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Fort Myers News-Press, Sunday, October 6, 1985 First Miss America dies at 98 ORLANDO (AP) Annie Laurie Kilpatrick, who in Kilpatrick, a dancer, singer, pianist and model, 1912 won a Miss America title in a contest said to have been a forerunner of today's pageant, died Friday at age 98. Kilpatrick became the first to win the title, gaining the crown at age 25 as Miss Georgia in a contest in Miami, said her son, Russ Robinson. He called the 1912 contest a forerunner to the modern Miss America Pageant, held since 1921 in Atlantic City, N.J. Albert A. Marks, executive director of the Miss America Pageant, said he had heard of Kilpatrick's claim, but knew of no Miss America pageants before the Atlantic City contest.

Robinson said his mother held the title for several years, and went on to date President Woodrow Wilson. She toured the country during part of her reign tos sell war bonds, he said. Panel probes research on criminals' brains Washington Post News Service WASHINGTON The Medical Examiner's Commission in Florida and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement began an investigation Saturday of the state medical examiner's decision to provide the brains of executed prisoners to a University of Florida researcher studying the criminal mind, state officials said Saturday. Permission for the research was not obtained from the Death Row prisoners or from their families, according to Lori Naslund, an investigator in the state medical examiner's office. State law in Florida requires authorization from the individual or his family for any organ donation, according to State's Attorney Eugene Whitworth.

"I'm totally shocked," Whitworth said. "I'm totally unfamiliar with any legal authority that would allow this to be done. There's going to be a lot of checking into this by my office." Later in the day, however, Whitworth said he had decided to permit the commission and Department of Law Enforcement the state police in Florida to conduct an initial investigation. "They'll give me the results and I'll review them for criminal charges," Whitworth said. Dr.

Wallace Graves, head of the Medical Examiner's Commission, said the commission, a regulatory body of state and local officials that oversees the examiner's office, wants "to see if there was a violation of law or violation of the rules and regulations of the commission." The researcher, Christiana Leonard, approached Medical Examiner William Hamilton several years ago and asked him for the brains of electrocuted state prisoners, Naslund said, adding that Hamilton provided them. Leonard could not be reached for comment. But in a prepared statement, Hamilton explained that Leonard was trying to determine whether a relationship existed between head trauma suffered during childhood and "aberrations of behavior, particularly aggressive behavior." Hamilton cited a state law that he said permits organ research "related to the cause of death" without permission. Because the cause of electrocution was the prisoner's criminal behavior, he suggested, the research was "distantly related to the cause of death." Whitworth said he was not convinced by Hamilton's explanation. "I'd say that's stretching it," he said, adding that although state law permits the medical examiner to examine organs to determine the cause of death, "this appears to be examining organs that led to behavior that causes us to put him to death." David Rothman, director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, said the law permitting the medical examiner and researchers to examine organs related to the cause of death "was written to cover physiological and not social conditions." "When you start moving from physiological categories to social you have leaped a barrier which is extraordinary," Rothman said.

Messmer FTD Alorist 936-2131 3366 Cleveland Ave. Walden Clinic Specializing WEIGHT CONTROL 332-1611 2100 Myers, McGregor FL 33901 Blvd. DEATHS AND Information in the Deaths and Funerals advertising. To place an obituary call Lee County MARY LEE CROCKER Mary Lee Crocker, 74, of North Fort Myers died Friday October 4th, 1985 at Lee Memorial Hospital. She moved to this area in 1936 from Birmingham, Ala.

She is survived by her husband, Walter W. Crocker, two sons: Walter W. Crocker, Jr. and Steve M. Crocker of North Fort Myers; four daughters: Peggy Davids of Tempe, Dorothy Flynn and Ledith Humphries of Fort Myers and Mary Anne Strickland of North Fort Myers; twenty seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held Sunday October 6th at 2:00 p.m. at Lee Memorial Park. WILLIAM FRANCIS DAVITT BONITA SPRINGS---Mass of Christian Burial for William Francis Davitt will be said Monday at 9:45 a.m. at St. Leo Catholic Church with Rev.

Father John J. Foley Pastor officiating. Friends may call Sunday from 6-8 p.m. at Pittman Funeral Home, Bonita Springs Chapel, 27121 Old 41 Road, where a scripture service will be held Sunday evening p.m. Contributions may be made to Home Care America, 5201 West Kennedy Suite 107, Tampa, Fla.

33609, in memory of Mr. Davitt. FRANK D. JOYCE Memorial services Frank D. Joyce, 51, of Sanibel Island will be Monday at 11:00 a.m.

at The First Baptist Church of Saniwith Rev. Jamie Stilson Pastor officiating. A private interment will follow. Family prefers any memorial contribuitons to Frank D. Joyce Memorial Fund First Baptist Church, Sanibel Island.

Arrangements by Phil Kiser Funeral Home, 1280 Cypress Lake Drive. GORDON "PETE" PETERSON Gordon "Pete" Peterson, 75, of Fort Myers Beach and formerly of Pine Beach N. J. died August 31, 1985 at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune, N.J. He was born in Quincy, Mass.

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While the 1912 contest was not as well-publicized as today's, being known as the first Miss America conferred upon Kilpatrick a special notoriety, her son said. She appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Good Morning America, he said. Kilpatrick was born in Atlanta and moved to Orlando from Georgia in 1972. Besides her son, she is survived by two grandchildren. Robinson did not divulge her cause of death or plans.

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FUNERALS column is paid 335-0258. from Brown University in 1931. He was a member the First United Methodist Church in Toms River. Surviving are his wife, the former Lois Biggins and his sister, Lillian Smith of Braintree, Mass. Arrangements were by Anderson River, Campbell Funeral Home, Toms N.J.

FRED C. WALTERS BONITA SPRINGS---Fred C. Walters, age 85, died Saturday at Naples Community Hospital. Born in Bridgeport, Conn. he has been a resident of Bonita Springs since 1974 coming from New York.

He of was St. Leo retired Catholic from RCA. Church He and was a the Choir." Surviving family members include his wife; Mrs. Gertrude Walters; son and daughter-in-law, Clarence and Brrbara Huscher, Bonita Springs; daughter, Do- ris Palan, Rosedale, N. six grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Mass of Christian Burial will be said Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. at St. Leo Catholic Church with Rev. Father John J. Foley Pastor officiating.

Burial will be in St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, N. Y. Friends may call Monday from 6-8 p.m. at Pittman's Funeral Home, Bonita Springs Chapel, 27121 Old 41 Road, where a scripture service will be held monday at 7:00 p.m.

IN MEMORIAM IN Memory of Molly Juanita Nelson, who passed away 1 year ago Oct. 6, Dear Mother, how we miss you. Since from earth you passed away. And our hearts are aching sorely, as we think of you each day. But to a sweeter life you've gone.

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