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| Reformed Rebel: Mormon Convert 'Big Daddy' Roth Dies |
| Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, whose outrageous car designs and
anti-hero cartoon character "Rat Fink" helped define the California hotrod
culture of the 1950s and 1960s, died Wednesday in his studio in Manti, Utah.
More than 25 years ago Roth re-examined his life after a divorce and the
failure of his magazine and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, leading him to put LDS symbols and references in his recent car
designs. He was 69. |
| Former Ecuador Mission President Mitchell Dies |
| Placer County attorney, Jack Mitchell,
died Thursday after canoeing off Lake Combie in front of his home.
The cause of death was listed as "pending" by the Placer County
Sheriff's Department, after his body was recovered from the lake.
Mitchell, a Meadow Vista resident, was 67 at the time of his death. |
| A Hero has Moved on |
| I lost a good friend this week. William T.
"Bill" Arruda was a member of our high priests group here in Lincoln,
Neb. 73, a quiet, retired lawyer raised in a small Rhode Island
community, Bill was active in church and especially U.S. veterans
affairs. |
| Ogden Politician John Arrington dead at 81 |
| John Benjamin Duncan Arrington, who served as a Utah
State Representative from 1978 to his retirement in 1998, died March
29, 2001 at age 81. Arrington represented Odgen in the Utah State
House for 20 years and was active in service to the community. |
| Beloved LDS Principal Succumbs to Cancer |
| Students, faculty, friends and family built a memorial
of flowers and teddy bears at the foot of the Logan High School
grizzly statue in honor the life of Allison Dunn, beloved principal,
teacher, wife, mother and friend. Dunn was diagnosed with breast
cancer in 1996, but by February, 2000 the cancer had spread to her
bones, liver and lungs. After a week of missing school, she declared
she wanted to go back to work. Her husband, Steve Dunn, drove her to
school and carried her up the stairs for her last day of work. |
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