Year in Review: Notable Women

12/27/2012

Yesterday, we looked at a few of the famous faces we lost in 2012, as well as the tragedies that touched our hearts. Today, we focus in on the notable women who took their final bow in the past year. Writers and singers and actresses, a comedian and a poet and an athlete, astronauts and a pilot, and six heroic teachers… they are all deeply missed.

Etta James	Florence Green	Janice Voss
Whitney Houston	Sally Gordon	Jan Berenstain
Adrienne Rich	Evelyn Bryan Johnson	Donna Summer
Erica Kennedy	Nora Ephron	Doris Sams
Kitty Wells	Sally Ride	Margaret Mahy
Suzy Gershman	Helen Gurley Brown	Phyllis Diller
Helen Milliken	Deborah Raffin	Jenni Rivera
Rachel D'Avino	Dawn Hochsprung	Anne Marie Murphy
Lauren Rousseau	Mary Sherlach	Victoria Soto