Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 31 March 2012:

Bert Sugar, boxing writer/historian ("Boxing Illustrated"), of cancer, 74.

Adrienne Rich, feminist poet, 82, .

Warren Stevens, actor ("Forbidden Planet"), of lung disease, 92.

Harry Crews, novelist ("The Gospel Singer"), of complications from neruopathy, 76.

Jerry "Boogie" McCain, blues musician, from an illness, 81.

Earl Scruggs, banjo player ("The Ballad of Jed Clampett"), of natural causes, 88.

Ray Narleski, major leaguer (Cleveland Indians), 83.

Robert R. Beezer, U.S. federal judge (9th Circuit Court of Appeals), of lung cancer, 83.