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Eugene B. Sledge

Marine Memoirist

Eugene B. Sledge, 78, who wrote "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa," a highly acclaimed memoir of his service in the Marine Corps in the Pacific in World War II, died of cancer March 2 at his home in Montevallo, Ala.

Dr. Sledge served in a Marine rifle company during the bloody campaigns for Peleliu and Okinawa. His book, which was written from the point of a view of a Marine in the front lines, has been praised by such noted historians as Stephen Ambrose, John Keegan and Paul Fussell.

After the war, Dr. Sledge became a professor of microbiology at the University of Montevallo in Alabama.

Walter Beerman

Real Estate Broker

Walter Beerman, 107, a retired Florida real estate broker who gained attention as perhaps the nation's oldest worker, died of congestive heart failure March 3 in Lakeland, Fla.

He worked 30-hour weeks until two years ago.

He made appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Today," which billed him as America's oldest worker.

Mr. Beerman, a Tennessee native and World War I Navy veteran, worked for General Motors and owned a coal business before moving to Florida in 1950 and becoming a real estate broker and investor.

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