Obituaries
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Tobe Hooper, ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ director, dies at 74
Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, has died. He was 74.
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Denny Hennen leaves a lasting legacy
Many Chattanoogans who came of drinking age in the 1970s and '80s will forever remember Denny Hennen half-sitting, half-leaning on the city's concrete garbage bin in front of Yesterday's on Patten Parkway.
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Jake Butcher, disgraced East Tennessee banking kingpin, dies at 81
Jake Butcher, who helped bring the World's Fair to Knoxville before his family's East Tennessee banking network collapsed amid a federal investigation, died Wednesday. He was 81.
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Nicholas Sand, creator of famous Orange Sunshine LSD, dies
Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann may have invented LSD in the 1930s, and Timothy Leary was clearly its most prominent frontman in the 1960s.
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‘Growing Pains’ star and TV host Alan Thicke dies
Alan Thicke, a versatile performer who gained his greatest renown as the beloved dad on a long-running sitcom, has died at age 69.
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John Glenn, former astronaut and U.S. senator, dies at 95
John Glenn, 1st U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth who later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, has died at 95.
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Johnny Hennen, co-founder of Yesterday’s and Bones Smokehouse, dies after battling illness
Hennen, along with his brothers Tim and Denny, owned and operated Yesterday's, one of the city's most popular restaurants/nightclubs in the 1970s, '80s and early '90s.
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Tennessee’s first black chief justice, Birch, dies
NASHVILLE - Adolpho A. Birch, the first black chief justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court and consistent challenger of death sentences in Tennessee, has died. He was 78.
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Wetmore, painter of portraits, dies
Friends and contemporaries remembered Gordon Wetmore, who died Thursday, as a passionate and innovative artist who determined early in life that he would paint portraits. The Signal Mountain resident's talent and determination earned him international acclaim.
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Obituaries for May 27, 2010
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