Obituaries: Richard D. Bunkall, Karl Yoneda

November 19, 2007 at 7:15PM

Artist Richard D. Bunkall, 45, who painted brooding urban landscapes and whose struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease inspired an episode of the "Touched by an Angel" TV show, died Wednesday at his studio in Pasadena, Calif.

Karl Yoneda, 92, a Japanese-American longshoreman who was vilified for his marriage to a white woman, died May 9.

Yoneda and his wife Elaine Black, dubbed "Tiger Woman" by the Hearst papers in the 1930s before they married, actively opposed the Vietnam War and the neutron bomb, and they also joined the "Free Angela Davis" campaign.

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