PASSINGS
Dave Hamrick, a one-time press secretary for former Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack after he collapsed while playing soccer. He was 51.
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Marc Moreland, lead guitarist of the 1980s new wave band Wall of Voodoo, died Wednesday in France of complications from a liver transplant. Moreland, who grew up in West Covina, was 44.
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R. Keith Walden, founder of Farmers Investment Co., the firm that supplies about 5% of the nation’s pecans, died March 11 after a short illness in Green Valley, Ariz. He was 88.
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