Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Friday, May 31, 2019

Deaths of note from around the world:

Leon Redbone, 69: A blues and jazz artist whose growly voice, Panama hat and cultivated air of mystery made him seem like a character out of the ragtime era or the Depression-era Mississippi Delta, died Thursday.

Claus von Bülow, 92: A Danish-born socialite who was convicted but later acquitted of trying to kill his wealthy wife, Martha “Sunny” von Bülow, so he could live with his mistress, a raven-haired soap opera actress, in two trials that drew intense international attention in the 1980s. Died Saturday at his home in London.

Curtis Blake, 102: A restaurateur who with his older brother built a single Massachusetts ice cream store in their hometown, Springfield, Massachusetts, into Friendly’s, a homey restaurant chain in the Eastern United States, which eventually expanded the business into hundreds of locations. Died May 24 at his home in Hobe Sound, Florida.

— From wire reports