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Lloyd Conover reading his vows to Katharine Meacham at their wedding in 2005, a double ceremony at which Ms. Meacham's granddaughter was also married.
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Lloyd Conover
Died on March 11, 2017 at age 93
Dr. Conover’s breakthrough invention of one of the most effective and widely prescribed antibiotics, tetracycline, led to a whole new approach to developing such drugs.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.