Broadcaster and writer Melvyn Bragg is 70. Actress Britt Ekland is 67. Singer Millie Small is 63. The president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, is 61. Singer-musician Thomas McClary is 60. CBS chief executive officer Les Moonves is 60. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 58. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 55. Former NFL player and coach Tony Dungy is 54. Actress Elisabeth Shue is 46. Singer Matthew Sweet is 45. Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 43. Country singer Tim Rushlow is 43. Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 43. Actress Amy Jo Johnson is 39. Actress Emily Mortimer is 38. Actor Lamman Rucker is 38. Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 36.
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• Rita M. Fitzgerald, 69, Grand Junction, died Oct. 4, 2009, at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Services are pending with Snell McLean Funeral Home.
She was a mail handler.
Survivors include two sons, Dean Naslund and Brandy Jenkins, both of Nucla; two daughters, Dana Archuleta of Grand Junction and Kelly Tomlinson of Nucla; two sisters, Sandra Poole of Naturita and Judy Brown of Palisade; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
• Dewey Hapken, 88, Grand Junction, died Oct. 4, 2009, at Aspen Ridge Care Center.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary, with private inurnment following at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado.
Survivors include his wife, Irene; one son, Gary of Lakewood; one daughter, Evelyn Pearsall of Statesville, N.C.; one brother, Jim of Phoenix; six grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
