And in the same week

Doris Day.

One of the cleanest voices in American music, she amazingly remained a fresh voice from the 40s through the 50s, a period of immense change in American music.  I always think of her signature song being the World War Two era Sentimental Journey, but perhaps more people now associate her with Que Sera Sera, which recently enjoyed an odd resurgence thanks to an incredibly creepy Samsung television ad.  Defined by her voice and her appearance, her life was somewhat more turbulent, but not the absurd extent that some entertainment personalities tend to be.

While Day's personal life was a bit dramatic, she was married four times, although during that period she was widowed once, she wouldn't compromise her image on the movie screen even thought that hurt her career in the 1960s.  She turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, which in retrospect absolutely seems like the right decision.  Indeed, while few will now admit it, The Graduate now seems absurdly dated and even a parody of the values it it is supposed to both represent and lampoon, while Day's earlier films such as the The Man Who Knew Too Much seems more contemporary.

She was 97.

Tim Conway.

Tim Conway was a comic genius who came out of radio.  He rose up to national fame in McHale's Navy and had hit and miss television and movie success after that.  His real genius came through in the Carol Burnett Show in which his performances were often so funny that his colleagues could not restrain themselves from laughing during them.  Various skits from that show have gone on to be individual legends, with my favorite being the reluctant Japanese Kamikaze pilot.

In his personal life Conway was a devout, but acknowledgedly not perfect, Catholic.  Baptized and raised as a Romanian Orthodox Christian (his mother was Romanian Orthodox), he converted to Catholicism when he was introduced to it by a girlfriend.  In his career his religious values, which he held strongly, reflected themselves in that he never made use of foul language or off color humor at any point, while remaining unquestionably hugely funny.

He was 85.