George Danielson,83, a former congressman who was a member of the House Judiciary Committee when it considered impeachment proceedings against President Richard M. Nixon, died in Monterey Park, Calif., on Sept. 12 of heart failure.

Thomas J. Murphy,91, a union negotiator who led the Newspaper Guild of New York for 22 years, died Wednesday in Hazlet, N.J.

John Francis Jacobs,75, who worked on an early digital computer and helped found the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research and Engineering Corp., died Sept. 12 of complications from Parkinson's disease in Harwich, Mass.

Donald N. Dedmon,66, former president of Radford University, died of a heart attack Feb. 13 in Naples, Fla. School officials in Virginia learned of his death a few weeks ago and announced it Wednesday.

When Mr. Dedmon arrived in 1972, Radford College was an all-female liberal arts school with 3,670 students. By the time he left in 1994, it was a comprehensive university with a student body of more than 9,500 men and women.

Pub Date: 9/19/98