Deaths for the week ending 23 August 2003:
Sunday, 17 August 2003
Margaret Raia, actor (Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz), after a brain seizure, 75.
Jim Theodore, college football player (University of Pittsburgh), of stomach cancer, 67.
Monday, 18 August 2003
Tony Jackson, singer & bassist (British), after a long illness, 63.
Tuesday, 19 August 2003
Carlos Roberto Reina, president of Honduras (1993-97), of complications from gall bladder surgery, 77.
Thursday, 21 August 2003
Ken Coleman, baseball announcer (Boston Red Sox), of bacterial meningitis, 78.
Friday, 22 August 2003
Magdalena Nile del Rio, aka Imperio Argentina, actress (Argentine), 92.
Robert N. C. Nix Jr., judge (Pennsylvania), of Alzheimer's disease, 75.
Floyd Tillman, songwriter ("Slipping Around"), of leukemia, 88.
Saturday, 23 August 2003
Hy Anzell, actor (Annie Hall), cause not reported, 79.
Bobby Bonds, major leaguer (San Francisco Giants), of a brain tumor and lung cancer, 57. He was the father of major leaguer Barry Bonds.
Suzanne Forsberg, TV news anchor (Columbus, Georgia), of colon cancer, 33.
John Geoghan, disgraced Roman Catholic priest (Boston, Massachusetts), strangled (murdered in prison), 68.
Marion Hargrove, writer (See Here, Private Hargrove), 83.