He and current president Robert Mugabe got along famously, so much so Smith ended up moving to South Africa after he got his citizenship stripped.
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This is one I missed as well: Actress Sigrid Valdis (aka Patricia Olson), 72, died last month of lung cancer. She was actor Bob Crane's second wife.
The reason I missed it is because the death wasn't announced until Tuesday.
Apparently it was her wish for there not to be a bunch of publicity over her death:
"One of her last wishes in her will was that the funeral have no press, so we didn't contact the press (when she died), to honor her wishes," son Scotty Crane told the Los Angeles Times.
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