1988 deaths

Everett Stanley Luttrell (born in Richmond, Virginia on January 10, 1916; died July 5, 1988) was an American mycologist and plant pathologist at the University of Georgia's Georgia Experiment Station and main campus.He served as the DW Brooks Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia from in 1978 to 1986. Luttrell was particularly known for his work on the classification of perithecial ascomycetes and Helminthosporium.Luttrell was a member of the American Phytopathological Society (APS),
the Botanical Society of America,
the British Mycological Society,
and the Mycological Society of America (MSA), which he served as president (1972-73).
He was honored by the MSA as its MSA Annual Lecturer in 1981,
and received its Distinguished Mycologist Award in 1983.
He became an APS Fellow in 1972.The genus Luttrellia was named for him, as was a species of winter barley named for him.The ES Luttrell Lecture Series at the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia was established in his honor.The standard author abbreviation Luttr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Joseph Orville Butcher (September 16, 1912 – February 15, 1988) was decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps who reached the rank of major general. He spent his career mostly in Quartermaster Department of the Marine Corps beginning in the field assignments during World War II. Butcher later served as commanding general, Marine Corps Supply Center Albany and also Assistant Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps and deputy to Major General Chester R. Allen.

Carl Jean Johnson (July 2, 1929 – December 29, 1988) was a public health physician who opposed nuclear testing.

Elmer "Mousey" Alexander (June 19, 1922 – October 9, 1988) was an American jazz drummer.

Cary Odell (December 20, 1910 – January 19, 1988) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was employed for several decades by Columbia Pictures. He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.

Stuart Randall (born Clarence Maxwell, July 24, 1909 – June 22, 1988) was an American actor of film and television who appeared on screen between 1950 and 1971.

Ernst Akiva Simon (Hebrew: עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון; March 15, 1900 in Berlin – August 18, 1988 in Jerusalem) was a German-Jewish educator and religious philosopher.

Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 8 August 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.

Johanna Hofer (born Johanna Therese Stern; 30 July 1896 – 30 June 1988) was a German film actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1982.

Richard Klemm (born 1902 in Dresden; died 1988 in Berlin) was a German cellist, composer and teacher.