More farewells from 2018
EDITOR’S NOTE: An editing error occurred in Monday’s edition of The Daily Courier where some of the 2018 deaths were blocked out by ads. As this is one of the most popular New Year’s features we run, the following is a list of passings from 2018 which were inadvertently cut from the Dec. 24 edition. The Daily Courier regrets the error.
JANUARY
Dolores O’Riordan, 46. Her urgent, powerful voice helped make Irish rock band The Cranberries a global success. Jan. 15. Accidental drowning in bathtub.
Stansfield A. Turner, 94. He served as CIA director under President Jimmy Carter and oversaw reforms at the agency after the Senate uncovered CIA surveillance aimed at American citizens. Jan. 18.
Dorothy Malone, 93. An actress who won hearts of 1960s television viewers as the longsuffering mother in the nighttime soap “Peyton Place.” Jan. 19.
Mort Walker, 94. A comic strip artist and World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private “Beetle Bailey.” Jan. 27.
FEBRUARY
Dennis Edwards, 74. A Grammy-winning former member of the famed Motown group The Temptations. Feb. 1.
John Mahoney, 77. An actor who played the cranky, blue-collar dad on “Frasier.” Feb. 4.
John Gavin, 86.The tall, strikingly handsome actor who appeared in “Spartacus,” “Psycho” and other hit films of the 1960s before forsaking acting to become President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to Mexico. Feb. 9.
Marty Allen, 95. The baby-faced, bug-eyed comedian with wild black hair who was a staple of TV variety shows, game shows and talk shows for decades. Feb. 12.
Ruud Lubbers, 78. The Netherlands’ longestserving prime minister who guided his country through economic turmoil to prosperity and helped shape the foundations of the European Union. Feb. 14.
The Rev. Billy Graham, 99. He transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counsellor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history. Feb. 21.
Nanette Fabray, 97. The vivacious actress, singer and dancer who became a star in Broadway musicals, on television as Sid Caesar’s comic foil and in such hit movies as “The Band Wagon.” Feb. 22.
Sridevi, 54. Bollywood’s leading lady of the 1980s and ‘90s who redefined stardom for actresses in India. Feb. 24. Cardiac arrest.
MARCH
Sir Roger Bannister, 88. The first runner to break the four-minute barrier in the mile. March 3.
Stephen Hawking, 76. A theoretical physicist whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease. March 14.
Dick Wilmarth, 75. A miner who won the first-ever
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and then walked away from the sport. March 21.
Delores Taylor, 85. She co-starred with her husband Tom Laughlin in his productions of the “Billy Jack” series of films. March 23.
Linda Brown, 75. As a Kansas girl, she was at the centre of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools. March 25.
APRIL
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 81. She was Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife and an anti-apartheid activist in her own right whose reputation was sullied by scandal. April 2.
Harry Anderson, 65. The actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series “Night Court.” April 16.
Barbara Bush, 92.The snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush. April 17.
Bruno Sammartino, 82. He was professional wrestling’s “Living Legend” and one of its longest-reigning champions. April 18.
Avicii, 28. The Grammy-nominated electronic dance DJ who performed sold-out concerts for feverish fans around the world and also had massive success on U.S. pop radio. April 20.
Verne Troyer, 49. He played Dr. Evil’s small, silent sidekick “Mini-Me” in the “Austin Powers” movie franchise. April 21.
MAY
Anne V. Coates, 92. Oscar-winning film editor widely considered one of the greatest in her field whose many credits include such disparate works as “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Elephant Man” and 1974’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” May 8.
Margot Kidder, 69. She starred as Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the “Superman” film franchise. In 2014, the Yellowknife-borh actress won an Emmy award for her work on the children’s show, “The Haunting Hour.” May 13. Suicide by overdose.
Ernest Medina, 81. A former Army captain who was a key figure in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war. May 8.
Tom Wolfe, 88. The white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full.” May 14. Infection.
Robert Indiana, 89. A pop artist best known for his 1960s “LOVE” series. May 19.
Patricia Morison, 103. She originated the role of an overemotional diva in the Broadway musical “Kiss Me, Kate,” starred on stage opposite Yul Brynner in “The King and I” and appeared in films alongside Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. May 20.
David Weinlick, 48. The groom who said “I do” to a woman he had just met in a well-publicized wedding at the Mall of America about 20 years ago. May 20. Colon cancer.
Clint Walker, 90. The towering, strapping actor who handed down justice as the title character in the early TV western “Cheyenne.” May 21.
Philip Roth, 85. The prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac lyricism of “American Pastoral.” May 22.
Luis Posada Carriles, 90. A former CIA operative and militant Cuban exile who was accused of organizing a string of 1997 Havana hotel bombings and a 1976 Cuban airline bombing that killed 73 people. May 23.
Jerry Maren, 99. He was the last surviving munchkin from the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” and the one who famously welcomed Dorothy to Munchkin Land. May 24.
Alan Bean, 86. A former Apollo 12 astronaut who was the fourth man to walk on the moon and later turned to painting to chronicle the moon landings on canvas. May 26.
JUNE
Frank C. Carlucci III, 87. He began his wideranging government career as a diplomat and finished as secretary of defence under President Ronald Reagan. June 3. Complications from Parkinson’s disease.
John Active, 69. An Alaska Native broadcaster who helped preserve the Yup’ik language and culture one story at a time. June 4.
Clarence Fountain, 88. A founding member of the Grammy-winning gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama. June 3.
Red Schoendienst, 95. The Hall of Fame second baseman who managed the St. Louis Cardinals to two pennants and a World Series championship in the 1960s. June 6.
Gena Turgel, 95. A Holocaust survivor who comforted Anne Frank at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before the young diarist’s death and the camp’s liberation a month later. June 7.