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AMY AXELROD KLEIN and family
It pains me to say but on Sunday April 2nd,2006 my dear friend Joe Cacciola died suddenly of a heart attack while coaching his son's little league game. He was a one of a kind individual, and his loss leaves a giant void in many people's heart. My sympathy's to Marlene and her three sons.
Mike Singer
Roberta Kaufman Flax
passed away April 8th 2006,
thirteen days after her brother
Howie. OUR PRAYERS to their
families.
HOWIE KAUFMAN
Michael Fajans,
1948-2006:
Painter left his mark on Seattle's public art
By REGINA HACKETT
P-I REPORTER
Influential Seattle painter Michael Fajans, 58, was killed Monday morning when his motorcycle collided with a car as he was merging onto the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Meryl Schenker / P-I
Artist Michael Fajans sits in front of part of his mural in the Seattle federal courthouse in this file photo from 2004. He painted real people and their professions.
Fajans, the only fatality in the accident, was transported to Harborview Medical Center by firefighters.
Richard Andrews, director of the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery, called Fajans' death a "great loss," and said the artist was "very influential in the development of the public art scene in Seattle, from the 1970s to the present."
Among his most successful projects is his massive set of murals in the U.S. Courthouse in Seattle, titled "Three Sets of Twelve," a meticulous celebration of the jury system.
In a profile of Fajans by Kathie Werner in the Seattle P-I two years ago, she wrote that although the panels of the courthouse mural "may at first look like photographs, they're the result of a complicated creative process. ... The soft, lustrous folds of the camera repairman's work smock (in the murals) look like silk -- the result of Fajans' meticulously airbrushed painting of acrylic on cherry wood. The red fabric of the architect's skirt and jacket took 30 layers of paint to achieve its velvet texture."
Born in Philadelphia, Fajans grew up in New York City and graduated from Antioch College in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in art and dance. He was a dancer in New York until a knee injury caused him to focus on painting.
His painterly skill was prodigious, and he used it in the service of exactitude. If he painted a bird, he considered each feather. When he painted a chair, he absorbed the stresses in its construction.
From exactitude, he achieved mysterious resonance.
"There's always something magical in his depictions," Andrews said. "And he chose to use that magic in the public arena."
He's best known for his paintings of people. He was fascinated by the way light falls on flesh, the way clothes fold around their wearer, how habitual expressions leave traces. Although his portraits could be radically unflattering, he painted them as containers for spirit, painting the spirit by inference.
Besides painting, Fajans loved his son, Pepper, his life partner, Cathryn Vandenbrink, volleyball and his motorcycle.
Vandenbrink met Fajans 20 years ago, after signing up for a volleyball class he was coaching.
"He was a terrible coach," she said, "way too hard on everybody. He loved volleyball too much to see it played badly."
Vandenbrink never learned to play, but the coach liked her anyway. "We'd stand in the same room, and our bodies would vibrate," she said.
On the wall of his studio were photos of Bob Dylan, whom he liked, and cartoons of George Bush, whom he despised.
One sign read, "I'd rather be blacklisted." There were plenty of photos of Pepper, a skateboarder who attends Sarah Lawrence College, and a few of Vandenbrink, including one of her nude on the same motorcycle he was riding in Monday's accident, a huge BMW R1150RT.
"He sent that photo out one year as his Christmas card," she said.
In 1998, he painted former Gov. Mike Lowry's official portrait, which hangs in the foyer of the governor's office. When asked about the painting at its unveiling, Lowry said: "I think the artist did a good job. The only problem is it looks like me."
Writing in The Oregonian, Randy Gragg called the portrait a stark contrast to the standard-issue portrait, which is largely nostalgic, tradition-bound and moribund. Fajans mixes pop with an almost technocratic attitude toward paint, he wrote.
Other murals Fajans created can be found at the Port of Seattle, Sea-Tac Airport, the Pike Place Market Child Care Center and on the ferry Sealth.
Vandenbrink said there will be a party to celebrate Fajans' life, but "it's too soon to think about it yet. He's only been out of my life for half a day."
P-I reporter Hector Castro contributed to this report.
Man dies in Little Neck apt. blaze
By John Tozzi
04/12/2007
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A 58-year-old Parkinson's patient died in a fire in his Deepdale Gardens co-op late Sunday night, police said.
The man, who a neighbor identified as Kenneth Price, lived in the first-floor brick co-op with a full-time health aide. Medics tried to revive Price after firefighters rescued him from the blaze inside 252-48 63rd Ave., but he was pronounced dead when he arrived at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, police said.
"They were compressing his chest for a long time," said Allen Rogoff, a neighbor who said Price's family had lived in the co-op for nearly 50 years. He said emergency workers gave Price CPR on the cement walkway in front of the steps that their apartments share. "They were working on him for a long time."
The blaze broke out at 9:48 p.m. Sunday inside Price's apartment, fire officials said. Firefighters arrived nine minutes later. Rogoff said Price's aide came out and alerted rescue workers that he was still inside.
They broke through three back bedroom windows and two front windows. Firefighters entered the home and rescued Price, who was overcome with smoke, fire officials said.
The fire was under control by 10:20 p.m., a Fire Department spokesman said. Price died from cardiac arrest brought on by smoke inhalation, the spokesman said. The cause of the fire was still under investigation Tuesday.
Rogoff said Price had needed a full-time aide for several years because of his Parkinson's disease, which prevented him from working. Price could walk around on his own and left the house for doctor's appointments or to sit on the bench outside the apartment, Rogoff said. His parents had bought the apartment when Deepdale first opened, and although he moved away for awhile, Price returned after his parents died, Rogoff said.
A charred orange easy chair remained on the lawn outside Price's den Monday, next to a pile of broken glass.
Reach reporter John Tozzi by e-mail at news@timesledger.com or by phone at 718-229-0300 Ext. 174.
Dear Sue and Dawn,
It is with deep sadness that I announce the passing of my sister, Barbara Shayne DeMasi. Ironically, the first place I'm contacting, after having made the funeral arrangments is our site. Barbara and I attended the reunion last summer (our first) and had "the best time" socializing with so many old friends. She will be sadly missed. May her journey to heaven be swift and sure.
Sincerely yours,
Alan Shayne
july 2007
Larry London -- 12/17/07-regretfully passed away too young at the age of 66 years at home --He will be missed by his brither Neil- His sister Beth and mostly his mother Shirley... and his children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and all his friends.... Larry -we will miss you,
your brother,
Neil
Gone, but not forgotten
HOLLY COHEN
HARVEY BERNHARDT PASSED AWAY JANUARY 9, 2007 FROM
COMPLICATIONS WITH POST POLIO SYNDROME. HE WAS A PATHOLOGIST IN
JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA.AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER GERTIE, HIS WIFE
REGINA,HIS SONS WES AND BRAD, HIS DAUGHTER MONICA AND SIX GRANDCHILDREN,
HIS BROTHERS BERNARD, GARY, AND MICHAEL. HE WAS ALSO A LT. COMMANDER
IN THE NAVY STATION AT MAYPORT NAVAL AIR STATION IN JACKSONVILLE. HE
ESTABLISHED "TEAM JACKSONVILLE" AN AAU BASKETBALL TEAM WHICH HE FUNDED
AND COACHED AND TOOK TO A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. WE SPENT MANY
YEARS TOGETHER PLAYING BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL AND SOFTBALL AT JHS 67. HE
IS IN MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS EVERY DAY. GARY BERNHARDT,
MIAMI FL
Ronie Levenberg
died September 20, 2012 from
complications of an auto accident. She is survived by her sister Debbie and
cousin Stephen. Our mother died 4 months later. Ronie lived in Muttontown, LI
with her husband Dave Rosenbaum. She will be forever in the hearts of her son,
daughter and grandchildren.
Dennis L. Gormé
3/21/1953 - 1/25/2014
Photo: Dennis L. Gormé 3/21/1953 - 1/25/2014
DONNA GALLO
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SUSAN WOLL
KENNY ( THE MAYOR) LUBIN
JIM GENGARO
Brad Jeffrey Lippert
