Joist, 69; medical school
Johann Heinrich Joist, formerly an assistant professor of medicine and director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory at what is now Barnes-Jewish Hospital, died Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, at his home in Clayton after a yearlong battle with mesothelioma. He was 69.
Stoia, 88; taught music
Eugene Stoia, who taught music in the early 1950s, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004, of natural causes at a convalescent home in Sonora, Calif. He was 88.