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Memorial set for Robert Chasteney Jr.
A memorial service will be held Thursday for Robert Westervelt Chasteney Jr., a retired magazine editor who established an endowment for the University of Arizona Library.
Mr. Chasteney, 91, died Saturday.
The memorial service will begin at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., at 2 p.m.
”He was literally the kindest person I’ve ever known,” said Robert Hershoff, a friend from the UA library.
”He was extremely generous and never asked for anything in return,” he said.
Mr. Chasteney moved to Tucson in the early 1970s and became involved in organizing Skyline Country Club as a private club.
He was a charter member of the Skyline Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. He also was a member of the Harvard Club, the University Club and the University of Arizona Foundation President’s Club.
In 1994, Mr. Chasteney established the Ruth Goodhue Chasteney Memorial Endowment at UA Library, honoring his wife of 55 years, who died in 1993. He donated books from their private library.
Their collection was featured in a university library exhibition – ”For Love of Ruth: A Celebration of English and American Literature.”
Selections from Mr. Chasteney’s memoirs were featured this spring in a dramatic performance by the UA department of theatre arts.
Eleanor Broidrick, 81, described her brother as ”absolutely upright and reliable.”
She said when others were in dungarees and carrying knapsacks, he would be wearing a suit and hat and carrying an umbrella and attache case.
”He was the epitome of the old-fashion English gentleman we don’t see anymore,” she said.
She remembers how much he enjoyed his 90th birthday.
”There were 90 candles on the cake. I had to make three cakes,” she said.
Mr. Chasteney attended Harvard, where he was editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson and editor of the Harvard Advocate. Before Harvard he attended Newark Academy.
After graduating from Harvard in 1931, Mr. Chasteney began working at Time Inc., where he met his wife, Ruth Hewitt Goodhue.
After retiring from Time in 1963 as managing editor of House and Home, Mr. Chasteney moved to Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
There he served on the Cape Cod Planning and Economic Development Commission and founded the Truro Historical Society.
Mr. Chasteney is survived by his sister and several nieces and nephews.
Donations may be made to the Ruth Goodhue Chasteney Memorial Endowment at the UA library.
(Dated Jun 10, 1997)
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Memorial set for Robert Chasteney Jr.
A memorial service will be held Thursday for Robert Westervelt Chasteney Jr., a retired magazine editor who established an endowment for the University of Arizona Library.
Mr. Chasteney, 91, died Saturday.
The memorial service will begin at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., at 2 p.m.
”He was literally the kindest person I’ve ever known,” said Robert Hershoff, a friend from the UA library.
”He was extremely generous and never asked for anything in return,” he said.
Mr. Chasteney moved to Tucson in the early 1970s and became involved in organizing Skyline Country Club as a private club.
He was a charter member of the Skyline Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. He also was a member of the Harvard Club, the University Club and the University of Arizona Foundation President’s Club.
In 1994, Mr. Chasteney established the Ruth Goodhue Chasteney Memorial Endowment at UA Library, honoring his wife of 55 years, who died in 1993. He donated books from their private library.
Their collection was featured in a university library exhibition – ”For Love of Ruth: A Celebration of English and American Literature.”
Selections from Mr. Chasteney’s memoirs were featured this spring in a dramatic performance by the UA department of theatre arts.
Eleanor Broidrick, 81, described her brother as ”absolutely upright and reliable.”
She said when others were in dungarees and carrying knapsacks, he would be wearing a suit and hat and carrying an umbrella and attache case.
”He was the epitome of the old-fashion English gentleman we don’t see anymore,” she said.
She remembers how much he enjoyed his 90th birthday.
”There were 90 candles on the cake. I had to make three cakes,” she said.
Mr. Chasteney attended Harvard, where he was editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson and editor of the Harvard Advocate. Before Harvard he attended Newark Academy.
After graduating from Harvard in 1931, Mr. Chasteney began working at Time Inc., where he met his wife, Ruth Hewitt Goodhue.
After retiring from Time in 1963 as managing editor of House and Home, Mr. Chasteney moved to Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
There he served on the Cape Cod Planning and Economic Development Commission and founded the Truro Historical Society.
Mr. Chasteney is survived by his sister and several nieces and nephews.
Donations may be made to the Ruth Goodhue Chasteney Memorial Endowment at the UA library.
(Dated Jun 10, 1997)
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Thornton Lee pitched in the majors
Tucsonan Thornton Lee, a left-hander who pitched 16 years in the major leagues and is in the Chicago White Sox Hall of Fame, has died of complications related to Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.
Mr. Lee’s major-league career included stops with the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and New York Giants. After that, he spent 40 years as a scout for the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants.
His career record was 117-124. His best year was 1941, when he went 22-11 with 30 complete games and was an all-star with the White Sox.
Mr. Lee was born in Sonoma, Calif. He graduated from Cal PolySan Luis Obispo and was signed by the San Francisco Seals in 1929.
His first professional stint was with the Globe franchise in the Arizona State League.
He made his major league debut in 1933 with the Cleveland Indians. In 1937, he went 5-0 against the New York Yankees.
After retiring in 1947, he managed the Globe-Miami franchise of the Arizona-Texas minor league. He was a scout for the Giants until he was 80.
Mr. Lee’s wife, Esther, died in 1993. He is survived by his son, Don Lee, who was an All-American pitcher for the University of Arizona in the 1950s.
At Mr. Lee’s request, no memorial service is planned.
(Dated Jun 11, 1997)
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Ex-judge Lloyd Helm
fought for fairness
A memorial service is planned at the Elks Lodge in Douglas for former Cochise County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Helm, whose controversial 1981 ruling over a Miracle Valley child custody case earned him statewide attention.
Mr. Helm, 84, died Sunday after a short illness in Green Valley. A date for the service has not been confirmed, said Merrill Burk, secretary of the club.
When doctors and Cochise County officials, responding to the death of a child member of the Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church, sought to remove seven other children from their parents’ home, Mr. Helm blocked the move.
Mr. Helm, in his later years on the bench, said he found no evidence of parental neglect.
The Arizona Court of Appeals overturned the ruling, but Mr. Helm’s decision was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court.
Cochise County Attorney Alan Polley recalled Mr. Helm as a gruff, but fair, judge.
”He was a strict judge. He was no-nonsense, but I believe he was a fair-minded judge,” Polley said. ”His bark was worse than his bite.
”He was actually lenient when he handed down sentences. His approach was to scold and really try to impress the defendants with the seriousness of the crimes for which they’d been convicted.”
Mr. Helm was born in New Mexico and raised in Douglas. He earned his law degree from the University of Arizona in 1937.
He served as deputy county attorney in Cochise County for a decade before being elected county attorney in 1956. He was county attorney until 1962.
In 1965, after creation of a second division of the Cochise County Superior Court, Gov. Sam Goddard appointed Mr. Helm to the bench.
He was appointed presiding judge in 1979, a position he held until his retirement in 1983.
Mr. Helm is survived by a son, Hugh Helm of California; three daughters, Judy Helm of Washington, Ann Rike of California and Barbara Woods of California; and two brothers, Hugh Helm of Tempe and Walter Helm of California.
(Dated Jun 13, 1997)
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