Obituaries of note

JOHN KRIEGER, 68, beloved son of a small town that never belittled him because he had Down's syndrome, died Wednesday of pneumonia, according to Viv Rosswurm, managing editor of the Churubusco News. Krieger and Churubusco were the focus of a 1999 Associated Press feature that was widely published. It inspired hundreds of letters from around the world, praising the town.

WILLIAM A. DELANO, 79, the first general counsel of the Peace Corps and an executive secretary of the City Bar Association, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan, N.Y. As a young litigation lawyer in 1953, just out of Yale Law School, Mr. Delano was hired by Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, a Manhattan law firm, which encouraged its young lawyers to take pro bono clients. Mr. Delano, who was a distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, worked on the cases of mentally ill patients committed against their will, said his wife, Georgia, and the experience turned him toward the world of volunteerism.

HENRY CUESTA, 71, a highly regarded clarinetist best-known as a featured musician with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

KRIANGSAK CHOMANAN, 87, an army general who became prime minister in 1977 through a series of coups before helping steer Thailand to democracy, died Tuesday.

OLEG A. TROYANOVSKY, 84, the suave voice of successive Soviet leaders and his country's affable representative at the United Nations from 1977 to 1986, died on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry said. Mr. Troyanovsky also was Moscow's ambassador to Japan and China. He was the son of the first Soviet ambassador to the United States, Alexander A. Troyanovsky, and polished his English as a student in American classrooms, including Sidwell Friends School and Swarthmore.

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