Obituary List of Various Notables Including Hugo Chávez and Former CEOs

prison. Died Feb. 28. March Bonnie Franklin, 69. The actress best known for playing divorced mother Ann Romano in the U.S. television show “One Day at a Time,” which aired from 1975 to 1984. Died March 1 of pancreatic cancer. James Strong, 68. Former CEO of Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s biggest airline, and former chairman of Woolworths Ltd., the country’s largest retailer. Died March 3 in Sydney of complications from surgery. Hugo Chavez, 58. President of Venezuela since 1998, who used the country’s oil wealth to help the poor, nationalized corporations and dismissed foes as puppets of U.S. imperialism. Died March 5 of cancer. John J. Byrne, 80. He led Geico Corp. from 1976 to 1985 and saved the insurer from bankruptcy, leading Warren Buffett to buy the company and call him “the Babe Ruth of insurance.” Died March 7 of prostate cancer. Michael P. Duffy, 54. As the head of JPMorgan’s Dallas-based Chase Paymentech unit, he helped make the bank one of the largest U.S. processors of credit-card and electronic payments. Died March 7 of cancer. Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, 90. Last survivor of a group of German army officers, who tried unsuccessfully to kill Adolf Hitler. Died March 8. Elizabeth Cheval, 56. She founded EMC Capital Management Inc., a Bannockburn, Illinois-based investment firm. Died March 9 in China after suffering a brain aneurysm during a business trip. leng Sary, 87. Former foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge, who died while on trial for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s. Died March 14. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013280