Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 23 April 2005:

Jack Heard, sheriff of Harris County, Texas (1972-84), 87.

Pete Flaherty, mayor of Pittsburgh (1970-77), of cancer, 80.

Clarence "Big House" Gaines, college basketball coach (Winston-Salem State), possibly of complications from a stroke, 81.

Norman A. Lockman, newspaper reporter (Wilmington News-Journal), of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 66.

Sam Mills, NFL football player & coach (Carolina Panthers), of small intestine cancer, 45.

Norman Newell, palentologist, 96.

Michael Brim, NFL football player (Detroit Lions), shot (homicide), 39.

George P. Cosmatos, film director (Rambo), of lung cancer, 64.

Bobby Gage, NFL football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), of a heart attack, 77.

Ruth Hussey, actress (The Philadelphia Story), of complications from appendicitis, 93.

Rick Lewis, pop singer (The Silhouettes), of kidney failure, 71.

Charles O'Reilly, auto parts retailer (O'Reilly Auto Parts), of natural causes, 92.

Cliff Montgomery, college football player (Columbia), 94.

Norman Bird, actor (British), of cancer, 80.

Robert Farnon, film soundtrack composer, 87.

Philip Morrison, physicist (Ring of Truth), 89.

John Mills, actor (Ryan's Daughter), after a brief illness, 97.

Earl Wilson, major leaguer (Detroit Tigers), cause not reported, 70.