Obituaries
The latest Obituaries coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our News section.
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Rob Reiner, son of a comedy giant who became one in turn, dies
Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died.
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Former state Rep. Gerald McCormick dies after battle with ALS
Former state Rep. Gerald McCormick, a Republican who represented Hamilton County in the Tennessee General Assembly for 14 years, has died.
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Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died.
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Ex-SEC commissioner Roy Kramer, whose vision paved the way for college football playoffs, dies
Roy Kramer, the onetime football coach who became an athletic director at Vanderbilt, then, eventually, commissioner of the Southeastern Conference where he set the template for the multibillion-dollar business college sports would become, died Thursday.
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Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records’ Booker T and the M.G.’s, has died
Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.'s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics "Green Onions," "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour," has died.
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One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at age 111
Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died.
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Harry Austin, longtime Chattanooga journalist, dies at 79
Born-and-raised Chattanoogan Harry Austin, who had a lengthy career working for the city's newspaper, has died at the age of 79.
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Sally Kirkland, stage and screen star who earned an Oscar nomination in ‘Anna,’ dies
Sally Kirkland, a one-time model who became a regular on stage, film and TV, best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and her Oscar-nominated title role in the 1987 movie “Anna,” has died.
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James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died.
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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful mezzo-soprano who provided backing vocals on such 1960s classics as "Suspicious Minds" and "When a Man Loves a Woman" and was a featured singer with the Grateful Dead for much of the 1970s, has died.
