Eszter Haraszty, 74, the Hungarian-born designer known for the Iceland poppy motif that she replicated on textiles, ceramics and stained glass, died Thursday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Malibu, Calif. Her work is in collections at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Le Chateau Dufresne in Montreal.
W. Tapley Bennett Jr., 77, the U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic during that country's 1965 uprising, died Tuesday at the Washington (D.C.) Hospice after a series of heart and liver ailments. He made the recommendation to send in Marines to protect American lives during fighting that began when army rebels overthrew the Dominican government in April 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the Marines, helping restore order to that country.
Jesse Philips, 80, a philanthropist who parlayed a small window business into a multimillion-dollar company, died Tuesday of a stroke in Salt Lake City. In 1957, he bought Jalousies of Ohio Co., an aluminum window manufacturer, and renamed it Philips Industries Inc. When he retired as chairman of the company in 1989, sales totaled $942 million. He was a former chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Dayton and recently had donated $5 million to the Ohio school.
George Bell Timmerman Jr., 82, one of the last governors to serve in South Carolina during the segregationist era, died Tuesday in Columbia, S.C., of injuries suffered in an auto accident. He was lieutenant governor under then-Gov. Strom Thurmond from 1947 to 1955 and was governor from 1955 to 1959.