In Remembrance...2008

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Jim Hager, one of the Hager Twins, died May 1. He was 66.

The Hager Twins were charter cast members of Hee Haw, and delivered corny one liners on the show. The twins were also drummers and guitarists.

 

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Cartoonist Ted Key, creator of the comic strip Hazel (which was adapted into a popular TV series starring Shirley Booth), died last Saturday. He was 95.

Key also created the cartoon characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

 

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Mildred Loving, a black woman whose marriage to Richard Loving (who was white) led the Supreme Court to strike down bans on interracial marriage, died last Friday. She was 68.

 

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Irvine Robbins, who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store, died Monday. He was 90.

 

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Eddy Arnold, one of the most successful country singers in history, and one of the first to cross over into pop, died yesterday. He was almost 90.

 

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Beverlee McKinsey, who played Iris Carrington on Another World and Alexandra Spaulding on The Guiding Light, died May 2 from complications following a kidney transplant. She was 72.

 

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Artist Robert Rauschenberg, known for his use of odd and everyday articles in his works, died Monday. He was 82.

Raushenberg won a Grammy for designing the cover of the Talking Heads album Speaking in Tongues.

 

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Comic book artist Will Elder, one of the first artists to work on Mad magazine, died yesterday. He was 86.

Elder also co-created (with Mad head writer Harvey Kurtzman) the comic strip "Little Annie Fanny" for Playboy.

 

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Actor John Philllip Law, best known for playing the blind angel Pygar in Barbarella, died Tuesday. He was 70.

Law was also in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming and numerous films and TV shows.

 

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Zelma Henderson, the last surviving plaintiff in the case Brown vs. Board of Education, died Tuesday, six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 88.

Henderson, who had attended integrated schools in Oakley, Kansas, joined the case when she learned her kids would have to attend a segregated school in Topeka.