Need help with the transition to digital TV?
Today was the deadline for television stations to switch from analog to digital TV. For those antennas to grab a free TV signal, a digital converter box and UHF/VHF antenna are needed.
Cable users were not particularly bothered by the switch, according to Comcast and CLICK TV.
In Pierce County, help to make sure your TV works is available at Centro Latino, 1208 S. 19th St., in Tacoma. They have set up a table outside their office for people to fill out the application for a $40 coupon for the converter box and demonstrated how to hook up the converter box and antenna.
Their phone number is 253-572-7717 and help will be available there through June 30.
In South King County, residents should visit or call the Leadership Academy, 425 SW 144th St., Burien, 206-988-3760.

Rosa Morgan died Monday. She had been frail for the last several years of her life but had been able to remain at home with the help of caregivers until shortly before she died.

Rosa was part of a partnership with her husband Murray – one of those teams where the names were rarely mentioned alone. It was nearly always Murray and Rosa.

According to daughter Lane Morgan, she was born two days before the end of World War I and first saw her future husband while she was playing the violin at age 14 in the Universalist Church in Tacoma. Murray was the young son of the minister and they married six years later in 1939. For a honeymoon, they went to Europe and kayaked down the Danube River.

It was her first time east of the Cascade Mountains and must have been a magical journey – until they were detained briefly in Romania after Germany invaded Poland. The authorities thought they were spies.

Rosa helped Murray research his books on history and culture and was his essential editor. She sometimes sat in on his graduate courses at Columbia so he could work three jobs. She studied photography under Man Ray in New York and once photographed Diego Rivera from his scaffold while she and Murray lived in Mexico.

Their homes on Trout Lake and Harstene Island were centers of conversation and debate for many dinner guests over many years.

Murray died in 2000.

Rosa later received a degree in English from the University of Washington and was a reference librarian at Pacific Lutheran University. She was active in Democratic politics, the peace movement and the League of Women Voters. She insisted on voting for Barack Obama – in person at the polls – last November.

Lane encourages those who want to share stories about Rosa to visit the website of the funeral home.