Deaths Elsewhere
Published 12:00 am Sunday, August 7, 2016
Deaths of note from around the world:
Helen Delich Bentley, 92: A Maryland journalist-turned-politician who elbowed her way as a woman into newsrooms, shipyards and the U.S. House of Representatives, distinguishing herself as one of her state’s foremost boosters of Baltimore’s port. Died Saturday in Timonium, Maryland, from brain cancer.
Pete Fountain, 86: The clarinetist became a global ambassador for New Orleans jazz with his flawlessly slippery technique and joyful sound. Died Saturday of heart failure while in hospice care in New Orleans.
Alan Bates, 71: An Oregon senator from Medford passed away Friday after spending the day fly-fishing on the Rogue River with his son.
— From wire reports