Obituaries

Anti-abortion activist and physician Mildred Jefferson, 84. She was once president of the National Right to Life Committee.
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Actor Tom Bosley, 83, best known for his role on the 1970's sitcom Happy Days. He had been battling a staph infection although no cause of death was given.
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Supercentenarian Elsie Steele, 111 years and 246 days, the oldest person in the UK, died Monday. She was 80 days short of her 112th birthday.
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One-time child actor Johnny Sheffield, best remembered as playing "Boy" in several of the Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s, of a heart attack following a fall when he was pruning a tree. He was 79.

Considering the late Nevada governor Kenny Guinn died in similar circumstances, it behooves older people not to attempt to do hard physical labor, especially from high places. I wish my former landlord would heed my advice.