Nationwide Obituaries

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Deaths elsewhere

Published: December 03. 2012 4:00AM PST

Deaths of note from around the world:

Charles Bush, 72: Bush became the first African-American to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court page in 1954 — the same year the court desegregated public schools — and later was one of the first black graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Died of colon cancer Nov. 5 at his home in Lolo, Mont.

Gray Foy, 90: An artist of considerable early reputation, Foy was known in later years as a tastemaker, bon vivant, salonnier, partygoer, party-giver, genteel accumulator and perennial fixture of New York cultural life. Died Nov. 23 in his New York City apartment.

Alan Oser, 81: Writer and editor Oser was The New York Times’ authoritative voice in real estate coverage for more than 30 years. Died of a stroke Nov. 27, in Barcelona, Spain.

— From wire reports

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