MARRIED. Henry Ford II, 63, retired Ford Motor Co. chairman; and Kathleen DuRoss, 40, ex-model and Detroit disco owner; he for the third time, she for the second; in Carson City, Nev. Earlier this year he divorced his second wife, Cristina Ford, giving her a reported $15 million settlement.

DIED. Richard Carlton Meeker Jr., 24, son of Actress Mary Tyler Moore by her first husband, a Sacramento TV executive; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; in Los Angeles (see NATION).

DIED. William (Billie) Thomas, 49, former child actor known for his escapades as the mischievous Buckwheat in 93 Our Gang film shorts made between 1934 and 1944; of unknown causes; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Ladislas Farago, 74, Hungarian-born author of books on espionage and war (The Game of the Foxes, The Broken Seal) who claimed in 1972 that Hitler's ruthless deputy Martin Bormann was alive and posing as a businessman in Argentina; after a brief illness; in New York City.

DIED. William Thornton ("Pete") Martin, 79, former editor and staff writer for the Saturday Evening Post, best known for his popular I Call On ... interviews with Hollywood celebrities; of a heart attack; in Birchrunville, Pa.

DIED. Luigi Longo, 80, secretary general of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972 and a leader of the hardline, Moscow-trained faction of Italian Communism; of a heart attack; near Rome. The son of peasants, Longo won a Bronze Star from the U.S. for his activities with the Italian underground during World War II.

DIED. Rose Valland, 81, art curator who was awarded France's Medaille de la Resistance for foiling Nazi plans to plunder European art during World War II. Valland recorded the destinations of thousands of appropriated paintings and sculptures, thus facilitating later recovery. She also managed to delay a whole trainload of art from leaving the Jeu de Paume in Paris until the city was liberated by Allied troops.

DIED. Mary O'Hara Alsop, 95, author of the 1941 novel My Friend Flicka, a poignant tale of a friendship between a boy and his horse that became a movie and a television series; of arteriosclerosis; in Chevy Chase, Md. A descendant of William Penn, Alsop published books under the pen name Mary O'Hara, including several that evoked the sweep and grandeur of America's Rocky Mountain states (Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming), a region she came to love while living on a Wyoming ranch with her second husband, Helge Sture-Vasa.

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