CENSUS

Jet, July 23, 2001

Died: George Dawson, 103, who made news headlines when he learned to read at 98 and later wrote a book titled Life Is So Good, in a Dallas hospital ... Ernie K. Doe, 65, R & B singer who scored big in 1961 with the hit song Mother-in-Law, of "various internal illnesses" at University Hospital in New Orleans, LA ...

Ruth S. Owens, 86, widow of legendary Olympic-gold medal track star Jesse Owens who chaired the Jesse Owens Foundation, of heart failure at her Chicago home ... Joe Henderson, 64, four-time Grammy Award-winning tenor jazz saxophonist, of heart failure after a long battle with emphysema ... Vernon Lynch Sr., 68, stepfather of famed comedian-actor Eddie Murphy, of lung cancer in New Jersey.