HARTFORD, Conn. – Rose Bouziane Nader, a Lebanese immigrant and author who raised consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, has died. She was 99.
Nader died of congestive heart failure Friday at her home in Winsted. She would have turned 100 on Feb. 7.
“It’s just breaking us up,” Ralph Nader said Monday. “The heart that’s been beating since 1906 couldn’t make it until (Feb. 7). She put a lot of forces into motion directly and through her children that I think created a lot of improvement in our country.”
Born in Lebanon, she became a high school teacher of French and Arabic. She married businessman Nathra Nader in 1925 and immigrated to the United States a short time later, settling in Danbury and then in Winsted, where the couple raised four children.
In 1991, she wrote “It Happened in the Kitchen,” which explained her philosophy of raising children and the connection between good food and diverse family dinner conversations.
Her husband died in 1991.
Jim Gary was creator of junkyard animals
FREEHOLD, N.J. – Jim Gary, an artist who used junkyard car parts to make playful dinosaur skeletons that were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County and other leading museums around the world, has died. He was 66.
Gary died Jan 14 at Centrastate Medical Center of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered last month, according to Kafi Benz, the director of his studio. Gary was a resident of Farmingdale.
Gary’s exhibit, “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs,” toured the United States, Australia and Asia for more than 20 years starting in the late 1970s. It featured several dozen of his creatures, most of them nearly life-sized, and attracted crowds at such disparate venues as the California Academy of Natural Sciences in San Francisco and the Automobile Dismantler’s Association of America in Detroit.
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