Andrew Hess; WWI Vet Decorated by French

Andrew Hess, 104, who recently received the French Legion of Honor for his service in World War I. From Tescoll, Kan., Hess served in France during what was then known as the Great War, and fought in battles at Lucy Sector, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. A corporal, he was responsible for supplying his 89th Infantry Division with gas masks. On Jan. 9, Hess was presented with the Legion of Honor at a ceremony in Santa Barbara. From 1959 to 1967, Hess worked for the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles and then retired to Santa Barbara. Last year, Hess joined in observances of the 80th anniversary of Armistice Day, which ended the war and has since been renamed Veterans Day. He told The Times then of drinking “carrot beer” abandoned by Germans he helped rout, adding: “We made as much fun out of it [the war] as we could. Which wasn’t fun, by a hell of a ways.” On Thursday in Santa Barbara.

Demetrio S. Jayme; S.F. Civic Leader

Demetrio S. Jayme, 82, former head of the San Francisco Commission on Aging. A native of Davao, Philippines, Jayme worked for three decades as owners’ representative of the North American Maritime Agency shipping company. He opened the company’s offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans and New York. Jayme served as director of Mission National Bank and Century Bank. As a civic leader, he fostered long-term relationships between San Francisco and Manila, and served as president of the San Francisco Commission on Aging under Mayors Dianne Feinstein and Art Agnos. On Jan. 24 while visiting the Philippines.

Adelaide Kingman; Active in History Groups

Adelaide Bledsoe Cormack Kingman, 97, socialite and volunteer for charitable and history organizations. Born in Ardmore in the Oklahoma Indian Territory before statehood, she was the daughter of Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, late president and board chairman of the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe railroad. She grew up in Chicago, where she graduated from the University of Chicago and married screenwriter Bartlett Cormack. After the couple moved to Beverly Hills, she became active in the Los Angeles Junior League and groups benefiting Good Samaritan Hospital. On May 12, 1936, she christened her father’s Super Chief train at the start of its maiden run between Los Angeles and Chicago. After she was widowed in the 1940s, she married Vice Adm. Howard Fifthian Kingman. who died in 1968. Throughout her life, Kingman was active in the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. She served as its national vice president and wrote several of its publications. She also worked in the Daughters of the American Revolution, First Families of Virginia, Daughters of Colonial Wars, Jamestown Society, Order of the Crown in America, and other history groups. Kingman served as a trustee of the Friends of Sulgrave Manor and vice chairman of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service. On Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Mason Walsh; Arizona Newspaper Publisher

Mason Walsh, 86, former publisher of the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette. Walsh worked for the Gazette and then the two papers’ corporate entity, Phoenix Newspapers Inc. for 20 years and was publisher from 1978 until his retirement in 1980. He began a lifelong association with newspapers at age 11 when he delivered the Dallas Times-Herald. Walsh worked for the Dallas Journal as a reporter before entering Southern Methodist University. He later worked as a reporter, city editor and news editor of the Dallas Dispatch-Journal, editor of the Austin Times-Herald and city editor and managing editor of the Dallas Times-Herald. During the Depression, Walsh played violin, cello and viola in movie and vaudeville theaters, on radio, with dance bands and with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He was national president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Assn. in 1963. On Saturday in Scottsdale, Ariz.