From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

Nathania Gartman,  55,  died on July 4,  2003 from cancer.  A
cofounder of the Best Friends Animal Society,  Gartman “was raised in
Alabama and Louisiana,  and often talked of the turbulence of those
early days of de-segregation in the South,  having witnessed racial
discrimination first hand in the schools she attended,”  recalled
fellow Best Friends cofounder Faith Maloney.  “She became a champion
for people of all colors and creeds.  As a young woman,  she felt a
strong calling to serve God,  and worked for a while with the Billy
Graham Crusades, playing the organ at events throughout the South.
Later,  as Daffydil the Clown,  she worked with abused and sick
children in hospitals and institutions all over the country.  At Best
Friends,  Nathania began working with local schools,  and later
helped launch Utah’s Week for the Animals,”  with art and literature
programs complementing humane presentations in schools statewide.
“She was particularly proud of her work with Genesis, a restitution
program for young people out of the Utah Department of Corrections,”
Maloney added.  “Her work quickly went beyond the state, first with
several projects in Arizona on the Navajo Nation,  and then into
national programs.  She served on the board of the Association of
Professional Humane Educators,  and became president of the
organization. Even as she battled the cancer that would end her life
too early, she never missed a board meeting.  Teaching young people
to love animals was her passion and her life.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Bo,  formerly Worthless,  who inspired his person Tammy
Sneath Grimes to found the anti-chaining organization Dogs Deserve
Better,  was euthanized on April 25 “due to heart failure with
possible tumor complications,”  Grimes said.

Brutus,  24,  a black bear,  was euthanized on May 28 at the
Folsom city Zoo Sanctuary due to conditions of age,  a year after the
death of his twin sister Ursula.   Brutus and Ursula for many years
were the last animals left at the defunct and often flooded Royer
Park Zoo in Roseville.  Discovering them caged and alone,
then-16-year-old Justin Barker raised the first $25,000 of the sum
needed to move them to the Folsom Zoo,  where they enjoyed a markedly
better quality of life.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Guy Mountfort,  97,  died on April 22 in Bournemouth,
England.   Honorary secretary of the British Ornithologists Union,
1952-1962,  and president 1970-1975,  Mountfort co-authored  A Field
Guide To The Birds of Britain and Europe,  a 1954 best-seller,  still
in print,  and wrote other books on nature themes including Portrait
of A Wilderness (1958),  which led eventually to the creation of
Donana National Park in Spain;  The Vanishing Jungle (1969) and
Saving The Tiger (1981),  which dealt with his role in founding
Project Tiger in India,  1968-1972;  and Rare Birds Of The World
(1988).   Mountfort in 1961 joined with Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
founder Peter Scott,  zoologist Julian Huxley,  and British Nature
Conserv-ancy director general Max Nicholson to found the World
Wildlife Fund.  Mountfort served as WWF treasurer,  1961-1978,  and
thereafter as a vice president.

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