Obituaries

1st Lt. David A. Johnson, 24, of Horicon, Wis., a platoon leader from Joint Base Lewis-McChord on his first deployment to Afghanistan, died Wednesday when a bomb went off while he was on foot patrol in Kandahar province.

Joe Paterno, 85, whose record-setting career as Pennsylvania State University's football coach — 46 years, 409 wins and two national championships — ended in his firing in November over his handling of child sex-abuse accusations against a former assistant, died last Sunday of lung cancer in State College, Pa.

James Farentino, 73, a tall, dark and dashing actor who in his nearly 100 roles on stage, screen and television often defied the stereotype of the leading man, even though he fit the picture, died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long illness.

Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema, 55, the con man extraordinaire from Fayetteville, N.C., who spent years in an Afghan prison for running a private jail and torture chamber while claiming to be a secret Pentagon operative, died Jan. 21 in Mexico of AIDS.

Charla Krupp, 58, a fashion writer whose best-selling 2008 book How Not to Look Old" inspired a 2010 follow-up, "How to Never Look Fat Again," died Monday in Manhattan of breast cancer.

John F. Baker Jr., 66, a retired Army master sergeant who was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War for rescuing wounded soldiers from an ambush and leading a daring counterassault, died of a heart ailment Jan. 20 in Columbia, S.C.

Kevin H. White, 82, a four-term mayor who led Boston through years of racial violence and economic stagnation and was credited with putting the city on a path to prosperity, died Friday. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Jacqueline G. Wexler, 85, a former Roman Catholic nun who fought the Vatican's authority over Webster College and won, then became president of Hunter College, died Thursday in Orlando, Fla.

Archbishop Robert Sanchez, 77, who as the nation's first Hispanic archbishop fought discrimination within the Catholic Church but who resigned in 1993 facing accusations that he had sex with several women when they were teenagers, died Friday in Albuquerque, N.M., in a nursing home for Alzheimer's patients.

U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown, 104, the nation's oldest sitting federal judge, who presided over significant and often complex cases right to the end, died Monday in Wichita, Kan.

Nicol Williamson, 75, a Scottish-born theater star heralded as one of the finest actors of his generation but whose unpredictability onstage and off diminished his career, died Dec. 16 in Amsterdam of esophageal cancer.

Dick Tufeld, 85, a radio and TV announcer best known as the voice of the robot whose warnings of "Danger, Will Robinson!" became a catchphrase of the 1960s television show "Lost in Space," died last Sunday in Los Angeles.

John Levy, 99, a bassist credited with being the first African-American personal manager in jazz, whose roster included some of the biggest names in jazz, died Friday in Altadena, Calif.

Joseph Mattioli, 86, founder and chairman of the Pocono Raceway, who ran the speedway for more than four decades, died Thursday in Allentown, Pa.

Eiko Ishioka, 73, a bold, Academy Award-winning visual artist whose surreal and sensual costumes were worn by Broadway actors, Olympic athletes, Cirque du Soleil performers and movie stars, died Jan. 21 in Tokyo of pancreatic cancer.

Miguel Nazar Haro, 87, who led Mexico's domestic spy agency and was accused of being behind the disappearances of alleged leftist guerrillas in the 1970s, died Thursday. No cause was given.