Sheehan World Celebrates

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ROSEMARY HARRIS, 93, a peacemaker who started Bellingham's Friday Afternoon Peace Vigil in 1966 with her husband Howard Harris, died on Jan. 1, 2009. The vigil is the longest running weekly peace demonstration in the nation. Rosemary was a Quaker. -CAPT. PENNY BRITTON, 67, an inspiring sailboat captain, airline pilot, and university instructor, died Dec. 30, 2008 after a courageous battle with cancer. Penny had tremendous amounts of both enthusiasm for life and patience for her employees, students, and family. She and her husband Dick were the former owners of Penmar Marine in Anacortes, where I worked as a checkout skipper for a couple of summers after I got my captain’s license in 1997. She hired me at the marina after I met her at WWU. I was teaching journalism, part-time, in the same building as her. Besides being a great leader, Penny won the Ronald Kleinknecht Excellence in Teaching Award at WWU in 2008. -RICK SELVIN, 63, a witty Philadelphia Daily News editor and features writer who amused staffers and readers with his offbeat headlines, died Feb. 12, 2008 of multiple organ failure. Rick worked at the Daily News from 1980 until 1997 when he received a heart transplant . He authored one of the paper's most famous headline in 1981 after the body of Lee Harvey Oswald was exhumed in Texas: Oswald Still Dead. Rick was also a talented musician (who almost played music at our wedding reception). He is survived by his wife of 18 years, Florence; a son, David; a daughter, Emily; a sister, Rene Gold; and three grandchildren. Donations in his memory may be made to the St. Francis de Sales Organ Restoration Fund, c/o Charles Haub, treasurer, 47th Street and Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19104. -LISA RICHETTE, 77, a flamboyant, chain-smoking feminist and Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge, died Oct. 26, 2007 of lung cancer. The socially active judge was an advocate for prisoners and those with mental illness, the homeless, battered women and abused children. Known to wear bikinis and mules well into her 70s at a Center City pool that I belonged to, she almost officiated at our 1994 wedding (I had written a news story about how she sprung a lifer from jail for a few hours, bought flowers for his fiance and married the couple in her courtroom. Chuck didn't trust her not to smoke during our ceremony.). Philadelphia Daily News reporter Kitty Caparella, a close friend, gave a eulogy and wrote Richette's obituary . -JOAN BEARDSLEY, 64, a Massachusetts native and high school science teacher who served on the Bellingham City Council, died March 12, 2007. Joan was the widow of Dick Beardsley, former editorial page editor at The Bellingham Herald. - CATHY LOGG , an award-winning police reporter in Washington state, died Feb. 7, 2007 in Bellingham. Logg covered crime in the Pacific Northwest for some two decades. Her passion for uncovering truth in municipal and tribal government, domestic violence, law enforcement, fires and other subjects earned her numerous journalism awards.

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