Deaths for the week ending 19 June 2010:
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Jimmy Dean, country singer ("Big Bad John") and sausage maker, apparently of natural causes, 81.
Monday, 14 June 2010
Oscar Azocar, major leaguer (New York Yankees), of a heart attack, 45.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Thomas L. Ashley, U.S. Congressman (D-OH, 1955-81), 87.
Phil Gordon, actor (Jasper "Jazzbo" Depew on "The Beverly Hillbillies"), 94.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Bob Hartman, major leaguer (Milwaukee Braves), of a surgical infection, 72.
Ronald Neame, film director (The Poseidon Adventure), of complications from a fall, 99.
Garry "Diaperman" Shider, funk musician (P-Funk), of complications from brain and lung cancer, 56.
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Sebastian Horsley, writer/artist (British), apparently of a drug overdose, 47.
Friday, 18 June 2010
Trent Acid, r.n. Michael Verdi, pro wrestler, of an accidental drug overdose, 29.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Manute Bol, NBA basketball player (Washington Bullets), of Stevens-Johnson syndrom (a skin disease), 47.
Raymond Parks, NASCAR co-founder, 96.
Ursula Thiess Taylor, actress (Bengal Brigade), of natural causes, 86. She was the wife of actor Robert Taylor.
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