A largely self-taught musician, Les McCann joined the Navy in the 1950s and was stationed in California. In 1956, he won a Navy talent contest as a singer and appeared on the “Ed Sullivan Show,” according to the 2007 book “The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.”

Doug J.J. Peters was a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1988 to 1998, served in Operation Desert Storm and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal.

Dick Szlasa, whose Hall of Fame lacrosse coaching career was highlighted by a successful 10-year stint at Navy, died Saturday night at Autumn Lake Healthcare in Manchester, Md., after being in failing health for many months. He was 87 years old.

Guy Stern, director of the International Institute of the Righteous at The Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) and Holocaust survivor, whose contributions as a United States intelligence officer helped to defeat Nazi Germany, has died.

At 104, Betty Printz Sims was believed to be the oldest-living female Marine before she died last week.

Norman Lear, who flew 52 missions as a radio operator and gunner on a B-17 over Europe during World War II, revolutionized prime-time television in the 1970s with groundbreaking, socially relevant situation comedies such as “All in the Family,” “Maude” and “The Jeffersons.” He has died at 101.

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Bronka Sundstrom — who outlasted Nazi concentration camps and later settled in Tacoma and Ashford, becoming a hiking folk hero at Mount Rainer National Park — died Wednesday in Lacey from congestive heart failure

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Peter J. Boylan Jr. died Sunday morning at his home in Milledgeville surrounded by family. He was 87.

The Rev. Frank Dukes, an early leader in Birmingham’s Civil Rights Movement and a veteran of the Korean War, died over the weekend at age 92. As student government association president at Miles College, Dukes in 1962 organized students to challenge Birmingham’s segregationist policies.

Roland Lajoie had a storied but largely behind-the-scenes career in which he rose to major general, became one of the Army’s leading experts on the Soviet military and managed dangerous Cold War tensions.