• Agent made careers, produced Allen's films
Charles H. Joffe, a co-producer of Woody Allen's movies and the business expert in the talent agency that managed the budding careers of a host of high-profile comedians that also included Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and David Letterman, died Wednesday, on his 79th birthday, in Los Angeles.
• Barbara J. White
Barbara J. White died July 10, 2008, at age 68.
• David H. Greene, 94, Irish literature scholar
David H. Greene, a leading scholar of Irish literature and one of the authorized biographers of the playwright J.M. Synge, the author of "The Playboy of the Western World," died July 9 near his home in Boynton Beach, Fla. He was 94.
• Donald A. Shelton
A service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, in Willamette National Cemetery for Donald A. Shelton, who died May 30 at age 86.
• Earl Kennis Anderson
A service will be at 12:30 p.m. Monday, July 21, 2008, in Willamette National Cemetery for Earl Kennis Anderson, who died July 12, at age 64.
• Expert on Mesoamerican archaeology, 82
William T. Sanders, an anthropologist whose influential studies of early civilizations in Mexico and Central America included a vast and invaluable aerial survey of ancient archaeological sites, died July 2 in State College, Pa. He was 82.
• James Frazier Taylor
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26, 2008, in the First Church of the Nazarene in Portland for James Frazier Taylor, who died June 21 at age 65.
• John Gough
John Gough died July 17, 2008, at age 99.
• Joyce Ann Coutant
Joyce Ann Coutant died July 5, 2008, at age 59.
• Larry E. Stein
A gathering will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, in the Portland Yacht Club for Larry E. Stein, who died July 9 of leukemia at age 68.
• Leo Lewis Smith
Leo Lewis Smith died June 29, 2008, at age 90.
• Les Crane, talk show host during 1960s, dies at 74
Les Crane, a provocative talk-show host who was the first to challenge the primacy of Johnny Carson on late-night TV -- and lose -- died July 13 in Greenbrae, Calif., north of San Francisco. He was 74 and lived in Belvedere, Calif.
• Nancy L. Johnson
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 26, 2008, in Good Shepherd Community Church in Boring for Nancy L. Johnson, who died July 14 at age 62.
• Patricia Buckley Bozell, Catholic activist, editor
Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81, who was a matriarch of a prominent conservative family and helped start Triumph, an opinion journal of Catholic orthodoxy, died July 12 at her home in Washington, D.C. She had throat cancer.
• Paul Clyde Adams
A gathering will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008, in his home for Paul Clyde Adams, who died July 11 at age 88.
• Paul R. Stuebe
A service will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 25, 2008, in Willamette National Cemetery for Paul R. Stuebe, who died July 18 at age 91.
• Philip Nils Harding
Philip Nils Harding died July 11, 2008, at age 63.
• Robert Eugene Torrance
Robert Eugene Torrance died July 16, 2008, at age 68.
• Robert L. Allenbrand
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 27, 2008, in the Lynchwood Church of God for Robert L. Allenbrand, who died July 15 at age 91.
• Robert L. Allenbrand
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 27, 2008, in the Lynchwood Church of God for Robert L. Allenbrand, who died July 15 at age 91.
• Ronda Westeren-Rise
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 20, 2008, in the Forest Hills Elementary School gymnasium for Ronda Westeren-Rise, who died July 8 at age 45.
• Theron Macon Beougher
Theron Macon Beougher died June 16, 2008, at age 81.
• Virologist's advances helped prevent polio
Virologist Howard L. Bachrach, who purified the polio and foot and mouth disease viruses and was the first to use genetic engineering to produce a vaccine, died June 26 in Atlantis, Fla. He was 88 and had been suffering from heart disease, according to his daughter, Eve Bachrach.
