John T. Sever, 81, longtime U.S. Customs Service officer in Duluth-Superior, died April 27 in Brooklyn Park, Minn. Mr. Sever retired as chief inspector of the Duluth office in 1981.

Robert J. Murphy, 71, a Duluth-Superior longshoreman from 1971 to 1991, died April 14 in Fort Myers, Fla. He was a 1952 graduate of Duluth Central High School and moved to Florida in 1992.