Milestones

DIED Although she didn’t receive as much fan mail as the famed Annette Funicello, Cheryl Holdridge had an angelic and charismatic smile that made her one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the 1950s TV show The Mickey Mouse Club. She was 64.

• With her husband Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen often created large outdoor sculptures like the 38-ft.-tall (12 m) flashlight she installed at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Van Bruggen was 66.

• In addition to winning an Oscar in 1966 for his short film Le Poulet, Claude Berri helped craft the sensibility of French New Age cinema. He was known for his lush cinematography and neatly resolved plots, and he worked as a producer for directors such as Roman Polanski and Milos Forman. Berri was 74.

• He adored the family business and made others love it too. Don Callender persuaded his mother Marie Callender to open a chain of pie shops that eventually went national and sold for about $80 million in 1986. He was 81.

• Leo Fender designed the Stratocaster guitar, but in 1954, Don Randall created the name. Rock stars galore have been devoted to the instrument, which Randall’s marketing acumen helped rocket to fame. He was 91.

• As the falsetto in the gospel group the Swan Silvertones, which he founded, Claude Jeter influenced a number of performers with songs such as “Careless Soul” and “Mary Don’t You Weep.” The latter has a lyric that inspired Simon and Garfunkel’s famous tune “Bridge over Troubled Water.” Jeter was 94.