AP Features, June 22nd, 2007
Doris Edwards
DALLAS (AP) _ Doris Edwards, who is believed to be among the last surviving widows of nine policemen killed during Bonnie and Clyde's notorious crime spree in the 1930s, has died. She was 96.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office said Doris Edwards died June 10. Her husband was fatally shot while approaching the famed outlaws' parked car near Fort Worth in 1934.
Edwin "E.B." Wheeler was a highway patrolman when he and another officer investigated a car parked on a side road. A prison escapee named Henry Methvin, who was inside the car with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, shot the officers when Barrow said "Take 'em," according to L.J. "Boots" Hinton, manager of the Bonnie and Clyde Museum in Gibsland, La.
The Wheelers had been married less than two years. The killing came during Bonnie and Clyde's bank-robbing spree from 1932 to 1934, Hinton said.
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Bob Evans
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Bob Evans, whose quest for quality sausage to serve the truckers who filled his 12-stool, 24-hour-a-day steakhouse in southeast Ohio led to the creation of a restaurant chain that bears his name, has died. He was 89.
Evans died Thursday at the Cleveland Clinic, Evans' family told Bob Evans Farms Inc. The clinic said he died of complications from pneumonia.
Evans complained that he could not get good sausage for the restaurant he started after World War II in Gallipolis in southeast Ohio.
Starting with $1,000, a couple of hogs, 40 pounds of black pepper, 50 pounds of sage and other secret ingredients, he opted to make his own, relying on the hog's best parts as opposed to the scraps commonly used in sausage. He began selling it at the restaurant and mom-and-pop stores, and peddled tubs of it out of the back of his pickup truck.
It marked the beginning of what is now a restaurant chain with sales of $1.6 billion in the fiscal year ended April 28 with 590 restaurants in 18 states. The company also operates 108 Mimi's Cafe casual restaurants in 19 states, mostly in the West. Its sausage and other products are sold in grocery stores.
Evans formed Bob Evans Farms in 1953 with five friends and relatives. The chain emphasizes farm-fresh food, cleanliness and service in a homey atmosphere.
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Alberto Mijangos
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ Alberto Mijangos, a leading local abstract painter and founder of a Mexican art museum, has died. He was 81.
Mijangos died Tuesday of lymphoma. His death was confirmed by Linda Baker-Webber of Porter Loring Mortuaries, which is handling the funeral arrangements.
He was born in Mexico City and moved to San Antonio in the 1950s and mentored generations of artists while he painted abstracts that often dealt with spiritual and social issues.
He believed painting was a way of searching.
Mijangos dropped out of school in Mexico at a young age but studied art at the San Carlos Art Academy in Mexico City and recalled watching Diego Rivera work on murals for the National Palace.
In 1959, he began operating a small art museum in San Antonio for the Mexican government, a downtown facility that has since grown into the Instituto de Mexico en San Antonio.
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Richard Ramirez
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Richard Ramirez, who served as the chairman of a National Association of Hispanic Journalists planning committee that helped host the group's latest annual convention, has been found dead. He was 44.
Ramirez was found dead Wednesday at his home in Livermore, authorities said. Police were investigating.
After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1984, Ramirez joined the San Jose Mercury News as an intern and spent the rest of his career at the newspaper, holding a variety of positions including reporter and assistant state editor.
He worked at the Mercury News for 23 years, and most recently served as assistant to the executive editor.
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Marshall D. Shulman
NEW YORK (AP) _ Marshall D. Shulman, one of the nation's best-known scholars of Soviet studies and founding director of the W. Averell Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University, has died. He was 91.
Shulman died Thursday, university spokeswoman Tanya Domi said. She did not know the cause of death.
Shulman was instrumental in obtaining an $11.5 million endowment in 1982 from Pamela and W. Averell Harriman to establish the institute formerly known as the Russian Institute, Domi said. He was the longest-serving director of the Harriman institute and retired in 1986.
In 1949, he joined the Department of State, serving as an information officer for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York and then as special assistant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson between 1950 and 1953.
He later became associate director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University.
Shulman, a graduate of the University of Michigan in 1937, worked at the Detroit News as a reporter for two years before entering Harvard University, where he received a graduate degree in English literature.
He served five years in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a glider pilot during World War II, receiving a Bronze Star. He returned to New York and enrolled in Columbia University's Russian Institute, where he was a member of the first class receiving a master's degree.
