Richard “Dick” Burke, 73, the founder of best-selling bicycle-maker Trek, died Monday at a Milwaukee hospital of complications from heart surgery, said his son, John Burke, the company’s president.
In 1976, Richard Burke founded the company in a red barn in Waterloo, Wis. Trek is known among cyclists for making the bikes that Lance Armstrong rode in his Tour de France victories.
“He always wanted to build the best bicycle company in the world and he did it,” John Burke said.
Gloria Shayne Baker, 84, who composed the hit Christmas song “Do You Hear What I Hear?” died Thursday of cancer at her home in Stamford, Conn., her daughter, Gabrielle Regney, said.
Written in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was intended to be a plea for peace. The song had music by Baker and lyrics by Noel Regney, to whom she was married. It sold tens of millions of records and has been recorded most famously by Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Robert Goulet and Johnny Mathis.
Baker’s other credits include the music and lyrics for “Goodbye, Cruel World,” which was recorded by James Darren.
