Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, Mexican politician, MP (2011) (body found on this date), died at 47.

Moisés Villanueva de la Luz was a Mexican politician and a member of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party) where he served as federal deputy and local MP.

(17 November 1964 – 17 September 2011) 

Villanueva de la Luz Moses studied for a degree in Law and Social Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero (Autonomous University of Guerrero), his political career in the Institutional Revolutionary Party progressed within the framework of the Confederación Nacional Campesina (National Peasant Confederation) in Guerrero, where he was regional coordinator and state political adviser, in addition to Visitor electoral trainer of the Agrarian agriculture, as well as Member of the Congress of Guerrero from 1999 to 2002. Alternate elected federal deputy for the V Distrito Electoral Federal de Guerrero (Federal Electoral District of Guerrero) he succeeded Sofia Hernández Ramírez as the leader of LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress in 2009. On 30th March 2011 he took over leadership of the deputation and stood down as the owner in the Comisiónes de población, Fronteras y Asuntos Migratorios y Reforma Agraria (Chamber of Deputies was part of the Commission on Population, Borders and Migration Issues and Agrarian Reform).
He was reported missing on 4 September 2011 on the way road between the cities of Chilapa and Tlapa^[1], in the Región de la Montaña, (Mountain Region), he was found murdered next to his driver on 17 September in Huamuxtitlán. ^{[2] [3]}


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Kurt Sanderling,German conductor, died at 98.

Kurt Sanderling CBE was a German conductor. He worked in Germany and the Soviet Union.

(19 September 1912 – 17 September 2011) 

Biography

Kurt Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Orzysz, Poland) to Jewish parents. After early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. From 1942 to 1960, he was joint principal conductor with Yevgeny Mravinsky of the Leningrad Philharmonic. As a German refugee with a broad cultural outlook, he grew very close to Dmitri Shostakovich.^[1]
Sanderling was a favorite of musicians world over. His easy going conducting manner proved he could get the finest results with orchestras of much lesser calibre. His Brahms and Sibelius cycles are held in highest critical acclaim. Listeners may note a warmth of approach more akin to old world conductors rather than the current "jet-set" style modern interpreters.
He returned to East Germany where he led the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and Dresden Staatskapelle. He made his British debut in 1970. He later became particularly associated with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London starting in January 1980, with a series of performances of the complete Beethoven symphonies at Wembley. The Philharmonia later appointed Sanderling their Conductor Emeritus. He was also Emeritus Conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra.^[2]
Sanderling had conducted several major symphony orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who had asked Sanderling to be the permanent conductor of the orchestra, however, Sanderling's commitments made him refuse the offer. Martin Bernheimer praised Sanderling's conducting skills. He announced his retirement from conducting in 2002.^[3]
In September 2002, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).^[4]
His recordings include sets of the complete Beethoven symphonies with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the piano concertos with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Nos. 3, 4 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Nos. 1, 2 and 5 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was among the first conductors to perform and record Deryck Cooke's completion of Gustav Mahler's 10th symphony, which his friend Berthold Goldschmidt had premiered.^{[citation needed]}
Sanderling died on 17 September 2011, two days before his 99th birthday in Berlin.^{[4][1][5][6][7]}

Family

Sanderling was married twice. His son by his first wife, Nina Bobath, whom he married in 1941, is the conductor Thomas Sanderling. His marriage to his first wife ended in divorce after his return to East Germany in 1960. His second wife was the former Barbara Wagner, a double bassist in the Berlin Symphony Orchestra; they had two sons, the conductor Stefan Sanderling, who in 2002 became music director of the Florida Orchestra, and the cellist/conductor Michael Sanderling.^[4][1]

Publications

• 2002: Kurt Sanderling & Ulrich Roloff-Momin: Andere machen Geschichte, ich machte Musik. Parthas, Berlin 2002, 431 pp., ill., discographie, ISBN 3-932529-35-9, (Biography; in German)

Film

• Seine Liebe zu Brahms. Kurt Sanderling unterrichtet die 4. Sinfonie. (with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart of the SWR) Documentation, 60 Min., a film by Norbert Beilharz, First transmission: 2. November 2003, Inhaltsangabe des SWR (German)

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Charles H. Percy, 91, American politician, Senator from Illinois (1967–1985), died from Alzheimer's disease at 91.

Charles Harting Percy was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964. In 1966, he was elected to the United States Senate from Illinois as a Republican; he served for almost twenty years, until 1985, after he was defeated by Paul Simon. During his Senate career, he concentrated on business and foreign relations.

(September 27, 1919 – September 17, 2011)

Early life and education

Charles Harting Percy was born in Pensacola, the seat of Escambia County in far northwestern Florida, the son of Edward H. Percy and the former Elisabeth Harting.^[4] His father, an Alabama native descended from Virginians, was at various times an automobile salesman and bank cashier. His Illinois-born mother was a concert violinist. Edward was a son of Charles Brown Percy and Helen Leila Herndon, from the powerful Herndon family of Virginia.^[5][6] Elizabeth Harting was a daughter of Phineas Fredrick Harting and Belle Aschenbach.^[7]
The family moved to Chicago when Percy was an infant. As a child, he was notable for his entrepreneurial energy, and often held several jobs while attending school. In the mid-1930s, his pluck brought him to the attention of his Sunday school teacher, Joseph McNabb, the president of Bell & Howell, then a small camera company.
Percy completed high school at New Trier High School. He entered the University of Chicago on a half tuition scholarship. He completed his degree in economics in 1941.^[1][4]

Career

Percy started at Bell & Howell in 1938 as an apprentice and sales trainee. In 1939 he worked at Crowell Collier. He went to work full time for Bell & Howell in 1941, after college. Within a year he was appointed a director of the company. Percy served three years in the United States Navy during World War II and returned to the company in 1945.^[3]
After Joseph McNabb died in 1949, Percy was made the president of Bell & Howell. In 1949, the Jaycees named Percy one of the "Outstanding Young Men in America", along with Gerald R. Ford, Jr., of Michigan (future U.S. President) and John Ben Shepperd (future Texas Attorney General.)
During his leadership of Bell & Howell, Percy led the company through years of expansion, with a 32-fold increase in company sales, a 12-fold increase in employees, and taking the company public, with a listing for stock sales on the New York Stock Exchange. While continuing to make a variety of movie cameras for military, commercial and home use; and movie and sound projectors, in the late 1940s, the company branched into the production of microfilm. Later it entered the information services markets as well.

Political career

In the late 1950s, Percy decided to enter politics. With the encouragement of then U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Percy helped to write Decisions for a Better America, which proposed a set of long-range goals for the Republican Party. He was considered to be a liberal Republican, among a group from the Northeast and Midwest.
Percy first entered electoral politics with a run for governor in 1964, which he narrowly lost to Democratic incumbent Otto Kerner. During his gubernatorial campaign, Percy reluctantly endorsed Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, his future Senate colleague, who fared poorly in Illinois.

U.S. Senate

In 1966, Percy ran for senator from Illinois; he upset the Democratic senator Paul Douglas (a former professor of Percy's at the University of Chicago) with 56 percent of the vote. During that campaign, Percy's 21-year-old daughter Valerie was murdered at the family home under mysterious circumstances, apparently by an intruder. He suspended the campaign for two weeks. Valerie Percy's murder has never been solved, despite a long investigation.^[2] Following the murder, CBS postponed, and eventually canceled, its planned airing of the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.
In 1967, Senator Percy introduced a bill to establish a program to stimulate production of low-cost housing. Percy's proposal was the first of its kind to provide home ownership to low-income families, and it received strong support from Republicans in both the House and the Senate. When asked why he selected housing for his first major legislative proposal, Percy said: "Of all the problems I ran across during three years of campaigning, first for the governorship and then for the Senate, the most appalling in their consequences for the future seemed to be the problems of the declining areas of the city and countryside, the inadequacy of housing."
In 1978, as Percy was completing his second term, he appeared invincible.^[8] Percy was considered so strong that the Democratic party was unable to persuade any serious candidates to challenge him.^[9] Emerging from the Democratic primary was the dark horse candidate, Alex Seith, who had never before sought elected office but had served as an appointee on the Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals for twelve years, nine as chairman.
But at that time, Percy's reputation as a Rockefeller Republican, contrasted with Seith's ostensible hard-line foreign policy positions, combined to make Percy suddenly vulnerable in the weeks before the election. Sensing his improbable loss, Percy went on television days before the polling and, with tear-filled eyes, pleaded with Illinois voters to give him another chance. He said, "I got your message and you're right . . . I'm sure that I've made my share of mistakes, but your priorities are mine."^[10] He won re-election by a 54% to 46% margin.
Percy served in the Senate until the end of his third term in January 1985. He had been narrowly defeated for re-election in November 1984 by the liberal Congressman Paul Simon. After Percy's defeat, no Republican would win a senatorial race in Illinois until Peter Fitzgerald in 1998.
In 2006, in writing about the influence of political lobbies on the U.S. relationship with Israel, political theorists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt wrote that they believed Percy's loss resulted from the campaign waged against him by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).^[11] The lobbying group controlled substantial monies and helped lawmakers who they believed supported the security of Israel. Earlier that year, Percy had addressed himself, along with the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dante Fascell, to the cause of Karl Linnas, a concentration camp commander who was to be deported back to Estonia, having lied in the papers he used to enter the United States. Linnas had ordered, and participated in, the murders of Jews and other prisoners.^[12] Percy's view, shared by Fascell and by Representative Donald L. Ritter of Pennsylvania and of the Helsinki Commission was that Linnas should be deported but not to the Soviet Union.
While in the Senate, Percy was active in the areas of business and international affairs. Although he explored the possibility of running for President in 1968 and 1976, he did not run either time. During the early 1970s, he clashed with the policies of President Nixon and criticized the U.S. conduct of the Vietnam War.
In 1977, Percy and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey - responding to the 1973 OPEC oil embargo and high energy prices in general - created the Alliance to Save Energy^[13] to encourage a national commitment to energy efficiency. Sen. Percy was the founding chairman of the organization.^[14]
Perhaps Percy's most important act, and his longest-lasting legacy, was ending the practice of nominating federal judges from the Chicago political machine. He implemented a system of consultation with, and advice from, several groups, including the professional bar association, which was considered novel at the time.^[15] One of his nominees, John Paul Stevens, was selected by Gerald Ford as a justice of the United States Supreme Court.^[15]

Literary opinions

Percy said of the Autobiography of Malcolm X, that "Every white person should read it."^[16]

Marriage and family

Percy was a Christian Scientist.^[4] During World War II, Percy married Jeanne Dickerson. They had twin daughters, Valerie and Sharon (born 1944), and a son Roger (born 1947). Jeanne died in 1947, of a violent reaction to drugs after a seemingly simple and successful operation. In 1950, Percy married Loraine Guyer. Their children were Gail (born 1953) and Mark (born 1955).
About a year after the murder of her twin sister Valerie, in 1966, Sharon Percy married John D. Rockefeller IV,^[4] who was later elected to two terms (1977-1985) as the Democratic Governor of West Virginia and has been a United States Senator from that state since 1985.
He remained active after leaving political office, but suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years.^[17]
He died on September 17, 2011 at the Washington Home and Community Hospice in Washington, D.C..^[4][18]

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Eleanor Mondale, American television personality, daughter of Walter Mondale, died from brain cancer at 51.

Eleanor Jane Mondale Poling was an American radio personality, television host, and actress.

(January 19, 1960 – September 17, 2011) 

Biography

Mondale was the only daughter of Joan Mondale and former Vice President Walter Mondale. Her older brother is former Minnesota State Senator Theodore A. "Ted" Mondale. Her younger brother is attorney William H. Mondale, the former assistant Minnesota attorney general. For her senior year of high school, Mondale attended St. Timothy's, a boarding school outside of Baltimore. After graduating from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, she moved to begin a career in Hollywood.^[1]

Personal life

After graduating from St. Lawrence University, Mondale quickly earned a reputation in the media for being a "wild-child", although she claims many of the rumors were unfounded.^[1] She reportedly dated Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1979 after they met on the set of The Villain (1979), for which she was a film production assistant.
Mondale was married three times. Her first marriage, to football player Keith Van Horne, lasted from April 9, 1988, until August 1989, when Van Horne filed for divorce.^[2] In 1990 she dated rock singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, traveling on tour with him to Australia.^[1][3] She also dated Washington Redskins offensive tackle George Starke.^[4]
Mondale's second marriage, from June 21, 1991, to November 1991, was to Greg Malban, a DJ known as Greg Thunder.
In 1998, Mondale was named in the Starr Report as having met with President Clinton at the White House on December 6, 1997, while Monica Lewinsky, with whom Clinton had been having an affair, was kept waiting at the White House for 40 minutes. During Lewinsky's wait, a Secret Service officer reportedly told her that Clinton was meeting with Mondale, prompting Lewinsky to fly into a rage. The Washington Post reported: "Lewinsky 'stormed away, called and berated Mrs. Currie (Betty Currie) from a pay phone.' Currie, in turn, 'hands shaking and almost crying,' told the officers that Clinton was 'irate' that they had told Lewinsky about Mondale and warned a Secret Service supervisor that 'someone could be fired.'"^[5]
In 1996, several mainstream publications, including The Washington Post, had implied that Mondale was having a fling with Clinton—claims that she denied. "What's funny is every time I've seen the president there have been at least five other people in the room," she told the Chicago Sun-Times. "I don't think we would have carried on this so-called affair right in front of Barbra Streisand and people like that!"^[6]
In 1999, Mondale sold her house in Los Angeles to move to New York to be with her boyfriend at the time, New York plastic and reconstructive surgeon Joe DeBellis.^[7]
In June 2005 Mondale married Minneapolis musician Chan Poling of the group The New Standards. Poling has three children with ex-wife Terri Paul: son Chandler Jr. and daughters Maddie and Olivia. Mondale and Poling lived on a small farm in Minnesota, where they raised miniature horses until her death.

Acting career

Mondale dropped out of college in 1981 to move to Hollywood.^[8] She worked briefly as an extra and had one speaking line in the TV series 240-Robert.^[8] She then returned to college, graduating in 1982. By January 1983, Mondale was back in Hollywood, where she had small roles on TV shows such as Three's Company, Dynasty, and Matt Houston.^[8]
Eleanor Mondale was a regular guest on Howard Stern's E! TV show during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Journalism career

Mondale interviewed Fred Thompson at the 2007 Minnesota State Fair.

Mondale began her journalism career while still in Los Angeles, taking a job at KABC-TV in 1985.^[8] She left the station in late 1985 and soon moved to Chicago, getting her first radio break as a helicopter reporter at WMAQ (AM).^[9] She continued taking fill-in radio news jobs at various Chicago radio stations, including WCKG-FM.^[8] She also was waiting for the pilot of a King World Productions show, "The Rock 'n Roll Evening News", to be sold.^[8] Within a few months the show began airing in national syndication, with Mondale working as its Midwest correspondent.^[8]
In 1986, Mondale signed a one-year contract with powerhouse Chicago radio station WGN (AM) to appear as a frequent contributor to programs.^[10] In early 1987, Mondale joined Chicago radio station WCKG-FM as a morning news anchor.^[11] In June 1987, Mondale shifted to being the co-host of WCKG's morning show alongside John Fisher.^[12] In early 1988, Mondale took a leave of absence from WCKG to collaborate with a Chicago writer on a book about the children of U.S. presidents.^[13]
In June 1989, Mondale took a job in Minneapolis as an entertainment reporter for WCCO-TV.^[14] In March 1990, Mondale quit unexpectedly just a few days before a local magazine was to publish a feature on Mondale titled "Walter and Joan's Wild Child".^[15]
After leaving WCCO and spending some time in Australia,^[16] Mondale became a morning sidekick on WLOL-FM in Minneapolis, where she remained until the station was bought by Minnesota Public Radio in 1991.^[9][16] She also hosted "The Great American TV Poll" on the Lifetime cable channel.^[9]
In April 1991, Mondale returned to Chicago's airwaves as a morning sidekick at WKQX-FM, working alongside morning host Robert Murphy.^[17] Mondale and fellow sidekick Dan Walker were forced out of WKQX in January 1993.^[18]
After leaving WKQX, Mondale began working in television. In March 1993, Mondale and Robin Leach co-hosted a two-hour special on national television about Madonna titled "Madonna Exposed".^[19] In early 1994, Mondale began working as a correspondent for NBC's "Today" show.^[20]
In mid 1994, Mondale landed a job as anchor/host of "Q and E", a half-hour weekly celebrity show airing on E! Online cable channel.^[21] In 1996, Mondale was hired by CBS as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for "This Morning".^[22]
Mondale hosted the E! Online shows Wild On in 1997 and E! News Live. She worked on ESPN as a reporter on the horse racing events, which lasted two years (2002–2003). She covered for ESPN2 the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. After ESPN, she did stories on auto shows around the world for the Speed Channel. She worked for the CBS Television show This Morning.
In 2006, after battling brain cancer for the first time, Mondale signed on as a host at WCCO-AM.^[23] She remained there until 2009, when she left the airwaves to go on disability because of her cancer's recurrence.^[24]

Film career

• Mondale had five speaking lines in the opening minutes of the 1991 film Drop Dead Fred.^[25]
• Mondale narrated the feature documentary film Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story (2008), which details the life of her father and aspects of her own childhood.
• Mondale appeared in the short film Mirage (2004), directed by Sayer Frey and produced by Shelli Ainsworth.

Illness and death

After a bout of seizures, Mondale was diagnosed with brain cancer in June 2005. In the summer of 2006, the cancer was in remission, but she announced in February 2008 that a small tumor had returned and that she would seek treatment at the Mayo Clinic. Mondale was again diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2009 and was scheduled to undergo surgery later that same month.^[26] She died of brain cancer at her home in Minnesota on September 17, 2011, aged 51.^[27]


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Fedon Matheou, Greek basketball player and coach, died at 87.

Fedon Mattheou, also spelled Faidon Matthaiou^[1] and Phaedon Mathaiou was a retired Greek professional basketball coach and basketball player. He was a center and in the end of his career a play maker and he wore the number 1 jersey throughout his career. He represented Greece twice at the Summer Olympics, as a rower in 1948 and as a basketball player in 1952.^[1]

(12 July 1924 – 17 September 2011^[2])

Pro playing career

He began playing professional basketball as well as many other sports, with Aris BC in 1945. In 1949, he was transferred to Panathinaikos BC. He played as well with Panionios BC, Pallacanestro Varese and Sporting BC.

Greek national basketball team

Mattheou also played for the Greek national basketball team, as one of its leading members for 44 games, and he scored a total of 539 points (12.25 points per game). He also played in the very first official game of the Greek national squad, which was played at the 1949 European Championship. He was the team's leading scorer at that tournament with 66 points, while the Greek national team also won the tournament's bronze medal. He participated as a player in 2 European Championship tournaments, the 1949 European Championship and the 1951 European Championship,^[3] and also in the Olympic Basketball Tournament of 1952.^[1]

Coaching career

After his playing career ended, he coached the Greek national squad at 3 European Championship tournaments, the 1961 European Championship, the 1965 European Championship and the 1969 European Championship. He also coached professional sport clubs of the Greek League such as AEK Athens BC, PAOK BC, Olympiacos BC and Peristeri BC.
Fedon Mattheou is widely considered to be the Patriarch of Greek basketball.


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Colin Madigan, Australian architect, died at 90.

Colin Frederick Madigan AO was an Australian architect. He is best known for designing the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

(22 July 1921 – 17 September 2011) 

Biography

Born in Glen Innes, New South Wales, Madigan studied architecture at Sydney Technical College from 1939 to 1941. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy in 1941,^[1] and was one of the few survivors of the sinking of the corvette HMAS Armidale off Timor in 1942.
In 1951 Madigan, Maurice Edwards and Jack Torzillo formed the firm, "Edwards Madigan Torzillo and Partners", whose work was mostly on public projects such as public housing, public libraries, schools and offices. A notable building from this period was the Warringah Council Library at Dee Why, New South Wales, which was awarded the Sir John Sulman Medal for architecture in 1966. In 1968, they won the design competition for the National Gallery of Australia. Later, Madigan supervised construction of the High Court of Australia after its designer Christopher Kringas died in March 1975, just prior to the start of construction in April 1975.^[2] The unsuccessful design for the new Australian Parliament House in Canberra was one of the shortlisted finalists in the architectural design competition.
He retired in 1989.^[3]
Madigan also wrote a book on the sinking of HMAS Armidale in 1942, Armidale '42 : a survivor's account.^[4]
In later years, Madigan vigorously opposed plans to build a new entrance to the National Gallery of Australia.^[5] He died, aged 90, in Bangalow, New South Wales on 17 September 2011.^[6]

Honours

Madigan received a Gold Medal from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1981.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours of 1984,^[7] and was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001.^[8]


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Ernest House Sr., American tribal leader, Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (1982–2010), injuries from a motorcycle accident, died at 65.

Ernest House Sr. was an American tribal leader who served as the Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe for four four-year terms from 1982 to 2010.

(September 27, 1945 – September 17, 2011) 

Early life

Ernest House was born in Mancos Canyon on September 27, 1945, to Thomas House Sr. and Francis Marie (nee Wall).^[2] A member of the Weeminuche Band of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, House was the grandson of the last hereditary chief of the Ute Mountain Ute, Chief Jack House.^[1][2] He was raised in Mancos Canyon in southwestern Colorado.^[2]
House served as a veteran of the Colorado Army National Guard within the Special Forces Airborne Group.^[2] He was also employed by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs at various times during his career.^[1]

Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Chairman

Ernest House worked for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe for more than fifty years, including more than thirty years in Ute tribal politics.^[1] House was elected to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council in 1979.^[2] In 1982, he was elected to his first term as Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute.^[1] He was elected to four nonconsecutive four-years terms as Chairman between 1982 and 2010.^[2] His most recent, fourth term as Chairman ended in 2010.^[3]
House simultaneously served as the CEO of Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Business and Enterprise and the head of the Ute Tribal Council during his tenure as chairman.^[1] House was an advocate of Native American businesses and entrepreneurship.^[1] He championed the upgrading of Native American public safety programs and healthcare facilities in his home state of Colorado, as well as Utah and New Mexico.^[1] He also testified before the United States Congress during congressional hearings on the Animas-La Plata Water Project and the Dolores Project.^[1]
House spearheaded an increasing in public security between 2005 and 2010. He increased the number of police officers in the Ute Mountain Ute tribal police force from just two officers to more than twelve during those years.^[2] He had recently reached out to freshman U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colorado) to have a tribute to his grandfather, Chief Jack House, an advocate for tribal healthcare, read on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.^[2]
Ernest House was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident near Cortez, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 17, 2011.^[2] House was returning from a motorcycle rally when he was struck by an oncoming car that was trying to pass another vehicle.^[2] House, who was riding his motorcycle, suffered a broken pelvis and leg in the accident.^[2] The driver of the car that struck House was charged with careless driver and heavy rains may have contributed to the accident.^[3] House was transported to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico, where he lost consciousness and died of his injuries later on September 17 at the age of 65.^[2][3]
House was survived by his three children, Michelle House, Jaque House-Lopez and Ernest House Jr.; his father, Thomas House Sr., and five grandchildren.^[1] He was a resident of McElmo Canyon in Colorado.^[2]
The United States District Court for the District of Colorado Troy Eid has said, "Indian Country has lost a brilliant, courageous and inspired leader, as has the entire State of Colorado." Eid also called House's death "tragic beyond words."^[2] A traditional Ute wake and funeral service will be held on September 23 and 24, 2011, in Towaoc, Colorado.^[2] He will be buried in Towaoc Cemetery.^[1]


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