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An alphabetical listing of names beginning with the letters P and Q which have been in RECENT DEATHS since we started that feature. Names remain in RECENT DEATHS for two months, based on date of death.
After two months, they are moved here in the DEATHS ARCHIVES. For a listing of people who have died less than two months ago, visit RECENT DEATHS.

William Packard - November 3, 2002 (69) Founder of The New York Quarterly
Tereesa Padgett - August 15, 2003 (82) [Complications from a stroke] Former city clerk for Boynton Beach, Florida
LaWanda Page - September 14, 2002 (81) Actress
Kurt Pahlen - July 24, 2003 (96) [Pneumonia] Writer and conductor
Bruce Paltrow - October 2, 2002 (58) Television and movie producer and director
Norman Panama - January 13, 2003 (88) [Complications of Parkinson's disease] Screenwriter and director
Joe Paone - August 15, 2003 (60) [Lung cancer] Chief deputy district attorney for Albuquerque, New Mexico
Fran Papasedero - June 12, 2003 (34) [Car crash] Arena Football League coach of the Orlando Predators
Freidann Parker - August 2, 2002 (77) Co-founder of the Colorado Ballet
Mary Parr - October 29, 2002 (113) Oldest person in the United States at the time of her death
Claude Passeau - August 30, 2003 (94) Former pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies
Brandon Patch - July 26, 2003 (18) [Struck in the head by a batted baseball] American Legion baseball pitcher
George E. Paterno - June 22, 2002 (73) Former Penn State football broadcaster
Dennis Patrick - October 13, 2002 (84) Actor
Robert Pearman - August 31, 2002 (72) Former managing editor of the Omaha World-Hearld and The Kansas City Star
Donald J. Pease - July 28, 2002 (70) Former United States House of Representatives member
Gregory Peck - June 12, 2003 (87) Actor
Paul Pender - January 12, 2003 (72) [Alzheimer's disease] Former middleweight boxing champion
Pat Pepper - August 16, 2003 (58) [Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] Former mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida and former housing and community development director for the Florida Department of Community Affairs
Victor Haim Perera - June 14, 2003 (69) [Stroke] Writer
Michael Perking - August 14, 2003 (45) [Drowned] Chairman of the Brigham Young University communications department
Vlado Perlemuter - September 4, 2002 (98) Pianist
Sarah Pettit - January 22, 2003 (36) [Lymphoma] Co-founder of Out magazine and senior editor of the Arts and Entertainment section of Newsweek magazine
Theodore Petty - September 21, 2002 (49) Professional wrestler as Flyboy Rocco Rock and half of tag-team Public Enemy
John Peyser - August 16, 2002 (86) Movie and television director
Walter L. Pforzheimer - February 10, 2003 (88) One of the founding CIA officials
Donald G. Phelps - July 5, 2003 (73) Head of the University of Texas Men's Intercollegiate Athletics Council
Wendell C. Phillippi - July 12, 2003 (85) Former managing editor of The Indianapolis News
Jim Phillips - September 8, 2003 (69) [Abdominal aortic aneurysm] Play-by-play radio announcer for Clemson Tigers football, Clemson basketball and baseball
Margaret "Peg" Phillips - November 7, 2002 (84) Actress. Played Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure.
Sam Phillips - July 30, 2003 (80) [Respiratory failure] Founder of Sun Records. Discovered Elvis Presley.
William Phillips - September 13, 2002 (94) Co-founder and former editor of the Partisan Review
David A. Phillipson - August 15, 2002 (79) Former senior vice president and general manager of The Upjohn Company
Sorrells Pickard (Real name James W. Bazzell Jr.) - July 5, 2003 (63) [Heart attack] Actor, musician, songwriter and actor
Bill Piehl - May 19, 2004 (70) Amarillo, Texas philanthropist and founder of Western Sales & Testing
Charles Lee Pillmore - August 22, 2003 (73) Geologist
Sidney Pink - October 12, 2002 (86) Movie producer
Willa Player - August 27, 2003 (94) Former president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina
Charles Poletti - August 8, 2002 (99) Former New York governor
Darrell Porter - August 5, 2002 (50) Former major league baseball catcher
George Porter - August 31, 2002 (81) Nobel Prize winning chemist
Harvey H. Posner - August 23, 2003 (84) Former U.S. bankruptcy judge in Louisiana
Vivian Potamkin - November 24, 2002 (87) [Breast cancer] Philanthropist and art collector
Chaim Potok - July 23, 2002 (73) Writer
Henry Potter - May 27, 2002 (83) Navigator for the first United States bombing raid against Japan in World War II
Richard Pough - June 24, 2003 (99) [Brain cancer] Writer and conservationist
Kenneth Povish - September 5, 2003 (79) [Cancer] Former bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing, Michigan
Edmund Taylor Pratt - September 5, 2002 (75) Former chairman of Pfizer Incorporated
Valetta Press - September 11, 2002 (74) News producer for television station WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois
Datus Proper - July 27, 2003 (69) [Drowned] Former U.S. diplomat and writer
Roman C. Pucinski - September 25, 2002 (83) Former member of the U.S. Congress and former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times
Richard I. Queen - August 14, 2002 (51) Former hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran
Glenn Quinn - December 3, 2002 (32) [Drug overdose] Actor. Played Mark Healy on Roseanne and Doyle on Angel.