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☆ Sarah Mandel, Therapist Who Told Her ‘Trauma Narrative,’ Dies at 42
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On June 1, a short, emotional video popped up on TikTok with news about Sarah Mandel, a 42-year-old psychologist, wife and mother of two young daughters. “If you’re reading these words right now,” the message on the screen said, “then I have died.”She had asked for help creating the video while in a weakened state after learning that she had little time left. “Only a year ago, I never in a million years would have thought I would want my death announced on social media,” she said in the video. But in the previous year, she had found encouragement from the comments on TikTok after posting videos about the course and treatment of the advanced, metastatic breast cancer she had been diagnosed with in 2017. And so there she was, delivering the news to the world and a cosmic message to her daughters, Sophie, 10, and Siena, 6.

Persons: Sarah Mandel, “, ”, Sophie Locations: Siena

☆ Martin Starger, Influential Shaper of TV and Movies, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Martin Starger, who as a senior executive at ABC in the 1970s helped bring “Happy Days,” “Roots,” “Rich Man, Poor Man” and other shows to the small screen — and the network nearly to the brink of No. 1 in prime time — before turning to producing movies, most notably Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” died on May 31 at his home in Los Angeles. His death was confirmed by his niece, Ilene Starger, a casting director. Mr. Starger joined ABC in the mid-1960s and rose to positions of increasing importance, culminating in his promotion to president of ABC Entertainment in 1972. He was culturally ahead of his audience but was pragmatic in his programming choices, but ever striving for better.”

Persons: Martin Starger, ” “ Rich, ”, Robert Altman’s “, Ilene, Starger, Barry Diller, Diller Organizations: ABC, ABC Entertainment Locations: Robert Altman’s “ Nashville, Los Angeles

☆ Ron Edmonds, 77, Whose Camera Captured the Shooting of Reagan, Dies
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ron Edmonds, a photographer for The Associated Press who won a Pulitzer Prize for a dramatic series of pictures of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan and the takedown of the gunman outside a Washington hotel in 1981, died on Friday in Falls Church, Va. His wife, Grace Feliciano Edmonds, said he died in a hospital from pneumonia linked to a bacterial infection. It was only Mr. Edmonds’s second day on the White House beat when he was assigned to cover a speech by President Reagan to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. group at the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981. After rushing to leave the hotel ahead of the president, Mr. Edmonds positioned himself on the other side of the presidential limousine, expecting that Reagan would do little more than wave to onlookers before returning to the White House.

Persons: Ron Edmonds, Ronald Reagan, Grace Feliciano Edmonds, Edmonds’s, Reagan, Edmonds Organizations: Associated Press, White House, Washington Hilton Locations: Washington, Falls Church, Va

☆ Albert S. Ruddy, 94, Dies; Producer Won an Oscar for ‘The Godfather’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Albert S. Ruddy, who found early success in television as a creator of “Hogan’s Heroes,” the situation comedy about Allied prisoners outwitting their bumbling Nazi captors in a P.O.W. camp, and then became a movie producer who won Oscars for “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby,” died on Saturday in Los Angeles. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Wanda McDaniel, and his daughter, Alexandra Ruddy. Mr. Ruddy was a gravelly-voiced former systems programmer and shoe salesman who, by the time Paramount Pictures was preparing to film “The Godfather,” had become known for the unlikely success of “Hogan’s Heroes” and for producing a couple of movies that had come in under budget. “Ruddy had always been able to talk his way through obstacles.”

Persons: Albert S, Ruddy, “, ”, Wanda McDaniel, Alexandra Ruddy, Mr, “ Ruddy, ” Nicholas Pileggi, Mario Organizations: Nazi, Paramount Pictures, The New York Times Magazine Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Bill Walton, N.B.A. Hall of Famer and Broadcasting Star, Dies at 71
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bill Walton, a basketball center whose extraordinary passing and rebounding skills helped him win two national college championships with U.C.L.A. A redheaded hippie and devoted Grateful Dead fan, Walton was a 6-foot-11 acolyte of the renowned U.C.L.A. He was named the national college player of the year three times. Walton’s greatest game was the 1973 national championship against Memphis State, played in St. Louis. Walton — not yet known for his often hyperbolic, stream-of-consciousness speaking manner — refused to say much after the game.

Persons: Bill Walton, Walton, John Wooden, St . Louis, Walton —, —, ” Organizations: Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics, Bruins, Memphis State Locations: San Diego, St ., U.C.L.A

☆ Barry Romo, Decorated Vet Who Turned Against the VietnamWar, Dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Barry Romo, whose combat experiences in Vietnam led him to become a leading antiwar activist who threw his medals onto the Capitol steps during a demonstration by veterans, died on May 1 in Chicago. His death, in a hospital, was caused by a heart attack, said Roberto Clack, a friend and colleague. Mr. Romo was a strong supporter of the war when he arrived in Vietnam as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1967 — but within four years, he was a leader of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In early 1968, he fought during the Tet offensive. The intensity of enemy fire kept Bobby’s body sitting in the sun for 48 hours until it could be retrieved.

Persons: Barry Romo, Roberto Clack, Mr, Romo, Bobby Romo Organizations: Capitol, U.S . Army, Vietnam Veterans, Star Locations: Vietnam, Chicago, Tam Ky Province, Dong Ha, North Vietnam

☆ Ilon Specht, Who Empowered Women With ‘I’m Worth It’ Ad, Dies at 81
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Specht was a copywriter at the McCann-Erickson (now McCann) agency in Manhattan. L’Oréal was using Preference, a relatively new product, to challenge the market dominance of Clairol’s Nice ‘n Easy. “We were sitting in this big office and everyone was discussing what the ad should be,” Ms. Specht told Malcolm Gladwell of The New Yorker in 1999. “They wanted to do something with a woman sitting by a window and the wind blowing through the curtains. You know, one of those fake places with big glamorous curtains.

Persons: Ilon Specht, Brady Case, Ms, Specht, McCann, Erickson, L’Oréal, Malcolm Gladwell, “, ” Organizations: Yorker Locations: Barrington, R.I, Providence, Manhattan

☆ Peter Oosterhuis, British Golfer Turned Broadcaster, Dies at 75
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Peter Oosterhuis, a British golfer who won 20 tournaments around the world, played in the Ryder Cup six times and later distinguished himself as a commentator for CBS and Golf Channel, died on Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. His wife, Ruth Ann (DuClos) Oosterhuis, said that his death, at a memory care facility, was caused by complications of Alzheimer’s disease. That year, Oosterhuis (pronounced OH-ster-house) spoke to Golf Digest about his life and career. One detailed memory he still had: “In the 1973 Ryder Cup, I played Lee Trevino in one of my singles matches. Lee told his teammates, ‘If I don’t beat Oosterhuis, I’ll come in here and kiss your butts.’ Lee didn’t beat me.”

Persons: Peter Oosterhuis, Ruth Ann, Oosterhuis, “, ”, Lee Trevino, Lee, I’ll, ’ Lee didn’t Organizations: Ryder, CBS, Golf, Digest Locations: British, Charlotte, N.C

☆ Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained by the torment of having multiple personalities, died on April 18 at his home in Greenport, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island. In the 1ate 1980s, Dr. Oxnam was president of the Asia Society, a television commentator and an accomplished sailor. In his 2005 book, “A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple Personality Disorder,” Dr. Oxnam recalled the session when Tommy first spoke to Dr. Smith. All that Dr. Oxnam could remember from the 50-minute session, he wrote, was telling the psychiatrist that he didn’t think the therapy was working for him. But Dr. Smith told him that he had been speaking to Tommy all that time.

Persons: Robert B, Vishakha Desai, Oxnam, Jeffery Smith, Bobby, Tommy, Smith Organizations: Asia Society Locations: China, Greenport, Long

☆ Mike Pinder, Founding Keyboardist of the Moody Blues, Dies at 82
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Mike Pinder, the last surviving founding member of the Moody Blues, whose innovative use of the Mellotron — a predecessor of the sampler — helped make the band a pioneer of progressive rock, died on Wednesday at his home in the Sacramento area. His son Dan confirmed the death. He said that his father had breathing difficulties and had been in hospice care for a few days. The Moody Blues were formed in 1964, with a lineup of Mr. Pinder on keyboards, Denny Laine on guitar, Graeme Edge on drums, Ray Thomas on flute and Clint Warwick on bass. The group’s “Go Now!,” sung by Mr. Laine, rose to No.

Persons: Mike Pinder, Dan, Mr, Pinder, Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, Ray Thomas, Clint Warwick, ”, Laine Organizations: Moody Blues, Moody Locations: Sacramento

☆ Howie Schwab, ESPN Researcher and Trivia Star, Dies at 63
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Howie Schwab, a sports nerd who parlayed his love of statistics into a long stint at ESPN that was most notable for his starring role as the ultimate trivia expert on the game show “Stump the Schwab,” died on Saturday in Aventura, Fla. Mr. Schwab had been at ESPN for 17 years in behind-the-scenes roles as a researcher and producer when he was tapped in 2004 to star in his own show. On “Stump the Schwab,” three challengers vied to outdo Mr. Schwab in answering questions posed by the host, Stuart Scott, in the opening rounds. In the final round — called the Schwab Showdown — the best of the three went head to head against him for a $25,000 grand prize. Mr. Schwab almost always won.

Persons: Howie Schwab, “ Stump, Schwab, ”, Suzie Davie, Mr, Stuart Scott, — Organizations: ESPN Locations: Aventura , Fla

☆ Lori and George Schappell, Long-Surviving Conjoined Twins, Die at 62
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partly fused but who managed to lead independent lives, died on April 7 in Philadelphia. Their death, at a hospital, was announced by a funeral home, which did not cite a cause. Dr. Christopher Moir, a professor of surgery at the Mayo Clinic, who has been on teams that separated six sets of conjoined twins — although none of them were joined at the head — said that when one of the Schappells died, the other would have almost certainly followed quickly. “Conjoined twins share circulation,” he said, “so unless you somehow emergently divide their connection, it’s absolutely a fatal, nonviable process.”The Schappells lived much longer than had been expected when they were born as craniopagus twins, joined at the head, which is rare. They were cited as the second-oldest conjoined twins ever by Guinness World Records.

Persons: Lori, George Schappell, Christopher Moir, —, Schappells, ” Organizations: Mayo Clinic, Guinness World Records Locations: Philadelphia

☆ Frederick Celani, Who Made a Career as a Con Man, Dies at 75
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Frederick Celani was more than a decade into a rollicking, relentless career as a con man when he bamboozled city officials and employees in Springfield, Ill., into believing that he would make the city the hub of an overnight package delivery service. Unemployment was high in Springfield, which needed the economic boost that Mr. Celani was promising. In a whirlwind few months, he hired 100 workers, including pilots; leased cars; and rented office space and an airplane hangar. On March 1, about 1,000 people gathered at the hangar to celebrate Kayport Package Express’s first day in business. And Mr. Celani skipped town for Los Angeles, according to an account in a three-part series about him in The Standard Journal-Register of Springfield, which began in 2007.

Persons: Frederick Celani, Celani, Champagne Locations: Springfield , Ill, Springfield, Los Angeles

☆ Richard Leibner, Agent for Top Broadcast Journalists, Dies at 85
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Richard Leibner, a powerful agent whose firm brokered contracts for many of the biggest names in television news, including Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Anderson Cooper, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer and Steve Kroft, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. His son Jonathan said the cause was kidney cancer. Mr. Leibner’s firm, N.S. Bienstock — named for one of its founders, Nathan Bienstock — represented hundreds of anchors, reporters, producers and others in network and local television news. The negotiation that grabbed the biggest headlines was for Mr. Rather, then one of the star correspondents of the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”Between late 1979 and early 1980, Mr. Leibner (pronounced LEEB-ner) parlayed interest in Mr. Rather as the evening anchor from all three network news divisions: ABC News, whose president, Roone Arledge, was trying to raise his third-place division’s profile; NBC News, where the evening anchor John Chancellor was hoping to change to a commentary role; and CBS News, where Walter Cronkite had been the evening anchor since 1962.

Persons: Richard Leibner, Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Anderson Cooper, Ed Bradley, Morley, Steve Kroft, Jonathan, Leibner’s, Bienstock —, Nathan Bienstock —, Rather, Leibner, Roone Arledge, John Chancellor, Walter Cronkite Organizations: CBS, ABC, NBC Locations: Manhattan

☆ Larry Lucchino, Top Executive at Three M.L.B. Teams, Dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Larry Lucchino, who as a top executive with the Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres oversaw the design and construction of modern stadiums that evoke their surroundings — Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore and Petco Park in San Diego — and who as president of the Boston Red Sox preserved Fenway Park for generations, died on Tuesday. The Red Sox announced the death but did not say where he died or give a cause. He had been treated for cancer three times. In Mr. Lucchino’s 14 years with the team, the Red Sox won the World Series three times — the first of those championships, in 2004, broke an 86-year drought — and reached the postseason seven times. He oversaw improvements to Fenway Park that included installing seats above the Green Monster, the 37-foot-high left field wall, and vastly expanding concourses and concession areas.

Persons: Larry Lucchino, San Diego —, “, ” John Henry, ” Mr, Lucchino, Henry, Lucchino’s Organizations: Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres, Camden Yards, Boston Red Sox, Red Sox Locations: Baltimore, San Diego, Boston

☆ Betty Cole Dukert, Top ‘Meet the Press’ Producer, Dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Betty Cole Dukert, who began her career in Washington as a secretary in the 1950s and later became the top producer of the weekly NBC News public affairs program “Meet the Press,” died on March 16 at her home in Bethesda, Md. Her late husband’s niece Barbara Dukert Smith said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. “She was the main point of contact on Capitol Hill for the show,” said Betsy Fischer Martin, who started on “Meet the Press” as an intern and became the program’s executive producer in 2002. “She worked the phones constantly. It wasn’t an era when you could send off an email to book someone.”

Persons: Betty Cole Dukert, ”, Barbara Dukert Smith, Dukert, Betsy Fischer Martin, “ Organizations: NBC News, Press, “, NBC, Capitol Locations: Washington, Bethesda, Md

☆ Len Sirowitz, Whose Bold, Offbeat Ads Captured an Era, Dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Len Sirowitz, an award-winning advertising art director whose creative work in the 1960s included memorable print ads for the Volkswagen Beetle — like one declaring, “Ugly is only skin-deep” — and a campaign for Mobil in which a car was dropped off a 10-story building to make a point about the perils of speeding, died on March 4 at his home in Manhattan. His daughter, Laura Sirowitz, confirmed the death. Mr. Sirowitz joined the influential Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency, known as DDB, in 1959, at 27, and spent the next 11 years at the firm conceiving the look of ads for numerous accounts with wit and passion. “It was quite early in my career that I began to realize that my message needed to not only be bold and daring, but it must stem from the truth … and touch people’s emotions,” he told Dave Dye, who runs the advertising blog From the Loft, in 2015.

Persons: Len Sirowitz, Laura Sirowitz, Sirowitz, Doyle Dane Bernbach, ”, Dave Dye Organizations: Volkswagen, Mobil Locations: Manhattan

☆ Olga Murray, Who Changed the Lives of Children in Nepal, Dies at 98
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a six-week trip to India in 1984, Olga Murray flew to Nepal to hike through remote Himalayan villages. There, Ms. Murray, an adventurous, 59-year-old lawyer, encountered stunning landscapes and friendly people. But it was the children she met during her trek along rugged mountain trails from Pokhara to Siklis that enchanted her and went on to transform her life. “And yet, they were the most joyful, funny, amiable little kids anywhere on earth. As she watched the children sitting on the dirt floor of their hut, doing their homework by candlelight, she had a revelation.

Persons: Olga Murray, Murray, “, Mary Sutro Callender Locations: India, Nepal, Pokhara

☆ Frank Popoff, Who Sought to Lead a Friendlier Dow Chemical, Dies at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Frank Popoff, a chief executive and chairman who tried to make Dow Chemical more conciliatory toward regulators and environmentalists in the late 1980s and ’90s, and who prodded the chemical industry to adopt safer practices, died on Feb. 25 at his home in Midland, Mich., where Dow is based. A spokesman for the company said the cause was cancer. “I think we have a fair amount of work to do in terms of the way we are viewed,” Mr. Popoff told The New York Times in 1987, shortly before succeeding Paul F. Oreffice as chief executive. “We know we’ll never change Ralph Nader’s mind. But Dow is at peace with itself, and we want our people to feel good about the company, too.”

Persons: Frank Popoff, Dow, Popoff, Orange, “ Dow, Mr, Paul F, Oreffice, “, Ralph Nader’s, ” Organizations: Dow, U.S, Environmental Protection Agency, New York Times Locations: Midland, Mich, Bulgarian, Vietnam

☆ John Pilger, Crusading Journalist and Documentarian, Dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

John Pilger, a muckraking foreign correspondent and documentarian who trained his often righteous anger on injustices around the globe, like the Khmer Rouge’s genocide in Cambodia and human rights abuses in East Timor, died on Dec. 30 in London. His son, Sam, said the cause of death, in a hospital, was pulmonary fibrosis. A tireless critic of Western imperialism and a voice for the voiceless, Mr. Pilger was comfortable with his role as a journalistic provocateur. He once derided impartiality as “a euphemism for the consensual view of established authority.”But he was sometimes criticized for shaping his reporting to fit his leftist worldview — that United States foreign policy had often helped cause misery around the world. Mr. Pilger (pronounced PILL-jer), with blond surfer looks, was among the first journalists to enter Cambodia after Vietnam drove out Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in 1979, ending its nearly four-year reign of terror during which about two million people died.

Persons: John Pilger, documentarian, Sam, Pilger, Pol Locations: Cambodia, East Timor, London, States, Vietnam, Rouge

☆ Annie Nightingale, Pathbreaking British D.J., Is Dead at 83
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Annie Nightingale, who became the first female disc jockey on BBC Radio 1 in 1970 and remained a popular personality there until her final show, late last year, died on Jan. 11 at her home in London. Her family announced the death in a statement but did not cite a cause. “This is the woman who changed the face and sound of British TV and radio broadcasting forever,” Annie Mac, a longtime BBC Radio D.J., wrote on Instagram after Ms. Nightingale’s death. Ms. Nightingale became well known in music circles in the 1960s as a columnist in British newspapers. And she was a familiar face to stars like the Beatles, whom she interviewed at the Brighton Hippodrome in 1964.

Persons: Annie Nightingale, Annie Mac, Ms, Nightingale, Derek Taylor, Mark Lewisohn Organizations: BBC, BBC Radio D.J, Brighton Hippodrome, Apple, Beatles Locations: London, British

☆ Zvi Zamir, Israeli Spy Chief in a Critical Period, Dies at 98
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His death was announced by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement did not say where he died. “Zamir led a determined and initiative-taking approach in the State of Israel’s fight against Palestinian terrorism, which was strengthening at that time,” Mr. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. Terrorism was an increasing concern for Israel when Mr. Zamir was named the Mossad’s director in 1968. No incident crystallized that threat more than the attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September on the Israeli delegation at its dormitory in the Olympic Village in Munich on Sept. 5, 1972.

Persons: Zvi Zamir, —, Benjamin Netanyahu, “ Zamir, ” Mr, Zamir Locations: Egypt, Syria, State, Israel’s, Israel, Munich

☆ Robert Andrew Parker, 96, Dies; Prolific Magazine and Book Illustrator
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“There was a casualness in his attitude toward his work,” said Joe Ciardiello, an illustrator who was a friend of Mr. Parker’s. “So many artists can get so fussy about the correct kind of paper or the proper pen or paints. But Bob would use whatever he had — people would give him paint, he’d use cheap stuff, expensive stuff. The original plan was for Mr. Parker’s and Mr. Douglas’s hands to alternate onscreen, where they would appear to be creating van Gogh’s paintings. But they worked on only one, “Wheatfield With Crows,” before Mr. Parker’s job became copying about 100 of van Gogh’s drawings and paintings to use in the film.

Persons: ”, Joe Ciardiello, Mr, Parker’s, Bob, ” Robert Andrew Parker, William, Harriett, Cowdin, Parker, Kirk Douglas, Vincent van Gogh, van Organizations: U.S . Public Health Service, Army Air Corps, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York School, Skowhegan, of Painting, MGM Locations: Norfolk, Va, Michigan, Fort Stanton, N.M, New York City, Paris, France

☆ Betty Rollin, Who Wrote Candidly About Her Breast Cancer, Dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Richard Sandomir | More About Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Betty Rollin, a network news correspondent who described intensely personal life passages in two memoirs — “First, You Cry,” about being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a mastectomy, and “Last Wish,” in which she revealed that she had helped her pain-ravaged mother end her life — died on Nov. 14 in Basel, Switzerland. She was 87. The cause was voluntary assisted suicide, at Pegasos, an assisted dying service, said Ellen Marson, a close friend, who disclosed the death to The New York Times on Thursday. Ms. Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020. “Betty recently told a few close friends she was going to do this,” Ms. Marson wrote in an email.

Persons: Betty Rollin, — “, —, Ellen Marson, Ms, Rollin, Harold Edwards, “ Betty, Marson, Betty Organizations: New York Times Locations: Basel, Switzerland, Pegasos, Manhattan

☆ Joan Jara, Who Found Justice for Husband Slain After Coup, Dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Joan Jara, a British-born dancer and instructor who dedicated herself to finding justice for her husband, Victor Jara, a popular Chilean folk singer and songwriter who was killed during the military coup d’état that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to dictatorial power in 1973, died on Nov. 12 in Santiago, Chile. Her death was announced by the Victor Jara Foundation, a human rights initiative she established. Mr. Jara, who was also a theater director and poet, sang about poverty and injustice. Mr. Jara was a visible supporter of Salvador Allende, the Marxist who was elected president of Chile in 1970. On Sept. 11, 1973, the Jaras were at home with their daughters, Manuela and Amanda, listening to Mr. Allende deliver a speech.

Persons: Joan Jara, Victor Jara, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Ms, Jara, Pedro Barrientos Núñez, Manifiesto, ”, Mr, Salvador Allende, Manuela, Amanda, Allende Organizations: Victor, Victor Jara Foundation, Justice, Chilean Army Locations: British, Chilean, Santiago , Chile, Chile, Deltona, Fla

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