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George “Doc" Abraham - (89) Wisecracking gardening guru who teamed up with his wife on “The Green Thumb," one of the longest-running shows on American radio with the same hosts, a gardening show that offered practical advice on flowers and lawn care that ran for more than fifty years and had its last airing in December 2002, who was known for his down home humor and who, with his wife, wrote 16 books and a syndicated gardening column that at its height reached 5 million readers in 130 newspapers around the country, died of congestive heart failure in Canandaigua, New York on January 27, 2005.
Emily Bernstein - (46) Principal clarinetist of the Pasadena Symphony and Los Angeles Opera, a member of the contemporary music ensemble XTET and a faculty member of the Henry Mancini Institute, who also was an active Hollywood studio musician, performing the prominent clarinet solo in Steven Spielberg’s “The Terminal," and playing for hundreds of other film and TV scores, including “Seabiscuit" and “Pirates of the Caribbean", died of liver cancer in Duarte, California on January 27, 2005.
Jim Capaldi - (60) Legendary drummer of 1960s rock group Traffic, who was inducted with the other members of the group into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and enjoyed multiplatinum success with the group, and who later enjoyed a successful solo career, working alongside artists including Eric Clapton and George Harrison and writing the lyrics to the reggae anthem “This is Reggae Music," died in London where he was being treated for stomach cancer on January 28, 2005.
Lucien Carr - (79) Journalist and a member of the inner circle of literature’s Beat Generation who brought together writers Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Keroac (the three made up the core of a movement of a carefree attitude toward life and a liberal social awareness that helped created a postwar alternative culture), who was a prominent editor with UPI from the 1950s,overseeing its national report in NYC and later in Washington, DC, died in Washington, DC while undergoing treatment for cancer on January 28, 2005.
Mort Fega - (83) Hip, mellow-voiced New York City radio personality who brought the music of jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and John Coltrane to radio listeners with his Saturday radio show “Jazz Unlimited," who became popular for his music selection and use of “jazz slang," and who hosted jazz shows at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater, died of complications from back surgery in Delray Beach, Florida on January 21, 2005.
Paul Nash - (56) Composer and guitarist who created orchestral jazz works, site-specific compositions for NYC public spaces, and educational programs for NYC public school students, who helped to form the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Manhattan New Music Project, and whose site specific compositions include “Still Sounds Run Deep," which as been performed more than 20 times in large public areas like Central Park, died of a brain tumor in the Bronx, NY on Jan. 27, 2005.
Chuck Olin - (68) Award-winning documentary filmmaker who achieved his greatest acclaim in the late 1990s for his film “In Our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in World War II," chronicling the little-known story of an all-Jewish fighting unit during WWII, who enjoyed a 40-year filmmaking career and founded his own production company, Chuck Olin Associates, to make documentary and corporate films, most of which were related to human rights and social justice issues, died of complications from the rare disease amyloidosis in Stinson Beach, California on January 20, 2005.
Bill Shadel (96) Broadcast journalist who covered D-Day for CBS Radio during WWII, became an ABC-TV anchor, and moderated the third Presidential debate between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960, who was the first host of “Face the Nation" and later became a University of Washington communications professor, and whose wartime broadcast tapes still used in journalism schools around the country, died in Renton, Washington on January 29, 2005.
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Jacques Villeret - (53) Popular French actor who endeared moviegoers with his chubby physique, round face, and ability to draw laughter and tears, who won two Cesars, the French equivalent to the Oscar, including one for best actor in the film “Le Diner de Cons (The Dinner Game)," and who appeared on a TV show Jan. 23 and had two films scheduled for release, died in Paris, having battled alcoholism, liver problems and diabetes over the years, on January 28, 2005.
Lou Ziegler 56) Longtime newspaperman and editor of the Fargo Forum, North Dakota’s largest daily newspaper, who enjoyed a 30-year journalism career and wrote for papers in New York, Missouri, California, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, as well as for USA Today, and who continued to manage his newspaper despite his declining health, died of cancer in Naples, Florida on January 29, 2005.
Perry Timothy “Tim" Jecko - (66) Stage actor who appeared on Broadway and in regional productions and was a member of the 1956 US Olympic swim team, who performed on Broadway in “Annie" and “Woman of the Year" with Raquel Welch and appeared on primetime and daytime TV programs and commercials in addition to being the deputy director of performing arts for the Smithsonian Institution, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, in Madison, NJ on January 11, 2005.
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Bill Simmons - (80) Veteran Western swing musician and keyboardist with the Grammy-winning Light Crust Doughboys since 1954, who was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame, Rockabilly Hall of Fame, International Country Gospel Hall of Fame, and the Texas International Music Association, died in Irving, Texas on Jan. 24, 2005.
Art Stamper - (71) Member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame who performed with the Stanley Brothers and with Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys and was considered a bluegrass pioneer by his peerss, who retired from a full-time music career in 1956 to raise his family and became a well-known hairdresser, who returned to music full time in 1978 and won the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Assoc., died of throat cancer in Louisville, Kentucky on Jan. 23, 2005.
Consuelo Velazquez - (84) Mexican songwriter whose song "Besame Mucho" became a WWII standard in many languages and styles of music, and ended up being recorded by hundreds of artists from the Beatles to Frank Sinatra, died in Mexico City of complications from a fall she suffered in October on Jan. 22, 2005.
Robbie Lee Williams - (87) Mother of musician Billy Preston and the inspiration for his song “You Are So Beautiful to Me," who was a musician herself and encouraged her son to play piano, leading him to a career performing and recording solo and with the Beatles, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin, died in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2005.
Max Velthuijs - (81) Dutch author and illustrator of children’s books, best known for his books about the adventures of a frog named "Frog", which were eventually translated into two dozen languages, died of lung cancer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Jan. 25, 2005.
Raymond Wood - (64) London-born graphic designer best known for creating the pictographs used at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, who also created logos for such products as Kirin Beer, Ryder Trucks, Thrifty Drug stores, National Car Rental, and Fox Broadcasting, and who won numerous awards from industry organizations, died in Los Angeles, California of pancreatic cancer on Jan. 1, 2005.
William O. Bailey - (78) Insurance executive who helped to attract investors to many public projects by persuading the insurance industry to guarantee municipal bonds, who was president and COO at the Aetna Life & Casualty Co. in the 1970s and led the company to become the nation’s largest shareholder-owned insurance organization, and who and later became chairman of MBIA Inc. and of the American Insurance Association, died of pneumonia in New York City on January 28, 2005.
Harley Baldwin - (59) Sociable entrepreneur based in Aspen, Colorado whose high-profile dealings in real estate, restaurants, and art helped to define the ski resort and transform it into the high profile celebrity hot spot that it is today, died of kidney cancer in New York City on January 23, 2005.
Dr. Sidney Carter - (92) Columbia University neurologist and clinician who helped to found and define the field of pediatric neurology in the 1950s, who wrote or contributed to more than 80 academic papers on cerebral palsy, mental retardation, and optic atrophy, and who served as president of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Assoc, died after a series of strokes in Mashpee, Mass., on Cape Cod on January 16, 2005.
Horace Hagedorn - (89) Founder of Miracle-Gro plant food and former executive of The Scotts Company, the world’s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, who merged Miracle-Gro with Scotts in 1995 and then focused his interests on philanthropy after his retirement, giving $1 million to Adelphi University to help finance student scholarships and faculty development programs, died of pulmonary fibrosis in Long Island, New York on January 31, 2005.
Dr. Brandt F. Steele - (97) Psychiatrist who helped to pioneer the treatment of abused children and coined the term “battered child," who was one of the first to detail the physical and psychological symptoms of child abuse by parents in a 1962 paper that was pronounced one of the 20th century's 50 most important medical contributions by the Journal of the American Medical Association, and who was also one of the first to document that abusers themselves often were childhood victims of abuse and neglect, died in Denver, Colorado on January 19, 2005.
George Walker (78) Noted British geologist and mineralogist and one of the most influential volcanologists in the world, whose research led to an understanding of how basaltic volcanoes grow and also revolutionized understanding of the geology of Iceland, who had been a popular professor at the University of Hawaii and received numerous awards, including the Icelandic Order of the Falcon, Iceland’s equivalent of knighthood, died on January 17, 2005.
Tony Armstrong - (59) Mayor of Sparks, Nevada, near Reno, and a longtime City Council member who was currently in the middle of his second term, and who was known for his passion for his job, his honesty and his connection with the people, died in Sparks, Nevada after developing a blood clot after surgery related to a bone marrow disorder on January 29, 2005.
Mary Beck - (96) First woman elected to the Detroit City Council, who supported putting fluoride into Detroit’s water system and fought to get the city to adopt a federal program to provide free milk for children in the city’s public schools during her 20 years on the council, who also ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1967 and was very involved with Detroit’s Ukranian community, died in Clinton Township, Michigan on January 30, 2005.
Janet Hargrave - (84) One of only 1,074 female pilots who earned their wings as members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, a group that flew noncombat missions across the US during WWII, who later operated a flight school in Nashville for several years and remained an active member of the WASP network, of which there are only about 400 members still living, died in Malibu after a series of strokes on January 4, 2005.
Maj. Gen. Michael P. Ryan (88) US Marine Corps officer who won the Navy Cross for leading a battalion at the bloody battle of Tarawa in 1943, who also served as a battalion commander in Korea, as an assistant division commander in Vietnam, and as the director of the Marine Corps Reserve, and who is also known for helping to start Washington, DC’s popular Marine Corps Marathon, which in its first year it was informally called “Ryan’s Run," died of a heart attack in Northridge, California on January 9, 2005.
Priscilla Ford - (75) Only woman on Nevada's death row convicted of killing six people and injuring 23 others when she drove her Lincoln Continental down a crowded Reno sidewalk on Thanksgiving Day in 1980, died after suffering from emphysema for many years in Las Vegas on January 29, 2005.
Caitlin Huggins - (17) Florida teen who fulfilled her dream by graduating from high school despite a long, painful battle with brain cancer, with which she was diagnosed in 2001, who was supported by her small northern Florida community throughout her illness and studied for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test so she could earn her diploma, and who drew a standing ovation when she walked at a special graduation ceremony in September, died in Bell, Florida on January 26, 2005.
Maurice “Nick" McDonald - (76) Former police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after Pres. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, who wrote a memoir entitled “The Arrest & Capture of Lee Harvey Oswald," in which he recalled the historical event, and who received 26 commendations during his career and was named Outstanding Police Officer in 1960, died of diabetes in Hot Springs, Arkansas on Jan. 27, 2005.
Memphis Norman - (62) Participant in the historic 1963 Woolworth’s sit-in in Jackson, Miss, who was a student at Tougaloo College when he was urged by leaders of the NAACP to join three fellow students and a white professor at the Woolworth’ lunch counter to protest the city’s segregated facilities and its treatment of blacks (the four sat for three hours as members of a mob of young whites poured mustard, salt, and sugar on them, dragged them from their stools, doused them with spray point and beat them, an integral event to the nation’s civil rights movement), who went on to earn his doctorate from USC and work for the Federal Government’s Office of Management & Budget, died of a heart attack in Fall Church, Virginia on January 4, 2005.
Thaddeus (“Thady") Ryan (81) Master of the Scarteen Hounds, Ireland’s most famous pack of foxhounds for or almost 60 years (the noble black and tan foxhounds have been bred by his family for over 300 years), whose family has run the Scarteen Hunt since the late 18th century, attracting attracted host of foreign visitors, and who was known for his lovable personality and dedication to his pack, died in New Zealand on January 9, 2005.
Geoffrey B. Senior - (57) A leading figure in the Southern California wine community for some 20 years, and a partner in the specialty store Larchmont Village Wine & Cheese, who served as a consultant evaluating wine cellars and assisting in private purchasing of fine labels, who was a member of the Society of Wine Educators and a former board member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Wine & Food, and who was was also a member of the tasting panel for Bon Appetit magazine, died after heart surgery in Los Angeles, California on Jan. 20, 2005.
- (94) Rockefeller University researcher and professor who dedicated 60 years to the study of malaria and other parasitic diseases, who, in 1976, found a way to culture the most lethal form of parasites in a test tube, whose methodology is now used in laboratories worldwide, and who won awards in Thailand, India, and Germany, as well as the Darling Medal and Prize from the World Health Organization, died on Jan. 22, 2005
Jacob L. Trobe - (93) Former relief worker and representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee who directed the care and resettlement of thousands of Holocaust survivors left adrift after WWII, leading relief programs in Germany and Italy and helping to deliver aid to displaced Jews in Luxembourg, Libya, the former Palestine, and Turkey, died in Haverford, Pennsylvania on January 19, 2005.
Varvara Yushchenko - (86) Mathematics teacher and mother of newly elected Ukrainian Pres. Viktor Yushchenko, died after a long illness in Kiev, Ukraine on January 31, 2005.
Datuk Syed Ibrahim Syed Mohamed - (55)
Founder and president of the Sisma Auto Group, famous for putting Jaguar
cars on Malaysian roads, a publicity-shy businessman was found dead from
two gunshot wounds in the swimming pool of his home in Bukit Tunku, Kuala
Lumpur, an apparent suicide on Feb. 1, 2005.
Charles Martin - (46) Former Green Bay Packers defensive end who body-slammed Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon into the turf and ended his season in 1986, who played for the Packers, Houston Oilers, and Atlanta Falcons during his five-year NFL career, died in Houston from complications of kidney disease on Jan. 23, 2005.
Yvon DesRochers - (59) The head of Montreal's troubled world aquatic championships was found dead of gun shot wounds in his car 2/2/05, the victim of an apparent suicide. The chief executive of the organising committee, DesRochers had come under harsh criticism in recent weeks following a decision by world swimming's governing body FINA to strip the city of this summer's championship due to a sponsorship shortfall.
Dr. Stephen “Doc" Roberts - (89) Polo coach who led Cornell University’s team to eight national championships and helped to make the sport accessible to those without enough money to transport their own mounts, who was the captain of Cornell’s first national champion polo team in 1937 as an undergraduate and later joined the faculty as a veterinarian in addition to coaching the team, and who also wrote numerous scientific articles and a veterinary obstetrics textbook, died of heart failure in Bath, New York on January 21, 2005.
Coley Wallace - (77) Boxer with a professional record of 20-7-0, but who is best known for knocking out Rocky Marciano in the amateur New York Golden Gloves tournament, giving Marciano what is believed to be his only loss, who also portrayed Joe Louis in two movies, “Raging Bull" and “The Joe Louis Story," died of heart failure in New York City on January 30, 2005.
