Deaths for the week ending 6 July 2002:
Sunday, 30 June 2002
Pete Gray, major leaguer (St. Louis Browns), 87.
Tuesday, 2 July 2002
Ray Brown, jazz bassist, cause not reported, 75.
James S. Kemper, insurer (Kemper Insurance Co.), 88.
Wednesday, 3 July 2002
Earl Francis, major leaguer (Pittsburgh Pirates), after a long illness, 66.
Thursday, 4 July 2002
Benjamin Davis Jr., U.S. air force Tuskegee Airmen, 89.
Mark McGarrity, aka Bartholomew Gill, author (Peter McGarr), after a fall, 58.
Winnifred Van Tongerloo, survivor of the Titanic sinking, 98.
Friday, 5 July 2002
Katy Jurado, actress (High Noon), of heart and lung ailments, 78.
Wallace Wilkinson, governor of Kentucky (D, 1987-91), of a stroke, 60.
Ted Williams, major leaguer (Boston Red Sox), of cardiac arrest, 83.
Saturday, 6 July 2002
John Frankenheimer, film director (The Manchurian Candidate), of a stroke following spine surgery, 72.
William B. Ruger, firearms manufacturer (Sturm, Ruger & Co.), 86.
Weekly Obituaries Roundup