CARLATA BRADLEY

Before Wheel of Fortune, Pat Sajak
served as a disc jockey during the
Vietnam War in Vietnam on the
Armed Forces Radio.

TV game show host Patrick Leonard
Sajak is 78 today.

Phil Lesh, one of the founding members and bassist for the
band Grateful Dead, has died. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked
him as the 11th greatest bass player.

His death was confirmed on his official Instagram page, which
said he "passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded
by his family and full of love." He was 84 years old. 

Elizabeth Francis (July 25, 1909 – October 22, 2024)

Elizabeth Francis, the oldest person in the U.S., died peacefully
at the age of 115 on Tuesday, October 22nd.

According to LongeviQuest, a database on the world’s oldest
people, Francis was the third-oldest person in the world at the
time of her death.

Ronald Pierce Ely
(June 21, 1938 – September 29, 2024)

Ron Ely died at the home of one of his daughters in
Santa Barbara on September 29, 2024. His death
was not made public until his daughter Kristen
revealed it today.

Ely is best known for having portrayed Tarzan in the
1966–1968 NBC series Tarzan and for playing the
lead role in the film Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
(1975). He hosted the Miss America pageant telecast
in 1980 and 1981.

NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. —Lt. Cmdr.
Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, left, a naval flight officer, and Lt. 
Serena N. Wileman, 31, a naval aviator, were killed Tuesday
afternoon, Oct. 15, when their EA-18G Growler crashed near
Mount Rainier during a routine training flight at around 3:30
PM Pacific time.