Vivi-Anne Hulten Vivi-Anne Hulten, a five-time...

Vivi-Anne Hulten

Vivi-Anne Hulten, a five-time Swedish figure skating champion and

Corona del Mar resident, died Jan. 15 of heart failure in a local

nursing home. She was 91.

Hulten was a bronze medalist in the 1936 Winter Olympics. She

turned pro in 1938 and skated with the Ice Follies and other shows.

She and husband Gene Theslof toured with the Ice Capades and other

shows in the United States and Europe.

She served as show director of the Ice Capades in the mid-1950s.

The couple later taught skating in the Carolinas and Tennessee and,

in 1964, started a skating school in St. Paul, Minn. Hulten ran the

school from the time of her husband’s death until about four years

ago, when she suffered a stroke. She moved to Corona del Mar to be

near her son, Gene Theslof, a former skater.

A life-size statue of Hulten doing a spiral is on a lake in

Budapest, Hungary, and a miniature version of it is in the World

Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs.

Hulten is survived by her son; sister Yvonne Hulten of Sweden;

three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Robert O. Arthur

Services for longtime Newport Beach resident and World War II

veteran Robert O. Arthur will be held at Arlington National Cemetery.

A date has not been set.

Mr. Arthur died Jan. 18 of congestive heart failure and

complications from diabetes. He was 84. Mr. Arthur served in the

Marine Corps during the war and was held by the Japanese as a

prisoner of war. He is survived by wife Claire Ann; daughters

Victoria Arthur and Pamela Arthur Harris; and two grandchildren.

Douglas J. Krauter

Services for 38-year Corona del Mar resident and retired Realtor

Douglas J. Krauter will be held at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at Pacific View

Chapel. Mr. Krauter died Wednesday of Parkinson’s disease. He was 88.

He is survived by daughter Cheryl Krauter-Leonard; and grandson Ben

Leonard.

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