Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 2 April 2005:

Bob Casey, baseball stadium announcer (Minnesota Twins), of an illness, 79.

Tom Bevill, U.S. Congressman (D-AL, 1967-97), after a long illness, 84.

Carolyn Coates, stage actress (The Balcony), of cancer, 77. She was the wife of actor James Noble.

Robert Slatzer, writer (The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe), after a long illness, 77.

Johnnie Cochran, criminal defense attorney (O. J. Simpson trial), of a brain tumor, 67.

Milton Green, track athlete (1936 Olympics), 91.

Howell Heflin, U.S. senator (D-AL, 1979-87), 83.

Tom Brazaitis, political writer (Cleveland Plain Dealer), of kidney and brain cancer, 64.

Robert Creeley, poet, of pneumonia, 78.

Don Rose, radio broadcaster (San Francisco), 70.

Larry Zelina, college football player (Ohio State), after collapsing, 55.

Frank Perdue, chicken farmer (Perdue Farms), after a brief illness, 84.

Terri Schiavo, Florida hospice patient, of dehydration, 41.

Al Wasserman, documentary filmmaker/producer ("60 Minutes"), of lung cancer, 84.

Jack Keller, songwriter ("Bewitched" theme), of leukemia, 68.

June Easton, actress (Paint Your Wagon), of lupus, 72.

John Paul II, Roman Catholic pope, after a long illness, 84.

Edwin "Eddie" Moss, college basketball player (Syracuse University), of cancer, 45.