Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 12 January 2008:
Sunday, 6 January 2008
Bob LeMond, TV announcer ("Leave It To Beaver" opening credits), 94.
Johnny Podres, major leaguer (Brooklyn Dodgers), cause not reported, 75.
Monday, 7 January 2008
Edward "Buddy" LeRoux, baseball executive (Boston Red Sox), of natural causes, 77.
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Jim Dooley, NFL football coach (Chicago Bears), of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 77.
Clyde Otis, pop songwriter & producer ("It's Just a Matter of Time"), 83.
Steve Ridzik, major leaguer (Philadelphia Phillies), of heart disease, 78.
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Johnny Grant, actor/emcee ("The honorary mayor of Hollywood"), apparently of natural causes, 84.
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Rod Allen, pop singer (The Fortunes), of liver cancer, 63.
Christopher Bowman, figure skater, of an accidental drug overdose, 40.
Jack Eagle, actor (played a monk in a famous Xerox ad in 1977), 81.
John Harvey-Jones, business executive (British), after a long illness, 83.
Maila Nurmi, TV hostess (Vampira), 86.
Friday, 11 January 2008
Edmund Hillary, mountaineer (led the first ascent of Mt. Everest), of a heart attack, 88.
Carl N. Karcher, restaurateur (Carl's Jr.), 90.