Passages

Fredd Young, 64, a linebacker who became a fan favorite in the 1980s with his hard-hitting and big-play ability and was named as one of the Seahawks’ Top 50 Players of all time, died Tuesday, according to statements from his alma mater, New Mexico State and the Seahawks. The cause of death was not available.

Young became a full-time starting linebacker in 1985 and led the Seahawks in tackles in each of the 1985 (118), 1986 (121) and 1987 (101) seasons.

He was named as a first team All-Pro after the 1987 season when he finished third in the voting for Defensive Player of the Year, a season in which he had nine sacks, forced five fumbles and returned an interception 50 yards for a touchdown to spark a 35-13 win over the Raiders in Los Angeles.

His four Pro Bowl honors are tied for eighth in team history with Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch and Kam Chancellor. He is one of just 10 Seahawks defensive players to earn at least one All-Pro first-team honor.

Annie Dillard, 81, who as a young American writer walked into the woods and came out with a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the wonders and horrors of creation, the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” died Tuesday at her home in South Wellfleet, Mass.

“Tinker Creek” won the Pulitzer for general nonfiction in 1975, and Dillard was overwhelmed by requests for speeches, interviews and television appearances. Her looks were thought by many media outlets to be as newsworthy as her writing — so much so that she was ridiculed in some circles as “Cheesecake at Tinker Creek.”

Repelled by the consequences of her success, she moved to Washington and began dividing her time between the city of Bellingham and the islands Waldron and Lummi. Her marriage to Richard Dillard had ended in amicable divorce, and in the Pacific Northwest she found privacy enough to regain the concentration essential to her work.

“The Cascade Range, in these high latitudes, backs almost into the water,” she wrote. “There is only a narrow strip, an afterthought of foothills and farms sixty miles wide, between the snowy mountains and the sea.” She added: “If the Greeks had looked at Mt. Baker all day, their large and honest art would have broken, and they would have gone fishing, as these people do.”

Bob Mackie, 87, the fashion designer whose visually provocative Hollywood style defined glamour for the 1970s — including putting Carol Burnett in some of her kookiest get-ups and Cher in her raciest ones — died Monday of pneumonia, according to his publicist. Dubbed the “Designer to the Stars,” Mackie won nine Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was nominated for three Oscars, including one for Barbra Streisand’s “Funny Lady.”

Emma Bonino, 78, a campaigner for civil rights who helped push Italy to the left on issues like abortion and assisted dying while climbing to the top ranks of Italy’s political establishment, died Sept. 11 in Rome. Più Europa, the left-leaning party that Bonino founded in 2017, announced her death. No further details were provided. Bonino had checked into a Rome hospital for treatment of a respiratory issue on Sept. 7, according to ANSA, Italy’s main news agency.

Over five decades, Bonino served as a lawmaker in the Italian and European parliaments, briefly led Italy’s Foreign Ministry and oversaw the European Union’s humanitarian aid program.

Timothy White Eagle, 60, a longtime Seattle-based ritual theater, storytelling and visual artist, died Sept. 8 from complications of pancreatic cancer, just days before he was to perform his latest work, “Timothy White Eagle Has No Shame,” at Town Hall Seattle.

White Eagle was adopted at 3 days old by a white Mormon family. As a multiracial child of Indigenous Mohave descent, White Eagle struggled with belonging in his adoptive family and in the religion he was raised in. At 8, he moved with his father to Montesano, Grays Harbor County.

In the early 1990s, White Eagle landed in Seattle and found community and belonging in the world of experimental art in the city. Later, he would connect with the Wolf Creek Radical Faerie Sanctuary in southern Oregon, a place where he would find a home in Indigenous ceremonies with other queer people and, in particular, with Indigenous queer people and Two-Spirit people, an umbrella term for many gender fluid and LGBTQ+ identities. Most significantly, White Eagle met Clyde Hall, a Shoshone/Métis elder who introduced him to Native ceremonies and traditions, according to a 2024 Seattle Times profile of White Eagle.