Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 1 November 2003:

Johnny Boyd, auto racer, after a long illness, 77.

Hugh Danaceau, radio and print journalist (Cleveland, Ohio), of lung cancer, 74.

Virginia Lanier, mystery writer (Death in Bloodhound Red), after a long illness, 72.

Rod Roddy, game show announcer ("The Price Is Right"), of colon and breast cancer, 66.

Walter Washington, mayor of Washington, D.C., 88.

Wendy Marx, organ translant advocate, of hepatitis, 36.

Oliver Sain, saxophonist and songwriter ("She's a Disco Queen"), of bone cancer, 71.

Takashi Sonobe, automobile manufacturer (Mitsubishi Motors), of heart failure, 62.

Franco Bonisolli, operatic tenor (Italian), cause not reported, 65.

Franco Corelli, operatic tenor (after a stroke), 82.

Harry Clement Stubbs, aka Hal Clement, science-fiction writer (Mission of Gravity), of heart disease, 81.

Ron Davies, songwriter ("It Ain't Easy"), of a heart attack, 57.

Steve O'Rourke, rock group manager (Pink Floyd), after a stroke, 63.

John Conroy, college football player (Fordham University), 95.

Robert Guenette, documentary producer (Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?), of brain cancer, 68.

Richard E. Neustadt, U.S. political advisor and historian, 84.