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10A The Journal Times Friday, June 12, 2015 OBITUARY LISTING Bukacek, Susan E. Davis, John W. DeMark, Rosemary Flohr, Jakob Hipsky, Linda Pinkert-Grover, Jan M. Smith, Rosemary John W. Davis PARIS, TN John W.

Da- vis, 68, of Paris, Tennessee (formerly of Racine), passed away peacefully Wednesday, January 21, 2015. The memorial gathering to celebrate life will be held on Saturday, June 13, 2015 11pm to 4pm with lunch being served at 12:30 pm at Banquet Hall, 3201 Rapids Dr. Linda (Hermansen) Hipsky FREDRICKSBURG, TX Age 62, died peacefully in her home on Saturday June 6th. Linda was born in Racine Wisconsin where she re- sided for most of her life, earning an associates de- gree in Interior Design at UW Parkside. She worked in the home furnishings industry for many years working with Pier 1, Scan- dinavian Design and Por- ters of Racine.

She was an expert knitt- ing needlecraft artist, running her own yarn store in She en- joyed Danish cooking, es- pecially excelling at Danish Christmas Kringles which she became known for throughout the communi- ties and churches she fre- quented. Most precious to her of all, she was the loving mother of three daughters, Kirsten Hipsky of Wil- liamsburg Massachusetts, Andrea (Greg) Humphrey of Sturtevant Wisconsin and Karen Hipsky Fred- ericksburg and one grand- son, Lemuel Humphrey, Sturtevant, Wi Linda Rick married in Racine, Wisconsin in May of 1980, resided in the Chicago suburban area for many years before moving to Racine and then to Fredericksburg. She is survived by her husband Rick, 3 daughters and one grandson. Also her brothers Gary (Mary Gates) Hermansen San Francisco, CA, Michael (Mary) Hermansen Shorewood, MN, Paul (Kathy) Hermansen Lan- caster, OH and sister Joan (Alan) Larsen Burling- ton, WI. She was preceded in death by her mother and father Annelise and Knud Hermansen.

Celebration of life will be held Saturday June 13, 2015 at Zion Lu- theran Church, 3805 Kinzie Wi at 4pm. Friends can meet with the family from 3pm until time of service. Cele- bration will also be held June 20, 2015 at Wild Ride Ministries in Harper Texas. In lieu of flowers Memo- rials may be made in her name to Lemmy Autism fund in care of Andrea Humphrey. Jan Marie Pinkert-Grover ROTHSCHILD Jan Ma- rie Pinkert-Grover, age 61, passed away in a tragic fire at her home on Wednes- day, June 3, 2015 in Roth- schild.

A memorial service will be held in the Draeger-Langendorf Fu- neral Home on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 11:00 am. Interment will follow in Sunset Ridge Memorial Park. Visitation will be in the funeral home on Sat- urday from 10-11 am. DRAEGER-LANGENDORF FUNERAL HOME CREMATORY 4600 County Line Rd. 552-9000 www.draeger-langendorf.com Rosemary DeMark (Nee: Webers) RACINE Age 88, passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Wheaton Francis- can All Saints Medical Center.

A Mass of Christian Bur- ial will be celebrated Mon- day, June 15, 2015, 11:00 A.M. at St. Paul the Apos- tle Catholic Church, 6400 Spring Street, with Rev. Terry Huebner officiating. Entombment will follow at Holy Cross Garden Mau- soleum, Hwy 32.

Relatives and friends may meet with the family Monday at the church from 9:30 A.M. until time of Mass at 11:00 A.M. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Association have been suggested. See Journal Times for full obituary no- tice. MARESH-MEREDITH AND ACKLAM FUNERAL HOME 803 MAIN ST.

RACINE, WI 53403 (262) 634-7888 Please send condolences to www.meredithfuneralhome.com. Jakob Flohr RACINE- Jakob Flohr, 23, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, June 9, 2015. Funeral services for Jake will be held at the funeral home on Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 4 p.m. with Rev. John Fleming officiating.

Relatives and friends are invited to meet with his family at the funeral home on Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m. until the time of the service at 4 p.m. Following the service a celebration of life will continue at the Moose Lodge. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the family who is establishing a fund for son, Grayson. A complete obituary will appear in Journal Times and the funeral home web site.

PURATH-STRAND FUNERAL HOME CREMATORY 3915 Douglas Avenue Racine, WI 53402 (262) 639-8000 www.purath-strand.com Susan E. Bukacek RACINE Susan E. Bukacek passed away Monday, June 1, 2015. A Celebration of life will be held at the fu- neral home Saturday, June 13, 2015, 1100 a.m., with Rev. Dr.

Tony Larsen offi- ciating. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the Resource Center, PO Box 1764, Ra- cine, WI 53401. MARESH-MEREDITH AND ACKLAM FUNERAL HOME 803 MAIN ST. RACINE, WI 53403 (262) 634-7888 Please send condolences to www.meredithfuneralhome.com Rosemary Smith OMAHA, NE Rosemary Smith, age 84, of Bluffs, passed away June 7, 2015 at Good Samaritan Nurs- ing Home in Millard, Ne- braska. A visitation for Rosemary will be held at the funeral home on Saturday morn- ing, June 13, 2015 from 9:30 a.m.

until 10:30 a.m. The Funeral Service will be held at St. Mesrob Arme- nian Apostolic Church on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. with Reverend Father Yeprem Kelegian and Dea- con Stan Sheridan offici- ating. Interment will fol- low at Graceland Ceme- tery with a lunch following at the church.

The family will direct memorial con- tributions. PURATH-STRAND FUNERAL HOME CREMATORY 3915 Douglas Ave. Racine, WI (262) 639-8000 www.purath-strand.com IN LOVING MEMORY OF STEVE CASE On Our 50th Wedding Anniversary Missing you so much. FTOWLYS "Love what you have. Accept what you receive.

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Monument Square, Sixth and Main streets, 11:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m., free. FISH FRY: Eagles Club, 319 Hamilton 5-9 p.m. Sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles Racine Aerie 281. BOHEMIAN FEST: St. John Nepomuk Parish, 1923 Green 5-11 p.m., free.

Also June 13-14. RELAY FOR LIFE: Racine Zoo, 200 Goold 6 p.m. WEEKLY FOLK DANCING: Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, 2417 Drexel p.m. $1, free to newcomers. LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT: Guido at Italian Supper Club, 1300 Sheridan Road, Somers, 6-9 p.m., no cover; Full Circle at Beachside Oasis at North Beach, 100 Kewaunee 6-9 p.m., no cover; Dave Braun Trio at Hobnob Restaurant, 277 Sheridan Road, Somers, 7-10 p.m., no cover; Full Flavor at OMG, 6337 Douglas Caledonia, 8 p.m.-midnight, no cover; Test 1-2 Band at Henry 501 Sixth 8 p.m.- midnight, no cover; Duosonic at Harbor Lite Yacht Club, 559 State 8 p.m.-midnight; The Driveway Thriftdwellers at Tavern, 1201 N.

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For more information, call 262-631-1767. CHARLES J. GANS Associated Press NEW YORK Jazz leg- end Ornette Coleman, the visionary saxophonist and composer who pioneered and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, has died. Publicist Ken Wein- stein says Coleman died on Thursday at 1 a.m. in Manhattan.

He was 85. The Texas-born Cole- man was only the sec- ond jazz artist to win the Pulitzer in music when he was honored for his 2006 album Coleman is regarded as one of the greatest inno- vators in jazz history along with Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. In the late 1950s, he originated challenging the bebop establishment by abandoning the con- ventional song form and liberating musicians to freely improvise off of the melody rather than the underlying chord changes. Coleman broke down the barrier between leader and sidemen, giving his band members freedom to solo, interact and develop their ideas. Though largely self- taught, Coleman would create his own concept of music, which also became a life philosophy.

The music derived from a uniquely free interaction between the musicians, with out being tethered to rigid metric or harmonic structure. want everyone to have an equal relation- ship to the Cole- man told the AP in a 2007 interview. tell them what or how to play. Sometimes the drum is leading, sometimes the bass is leading. I think the leader, just paying the I i a te yea rs, a re vo i ary became a respected elder statesman with the accompanying honors, including membership in the elite American Acad- emy of Arts and Letters, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master award, and a Grammy i fe i a i eve award, even though none of his recordings ever won a Grammy.

his prodigious saxophone skills, impro- visational prowess and innovative compositions, Ornette Coleman was a true pioneer of jazz in Neil Portnow, president and CEO of the Recording Academy which presents the Gram- mys, said in a statement: But early in his career, unconven- tional playing led him to be rejected by both the public and his fellow musicians who would walk off the stage when he showed up at jam ses- sions. Coleman was told he played out-of-tune and know the basics of jazz improvisation. One incident remained deeply ingrained in his memory: The night circa 1950 when the saxophon- ist was playing with an band at a Louisiana road house and his solo stopped the dancers in their tracks. Coleman was dragged outside the club, roughed up and his horn was thrown over a cliff. guy kicked me in my stomach and said, play like He even know what I was recalled Coleman in the AP inter- view.

think with dance music the rhythm that people like and I was just playing musical ideas. But I really did grow when I realized that all music uses the same notes whether classical or religious or funk. And when I real- ized that I decided to take my beatings until I can establish where peo- ple can say, beat him, i re re je i Coleman moved to Los Angeles in 1952 where he got a job as a department store elevator operator, studying music theory on his breaks. Coleman, who a decade before the Beatles had shoulder-length hair and a beard, soon found a like- minded group of musi- cians, including bassist Charlie Haden, who had performed in his fam- bluegrass band back in Missouri; Don Cherry, who played a tiny pocket trumpet, and drummer Billy Higgins. first time I played with Ornette all of a sud- den the lights were turned on for Haden said.

Coleman recorded his first album in 1958. The new sound caught the atten- tion of the Modern Jazz pianist John Lewis, who called Cole- man only really new thing in jazz since Charlie Parker in the Lewis introduced Cole- man to Atlantic Records producer Nesuhi Ertegun, who released the aptly titled Shape of Jazz to in 1959 with pianoless quar- tet. The album included most famous composition the ballad with its bluesy wails reflecting the southern roots. The November 1959 New York debut of Cole- quartet with the leader playing his plastic alto saxophone at the Five Spot club on Man- Lower East Side set off a musical fire- storm. radi- cal new approach had its champions, including Leonard Bernstein.

But many leading jazz musi- cians denounced him as a charlatan. Miles Davis re a rke a sy- chologically, the man is all screwed up although he later recanted his opinion. a te man released a series of groundbreaking albums, including the 1961 double- quartet album, with a nearly 40-minute collective improvisation. Coleman credits his mother with giving him the strength to overcome the adversity he faced growing up in a largely segregated Fort Worth, Texas, where he was born on March 9, 1930. father died when he was 7, and his mother supported the family on her seamstress earnings.

She bought him his first saxophone when he was 14 from money he earned shining shoes and he taught himself how to play. As a teenager he was scolded by his church band leader for playing hot jazz licks on the saxohone. that time bebop was just being born and Charlie Parker was the main said Coleman. said, man, what kind of music is And I thought going to play Coleman once said in an interview that he could and sound like Char- lie Parker but decided he wanted to develop his own concep- tion of sound. In the early 1960s, Coleman largely left the scene for several years to teach himself to play trumpet and violin in an unorthodox style, giving himself a more colorful sound palette.

He stirred more contro- versy when he tapped his 10-year-old son Denardo to be the drummer in his quartet in 1966. Denardo would go on to play regu- larly in his bands, including the electric free- funk fusion band Prime Time formed in the 1970s. DEaThS BESON, Sarah Marie, 31 Burlington, June 9, Hospice Alliance, Pleasant Prairie, Schuette-Daniels Funeral Home and Crematory, Burlington. SMITH, Michael 53 Racine, June 9, Wheaton Franciscan-All Saints hospital, Maresh-Meredith and Acklam Funeral Home, Racine. GET NOTICED! Advertise Here! (262) 631-1748 Contact your Local Journal Times Ad Rep for more information Jazz legend Ornette Coleman remembered as The Associated Press U.S.

jazz legend Ornette Coleman plays the sax during his only concert in Germany at the philharmonic concert house in Essen, Germany on Feb. 14, 2007..