Obituaries of note

ROSALYN TURECK, 88, a pianist and harpsichordist who played an important part in the revival of interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and who devoted more than six decades to performing, researching, teaching and writing about his works, died on Thursday at her home in Riverdale, the Bronx, N.Y.

MARJORIE FOWLER, 82, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her work on the 1967 film Doctor Dolittle, died July 8 in Los Angeles. She was the daughter of screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, whose credits include adapting The Three Faces of Eve, which she edited. Joanne Woodward earned a best actress Oscar for it in 1957.

LEELA CHITNIS, 93, a pioneer of the film industry in India whose roles challenged the caste system and other aspects of her country's society, died Monday in Danbury, Conn. A U.S. resident since the 1980s, she rose to fame in movies produced by Bombay Talkies, one of India's earliest Hollywood-style film studios. India's film industry, affectionately known as Bollywood, is now the most prolific in the world, producing nearly 800 movies a year.

PAUL J. BERNAL, 92, a Pueblo Indian elder who, as a liaison to the federal government, helped his people recover title to their sacred Blue Lake in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, died on Wednesday in Taos Pueblo, N.M.

ALMON C. "AL" WILSON, 79, a retired rear admiral who was architect of the Navy's mobile hospital system, died June 30 in Silverdale, Wash. As commander of the 3rd Medical Battalion in Vietnam in May 1965, he used helicopters to speed the transfer of wounded marines from his field hospital to hospital ships offshore. The move cut the mortality rate among wounded marines to 4 percent, the lowest in Navy history, according to a letter of commendation he received.

JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN, 94, a poet, short-story writer and critic who held the post that later became that of national poet laureate, died July 9 in Cockeysville, Md. She was consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1971 to 1973. The title was changed to poet laureate consultant in poetry in 1986, the same year Robert Penn Warren was awarded the post. Her name is on the honor roll of national poets laureate, backdated to 1937.

PATRICK WALL, 68, a criminal defense lawyer whose highly regarded book on the use of eye witnesses was referenced in decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, died July 5 in White Plains, N.Y. He published his doctoral thesis in 1965 as Eye Witness Identification in Criminal Cases. Three decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 - each dealing with constitutional issues related to prosecutorial identification procedures and the dangers of mistaken identifications - partially relied on material from his book.

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