PASSINGS
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Ray Brock, a longtime editor and writer for Hot Rod magazine who later published Rod Action magazine, died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home in Newport Beach. He was 75.
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Nellie Cross, Iowa’s oldest resident, died Wednesday in Des Moines. She was 112. Cross worked at an ordnance plant and later as a waitress. She had five children, 11 grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, 104 great-great-grandchildren and 27 great-great-great-grandchildren.
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