Ron Ray Jessie (February 4, 1948 – January 13, 2006) was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills. He played college football at the University of Kansas.
A. Laurence Lyon (1934–2006) was a composer of music, usually sacred music with a Latter-day Saint theme. He also served for 30 years as a professor at Western Oregon University.Lyon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands where his father, T. Edgar Lyon was serving as president of the Netherlands Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).Lyon created his first composition at 12. He was first called as an organist for a congregation of the LDS Church when he was 16 years old. That same year, he wrote and premiered a sextet for brass and woodwinds at Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He served as a LDS Church missionary in the Netherlands Mission, and organized and directed the choir from that mission that sang at the dedication of the Swiss Temple. In 1958 he married Donna Reeder in the Salt Lake Temple.After his mission, Lyon received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music.From 1967 until 1997, Lyon was a professor of music at Western Oregon University. He was also president of Modern Music Methods, a publisher of string music for children.Lyon has been involved with the music for many LDS Church temple dedications. He wrote an arrangement of "The Morning Breaks" specifically for the dedication of the Oakland California Temple and directed choirs that performed at the dedications of the Portland Oregon Temple and the Seattle Washington Temple.Lyon served on multiple occasions in LDS bishoprics and on stake high councils. He was a member of the General Sunday School board in 1967 and of the general church music committee from 1985-1993. From 1999 until 2000, he and his wife served as missionaries in the Chile Osorno Mission.Two of Lyon's works are included in the 1985 edition of the LDS Church hymnbook. They are "Each Life That Touches Ours For Good" and "Saints, Behold How Great Jehovah." He also wrote seven works in the Primary Children's Songbook.Over 200 arrangements and compositions by Lyon were published. Many of his choral and organ works were featured on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's weekly broadcasts. Among his works was the oratorio "Visions of Light and Truth," which was commissioned by BYU-Idaho.
Otis Cary (October 20, 1921 – April 14, 2006) was an American Japanologist.
Richard Lea Dickey (October 26, 1926 – July 3, 2006) was an American professional basketball player for the National Professional Basketball League's Anderson Packers and National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics, although he is best remembered for his college career while playing at NC State.
Edwin Frank "Win" Young (September 29, 1947 – June 22, 2006) was an American diver. He represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a bronze medal in 10 m platform.Young was a six-time All-American diver for Indiana University and won the gold medal in 10 m platform at the 1967 Pan American Games. In retirement he coached diving at the University of Arizona.Young died in 2006, aged 58. He was survived by his daughter, Heather Marie Burgoyne.
Joyce Lonergan (March 5, 1934 – January 17, 2006) was an American politician who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987.Born in Benton County, Lonergan graduated from Boone High School and attended Boone Junior College.
Sally Fox (née Cherniavsky; December 30, 1929 – February 25, 2006) was an American photographer, art collector and editor. She worked as a photographer, coordinator and picture editor for Houghton Mifflin and was especially known for her curated collections of historical images of women's lives which she published during the 1980s.
Jorge Rossi Chavarría (January 25, 1922 – January 3, 2006) was a Costa Rican politician. He was a lawyer, businessman. He co-founded the National Liberation Party (PLN) with Jose Figueres. He was Vice President of Costa Rica from 1970 to 1974 and representative from 1986 to 1990.
Rossi was the son of José Monge and Chavarría Amalia Flores. At age 15, was national champion chess second category (1937). He earned a degree in law at the University of Costa Rica and joined the Bar Association on June 12, 1945. He served as president of the Graduate Student Council. During the Revolution of 1948, and his brothers Alvaro and Hernán joined the revolutionary army known Caribbean Legion.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. During the years 1947 and 1948, he served as legal advisor to the Costa Rican Confederation of Workers of Rerum novarum. He co-founded the National Liberation Party (PLN) in 1951.
He served as Minister of Economy and Finance during the second term of Figueres Ferrer (1953 to 1956). He was the president of the Central Bank of Costa Rica from November 1970 to May 1971.As an entrepreneur, founded the company customs Corman, one of the most important of the country and was one of the main drivers of banana production.
In 2002, he published " La traición de los leales " - under the auspices of the UNED - an autobiography where he recounted his life throughout the twentieth century.
In his private life was supernumerary of the Personal prelature of Opus Dei. He was involved in social work, promoting projects to provide land and housing for farmers and workers. The exact scope of its social work is unknown, since he always tried to remain anonymous. As the newspaper Nacion stated the day after his death, he will be remembered as "the patriot" in business and government circles and among his friends, "because of his great contribution to the nation's development."He had three children from his first marriage to Virginia Umaña Volio.
Jorge Rossi Chavarria died of a heart attack at the age of 84.
Kenneth Wayne Brewer (November 28, 1941 – March 15, 2006) was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico University in the 1960s, then earned a master's degree in English literature from New Mexico State University, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where he worked with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor, in 1973. Since that time he taught a wide variety of courses at Utah State University, concentrating on mentoring creative writers at the graduate level, while publishing prolifically and speaking extensively. He died after a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Guillermo Keys-Arenas (born 1928, El Ebano, Mexico — d. 31 January 2006, Sydney, Australia) — was a dancer and choreographer. He is remembered for his eight-year association with Ballet Folklorico de Mexico for which he was artistic coordinator and ballet master, as well as his contribution to dance in Australia.