Robert B. Chernove, 73, insurance industry executive and civic leader. Chernove was founder of Winco Insurance Sales of Beverly Hills and president for the past 20 years. He was a graduate

of USC and taught mathematics and business at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles before he started working in the insurance field. A victim of myasthenia gravis, melanoma and lymphoma,

Chernove was on the board of directors of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation and active in the John Wayne Cancer Institute. He was also a member of Al Malaika and the Westwood Shrine Club,

where he was a 32nd-degree Mason. On May 28 in Los Angeles of leukemia.