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Deaths for the week ending 2 March 2002:

Sunday, 24 February 2002

Ellis Jones, pro football player (Boston Yanks), of injuries from a fall, 80.

Arthur Lyman, vibraphonist, 70.

Leo Ornstein, pianist/composer, 106.

Milton "Mel" Stewart, actor (Henry Jefferson on "All In the Family"), of Alzheimer's disease, 72.

Monday, 25 February 2002

Gizel Berman, Holocaust survivor and sculptor/author, 82.

Ed Martin, college basketball coach (Tennessee State University), 75.

Henrik Oscarsson, skier (Swedish), in an avalanche, 41.

Tuesday, 26 February 2002

Lawrence Tierney, actor (Dillinger), 82.

Wednesday, 27 February 2002

Spike Milligan, comedian (The Goon Show), of kidney failure, 83.

Thursday, 28 February 2002

Mary Stuart, soap opera actress ("Search for Tomorrow"), 75.

Dwight Vredenburg, grocer (Hy-Vee Food Stores), of complications from a stroke, 88.

Friday, 1 March 2002

Tom Bert, music album photographer, of a pulmonary embolism, 57.

Farris Bryant, governor of Florida (1961-65), after a stroke, 87.

Charlie Harville, radio sports announcer, of lung cancer, 83.

Doreen Waddell, singer (Soul II Soul), struck by traffic while fleeing after shoplifting, 36.

Saturday, 2 March 2002

Mahmoud al-Brekan, poet (Iraqi), by burglars, 73.

Mary Grant Price, Broadway costume designer (Oklahoma!), after a brief illness, 85.