Effi Barry, 63, former first lady of Washington, D.C., who endured her husband’s very public sex and drug scandal during his tenure as mayor; Sept. 6, of leukemia.
Cuesta Benberry, 83, one of the nation’s foremost quilt scholars who pieced together the history of the art from castoff patches of information; Aug. 23, in St. Louis, of congestive heart failure.
Gay Brewer, 75, the 1967 Masters champion who won 11 times on the PGA Tour; Aug. 31, in Lexington, Ky., of cancer.
Kathryn Chandler, 91, among the first women in Chicago to get a private investigator license; Aug. 28, in Donaldson, Ind., of pancreatic ulcer complications.
Jennifer Dunn, 66, Washington state Republican who served in the U.S. House for six terms and became one of her party’s most visible leaders in the 1990s; Sept. 5, in Alexandria, Va., of a pulmonary embolism.
Dorsey Connors Forbes, mid-90s, television and radio personality who for decades wrote a syndicated household advice column for the Chicago Sun-Times; Sept. 5, in Chicago.
Rep. Paul Gillmor, 68, Ohio Republican who represented much of the northwestern and north-central part of the state; found dead Sept. 5, in Arlington, Va., after a fall.
Rev. D. James Kennedy, 76, Florida minister who took to the airwaves and became a force in driving conservative Christians to the polls; Sept. 5, in Ft. Lauderdale, of complications from a heart attack.
Madeleine L’Engle, 88, author who — in more than 50 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction — weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation; Sept. 6, in Litchfield, Conn.
Janis Martin, 67, teenage rockabilly sensation of the 1950s who was billed as “the female Elvis”; Sept. 3, in Durham, N.C., of cancer.
Luciano Pavarotti, 71, whose glorious, unforced tenor voice and gusto as a performer helped redefine tenor stardom at a level scarcely seen since Enrico Caruso; Sept. 6, in Modena, Italy, of pancreatic cancer.
Marvin Rothman, 79, structural engineer who for over half a century worked on Chicago projects from hospitals and schools to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Center and the renovated stands at Wrigley Field; Sept. 1, in Glenview.
John T. Scott, 67, New Orleans artist whose vibrantly colored kinetic art filtered the spirit of the African diaspora through a modernist lens; Sept. 1, in Houston, after a long fight with pulmonary fibrosis.
