1. AUCKLAND, April 20, (Reuters Obituaries ) - Bert Sutcliffe, the dashing left-hand batsman who played 42 tests for New Zealand between 1947 and 1965, died in an Auckland hospice on Friday aged 77 after a long battle with emphysema.

2. SANTA FE, N.M. (AP Obituaries) - Walter Chappell, whose sexually charged, black-and-white photographs of the human body and landscapes are shown in art galleries nationwide, died Tuesday in Santa Fe. He was 75. Chappell, who lived in El Rito in northern New Mexico, died of complications from lung cancer and a lung infection, said his companion, Linda Elvira Piedra.

3. JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP Obituaries) - Donald Craig Abood, a former writer, editor and photographer at The Providence Journal, died Wednesday of complications from lung cancer. He was 54.

4. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP Obituaries) - Montree Pongpanit, a veteran Thai politician with a reputation for corruption and opportunism, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 57.

5. VENTURA, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Leslie Whiteley, a California woman with lung cancer who won a $21.7 million verdict against the tobacco industry, died of the disease Monday. She was 40.

6. STRATFORD, Conn. (AP Obituaries) - Nancy Marchand, who played the scheming matriarch of a Mafia family on ``The Sopranos'' and the patrician publisher Mrs. Pynchon on television's ``Lou Grant,'' died of lung cancer a day before her 72nd birthday.

7. AMARILLO, Texas (AP Obituaries) - Terry Moore, an Amarillo Globe-News staff writer and columnist who was honored for accounts of his battle with lung cancer, died Wednesday. He was 32.

8. SEATTLE (AP Obituaries) - Harry ``Bud'' Knudson, a pioneering business educator and author of 13 books on business management and organizational theory, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 69.

9. RICHMOND, Va. (AP Obituaries) - Michaela Odone, whose efforts to develop a treatment for her son's rare disease inspired the movie ``Lorenzo's Oil,'' died Saturday of lung cancer at her home in Fairfax. She was 61

10. CHICAGO (AP Obituaries) - Chicago Tribune cartoonist Jeff MacNelly, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the daily comic strip ``Shoe,'' died early Thursday. He was 52. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after battling lymphoma since late last year.

11. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP Obituaries) - Jorge Oscar de Mello Flores, a founder and president of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil's most prestigious economics school, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 88.

12. SEATTLE (AP Obituaries) - Faygele benMiriam, a cross-dressing civil service worker who won a Supreme Court ruling in a gay rights case, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 55.

13. LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) - William J. Garry, who led Bon Appetit as it became one of the nation's most popular dining and hospitality magazines, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 56.

14. ATHENS, Ga. (AP Obituaries) - James Barrow, a Superior Court judge for 33 years who guided Athens through the turbulent civil rights era, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure and complications of emphysema. He was 82.

15. LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) - Milo A. Speriglio, a private detective who looked into the deaths of celebrities such as ``Superman'' star George Reeves and wrote three books claiming Marilyn Monroe was murdered, died Aug. 30 of lung cancer. He was 62.

16. COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP Obituaries) - Maxine Reese, who helped put Jimmy Carter in the White House and spearheaded efforts to make his hometown a national historic district, died Thursday after a battle with lung cancer. She was 68.

17. LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) -Robert Burr, who has played Shakespeare's most memorable characters on the Broadway stage, died May 13. He was 78. Burr had emphysema, his son, Robert Burr Jr., told The New York Times for Sunday's editions.

18. GLEN ELLEN, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Sonoma County winemaking matriarch Helen Williamson Benziger died Tuesday after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She was 73.

19. AMARILLO, Texas (AP Obituaries) - Terry Moore, an Amarillo Globe-News staff writer and columnist who was honored for accounts of his battle with lung cancer, died Wednesday. He was 32.

20. VICTORIA, British Columbia (AP Obituaries) - Al Purdy, who captured the common voice through use of vernacular and other touches to become one of Canada's greatest poets, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 81.

21. WILMINGTON (AP Obituaries) - Jay Robinson, the former Charlotte school superintendent and state education board chairman who helped launch the state's aggressive school accountability program, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 71.

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23. T. LOUIS (AP Obituaries) - Robert E. Hillard, co-founder of the global public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Inc., died Wednesday of emphysema. He was 83.

24. SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Manning J. ``Manny'' Post, a key fund-raiser for the California Democratic Party and adviser to generations of candidates, died Monday. He was 82. Post underwent surgery last year for treatment of lung cancer. He also suffered from other ailments, including skin cancer and emphysema.

25. ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP Obituaries) - Tommy Collins, who wrote country music hits for Merle Haggard, George Strait and other singers, died Tuesday of complications from emphysema. He was 69. His hits included ``If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin')'' by both Strait and Ferlin Huskey, and Haggard's ``Carolyn.'' (If You Ain’t Smokin’ (You Ain’t Sufferin’) by Mike Sawyer

26. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP Obituaries) - John Wehle Jr., who helped transform family-operated Genesee Brewing Co. into the nation's fifth-largest brewer before negotiating its sale in December, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 53.

27. NEW YORK (AP Obituaries) - A game jersey, golf cart and passport that belonged to baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio are to go on sale at Christie's as part of a sports memorabilia auction that also includes items from Mark McGwire and Muhammad Ali. DiMaggio gave the items to the anonymous seller, according to Christie's. The Hall of Famer died last March after a five-month battle with lung cancer.

28. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP Obituaries) - Judy Jarvis, who battled lung cancer for 18 months while continuing as host of her nationally syndicated radio talk show, died Tuesday. She was 54.

29. INVERNESS, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Natasha Dakserhof Sazevich, a descendant of Russian nobility and longtime director of the art department at Marin Country Day School, died of lung cancer. She was 69.

30. SAN FRANCISCO (AP Obituaries) - Former Republican state Sen. Kenneth L. Maddy, who represented California's Central Valley as a legislator for 28 years, died Saturday after a yearlong bout with lung cancer. He was 65.

31. STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP Obituaries) - Popular Swedish writer Goran Tunstrom died at his home in Stockholm on Feb. 5. He was 62. ``There is no writing without pain,'' said Tunstrom, who in recent years was plagued by a heart attack, stroke, lung cancer and three car accidents.

32. WASHINGTON (AP Obituaries) - Louis E. de la Haba, an editorial consultant who formerly worked for The Associated Press and National Geographic Society, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 69.

33. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP Obituaries) - Jim Varney, the rubber-necked comic who portrayed his rube character ``Ernest'' from hundreds of television commercials to a series of movies, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 50.

34. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10 (PRNewswire Obituaries)-- Jim Varney, one of America's most beloved comedic actors died today of lung cancer at his home in White House, Tenn. He was 50 years old.

35. SAN FRANCISCO (AP Obituaries) - Edgar Bowers, a longtime University of California professor of English whose verse earned him one of poetry's top prizes, Friday of cancer. He was 75.

36. PHOENIX (AP Obituaries) - Richard Kleindienst, who served as U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration and resigned during the Watergate scandal, died of lung cancer Thursday. He was 76.

37. SAN FRANCISCO (AP Obituaries) - Art Hoppe, whose political and social satire entertained readers of his syndicated column in the San Francisco Chronicle for more than 40 years, died Tuesday from complications linked to lung cancer. He was 74.

38. LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) - Susumu Ohno, a pioneering geneticist whose research focused on the role of genes in evolution and sex determination, died Thursday from complications of lung cancer. He was 71.

39. PHOENIX (AP Obituaries) - Race driver Denise Bennet, who won the national quarter-midget championship in 1966, died Friday of cancer at age 43. Bennet was the Arizona midget champion in 1983. In 1997, Bennet was inducted into the Arizona Auto Racing Hall of Fame. In April of that year, she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

40. MEXICO CITY (AP Obituaries) - Meche Barba, a circus performer's daughter whose smoldering beauty brought her fame as a dancer in Mexican films, died Friday of pulmonary emphysema. She was 77.

41. SAN FRANCISCO (AP Obituaries) - Alex Pitcher, a San Francisco civil rights leader who helped prepare legal briefs for the historic Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, has died. He was 75.Pitcher died Thursday after a yearlong fight against throat cancer.

42. TAMPA, Fla. (AP Obituaries) - James W. Walter, founder of a leading home builder and industrial company, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 77.

43. EASTON, Pa. (AP Obituaries) - A councilwoman who died a week ago won re-election by four votes Tuesday night. Mrs. DePaul, appointed to the council in 1989, was diagnosed with lung cancer in January and in February underwent surgery for a brain tumor. She was 55.

44. ABERDEEN, Md. (AP Obituaries) -- Cal Ripken Sr. was remembered as a loving father and a dedicated teacher Tuesday during an emotional funeral service that broke sharply with the stoic public image of the Ripken family. Both Cal Ripken Jr. and his brother Bill wept openly as they eulogized their father, who died Thursday of lung cancer at age 63.

45. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - David Bryson, the deputy director of the Oakland-based National Housing Law Project, died Dec. 25 of lung cancer. He was 58.

46. BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP Obituaries) -- James G. Driscoll, a veteran journalist known for his editorials and columns on politics and international affairs, died Tuesday after experiencing chest pains. He was 63.

47. SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP Obituaries) -- Patrick J. Frawley Jr., a business magnate who was motivated by his alcohol addiction to open a chain of rehabilitation centers, died Tuesday after undergoing lung surgery. He was 75.

48. LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) - Beatrice Colen, best known as the roller-skating carhop on early episodes of ``Happy Days,'' died Thursday of complications from lung cancer. She was 51.

49. West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Tony Young, the star of the short-lived 1961 CBS show ``Gunslinger'' who went on to a long career as a TV character actor, died Feb. 26, 2002 of lung cancer. He was 64.

50. NEW YORK (AP Obituaries) - 2002, Raven Chanticleer, the flamboyant founder of the Harlem African-American Wax and History Museum, died March 31 of lung cancer. He was 72.

51. 5-19-02 SEATTLE (AP Obituaries) - Marc Lindenberg, an influential scholar and a leader in humanitarian relief and international development, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 56.   As an educator, at Harvard, University of Washington and the University of Oregon, Lindenberg pressed for greater involvement by universities in the problems of developing nations.

52. 5-16-02 LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) - Ray Stricklyn, a theater and film actor who became a Hollywood publicist representing Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor, died Tuesday after a battle with chronic emphysema. He was 73.

53. 5-2-02 ATLANTA (AP Obituaries) - Public Service Commissioner Bob Durden died Thursday after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He was 54. Durden, the PSC's current longest-serving commissioner, was a former university instructor and trial lawyer known for his detailed questioning of utility attorneys. The cancer left him unable to attend several commission meetings in the past year, although he voted by telephone at the PSC's Monday session.

69. 9-30-02 SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP Obituaries) - Mickey Newbury, who wrote Kenny Rogers' first hit and arranged ``American Trilogy'' as performed by Elvis Presley, died Sunday of emphysema. He was 62.  Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Don Gibson and B.B. King all recorded Newbury songs. His most recognizable was ``Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),'' a psychedelic pop song that was a No. 5 hit for Kenny Rogers & The First Edition in 1968.

70. 10-3-02 ROME (AP Obituaries) - Producer and director Bruce Paltrow, father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, died in Italy, the U.S. Consulate said Thursday. He was 58. He suffered a heart attack and died at a Rome hospital before dawn Wednesday, the Entertainment Tonight television program reported earlier. Paltrow, who had been battling throat cancer, traveled from his Los Angeles home to Italy to celebrate his daughter's 30th birthday on Sept. 27, the show said.

71. 10-13-02 By BRETT MARTEL NEW ORLEANS (AP Obituaries) - Stephen E. Ambrose, whose best-selling books made America's aging World War II veterans hometown heroes again, died early Sunday at a Bay St. Louis, Miss., hospital. He was 66. Ambrose, a longtime smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer in April.

72. MILWAUKEE (AP Obituaries) - Jay Reed, an ex-Marine and journalist who brought his love of the outdoors to newspaper readers for nearly 40 years, died of lung and bone cancer. He was 73.

73. MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP Obituaries) - Lawrence Andrew Rainey Sr., the former county sheriff whose acquittal in the murders of three civil rights workers was chronicled in the movie ``Mississippi Burning,'' has died. He was 79. Rainey's wife, Juanita Rainey, said he died Friday fighting throat cancer.

74. RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Actor Brad Dexter, who rode with Yul Brynner as one of the ``Magnificent Seven'' and became a confidant of both Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra, died Thursday. He was 85. Dexter had been hospitalized with emphysema.

75. ATLANTA (AP Obituaries) - Michael C. Carlos, a philanthropist whose generosity is evident at the Emory University museum that bears his name, died Saturday after battling lung cancer. He was 75.

76. 2-03 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP Obituaries) - Country singer Johnny PayCheck was eulogized Tuesday as a man who battled hardships and addictions but found peace in the final years of his life.  PayCheck, known for the blue-collar anthem ``Take This Job and Shove It,'' died last week at a Nashville hospital after a lengthy battle with emphysema and asthma. He was 64.

77. 3-03 SEATTLE (AP Obituaries) - Liem Eng Tuai, a Superior Court judge who also was the second Chinese-American to serve on the City Council and an unsuccessful candidate for mayor, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 77.

78. 3-03 NEW YORK (AP Obituaries) - Jose Marcio Ayres, a zoologist who succeeded in saving large portions of rain forest in the Amazon Basin, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 49.
Ayres, who was also the senior conservation zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, led the creation of a protected zone that stretched for more than 20,000 square miles and contained thousands of species of fishes and birds.

79. 3-03 LOS ANGELES (AP Obituaries) - Lenore Gould Breslauer, whose protest of the Vietnam war helped lead to the founding of Another Mother for Peace with its well-remembered motto ``War is not healthy for children and other living things,'' died Friday of lung cancer. She was 80.  At the height of the Vietnam War, her group's motto and sunflower insignia were nearly ubiquitous on posters found on college campuses and in college dorms around the country.

80. 4-03. SAN DIEGO (AP Obituaries) - Two days before he died of cancer, San Diego Chargers general manager John Butler talked about the NFL draft with coach Marty Schottenheimer.  Butler, who helped build Buffalo's Super Bowl teams of the 1990s before becoming San Diego's GM, died Friday. He was 56. Butler died of lymphoma, his wife, Alice, said. He was diagnosed with lung cancer on July 4, but that disease was in remission following his final chemotherapy treatment in late January, she said.

81. NEW YORK 5-03  (AP Obituaries) - John Petrarca, an architect who designed a distinct row of houses in TriBeCa section of Manhattan, died May 9 of lung cancer. He was 51.
Petrarca's row of three houses on Reade Street draws upon elements of new and old, blending 19th-century stone arches with modern touches like exposed steel beams.
His own home, on the same block, is featured in the current issue of Dwell magazine. It is heated and cooled by an innovative geothermal system that based on a 1,250-foot-deep well beneath it.

82. 6-03 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tony Roma, whose casual rib joint became an international restaurant empire after it caught the attention of a Texas financier in the 1970s, died Friday of lung cancer at a hospice. He was 78.

83. 8-03 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Bobby Bonds, one of the first major leaguers to blend home-run power with base-stealing speed and the father of one of baseball's greatest sluggers, has died. He was 57. Barry Bonds' father had been ill for nearly a year with lung cancer and a brain tumor, but he never lost his love for baseball. He was at Pacific Bell Park on Wednesday night, watching his superstar son and the San Francisco Giants.

84. EVERETT, Wash. 11-03 (AP Obituaries) - James Richard Pace, who was instrumental in developing the Alaska seafood processing industry, died Nov. 6 from lung cancer. He was 70.  Pace founded Universal Seafoods and was a former chairman of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, the Alaskan Seafood Marketing Institute and Campaign WSU, which raised millions of dollars for the Washington State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics.

85. CHICAGO (AP Obituaries) - John Donahue, the longtime executive director of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 64.
Donahue became the organization's executive director in 1990 and since that time the group has focused on efforts to prevent homelessness and create more affordable housing, living-wage jobs, and universal health care.

A Catholic priest for several years, Donahue was a teacher and administrator at Chicago's Visitation High School from 1965 until 1971 when he moved to Central America and became vicar of the Archdiocese of Panama. For eight years he lived in a squatters community near Panama City, organizing cooperatives and other projects.

86. NEW YORK 12-30-03 (AP Obituaries) - Actor Earl Hindman, best known for playing a neighbor whose face was forever obscured by a fence on the television show ``Home Improvement,'' died of lung cancer Monday in Stamford, Conn. He was 61.

87. Dothan, Alabama 1-04 (The Dothan Eagle Obituaries ) Joseph A. (Joe) Lee of Dothan passed away Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at his residence after a courageous battle with lung cancer. He was 44. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16, at Southern Heritage Funeral Home Chapel with Hospice Chaplain Bill Taylor officiating. Burial will follow at Memory Hill. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. At all other times, the family will be at 104 Knoxville Drive. Flowers are being accepted or memorial contributions may be made to Wiregrass Hospice, P.O. Drawer 2127, Dothan, Ala. 36302, or Westgate Church of Christ, Mission Fund, 617 Westgate Parkway, Dothan, Ala. 36303.

88. NEW YORK (1-04)  (AP Obituaries) - George Woodbridge, an illustrator for Mad magazine for nearly 50 years whose exquisitely detailed pen-and-ink drawings were featured in nearly every issue, has died. He was 73.

Woodbridge died of emphysema Tuesday, said his wife, Deborah Woodbridge.

89. LOS ANGELES (1-04) (AP Obituaries) - Ann Miller, a childhood dance prodigy who fast-tapped her way to movie stardom that peaked in 1940s musicals like ``On the Town,'' ``Easter Parade'' and ``Kiss Me Kate,'' died Thursday of lung cancer. She was 81.
The long-legged, raven-haired actress and dancer died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of lung cancer, said Esme Chandlee, her longtime friend and former publicist.

90. LAGUNA BEACH, (2-04) Calif. (AP Obituaries) - Andrew Kuehn, a movie advertiser who helped revolutionize the motion picture trailers played before films, died Thursday night of complications from lung cancer, his family said. He was 66.
Kuehn founded and headed the movie advertising firm Kaleidoscope Films.
He developed trailers for films including ``Jaws,'' the ``Indiana Jones'' trilogy, ``E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,'' ``Schindler's List,'' ``The French Connection'' and ``Star Wars.''

91. BANGALORE, India  (2-04) (AP Obituaries) - M.D. Nanjundaswamy, an international farmers' leader who led violent protests against genetically modified seeds and Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in India, died Tuesday of lung cancer, his daughter told The Associated Press. He was 67.

92. NEW YORK (2-04) (AP Obituaries) - Larry Kamm, an Emmy Award-winning director for ABC Sports, has died of lung cancer. He was 64.

Kamm died Friday, ABC Sports said.

``We are deeply saddened by Larry's passing,'' said George Bodenheimer, president of ABC Sports and ESPN, Inc. ``Larry was a true friend to all his colleagues. We will always remember him for his passion for broadcasting and his insatiable appetite for work.

``In this business he stands out as someone who never put his own needs before the needs of the show.''

Kamm worked at ABC for over 36 years and won 13 Emmys, including one for his work on ``Monday Night Football'' in 1987. He also covered 10 Olympics for the network starting in 1964, directing such events as figure skating, gymnastics, Alpine skiing and cross-country skiing.

Also among his credits are the Indianapolis 500, Super Bowl XXII, pregame, halftime and postgame coverage of Super Bowl XXV, Major League Baseball, the NBA and the 1994 World Cup soccer studio show.

From 1995-2000, he was the coordinating director for Turner Sports. He also served as the coordinating director for the Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network (YES).

93. LOS ANGELES (3-04) (AP Obituaries) - Cecily Adams, an actress, casting director and the daughter of ``Get Smart'' television star Don Adams, died Wednesday of lung cancer, her agent said Thursday. She was 39.

Adams appeared in the 1990s syndicated series ``Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,'' playing the mother of Ferengi bar owner Quark. She had guest roles in TV shows including ``Just Shoot Me,'' ``Murphy Brown'' and ``Party of Five.''

94. CALCUTTA, India (3-04)  (AP) - Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan, one of India's leading sitar players, died Saturday. He was 76.

Khan died in Bombay's Jaslok Hospital. He had lung cancer, diabetes and hypertension, the Press Trust of India reported.

He was born into a family of musicians who trace their lineage six or seven generations back to the Moghul courts and ultimately to Miyan Tansen, the court musician of the Emperor Akbar of the late 16th century.

95. RICHMOND, Va. (3-04) (AP) - Edmund Sylvers, the lead singer on ``Boogie Fever'' and ``Wish That I Could Talk To You'' for the 1972 funk-soul group The Sylvers, died March 11 of lung cancer, his family said Monday. He was 47.

The singer died after a 10-month illness, according to his niece, Tyava Sylvers.

Sylvers was 15 when he started singing with six other members of his family on their self-titled debut album in 1972. His high tenor voice was the centerpiece of such songs as ``Fool's Paradise.''

From five albums, other songs by the group included ``Cotton Candy,'' ``That's What Love Is Made Of'' and ``High School Dance.''

Sylvers made a solo album, ``Have You Heard,'' in 1980 that included the single ``That Burning Love.

96. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (4-04) (AP) - James Hamner, the youngest son in a family immortalized by ``The Waltons'' on television, died Thursday, according to his family. He was 67.

Hamner, the model for the character Jim-Bob Walton, lived in Charlottesville since December, when he sold the family's home in the Nelson County town of Schuyler. Over the years, thousands of ``Waltons'' fans have visited the home, the model for the one depicted in the show.

James Hamner was the model for Jim-Bob because he was the youngest of eight siblings.

Schuyler and the Hamners inspired the series about a large, close-knit family in Depression-era Virginia, which ran from 1972 to 1981. Earl Hamner, the series' John-Boy character, based his books and TV show on his experiences growing up in Schuyler.

James Hamner had lived in his childhood home for most of his life, but became too ill with emphysema and heart trouble to maintain the house, which had belonged to the family for more than a century.

97. BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (4-04)(AP) - Ed Gregory Jr., a carnival operator who along with his wife was pardoned by President Clinton, died Sunday. He was 66.

Gregory suffered from pulmonary lung disease, said his son, Don Gregory.

Gregory and his wife, Vonna Jo Gregory, received pardons in 2000 for 1986 bank fraud convictions in Alabama. Their pardons sparked a congressional investigation into $240,000 in undocumented consulting fees Gregory paid to Tony Rodham, the brother of former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Gregory denied the payments were related to the pardon requests.

Gregory operated Smyrna-based United Shows and Gregory Entertainment in the mid-1980s. The companies ran state carnivals and fairs, and owned memorabilia and royalty rights to songs by the late country music singers Jim Reeves and Faron Young.

Gregory made entertainment contacts through his businesses and became close friends with the ``singing cowboy,'' Gene Autry, and his wife, Jackie. Gregory sat on the board of Autry's Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles.

98. LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. (4-04) (AP) - Former Washington Secretary of State A. Ludlow ``Lud'' Kramer, a champion of election reform and the underprivileged, has died. He was 71.

Kramer died Friday of lung cancer, family members said.

Kramer served three terms after being elected Washington's 11th secretary of state in 1964, transforming the office into an activist pulpit for election reform and even migrant affairs.

``Lud was a remarkable man. He was always about 10 years ahead of the rest of society,'' former Secretary of State Ralph Munro said. ``Whether it was registering Hispanics to vote in the Yakima Valley, writing legislation for prison reform, outlining the problems faced by our urban areas, or defending the rural poor, Lud was on the scene.''

A Republican, Kramer chaired the state Commission on the Cause and Prevention of Civil Disorder in 1969, which found that housing discrimination and disparities in the treatment of blacks by the criminal justice system held potential for unrest in Washington cities.

Kramer was an early advocate of election reform legislation that led to formation of the state's Public Disclosure Commission, current Secretary of State Sam Reed said Tuesday.

Kramer also championed lowering the voting age to 18, said Reed, a former Kramer assistant.

In 1961, at age 29, Kramer was the youngest person ever elected to the Seattle City Council. He was 32 when first elected Secretary of State.

99. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (4-04) (AP) - Ernest Jasmin, who was elected Kentucky's first black commonwealth's attorney in 1988 and prosecuted some of Louisville's highest-profile murder cases, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 69.

Jasmin won convictions of Victor Taylor and George Wade for the 1984 slayings of two Trinity High School students, and of Kevin Stanford and David Buchanan for the 1981 murder of gas-station attendant Baerbel Poore.

Jasmin later served as a circuit judge from 1992 until he retired in 1999.

Jasmin was dubbed the ``preacher for the prosecution'' for his fire-and-brimstone courtroom oratory. He said that as a teen he memorized the Bible verses he later used in the courtroom.
 

100. HAGERSTOWN, Md. (5-03) (AP) - Woody West, a longtime newspaperman and former executive editor of The Washington Times, died of lung cancer Friday, according to his family. He was 70.

West was the paper's associate editor at the time of his death. He joined the newspaper as an editorial writer in late 1982, six months after its founding. He soon became managing editor and then executive editor.

As associate editor since 1986, he edited the weekly Civil War page and served on the committee overseeing the Sunday books pages, choosing books for review and matching them with reviewers.

101. NEW YORK (AP) - Andy Kaufman died of lung cancer on May 16, 1984, but according to legend, the eccentric comedian said if he were faking, he'd resurface 20 years later to the day.

So, just in case, a party is being planned by Bob Zmuda, Kaufman's best friend and partner, at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on May 16.

102. NEW YORK (5-04) (AP) -- Alan King, whose tirades against everyday suburban life grew into a long comedy career in nightclubs and television that he later expanded to Broadway and character roles in movies, died Sunday at the age of 76.

King, who also was host of the New York Friars Club's celebrity roasts, which had recently returned as a staple on television's Comedy Central, died at a Manhattan hospital, said a son, Robert King. He died of lung cancer, his assistant Miriam Rothstein said.

103. CHICAGO (5-04) (AP) - Floyd Kalber, a television news anchorman whose career included stints on NBC's ``Today'' show and on two highly rated programs in Chicago, has died of emphysema, family members said. He was 79.

Kalber, a winner of five Emmy awards, died Thursday at his home in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge.

104. JUNIOR, W.Va. (6-04) (AP) - A man diagnosed with a terminal illness is fighting officials for the right to be buried in his back yard.

Dan Vest has emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The Vietnam veteran said after town officials found out about his wishes they passed an ordinance outlawing burials on personal property within city limits.

``(My family) built this house,'' Vest said. ``This is where I was raised.''

Vest said he plans to sue the city, but representatives from the Barbour County Circuit Clerk's office say nothing has not been filed to date.

``We have an ordinance that says you can't be buried in your back yard,'' said Mayor Gary A. Miller.

Miller said the ordinance recently went into effect. City officials were not available for comment Monday because of a state holiday.

105. CHICAGO (6-04) (AP) - Lon Dyson, who lent his baritone voice to gospel and popular radio stations as a disc jockey for nearly 50 years, died Saturday of lung cancer and emphysema, his family said. He was 65.

Lon Dyson was one of the youngest radio disc jockeys in Chicago's history when he began his career, but many listeners thought him older than he was because of his mature-sounding voice, said his brother Marv Dyson.

At age 15, he officially began his career at WHFC-AM radio, now WVON-AM, where his parents were disc jockeys.

For nearly 30 years, Lon Dyson usually dee jayed between midnight and 6 a.m. at Chicago AM stations. He was a news assignment editor at WLS for 11 years.

He retired from WGCI-FM and Gospel Radio 1390 in 2000.

106. TIRANA, Albania (7-04) (AP) - Queen Susan, the wife of the self-proclaimed heir to Albania's throne, has died, the royal family said Sunday. She was 63.

Susan, born in 1941 in Australia as Susan Cullen-Ward, died of lung cancer Saturday evening at her home on the outskirts of Tirana, said Fluturak Germenji, a spokesman for the royal family.

In 1975, she married Leka Zog, the only son of the late King Ahmet Zog.

The royal family, which lived in exile after fleeing Albania in 1939 when Italy's fascist regime occupied the country, returned in June 2002 after 74 members of parliament invited it back. The king died in Paris in 1961.

Albania's communist rulers abolished the monarchy in 1946, but even in exile, the royal family insisted that Leka Zog - who calls himself King Leka Zog I and called Susan his queen - was Albania's legitimate ruler.

Susan is survived by her husband and their son, Leka Jr. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.