ATLANTA (AP) – Elliott Galloway, the father of former U.S. Olympian Jeff Galloway and founder of Atlanta’s Galloway School, died Saturday. He was 87.

Galloway died at Piedmont Hospital from injuries he suffered in a fall the previous day, his daughter-in-law Barbara Galloway said.

With a vision for educating “the whole child,” Elliott Galloway founded the Galloway School in Atlanta’s posh Buckhead neighborhood in 1969. He was headmaster until he retired in 1990.

An avid runner like his son, Elliott Galloway ran part of Atlanta’s Peachtree Road Race on Friday but went home midway through because he didn’t feel well.

His daughter-in-law said that after a break, he decided to do more running and fell in the neighborhood near his home.

Galloway hit his head during the fall, she said.

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Robert Leeney

BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) – Robert Leeney, a former editor at the New Haven Register, died Sunday. He was 92.

The newspaper reported that Leeney died at Connecticut Hospice in Branford.

During his career at the Register, Leeney was a reporter, book editor, theater critic, Broadway columnist and editorial page editor. He was executive editor of the Register for 11 years, and the Register’s editor from 1972 until 1981.

His service at the Register included a Saturday column, Editor’s Note, which he wrote weekly from April 1974 until April 21, 2007.

Leeney was offered his first job at the Register after sending in freelance articles.

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Nonna Mordyukova

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian actress Nonna Mordyukova, whose roles earned her the status of the quintessential Soviet woman, died Sunday, Russia’s Union of Cinematographers said. She was 82.

The cause of her death was not reported. Russian news agencies said she suffered from diabetes and dementia.

Mordyukova played in dozens of films, including some textbook examples of Soviet propaganda. Her characters often faced a tough choice between devotion to Communist dogma and the quiet happiness of family life.

Mordyukova first found fame at age 23 in “Young Guards,” a 1948 epic about a group of young Communists that fought against Nazi Germans during World War II. She continued with versatile and critically acclaimed performances in adaptations of Russian classics, comedies and family dramas.

Since the 1990s, Mordyukova had lived a reclusive life in a Moscow apartment that was given to her by the government after she complained about her dire financial situation. Her marriage to popular actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov ended in a divorce in 1963, and her only son Vladimir died of drug abuse.

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Mando Ramos

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mando Ramos, a two-time lightweight boxing champion beset by drug and alcohol abuse, died Sunday. He was 59.

Ramos died at his home in San Pedro, according to his wife, Sylvia. She said her husband, a diabetic, went into respiratory arrest and paramedics were unable to revive him.

Ramos turned pro in 1965, three days after his 17th birthday. He retired a decade later with a record of 37-11-1 with 23 knockouts.

Ramos stopped Carlos Teo Cruz in the 11th round in 1969 to win the lightweight title, then lost it in 1970 to Ismael Laguna. He regained the title in 1972 with a split decision over Pedro Carrasco, then lost it later in the year when Chango Carmona stopped him in the eighth round.

He checked into a rehab clinic in the early 1980s and remained sober the rest of his life. When he got out of rehab, he started Boxing Against Alcohol and Drugs, a program aimed at youngsters.

Ramos, born in Long Beach, was inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame on June 21.

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Janet Mary Riley

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Janet Mary Riley, a Loyola University law professor who helped make Louisiana women equal partners in their marriages, died Saturday. She was 92.

Riley died at the Chateau de Notre Dame nursing home in New Orleans, a nursing home employee said.

Riley, who lived in New Orleans all her life, was the first female professor on Loyola’s law faculty. Sixteen of the 60 current faculty members are women.

Until the 1970s, Louisiana’s community property law made the husband “head and master of the community,” giving him total control of his wife’s assets.

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1971 that the U.S. Constitution bans certain types of sex-based discrimination, the Louisiana State Law Institute, which can revise the state’s civil code, appointed Riley the leader of a committee to revise the law.

Her suggestion was an “equal management” plan that would let either spouse manage community property, with limited exceptions. She tried to persuade the council to support it, but got nowhere, and in 1977 the committee disbanded.

But the proposal wasn’t dead. State Sen. Tom Casey drafted a resolution based on the “equal management” approach. The Legislature adopted it, and it became law in 1979.

Riley wanted to work as a lawyer, but in the early 1950s many firms didn’t hire women. She began an assistant professorship at Loyola in 1956 and stayed for 30 years.

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