RUSSELL DICKENSON, 84

Head of National Park Service

Russell Dickenson, who started his career as a ranger and worked his way up to run the National Park Service for five years in the early 1980s, died of cancer Feb. 19 at his home in Bellevue, Wash.

"I grew up in the national parks and lived in many of them," said Mr. Dickenson's daughter, Vivian Barber. "I had a unique childhood. He had a true reverence for nature and instilled a lot of that into us."

Mr. Dickenson was born and raised in Texas, and graduated from Northern Arizona University and served four years in the Marine Corps before joining the Park Service in 1946, beginning his career at Grand Canyon National Park.

He spent decades in the field before becoming the agency's deputy director in 1973. He took over the Pacific Northwest regional office in 1975, then became national director of the Park Service in 1980.

JEFF HEALEY, 41

Rock and jazz musician

Musician Jeff Healey died of cancer Sunday evening in a Toronto hospital, said Colin Bray, a bandmate who was in the room with Mr. Healey's family when the guitarist died.

The Grammy-nominated Healey rose to stardom as the leader of the Jeff Healey Band, a rock trio that gained international acclaim and platinum record sales with the 1988 album See the Light. The album included the hit single "Angel Eyes."

Mr. Healey had his first diagnosis of cancer at age 1, when retinoblastoma claimed his eyesight.