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Recent Deaths Sharon Sheeley, hit songwriter in 1950s, dies at 62 LjS walk in Riverside, Calif. Smith died after someone drove up in a truck and hit him. He was rushed to Riverside Community Hospital where he died later that night. No arrests have been made. Smith was Cochran, who sang "Summertime Blues" and "Cmon Everybody." Cochran has a wide following in England and was killed in a 60s," Sheeley's friend Elizabeth Asher said Saturday.

"She was such a California gal so she was always in a miniskirt and sandals, then complained about being cold all the time." Darwood Smith, 72, who played Waldo in the "Our Gang" series, died Wednesday after he was struck on the head while on a daily Sharon Sheeley, 62, the songwriter who as a teen-ager wrote the 1950s hit "Poor Little Fool," died in Los Angeles on Friday of complications following a cerebral hemorrhage. Rick Nelson, teen idol and star of TV's "Ozzie and Harriet," recorded "Poor Little Fool," and it climbed to the top of the charts in 1958. Sheeley also was the girlfriend of guitarist Eddie car crash there at Sheeley age 21. "My most vivid memory of Sharon was of her living in London in the swingin' Nicknamed "The Kid," he arrived in Gallipoli in late November 1915, and by Dec. 20 he was gone in the grand evacuation that ended the campaign.

Australian and New Zealand volunteers formed the backbone of a British-led army that landed at Gallipoli in a failed attempt to capture Istanbul and knock the German-allied Ottoman Empire out of the war. After the war, Campbell became a builder, served as a senior public servant and gained an economics degree in his 50s. He sailed in the grueling Sydney-Hobart yacht race six times. Kosan Yanaglya, 87, a popular storyteller recognized by the Japanese government as an official national treasure, died Thursday in Tokyo. With his round, smiling face, the bald Yanagiya was well known for his skillful use of a Japanese fan while performing MS 4 known as Darwood Kaye when he was a child.

He appeared in 22 of the "Our Gang" comedies, working with other child actors, including Robert Blake. Smith also was in a 1944 Lucille Ball film called "Best Foot Forward." When Smith was a teen, he became a Christian and ended his acting career. Smith became a pastor in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and lived in Thailand for 14 years performing missionary work. Alec Campbell, 103, the last living Australian known to have fought in the bloody World War I Gallipoli campaign and possibly the last from any nation died Thursday on the southern island state of Tasmania. Campbell lied about his age to enlist at age 16.

4 ye Car? Center "rakugo." The art form, which has its roots in the 17th century, is a popular form of comic monologue in which performers don kimonos and tell stories while kneeling on a cushioa Yanagiya, who often appeared on television, served as chairman of the Rakugo Association, a grouping of 225 storytellers in Tokyo, from 1972 to 1996. In 1995, he was designated a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government, the first rakugo storyteller to be so recognized. George Cates, 90, a composer, arranger, conductor and record producer who began playing tenor sax in various bands and later became musical director of "The Lawrence Welk Show," died May 10. in Los Angeles of heart failure. Welk's theme song, "Champagne Time," was composed by Cates, who expected nothing more than to make a record or two when he met Welk in 1951.

Instead, Cates became an integral part of the Welk professional family, appearing regularly on the show and later conducting the Welk band on camera. With his own orchestra, Cates also hit the top40 charts with his 1955 recording of "Moonglow" and "Theme From Picnic." Bill Peet, 87, a Disney illustrator and writer revered for drawing such characters as Dumbo and creating the screenplay for "101 Dalmatians," died May 11 at his home in Los Angeles. He recently had pneumonia, and battled cancer and heart problems over the past several years. Peet helped develop a series of storyboards that later became some of Disney's first animated films. Among the Disney classics featuring Peet's talents are "Fantasia," released in 1940, "Song of the South" in 1946, "Cinderella" in 1950, "Alice in Wonderland" in 1951, and "Sleeping Beauty" in 1959.

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