Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 4 November 2006:

Silas "Si" Simmons, Negro Leagues baseball player, 111. He was the oldest former pro baseball player of all time.

John Witherspoon, actor (Friday), cause not reported, 77.

P. W. Botha, president of South Africa (1978-89), 90.

Daniel Garcia, aka Huracan Ramirez, pro wrestler, of a heart attack, 80.

Bettye Ackerman, actress (Maggie Graham on "Ben Casey"), of Alzheimer's disease, 82.

Ruth Easterling, North Carolina state legislator (D, 1977?-2003), 95.

Buddy Killen, country music producer/publisher, of liver and pancreatic ancer, 73.

William Styron, author (The Confessions of Nat Turner), of pneumonia, 81.

Adam Matthews, college football player (Northern Colorado), following a seizure, 25. He was the son of NFL player Bo Matthews.

Paul Mauriat, orchestra conductor ("Love Is Blue"), 81.

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, writer (Cheaper By the Dozen), of natural causes, 98.

Bulent Ecevit, prime minister of Turkey, in a coma following a stroke, 81.