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DEATHS

Chicken magnate Franklin ''Frank'' Parsons Perdue (below), 84, chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of Perdue Farms Inc., of an undisclosed illness, March 31, in Salisbury, Md. . . .Harald Juhnke, 75, known as Germany's Frank Sinatra, after a long struggle with alcoholism, April 1, in Berlin. . . .songwriter Jack Keller, 68, who co-wrote the theme songs for Bewitched, Hazel, and Gidget, along with the Monkees' ''Your Auntie Grizelda,'' of acute leukemia, April 1, in Nashville. . . .Donald Carswell, 75, an NBC finance executive, of leukemia, March 25, in Brooklyn. . . .guitarist and songwriter Lee Mallory, 60, cofounder of the Millennium and a pioneer of the 1960s California sound, of liver cancer, March 21, in San Francisco. . . .Television producer and director Greg Garrison, 81, whose credits include Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows and The Dean Martin Show, of pneumonia, March 25, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. . . .Classical pianist Grant Johannssen, 83, a master of early-20th-century French composers, of unknown causes, March 27, near Berlin. . . .Poet Robert Creeley, 78, author of more than 60 collections of poetry and criticism, of complications from pneumonia, March 30, in Odessa, Tex. . . .San Francisco club owner and singer Ann Dee, 84, who helped launch the career of Johnny Mathis, of unspecified causes, March 22, in Joshua Tree, Calif.

Originally posted Apr 11, 2005 Published in issue #815 Apr 15, 2005 Order article reprints

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