Sandra Corbet; Created Memorable Ad Campaigns

Sandra Corbet, 51, advertising executive who produced television and print commercials. Raised in Brooklyn, Corbet graduated from City College of New York and had homes in Manhattan and Los Angeles. She produced commercials for such agencies as D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, Young & Rubicam and Kirschenbaum & Bond. She also produced ads for Creative Artists Agency and Coca-Cola. Among her projects were action ads for Kawasaki motorcycles showing riders escaping a traffic jam by speeding along the suspension cables of a bridge or upside down inside the St. Louis Arch, and a series of ads offering mother’s advice to eat entrees from Marie Callender’s. A member of New York Women in Film, Corbet served on the board and produced theatrical projects for the Manhattan Class Company Theater and ran the theater program for the Shake-A-Leg Foundation, which helps people with disabilities. On Monday in Los Angeles of a stroke.

John Christiansen; Longtime Test Pilot

John “Chris” Christiansen, 75, test pilot for Lockheed Martin Corp. for three decades. Born in Oslo, Norway, Christiansen served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean conflict. He started working for Lockheed in 1953 and flew experimental aircraft until his retirement in 1983. His assignments included initial test flights of the P-3 Orion and S-3 Viking anti-submarine aircraft. Christiansen was a fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. On Sunday in Lake Havasu, Ariz.

Norma Drew; Actress in Laurel and Hardy Films

Norma Drew, 94, who acted in films with Laurel and Hardy. Drew appeared in several motion pictures in the 1930s, working with such performers as Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. Drew was particularly remembered as comedian Stan Laurel’s wife in “Chickens Come Home,” starring Laurel and his partner Oliver Hardy. The actress was married and widowed twice, to screenwriter and producer Ernest Pagano and to Owen Churchill, who earned a gold medal for sailing in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. On Aug. 23 in Los Angeles.

Roy B. Goode; Defended Mexican Border in Buffalo Soldiers

Roy B. Goode, 76, member of the 20th-century Army cavalry known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Born in Detroit, Goode enlisted in the Army in 1943 and was sent to the Mexican border to join the horse cavalry. His assignment was to patrol the border against possible attack by Axis powers through Mexico. Goode later served in Italy with the 92nd Field Artillery. He became a charter member and treasurer of the Greater Los Angeles Area Chapter of the 9th and 10th Horse Cavalry Assn. The modern cavalry units frequently use the tag “Buffalo Soldiers,” a nickname given to the original black cavalry riders of the old West by Indians who thought their curly hair resembled buffalo hair. On Sunday in Los Angeles of cancer.