Obituaries

STEVE YOUNG, 49, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, died Thursday in Washington of cancer. A lieutenant in the Marion City Police Department in Ohio, he was elected to head the FOP in 2001. It is the nation's largest law enforcement labor organization, with more than 300,000 members.

JOEL McDAVID, 86, who rose through the ranks of the United Methodist Church to become a bishop in Florida and then Georgia, died Wednesday in Mobile, Ala. He served as bishop of the church in Florida from 1972 to 1980 and of the Atlanta Episcopal Area from 1980 to 1984.

CHARLES ALLEN JR., 84, scion of a family that runs one of the nation's largest poultry companies, died Wednesday in Seaford, Del. He and his two younger brothers led Allen Family Foods for several decades. The company founded by his parents, Charles and Nellie Allen, grew to become a global exporter producing 500-million pounds of poultry products each year.

HENRY BOTTERELL, 106, the last of Canada's World War I fighter pilots, died Jan. 3 in Toronto. He was credited with shooting down a German observation balloon and told dramatic stories of survival in aerial battles. In one close call, a bullet ripped through his ear and smashed his goggles. "I had good hands," he said at an air force celebration four years ago. "I didn't have the fighting acumen of some. . . . I was just a bank clerk. I wasn't one of the very best, but I had my share of action."

ALBERT EDELMAN, 86, a leading international lawyer and a former law partner of New York Sen. Jacob Javits, died Thursday in New York from complications of a stroke. Mr. Edelman practiced international litigation for more than six decades, most recently as senior counsel to the firm of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Throughout his career, he acted as counsel in business ventures and mergers between companies in Europe, South America and Southeast Asia.

BHABESH CHANDRA SANYAL, 101, a painter and sculptor whose subjects ranged from landscapes and pictures of animals to people in social settings, died Thursday in New Delhi. Despite his age, he continued to paint and exhibit until a year ago, said Aruna Bhowmick, art critic for the Statesman newspaper. After independence he set up a forum for arts, Delhi Shilpi Chakra, which developed the postindependence art style of the Indian capital, and he headed the fine arts department of the New Delhi College of Art.

PETER TINNISWOOD, 66, a prolific British author of plays for TV, radio and stage, died Thursday in London of cancer. He was best known for Tales From a Long Room, a series of stories about cricket, a lifelong passion, and the BBC sitcom, I Didn't Know You Cared. Also recently, he worked on a TV adaptation of H.E. Bates' Uncle Silas, starring Albert Finney.

-- Area obituaries and the Suncoast Deaths list appear in local sections.

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