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Lazar Berman - (74) Russian classical pianist internationally acclaimed for his technical prowess and the energy of his performances; he was introduced to the piano by his mother; by age 10, he was performing with the Moscow Philharmonic, but it was only in the ‘70s, when the Soviet government allowed him to play abroad, that his international career started; won the 1956 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Belgium; in 1977, his recording of Liszt’s “Transcendental Studies” won him the Franz Liszt Prize in the composer’s native Hungary; died of a heart attack in Florence, Italy, where he had resided since 1995; February 6, 2005.
Jody Berry - (68) a nightclub singer who headlined hot spots such as the Coconut Grove. Berry sang at clubs across the country, including the Happy Koomar'S 400 Club in Los Angeles, where he met and sang with Ella Fitzgerald, his favorite singer. He went on to perform in musical touring companies, performing in "Guys and Dolls," "Oklahoma," "Music Man" and "High Button Shoes." He also starred in his own musical, "Memory Lane of Fame," impersonating numerous celebrities, including Elvis Presley. Berry'S new CD recording, "For Lovers Over Fifty and Under," is scheduled to be released soon, Berry also created a men'S clothing line, L'Uoma Elegante, and a line of upscale golf wear sold at boutiques in Los Angeles. Died of cancer on January 18, 2005.
Steve Burgh - (54) Record producer and session musician who worked with Billy Joel, the Ramones, Phoebe Snow, and others; as a sideman he played with Willie Nelson, Judy Collins, Steve Goodman, and other artists in the 60s and 70s; played guitar on Joel’s album The Stranger (1976), including the Grammy-winning song “Just the Way You Are”; was also musical director for Gladys Knight, Richie Havens, and others; in 1982, Burgh opened a Manhattan recording studio, Baby Monster, that prospered for 10 years and recorded Emmylou Harris, John Cage, and Cypress Hill, among many others; died of a heart attack in Kingston, New York, February 7, 2005.
Ellis' Car - (11) This car has been a mainstay of its owners life. It has experienced many highs and lows during a long soccer coaching career at Ohio Weslyan Univ. Kenyon College and Ohio Dominican Univ. The car was there for those fun road trips to Pittsburgh and Indy. The car was used a a buffer for all those other people that where unable to park correctly in down town Columbus Ohio. This was the car that my son Daniel drove at almost 60 mph on Lorain Co. Speedway, The first time my 11 year old son has ever driven. She will be sadly missed. The car died in the parking lot of Nationwide insurance in Columbus Ohio on February 12, 2004.
Victor Castelli - (52) Master soloist with the New York City Ballet; one of his most memorable roles was that of the soloist in the “Gigue” episode of Balanchine’s Mozartiana (1981); retired as a performer in ‘90 and served afterward on the company’s staff as a ballet master; also served on the advisory committee for the Robbins Rights Trust, which safeguards the choreographer’s repertory; Castelli received a diagnosis of cancer in October 2004; died of pneumonia in New York City February 8, 2005.
Katlyn “Katie” Collman - (10) Indiana fourth-grader who disappeared on January 25 after she apparently saw people inside a neighbor’s home making methamphetamine while she was walking home from the store, who was then abducted in an attempt to scare her into keeping quiet about what she saw, was found dead in a creek five days later in the town of Crothersville, Indiana (the town’s first homicide in 25 years) on January 30, 2005.
Derick Daniels - (76) Award-winning newspaper editor and executive, also a former president of Playboy Enterprises; was a reporter, editor, and corporate VP for Knight Newspapers before being named president of Playboy Enterprises in 1976; was credited with helping to lead Playboy out of financial problems, pulling the company out of its movie theater and music publishing ventures as stock prices and profit margins grew; died of cancer in Miami, Florida February 5, 2005.
Tyrone Davis - (66) Veteran R&B singer who began his career in the 1960s; sang at clubs in Chicago before landing his first recording contract; his baritone voice and warm, romantic singing style made him popular in the ‘70s; was best known for the hits “Can I Change My Mind” and “Turn Back the Hands of Time” for the Dakar label; moved to Columbia Records in 1976, where he recorded several hits, including “Give It Up (Turn It Loose)” and the ballad “In the Mood”; was promoting his latest release when he suffered a stroke that left him in a coma; was hospitalized in September 2004 and was undergoing rehabilitation at a suburban Chicago nursing home when he died February 9, 2005.
Ossie Davis - (87) actor, Davis wrote, acted, directed, and produced for the theater and Hollywood; even light fare such as the comedy Grumpy Old Men with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau was somehow enriched by his strong but gentle presence. Davis was also seen on TV series Roots: The Next Generation (1978), Martin Luther King: The Dream & the Drum (1986), and The Stand (1994); Davis appeared in several Spike Lee films, including Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, Also a stage actor with Broadway appearances inwhich his portrayal of the title character in Purlie Victorious (1961), a comedy he wrote lampooning racial stereotypes; in 1970, Davis cowrote the book for Purlie, a musical version of the play; a revival of the musical was planned for Broadway 2005ˆ06 season; Davis was making a film, Retirement, when he was found dead in his hotel room in Miami Beach, Florida on February 4, 2005.
Karl Haas - (91) Popular classical music commentator who brought the genre to millions of daily listeners through his syndicated radio program, Adventures in Good Music; a pianist, conductor, and musicologist, he settled in Detroit after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936; the hour-long radio program debuted in 1959 on WJR-AM, was eventually syndicated to hundreds of stations worldwide, and still airs in reruns on many stations; died in Royal Oak, Michigan, February 6, 2005.
George Herman - (85) a longtime political reporter for CBS News and the longest serving moderator of the network's Sunday talk show, "Face the Nation," Herman began his career in political reporting from Washington as CBS' White House correspondent during President Eisenhower's first term. He held that post during President Kennedy's administration as well. Herman delivered the first broadcast report of a break-in at Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate office building in 1972. The cause of his death at The George Washington University Hospital was heart failure after a long illness. He died Tuesday, February 8, 2005.
Basil Hoskins- (75) British character actor who specialized in romantic roles and alternated between the classics and musical comedy in a stage career that spanned nearly half a century, who also appeared in television dramas including “New Avengers,” “The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” and “Clayhanger,” and spent five seasons with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre playing opposite such stars as Katharine Hepburn, Vivian Leigh, and Alec Guiness, died on January 17, 2005.
Bonnie Jean Mischke - (18) The 18-year-old woman reported missing from rural Woodlawn was found dead by Washington County IL.Sheriff's deputies. A state wide search found Bonnie in the 1999 Lincoln Navigator. Case is being handled by the Washington County Sheriff'S Department, Washington County State's Attorney and Illinois State Police.
Miriam Hyde - (91) Australian composer and pianist; while recovering from major surgery in 2004, she asked a nurse if there was a piano in the hospital. A battered instrument was found, and the patient gave two recitals to raise funds for the nursing staff of the hospital. Died January 11, 2005.
Armand Kaproff - (85) Principal cellist for many of Hollywood’s top movie composers and record producers; worked with the NBC Orchestra under conductors Arturo Toscanini and Leopold Stokowski, and under Bernard Hermann with the CBS Symphony; after moving to LA in 1949, he became principal cellist for Disney Studios and for Oscar-winning film composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and John Barry; also played first cello on recordings for diverse artists such as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, the Beach Boys, and the Rolling Stones; served at various times as first cellist for the Long Beach Symphony, the Pasadena Symphony, and the California Chamber Symphony; died of age-related illnesses in Los Angeles February 6, 2005.
Merle Kilgore - (70) Co-writer of Johnny Cash's signature song "Ring of Fire" and beloved longtime manager of Hank Williams, Jr., Merle Kilgore began working for Hank Williams, Sr. at age 14. By 18 he had written the #1 hit "More and More" for Webb Pierce. He later penned the Claude King smash "Wolverton Mountain", and scored a top-10 hit of his own on Mercury Records with "Love Has Made You Beautiful". He acted in the movies "Nashville" and "Coal Miner's Daughter", in addition to parts in films with Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin and Steve McQueen. As a manager, he negotiated the deal for Hank Williams Jr.'s performance at the opening of each edition of Monday Night Football. In recent years he introduced Hank Jr. to rapper Kid Rock. 'Uncle Kracker's song "Thunderhead Hawkins" referenced Kilgore's affinity for gaudy gold rings. His humor was such that people around him sometimes forgot they were talking to a legendary figure and Songwriters Hal of Fame member, much less a shrewd manager. Merle Kilgore died of congestive heart failure in Mexico, where he had been undergoing cancer treatments, January 6, 2005.
Christopher Marquis - (43) Novelist and reporter in the Washington bureau of the NY Times, who specialized in Latin American politics and joined the Times in 2000 from the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, where he was chief foreign affairs writer, and who was a former foreign correspondent for the Miami Herald, focusing on Cuba and Central American, died of AIDS in San Francisco, California on February 11, 2005.
Arthur Miller - (89) Legendary American playwright whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible made him one of the 20th century’s greatest dramatists, who, for decades, along with Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams, dominated theaters throughout the world, whose marriage to film star Marilyn Monroe in 1956 gave the playwright a celebrity he tried to avoid but did provide material for two of his plays: After the Fall (1964), the story of a tempestuous singer not unlike Monroe; and his last major work, Finishing the Picture (2004), who also published several novels and collections of short shores, and wrote several screenplays, including The Misfits, which starred Monroe, and Playing for Time (1981), a controversial TV movie about the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz, died of congestive heart failure in Roxbury, Connecticut on February 10, 2005.
John (Tiffin) Patterson - (64) TV director whose frequent work on crime shows included every season finale of The Sopranos on HBO; directed episodes of CHiPs and Knots Landing in the ‘70s, Hill Street Blues and Magnum, PI in the ‘80s, The Practice and Providence in the ‘90s, and CSI and Six Feet Under in the 2000s; also directed the pilot episode of Law & Order in 1988; his work on The Sopranos, where he was one of a core group of directors, earned him two Emmy nominations; he directed 13 of the show’s 65 episodes; died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles February 7, 2005.
Bobby Rivers - (53) Lafayette, Indiana, disc jockey Bobby Rivers has been found dead in his Lafayette apartment. A cause of death has not been released. Rivers' real name was Steve Boker. He broadcast afternoons on radio station W-A-S-K.
Stan Richards - (74) British actor who starred as gamekeeper Seth Armstrong in the British soap opera Emmerdale for 27 years, making him the longest-serving soap actor in Britain outside those appearing on the BBC’s Coronation Street, who last appeared on the show on Christmas Eve 2004 even though he was suffering from emphysema and had been unwell after suffering a collapsed lung in 2003, died in his sleep in London on February 11, 2005.
Jewel Fay "Sammi" Smith - (61) Singer of the country and pop hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night," which was written by Kris Kristofferson and won a Grammy Award in 1971, and was also voted Single of the Year by the Country Music Association. Smith often performed in the mid-1970s with Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Her other hits included "Then You Walk In" in 1971 and "Today I Started Loving You Again" in 1975. Sammi Smith died of unknown causes in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 12, 2005.
Jimmy Smith - (79) Aard-winning jazz organist considered a pioneer with R&B,instrument; started playing the Hammond organ in 1951; during the ‘50s and ‘60s he fused R&B, the blues, and gospel influences with bebop references; his sessions with record label Blue Note (1956-63) included collaborations with Kenny Burrell, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec, and Stanley Turrentine; died in Scottsdale, Arizona February 8, 2005.
Robert (“Sunny”) Spencer - (75) Member of the Sons of the Pioneers western music group, in which singing cowboy Roy Rogers got his start; he and two colleagues eventually formed their own group, the Pioneer Trio, which grew and evolved into Sons of the Pioneers by 1934; the group had several hits, including “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” and it performed in several movies; Spencer had been with the Sons of the Pioneers for 22 years, performing in Branson, Missouri in the summer and in Arizona in the winter; sang lead vocals and played guitar, saxophone, banjo, trumpet, fiddle, clarinet, and jug; his trademark song was “Mamma Don’t Allow No Music Playin’ ‘Round Here,” in which he performed on all his instruments; died in Tucson, Arizona, where he had been performing with the group February 5, 2005.
Sonny Day (born Francis J. Tamburin Sr.) - (80) Accordionist, an original member of Roy Acuff’s Smokey Mountain Boys and a regular on the Grand Ole Opry; his accordion playing was credited with helping to create the Roy Acuff sound in the ‘40s; was featured on original recordings of Acuff’s signature hit, “Wabash Cannonball,” and starred with Acuff in the film Night Train to Memphis; died of cancer in Nashville, Tennessee February 6, 2005.
John L. Tatta - (84) Pioneer in the cable TV industry; worked with Charles Dolan to build Cablevision into one of the nation’s leading providers; helped to pioneer the televising of Knicks and Rangers games via cable from Madison Square Garden after Sterling Manhattan became the first cable company to win exclusive professional sports rights; became president of Cablevision in 1981 and served on the boards of St. Francis Hospital, the National Cable Television Assoc., and the Columbus Citizens Foundation; was also on the board of Cablevision; died of cancer on Long Island, New York February 3, 2005.
Richard (Jonathan) Wolfson - (49) cofounder of Towering Inferno, one of the most provocative performance-art bands of the ‘90s; performances on their only album, Kaddish (1993), became multimedia spectaculars and met with rapt reviews; Kaddish was performed live at all the major opera houses and concert halls of the world; died February 1, 2005.
Karl Linn - (81) Prominent landscape designer who created opulent spaces for some of the country’s best-known architects, including designing the interior landscaping for NYC’s Four Season’s Restaurant, but who abandoned the work to spend the rest of his career building community gardens in devastated urban neighborhoods, who was trained as a psychoanalyst and believed that architecture should reflect a deep commitment to social justice, leading him to help inner-city residents in NYC, Washington, Philadelphia, the Bay Area, and elsewhere transform vacant lots into “neighborhood commons,” which brought neighbors and strangers together (his work was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called “A Lot in Common”), and who was also a founder of the Neighborhood Renewal Corps and the Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, died of acute myelogenous leukemia in Berkeley, California on February 3, 2005.
Fritz Scholder - (67) Artist whose mix of Pop Art and Native American imagery was credited with revitalizing American Indian art in the ‘60s and ‘70s, whose art was displayed in many major museums, including the National Gallery and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, died in Scottsdale, Arizona after suffering from diabetes and pneumonia and spending much of the past year in hospice care, on February 10, 2005.
Major Sir Rupert Clarke - (84) 3rd Baronet who was a prominent Australian landowner, businessman, socialite, horse breeder and icon in the world of horse racing, who was a former chairman of Victoria Amateur Turf Club (now Melbourne Racing) Club and president of Melbourne Cricket Club, in addition to being director for 36 years of National Australia Bank and president of the Royal Humane Society of Australia, died on Feb 4, 2005.
Msgr. John V. Coffield - (91) retired RC clergyman who devoted his more than 60 years as a priest to social activism on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. Coffield'S activism began in the 40s when the Spanish-speaking parish priest affectionately known as "Juanote" ("Big John") led residents in helping to improve living conditions in the El Monte, Calif. barrio called Hicks Camp; in the Œ60s, he marched with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala. and supported Cesar Chavez'S drive to unionize migrant farmworkers in California . Coffield died of heart failure in Dana Point, Calif. February 2, 2005.
Hubert Curien - (80) French space scientist, former minister, and architect of French space policy; regarded as a father of the Ariane series of rockets; as a former president of France’s National Center for Space Studies (1976-84), he oversaw the first Ariane launching in 1979; also headed the European Space Agency (1981-84); during Nazi Germany’s occupation of France in WWII, he joined a resistance group in the Vosges region at age 20; in 1993, he was voted into the Science Academy, of which he later became president; also won the Legion of Honor; died of heart failure in Loury, France, February 6, 2005.
Jon Dragan - (62) Entrepreneur who helped to start southern West Virginia’s booming whitewater rafting industry with the founding of Wildwater Expeditions Unlimited, the state’s first commercial whitewater rafting business, who continued to expand his business interests along the river with the co-founding of the West Virginia Southern Railroad, died in Morgantown, West Virginia, several days after suffering a stroke, on February 12, 2005.
George A(ustin) Dudley - (90) Architect who helped to design some of NYC’s best-known architectural landmarks such as the United Nations, Lincoln Center, and Albany’s Empire State Plaza; had been in poor health since 2000, when he was struck by a van accidentally put in gear by a toddler; died of pneumonia in Rensselaerville, New York February 6, 2005.
E(dward) Allan Farnsworth - (76) legal scholar whose writings on contract disputes have become a standard reference in courtrooms and law schools. A professor at Columbia Law School, Farnsworth was considered the country'S foremost legal authority on contracts. Farnsworth spent more than 50 years studying and explaining the legal underpinnings of contracts, whether written or oral, commercial or private. Farnsworth wrote Farnsworth on Contracts a most frequently used reference works on contract law. Farnsworth represented the US at diplomatic conferences on trade and on the UN Commission on International Trade Law. Farnsworth died of prostate cancer in Englewood, NJ January 31, 2005.
Carl Ferraro - (91) Los Angeles restaurateur whose popular Dresden Restaurant provided a vintage backdrop for scores of Hollywood films; he bought the Dresden in 1954 and added its white Leatherette booths, Venetian chandeliers, and wood-beam ceilings; among the pictures shot at the restaurant were Jack Nicholson’s The Two Jakes and Mel Gibson’s What Women Want; died of congestive heart failure in Burbank, California January 20, 2005.
Joseph Flanigan - ("Big Daddy") (75) founder and leader of a liquor store chain and several popular bar-and-grill restaurants bearing his name and likeness; for more than 45 years Flanigan led a chain of stores and restaurants that included Big Daddy'S Liquors and Flanigan'S Seafood Bar & Grill. Flanigan was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and died in Fort Lauderdale,
Elton B. Stephens - Sr. (93) Founder of EBSCO Industries and a longtime philanthropist; from a childhood milking cows, Stephens built a financial empire with an eclectic mix of businesses under the EBSCO umbrella; gave millions of dollars to fund scholarships at universities and junior colleges across Alabama; the company is now made up of 22 divisions producing everything from muskets to fishing lures to furniture and high-tech graphics, with more than one billion dollars (U.S.) in annual sales; Forbes magazine listed it as one of the nation’s largest private companies; died in Birmingham, Alabama February 5, 2005.
Dr. Jeremy Swan - (82) Chairman emeritus of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s division of cardiology, and a coinventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter that assesses the pulmonary functions of heart attack patients; died in Los Angeles of a heart attack February 7, 2005.
Helen Woodhull - (65) Prominent New York City jewelry designer whose work echoed ancient and antique themes in silver, gold, and precious stones; operated three stores in a 40-yeazr period, and furnished designs for sale at Tiffany, Cartier, and Georg Jensen; for the last 10 years was associated exclusively with James Robinson Inc., a Park Avenue firm dealing mostly in antique jewelry, silver, and porcelain; died of a stroke in New York January 29, 2005.
Elbert N. Carvel - (“Big Bert”) (94) Former Delaware governor (1949-’53, and 61-65) who fought for civil rights and against the death penalty, and was credited with creating Delaware’s Supreme Court; died in Laurel, Delaware, three days before his 95th birthday, February 6, 2005.
Edward R(ichard) Dudley - (93) Retired New York City judge and former borough president of Manhattan, whose career took him from civil rights advocacy to an ambassadorship in Africa; he was also a teacher, a lawyer for the NAACP, a Democrat county chairman, and the first African-American to run for statewide office on a major-party ticket in NYC; died of prostate cancer in NYC February 8, 2005.
Amer Khlaif al-Enezi - (30s) Alleged ringleader of a terror group accused of attacking Americans and Kuwaiti security forces; was arrested January 31 in a police raid on a house in Mubarak Al Kabir, south of Kuwait City; was questioned by state security, then referred to the prosecution; had trouble breathing while in prison and was moved to the Kuwait’s Armed Forces Hospital in Kuwait City, where he died of heart failure, February 8, 2005.
Kathryn Engebretson - (48) Former treasurer for the city of Philadelphia, Pa. who helped bring the city back from the brink of bankruptcy, and the current president of the William Penn Foundation, which has assets of more than $1 billion and awarded nearly $58 million in 2004 to nonprofit groups in the region, who was also a former VP for finance for the U of Pennsylvania, a principal with Morgan Stanley, and VP of Lehman Brothers, died of breast cancer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on February 10, 2005.
Gnassingbe Eyadema - (69) president of Togo, Africa'S longest-ruling leader; a former Togolese French Foreign Legion officer, Eyadema had ruled Togo since 1967, when he came to power after Africa'S first postcolonial coup. Eyadema suffered a heart attack in his hometown of Piya in southeastern Togo; died as he was being rushed to Europe for treatment February 5, 2005.
Stephen R. Gregg - (90) U.S. Army technical sergeant who was awarded the Medal of Honor for helping rescue seven comrades wounded during fighting in France in World War II; died at his home in Bayonne, New Jersey, February 4, 2005.
Mae Jackson - (63) First African-American female mayor of Waco, Texas, elected in May 2004 after being on the City Council since 2000, who was a forceful, articulate personality who counted law enforcement, water quality, and tourism among her key platform issues, was hospitalized February 10 after complaining of flu-like symptoms and chest pains and died in Waco, TX on February 11, 2005.
George Dewey Perkins - (106) One of the oldest U.S. Marine Corps veterans; served between 1917 and 1919; was about to head to Europe when he and other members of his unit came down with the Spanish flu, killing millions of people throughout the world; his sergeant, a Native American, kept them away from the unit’s doctors and treated them with a tribal medication, which Perkins said saved their lives; had been active until a week earlier and was admitted to the hospital February 8; died in Shreveport, Louisiana, February 9, 2005. .
James Porter - (70) Former Massachusetts priest whose widespread molestation of dozens of children foreshadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the Roman Catholic church, whose case was the first high-profile one involving allegations that a priest had molested children in his parish—and that the church had simply moved him from parish to parish to avoid scandal, who pleaded guilty in 1993 to molesting 28 children, but once told a TV reporter he molested as many as 100 children during his time as a priest in the ‘60s and early ‘70s in the Fall River, Mass. Diocese, died of cancer at New England Medical Center in Boston, where he had been treated since being transferred from a Department of Correction medical facility in January on February 11, 2005.
Connie Small - (103) Known in maritime circles as the “First Lady of Light” for the decades she spent helping to illuminate the night as the wife of a lighthouse keeper on the rugged New England coast (with the US Lighthouse Service, later part of the Coast Guard), who lectured widely on her vanished way of life and published a memoir entitled “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife,” and who remained active in the lighthouse preservation movement until shortly before her death, died in Portsmouth, NH on January 25, 2005.
Christian Christensen - (78) The Danish boxer who won the European middleweight title in 1962 and lost to Emile Griffith a year later. Christensen was one of Denmark'S most prominent boxers in the 1950s and 1960s. "Gentleman Chris," as he was known in his home country, won the European middleweight crown February 1962 when he defeated John McCormack of Scotland. Christensen died January 28 at Hilleroed County Hospital outside Copenhagen.
John R. Gaines - (76) Founder of the prestigious Gainesway Farm in Lexington, Ky, one of the world’s most prominent stallion farms and founder of the Breeders’ Cup, a multimillion-dollar effort designed to promote and unite the thoroughbred horse racing industry that culminates each year in a single day of stakes championships and yields$14 million in purses, who also founded the National Thoroughbred Association, a precursor to the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, died after suffering for some time from diabetes in Lexington, Kentucky on February 11, 2005.
Malcolm Kutner - (83) NFL Player of the Year in 1947 and an All-Pro end (1947-48) for the Chicago Cardinals; starred at the U of Texas and was an All-American after the 1941 season; also ran track and played basketball for the Longhorns; after serving in WWII, he joined the Cardinals, where he played offensive halfback and defensive end (1946-50) before retiring to enter the oil business in Texas; was inducted into the National Football Foundation’s College Hall of Fame in 1974 and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in ‘94; died in Tyler, Texas February 4, 2005.
Frank Mathers - (80) Winner of eight American Hockey League Calder Cup titles as a player, coach, and executive; was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto in ‘92; his AHL career as a defenseman included eight years with the Pittsburgh Hornets and six with the Hershey Bears; in 799 career AHL games he had 67 goals and 340 assists; played briefly for the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs; suffered a severe stroke early in January and died in Hershey, Pennsylvania, February 9, 2005.
Maurice Trintignant (87) a Formula One driver in the 1950s who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix. He competed in 82 Formula One Grands Prix, winning in Monaco with a Ferrari in 1955 and with a Cooper in 1958. Trintignant also won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1954. Maurice died Saturday night in Nimes in the south of Franc on February 12, 2005 .
Dr. Peter E(dwin) Stokes - (78) Cornell University endocrinologist and psychiatrist; a pioneer in the use of lithium to treat bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression); taught for 40 years at Cornell; studied selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of depression and the effects of alcohol on perception of time; had been hospitalized since November 2004; died in New York City January 22, 2005.
Sir Edward (Maitland) Wright - (98) Former principal and vice chancellor of Aberdeen University, who became one of England’s most distinguished mathematicians, despite being largely self-taught; died 11 days before his 99th birthday February 2, 2005.
