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Bandeleer, Betty, 96, died
Sunday. Services pending.
Kennedy-Midtown.
Colpitt, Charles H. “Chuck” Jr.,
57, C.H. Colpitt Drilling Co.
owner, died Saturday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Tuesday,
St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Ninde Brookside.
Finley, Verna L., 62, home
day-care provider, died
Saturday. Services pending.
Add’Vantage.
Gibbens, Tommy J., 85, printer,
died Friday. Service 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Moore’s Southlawn
Funeral Home Chapel.
Hazley, Velda Gayle, 78, seamstress, died Thursday. Visitation noon-7 p.m. Friday, Keith
D. Biglow Funeral Home, and
service 11 a.m. Saturday, First
Baptist Church North Tulsa.
Hodge, Ronald, 56, died Sunday. Services pending. Keith
D. Biglow.
Ramkaran, Damian Mark, 28,
Oklahoma State University
medical student, died Friday.
Visitation 5-7 p.m. Monday,
Bixby Funeral Service, Bixby,
and service 10 a.m. Thursday,
RiverCrest Chapel, Bixby.
Standridge, G.W., 90, died
Saturday. Graveside service
11 a.m. Tuesday, Memory
Gardens Memorial Park Cemetery Pavilion, McAlester.
Bishop, McAlester.
Zaller, Andrew B., 69, retired
Booker T. Washington art
teacher, died Sunday. Services pending. Add’Vantage.
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Bartlesville — Billy Sells, 63,
died Sunday. Services pending. Powell, Hominy.
Beggs — Gregory A. Wynkoop,
56, died Saturday in Tulsa.
Services pending. Integrity,
Henryetta.
Bixby — Johnnie J. Harvey, 73,
retired from Fabricut Inc.,
died Saturday. Services pending. Add’Vantage, Tulsa.
— Johanna V. Simpson, 83,
retired Spartan School of
Aeronautics secretary, died
Saturday. Visitation 4-7
p.m. Monday, Bixby Funeral
Service, and service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, First Baptist Church.
Bristow — Judy Ann Towler,
61, homemaker, died Sunday.
Visitation noon-5 p.m.
Monday, Hutchins-Maples
Funeral Home. No services
planned.
Catoosa — Michael Morgan
Sr., 41, retired, died Friday in
Tulsa. Service 1 p.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church of
Rolling Hills, Tulsa. KennedyKennard.
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BIRTHS
(Tulsans unless indicated)
Saint Francis Hospital
Emily and Larry Atkerson Jr.,
Collinsville, boy.
Brittany Church and Josh
Metcalf, boy.
Kelli and Chris Laughlin,
Henryetta, boy.
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Cleveland — Todd Hester, 51,
Southwest Energy employee,
died Saturday. Services pending. Chapman-Black.
— Louise Owens, 86, homemaker, died Sunday. Services
pending. Chapman-Black.
Colcord — Clara L. Hughes, 77,
homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Grand Lake, Jay.
Henryetta — Dennis LaMonte
Coates, 56, retired heavyequipment operator, died
Friday in Cleveland, Okla.
Services pending. ChristianGavlik, Broken Arrow.
Hitchita — Daniel M. Russell,
61, died Sunday in Henryetta.
Services pending. Integrity,
Henryetta.
Kansas — Ada V. Versteep, 81,
homemaker, died Friday. No
services planned. Reed-Culver,
Tahlequah.
Mannford — Linda Lee Patrick
Mills, 66, licensed practical
nurse, died Friday in Tulsa.
Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First
Baptist Church, Drumright.
Don Smith, Drumright.
Muskogee — Virginia Black, 78,
homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Cornerstone.
Owasso — Patrick Miles Scholl,
44, retail sales representative,
died Friday. Visitation 4-8
p.m. Monday, Mowery Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Freedom Church.
Park Hill — Lewis “Pa” Justus,
91, Tahlequah Lumber Co.
sales representative, died
Thursday in Tulsa. Memorial
graveside service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Tahlequah City Cemetery,
Tahlequah. Reed-Culver,
Tahlequah.
Pryor — Anna Colclazier, 82,
homemaker, died Sunday. Services pending. Shipman’s.
— John A. O’Bar, 69, Hamil
Trucking worker, died Saturday.
Visitation 7-9 p.m. Monday,
Shipman’s Funeral Home,
and graveside service 3 p.m.
Tuesday, Old Adair Cemetery,
Adair.
Sand Springs — Joseph Fanning,
59, died Sunday. Services
pending. Dillon & Smith.
— Arvoicsal Richard Tig “Art”
Phelan, 77, retired A&J Service
and Appliance Sales owner,
died Saturday in Tulsa. Services pending. Mobley-Dodson.
Skiatook — Calton L. Chapman
Jr., 40, Oklahoma Natural Gas
foreman, died Saturday. Service 10 a.m. Thursday, South
Mission Free Holiness Church,
Broken Arrow. Peters-Stumpf.
Vinita — Questa Eunice Alred,
96, retired from Eastern State
Hospital, died Saturday. Services pending. Luginbuel.
Wagoner — Renee A. Lewis,
80, retail sales worker, died
Sunday. Services pending.
Add’Vantage, Tulsa.
— Richard Masters, 87, retired
from Postal Service, died
Saturday. Graveside service 11
a.m. Tuesday, New Hope Cemetery, Hulbert. Shipman.
Polish pianist, composer
Wojciech Kilar dies at 81
Wojciech Kilar, a Polish pianist and composer of
classical music and scores
for many films, including
Roman PoU.S.-WORLD l a n s k i ’ s
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ning “The
Pianist”
and Francis Ford Coppola’s
“Bram Stoker’s Dracula,”
died Sunday in Katowice,
southern Poland. He was 81.
“The power and the message of his music, as well
as the noble character of
Wojciech Kilar as a person,
will stay in my memory forever,” said Jerzy Kornowicz,
head of the Association of
Polish Composers.
Polish film director Kazimierz Kutz said working
with Kilar “was pure pleasure. He would come, see my
movie and a month later he
would bring extremely good
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music that was always beyond my expectations.”
Polish conductor Antoni
Wit praised Kilar’s generosity, saying he “liked to share
whatever he had with others.”
Kilar’s main love was
composing symphonies and
concertos, and he always
put that above movies, even
though he wrote the scores
of dozens of films. He drew
inspiration from Polish folk
music and religious prayers
and hymns, which he had
learned in Latin as an altar
boy. But it was film music,
especially for Coppola’s
1992 erotic horror movie,
that brought this prolific
vanguard composer to the
world’s attention and commissions from other celebrity directors, including Jane
Campion and her “Portrait
of a Lady.”
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Melissa and Brandon McBride,
Bristow, girl.
Katy and Luke Phillips, Jenks,
boy.
Leah and Lyndon Spears, Morris, girl.
Melissa and Chad Weber, girl.
Peggy V. Helmerich
Women’s Health Center
Sarah and Andrew Justice,
twins, girl and boy.
Saying goodbye to those who died in 2013
This is the second and final
installment in a roundup of notable
people who died in 2013. The first
installment appeared in Saturday’s
newspaper.
BY BERNARD MCGHEE
Associated Press
Boggs
A host of celebrities, politicians and other notable
personalities died in 2013, including a man whose invention you may hold as you read
this. Doug Engelbart, who
died in July, invented the computer mouse.
Here is a roll
call of some of Gandolfini
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MAY
Chris Kelly, 34.
Half of the 1990s kid rap duo
Kris Kross who made one of
the decade’s most memorable
songs with “Jump.” May 1. Drug
overdose.
Jef Hanneman, 49. Founding member of the pioneering
metal band Slayer whose career
was irrevocably changed after a
spider bite. May 2. Liver failure.
Otis R. Bowen, 95. Small-town
doctor who overhauled Indiana’s
tax system as governor before
helping promote safe sex practices in the early years of AIDS
as the top health oicial under
President Ronald Reagan. May 4.
Giulio Andreotti, 94. Seventime premier and a symbol of
postwar Italy. May 6.
Jeanne Cooper, 84. Soap
opera star who played grande
dame Katherine Chancellor for
nearly four decades on “The
Young and the Restless.” May 8.
Malcolm Shabazz, 28. Grandson of Malcolm X who at age 12,
set a ire that killed the political
activist’s widow. May 9. Injuries
from being beaten.
Boruch Spiegel, 93. One of the
last survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly
armed Jewish insurgents against
the powerful Nazi German force
that occupied Poland. May 9.
Joyce Brothers, 85. Pop
psychologist who pioneered the
television advice show in the
1950s and enjoyed a long career
as a syndicated columnist, author, and TV personality. May 13.
Billie Sol Estes, 88. Flamboyant Texas huckster who became
notorious in 1962 when accused
of looting a federal crop subsidy
program. May 14.
Valtr Komarek, 82. Left-wing
Czech politician who helped
overthrow the country’s communist regime and was one of
the most visible faces of the
so-called “Velvet Revolution.”
May 16.
Jorge Rafael Videla, 87. Former Argentine dictator who took
power in a 1976 coup and led a
military junta that killed thousands in a dirty war to eliminate
so-called “subversives,” May 17.
Ken Venturi, 82. Golf star who
overcame dehydration to win
the 1964 U.S. Open and spent
35 years in the booth for CBS
Sports. May 17.
Ray Manzarek, 74. Founding
member of the 1960s rock group
The Doors whose versatile
and often haunting keyboards
complemented Jim Morrison’s
gloomy baritone. May 20.
Cancer.
Jack Vance, 96. Awardwinning mystery, fantasy and
science iction author who wrote
more than 60 books. May 26.
Jean Stapleton, 90. Stagetrained character actress who
played Archie Bunker’s far better
half, the sweetly naive Edith,
in TV’s groundbreaking 1970s
comedy “All in the Family.” May
31.
JUNE
Chen Xitong, 82. As Beijing’s
mayor, he backed the military
crackdown on the Tiananmen
Square democratic movement
but later expressed regret for the
loss of life. June 2.
Frank Lautenberg, 89. Multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and the last World War II
veteran remaining in the U.S.
Senate. June 3.
David “Deacon” Jones, 74.
Hall of Fame defensive end
O’Toole
Price
Reed
Siebert
Stapleton
Thomas
Walker
Whitman
E. Williams
L. Young
credited with coining the word
sack for how he knocked down
quarterbacks. June 3.
Rev. Will Campbell, 88. White
minister who drew acclaim for
his involvement in the civil rights
movement. June 3.
Esther Williams, 91. Swimming champion-turned-actress
who starred in glittering, aquatic
Technicolor musicals of the
1940s and 1950s. June 6.
Pierre Mauroy, 84. As France’s
prime minister in the early
1980s, he implemented radical
social reforms that made life
easier for French workers. June
7.
Richard Ramirez, 53. Serial
killer known as the Night Stalker
who left satanic signs at murder
scenes during a reign of terror in
the 1980s. June 7. Liver failure.
Iain Banks, 59. Scottish writer
who alternately wowed and
disturbed readers with his dark
jokes and narrative tricks. June
9.
Michael Hastings, 33. Awardwinning journalist and war
correspondent whose unlinching reporting ended the career
of a top American army general.
June 18. Car accident.
James Gandolini, 51. Actor
whose portrayal of a brutal but
emotionally delicate crime boss
in HBO’s “The Sopranos” turned
the mobster stereotype on its
head. June 19. Heart attack.
Slim Whitman, 90. Country
singer who sold millions of
records through TV ads in the
1980s and 1990s and whose
song saved the world in the ilm
comedy “Mars Attacks!” June 19.
Vince Flynn, 47. Best-selling
author who wrote the Mitch
Rapp counterterrorism thriller
series. June 19. Cancer.
Bobby “Blue” Bland, 83. Singer
who blended Southern blues and
soul in songs such as “Turn on
Your Love Light” and “Further On
Up the Road.” June 23.
Richard Matheson, 87. Proliic
sci-i and fantasy writer whose “I
Am Legend” and “The Shrinking Man” were transformed into
ilms. June 23.
Marc Rich, 78. Trader known
as the “King of Commodities”
whose 2001 pardon by President
Bill Clinton just hours before he
left oice prompted ierce criticism. June 26.
Jim Kelly, 67. Actor who
played a glib American martial
artist in “Enter the Dragon” with
Bruce Lee. June 29. Cancer.
JULY
William H. Gray III, 71. He
rose to inluential positions in
Congress and was the irst black
majority whip. July 1.
Charles “Chuck” Foley, 82. His
Twister game launched decades
of awkward social interactions at
parties. July 1.
Princess Fawzia, 92. Member
of Egypt’s last royal family and
the irst wife of Iran’s laterdeposed monarch. July 2.
Doug Engelbart, 88. Visionary who invented the computer
mouse and developed other
technology that has transformed
the way people work, play and
communicate. July 2.
Amar Bose, 83. Acoustic pioneer and founder and chairman
of an audio technology company
known for the rich sound of its
tabletop radios and its noisecanceling headphones. July 12.
Cory Monteith, 31. Actor on
the television show “Glee” who
had struggled for years with
substance abuse. July 13. Overdose of heroin and alcohol.
Willie Louis, 76. Witness who
went into hiding after testifying
at the Emmett Till trial about
hearing the lynching victim’s
screams. July 18.
Helen Thomas, 92. Irrepressible White House correspondent
who used her seat in the front
row of history to grill nine presidents. July 20.
Dennis Farina, 69. Onetime
Chicago cop who as a popular
character actor played a TV cop
on “Law & Order” during his
wide-ranging career. July 22.
Emile Griith, 75. Elegant
world boxing champion whose
career was overshadowed by
the fatal beating he gave Bennie
Paret in a 1962 title bout that
darkened all of boxing. July 23.
Virginia Johnson, 88. Half of
the husband-wife research team
that transformed the study of
sex in the 1960s and wrote two
best-selling books on sexuality.
July 24.
George P. Mitchell, 94. Billionaire Texas oilman, developer
and philanthropist who was
considered the father of fracking. July 26.
Lindy Boggs, 97. Former
congresswoman and plantationborn Louisianan who fought for
civil rights during nearly 18 years
in Congress after succeeding
her late husband in the House.
July 27.
George “Bud” Day, 88. Medal
of Honor recipient who spent
5½ years as a POW in Vietnam
and was Arizona Sen. John McCain’s cellmate. July 27.
David “Kidd” Kraddick, 53.
High-octane radio and TV host
of the “Kidd Kraddick in the
Morning” show. July 27.
William Warren Scranton, 96.
Former Pennsylvania governor,
presidential candidate and ambassador to the United Nations.
July 28.
Harry F. Byrd, 98. Champion
of racial segregation and iscal
restraint who followed his father
into the U.S. Senate. July 30.
AUGUST
George Duke, 67. Grammywinning keyboardist and
producer whose sound infused
acoustic jazz, electronic jazz,
funk, R&B and soul in a 40-yearplus career. Aug. 5.
Stan Lynde, 81. Western cartoonist and author who created
the nationally syndicated “Rick
O’Shay” comic strip. Aug. 6.
Jack W. Germond, 85. Portly,
cantankerous columnist and
pundit who covered 10 presidential elections and sparred
with colleagues on TV’s “The
McLaughlin Group.” Aug. 14.
Bert Lance, 82. Georgia banker
who was President Jimmy Carter’s irst budget director before
departing amid an investigation
of his banking activities. Aug. 15.
Jacques Verges, 88. Flamboyant lawyer nicknamed the “Devil’s advocate” for his defense of
former Nazis, terrorist bombers
and notorious dictators. Aug. 15.
Albert Murray, 97. Inluential
novelist and critic who celebrated black culture, scorned separatism and was once praised by
Duke Ellington as the “unsquarest man I know.” Aug. 18.
Lee Thompson Young, 29. Actor who as a teenager starred in
“The Famous Jett Jackson” and
was featured in the ilm “Friday
Night Lights” and the TV series
“Rizzoli & Isles.” Aug. 19. Apparent suicide.
Elmore Leonard, 87. Crime
novelist whose best-sellers and
the movies made from them
chronicled the violent deaths of
many a thug. Aug. 20. Complications from a stroke.
C. Gordon Fullerton, 76. Former astronaut who lew on two
space shuttle missions and had
an extensive career as a research
and test pilot for NASA and the
Air Force. Aug. 21.
Julie Harris, 87. Muchhonored Broadway performer
whose roles ranged from the
lamboyant Sally Bowles in “I
Am a Camera” to the reclusive
Emily Dickinson in “The Belle of
Amherst.” Aug. 24.
Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, 84.
She started as a Wall Street
trainee and became the irst
woman to own a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange. Aug.
24.
Robert R. Taylor, 77. He put
soap in pump bottles and forever
changed the way people wash
up. Aug. 29. Cancer.
Seamus Heaney, 74. Ireland’s
foremost poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
Aug. 30.
David Frost, 74. Veteran
broadcaster who won fame
around the world for his interview with former President
Richard Nixon. Aug. 31.
SEPTEMBER
Judith Glassman Daniels, 74.
She blazed a trail for women in
the publishing world and became
the irst woman to serve as top
editor of Life magazine. Sept. 1.
Stomach cancer.
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