Deaths for the week ending 20 July 2002:
Sunday, 14 July 2002
Nelson Barrera, baseball player (Mexican), electrocuted, 44.
Herman Rohrig, NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), 84.
Monday, 15 July 2002
Roger Awsumb, Minnesota television host ("Casey Jones"), of cancer, 74.
Charles Burton, British explorer, of a heart attack, 59.
Phil Roth, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), of colon cancer, 74.
Tuesday, 16 July 2002
Richard W. De Haan, religious broadcaster ("Day of Discovery"), of Parkinson's disease, 79.
Floyd "Jimmy" Thompson, U.S. army prisoner of war in Viet Nam, cause not reported, 69.
Wednesday, 17 July 2002
Lee Maye, major leaguer (Milwaukee Braves), of liver cancer, 67.
Paula McClure, TV personality ("Entertainment Tonight"), of brain cancer, 40.
LaVerne H. "Kip" Taylor, college football player (Michigan Wolverines), 94.
Thursday, 18 July 2002
Seymour Solomon, recording executive (Vanguard Records), 80.
Del Wilber, major leaguer (Boston Red Sox), of bone cancer, 83.
Friday, 19 July 2002
Nicholas Bonanno, labor organizer (International Ladies Garment Workers), of prostate cancer, 74.
Barry C. Reed, novelist (The Verdict), cause not reported, 75.
Frank "Spec" Shea, major leaguer (New York Yankees), after heart surgery, 81.
Saturday, 20 July 2002
Jimmy Maxwell, jazz trumpeter, 85.
Weekly Obituaries Roundup