Bob Weston, 64, a British guitarist who played with Fleetwood Mac, has died.
Police say Weston’s body was found in his north London home Tuesday after neighbors raised the alarm.
Police said Friday that his death was not being treated as suspicious. An autopsy revealed the causes of death as gastric intestinal hemorrhage, cirrhosis of the liver and throat problems.
Weston joined Fleetwood Mac in 1972 as replacement for Danny Kirwan and played on the band’s albums “Penguin” and “Mystery to Me.” But during an American tour the next year, Mick Fleetwood discovered Weston was having an affair with his wife, Jenny Boyd. Weston was fired.
Cecil Pond, 87, a pioneer of the riding lawn mower and founder of Wheel Horse Products, has died.
Gary Pond of South Bend said his father died Dec. 30 in Palm City, Fla., about 10 days after falling ill and being hospitalized.
Born in 1924 in South Bend, Ind., Cecil Pond went to Purdue University for a year before joining the Army during World War II. He then returned to his hometown, where he and his father began making a small farm tractor out of their garage in 1946.
The company was first called Pond Tractor Co., but they changed the name to Wheel Horse Products because another family member had a company with a similar name, Gary Pond said.
Richard Alf, 59, one of the co-founders of San Diego’s Comic-Con, has died from pancreatic cancer.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Alf joined up with a band of volunteers in 1970 to start the now-annual convention celebrating comic books. Friend and fellow Comic-Con co-founder Mike Towry said Alf fronted a few thousand dollars to pay for the convention for the first three years and gave other co-founders rides in his car.
In 1970, the first Comic-Con was relatively modest compared with the convention that now draws more than 125,000 people to San Diego every summer for a three-day extravaganza.
Denver Post wire services
