Weekly Obituaries Roundup

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Deaths for the week ending 23 September 2006:

Art Baer, TV writer/producer ("The Love Boat"), of complications from cancer, 81.

Jack Banta, major leaguer (Brooklyn Dodgers), 81.

Edward King, NFL football player (Baltimore Colts) and governor of Massachusetts (D, 1979-83), after a fall, 81.

Syd Thrift, baseball executive (Pittsburgh Pirates), following knee replacement surgery, 77.

Elizabeth Allen, actress ("The Paul Lynde Show"), of kidney failure, 77.

Danny Flores, saxophonist ("Tequila"), of complications from pneumonia, 77.

Joe Glazer, singer-songwriter ("The Mills Weren't Made of Marble"), of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, 88.

Frank "Muddy" Waters, college football coach (Michigan State University), of congestive heart failure, 83.

Raymond "Boz" Burrell, rock bassist (Bad Company), of a heart attack, 60.

Vic Sears, NFL football player (Philadelphia Eagles), 88.

Edward Albert, actor (Butterflies are Free), of lung cancer, 55. He was the son of actor Eddie Albert.

Etta Baker, blues guitarist, after a long illness, 93.

Timothy Rooney, actor (Riot on Sunset Strip), of dermatomyositis (a muscle disease), 59. He was the son of actor Mickey Rooney.