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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John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93
He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and from many movie and TV appearances.
Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65
In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.
Frank Dunlop, 98, Dies; Director Who Gave Theater a Free-Spirited Spin
In 1970, he founded London’s Young Vic, an adventurous “people’s theater” (the Who took the stage at one point) before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.
Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook
An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter Dave Frishberg, who called her technique “flawless.”
Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.
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