Obituaries -- names from the old Forum

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Gunnar Fischer -- Swedish cinematographer, collaborator with Bergman
Clarence Clemons -- saxophonist
Yelena Bonner -- wife of Soviet dissident and physicist Andrei Sakharov*
Peter Falk, actor
Bil Haast -- used his body to create antivenins and lived to 100*
Otto von Habsburg -- Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia*
Josef Suk -- great Czech violinist*
Dick Williams, baseball manager*
John Mackey, NFL tight end and first President of the NFL Player's Association*
Betty Ford, former First Lady
John S. Toll, academic
Sherwood Schwartz, screenwriter and TV producer (Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch)*
Karen Khachaturian -- composer. (Note: "Karen" is a male name in Armenian).*
Amy Winehouse -- singer
Steve Prefontaine, Olympic long-distance runner

General John Shalikashvili, US Army*
Lucian Freud, artist, grandson of you-know-who*
James Ford Steele, KKK terrorist, murderer* (Roast in Hell!)
Rudolf Brazda, last surviving homosexual victim of the Nazis*
Annette DiGregorio, actress
Ray Anderson, environmentalist
former US Senator Mark Hatfield*
Jerry Leiber, rock-and-roll lyricist*
Mike Flanagan, pitcher and other roles in the Baltimore Orioles' organization
David Edwards, blues musician*
Lee Roy Selmon, NFL star*
Betty Skelton, daredevil pilot
Huge loss to hockey with the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash*
75th anniversary, death of the thylacine*
Michael Stern Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg*
Cliff Robertson, actor*
former US Senator Charles H. Percy*
Eleanore Mondale, wife of Walter Mondale
Dolores Hope, widow of Bob Hope*
Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorist.*
Linda Latham, "Energy Star"
Don Lapre, marketing shyster, committed suicide as the Feds closed in on him*
Steve Jobs, head of Apple Computers
Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders Football Team
Dennis Ritchie, developer of the C language*
Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi (Roast in Hell!)
Elouise Cobell, treasurer of the Blackfeet Tribe, caught the federal government cheating on revenues to her tribe and won a lawsuit. Big!*

Herbert Hauptman, mathematician*
Robert A. Pritzker, industrial engineer and philanthropist*
Matty Alou, baseball star*
Andy Rooney, crusty commentator on 60 Minutes
Norman Ramsey, physicist*
George Frazier, former boxing heavyweight champion*
Benjamin McCoy, baseball star*
Jeno Paulucci, food entrepreneur (Jeno's, Michelina, Chun King)*
Frederick Meijer, founder of the hypermarket concept in America (Meijer, a big regional chain based in Michigan)*
Lynn Margulies, microbiologist
Ann McCaffrey, SF writer

Quote:No relation, but she was a near-neighbor at one time. She may be one of the last living Americans to remember Tsar Nicholas II as her ruler (but probably with no affection).

As I once commented after watching Fiddler on the Roof, Imperial Russia was a horrible place in which to be a Jew. It was also a horrible place in which to be... a Russian! (She was neither Russian nor Jewish, by the way).

Allen, Mich. —

Nellie (Galinis) Timm, 106, of Coldwater, passed away on Sunday, November 27, 2011 at Sandy’s Adult Foster Care Home in Allen.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Coldwater with Rev. Fr. Dan Doctor officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday, Nov.29, 2011 from 4:00 - 6 :00 PM, with a Rosary to begin at 6:00 PM at Dutcher Funeral Home in Coldwater.

Nellie was born June 15, 1905 in Rumbones, Lithuania to Joseph & Berniece (Adrmavcule) Yarmala. She married Peter Galinis in Dec. of 1927 in Lithuania, he preceded her in death in 1968. She then married John Timm in May of 1971, he preceded her in death on April 3, 1983.

Nellie came to the Coldwater area in 1928. She spent many years helping on the family farm before going to work at the former Pants Factory and then the Shaw Shoe Factory where she worked for many years. Nellie was an active member of St. Charles Church, where she had belonged to the Altar Rosary Society. She was a gifted singer and dancer and had been the Cantor at her former parishes in both Detroit and Lithuania, where she had also performed. Nellie was a skilled seamstress and enjoyed crocheting.

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obituary, Coldwater (Michigan) Daily Reporter

Harry Morgan, superb actor. *