Hedda Bolgar at 99 in the garden of her Brentwood home. She continued to see psychoanalysis patients until a few weeks before her death on Monday at 103. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Lucinda Marker throws her arm around her husband, John Tull, at a 2004 news conference in New York. Both were diagnosed with bubonic plague during a 2002 visit to the city. (Jennifer Szymaszek / Associated Press)