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Diana Joffee,
Active In JWV
Diana Joffee, of Oak Park,
died April 8. She was 71.
Mrs. Joffee was past presi-
dent of the Ladies Auxiliary
of the Jewish War Veterans,
Yetz-Cohen 630, of the JWV
Memorial Home, and of the
Ladies Department Auxil-
iary of the State of Mich-
igan-JWV. For 14 years, she
was chairman of the JWV
scholarship committee.
She is survived by her
husband, Benjamin;
daughters and son-in-law,
Rochelle M. Osborne of Oak
Park, Pamela S. and
Kenneth Nelson of Oak
Park; brothers and sister-in-
law, Theodore and Eleanor
Gordon of Toledo, Ohio,
David and Minnett Gordon
of Overland Park, Kan.;
sister and brother-in-law,
Dorothy and Harry Goldberg
of Oil City, Pa.; three grand-
daughters.

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for his science fiction, Mr.
Asimov also wrote numerous
works on chemistry,
Shakespeare, history and
the Bible. These include
Counting the Eons, Founda-
tion and Earth, The Shaping
of England, Nemesis, The
Robots of Dawn and Animals
of the Bible.
He won five Hugo awards
for his science-fiction novels,
including a 1966 Hugo for
Best All-Time Science Fic-
tion Series for his
"Foundation" series, and
the Westinghouse Science
Writing Award.
He is survived by his wife,
Janet Jeppson; son, David of
California; daughter, Robyn
of Manhattan; sister, Marcia
Repanes of New York;
brother, Stanley, of New
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Isaac Asimov,
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Science fiction writer Isaac
Asimov, the author of more
than 500 books, died April 6.
He was 72.
Born in the Soviet Union,
Mr. Asimov came with his
parents in 1923 to the
United States. Using signs
on the street of his Brooklyn
home, he taught himself to
read by the time he was 5.
His interest in science fic-
tion began when he found a
magazine in his father's
candy store. When he was
18, he sold his first story,
"Marooned Off Vesta," to
Amazing Stories.
In 1941, Mr. Asimov sold
another piece, "Nightfall,"
to the leading science fiction
magazine, Astounding
Science Fiction. The Science
Fiction Writers of America
voted it the best science-
fiction short story ever
written.
Mr. Asimov graduated in
1948 from Columbia Uni-
versity with a Ph.D. in
chemistry. He then took a
position teaching
biochemistry at the Boston
University School of Medi-
cine.
His first book, Pebble in
the Sky, was published in
1950. By 1984, he had
published more than 300
works.
Mr. Asimov woke each day
at 6 a.m. and worked until
10 p.m. Sunday, he said, was
his best day for writing. He
did his own typing and did
not have a literary agent.
Though known primarily

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