Remembering Those We Lost in 2016

Farewell...

Pat Harrington, Jr.
Michael Galeota
David Margulies
Noreen Corcoran
Dan Haggerty
Jo de Winter
Mike Minor
Abe Vigoda
Bob Elliott
Joe Alaskey 
Johnny Duncan
Harper Lee
George Kennedy
Jerry Maren
James Douglas
Nancy Davis Reagan
Robert Hogan
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Larry Drake
Joe Santos
Peter Brown
Ken Howard
Garry Shandling
Earl Hamner, Jr.
James Noble
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce)
Douglas Wilmer
Don Francks
Anne Jackson
Doris Roberts
Madeleine Sherwood
Ret Turner
William Schallert
Julius La Rosa
Morley Safer
Alan Young
Angela Paton
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Ann Morgan Guilbert
Stuart Nisbet
Noel Neill
John McMartin
Garry Marshall
Marni Nixon
Gloria DeHaven
David Huddleston
Barry Jenner
Fyvush Finkel
Jack Riley
Steven Hill
Gene Wilder
Hugh O'Brian
Bill Nunn
Agnes Nixon
Austin Kalish
Patricia Barry
Eddie Applegate
Michael Massee
Robert Vaughn
Florence Henderson
Ron Glass
Grant Tinker
Van Williams
Alice Drummond
Joseph Mascolo
Alan Thicke
Bernard Fox
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Carrie Fisher
Barbara Tarbuck
Debbie Reynolds
William Christopher

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