Category Archives: Death Announcement
Kathi Kamen Goldmark
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, a beloved San Francisco literary impresario and country-rock singer, died May 24 after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 63. Ms. Goldmark died at UCSF Medical Center surrounded by family and friends, including authors Amy Tan, Dave Barry and Maya Angelou. In her last hours, musician Roger McGuinn of the …
Ric McDonald
Ric McDonald, who spent 19 seasons with the Chargers, including 14 as head trainer, died Thursday at his San Diego home. He was 69. The cause of death is unknown. McDonald joined the Chargers in 1971 as an assistant trainer after spending two years as the trainer at United States International University. He became the …
Al Gordon
Los Angeles Times Al Gordon, in rear with glasses, with Jack Benny, center, and the writers Sam Perrin, left, Hal Goldman and George Balzer Al Gordon, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer whose fast-paced material helped Jack Bennymake the transition from radio to television in the 1950s and was later a staple of the Smothers Brothers, …
Lou Watson
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Former Indiana coach and player Lou Watson has died at the age of 88. Scott Funeral Home in Jeffersonville, where Watson will be buried, said he died Thursday in Fairfax, Va. Watson played for the Hoosiers from 1947-50, becoming its leading scorer at the time, and was first-team All-Big Ten in …
Van Smith
NEW YORK — Of the things that Randy Smith will miss most about his friend, longtime Padres scout Van Smith, who passed away on Thursday, the first one had nothing to do with his ability to scout and evaluate talent. “I’ll think about his laugh,” Randy Smith said Friday. Van Smith, who joined the club …
Sandy Dahl
Sandy Dahl, whose husband was the pilot of United Flight 93 that crashed into a Pennsylvania field on 9/11, has died. Dahl, 52, died on Friday from natural causes near Denver, according to officials from the charity she started in her husband’s name. She started the Jason M. Dahl Scholarship Fund to help young pilots …
Barbara kydd Graves
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday. Black Enterprise said in a statement that Graves had been fighting gall-bladder cancer for more than three years when she died at Howard University Hospital in Washington. …
Lee Rich
“Advertising is the best background I could have ever had for this business.” Lee Rich told Advertising Age in 1987. “I learned the business, and that’s a major problem with people out here ¿ they don’t know the business.” (Los Angeles Times / May 26, 2012) He was a former advertising executive who became one …
William C. Wampler Sr.,
RICHMOND, Va. — William C. Wampler Sr., a moderate Republican who represented southwestern Virginia in Congress in a career that spanned four decades, has died. He was 86. Wampler died Wednesday night at his home in Bristol, Va., said his son, former state Sen. William C. Wampler Jr. Wampler’s tenure in Congress began with his …
Wesley Brown
Wesley Anthony Brown, born April 3, 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland, has passed away aged 85. He was the first African American graduate of the U.S Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Md. Brown retired at the rank of Lieutenant Commander in June 1969 after serving 20 years in the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps. Brown graduated from Dunbar …
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