Obituaries
The latest Obituaries coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our News section.
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Atlanta TV station: Veteran news anchor Amanda Davis dies
Veteran Atlanta television news anchor Amanda Davis, whose achievements included launching a segment encouraging foster children adoptions and an in-depth series about her alcoholism, has died. She was 62.
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Actress Rose Marie of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ fame dies at 94
Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for nearly a century in theater, radio, TV and movies, died Thursday. She was 94.
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Fletcher Bright, prominent Chattanooga businessman and musician, dies at 86
Fletcher Bright, a musician, real estate tycoon and Renaissance man, died Christmas morning. He was 86.
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Longtime sportscaster Dick Enberg dies at 82
Dick Enberg, a Hall of Fame broadcaster known as much for his excited calls of "Oh my!" as the big events he covered during a 60-year career, died Thursday. He was 82.
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Cardinal Law, central figure in church abuse scandal, dies
Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.
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Pat DiNizio, lead singer of Smithereens, dies at 62
Pat DiNizio, who as lead singer and songwriter for the New Jersey band the Smithereens blended pop, rock and New Wave music for such hits as "Blood and Roses" and "A Girl Like You," has died at age 62.
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Kentucky lawmaker facing sexual assault allegations kills himself
Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky known for inflammatory Facebook posts comparing Barack and Michelle Obama to monkeys and who defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home, killed himself Wednesday night.
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Roy Reed, Times reporter who covered civil rights, dies
Roy Reed, who covered key events during the civil rights movement for The New York Times before returning to his native Arkansas to write and teach, has died. He was 87.
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Rock icon Johnny Hallyday, known as French Elvis, dies at 74
Johnny Hallyday, France's biggest rock star for more than half a century and an icon who packed sports stadiums and all but lit up the Eiffel Tower with his pumping pelvis and high-voltage tunes, has died.
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Jim Nabors’ career included time in Chattanooga
Husband says Jim Nabors, who starred in 'The Andy Griffith Show,' has died
