Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 24 March 2007:

Calvert DeForest, aka Larry "Bud" Melman, TV performer ("Late Night with David Letterman"), after a long illness, 85.

Luther Ingram, R&B singer/songwriter ("If Loving You is Wrong"), of heart failure, 69.

Ernie Wright, AFL football player (San Diego Chargers), of cancer, 67.

Catherine Seipp, political columnist (National Review Online), of lung cancer, 49.

Ed Bailey, major leaguer (Cincinnati Reds), of throat cancer, 75.

Paul Joseph Cohen, mathematician, of a lung disease, 72.

Leon Heath, college football player (Oklahoma), after an illness, 78.

Eric Medlen, auto racer (NHRA), of a head injury sustained in a racing-related accident, 33.

Robert E. Petersen, publisher (Hot Rod), of neuroendocrine cancer, 80.

Henson Cargill, country singer ("Skip a Rope"), of complications from surgery, 66.