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5-DAY LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST DEATHS Sergio Rossi — E. Margaret Burbidge, TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY KAY GREEN Phyllis Kay Green, age 67 Italian cobbler, of Maud, Texas passed away Friday, April 3, 2020 at her resi- top astrophysicist, dies dence after a long illness. Mrs. clothier — dies By Vanessa Friedman By Margalit Fox earned several lucrative pat- High-Lower 80s High-Upper 60s Green was New York Times News Service ents, including one for a pro- Low-Upper 60s Low-Near 50 born March New York Times News Service E. Margaret Burbidge, an cess that streamlined the vul- 4, 1953 in As a teenager, Sergio Rossi astrophysicist who made canization of rubber. Texarkana, and his brother, the sons of a At 4, crossing the English FRIDAY SATURDAY Texas. bespoke shoemaker, would pathbreaking findings about She was a the state of the cosmos, not Channel with her family at travel up and down the night for a holiday in France, retired Legal Italian Riviera selling shoes the least of which was dis- Secretary covering precisely what Margaret looked heavenward in the years after World for Justice War II, as the country was it entailed to succeed as a and was smitten. High-Lower 80s of the Peace She entered University Low-Upper 60s High-Upper 60s High-Upper 60s rebuilding. woman in a male-dominated Low-Lower 50s Low-Lower 50s Welch, mem- universe at midcentury, died College London in 1936 and ber of Oak Ridge Missionary Rossi fully joined the family Sunday at her home in San studied astronomy, physics Baptist Church, Maud and is business in the 1950s and by Francisco. She was 100. and mathematics, graduating night. The high should be preceded in death by her par- 1968 had introduced a name- Her daughter, Sarah with first-class honors in 1939. Sunrise today 6:55 a.m. about 82 with a low of 67. ents, 4 brothers and 4 sisters. sake line, becoming one of Burbidge, said the cause was She stayed on for graduate Sunset today 7:42 p.m. She is survived by her hus- the first major figures in the A 40% chance of show- Italian footwear industry complications from a fall. work at its parent institution, ers and thunderstorms is band, J R Green of Maud, Texas, ■ TEXARKANA: Today A native of England who the University of London, expected late Thursday. two sons and a daughter in Rossi died Thursday in worked largely in the United earning a Ph.D. there in 1943. will be partly sunny with The high should be about law, David and Karen Gipson Cesena, Italy at 84. The cause States, Burbidge built a career During the war, she worked a 30% chance of showers 69 with a low near 50. of Maud, Texas, Tim Gipson was coronavirus, a spokes- that was stellar in both sens- as the caretaker of the tele- and thunderstorms before 1 of Simms, Texas, one sister, woman for the company that p.m. The high temperature Friday and Saturday Debra Merritt of Redwater, es. She was considered one scope at the university’s should be cloudy with a carries his name said. of the foremost astronomers observatory, a job normally will be 81 degrees with a Texas, one brother and sister Known for his perfectly 30% chance of thunder- in law, Lloyd and Sandy Smith in the world, long regarded done by men. low of 67. storms is forecast each balanced, albeit often spin- She married Geoffrey of Murchison, Texas, dly, heels, and styles such as as a trailblazer for women in Wednesday should be day. Highs should be in the 7 grandchildren, 5 great the field. Burbidge, a University of partly cloudy early with upper 60s with lows in the the Opanca sandal, with a grandchildren and a number sole that curved up the sides Burbidge was the first London graduate student, a 30% chance of showers lower 50s. of other relatives and friends. woman to serve as director in 1948. Inspired by her, he and thunderstorms late at —FROM STAFF REPORTS Memorial Services will be to blend in with the foot, and of the Royal Observatory, the switched from physics to held at a later date. Due to his signature Godiva stiletto, storied British institution. astronomy. Rossi was part of the gener- Forecast for Tuesday, April 7, 2020 current health related restric- She was also a contributor In the late 1940s, seeking tions, there is no set visita- ation of Italian artisans who to the design of instruments better telescopes and clear- Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. tion but condolences may be emerged after World War II. carried aboard the Hubble er skies, Margaret Burbidge made online or with Bates Rolf He was also among the first Space Telescope and a recip- applied for a fellowship from L Funeral Home, New Boston. footwear specialists to lend ient of the National Medal of the Carnegie Institution for Arrangements are through his talents to ready-to-wear Science, bestowed in 1985 by Science. The award would L Bates Rolf Funeral Home, New designers, collaborating with President Ronald Reagan. have let her work at Mount Boston, Texas. names such as Versace and Burbidge had made her Wilson Observatory, near L Online registra- Dolce & Gabbana to create reputation by studying stars, Pasadena, California. tion may be made at the footwear for their collec- often in collaboration with Her application was www.batesrolffuneralhome. tions. Each Sergio Rossi shoe her husband, astronomer declined. Women, she was com. was famous for requiring 120 Geoffrey Burbidge. Their informed, were not permitted H steps and 14 hours to make. research included a landmark to use Mount Wilson’s tele- JOHNNIE SPARKMAN In a video post on Facebook article describing the forma- scopes. Johnnie Mae Sparkman age on Friday, Mayor Luciana tion within stars of nearly She managed to gain access 80 of Texarkana, Texas died Garbuglia of San Mauro all the chemical elements — to Mount Wilson some years H on April 5, 2020 in Texarkana, Pascoli, an Italian shoemak- Texas. She was born April 12, those incumbents of the peri- later but only by posing as Fronts ing center near Cesena on her husband’s assistant. The 1937 in Pike County the daugh- the Adriatic coast where odic table that are the stuff of ter of the late John Ezra and Cold Warm Stationary Rossi was born and lived, life in the universe. couple was obliged to live in Pressure Rosie Couch Ballard. noted that Rossi had opened She also studied the proper- a rustic, unheated cottage on H L Mrs. Sparkman was a mem- a production facility in the ties of galaxies and the nature the mountain, a far cry from High Low Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice ber of the Arkansas Council of of quasars and in later years the heated accommodations, the Blind and an alum for the town in 1951 that has became came to question the Big complete with resident chef, <-10-0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ a major source of jobs. NATIONAL SUMMARY: School of the Blind. Bang Theory, the cornerstone in which the male astrono- Cool and dry conditions are in store for New Survivors include two Rossi was born in 1935 and of modern cosmology. mers were housed. England while warmth continues over the South and builds in the Midwest sons James Sprakman of learned his trade from his Eleanor Margaret Peachey Over the years, Burbidge today. Severe thunderstorms can occur over the Ohio Valley with heavy Nashville, AR; Larry Sparkman father. storms in the lower Mississippi Valley. A slow-moving storm will continue to As a major designer, he was born in Davenport, in also worked at the California bring soaking rain and heavy mountain snow to California and Nevada. of Canton, GA; one daughter northwest England. Institute of Technology; the Lisa Campolieto of Texarkana, reached global prominence Her family encouraged sci- Harvard College Observatory; ©2020 AccuWeather, Inc. AR; two brothers Kenneth in the 1970s in part through entific curiosity. Her father, Yerkes Observatory, the Lee Ballard of Prunedale, his work with the upstart Stanley Peachey, was a chem- University of Chicago’s CA; Donald Wayne Ballard of designer Gianni Versace. The istry lecturer; her mother, facility in Williams Bay, Murfreesboro, AR; nine grand- way Rossi’s sensuous heels children, and nine great-grand- Marjorie (Stott) Peachey, had Wisconsin; and the McDonald ODAY IN ISTORY complemented Versace’s been his student. Observatory, near Fort Davis, T H children. clothes elevated shoes to an When Margaret was a small Texas, now operated by the Today is Tuesday, April 7, the for entering the country ille- Graveside services will be integral part of a look, as University of Texas at Austin. 98th day of 2020. There are 268 gally and unspecified hostile 2:00 P.M., Thursday, April 9, at opposed to an afterthought. child, the family moved to Academy Cemetery with Bro. London, where Stanley She had an asteroid named days left in the year. acts. (Aijalon Mahli Gomes Rossi, who opened his first Today’s Highlight in History: was freed in August 2010 Al Terrell officiating. Under the Peachey pursued a career for her, Minor Planet 5490 direction of Latimer Funeral store in San Mauro in 1980, in industrial chemistry. He Burbidge. On April 7, 1862, Union forces after former U.S. President also worked with Dolce & led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant Jimmy Carter secured his Home in Nashville. You may send an online Gabbana and Azzedine Alaïa defeated the Confederates release.) Opponents seized in the 1980s and ’90s. Over at the Battle of Shiloh in Kyrgyzstan’s government sympathy message at www.latimerfuneralhome. the next two decades he con- Tennessee. headquarters after clashes tinued to expand in Europe Bond’s Pussy Galore, On this date: com. between protesters and secu- and America, and his son, ■ In 1798, the Mississippi rity forces that had left dozens Gianvito, came to work at Territory was created by an of people dead. Space shut- EDNA RUNYAN Honor Blackman, dies act of Congress, with Natchez tle Discovery docked at the Ms. Edna Runyan, a 112-year- his side. In 1999, during the flurry By Jake Coyle each flip one another into as the capital. International Space Station, its old native of Magnolia, Arkansas, transitioned from of consolidation among piles of hay, Bond holds her ■ In 1915, jazz singer-song- astronauts overcoming a rare The Associated Press this earth on Monday, April fashion brands that laid the down to kiss her. Eventually, writer Billie Holiday, also antenna breakdown that had NEW YORK — Honor 6, 2020, at her residence. groundwork for the mod- she relents. known as “Lady Day,” was knocked out radar tracking. Blackman, the potent British Arrangements are pending ern luxury industry and Blackman considered born in Philadelphia. Five years ago: President actress who took James with R.L. Reed Funeral Home. also reflected how import- Pussy Galore — a lesbian ■ In 1927, the image and Barack Obama, speaking at Bond’s breath away as Pussy ant shoes had become to the in Ian Fleming’s book — a voice of Commerce Secretary Howard University Medical Galore in “Goldfinger” and MARTHA FORGEY sector, Gucci Group (later kind of early feminist, and Herbert Hoover were transmit- School, announced commit- who starred as the leath- ted live from Washington to ments from Google, Microsoft Martha Ann Forgey, 80, Kering), bought the brand a different breed than the er-clad, judo-flipping Cathy New York in the first success- and others to help the nation’s Magnolia, died April 6th in for approximately $96.2 average Bond woman. Gale in “The Avengers,” has ful long-distance demonstra- health system prepare for a Magnolia, Arkansas. No pub- million; Rossi remained as “In so many of the films, died. She was 94. tion of television. warmer, more erratic climate. lic services have been sched- chairman and design direc- the girls just looked at James Blackman’s family said in a ■ In 1953, the U.N. General One year ago: Homeland uled. Direct Cremation ser- tor, although both he and his and fell flat on their backs,” vices have been arranged with statement Monday that she Assembly ratified Dag Security Secretary Kirstjen son, who now has his own died peacefully of natural Blackman told the maga- Hammarskjold of Sweden Nielsen resigned amid R.L. Reed Funeral Home, LLC, zine TV Times in 2014. “Yet Magnolia, in charge. eponymous line, later left the causes at her home in Lewes, as the new secretary-gener- President Donald Trump’s frus- business. in southeastern England. Pussy Galore was a career al, succeeding Trygve Lie of tration and bitterness over the woman — a pilot who had MARY COBB Kering sold it in 2015 to The honey-voiced Norway. number of Central American the private equity compa- her own air force, which was ■ In 1954, President Dwight families crossing the south- Mary J. Cobb, 35, of Blackman first became a ny Investindustrial, which very impressive. She was D. Eisenhower held a news ern border; Trump tweeted Texarkana, TX, died April household name in the relaunched Sergio Rossi the 1960s spy TV series “The never a bimbo.” conference in which he spoke that U.S. Customs and Border 6, 2020, in a local hospital. The character’s double-en- of the importance of contain- Protection Commissioner Arrangements are pending following year. Avengers.” She joined the The company has pre- show in the second season tendre name was one pro- ing the spread of communism Kevin McAleenan would with Haynes Mortuary, Inc. ducers said they had to con- in Indochina, saying, “You have take over as acting head of served his legacy with an as Cathy Gale, the leath- archive of sketches and doc- er-wearing anthropologist vince censors to permit. But a row of dominoes set up, you Homeland Security. CLARA RONE Pussy Galore has regularly knock over the first one, and Today’s Birthdays: Media Clara Rone, 78, of Texarkana, uments in their San Mauro with martial arts skills. facility, along with shoes, Blackman departed the ranked as among the most what will happen to the last commentator Hodding Carter TX died April 4, 2020, in a Dallas, TX hospital. Arrangements lasts and other accessories. show for Bond before “The popular “Bond women.” one is the certainty that it will III is 85. Country singer Bobby are pending with Haynes Thus far, it has 6,000 items. Avengers” was exported to “She was an extraordinary go over very quickly.” (This Bare is 85. Rhythm-and- became known as the “domino blues singer Charlie Thomas Mortuary, Inc. America, but her perfor- talent and a beloved mem- ber of the Bond family. Our theory,” although Eisenhower (The Drifters) is 83. Former FUNERAL mance solving cases oppo- did not use that term.) California Gov. Jerry Brown is JOANNE POOLE thoughts are with her family site Patrick Macnee caught ■ In 1962, nearly 1,200 Cuban 82. Movie director Francis Ford Joanne Poole, 26, of CLARK, John. Redwater, Texas. at this time,” said Bond pro- the eye of Bond producer, exiles tried by Cuba for their Coppola is 81. Actress Roberta Carrolton, TX died April 2, 2020, Died Friday. Private grave- Albert R. Broccoli. She and ducers Michael G. Wilson roles in the failed Bay of Pigs Shore is 77. Singer Patricia in Carrolton, TX. Arrangements side services 1 p.m. Old Macnee also recorded the and Barbara Broccoli. invasion were convicted of Bennett (The Chiffons) is 73. are pending with Haynes Union Cemetery, Simms, hit song, “Kinky Boots,” Honor Blackman was born treason. Singer John Oates is 72. Singer Mortuary, Inc. Texas together. in East London on Aug. 22, ■ In 1966, the U.S. Navy Janis Ian is 69. Country musi- But just as “The Avengers” 1925. Her father, Frederick recovered a hydrogen bomb cian John Dittrich is 69. Actor was growing in popularity, Blackman, was a civil ser- that the U.S. Air Force had lost Jackie Chan is 66. College and ‘Jaws’ actress Lee Fierro dies Blackman departed it for the vant clerk. She recalled her in the Mediterranean Sea off Pro Football Hall of Famer third James Bond film, play- father giving her the choice, Spain following a B-52 crash. Tony Dorsett is 66. Actor By Nancy Dillon Kevin Ryan, artistic director ing Pussy Galore in 1964’s as a teenager, of taking bik- ■ In 1983, space shuttle Russell Crowe is 56. Christian/ New York Daily News for Island Theatre Workshop, “Goldfinger.” In it, she makes ing or elocution lessons. astronauts Story Musgrave jazz singer Mark Kibble (Take Actress Lee Fierro, who confirmed her death to the an impression from the start, She chose the lessons, and and Don Peterson went on the 6) is 56. Actor Bill Bellamy is 55. Martha’s Vineyard Times. first U.S. spacewalk in almost a Rock musician Dave “Yorkie” played the memorable memorably introducing her- went to attend the Guildhall During her four decades School of Music and Drama decade as they worked in the Palmer (Space) is 55. Rock Mrs. Kintner in the Steven self to Sean Connery’s just on Martha’s Vineyard, she and acting in the West End. open cargo bay of Challenger musician Charlie Hall (The Spielberg horror classic awoken James Bond. taught and mentored more “Who are you?” Bond asks. Acting in film, televi- for nearly four hours. War on Drugs) is 46. Former “Jaws,” died Sunday from than 1,000 children in theater, “My name is Pussy Galore.” sion and theater for seven ■ In 1994, civil war erupted football player-turned-analyst complications of corona- he said. “I must be dreaming,” he decades, Blackman amassed in Rwanda, a day after a mys- Tiki Barber is 45. Christian rock virus. responds, smiling to himself. more than 100 screen credits, terious plane crash claimed singer-musician John Cooper She was 91. “The one word I would Blackman was 39 and five including the Titanic drama the lives of the presidents of (Skillet) is 45. Actor Kevin Fierro, a longtime resi- think of when I think of Lee is years older than Connery “A Night to Remember”; Rwanda and Burundi; in the Alejandro is 44. Retired base- dent of Martha’s Vineyard, dedication. I’ve watched her months that followed, hun- the fantasy “Jason and the ball infielder Adrian Beltre is nailed a key scene in the 1975 as a performer, director and when she landed the role dreds of thousands of minori- 41. Actress Sian Clifford is 38. of Bond’s love interest, and Argonauts” (as the goddess shark attack movie when she business woman and then we ty Tutsi and Hutu moderates Christian rock singer Tauren famously lifted her black veil became friends. She was my she long maintained the Hera); “Lola,” with Charles were slaughtered by Hutu Wells is 34. Actor Ed Speleers term of “Bond girl” didn’t Bronson; and a cameo in and slapped Chief Martin teacher and mentor,” Ryan extremists. is 32. Actor Conner Rayburn told the newspaper. apply to her. In the film, “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” ■ In 2006, a British judge is 21. Brody across the face. Pussy Galore is the leader of Blackman was married ruled that author Dan Brown Thought for Today: “Money “You knew there was a “I would still call Lee a group of women aviators twice, first to Bill Sankey, did not steal ideas for “The Da is in some respects life’s fire: shark out there. You knew it for artistic discussion and enlisted by the villain Auric from 1948-1956, and then to Vinci Code” from a nonfiction it is a very excellent servant, was dangerous, but you let commentary,” he said. “She Goldfinger. She uses judo (a actor Maurice Kaufman, with work. but a terrible master.” — P.T. people go swimming anyway. was fiercely dedicated to the skill carried over from “The whom she adopted two chil- Ten years ago: North Korea Barnum, American showman You knew all those things,” mission of teaching. She, no Avengers”) to attack Bond dren. She is survived by their said it had convicted and sen- (born 1810, died this date in her character, Mrs. Kintner, matter what it was, would and their foreplay is physical children, Lottie and Barnaby, tenced an American man to 1891). said. “My boy is dead. I want- stay at it and get the job and combative. After they and four grandchildren. eight years in a labor prison — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ed you to know that.” done.”