Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 2 February 2002:
Monday, 28 January 2002
George D. Watson Goodman, Bible publisher (World Missionary Press), 82.
Astrid Lindgren, children's writer (Pippi Longstocking), 94.
Butch Neumann, bicyclist (1956 Olympics), apparently of a heart attack, 69.
Tuesday, 29 January 2002
Daniel De Luce, news correspondent (Associated Press), of complications from a fall, 90.
Michael Hammon, conductor (National Endowment for the Arts), 69.
Dick "Night Train" Lane, NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams), of a heart attack, 73.
Harold Russell, actor (The Best Years of Our Lives), of a heart attack, 88.
Barbara Townsend, actress, of cancer, 88.
Wednesday, 30 January 2002
Andy Kulberg, jazz flutist (Blues Project), of lymphoma, 57.
Herbert M. Strong, physicist (invented man-made diamons), after a brief illness, 93.
Thursday, 31 January 2002
Francis S. Gabreski, U.S. WW II flying ace (of a heart attack), 83.
Friday, 1 February 2002
Charles Gray Bakersville, automotive writer (Hot Rod), of prostate cancer, 66.
Hildegard Knef, actress (Greman), of a lung infection, 76.
Irish McCalla, actress (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle), of a brain tumor, 73.
Earl E. Rowe, actor (The Blob), of Parkinson's disease, 81.
Saturday, 2 February 2002
Claude Brown, author (Manchild in the Promised Land), of a lung condition, 64.