...XTC Edgar R. Habbersett, 76, president of Habbersett Bros. Inc., an established Philadelphia scrapple and sausage company, died Monday in Lima, Pa. The firm had made scrapple, a breakfast food of pork scraps and cornmeal, for 100 years before incorporating in the 1860s.
Jerry Pavletich, 57, the West Coast representative of Trout Unlimited and an ardent defender of Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead, died in his sleep Thursday in Aberdeen, Wash. President Clinton recently appointed him to be one of two U.S. representatives on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, made up of representatives from the United States, Japan and Russia.
Paul Cooper, 18, who became a preacher at age 14 and won first place in an international preaching competition, died from complications of leukemia Thursday in Hurricane, W.Va. He was a student at Calvary Baptist Academy, preached at youth camps, churches and at Union Mission in Charleston. In 1992, he won first place in an international preaching competition in Flagstaff, Ariz., for students at Christian schools.
Frank Taylor, 94, who covered Congress for the Associated Press from 1945 until 1965, died Nov. 12 in Farmington, Minn.