Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 18 October 2003:
Sunday, 12 October 2003
Willie Shoemaker, jockey, of natural causes, 72.
Monday, 13 October 2003
Anne Ziegler, singer ("Only a Rose"), 93.
Tuesday, 14 October 2003
Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt, governor of Kentucky (D, 1963-67), of heart failure, 78.
Gary Buck, country singer ("Happy To Be Unhappy"), of cancer, 63.
Ben Metcalfe, environmental activist (Greenpeace), of a heart attack, 83.
Wednesday, 15 October 2003
Frank Zela, aka Boris Volkoff, pro wrestler, of congestive heart failure, 76.
Thursday, 16 October 2003
Lee Bailey, author (Lee Bailey's Country Weekends), after a series of strokes, 76.
Stu Hart, pro wrestler, of pneumonia, 88.
Laszlo Papp, boxer (Hungarian), after a long illness, 77.
Friday, 17 October 2003
Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice, NFL football player (Washington Redskins), cause not reported, 79.
Janice Rule, actress (3 Women), cause not reported, 72.
Bernard Schwartz, film producer (Coal Miner's Daughter), of complications from a stroke, 85.
Saturday, 18 October 2003
William C. Cramer, U.S. Congressman (R-FL, 1955-71), 81.
Margaret "Mardy" Murie, conservationist, 101.
John O'Brien, crime reporter and author (Getting Away With Murder), of cancer, 66.
Preston Smith, governor of Texas (D, 1969-73), of pneumonia, 91.