Obituaries
The latest Obituaries coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our News section.
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Colorful player, coach Pepper Rodgers dies at age 88
Pepper Rodgers, a colorful personality who helped Georgia Tech to an unbeaten season as a player in 1952 and went on to coach the Yellow Jackets as well as Kansas, UCLA and Memphis teams in both the USFL and CFL, died Thursday. He was 88.
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Beckett Cypher, 21-year-old son of Melissa Etheridge, dies
Melissa Etheridge said Wednesday that her son Beckett Cypher has died.
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Civic leader Fred L. Davis dies in Memphis; marched with MLK
Fred L. Davis, a businessman and civic leader who supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee, and marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 86.
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Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act's famed white tigers, has died. He was 75.
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Ex-ABA commissioner Mike Storen, dad of Hannah Storm, dies at 84
Mike Storen, a multisport marketing whiz and the father of ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm, died Thursday. He was 84.
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Linda Fletcher, former UTC business college dean, dies at 82
Linda Pickthorne Fletcher, the former dean of the College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga who helped create the Institute for Women Entrepreneurs, died April 20 at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was 82.
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Mexican protest singer Oscar Chavez dies of COVID-19 at 85
One of Mexico's best-known protest singers, Oscar Chávez, died Thursday at age 85 after being infected with the coronavirus.
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Drummer Tony Allen, driver of Afrobeat sound, dies at 79
Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79.
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Harold Reid, Statler Brothers bass singer, dies at 80
Harold Reid, who sang bass for the Grammy-winning country group the Statler Brothers, has died after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 80.
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Wildlife photographer Peter Beard found dead near his home
Artist, adventurer and celebrated wildlife photographer Peter Beard was found dead in woods near his cliff-side home at the tip of Long Island nearly a month after his family reported him missing. He was 82.
