Obituaries of note

GEORGE WILLIAM MARQUARDT, 84, who flew the plane that photographed the atomic bomb blast on Hiroshima, died Friday in Salt Lake City. His plane, Necessary Evil, flew beside the Enola Gay, a B-29 that carried the bomb. He said the light from the blast was so bright that he could not see his co-pilot beside him.

CONNIE DOUGLAS REEVES, 101, a cowgirl performer, died in San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday, 12 days after being thrown from her favorite horse, Dr Pepper. She rode in the parade of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame last year in Fort Worth, Texas. She was inducted into the hall in 1997 and became its oldest living member.

CHARLES F. MYERS JR., 92, a former chairman and chief executive of Burlington Industries, the textile manufacturer, died July 20 in Greensboro, N.C.

PIERRE GRABER, 94, a former Swiss president and foreign minister, died July 19 in Lausanne.

ANNE ROGOVIN, 84, a teacher of mentally handicapped children who wrote manuals on child rearing with admonitions like "Turn off the TV!" died July 7 in Buffalo, N.Y. Her writings, which found a national response and went through various editions into the 1990s, included Let Me Do It!, with an introduction by Benjamin Spock (1990), and 1001 Activities for Children, with a foreword by Edward Asner (Random House, 1999).

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