Wayne E. Grimm, 83, retired director of the Chrysler Institute, Chrysler Corp.'s education and training institute, died after a heart attack Friday in Royal Oak, Mich. He became director of the Chrysler Institute in 1965 and retired in 1975.
Kenneth O. Lester, 60, chairman of Performance Food Group, a publicly held food distribution company whose clients include McDonald's and Taco Bell, died Sunday in Lebanon, Tenn.
Robert Ormes, 90, a mountain climber and author of the mountaineers' classic, "A Guide to the Colorado Mountains," died Friday in Boulder, Colo.
Karl Schiller, 83, a Social Democrat whose tenure as economics minister in the 1960s helped establish his leftist party as a responsible partner in West German politics, died Monday of abdominal hemorrhaging in Hamburg, Germany. A professor of economics at the University of Hamburg, he became economics minister in 1966. In the Social Democratic government of Willy Brandt that followed, he took the additional post of finance minister in 1971, becoming known as the "super-minister" until his 1972 resignation over policy differences.
Julie Haydon, 84, the actress who created the role of fragile Laura Wingfield in the original production of "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, died Saturday in La Crosse, Wis., of abdominal cancer. She was the widow of George Jean Nathan, the drama critic. Among her films were "Age of Innocence" (with Irene Dunne), "The Scoundrel" (with Noel Coward) and "A Family Affair," the first in the Andy Hardy series.