Obituaries of note

DR. FREDERICK CHAPMAN ROBBINS, 86, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1954 for discovering how to grow the polio virus in the laboratory, died Monday in Cleveland. The groundbreaking research, conducted at Harvard Medical School with John F. Enders and Dr. Thomas H. Weller, enabled the development not only of the polio vaccine but other vaccines against human viral diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella.

REDD STEWART, 80, a country music singer, guitarist and fiddler perhaps best-known for co-writing Tennessee Waltz, a song about stolen love that became the state's official song and a massive hit for singer Patti Page, died Aug. 2 in St. Matthews, Ky.

HOWARD ARMSTRONG, 94, one of the last guardians of a vanishing African-American tradition of string-band music, died July 30 in Boston. He played 22 instruments, although he was best known as a fiddle and mandolin player. His gifts as a musician and raconteur were captured in a 1985 documentary by Terry Zwigoff called Louie Bluie, a nickname that he got from a drunken fan in the 1930s. A documentary by Leah Mahan, Sweet Old Song, was broadcast last year on PBS and will be shown again on Aug. 12.

LOUIS B. ROBERTSHAW, 90, a Marine Corps lieutenant general, aviator and decorated veteran of three wars, died July 14 in Chestertown, Md. He was a Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Guadalcanal during World War II. In the Korean War, he flew an F-9F Panther jet while stationed at Pusan Air Base. During a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, he flew an F-4D Phantom fighter and served as commanding general of the 1st Marine Air Wing in Da Nang. His military decorations included the Dist-inguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with combat "V" and two gold stars and the Distinguished Flying Cross with two gold stars.

DR. PETER SAFAR, 79, a pioneer in emergency medicine who is regarded by many as the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, died Sunday in Pittsburgh. He developed the "ABCs of CPR," a lifesaving technique that is taught to everyone from surgeons to Boy Scouts.

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

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