Weekly Obituaries Roundup
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Deaths for the week ending 17 August 2002:
Sunday, 11 August 2002
Nancy Chaffee, tennis player, of cancer, 73.
Allen E. Murray, oil producer (Mobil), of a heart attack, 73.
Monday, 12 August 2002
Ed Headrick, inventor (Frisbee), after a stroke, 78.
Enos Slaughter, major leaguer (St. Louis Cardinals), 86.
Tuesday, 13 August 2002
Jack Creel, major leaguer (St. Louis Cardinals), 86.
Wednesday, 14 August 2002
Peter Hunt, film editor (Dr. No), cause not reported, 77.
Kyle Rote, NFL football player (New York Giants), of cardiopulmonary disease, 73.
Davie Williams, singer (Drowning Pool), cause not reported, 30.
Thursday, 15 August 2002
Jesse Brown, U.S. secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Clinton administration), after a long illness, 58.
Arnie Moser, major leaguer (Cincinnati Reds), 87.
Sol Weiner, retailer (Weiner's), cause not reported, 75.
Friday, 16 August 2002
Jeff Corey, actor (My Friend Flicka), of complications from a fall, 88.
Hugh Lytle, new correspondent (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii), 100.
Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist, of multiple gunshots, 65. His death was dubiously reported by Iraqi officials as a suicide.
John Peyser, television director ("Perry Mason"), of natural causes, 86.
John Roseboro, major leaguer (Los Angeles Dodgers), cause not reported, 69.
Don Winters, singer/yodeler ("Too Many Times"), of colon and liver cancer, 72 or 73.
Stephen P. Yokich, union leader (United Auto Workers), after a stroke, 66.
Saturday, 17 August 2002
Jimmy Bloodworth, major leaguer (Philadelphia Phillies), 85.