John Dellenback, 84, a former Oregon congressman, died of viral pneumonia Saturday in Medford. The southern Oregon Republican wrote legislation establishing the vast Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. He also wrote amendments to a bill allowing the construction of the Alaska oil pipeline, holding pipeline permit-holders and shippers liable for oil spills.
Mr. Dellenback was elected to Congress in 1966. He held leadership posts in education and natural resources, but lost his re-election bid in 1974 after four terms. In 1975, President Gerald R. Ford Jr. appointed him director of the Peace Corps and its 6,700 volunteers. He served for two years.
Mr. Dellenback received a kidney transplant at age 78. At the time, he was the nation's oldest kidney transplant recipient. His wife, Mary Jane, then 68, volunteered to donate one of her kidneys and was the nation's third-oldest donor.
William Henson, 78, an animator who helped bring the bulbous-nosed, dim-witted moose Bullwinkle to life, died after being struck by a pickup truck Dec. 2 in suburban Dallas.
Mr. Henson, known as Tex, joined Disney as an assistant animator in 1945 shortly after graduating from high school in Dallas. The year after, he worked on Song of the South, a film combining live action and animation that was Disney's first post-war feature, and Peter and the Wolf, a short based on Prokofiev's musical tale.
He later moved to Mexico, where he supervised a studio of 180 animators who produced animator Jay Ward's creations Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose and other characters.
Glenn Quinn, 32, an Irish actor best known for a recurring role on the sitcom Roseanne, was found dead of a suspected drug overdose Tuesday at a friend's home in North Hollywood.
Mr. Quinn joined the cast of Roseanne in its third season, playing Becky Connor's boyfriend and later husband, Mark Healy. He later co-starred as the half-demon Doyle on Angel, a spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that debuted in 1999.
Philip B. Meggs, 60, who wrote the first definitive history of graphic and advertising design from the beginning of the written language through the printing press and to the computer, died of leukemia Nov. 24 in Richmond, Va.
A graphic designer for commercial industry and then a college instructor and dean, Mr. Meggs said he wrote because of his need to give his students a foundation for all that had gone before. The result was A History of Graphic Design, published in 1983 and still the definitive book on the subject.
John D. Weaver, 90, who wrote extensively about the history of Los Angeles and whose 1970 book The Brownsville Raid led to the exoneration of 167 black soldiers, died Wednesday in Las Vegas. He had Alzheimer's disease.
During his 65-year writing career, Mr. Weaver produced two novels, eight nonfiction books and hundreds of short stories, articles and book reviews for magazines, including Harper's, Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Evening Post.
Sue Okabe, 74, an influential music teacher and vocalist whose earliest performances are part of the history of Japanese-Americans' involvement in American popular music during World War II, died of lung cancer Nov. 28 at her Los Angeles-area home.
Ms. Okabe was a classically trained vocalist who was interned at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho during the war. Later, as a piano and voice teacher in Gardena, Calif., for more than four decades, she trained many vocalists.