Obituaries in the News

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Mary Frampton

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) _ Mary Frampton, a former newspaper photographer and organizer of the Save Our Coast environmental organization, died Dec. 29. She was 76.

Frampton died at her home, her friend and attorney John Murdock said. The cause of death wasn't known.

Frampton shot mostly feature photos from 1956 to 1987 as one of the first female staff photographers at the Los Angeles Times. She was a key environmental figure in Malibu, battling developers and working to preserve open space and protect marine life.

Born in New York, Frampton moved with her parents to San Bernardino where her mother Edithe Hethcock was a sculptor and her father Eugenio Nogueras was editor and publisher of a weekly Spanish-language newspaper, El Sol de San Bernardino.

Frampton started taking pictures as a child. She attended San Bernardino Valley College and got her first photography job in 1950 at what is now the San Bernardino Sun.

She moved on to the Santa Monica Evening Outlook in 1954, then was hired by the Times two years later as a staff photographer.

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Seymour Martin Lipset

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) _ Seymour Martin Lipset, an influential social scientist interested in the peculiarities of U.S. political culture, died Sunday. He was 84.

He died in Arlington of complications from a stroke, his wife said.