Obituaries Related to "Love" from New York Times Archive
At Funeral for Victim of Crane Collapse, Recounting a Life, and a Love Story
David Wichs, the victim of a crane collapse in Lower Manhattan, was eulogized on Sunday by his widow and others.
Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70
Ms. Dunn’s third novel, “Geek Love,” which revolves around a married couple who breed mutant children as sideshow freaks, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
Teaching My Child to Love a Dying World
My toddler son and I spoke about the trees as people — and indeed, for the first month of quarantine, they were the only people besides us he got to see up close.
Joanna Harcourt-Smith, 74, Dies; Lived a ‘Psychedelic Love Story’
For an adventurous globe-trotting time, she was by the side of the LSD guru Timothy Leary, only to be left traumatized by the experience.
Sam McBratney Dies at 77; Wrote ‘Guess How Much I Love You’
His bedtime story of a hare and his son one-upping each other in declaring their love became a children’s classic, translated into 57 languages.
Angela Russell Dies at 65; She Grew Up With a Love of Song
Ms. Russell, a blind and intellectually disabled woman, lived for the past 25 years in an adult-care community. She died of the novel coronavirus.
Wayne Fontana, Hitmaker With ‘The Game of Love,’ Dies at 74
The song brought him and his British Invasion band, the Mindbenders, a bit of success in the mid-1960s. Then he went solo, and the hits did not keep coming.
Iris Love, Stylish Archaeologist and Dog Breeder, Dies at 86
She was once known as the archaeologist in a miniskirt, a scion of old New York whose second career was raising Westminster Kennel Club champions.
Garcia Marquez Looks At Life, Love and Death
For Gabriel Garcia Marquez, there are many signs of the gradual Latin American infiltration of the United States. Spanish is more widely spoken than ever, the region's cooking more popular. But above all he says that he is delighted by the spread "across this country of our Latin way of loving and of dying." Love and death are of course intimately linked themes in the Colombian novelist's work. The one is almost inconceivable without a suggestion of the other because love is an illness with ...
Madelyn Pugh Davis, Writer for ‘I Love Lucy,’ Dies at 90
Ms. Davis and her 1950s writing partners were responsible for coming up with wacky physical predicaments for the show’s star, Lucille Ball, to get herself into.
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Michael Madsen, Actor Known for ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Kill Bill,’ Dies at 67
He had the air of a timeless Hollywood bad guy who seemed to have stepped out of a 1940s film noir. “I’m a bit of a throwback to the days of black-and-white movies,” he said.

Mark Brokaw, Theater Director Known for Slight-of-Set Magic, Dies at 66
On and off Broadway, he worked with rising talents like Kenneth Lonergan and Paula Vogel, combining complex storytelling with the simplest possible productions.

Sandy Gall, War Correspondent Without Swagger, Dies at 97
For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

Patricia Peterson, Innovative Fashion Editor at The Times, Dies at 99
She oversaw fashion coverage beginning in 1957, when hemlines made headlines. She later made groundbreaking ads for Henri Bendel with her photographer husband, Gösta Peterson.

Alex Delvecchio, Hockey Hall of Famer With Red Wings, Dies at 93
A center who skated alongside Gordie Howe on the team’s famed “Production Line,” he helped win three Stanley Cups and stood out for his clean play over 24 years in Detroit.

David Mabuza, Former Deputy President of South Africa, Dies at 64
Hailing from a small, rural province, Mr. Mabuza had a remarkable rise to national power. But much of it came crashing down amid corruption allegations.
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