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Obituaries in the news

By The Associated Press
Published March 4, 2007

Walker Edmiston, 81, an actor who was the voice of many cartoon and puppet characters, including Ernie the Keebler elf in TV commercials, died of complications from cancer at his home in Woodland Hills, Calif., on Feb. 15. He voiced many characters on shows created by Sid and Marty Krofft, including Dr. Blinkey and Orson the Vulture on H.R. Pufnstuf and Big Daddy Ooze on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.

Alan Stringer, 62, one of seven former W.R. Grace and Co. executives accused of conspiring to conceal asbestos-related health risks posed by a Montana mine, died of cancer Feb. 24 at his home in Oak Harbor, Wash. His wife said the death was not related to asbestos. In Libby, Mont., asbestos from Grace's former vermiculite mine has been blamed for sickening or killing hundreds of people.

David Creed Rogers, 84, one of two black men shot by a sniper after being hired as deputies in south Louisiana's Washington Parish four decades ago, died Monday in Franklinton, La. The 1965 shooting left him blind in one eye and killed his partner, O'Neal Moore. In 1964, Rogers and Moore were the first black law enforcement officers in the parish north of New Orleans.

Mark Spoelstra, 66, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who was an important figure in the 1960s folk music renaissance, died Feb. 25 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pioneer, Calif. As a young man he performed with Bob Dylan, who would later reminisce about their friendship in his 2004 memoir Chronicles, Vol. 1. Dylan also included Spoelstra in his 2005 documentary No Direction Home.

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