PASSINGS

Darryl DeLoach, the original lead singer of the rock band Iron Butterfly, died Oct. 2 of liver cancer. DeLoach appeared on the group’s 1968 debut album, “Heavy,” but left before it released its rock classic “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.” He left the music business in the early ‘70s and became a restaurateur in his hometown of San Diego. He was 55.

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John Lukacs, a real estate lawyer with oral and bladder cancer, died Monday in Coral Gables, Fla., less than three months after winning a $37.5-million jury award against tobacco companies Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson and the Liggett Group. The award came as part of $144.8 billion in punitive damages in a class-action lawsuit involving as many as 700,000 Florida smokers. Lukacs was 77.

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Margaret Crom, known as one of the oldest 4-H volunteers in the United States, died Sunday in Campbell, Neb. Crom began working for the largely rural youth organization as a club leader in 1955. She was 106.