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Francine Chapman was born on April 24, 1949 and passed away on June 13, 2019. She was intelligent and accomplished. She graduated with the first class ever at UCI and later obtained a graduate degree from UCLA. She held a number of executive positions with several major healthcare entities.

Francine had considerable love for music and a talent for it as well, from accordion as a little girl to concert cello for many years. She was kind and likeable, loved by all who knew her and will forever remember and miss her.

Francine leaves her husband Jim and son David, along with siblings Toni Farhat and Ron Zurek.

CHAPMAN, Francine

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Born March 3rd, 1938, in Daleville, Mississippi, John Hurst spent his childhood in Chicago, which he would refer to for the rest of his life simply as “the old neighborhood.” He would recount stories of his unsupervised, working class childhood there: baseball games in the dirt lot across from his family’s rundown apartment building, racing bikes with his friend Doug, assorted mischief in alleyways. In 1960, John arrived in California and began a dedicated career as a reporter at a succession of newspapers, culminating in a job at the Los Angeles Times, where John was a staff reporter from 1976 to 1996. John had an unwavering belief in his journalistic responsibility to reveal injustice, which notably began in 1970-71, when he wrote a series of stories for the Redding Record Searchlight about the Pitt River Indians and their struggle for the rights to their tribal land. Once John understood an injustice, he felt a moral imperative to do something about it. Throughout his reporting career, he would challenge editors to be allowed to work on the stories he felt most needed to be told, including institutional elder and juvenile abuse, corruption and abuse in the California foster care system, the impact of gun violence on individuals and communities, and conditions plaguing the American prison system. In 1972, John and his wife Pam, who he had met by chance two years earlier while covering the Vietnam War protest riots in Isla Vista, took a detour. They rented an aging barn on an obscure country road to nowhere, in Igo, California (pop. 150). No electricity, no running water. Throughout his life, John rarely spoke of the various journalism awards he earned, but would gladly trumpet the fact that he and Pam had once won the Igo tomato growing competition. After John’s retirement in 1996, he and Pam moved first to a rustic house in the redwoods near Mendocino, then to a rural place outside of Eugene, Oregon, where he pursued his own writing, and reading, including the New York Times cover to cover daily. During family visits, he held forth on any newsworthy topic imaginable and told stories of the old neighborhood. A few months before his death, John wrote to his son Jeff about a fall he’d taken while playing baseball with his son Dan and grandson Darren. “I wandered out to the road to see if I could retrieve a ball or two from the woods. I got to the road, Darren swung, I looked around and saw the ball hanging there in the sky. My coordination is not so hot anymore and I tend to stumble on uneven ground. But the ball hung there and I was maybe 12 years old or so. I got it!” He lost his balance, crashed into the brambles, and was left with a bruise “like a great creeping purple and red prison tattoo.” He ended the email: “Healing, I’m reminded, doesn’t happen quickly anymore. But nothing’s broke. And I’m left with the memory of my last and greatest play, the day I saved the game with a diving catch. Or so goes the legend. Believe what you like.” John is survived by his sons Wes, Dan and Jeff, his daughter Jessica, his grandchildren Justin, Jack, PJ, Sarah, Isabela, Cambria and Darren, his sister Char, and his beloved Pam.

March 3, 1938 - February 12, 2019

HURST, John Willie

Helen wasalifelong activist and volunteer,committed to social justiceand Jewishcommunity. She wasinvolved asaparticipantand in leadership ofahost of organizations, among them theLeague ofWomen Voters,CommonCause, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Habonim Camp Gilboa, and L.A.C.E.R. afterschool program. Shewasthe first female presidentofthe JewishCommunity Centers Association of GreaterLos Angeles.She lived hervalues through diverse activities such as the grape boycott of the 1960s,the Nestle boycott of the 1970s and therecent hotelworkers strikeand protestsat immigration detentioncenters.Helen wasastrong,independentwoman devotedto ensuring fair and ethical treatmentfor all.

A1961 graduate of Stanford Universitywith aBAinHistor yand a 1962 recipientofanMAinEducation from USC, withaFordFoundation Fellowship.Helen wasanadventurous soul.She spenttwo quarters abroad in Germanyand traveledto Russia and Israel while still incollege.With a particular affection for natural beauty and an interest in the people and communities she visited,Helenand her husband traveled around the globe includingto Turkey,India, Ireland, Australia,Peru,Bhutan,Vietnam, Cambodia,Iceland,England,France, Italy,and Japan. Within the US, frequentdestinationswerenational parks,historical sites,interesting cities, and particularly her family.

Helen wasknown asafabulous cook,adevoted friend,atrue sports fan, abridge player, and alover of the arts .Outdoors she camped,hiked, and playedtennis.Anavid reader,she participatedinbookclubs throughout her life.Through all her husband Sid washer true friend and partner.They enjoyedmanyactivities aswell as time together with friends and family.

Born in Chicago,Illinois,she moved with her familyto LosAngelesat age

Shefirst met her husband,Sid,
when shewas15years old onatrip
with friendsto LakeArrowhead,and
they married6years later.

Helen isremembered with love by her husband of 58years,Sid,her three children, Morry(Erica), Rebecca (Michael), and Naomi (Dave), and her six grandchildren, David,Talia,Noah, Eliana, Maya,and Yoav,towhom she wasanadoring Bubbie.Helenwas predeceasedby her parents Rosa and Morris Miller.

Services areat12PMonWednesday, August 7atHillside MemorialPark.

Donations inHelen’s memorycan be senttoL .A.C.E.R.AfterschoolPrograms and HabonimDror-Camp Gilboa.

April 1, 1940-August 5, 2019

KATZ, Helen Gail Miller

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Gardena resident Phyllis Miller passed quietly at her home July 23,

Services to be held at Gardena
Valley Baptist Church on Saturday,
August 10 at 9:30 am.

MILLER, Phyllis Hopping

Beverly Hills – Paula Machtinger died peacefully at her home in the early morning of August 7, 2019.

Paula was born in New York City in

When she was a child she moved
to Los Angeles with her mother and her
brother, Irwin Beilin. After graduating
from Hollywood High School and
receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree
from UCLA, she earned a Master’s
degree in Psychiatric Social Work from
USC in 1949. A licensed clinical social
worker, she practiced individual and
group psychotherapy for many years,
and excelled as Casework Director of
the Child and Family Study Center at
Thalians Mental Health Clinic of Cedars
Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

Paula was warm, generous, and engaging with people of all ages and backgrounds. She enjoyed collecting art, decorating her beautiful home, and discussing politics and current affairs, but most of all she loved her friends and family. She is survived by her loving husband, Sidney Machtinger, to whom she was happily married for 57 years; their children Edward (Willie Ablao), John (Adele), Paula (Randy Thompson), Barbara, and Steven (Susan); grandchildren Eva, Evan, Nicholas, Rachel, and Joseph; and nephew Robert Beilin, all of whom brought her great joy in her later years.

Funeral services will be held at 2pm on Friday, August 9, at Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills, 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90068. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.

October 20, 1924 - August 7, 2019

MACHTINGER, Paula

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Born in the Netherlands, raised in Vancouver, spent the last 65 years in Brentwood, CA with her husband Dr. Charles Wolf Jr. (1924-2016) formerly of the Rand Corporation. During her time in Los Angeles she studied art at UCLA; becoming an artist and a master serigrapher, who exhibited widely in galleries in California and Europe. She was also President of the Westwood Art Association. She was an avid Member, Supporter and Deacon of the Westwood Presbyterian Church, and also a member of the choir, which gave her great joy. During her 69 years of marriage, she lived and traveled throughout the world, meeting heads of state, diplomats and the former Emperor of Japan. Theresa is greatly missed by h er sister Alice VandeWint and her two sons: Charles Theodore (Frank Decolator) and Timothy VandeWint (Mary M) and her grandsons, Daniel Charles VandeWint (Dr. Sigi F) and Stephen Benjamin, as well as numerous nieces and nephews and their families. A memorial service will be held at Westwood Presbyterian Church on Wilshire Boulevard on Friday September 27, at 5:30 P.M.

April 20, 1920 - August 1, 2019

WOLF, Theresa VandeWint

Lois —called “Bubbles”byher grandchildren andknowntomanyas “Lolo”—leavesbehind alegacyof love and family. She willbegreatly missedby her children Marcieand BarrySmolin(Jill), her grandchildren Phoebe,Noah&Milo Smolin, her sister and brother Ronna Slutske(Burt) and StuartSiegel (Peggi), her manynieces and nephews,and all those who looked upon her asasecond mother. Shewasprecededindeathby her twogreat lovesDr. Louis Smolin and NatSherman, aswell as her daughter Robyn whom she missed soverymuch. Lois lo vedturtles,sunfl owers,fabulous dinners out,laughter, family,and, most of all,being amom. Shewasour sunshine and shewasveryveryloved.

FuneralServices will be held on Sunday, August11that noonat Hillside MemorialPark.

In lieu of flowers the familyreques ts youmakedonations to: Exceptional Children’s Foundation https://www.ecf.net/donate/

March 24, 1940-August 6, 2019

SHERMAN, Lois Ann

looking in different direc-
tions crowned by long, bold
eyelashes. Another on the
lower level shares the same
eyes and lashes but has a
zipper across the mouth,
representing the “shut up”
emoji. Susan Wieland, a
neighbor who reported
Kidd, told Easy Reader
News that she was wearing
eyelash extensions when she
once met Kidd.
The artist who spray-
painted the design onto the
home, known as Z the Art,
posted a photo of the
painted home to his Insta-
gram account in May with
the hashtags #TheEmoji-
House and #eyelashexten-
sions. In a screenshot of that
post obtained by The Times,
there was a caption, which
has since been deleted: “Are
your neighbors constantly
ratting you out? Have they
cost you thousands in fines?
Why risk a case when you
can send them a pretty mes-
sage?”
The paint job appeared
shortly after Kidd was found
in violation of the city’s rent-
al laws and was fined $4,000.
Kidd told Easy Reader News
that the emojis were not in-
tended to mock Wieland and
that although people were
entitled to their opinions,
she was not in violation of
any laws.
“I’m trying not to offend
anybody,” Kidd said. “I did it
for the purpose of being
happy, being positive, and I
think it’s cute and quirky
and kind of funny, and cer-

tainly was a time for the emoji.” Kidd doesn’t live in the home but resides elsewhere in Manhattan Beach. The home on 39th Street appears occupied, although no one came to the door when a Times reporter knocked on Monday. Wieland said that although the situation might

seem like a joke to Kidd, it’s not funny to residents who feel the city is doing nothing to protect them. She said neighbors had sent letters and numerous emails to city officials in the hope that some action would be taken over the paint job. Wieland said she and her husband had invited City Council members to their home to see the mural, but no one has taken them up on the offer. “It’s almost like they’re afraid of her. And we really feel it is our city’s responsibility to have these regula- tions in place because people can do anything,” Wieland said. “That’s the most frightening thing. I feel like we’re not being pro- tected against bullying.” During Tuesday’s City Council meeting, a city attorney said the planning commission was research- ing what the council could do about murals and art on private buildings in residen- tial neighborhoods. The attorney said the city could

adopt content-neutral regu- lations as recommended by the planning commission, which the commission will look into. Arepresentative for the city did not respond to a re- quest for comment. Dina Doll, a homeowner who has lived in the tight- knit neighborhood for 18 years, said she was the first resident who notified the city about the emoji situation. She said she was told by a staff member that the paint job was an exercise of Kidd’s 1st Amendment rights and that the city could do nothing about it. Doll then contacted the City Council in early June and was told council members would consult the city attorney. “And then there was a lot of nothing,” Doll said, add- ing that a group of neighbors then went to a city planning commission meeting in July seeking help. In a video of the July 10 meeting, City Atty. Mike

Estrada explained to commission members that the city had “very little, if any” jurisdiction over murals painted on private property with no public funding or public involvement. “We plan on speaking about it [on Tuesday] because the sense I’ve gotten from speaking with council people since then is that they’re a little bit reluctant to take action,” Doll said ahead of the meeting. “I think the city is afraid of [Kidd] coming after them.” Doll said one City Council member even recommended that the neighbors consider suing Kidd them- selves, which made her feel that the city was relinquish- ing its duty to enforce its own codes and shifting that bur- den to residents. “To me, there are just so many ways the city could step in if they want to,” Doll said. “At this point, there is no neutral for the city. Not taking action is condoning this. And do we really as a

community want to condone this?” The group of neighbors have explored the ways they could fight to get the paint job removed, including how it could be seen as graffiti under city code, how it could violate signage laws and how it fails to fit in with the char- acter of the neighborhood. Doll also argues that it is a public safety issue and an obvious public nuisance because of the waves of news vans and curious onlookers who have visited the narrow road to catch a glimpse of the house. Chris Strickfaden, who lives in the area, agreed that the emoji house had dis- rupted the neighborhood. “Besides the obvious ug- liness — and no one believes this is just artistic expres- sion — it has now become a traffic nuisance issue with people stopping by to take selfies in front of the emoji house. It’s nuts,” he wrote in an email. “I believe generally people should be able to do what they want with their property within the guidelines of the city, without governmen- tal interference, including painting their exterior,” Strickfaden added. “Howev- er, this situation is not about the right of the homeowner. It’s about one homeowner saying F-U to the person she blames for her plight and F-U to the rest of the street.” Carol Madonna, who has lived on the street since 1998 and attended Tuesday’s council meeting, said the situation could quickly become a slippery slope if the city continued to “cower behind freedom of speech.” If the city allows these emojis, she wondered if they would al- low some of the more ex- treme ones, such as the poop emoji, and questioned where officials would draw the line. “If we don’t do something, nothing is going to change and [Kidd] will have won her retaliation for us just following the rules,” Madonna said. “She was doing something illegal. We told the city about it, and now we’re paying for it.”

With emojis, she’s facing her critics

NEIGHBORSsay Kathryn Kidd’s “emoji house” in Manhattan Beach is an act of “bullying” by the homeowner. Kidd, embroiled in a property dispute with the city, said the paint job is “cute and quirky and kind of funny.”

Kent NishimuraLos Angeles Times

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SAN DIEGO — A former
attorney for a San Diego-
based Navy SEAL acquitted
of war crimes is trying to
force his former client into
arbitration to get paid, ac-
cording to court records.
In the complaint, Texas-
based attorney Colby Vokey
says Navy SEAL Petty Offi-
cer 1st Class Edward Galla-
gher is in breach of contract,
and Vokey is seeking
$200,000 to $1 million in dam-
ages.
In that contract, Galla-
gher apparently agreed to go
into arbitration should any
attorney-client disputes
emerge. He signed the docu-
ment Oct. 11.
Vokey represented Galla-
gher until mid-March, when
another civilian defense at-
torney, Timothy Parlatore,
joined the case.
Parlatore called Vokey’s
move “grotesque.”
“The Gallagher family
has been through hell, and it
is grotesque that Colby
Vokey has decided to go after
them when the case isn’t
even over,” said Parlatore,
reached by phone.
Gallagher is waiting on
the chief of Naval Opera-
tions, Adm. John Rich-
ardson, to finalize the case.
Richardson can confirm, va-
cate or alter the sentence im-
posed by a San Diego mili-
tary jury in July.
Gallagher was found not
guilty of the most serious
charges against him, which
included premeditated mur-
der and shooting at civilians
while in Iraq in 2017. He was
found guilty of posing with
the body of an Islamic State
fighter, and he was sen-
tenced to a reduction in rank
and four months of confine-
ment, which Gallagher
served before trial.
Richardson took over as
convening authority in Gal-
lagher’s case last week. It is
unknown when he might
make a decision.
In a post on their joint In-
stagram account, Galla-
gher’s wife, Andrea, said her
family was being “sued” by
Vokey.
“In our hour of need,
Colby Vokey and (non-profit
United American Patriots)
came in and promised to
give Eddie a top-notch legal
defense with all expenses
paid,” Andrea Gallagher
said in the post. “Instead,
they dragged the case out,

focused more on using our family for fundraising while Colby ran up the bill, and made little to no progress in actually freeing Eddie.” Vokey declined to comment. In the post, Andrea Gal- lagher said Vokey was “fired” after he “tried to push the trial out to November,” and “we felt that he lied, threat- ened and extorted our family.” “We believe if it were up to Colby Vokey, Eddie would still be in the brig with a trial in November or later,” she said in the post. In addition to hiring Par- latore, the family also hired Marc Mukasey, who also serves as one of President Trump’s personal attorneys. Mukasey said Wednesday that because he and Parla- tore don’t normally practice in military court, they were able to deploy a more unre- strained defense. “It was a really smart move, and a brave move, for Eddie, Andrea and [Edward Gallagher’s brother] Sean to ultimately go with lawyers from outside the system,” Mukasey said. “We were able to take a more aggressive ap- proach, rattle cages that needed to be rattled and hold the government ac- countable.” Although Vokey began representing Gallagher as early as spring 2018, any contract signed before October was not included in the complaint. According to the October contract, Vokey and co- counsel Phillip Stackhouse were to be paid $400 an hour. But the contract also says that Gallagher was ap- proved for financial support through United American Patriots, a nonprofit that helps fund legal costs for service members. “Client has applied for and been accepted for financial support from United American Patriots to cover attorney fees and case expenses,” the contract states. Vokey is listed on UAP’s web- site as a member of its advis- ory board. In March, after Vokey’s alleged firing, Andrea Galla- gher announced on social media that her husband’s defense would no longer raise money via UAP. She di- rected supporters to donate to the Navy SEALs Fund, another nonprofit that helps SEAL families in need. As of Wednesday, the fund had raised almost $750,000 for Gallagher’s case.

Dyer writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Ex-attorney for

sailor says he is

owed payment

Lawyer is seeking as

much as $1 million

from Navy SEAL

cleared of war crimes.

By Andrew Dyer

Los Angeles Times - 09.08.2019

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