We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in February 2009

Feb 6th
Philip Carey, 83, American actor (One Life to Live), lung cancer.
Shirley Jean Rickert, 82, American actress (Our Gang), after long illness.
James Whitmore, 87, American Academy Award–nominated actor, lung cancer.

Feb 7th
Molly Bee, 69, American country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), complications from a stroke.
Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness.
Betty Jameson, 89, American golfer, three-time major championship winner.
Jack Cover, 88, American scientist, inventor of the Taser, pneumonia.

Feb 9th
Robert Woodruff Anderson, 91, American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia.

Feb 11th
Estelle Bennett, 67, American singer (The Ronettes), colon cancer.
Virgil Lee Griffin, 64, American Ku Klux Klan leader.

Feb 12th
Beverly Eckert, 57, American 9/11 widow and activist, member of 9/11 Family Steering Committee, plane crash.

Feb 15th
Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection.

Feb 16th
Dorothy Bridges, 93, American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges.
Travis, 14, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot.

Feb 17th
Brad Van Pelt, 57, American football player (New York Giants), heart attack.
Mike Whitmarsh, 46, American beach volleyball and basketball player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

Feb 18th
John Kanzius, 64, American inventor, pneumonia.

Feb 19th
Kelly Groucutt, 63, British bass guitar player (Electric Light Orchestra), heart attack

Feb 20th
Mary Jacobus, 52, American journalist, cerebral hemorrhage.
Robert Quarry, 83, American film and television actor.
Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized.

Feb 22nd
Rhena Schweitzer Miller, 90, American humanitarian, daughter of Albert Schweitzer.
Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin), complications from Parkinson's disease.

Feb 25th
Clarence Swensen, 91, American actor (The Wizard of Oz Munchkin).
Randall Bewley, 53, American guitarist (Pylon), heart attack.

Feb 26th
Johnny Kerr, 76, American basketball player, coach, and color commentator (Chicago Bulls), prostate cancer.
Wendy Richard, 65, British actress (Are You Being Served?, EastEnders), breast cancer.
Norm Van Lier, 61, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls).

Feb 27th
John Alvin, 91, American actor.
Alan Landers, 68, American smoking model turned opponent, throat and lung cancer.
Robert E. A. Lee, 87, American documentary film producer, cancer

Feb 28th
Paul Harvey, 90, American radio broadcaster.
Johnny Holiday, 96, American actor.
Tom Sturdivant, 78, American baseball player (New York Yankees).