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Carmen Considine; Daughter of Theater Magnate

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Carmen Pantages Considine, 89, daughter of a theater magnate and former wife of a well-known producer during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Considine was born to Alexander Pantages, the legendary vaudeville impresario whose namesake theaters continue to dot the American landscape (the Pantages in Hollywood for one). She married John W. Considine Jr., producer of such Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer successes as “Boys Town,” “Johnny Eager,” “Broadway Melody of 1936” and several more. In Culver City on Tuesday.

Elizabeth Elliott; Covina Real Estate Broker

Elizabeth Elliott, 92, daughter of the founders of Covina. She was born in the family home on a Covina Boulevard orange orchard that has since become the location of a Kmart. Her father, James, had moved from Texas in 1868; her mother, Carrie Griswold, from Wisconsin in 1878. Elizabeth Elliott was a prominent real estate broker in the area. In Covina on Saturday.

Fredrick H. Korth; Former Navy Secretary

Fredrick H. Korth, 89, attorney and banker who served as secretary of the Navy during the Kennedy administration. After Korth started a law practice in Texas in 1942, he joined the military and was discharged after World War II as a lieutenant colonel. President Harry S. Truman later appointed him assistant secretary of the Army in 1952. In 1953, Korth returned to his law practice in Fort Worth. In 1961, Korth became the secretary of the Navy. In a 1966 El Paso Times article, Korth was described as becoming “a hero to the Navy in 1963 when he resigned his Cabinet post in protest over a top-level Pentagon decision against buying atomic engines for a new aircraft carrier.” After he left the Navy, Korth was senior partner of a law firm in Washington. In El Paso on Monday.

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Marya McLaughlin; CBS News Correspondent

Marya McLaughlin, 68, a longtime CBS News correspondent who was one of the first women to reach the upper echelons of television journalism. She joined CBS in 1963 as an associate producer, and became the network’s only female reporter in 1966. It was more than five years before another woman joined her on the air. She was named CBS News correspondent in 1971. McLaughlin covered the families of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon and followed New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s 1968 presidential campaign. She was a frequent contributor to CBS radio programs including “Washington Week,” “World of Religion,” “Byline,” and “Capitol Cloakroom.” McLaughlin retired from CBS in 1988. In Fairfax, Va. on Monday of respiratory failure.

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