Loretta Young, 87, the elegant beauty whose acting career extended from silent movies to television and included an Academy Award for best actress in "The Farmer's Daughter"; both on and off the screen, she presented the image of serene uprightness; appeared in 88 movies from 1927 to 1953 and on television in more than 300 episodes of "The Loretta Young Show"; she was nominated seven times for Emmys as best starring actress and won three times; retired at the end of "The New Loretta Young Show" in 1963, devoting her time to charities and a line of beauty products bearing her name; returned to acting in 1986, appearing in a television movie, "Christmas Eve"; Aug. 12 in Los Angeles, of ovarian cancer.
Eliahu Ben-Elisar, 68, a veteran right-wing politician who helped negotiate Israel's peace treaty with Egypt; he later served as ambassador to Egypt, the United States and France; as a major figure in the office of then-Prime Minister Menahem Begin, he was closely involved in the negotiations with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel, in 1979; Aug. 12 in Paris.
Michael S. Reynolds, 63, author of a five-volume biography of Ernest Hemingway; he was noted for his meticulous scholarship and for his efforts to sort the autobiographical fact from the fiction in Hemingway's work; at times, he seemed to enter Hemingway's mind and to know his most intimate thoughts; Aug. 12 in Santa Fe.
Marshall Wolke, 80, the grandfatherly former head of Conservative Judaism's million lay members in America during the 1970s; he helped found a worldwide organization of Conservative congregations, and earlier took part in the Jewish Agency, the quasi-government that existed prior to the official establishment of Israel in 1948; Aug. 15, on a trip to Israel.
Mary G. Sethness, 87, who made her Gold Coast apartment a venue for Chicago's elite businesspeople, philanthropists and entertainers to come together; she served on the national governing board of the USO, was appointed as Illinois' civilian aide to the secretary of the Army, and was the honorary consul general of Nepal; a longtime friend of many politicians and entertainers, Bob Hope once called her "The lady with clout"; Aug. 12, in Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Judge William J. Obermiller, 77, known nationwide as the "Spanking Judge" for having a teen defendant spanked in his courtroom in 1962; his family values-oriented pronouncements from the bench included haircuts for long-haired defendants and garbage collection for litterers as terms of their probation; his first spanking order came after a teen called his mother "an idiot" in court; Aug. 14, in Hammond, Ind.
Marvin Lee Manheim, 63, an early researcher in information technology who pioneered analysis of transportation systems and roadways; he published a textbook on transportation system analysis and founded worldwide forums on the topic; he has been a consultant to governments and companies around the world, including the United States, Japan and Mexico; Aug. 10, in his Lakeview home.
Lee Edgar Townsend, 83, former director of the Illinois office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; he specialized in pollution surveillance, playing a key role in the prosecution of U.S. Steel's Gary plant in 1972; Aug. 14, in Westmont Convalescent Center.
William McBride, 87, a pack rat who was instrumental in documenting African-American social and political life in Depression-era Chicago; a former Works Progress Administration mural artist, he collected everything from playbills to African art; the collection was donated to the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature in 1995; Aug. 11, in Alden Princeton Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.
Frieda Mae Hardin, 103, who joined the Navy during World War I when women were still denied the right to vote, and 79 years later came to represent the achievements of all the women in the armed forces; she was among almost 12,000 women who served in the Navy during World War I as clerks, draftsmen, translators, camouflage designers and recruiters; Aug. 9 in Livermore, Calif.
Val Dufour, 73, who won an Emmy Award as outstanding actor in a daytime drama series in the 1976-77 season for playing John Wyatt on "Search for Tomorrow"; in New York, he studied with Uta Hagen and at the Actors Studio; he was in several Broadway shows, television shows and movies; July 27 in New York.
Virginia Admiral, 85, an American painter and writer who studied with Hans Hofmann; her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; in New York, she wrote for True Crimes magazine; at the Hofmann School in New York, she met the artist Robert De Niro, who was working as a class monitor; they married in 1942 and their son, the actor Robert De Niro, was born in 1943; July 27 in New York.
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