Dr. Mary O’Flaherty Horn; Internist and Teacher

Dr. Mary O’Flaherty Horn, 45, who continued practicing medicine and teaching during her struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Brought up on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Horn studied at the Washington University School of Medicine and was chief resident at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis. An internist, she returned to Southern California to become director of ambulatory teaching clinics and assistant academic chief of medicine at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. She also taught at UCLA School of Medicine. Horn continued her work although her illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, stripped her of speech and put her in a wheelchair. She communicated with students and patients by sign language with an interpreter voicing the words she could not speak. Because of her own testing and treatment for the disease, she emphasized to her own residents the need to become more caring doctors. She also wrote an article on doctor-patient relationships which will be published by a medical journal. On Monday in Long Beach of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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* Roswell B. “Roz” Rogers; Radio and TV Scriptwriter

Roswell B. “Roz” Rogers, 87, who scripted major radio and television series. Born in Sioux Falls, S.D., Rogers attended the University of Missouri and graduated from Sioux Falls College. After moving to Hollywood in 1934, he became a pioneer radio writer. He penned scripts for such classics as “Texaco Star Theater,” “The Old Gold Show” and “The Lum and Abner Show.” He joined “Father Knows Best” when it was a fixture on radio, and moved with it to television, serving as head writer from its inception in 1954 until 1960. Friends said the wholesome family show was a reflection of Rogers’ own life and philosophy. In the 1970s, Rogers wrote two film scripts for Disney, “The Million Dollar Duck” and “Charlie and the Angel.” On Aug. 6 in Los Angeles of complications of Parkinson’s disease.