Louis Dyer; Journalist, Publicist, Yorty Aide

Louis Dyer, 82, film and TV publicist, mayoral aide and community activist in Coronado. Dyer, a writer and editor for The Times in the 1930s and ‘40s, also was an original member of the old Mirror News staff and a founding member of the Los Angeles Press Club. Dyer began as a copy boy at The Times during the Depression and advanced to become night editor, telegraph editor, makeup editor and other posts. He served in both World War II and Korea and moved to film work after the latter conflict. He also wrote screenplays and was publicist for such hit TV series of the 1960s as “Maverick,” “Cheyenne,” “77 Sunset Strip” and more. In the 1970s he was hired as an executive assistant to Mayor Sam Yorty and served on various committees before retiring and moving to Coronado. In that city on Sunday.

Stanislav Rembski; Prolific Portrait Artist

Stanislav Rembski, 101, a self-described “painter of people” whose subjects include two presidents. Rembski, whose work was admired for its Flemish meticulousness and vivaciousness, completed at least 1,500 oil portraits. He was the subject of a centennial exhibition of his work on his 100th birthday at New York’s Salmagundi Club. Rembski’s posthumous portrait of Woodrow Wilson hangs in the Woodrow Wilson Museum in Washington, while his Franklin D. Roosevelt portrait, commissioned by Eleanor Roosevelt, hangs in the presidential library in Hyde Park, N.Y. In Baltimore on Sunday.