln worked for Lester Pearson as federal campaign chairman in Ontario in the elections of 1962 and 1963. Mr.

Pearson appointed him to the Senate in 1964. "His hard work, honesty, cool analysis, tactical skills and humour made him a model machine politician. You.