Deaths in March 1989 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1989.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
March 1989
1
- Mukul Dey, 93, Indian artist (drypoint-etching).
- Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan.[1]
- Odie Payne, 62, American blues drummer.[2]
- Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.[3]
- Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon (surgical staples), colon and prostate cancer.[4]
2
- Liviu Cornel Babeș, 46, Romanian electrician and painter, committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
- John Bryans, British actor (Blake's 7).
- Luigi Firpo, 74, Italian historian and politician.
- Tamás Kertész, 59, Hungarian international footballer and coach (Ferencvárosi, Hungary).
- Ernest Steven Monteiro, 84, Singaporean physician, Singapore Ambassador to the United States, Cambodia and Brazil, liver failure.[5]
3
4
- Agha Ibrahim Akram, 65, Pakistani army general.
- Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.[9]
- Viktor Nikiforov, 57, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.[10]
- Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement, planned to beat the U.S. and Soviet Union to the moon.[11]
5
- Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist, founder of Ghadar Party.[12]
- Daniel Webster Cluff, 72, United States Coast Guard officer, rescued thirty-two survivors from SS Pendleton.[13]
- James Edwin Doyle, 86, American advertising executive, co-founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, emphysema.[14]
- Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor of busts.[15]
6
- Harry Andrews, 77, English actor (The Hill, The Agony and the Ecstasy).[16]
- Alla Ilchun, 62, Chinese-born Kazakh fashion model.[17]
- Raja Hossain Khan, 50–51, Bangladeshi composer and violinist, road accident.
- Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress (Nights of Cabiria).
- Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi, 79, Indian-born Pakistani freedom fighter.
7
- Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter (Houston Wrestling), heart attack.[18]
- Jerry Bywaters, 82, American artist, museum director and art critic.[19]
- Jean Colin, 83, English actress.[20]
- Avis DeVoto, 84, American culinary editor and cook, pancreatic cancer.
- Gi Hyeong-do, 28–29, Korean poet (The Black Leaf in My Mouth).[21]
- Judson Philips, 85, American writer, emphysema.[22]
- Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
- Jack Stanton, 67, American NBL basketballer (Anderson Duffey Packers).
- Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician and composer.
8
- Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion.[23]
- Charles Exbrayat, 82, French fiction writer.
- Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer and songwriter (This Ole House), Billy Graham crusader, brain cancer.[24]
- Herman Kogan, 74, American journalist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times).[25]
- Robert Lacoste, 90, French socialist politician, member of the National Assembly and senator.
- Chhuttan Lal Meena, 68, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
- Stanley Wijesundera, 65, Sri Lankan professor of Biochemistry, vice chancellor of the University of Colombo, assassinated.[26]
9
- Kermit Beahan, 70, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, bombardier on the Bockscar atomic bomb flight, heart attack.[27]
- André Hornez, 83, French lyricist (C'est si bon; Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches).
- Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS.[28]
- Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.[29]
- Sean O'Sullivan, 37, Canadian politician and Roman Catholic priest, leukemia.[30]
- Mihemed Şêxo, 41, Kurdish folk singer.
- Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist.[31]
10
11
- William Challee, 84, American actor (Five Easy Pieces).[32]
- Joseph Ferriola, 61, American mobster, boss of the Chicago Outfit, complications after heart transplant.[33]
- James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[34]
- John J. McCloy, 93, American diplomat and presidential advisor, Assistant Secretary of War, pulmonary edema.[35]
- Edward A. Weeks, 91, American writer, editor of The Atlantic.[36]
12
- Maurice Evans, 87, English actor (Planet of the Apes), (Bewitched), heart failure.[37]
- Jakob Gimpel, 82, Polish-born concert pianist.[38]
- Kiyoshi Mutō, 86, Japanese architect and structural engineer (Keio Plaza Hotel, Kasumigaseki Building).[39]
- John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker (1924 British Mount Everest expedition).[40]
- Chet Soda, 80, American businessman, general manager of the Oakland Raiders.
- Carlos Terry, 32, American NBA basketballer (Washington Bullets), car accident.[41]
- Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.
13
- L. E. Baynes, 86, English aeronautical engineer, developed the Scud gliders.
- Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
- Carl von Horn, 85, Swedish Army general.
- Aubrey Menen, 76, British author and theatre critic.[42]
- James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.[43]
- Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish Army general and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.
14
- Edward Abbey, 62, American author (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire), environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.[44]
- Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation.[45]
- Charles Billingslea, 74, American general in the U.S. Army (Distinguished Service Cross), pneumonia.[46]
- Charles Roy Henderson, 77, American statistician (Best linear unbiased prediction), pioneer in animal breeding.[47]
- Happy Humphrey, 62, American wrestler, heaviest professional wrestler of all time (364 kg), heart attack.[48]
- Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.[49]
- Omar Knedlik, 72, American inventor and businessman (ICEE frozen drink).[50]
- Timothy Meyers, 43, American actor (Grease), AIDS.[51]
- Egon Morbitzer, 62, German violinist, concertmaster of Staatskapelle Berlin, cancer.
- Gladys Pyle, 98, American politician, U.S. Senator.[52]
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria, wife of Charles I.[53]
15
16
- Raymond Affleck, 66, Canadian architect, founder of architectural firm Arcop (Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver).[55]
- Georges Blond, 82, French writer, sympathiser with fascism.
- Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist and follower of Wicca, parasitic infection.[56]
- Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.[57]
- George Lynn, 73, American composer, conductor and pianist.[58]
- Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest, founded the Eagle weekly comic.
- Alan Redpath, 82, British-American evangelist and author.
17
- Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse and physician, civilian physician during World War II (Medal of Freedom).
- Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of surgery.
- Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor (Square Pegs), toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS.
- Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer.
- George Vernon Russell, 83, American architect in California.
18
- Helen Beebe, 80, American teacher of the deaf and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy.
- Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist, opponent of plate tectonics.
- Ryūzō Kikushima, 75, Japanese writer and film producer (Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress).
- Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands).
- George P. Mahoney, 87, American politician.
- William Olander, 38, American curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, AIDS.[59]
- Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
- Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.[60]
19
- Alan Civil, 59, British horn player (BBC Symphony Orchestra), liver and kidney failure.[61]
- Normie Glick, 61, American NBA basketballer (Minneapolis Lakers).
- Ethel Hays, 97, American syndicated cartoonist (Raggedy Ann).
- Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film, radio and television actor (Mrs Dale's Diary).
- Valérie Quennessen, 31, French theatre and film actress (Summer Lovers, Conan the Barbarian), car accident.
- Joe Rose, 23, Canadian LGBT rights activist, murdered.
20
21
- Sneeze Achiu, 86, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles).
- David Cairns, 79, English Navy rear-admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
- Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Calgary Stampeders).[63]
- Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.[64]
- Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.[65]
- John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.
22
23
- F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist, suicide.
- Adrien Deschryver, 49, Belgian photographer and conservationist, chief warden of Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
- Pavle Gregorić, 96, Yugoslavian communist politician, Minister for Croatia.
- George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist.
- Bob McTaggart, 43, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
- Berl Repetur, 86–87, Soviet-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
24
- Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
- Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.[67]
- Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist, founder of Kankaria Zoo.
- Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball and track coach.
- St. Julien R. Marshall, 85, American officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, cardiopulmonary arrest.
25
26
- Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian general and resistance leader.
- Māris Liepa, 52, Latvian ballet dancer
- Marina Ried, 67, Russian-German stage and film actress.
- Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
- Harry Wicks, 83, British socialist activist (Communist Party of Great Britain).
- Hai Zi, 25, Chinese poet, suicide.
27
- May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress (David Harum), respiratory failure.
- Don Basham, 62, Bible teacher and author.
- Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, heart attack.[68]
- Scott Safran, 21, American video gamer, set world-record score on Asteroids, fall from building.
- Cláudio Santoro, 69, Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist.
- Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director (Blazing Saddles, First Blood), kidney failure.
28
- Joseph Adefarasin, 67, Nigerian lawyer and High Court judge.
- Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire (American League), heart attack.[69]
- Fang Chih, 93, Chinese politician, diplomat, author and Kuomintang official.
- William D. Cox, 79, American businessman and sports executive (Philadelphia Phillies, International Soccer League).
- Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, film director and producer (The Lion Has Wings, The Wooden Horse).
- Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general, commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
- Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
- Arthur Hill, 94, Irish peer, Marquess of Downshire.
- Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer.
- Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident.
- Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer.
- Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor.
29
- Abdullah al-Ahdal, Imam of Belgium, shot.
- Bernard Blier, 73, Argentina-born French actor.[70]
- Chico Che, 43, Mexican musician, singer and songwriter, stroke.
- Fernand Gambiez, 86, French Army general.
- Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Belarusian international footballer (Dinamo Minsk, Soviet Union), choked on food.
- Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese fleet admiral, Commander of People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer.
- Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer and Orthodox monk.
- Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.
30
- Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer.[71]
- Peter D'Aguiar, 76–77, Guyanese-Portuguese businessman and politician, Minister of Finance.
- Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist (Wonder Woman).
- Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish international footballer (Beerschot, KTP, Finland).
- Huang Wei, 85, Chinese Nationalist military general.
31
- Edgar C. Erickson, 92, United States Army major general, Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
- Francis H. Russell, 84, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.[72]
- Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.[73]
- Carlos Tobalina, 63–64, Peruvian-born American adult filmmaker and actor, suicide.
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Notes and References
- https://timescontent.timesgroup.com/photo/news/Death/408000 Death
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gMFJi9-QM3R6ogmjdXvqOL54zjN0yv1J/view?usp=sharing Odie Payne
- https://www.esa.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2022/02/Preston_FW.pdf resolution of respect
- News: Glenn Fowler . Mark M. Ravitch Is Dead at 78; A Surgeon, Professor and Author . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 4 March 1989 . 1 34.
- https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/ernest-steven-monteiro Ernest Steven Monteiro
- News: Peter B. Flint . Richard B. Morris, Colonial Historian, Dies at 84 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 6 March 1989 . D 13.
- http://wiki.china.org.cn/index.php?title=Dong_Qiwu Dong Qiwu
- https://baltimorereview.org/fall_2021/contributor/kerry-folan Empty Pedestals
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-08-mn-218-story.html Guitarist Lloyd (Tiny) Grimes, 72
- https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/95843 Viktor Nikiforov
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-zambian-afronaut-who-wanted-to-join-the-space-race The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race
- https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?3973#:~:text=After%20independence%2C%20he%20was%20given,at%20the%20age%20of%2096. Prithi Singh Azad
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gOXKJroXZSDUFKqPvGO_CR-kqtHc0-Kc/view?usp=sharing Daniel W. Cluff
- News: Glenn Fowler . James E. Doyle Is Dead at 86; Co-Founded Advertising Agency . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 7 March 1989 . D 25.
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gMFJi9-QM3R6ogmjdXvqOL54zjN0yv1J/view?usp=sharing Richmond Barthe, Sculptor, Dies
- News: Andrew L. Yarrow . Harry Andrews, Actor, Dies at 77; In 'The Hill' and 50 Other Movies . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 8 March 1989 . B 10.
- https://www.academia.edu/110935421/Kazakh_Russian_Roots_of_Alla_Ilchun_yelshin_Combated_Against_Fascism_the_Future_Muse_of_Christian_Dior_december_10_1926_march_6_1989_ Kazakh-Russian Roots of Alla Ilchun (yelshin) Combated Against Fascism, the Future Muse of Christian Dior (december 10, 1926 - march 6, 1989)
- https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-news-paul-boesch-obit-march/15714652/ Paul Boesch obit march 1989
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bywaters-williamson-gerald-jerry Bywaters, Williamson Gerald [Jerry] (1906–1989)
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/colin-jean-1905-1989 Colin, Jean (1905–1989)
- https://library.ltikorea.or.kr/writer/201169 Ki Hyongdo(기형도)
- News: C. Gerald Fraser . Judson Philips, 85, Author, Dies . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 9 March 1989 . B 18.
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizaveta-Ivanovna-Bykova Elizaveta Ivanovna Bykova
- News: Stuart Hamblen, 80, Singer and Candidate . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 9 March 1989 . B 18.
- News: Herman Kogan Dies; Chicago Writer Was 74 . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 10 March 1989 . D 16.
- https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2015/05/31/new52.asp Prof. Stanley Wijesundera remembered
- News: Kermit Beahan, 70, Bombardier On Plane That Dropped A-Bomb . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 11 March 1989 . 1 33.
- News: Andy Grundberg . Robert Mapplethrope, Photographer, Dies at 42 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 10 March 1989 . D 16.
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-11-mn-689-story.html Sam Melville, 52; Actor Co-Starred in ‘Rookies’
- https://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/5981 Sean O'Sullivan fonds RG 431
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/strike-hilda-1910-1989 Strike, Hilda (1910–1989)
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-18-mn-159-story.html William Challee; Veteran Actor of Stage and Movies
- News: Joseph Ferriola, 61, Reputed Mob Leader . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 13 March 1989 . D 10.
- News: James Kee Dies at 71; Former House Member . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 14 March 1989 . D 27.
- News: John J. McCloy, Lawyer and Diplomat, Is Dead at 93 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 12 March 1989 . 1 44.
- News: Glenn Collins . Edward A. Weeks, 91, an Editor Of The Atlantic Monthly, Is Dead . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 14 March 1989 . D 26.
- News: Maurice Evans, Stage Actor, Dies at 87 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 14 March 1989 . D 27.
- News: Jakob Gimpel, a Concert Pianist, Dies at 82 . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 15 March 1989 . D 19.
- https://www.nae.edu/188717/KIYOSHI-MUTO-19031989#:~:text=KIYOSHI%20MUTO%2C%20professor%20emeritus%20of,the%20age%20of%20eighty%2Dsix. KIYOSHI MUTO 1903-1989
- https://literarybibliography.eu/en/wiki/record/Q6220583? John Baptist Lucius Noel
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1989/03/13/ex-bullets-player-terry-dies-in-beltway-crash/4a7cc89e-7aff-4d69-ba76-2e80f4b20566/ EX-BULLETS PLAYER TERRY DIES IN BELTWAY CRASH
- https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/24/obituaries/aubrey-menen-76-indian-critic-novelist-and-essayist-from-britain.html Aubrey Menen, 76, Indian Critic, Novelist and Essayist From Britain
- https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/16/obituaries/ex-rep-james-o-hara-63-dies.html Ex-Rep. James O'Hara, 63, Dies
- News: Edward Abbey, 62, Writer and Defender Of U.S. Wilderness . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 15 March 1989 . D 19.
- News: Andrew Pollack, Special To the New York Times . Stephen D. Bechtel Is Dead at 88; Led Major Construction Concern . subscription . 1 April 2024 . . 15 March 1989 . D 18.
- News: Alfonso A. Narvaez . Charles Billingslea Is Dead at 74; Retired Major General in Army . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 18 March 1989 . 1 10.
- News: Charles Henderson, Statistician, Dies at 77 . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 18 March 1989 . 1 10.
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gOmlBPDxhy2iCnouSyqD7CWgKr_A-wBN/view?usp=sharing William Joseph Cobb
- https://www.fox7austin.com/news/ut-austin-student-mark-kilroy-murdered-in-mexico UT Austin student murdered in Mexico 35 years ago
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gPYvAQ0CH84CBuY5qEcqr-9kokpbKHsS/view?usp=sharing Omar S Knedlik
- News: Timothy Meyers, Actor, 43 . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 24 March 1989 . B 4.
- https://www.sdstate.edu/sdsu-archives-and-special-collections/incredible-gladys-pyle-collection Incredible Gladys Pyle Collection
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zita-parma-1892-1989 Zita Of Parma (1892–1989)
- https://www.onthisday.com/deaths/date/1989 Famous People Who Died in 1989
- https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/raymond-affleck Fonds 62 - Raymond Affleck
- https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/eddie-buczynski Eddie Buczynski
- https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/18/obituaries/jesus-de-leizaola-92-a-basque-leader-dies.html Jesus de Leizaola, 92, A Basque Leader, Dies
- News: George Lynn, 73, Dies; Composer and Teacher . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 24 March 1989 . B 5.
- News: William Olander, 38, Art Curator, Is Dead . subscription . 22 May 2024 . . 21 March 1989 . B 8.
- News: Michel Marriott . Max Tishler Is Dead; Pioneer in Making Of Cortisone Was 82 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 20 March 1989 . B 10.
- News: Allan Kozinn . Allan Kozinn . Alan Civil, Hornist Of BBC and Beatles; Londoner Was 59 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 22 March 1989 . D 27.
- News: Archie Bleyer, 79, Musical Director, Dies . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 21 March 1989 . B 8.
- News: Otis Douglas, Coach, 77 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 23 March 1989 . D 22.
- News: Alfonso A. Narvaez . Louis Dupree, 63, Anthropologist And Expert on Afghanistan, Dies . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 23 March 1989 . D 22.
- News: Milton Frome Is Dead; TV Straight Man, 78 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 24 March 1989 . B 5.
- News: Wally Heider Is Dead; Recording Engineer,66 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 25 March 1989 . 1 11.
- News: Stephen Holden . Stephen Holden . Arnett Cobb, 70, a Saxophonist . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 28 March 1989 . B 7.
- News: Albin Krebs . Malcolm Cowley, Writer, Is Dead at 90 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 29 March 1989 . D 25.
- News: Nick Bremigan, Baseball Umpire, 43 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 29 March 1989 . D 24.
- News: Bernard Blier, Actor, Dies at 73 . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 31 March 1989 . D 21.
- News: Bill Chappell Jr. Is Dead at 67; Served in the House for 20 Years . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 31 March 1989 . D 21.
- News: Francis Russell, 84, U.S. Envoy to 3 Lands . subscription . 28 March 2024 . . 2 April 1989 . 1 30.
- News: Obituary: Millard Owen Sheets . 26 May 2024 . Independent Coast Observer . Gualala, California . 16 . 7 Apr 1989 . 20 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210920231855/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85616451/obituary/ . live .