We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in May, 2008

5/1/08
Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.

5/2/08
Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia).

5/3/08
Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd place finisher, euthanized.


Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia.

Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke.

5/4/08
John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia.

5/5/08
Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants.

Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure.

5/8/08
Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer.

Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure.

5/11/08
Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.

John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack.

Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire.

Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke.

5/15/08
Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease.

5/16/08
Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer.

5/18/08
Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.)

5/20/08
Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer.

Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.

5/22/08
Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack.

5/23/08
Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.

5/24/08

Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications.

Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.

5/25/08
Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher), diabetes-related stroke.

5/26/08
Earle Hagen, 88, American composer of film and television theme music (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad).

Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director (The Way We Were, Tootsie, Out of Africa) and actor, stomach cancer.

Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog.

5/28/08
Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease.

Dianne Odell, 61, American author and polio victim, power failure to iron lung.

5/29/08
Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show), abdominal aortic aneurysm.