Louise Hermey Stanford

Age: 62

Summary: civil rights volunteer who sounded the alarm when three civil rights workers went missing in Mississippi in a case that shocked the U.S., in which the deaths of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were dramatized in the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.

Cause of Death: Breast cancer

Born: February 27, 1943

Died: October 18, 2005

Location: Lampasas, Texas