Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 10 March 2012:

Don Mincher, major leaguer (California Angels), after a long illness, 73.

Joan Taylor, r.n. Rose Freeman, actress (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), of natural causes, 82. She was the wife of TV producer Leonard Freeman.

John Madigan, news reporter (Chicago), 94.

Philip Madoc, actor (British), after a brief illness, 77.

Robert Sherman, songwriter ("It's a Small World After All"), 86.

Donald M. Payne, U.S. Congressman (D-NJ, 1989-2012), of colon cancer, 77.

Jimmy Ellis, disco singer ("Disco Inferno"), from complications of Alzheimer's disease, 74.

Bugs Henderson, blues guitarist, of cancer, 68.

Peter Bergman, comedian (Firesign Theatre), of complications from leukemia, 72.

Jose Sanchez, Roman Catholic cardinal (Philippines), 91.

Harry Wendelstedt, major-league umpire, of brain cancer, 73.

Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, cartoonist, of cancer, 73.