advertisement

Log Out

Obituaries

Notable deaths this week: ABC news medical reporter; ex-ambassador who saved Americans in Iran

From Daily Herald wire reports
Oct 17, 2015 1:00 am - • Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii. She was 31. Zimmerman apparently lost her footing while tr...
Red Sox 'lifetime' scout has died; hit flies to Yaz

The Associated Press
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - The Red Sox are mourning the death of former prospect and scout Chuck Koney. The team says Koney died on Monday in Orland Park, Illinois, at the age of 90....
Leader behind Vermont aid-in-dying law uses it, ends life

By DAVE GRAM
Oct 16, 2015 7:00 am - MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Richard "Dick" Walters, a leader in the effort to get the state to pass aid-in-dying legislation, used the rules established under the law to end ...
Canadian envoy who hid Americans during hostage crisis dies

By ROB GILLIES
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Ken Taylor, Canada's ambassador to Iran who sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 hostage crisis, has died. He was 81. Taylor's wife, Pat, ...
Hollywood golden age ingÃ©nue Joan Leslie dies at 90

The Associated Press
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Joan Leslie, whose expressive almond eyes and innocent beauty made her one of the most popular film ingÃ©nues of the 1930s and 40s, has died at the ag...
ABC News doctor Jamie Zimmerman dies in Hawaiian accident

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
Oct 15, 2015 7:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Jamie Zimmerman, a doctor and reporter with ABC News' medical unit, has drowned while on vacation in Hawaii. She was 31. Zimmerman apparently lost her fo...
Former Patriots offensive lineman Adams, 67, dies in Houston

The Associated Press
Oct 14, 2015 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - Former New England Patriots offensive lineman Sam Adams has died in Houston at the age of 67. Adams became ill at his Houston home last Saturday and died ...
American Nobel laureate Richard Heck is buried in Manila

The Associated Press
Oct 13, 2015 7:00 am - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - American Nobel laureate for chemistry Richard Heck, who designed a method of building complex molecules that has helped fight cancer, protect ...
Sybil Stockdale, who fought to end torture of POWs, dies

By JULIE WATSON
Oct 13, 2015 7:00 am - CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - Sybil Bailey Stockdale, a Navy wife who fought to end the torture of U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam, has died. Stockdale's son, Sid Stockdale, ...
James Taylor's mother dies at Martha's Vineyard home at 92

The Associated Press
Oct 12, 2015 7:00 am - CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) - The mother of Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter James Taylor has died at age 92. Gertrude Woodard Taylor died over the weekend surrounded by ...

Showing 6,111-6,120 of 7,464 previous next