Obituaries in the news

Jean Schwinden

HELENA, Mont. (AP) _ Former Montana First Lady Jean Schwinden, who opened the governor's mansion to public tours and art showings, has died. She was 81.

Schwinden died Saturday at a family home in Phoenix after a two-year battle with cancer, her family said.

Schwinden's husband, Ted Schwinden, was governor of Montana from 1981-89. The couple met at an early age and were married 60 years.

As Montana's first lady starting in 1980, Jean Schwinden opened the governor's mansion to the public for the first time and often welcomed the public tours in person. She was also a strong supporter of the arts and initiated the policy of exhibiting works of Montana artists in the mansion.

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Albert C. Angelo Sr.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) _ Albert C. Angelo Sr., a prominent Clark County developer who served as mayor of Vancouver in the 1960s, died Friday. He was 87.

Angelo died at home after an extended illness, said Craig Angelo, one of his sons.

Angelo founded the Al Angelo Construction Co. in 1947, and was remembered as part of a group of business people who helped guide Vancouver during a period of expansion.

Angelo was born Feb. 14, 1920, to Italian immigrant parents living in Skamania County, east of Vancouver.

He spent several years working for his father's bridge- and road-building business before starting his own construction business, which grew steadily. Today, the company has real estate holdings in 22 cities in six Western states, including 3,200 apartment units and more than 1 million square feet of commercial buildings, The Columbian newspaper reported.

Angelo was elected to the City Council in 1962 and installed as mayor in 1966. He served as mayor until 1969.

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Ed Bailey

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Ed Bailey, an All-Star catcher with the Cincinnati Reds in the 1950s, died Friday. He was 75.

Al Neil, Bailey's brother-in-law, told The Knoxville News Sentinel that Bailey died at Parkwest Medical Center after being diagnosed with throat cancer about six months ago.

The five-time All-Star catcher from Strawberry Plains started his professional career with the Reds in 1953. Bailey hit 28 home runs in 1956 for Cincinnati, including three in one game.

He was chosen for the All-Star team in 1956, 1957 and 1960 with the Reds. He also made it in 1961 and 1963 when he was playing for the San Francisco Giants.

He went on to play for the Milwaukee Braves, the Chicago Cubs and the California Angels, appearing in his final game in 1966.

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William O. "Doc" Farber

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ Professor William O. "Doc" Farber, who influenced numerous state and national leaders in 70 years at the University of South Dakota, died Saturday. He was 96.

Dick Brown, a Sioux Falls businessman and close personal friend, said Farber's health deteriorated over the last two days and he "was tired and ready to go."

Farber's political science students, many of whom rose to prominence in their own careers, knew him as a teacher committed to making a difference.

Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and the Freedom Forum, said Farber's real impact was outside the classroom in helping students understand the broader aspects of their education and what they could do with it.

Born July 4, 1910, in Geneseo, Ill., Farber joined the University of South Dakota staff in 1935 at age 25. He became chairman of the school's government department in 1938 and served in that position until 1976 when he retired. He served as professor emeritus until his death.

Neuharth was among a group of government students known as "Farber Boys" who considered him a close friend and mentor. The group includes veteran NBC newsman Tom Brokaw and media personality Pat O'Brien.

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Mao Anqing

BEIJING (AP) _ Mao Anqing, the only known surviving son of Mao Zedong, the late founder of China's communist government, died Friday. He was 84.

A government news agency reported Mao Anqing's death Saturday, without citing a cause of death. He had no role in government, suffered from psychiatric problems and is believed to have spent much of his adult life in mental hospitals.

Born in 1923, Mao Anqing was the second son of Mao and his first wife, Yang Kaihui, while they were activists. Yang was executed in 1930 by the then-ruling Nationalist government.

In 1936, Mao Anqing and his older brother, Anying, were sent first to Paris and then to Moscow. They returned in 1947 before the communists' 1949 victory in a civil war that overthrew the Nationalists.

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Damian McDonald

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) _ Former Olympic cyclist Damian McDonald died Friday. He was 34.

McDonald was one of three people killed when several cars and trucks collided in a city tunnel, police said Sunday.

He competed in the 1996 Olympics, where he finished 65th in the road race. He won a gold medal in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Robert E. Petersen

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Robert E. Petersen, the publishing magnate whose Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines helped shape America's car culture and who gave millions to a museum dedicated to his passion, has died. He was 80.

Petersen died Friday of complications from neuroendocrine cancer at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said Dick Messer, director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

"Mr. Petersen helped create and feed the American obsession with the automobile, delivering gasoline-powered dreams to the mailboxes of millions," Messer said.

Petersen, the son of an auto mechanic, founded Hot Rod magazine in 1948 while trying to promote the custom-designed car show at the Los Angeles Armory. The following year, he launched Motor Trend for automobile enthusiasts.

A dozen other specialty consumer magazines followed, including Guns & Ammo, Sport, Motorcyclist, Hunting, Mountain Biker, Photographic, Teen and Sassy.

By the time his publishing empire was sold in 1996, Petersen Publishing's annual revenue was about $275 million. He later donated $25 million to pay off the debt of the Peterson Automotive Museum he opened in 1994.

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Herman Stein

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Herman Stein, a composer whose music for "It Came From Outer Space," "Creature from the Black Lagoon," and "The Incredible Shrinking Man" helped define the dramatic soundtrack of 1950s science fiction and horror movies, has died. He was 91.

Stein died of congestive heart failure at his Los Angeles home on March 15, his record producer, David Schecter, said Friday.

As a staff composer at Universal Studios, Stein collaborated with Henry Mancini and others to create music for nearly 200 movies and shorts, though he didn't get credit for all of his work because of the studio's tendency to give solo credit to a project's music supervisor.

"It was an unwritten rule at Universal that if he wrote less than 80 percent of the score, then his name would not be credited in the picture," Schecter said. "Herman had few credits to his name."

Nonetheless, Stein has been recognized for writing or co-writing music for an array of movies, from Westerns to comedies to dramas. They include Roger Corman's civil rights drama "The Intruder" and Douglas Sirk's comedy "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" His other notable horror film compositions include "Tarantula" and "King Kong vs. Godzilla."

He also composed music for such television shows as "Gunsmoke," "Lost in Space," and "Daniel Boone."