Barron, Bebe b. June 16, 1925 d. April 20, 2008 Electronic Music Pioneer, Composer. Her husband Louis Barron designed and built the equipment they used to manipulate sound wave frequencies and record them on loop tape reels. She then used those recordings to piece together compositions for the groundbreaking music in the 1956 motion picture Forbidden Planet, as well as other films. The music recording techniques they used in that film, with the eerie and other-worldy sounds they were able to create, set the standard for all science fiction...[Read More] (Bio by: Michael) Adath Yeshurun Cemetery, Edina, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Blumenfield, Isadore 'Kid Cann' b. September 8, 1900 d. June 21, 1981 Crime Figure. The most notorious criminal in Minnesota history. Born in the shtetl of Rumnesk, Romania, he was brought to America at the age of two. He drifted into gang fights on the streets of Minneapolis's "Newspaper Row" around 4th Street on the North Side. By the mid 1920s he was, with his brothers Harry and "Yiddy," the boss of one of the most powerful factions of North Minneapolis's Jewish Mafia. Involved in bootlegging, pimping, and labor raqueteering. Suspected of involvement in at...[Read More] (Bio by: Brendan King) Adath Yeshurun Cemetery, Edina, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Warmath, Murray b. December 26, 1912 d. March 16, 2011 College Football Coach. He served as head coach of the University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers for eighteen seasons (1954 to 1971). He played high school football at Humboldt High School (Tennessee) and continued his athletics at the University of Tennessee. While with the Vols, he played under the legendary coach Bob Neyland at the end and guard positions, earning third-team All-American status in 1932 and All-SEC...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.) Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Edina, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA Plot: Memorial Garden (Columbarium)
b. June 16, 1925 d. April 20, 2008