Prominent People Lost to PF

Originally an Alabama native, Odetta Holmes grew up in Los Angeles and pursued her music career at Los Angeles City College. As a classically trained folk, blues, and gospel singer, Odetta utilized her talent to champion African American music and civil rights issues for over 50 years.

Denver TV, radio host Reggie McDaniel remembered for his outgoing nature

By Yesenia Robles
The Denver Post

As he walked toward his car on a cold, icy day in Denver, Reggie McDaniel once took off his colorful shoes and gave them to a homeless man on the street, walking the rest of the way in socks.

Peter Benchley had a lifelong fascination with the sea. His most famous novel Jaws was made into one of Hollywood's most famous films, has died aged 65 on February 12, 2006. He died of complications from pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive scarring of the lungs he had been diagnosed with last autumn, son-in-law Chris Turner said.

Friday, November 30, 2007 marked the end of what will forever be remembered as the longest and most courageous battle between one man, a man we all know as the world's greatest daredevil, and death. Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel died in Clearwater, Florida, finally succumbing after nearly a three-year bout with the terminal lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Grammy, Tony and an Emmy winner, was a legendary artist of striking power, whose vocal talents illuminated every medium of the entertainment world. He is considered one of the greatest baritones of our time and was undoubtedly one of the most prominent musical stars to grace the stages worldwide for over six decades.

Songwriter Dennis Linde, 63, whose credits include Elvis Presley's "Burning Love," Garth Brooks' "Callin' Baton Rouge" and the Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl," died Friday (Dec. 22) at a Nashville hospital after battling idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease.

Who played a befuddled radio station manager on the sitcom. Jump played Arthur Carlson in ``WKRP in Cincinnati,'' which aired on CBS from 1978-82 and featured Gary Sandy, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Howard Hesseman and Richard Sanders as the ragtag station's crew. and made his mark in commercials as the lonely Maytag repairman, died Monday. He was 71.