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2013: The Year in Review

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2013: The Year in Review A publication reviewing the top stories of 2013 through Dec. 26 produced by the Peninsula Daily News news staff.

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10 minutes on a bulldozer: Barry Alan Swiegel climbed aboard his logging bulldozer he kept at his home in the eastern Port Angeles neighborhood known as Gales Addition. About 10 minutes later, the heavy equipment had smashed four homes, a pickup truck, a boat and multiple sheds and other outbuildings — in addition to toppling a Clallam County Public Utility District power pole that knocked out power to thousands of electricity customers. The unusual incident May 10 was reported worldwide, tourists flocked to see the swath of destruction, and months later the

Port Angeles “bulldozer man” was featured on a primetime TV news magazine. Swiegel What hasn’t been reported nearly as widely are Swiegel’s mental issues that have slowly come out in the judicial process since May. During the summer, he brought a show-and-tell bag of dead bugs from his jail cell into the courtroom. And psychologists trying to determine his fitness for a criminal trial have written in a report that Swiegel believed that a scar on his chin was a remnant of his “crucifixion” in his Gales Addition garage. Swiegel enters 2014 completing a 90-day evaluation at Western State

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Part of the path of Barry Swiegel’s bulldozer east of Port Angeles. Hospital in Lakewood. His next Clallam County court date is Jan. 14, at which time a judge will review his treatment.

How do you close a national park? It’s hard to believe that “closed” signs were posted at all the entrances to Olympic National Park. But that’s what happened for 18 days in October when a political impasse over the federal budget and national debt in Washington, D.C.,

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Message on an Olympic National Park barricade. those affected, and visitors to the million-acre Olympic National Park — which earlier in the year celebrated its 75th anniversary is one of the Park Service’s crown jewels — put concrete barriers across entrances, locked buildings and ordered everyone out. At one point, two women were ticketed for “violation of closure” for driving into the Barnes Creek area just of U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent. Fortunately for all concerned, including furloughed park employees, agreement in Washington, D.C., determined that a national park in Washington state could reopen faster than it shut down. TURN

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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS ❏ SEQUIM GAZETTE Responding to environmental groups that fear that microparticles will be FROM PRECEDING PAGE emitted from the cogeneration plant, the Olympic A new era in cogen- Region Clean Air Agency eration: As opponents installed a $90,000 device of an expanded cogen- at the Port Angeles fire staeration plant at the Nippon tion on Fifth Street to monitor emissions. The data will Paper Industries USA mill be used as part of a Univerfumed, the 20-megawatt sity of Washington study. plant fired up for the first time in November. The million-dollar Distinctive for its conical retrial: Darold R. tower that resembles the Stenson was reconso-called “teepee” incineravicted in December of killtors of sawmills in the days ing his wife and business before air pollution conpartner in March 1993. trols, the $85 million generIt capped a year of legal ator that is fired by wood maneuvering that followed waste provides so-called a May 2012 state Supreme renewable energy to the Court ruling that overturned his first conviction power grid.

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in 1995 based on evidence suppression. Because of pretrial and preretrial publicity on the Stenson North Olympic Peninsula, Stenson’s second trial on two counts of aggravated firstdegree murder was moved to Kitsap County. He was found guilty in Port Orchard on Nov. 12 and was sentenced again to two consecutive life terms in the state penitentiary — the same place where Stenson once was on death row. The retrial and legal events leading to it have

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Clallam FROM PRECEDING PAGE One of the miscalculations was the amount of sediment traveling from the former Lake Mills behind Glines Canyon Dam to the Strait of Juan de Fuca — and past the water treatment plant set up to provide water to Port Angeles and environs. Muck stuck in the plant’s intakes shut down the entire dam-removal project in October 2012. By October 2013 and $3.8 million in treatment plant upgrades, the restoration project is on track. A mere stub of the formerly 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam remains, and it will be gone this year. The river sediment provided scientists with plenty of other aspects to study, including the growth of beaches near the river mouth and, sadly, the deaths of nearly 200,000

smolts from a fish-rearing channel in April. Another release of smolts in late May found far fewer dead fish along the banks.

The little high school that can. Neah Bay High School cut a statewide profile in December when it won its second 1B football title in three years. A huge turnout of fans in the Tacoma Dome watched as the eight-man football team, behind state Player of the Year quarterback Josiah Greene, made easy work of Touchet 36-18 to win the 2013 championship. But that’s not the only accolade at Neah Bay High. Back in June, all 20 members of the Class of 2013 graduated, leaving none behind for the third straight year. Furthermore, valedictorian Joey Monje was accepted to 12 colleges, and

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his 19 classmates held either a college or university acceptance letter or had enlisted in military service. Principal Ann Renker attributes Neah Bay’s success in the classroom and on the field to the school’s graduation plan — known simply as “the plan” — in which all students are tracked to make sure each is on the right trajectories for graduation and lives after high school.

Changing public ARWYN RICE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS landscapes in Clallam County: The Pedestrians walk along the Port Angeles waterfront esplanade the day past year either cut the construction fences were removed in August. ribbon on or set the wheels in motion for notable the first of a planned projthis year will be home to and Sequim, work continchanges. ect that eventually will the Rainforest Arts Center. ues on a 3.5-mile stretch of Port Angeles opened the revamp the area east of the And at long last in U.S. Highway 101 that will first phase of a waterfront ferry landing as well as the Sequim, city officials in eventually make the highredevelopment project with long-empty former log deck 2013 finally focused on a way four lanes between the opening last fall of the that is a vacant lot location and a design for a Port Angeles and Sequim. “esplanade” area west from between Oak and Valley modern civic center that The $27.1 million projthe ferry landing to Oak Creek Estuary Park. will bring together City ect between Shore and Street. In Forks, the townsfolk Hall and police station The $3.8 million project literally selected the design functions for the first time. Kitchen-Dick roads is approximately half-finished that transformed Railroad for the biggest downtown The City Council, and will feature a new Avenue and Oak Street is construction project in buoyed by public comment McDonald Creek bridge. years. over two competing And true to their roots, designs, picked a barn-like Retooling after 20 the public selected a “rustic design for the civic center years: The Juan de contemporary” design with that will span the 100 Fuca Festival of the shake-look siding for the block of West Cedar Street Arts, Port Angeles’ Memo$2.1 million building that to Sequim Avenue. rial Day weekend cavalwill replace the former Odd Look for demolition of cade of concerts and art Fellows Hall that burned old buildings to start this shows, marked its 20th down in October 2012. year and the new civic cen- anniversary in 2013 — and As was the old hall, the ter completed in April changed its name. new, 7,000-square-foot 2015. TURN TO CLALLAM/5 building to be constructed In between Port Angeles

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Top 10 Jefferson County stories of 2013 ers who are elected to the task, the charter’s proposed prime directives were to The quick rise and create a county “bill of abrupt fall of home rights” and to institute the rule. By Election Day initiative process where on Nov. 5, many of the sup- voters could shape county porters of a Jefferson government instead of County charter proposal state law. expected it to fail. Some advocates sought Few predicted such a to designate elected offiwide margin of defeat. cials such as the auditor About 70 percent of vot- and assessor as nonpartiers rejected the ballot prop- san, actually supported by osition to create a charter, those currently holding ending a whirlwind process those offices. that began six months earAnother popular prolier with a petition drive. posal was to elect commisWhile the details of any sioners by district instead charter are up to freehold- of countywide in general BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

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elections, preventing candidates who have not carried their own district from election. Those who opposed the charter cited the uncertain cost of the process and a lack of focus. The November election also selected 15 freeholders who would have written the charter if the measure passed. They will not serve.

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Jefferson FROM PRECEDING PAGE Following the School Board’s decision, Redskins supporters vowed to mount an appeal and run a writein campaign against an unopposed board candidate. This campaign never materialized, and the issue soon fell into the background. The decision is final, but the process is only halfcompleted. After a year of study, committees were assigned to come up with a new name to be revealed this June.

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post-arrest statements should have been suppressed from his first trial. His Pierce retrial began in Port Townsend over the objections of his attorney, who insisted that an impartial jury could not be found in Jefferson County. A jury was seated, testimony began and the juror’s memory was triggered during a description of the night of the murders during opening statements. The defense moved for a

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The retrial of an accused doublemurderer: Jefferson County hosted its own courtroom drama in July when a juror during the Michael J. Pierce murder retrial came forward and said she might have seen the accused out walking on the 2009 night that Patrick and Janice Yarr were killed and their farmhouse was burned. Pierce, 38, was convicted in 2010 and was serving a life sentence in Walla Walla State Penitentiary when the state Court of Appeals reversed the conviction in 2012. Pierce’s attorneys successfully argued that his

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Jefferson FROM PRECEDING PAGE The lease, cited as an innovative way that could set an example for other cash-strapped state parks, is a co-management agreement in which the standard park functions are maintained by Washington State Parks, and the educational component is organized through the combined efforts of stakeholders and partners. Fort Worden already hosts several educational and cultural institutions: Centrum, Peninsula College, Goddard College, Port Townsend School of Woodworking and Madrona Mind Body. The public development authority will market them together as a center of adult education. The new venture is expected to attract people to Port Townsend and benefit the region’s economic

base, something that will encourage more privatepublic partnerships to support parks across the country, the public development authority’s supporters said.

city and county — plus an uncertainty about what recreation programs are most valued by the citizens. At year’s end, the county had reached out to nonprofits such as the Parks, part deux: YMCA other local entities Closer to home, Jefto gauge their support of ferson County began the endangered programs. seeking ways to support its That process continues own beleaguered parks and into the new year. recreation system that’s confronted with more budThe man in the get cuts. white van: Port A temporary measure to Townsend parents subsidize parks facilities were placed on high alert was approved by voters in in October when two chil2010; its expiration in 2015 dren reported that a man along with the continued in a white van offered to revenue decline makes the give them rides to school. issue a priority for the Both children declined county. and fled, as they were Last year, a committee instructed to do. They charged with providing a reported the incident, trigplan for the establishment gering a regional manhunt, of a metropolitan parks a police sketch of the lurer district began meeting with and several reports but no the hope of going to the suspects. voters for creating such a After the first two incitaxing agency. dents, which happened on But in September, the successive Wednesdays, committee dissolved due to there have been no other a lack of direction from the reports of attempted lur-

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ings — although reports of suspicious people in white vans continued. Police The lurker speculated that the suspect might have been from out of town and might have left the way he came.

nesses and several stores in Kitsap County. Lysiak was initially charged Lysiak with 12 counts of second-degree possession of stolen property and one count of possession of stolen mail. He pleaded not guilty Missing mail: Police in Jefferson County Supearrested a man in rior Court and was taken to February with more the Federal Detention Centhan 1,000 pounds of stolen ter in SeaTac on June 10. mail, accumulated from In November, he several months of taking pleaded guilty Thursday to mail from boxes in three one count of each of the counties before creating a three crimes in U.S. Dissophisticated identity-theft trict Court in Tacoma. operation. Lysiak now faces more Adam Justin Lysiak, 39, than four years in federal would open mail and use prison; sentencing is schedthe information to create uled for Feb. 28 in Tacoma. false ID with his picture and the victims’ names. Another exercise in Lysiak used the perdemocracy: For the second consecutive sonal and financial inforelection, a candidate premation he gathered from vailed on the Port Townthe stolen mail to shop at send City Council by a six Port Townsend busi-

whisker when Pam Adams defeated Jim Sherwood by 16 votes. In 2011, Deborah Stinson defeated Jack Range by a 20-vote margin. In countywide contests, incumbents on the Port of Port Townsend and Jefferson Healthcare hospital boards were defeated. In the port’s case, the new year will open with two of the three commissioners taking office for the first time. Voters in Port Ludlow and Kala Point ran initiatives to create their own parks and recreation districts in an effort toward more local control. Both measures were defeated.

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Jefferson FROM PRECEDING PAGE Last year, the Port Townsend School District designed a plan to integrate aspects of maritime industry and knowledge into its curriculum. The concept of placebased learning centered around the unique maritime character and economy of Port Townsend is intended to prepare students for both maritime and non-maritime employment, school district officials said, while engaging children in rigorous academic studies that use their proximity to the water as a learning tool. The venture is a cooperative arrangement between the school district and the Northwest Maritime Center. At year’s end, the school district had begun a fundraising effort with a $750,000 goal, translating to $125 a year for each of the district’s projected 1,200

students over five years. Some aspects of the plan will become part of the curriculum starting this fall.

Taking a Flyer: One Port Townsend maritime adventure resulted from the dubious arrival of the Western Flyer, a mudencrusted vessel that was brought into the Port of Port Townsend for rehabilitation and repair in July. The presence would go unnoticed beyond its unsightliness at the Port of Port Townsend’s Boat Haven yard except for its noteworthy past with one of America’s greatest novelists. The 72-foot trawler was built by in 1937 and chartered in 1940 by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Steinbeck a for a six-week expedition to Mexico’s Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. The boat was at the core of a close friendship between the author and Ed Ricketts, who inspired the

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character Doc in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. The Flyer continued into a checkered history — including two sinkings and raisings in Skagit County — as it passed into disrepair. Its current owner, Gerry Kehoe, took the mudencrusted vessel to Port Townsend to rebuild it for a move to Salinas, Calif., to become a Steinbeck museum. But Kehoe defaulted on the rent to the Port of Port Townsend for the boat, waiting until the day before the scheduled October eviction to pay the $1,100. Kehoe has not paid any additional rent since that CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS time, and the port expects The mud-encrusted Western Flyer continues sitting on blocks in the Port that he could repeat the of Port Townsend boatyard. same cycle: waiting until the last minute to pay. Plans for the removal and rehabilitation of the ESTABLISHED 1983 ESTABLISHED 1981 ESTABLISHED 1983 Western Flyer are uncertain as Kehoe doesn’t consistently respond to questions about his plans. E L E C T R O N I C S, I N C . In the meantime, the rent continues to accrue at 723 E. Front St. $2,000 a month.

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coming up with rules for the legal sale of marijuana. In 2012, voters statewide approved recreational pot use for adults. By the middle of 2014, people 21 and older should be able to go into statesanctioned stores and buy the drug. The state will allow 334 pot shops.

Washington state Bridge collapse needed so Boeing would goes to pot: It’s not severs Interstate 5: build the 777X in the the usual fare of state In May, an oversized Puget Sound area, securing bureaucrats, but Washing- truck struck the Interstate thousands of jobs. 5 bridge over the Skagit But shortly after, mem- ton officials spent 2013

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A $15 minimum wage goes from fantasy to possible reality: Voters in the airport city of SeaTac narrowly approved a $15 an hour minimum wage for many workers. The result placed Washington state at the forefront of the national debate over wages. Washington already has the nation’s highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Efforts to bring the $15 hourly wage requirement to Seattle will likely produce headlines in 2014.

Justice for a massacre in Afghanistan: In August, the U.S. soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians in 2012 — one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghani-

stan wars — was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Robert Bales Bales was sentenced during proceedings at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Bales apologized for his actions, saying, “I’m truly, truly sorry to those people whose families got taken away.” Some Afghan villagers who traveled to JBLM for the proceedings weren’t satisfied, saying Bales deserved a death sentence for killing their family members.

Another NBA snub: In early 2013, it seemed like a slam dunk. Hedge fund manager Chris Hansen announced an agreement to buy the Sacramento Kings and move the NBA team to

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Seattle, replacing the SuperSonics squad that left for Oklahoma City in 2008. But the league allowed a counteroffer in California and ultimately blocked the relocation proposal from Hansen and his partners, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Hansen vowed to continue to secure a hoops team for the Emerald City, but disappointed fans are enduring another winter without professional basketball.

Hearts and flowers: When a gay couple in Kennewick was denied service at a flower shop for their wedding, the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington state sued. Barronelle Stutzman refused to provide flowers for the wedding between Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed.

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FROM PRECEDING PAGE A new mayor in The two men were long- Seattle: Ed time patrons of Stutzman’s Murray, shop, Arlene’s Flowers and who led the Murray Gifts in Richland. successful State Attorney General effort to Bob Ferguson also filed a legalize gay marriage in consumer protection lawthe state, won a closerthan-expected contest suit. against Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn in November. The ongoing woes There was little separatat Hanford: Gov. Jay ing the two liberals politiInslee said in Februcians in the policy arena. ary that six underground But Murray, a longtime tanks holding radioactive legislator in the state and toxic waste at the Senate and House, Hanford nuclear site were promised to be more leaking. collaborative than the Inslee said the leaks at defeated incumbent, whose the south-central Washing- outspoken criticism of the ton federal reservation Alaskan Way Viaduct posed no immediate health tunnel replacement plan threat, but they were yet and contentious another example of chalnegotiations with the lenges in the ongoing mul- federal Justice Department tibillion-dollar effort to over Seattle police reforms clean up the nation’s most rankled some Seattle contaminated nuclear site. voters.

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launch of open enrollment would be a showcase for the upside of Obama’s much-debated overhaul. Instead, the website became a symbol of dysfunction, providing Republicans and late-night comics with ammunition, and worrying the president’s Democratic allies. The site gradually improved, but a wave of BY DAVID CRARY cancellation notices from THE ASSOCIATED PRESS insurers undercut Obama’s oft-repeated promise that Glitches in the people who liked their health care overhaul: The White existing coverage could House had hoped the Oct. 1 keep it.

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Nation/ World FROM PRECEDING PAGE He faces multiple charges, including 17 that carry a possible death penalty. Though jolted by the bombings and a subsequent lockdown, the city rallied under the slogan “Boston Strong.”

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Vatican changeover: Pope Benedict XVI stunned Catholics around the world with his announcement in February that he would resign. The cardinal elected to succeed him, soon known as Pope Francis, proceeded to captivate many Catholics and non-Catholics alike with a new tone of openness, modesty and tolerance. Without challenging core church doctrine, Francis — the first pope from

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Nation/ World FROM PRECEDING PAGE One cleared the way for ending a ban on same-sex marriages in California, the most populous state. The other struck down a 1996 law passed by Congress that banned federal recognition of same-sex marriages. In subsequent months, Hawaii, Illinois and New Mexico boosted the number of states allowing gay marriage to 17.

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cal prisoner, a statesman revered for preaching reconciliation in a nation torn by racial Mandela strife. Nelson Mandela was all that and more — the icon of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africa’s first black president. With his death at the age of 95, his compatriots, world leaders and countless other admirers — including President Barack Obama — traveled to Johannesburg mourned the loss of a one-of-a-kind hero.

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A shock in Cleveland: The call for help came May 6, and the revelations that followed were gripping and grim. A former bus driver, Ariel Castro, had abducted three women from the streets of Cleveland from 2002 to 2004 when they were 14, 16 and 20. He periodically kept them chained, restricted access to food and toilets, and repeatedly raped and assaulted them until their escape. Castro pleaded guilty to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS multiple charges, and in A Filipino stands near the entry to his destroyed September, faced with life house near a ship that was washed ashore in prison, hanged himself during Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, Philippines. in his cell.

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January Patti Page, 85. Singer who stumbled across “Tennessee Waltz” and made it one of the best-selling recordings ever. Jan. 1. Ned Wertimer, 89. He played Ralph the Doorman on all 11 seasons of the CBS sitcom “The Jeffersons.” Jan. 2. Huell Howser, 67. Homespun host of public television’s popular “California’s Gold” travelogues. Jan. 6. Conrad Bain, 89. Veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes.” Jan. 14. Andre Cassagnes, 86. Inven-

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tor of Etch A Sketch, toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over. Jan. 16. Pauline Friedman Phillips, 94. Under the name of Abigail Van Buren, she wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” newspaper advice column read by millions. Jan. 16. Earl Weaver, 82. Fiery Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games with baseball’s Baltimore Orioles. Jan. 19. Stan Musial, 92. St. Louis Cardinals star with the corkscrew stance and too many batting records to fit on his Hall of Fame plaque. Jan. 19. Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, 69. Frontman for the hit-making funk music band the Ohio Players. Jan. 26. Patty Andrews, 94. Last of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B” and the poignant “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” captured the home-front spirit of World War II. Jan. 30.

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April Roger Ebert, 70. First journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism, who, on his long-running TV review program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb. April 4. Margaret Thatcher, 87. Conservative British prime minister who infuriated European allies, found a fellow believer in Ronald Reagan and transformed her country by a ruthless dedication to free markets. April 8. Stroke. Annette Funicello, 70. Child star as a perky Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s, who then teamed with Frankie Avalon on a string of ‘60s fun-in-the-sun movies with names like “Beach Party Bingo.” April 8. Complications from multiple sclerosis. Maria Tallchief, 88. One of America’s first great prima ballerinas who gave life to “The Nutcracker,” ‘’Firebird,” and other masterpieces from choreographer George Balanchine. April 11. Jonathan Winters, 87. Cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey. April 11. Pat Summerall, 82. Deepvoiced NFL player-turned-broadcaster who spent half of his four

Margaret Thatcher Annette Funicello decades calling sports famously paired with John Madden. April 16. Al Neuharth, 89. Founder of USA Today, the nation’s most widely read newspaper. April 19. Allan Arbus, 95. He played the wise and wisecracking psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on TV’s “M*A*S*H.” April 19. Deanna Durbin, 91. Teen sensation whose sparkling soprano voice and girl-next-door looks made her a star during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Around April 20. Chrissy Amphlett, 53. Raunchy lead singer of the Australian band Divinyls whose hit “I Touch Myself” brought her fame in the early 1990s. April 21. Breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. George Jones, 81. Peerless,

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hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaker “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” April 26.

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. Jeff Hanneman, 49. Founding member of the pioneering metal band Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite. May 2. Liver failure. David Morris Kern, 103. Creator of Orajel, a medicine aimed at toothaches that was later also

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Jean Stapleton 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. Award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction 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 Frank Lautenberg, 89. Multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and the last World War II vet-

eran remaining in the U.S. Senate. June 3. David “Deacon” Jones, 74. Hall of Fame defensive end credited with coining the word “sack” for how he knocked down quarterbacks. June 3. Esther Williams, 91. Swimming champion-turned-actress who starred in glittering, aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. June 6. Thomas Penfield Jackson, 76. As federal judge in Washington, D.C., he presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry. June 15. James Gandolfini, 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 film comedy “Mars Attacks!” June 19. 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.

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