SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 4 2021 TRI-CITY 7A Share Your Condolences, Thoughts Memories Online Gerken, Floyd, 94 Kennewick Aug 24 Prosser Funeral Home Mutimer, Dean, 58 Livermore Aug 20 Neptune Society OBITUARY INDEX Bold listings indicate expanded obituaries View and place obituaries at Contact our obituary at 509-585-7214 or NAME, AGE CITY DEATH ARRANGEMENTS Livermore California Dean Loren Mutimer, raised in Fremont, CA and resided in Livermore, CA, passed away on August 20, 2021 at the age of 58. He is survived by his wife, Connie, his two daughters, Nicole and Tara, his broth- er, Doug, and sisters, Debbie and Donna, along with nu- merous nieces and nephews. Dean attended Washing- ton High School and Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. He was highly achieved in the swimming community along with becoming a Nationally ranked swimmer. Dean was a Journeyman Carpenter for over 15 years and well versed in many other trades.
He at- tended Technical Training for Airline Mechanics and worked as a Manufacturing Engineer in the Aerospace Sector of Space ral. He loved being with his family and sharing all of his passions with them. Some in- cluding: white water rafting, camping, kayaking, hunting, swimming, and be- ing outdoors whenever he had the chance. Those that knew Dean well, knew of his high spir- ited presence, along with his kind and generous heart. Dean was a proud and lov- ing husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend that will truly be missed.
Our lives will not be the same without Dean. Now it is his time to rest. His Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date. Dean Mutimer May 21, 1963 August 20, 2021 Kennewick, Washington Floyd Edward Gerken age 94 of Kennewick, Washing- ton passed away peaceful- ly August 24, 2021, from heart failure. Born October 24, 1926, to Paul and Amy Gerken in Nebras- ka.
He lived in Nebraska, Montana and eventually Or- oville, Washington during his childhood. He started his schooling after moving to Trout Creek, Montana, and later joined the US Army on November 1, 1945, at the age of 19 serving in the Theatre in the latter days of World War II. He worked on the Grand Coulee Dam from 1946 to 1954; on the Rich- land Ferry until 1960, when the Vernita Bridge opened and retired from Twin City Motor Supply in 1988. He married Emma Hammer on September 19, 1953, and raised 4 children in Pasco and Kennewick, Washing- ton. He divorced in 1982 and never re-married.
He was renowned for his mechanical capabilities with cars, trucks and farm ma- chinery, he was a partner in Auto Electric in Pas- co, Washington, worked at several repair and machine shops around the Tri Cities area. Floyd was preceded in death by his daughter, Kathy Baker, his brothers, Paul Jr, Lawrence, Dean and Theo his sisters, Dorothy and Carol and his parents, Paul and Amy Gerken and his long-time companion Avil Gilkerson. He is sur- vived by his sister Norma Verbeck, daughter Gina (John) Lawson, son Bryan (Barb) Gerken and daugh- ter Jackie (Gary) Howell, 6 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren. Floyd Gerken October 24, 1926 August 24, 2021Obituaries Obituaries JANET JONES Janet Jones, 62, of West Richland, died Aug. 30 in West Richland.
She was born in Seattle and lived in the Tri-Cities for 40 years. She was a homemaker. at Sunset, Richland, is in charge of arrangements. TERESE A. BIDDLE Terese Ann Biddle, 62, of Richland, died Aug.
31 in Rich- land. She was born in Chicago, and lived in the Tri-Cities for 37 years. She was a retired registered nurse. at Sunset, Richland, is in charge of arrangements. MARAGEN M.
WRIGHT Maragen M. Wright, 86, of Kennewick, died Sept. 2 at Three Rivers Place in Kennewick. She was born in Urbana, and lived in the Tri-Cities since 1942. She was a retired telephone operator for General Telephone and a mail sorter for the U.S.
Postal Service. Life Tributes Cremation Center, Kennewick, is in charge of arrangements. MICHAEL A. STINSON Michael A. Stinson, 72, of Pasco, died Aug.
25 at home. He was born in Richland and was a lifelong Tri-Citian. The U.S. Army veteran from the Vietnam era was a retired draftsman. Hillcrest Funerals and Crema- tion, Pasco, is in charge of arrangements.
DEE A. STONESTREET Dee Ann Stonestreet, 63, of Addy, died Sept. 1 in Pasco. She was born in La Grande, and was previously a Tri-City resident for 21 years. She was a retired caregiver.
Tri-Cities Funeral Home, Kennewick, is in charge of arrangements. GREGORY L. ELLIOTT Gregory Lee Elliott, 55, of Prosser, died Aug. 27 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. He was born in Prosser and was a lifelong resident.
He was a machine operator in the fruit processing industry. Prosser Funeral Home and Crematory, Prosser, is in charge of arrangements. DEATHS Michalis The- odorakis, a prolific Greek composer and leftist politi- cal activist whose musical meditations on his home- land ranged from the sun- drenched bliss of the to brooding anthems about the coun- many upheavals and struggles, died Thursday. He was 96. The cause was cardio- pulmonary arrest, accord- ing to a statement on his website.
Theodorakis played a dominant role in cultural and political life for more than half a centu- ry and, with a head of untamed curls even into his old age, remained one of its most instantly recog- nizable figures. He was known outside Greece for the remarkable scope of his talent a catalogue of more than 1,000 songs, film scores, symphonies, operas and other works but he also was widely viewed in his homeland as the con- science of political resist- ance for periods of in- carceration and exile. His mark was seen on nearly every pivotal event in Greece of his era: join- ing the resistance against German occupiers in World War II; taking up arms with an underground militia during a civil war in the late 1940s; being jailed by 1967-74 mil- itary junta; and calling for Greeks to stand up against their European Union partners and international lenders amid the crushing debt crisis. Theodorakis collaborat- ed with Greek-born direc- tor Costa-Gavras to write the score for the 1969 film a riveting political thriller based on the 1963 slaying of Greek left-wing activist Grigoris Lambra- kis. The movie won the Oscar for best foreign- language film, and Theod- exciting music, like a military march played on traditional Greek instruments, was a defining feature.
He was being held un- der house arrest when he wrote the music and man- aged to smuggle the com- position to Costa-Gavras, who spent much of his career in France. I would write them in invisible ink, a trick learned during earlier prison The- odorakis told the Chicago Tribune in 1994. He added that his wife, Myrto Alti- noglou, a dream about hollow buttons. So we made some for my little coat, and hid music in them when Myrto took the boy to see a doc- tor in the He partnered again with Costa-Gavras for of (1972), a political thriller set in Latin Amer- ica. imprint on Greece was so strong that he was known mostly by just his first name the shortened Mikis like other members of Greec- 20th century political and artistic pantheon, including opera diva Maria (Callas), actress and So- cialist politician Melina (Mercouri) and Socialist party patriarch Andreas (Papandreou), who al- ternatively embraced and feuded with Theodorakis.
is impossible to re- duce Mikis Theodorakis to one single wrote Greek music historian Stephanie Merakos. must simultaneously take into account Theodorakis the citizen, Theodorakis the musician and Theod- orakis the A lifelong communist, he served two times in Parliament before stun- ning many of his followers in the late 1980s with his alliance with a conserva- tive ruling party for his third stint in the legisla- ture. Later, he took on the mantle as one of leading bashers of Amer- ican policies, decrying the 2003 invasion of Iraq as the actions of and spearheading Greek opposition to the U.S.-led NATO attacks on Serbia in 1999. He also worked occa- sionally with Americans during his bursts of cre- ative energy, including scoring director Sidney (1973), the police-whistleblower drama starring Al Pacino. He also collaborated with American-born expatriate director Jules Dassin, husband, on the films (1962) and Rehears- (1974), the latter about corruption of power in Greece.
As with those projects, the vast majority of Mr. body of work stayed under the umbrella of his- tory, culture, sounds and psyche. all I want- ed to sense this large music mural, to make it their own, to feel it flowing out of he wrote in 1976. Michalis Theodorakis was born on July 29, 1925, on Chios, an Aegean is- land within sight of the Turkish coast. He was raised in several Greek mainland cities as his father, a lawyer and civil servant, moved to differ- ent jobs.
His early interest in music was influenced by the chants of the Orthodox Liturgy and the folk rhythms of the bouzouki, the mandolin-like instru- ment featured in the dance made famous by Anthony Quinn in the (1964). During the Nazi-led occupation of Greece, Theodorakis joined a re- sistance faction, then took sides with the losing pro- Communist forces during the Greek civil war that followed. He was captured by the British-backed nationalists and sent to the rocky prison island of Makronisos. There, he was tortured and abused, leaving him with a broken leg that healed poorly and ad- vanced tuberculosis that plagued him for many years. The experience on Mak- ronisos forever shaped his views against right-wing rule and infused his music with a sense of revolu- tionary and underdog pathos.
Among his overtly political works are hymns for Socialists in Venezuela and France where The- odorakis studied at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris in the 1950s. MICHALIS THEODORAKIS, 1925-2021 composer stood large in cultural, political life PETROS GIANNAKOURIS AP Famous Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis holds a Greek flag and waves after his speech at a rally in 2018 in Athens. The "Zorba the Greek" composer died Thursday. He was 96. BY BRIANMURPHY The Washington Post TUPELO, MISS.
Gospel music artist Lee Williams, the leader and founder of the award- winning Lee Williams and the Spiritual has died. He was 75. death was announced Monday on the musical Facebook page. is with our deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of our fearless leader, Dr. Lee the group posted on social media.
he has moved from his temporary house, the love, the me- mories and the music will linger they added. Gospel composer and artist Kurt Carr wrote in a social media post about Williams that giant of the quartet world has received his Williams founded the group in the late 1960s in Tupelo, Mississippi. He worked as a truck driver before committing himself to music full time. Known for his deep baritone voice and cool stoic style, Williams and the group performed for decades before finding national success in the 1990s with their first hit, Learned to according to the Daily Journal. Multiple successful albums followed in the 1990s and 2000s.
Williams, along with the group, in 2010 won the Stellar James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award. He retired from per- forming in 2018. LEE WILLIAMS, 1946-2021 Gospel singer was giant of the quartet Associated Press Kaycee Moore, an ac- tress who helped fuel the creation of a new Black cinema, bringing intensity and vulnerability to her performances in three landmark independent films of Their Little and of the died Aug. 13 at 77. Her family announced her death in an obituary published by a funeral home in Kansas City, but did not say where or how she died.
AlthoughMoore ap- peared in only five films, she was among themost cele- brated actors of the L.A. Rebellion, an alternative to Hollywood filmmaking that emerged out of the Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles, where Black direc- tors such as Charles Bur- nett, Julie Dash and Billy Woodberry trained in the 1970s and scene she was in, she brought it to said Burnett, who worked with Moore in of (completed in 1977) and Their Little (1983). In a phone inter- view, he lamented that Moore get the opportunity to display her in more films, add- ing, a sad observation about America and how we treat people of color. She definitely could have had her own TV show, could have been that Moore fell into acting after moving from Kansas City to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, where she worked for the cosmetics line Max Factor and then joined a theater workshop. was having a really difficult time while living in Los Angeles, somemen- tal health said Samantha Sheppard, a Cornell University film scholar who interviewed her in 2018.
felt that acting had saved her While performing in student plays and movies, she met Burnett, a UCLA graduate student who cast her in his thesis project, of a low- budget meditation on Black life in theWatts section of Los Angeles, where he had grown up. Shot in black-and-white for $10,000, the film starred Henry G. Sanders as Stan, a slaughterhouse worker and father of two, and Moore as the unnamed matriarch struggling to keep their family together. The film was never in- tended for wide release. But with its poetic shots of children leaping between rooftops, and of Moore and Sanders dancing languo- rously to DinahWashing- Bitter it acquired a reputation as an independent classic.
It was one of the first 50 movies inducted into the Library of National Film Registry, and was hailed by New York Times movie critic Manohla Dargis as American masterpiece, independent to the after it was restored and opened in theaters in 2007. Six years after it was first had a more substantial role as the overworked wife andmoth- er Andais Banks in Their Little which was directed byWoodberry and written and shot by Burnett. Like of the filmwas cen- tered on a working-class family inWatts, with Nate Hardman cast unemployed husband, Charlie, who starts an affair. Their Little was inducted into the National Film Registry, along with follow- up, of the (1991), in which she appeared as a strong-willed woman who has married into a Gullah family in the early 20th century. Direct- ed by Dash, the movie is generally considered the first feature made by an African American woman to get a wide release, and it was credited with inspiring some of the sumptuous imagery in 2016 film all left the set knowing that we were putting together something pretty Moore told the Kansas City Star in 1992.
Black films are stereotypical. a criminal, a prostitute or a seller of drugs. The films are about sex and violence. Blacks are victims; if a historic story, cot- ton pickers. KAYCEE MOORE, 1944-2021 Actress starred in landmark Black independent films BY HARRISON SMITH The Washington Post.
