Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 5 July 2003:

Rod Amateau, film & TV director ("The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"), of a cerebral hemorrhage, 79.

Mario "Yo-Yo" Giannelli, NFL football player (Philadelphia Eagles), 82.

Katharine Hepburn, actress (On Golden Pond), 96.

Buddy Hackett, actor (The Love Bug), of heart disease, 78.

Joseph C. "Duke" Marrhefka, NFL football player (Pottsville Maroons), 101.

Robert McCloskey, children's author (Make Way for Ducklings), after a long illness, 88.

Bob Klosterman, actor ("The Mickey Mouse Club"), of a heart attack, 56.

Herbie Mann, jazz flutist, of prostate cancer, 73.

Bill Miller, major leaguer (New York Yankees), of congestive heart failure, 75.

Ivan Allen Jr., mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (1962-70), 92.

Briggs Swift Cunningham Jr., yacht and automobile racer, 96.

Vince Lloyd, sportscaster (Chicago), of stomach cancer, 86.

Joe Moore, college football coach (Notre Dame), of lung cancer, 71.

Larry Burkett, financial counselor ("Money Matters"), of cancer and heart disease, 64.

Tom Gibb, newspaper reporter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), of complications from a heart attack, 49.

Tyler McVey, actor (many TV guest appearances as a doctor, minister, or military officer), of leukemia, 91.

Barry White, R&B singer ("You're the First, the Last, My Everything"), of kidney failure caused by chronic hypertension, 58.

Wilfrid G. Binette, sportswriter (South Carolina), of Alzheimer's disease, 65.

Traynor Ora Halftown, television host (Philadelphia's "Chief Halftown"), of diabetes, 86.

Roman Lyashenko, NHL hockey player (New York Rangers), of suicide by hanging, 24.

N!xau, actor (The Gods Must Be Crazy), of tuberculosis, about 59.

Sorrells Pickard, country songwriter/actor/peanut butter manufacturer, of a heart attack, 63.