OBITUARY: Laurel Cutler

NEW YORK — Laurel Cutler, a trailblazing advertising executive who later became a vice president at Chrysler, died Nov. 28 at 94. She was named the automaker's first vice president of consumer affairs in 1988, tasked with monitoring customer trends. She held the Chrysler role while retaining her duties as vice chair of the automaker's agency, FCB/Leber Katz Partners. Cutler left Chrysler in 1991.