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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 2020
Page
6
Adelina M Connell 84 died Thursday June 25 2020 in Roswell. Services are pending at Ballard Funeral Home and Crematory with a further announcement when arrangements are finalized.
Eddie Kasko, longtime Red Sox figure and All-Star infielder, died at age 88. The New Jersey native played 10 major league seasons, managed Boston from 1970 to 1973, and later spent 21 years in the front office. He helped sign players like Roger Clemens and Mo Vaughn before his 2010 Hall of Fame induction.
Harry Britt, who followed Harvey Milk on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and served over 14 years, dies at 82. He helped push progressive and gay rights, authored a landmark domestic partners law, and fought AIDS and rent control expansion. He left the board in 1993.
Blaine Kern Sr. the New Orleans float builder who expanded Mardi Gras into a global spectacle died at 93 after a fall related infection. Kern founded Kern Studios in 1947 and pioneered double decker floats that boosted the carnival’s grandeur and crowds. Mayor Cantrell praised him as iconic to the city’s magic and history.
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., 82, the final of three Klansmen convicted in the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, died of natural causes in Donaldson prison. His 2001 murder conviction for the attack, which killed four Black girls, ended decades of halted investigations and prosecutions.
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