Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 9 February 2008:

Ken Konz, NFL football player (Cleveland Browns), of complications from pneumonia, 79.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, r.n. Mahesh Prasad Varma, transcendental meditation guru, of natural causes, 91.

John Alvin, illustrator (movie posters), of a heart attack, 59.

John Grimsley, NFL football player (Houston Oilers), shot (accidentally self-inflicted), 45.

John McWethy, news correspondent (ABC News), in a skiing accident, 61.

Ruth Stafford Peale, religious leader ("Guideposts"), 101. She was the widow of religious leader Norman Vincent Peale.

Robert Jastrow, astronomer (God and the Astronomers), of pneumonia, 82.

Phyllis A. Whitney, author (A Place for Ann), of pneumonia, 104.

Robert DoQui, actor (Robocop), of natural causes, 74.

Gene Knutson, NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), of cancer, 75.

Joseph T. Sneed III, U.S. judge (9th Circuit Court of Appeals), 87.