• Ada A. Baetkey
A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 23, 2008, in Parkrose United Methodist Church for Ada A. Baetkey, who died April 20 at age 96.
• Carol Marie Doty
A memorial service will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Beaverton Christian Center for Carol Marie Doty, who died April 14 at age 53.
• Connie M. Kitts
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2008, in Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home for Connie M. Kitts, who died April 22 at age 64.
• Courtroom artist illustrated high-profile trials
LOS ANGELES -- Rosalie Ritz, a premier courtroom artist who for four decades chronicled dozens of high-drama trials, including those of Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson, has died. She was 84.
• Deyanira Peniche
A funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Hillsboro United Methodist Church for Deyanira Peniche, who died April 23 at age 90.
• Donna Ruth Tucker
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2008, in Hillside Chapel for Donna Ruth Tucker, who died April 17 at age 55.
• Frederick William Thompson III
A service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring for Frederick William Thompson III, who died April 13 at age 67.
• Groebli's 'Frick' helped create folly on ice
Werner Groebli, half of the comic ice-skating duo "Frick and Frack" adored by millions in the 1940s and 1950s, and who continued to entertain audiences as a solo artist for decades, died April 14 at a hospital in Zurich. He was 92.
• Harry E. Ketel
A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Portland for Harry E. Ketel, who died April 21 at age 95.
• James Warren Hodges
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, May 2, 2008, in Farnstrom-Gable Funeral Chapel for James Warren Hodges, who died April 17 at age 79.
• June Rose Alexander
June Rose Alexander died April 14, 2008, at age 81.
• Mary Catherine Black
A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Friday, May 2, 2008, in The Old Church in downtown Portland for Mary Catherine Black, who died April 3 of a brain tumor at age 58.
• Penelope G. Oules
A service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church for Penelope G. Oules, who died April 24 at age 97.
• Screenwriter pushed for victims' rights
Robert Warnes Leach, a screenwriter who became a leading advocate for victims' rights after his stepdaughter was murdered in 1983 in Malibu, Calif., has died. He was 93.
• Shirley Ann Harrier
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Willamette National Cemetery for Shirley Ann Harrier, who died March 29 at age 76.
• Speed Vogel, Joseph Heller's pal, co-author
Speed Vogel, who turned his friendship with novelist Joseph Heller into a best-selling memoir, "No Laughing Matter," died April 14 of natural causes at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 90.
• Stacey Ann Picard-Leonetti
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in West Union Elementary School for Stacey Ann Picard-Leonetti, who died April 18 of a brain tumor at age 50.
• Theresa Lyons
A Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 31, 2008, in St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Portland for Theresa "Teddy" Lyons, who died April 11 of Alzheimer's disease at age 75.
• The Rev. Melvin B. Alvis
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 10, 2008, in Westminster Presbyterian Church in Portland for the Rev. Melvin Burton Alvis, who died April 9 at age 91.
• Times Square developer's vision was years too early
Alex M. Parker, a real estate developer whose vision of Times Square as the province of "nice people" was prescient but about two decades too early, died March 13 in the Bronx. He was 87.
• Travis Quinn Byrd
A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Lincoln Memorial Funeral Home for Travis Quinn Byrd, who died April 18 at age 38.
• Virginia Lois Bateman
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Wilshire United Methodist Church, Native American Fellowship, for Virginia Lois Bateman, who died April 11 at age 90.
