Monday, December 06, 2010

We Harldy Knew Ye - Those We Lost in March 2010

March 31st
Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952–1986), renal failure.
Shirley Mills, 83, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), pneumonia.


March 30th
John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma.
Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, 109, Mexican revolutionary, driver of Pancho Villa.
Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer.
David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, The Corner, Kingpin), brain aneurysm.


March 29th
Sam Menning, 85, American character actor and photographer (My Name Is Earl, The Prestige), emphysema.
Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke

March 28th
Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman, oil company executive and billionaire, cerebral hemorrhage.
Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease.

March 27th
Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Green Lantern), complications from pneumonia.


March 25th
John P. McGarr, 45, American actor and film producer, traffic accident.
Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes.

March 24th
Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma.
Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond), heart attack.
Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe.
Johnny Maestro, 70, American singer (The Crests, The Brooklyn Bridge), cancer.
Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983).

March 23rd
Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer.
Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke.

March 21st
Brownie Ledbetter, 77, American civil rights activist.


March 20th
Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia.
Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack.


March 18th
Herbert Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure.
Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes.

March 17th
Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack.


March 16th
Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa.

March 14th
Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia.
Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma.
Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), heart attack.
Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure.

March 11th
Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (L.A. Rams) and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma.

March 10th
Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive), pneumonia.
Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress.


March 9th
Richard Edwin Parris Jr., 46, American musician (Animal Bag), ruptured ulcer.


March 8th
Daisey Bailey, 113, American supercentenarian, second-oldest person in U.S. and fourth-oldest in world.
Mary Josephine Ray, 114, Canadian-born American supercentenarian, oldest person in U.S. and second-oldest in world.


March 6th
Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease.


March 5th
Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke.


March 4th
Ron Banks, 58, American singer (The Dramatics), heart attack.
Big Truck, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show), emphysema.
Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology. [335]
Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer.


March 3rd
Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show).
John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure.


March 2nd
Melva Blancett, 85, American actress.

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