Sam Roberts

Oct 1, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Sam Roberts |Sam Roberts

Bill Lucy, a trailblazing Black union leader who fought for civil rights in the American South and against apartheid in South Africa, and who pressured organized labor to address concerns about equal treatment for minority groups, died last week at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Phyllis Lucy, who said he died in his sleep late last Tuesday or early Wednesday. Lucy was not as famous as many other figures in the civil rights movement.

Jun 17, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Sam Roberts

Edward C. Stone, a visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, to venture beyond to unravel interstellar mysteries, died on June 9 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his daughter Susan C. Stone.

Jun 16, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Sam Roberts

Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, to venture beyond to unravel interstellar mysteries, died on Sunday at his home in Pasadena, California. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his daughter Susan C. Stone.

Jun 9, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Sam Roberts |Sam Roberts

Jeannette Charles, who transformed a portrait rejected by a royal art show into a career as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in movies and on television, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, England. She was 96 — the same age as the monarch when she died two years ago. “Mum was a real character and a force of nature,” her daughter, Carol Christophi, said in announcing Charles’ death, in a hospice. “She had an amazing life.”Charles first acted in small repertory roles in regional theater.

Feb 9, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Sam Roberts

Before he became known as the father of artificial Christmas trees, Si Spiegel was a valiant Army aviator. In the closing days of World War II, he was piloting his B-17 Flying Fortress in an armada of 1,500 Allied bombers that pummeled Berlin. Struck by anti-aircraft flak, two of the plane’s four engines lost power as Spiegel reversed course to return to England.