Jack Pitney, a rising star at BMW of North America, where he was the vice president for marketing and led the wildly successful introduction of BMW’s updated Mini Cooper into the American market in 2002, died Thursday in an accident on his farm in Durham, N.Y. He was 47.

A spokesman for BMW, citing officials in the Greene County sheriff’s office, said Mr. Pitney died when a tractor he was riding flipped over on him as he was trying to uproot a tree stump. No other details were provided.

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He is survived by his wife, Quincey; five children, Ryan, Rose, Morgan, Stella and Max; a sister, Lynn Espey of Stowe, Vt.; and his father, William, of Durham, N.C.

Rest In Peace, Jack.

Marcel Albert, a widely decorated World War II flying ace hailed as a hero of the French "Normandie-Niemen" squadron based in the Soviet Union, has died, officials and a relative said Wednesday. He was 92.
He died Monday of complications from cancer, said Albert's nephew, Jean Mavinger.

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Mavinger said Albert, who had no children, is survived by a 96-year-old sister and nieces and nephews. He said Albert had wanted to be buried next to his American-born wife, who died and was interred in Florida last year.

Rest In Peace, Marcel.

David Rowland, the industrial designer who made it possible for millions of people to sit in church basements, meeting halls, cultural centers and even submarines in comfortable, sculptured chairs, then to clear the space by stacking them in a corner, died on Aug. 13 at his home in Marion, Va. He was 86.

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His wife of 39 years, the former Erwin Wassum, is his only immediate survivor.

Rest In Peace, David.

William Saxbe, a Republican maverick who became the fourth attorney general to serve under President Richard M. Nixon and presided during the Watergate investigation, died Tuesday. He was 94.

Saxbe, who served in the Ohio Legislature and as state attorneygeneral, died at his home in Mechanicsburg, northwest of Columbus, said his son, Charles "Rocky" Saxbe.

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Saxbe also is survived by wife Ardath "Dolly" Saxbe; daughter Juli Spitzer of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; sons Rocky Saxbe of Columbus and William Bart Saxbe Jr. of Williamstown, Mass.; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, William.

Edward Kean, primary writer of the "Howdy Doody Show" and who is credited with creating the exclamation, "kowabunga," has died at the age of 85, family friend Del Reddy said.

Kean also penned the theme song to which millions of American children sang along each week during theshow's run on NBC from 1947 to 1960.

Kean died Aug. 13 at a nursing care facility in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield Township from complications of emphysema, Reddy said.

Rest In Peace, Edward.