Since 18 November 1978, numerous people associated with Peoples Temple and Jonestown have died. Each death permanently removes part of the Jonestown story, and makes it more imperative to recover that which remains.

The following is a list of people whose obituaries were published in the newspaper cited after each reference. Please note: the dates indicate the day the obituary was published and its location, rather than the date of death. These obituaries can be also found on the web at various proprietary news services, such as Lexis-Nexis. The people are listed in alphabetical order, not in chronological order of their deaths.

Former Temple members

• Paula Adams, Temple leader and companion to Laurence Mann (10/26/83, Washington Post)
• Richard Clark, who survived the deaths in Jonestown by leaving the community on the morning of 18 November, died in 2003. Rev. Clark, who was born in Mississippi, was 66.
• Richard William Cordell, one of the Cordells, a key Indianapolis family in Temple history (December 1983 in Pallyup, WA, according to Cordell family genealogy)
• Grover Cleveland Davis, Temple survivor (date unknown)
• Miguel DePina, Temple survivor, was ill with stomach cancer in November 1978 and died in 1979. Remembrances appear here.
• Kay Henderson, former Temple member (March 2006). See remembrance here.
• Archie Ijames, long-time member of Peoples Temple from Indianapolis, assistant pastor (date unknown)
• Norman Ijames, the son of Rosie and Archie Ijames, and one of the few Temple members with a pilot’s license, died in a plane crash in South America in the 1980s.
• Rosie Ijames, long-time member of Peoples Temple from Indianapolis, wife of Archie (date unknown)
• Richard Janaro, who was on a Temple boat off the coast of Guyana at the time of the deaths in Jonestown, died in early 2003 after a long illness. He was 83. He is survived by his wife, Claire, a Temple member who was in Georgetown on November 18. The Janaros’ two children – Mauri Kay, 15, and Darren Richard, 14 – died in Jonestown.
• Ruby Johnson, who survived the deaths in Jonestown because she was in Georgetown on November 18, died earlier this decade.
• Suzanne Jones, adopted daughter of Jim and Marceline Jones (November 2006)
• Ruth Ellen Kerns Reinhardt, a former member of Peoples Temple who became a nurse practitioner (January 2006).
• Al & Jeannie Mills, aka Elmer & Deanna Mertle, two early defectors from Peoples Temple, and founders of the Concerned Relatives and the Human Freedom Center (2/28/80, Washington Post) were murdered in their home in Berkeley, California in February 1980, along with their daughter Daphene, 15. The crime was never solved.
• Tyrone Mitchell, Temple survivor (2/25/84, New York Times)
• Michael Prokes, spokesperson for Peoples Temple, by suicide (3/14/79). His statement to the press before his death is here.
• Shirley Purifoy defected from Peoples Temple with her husband Bill and 13 other relatives on New Years Day 1976 (Summer 2006).
• Aurora Rodriguez, who survived the deaths in Jonestown because she was in Georgetown on November 18, died earlier this decade.
• David Richard Shular, a former member of Peoples Temple (5/7/04) (See remembrances for David here and here)
• Ricky Stahl, a former member of Peoples Temple who was related to several people who died in Jonestown, died in the 1980s.
• Bobby Stroud, Temple survivor (2/23/05). (See remembrances here)
• Helen Swinney, Temple survivor (late 1990s – exact date unknown – in South Carolina)
• Hyacinth Thrash, Temple survivor (11/22/95, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Charlie Touchette, who was one of Jonestown’s original settlers and who survived the tragedy by being on the Temple’s boat, the Cudjoe (March 30, 2007).

Relatives of Temple members

• Charlotte and Walter Baldwin, the parents of Marceline Jones who visited Jonestown in October 1978 less than a month before the tragedy, have died. The dates of their deaths are unknown.
• Fred Lewis, a San Francisco butcher who lost 27 relatives in Jonestown, died on May 14, 2003 after a long illness. His relatives in Jonestown included his wife, Doris, and seven children. His niece, Rev. Jynona Norwood, leads the annual memorial service at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland.
• Barbara Moore, the mother of Carolyn Layton and Annie Moore and grandmother of Kimo Prokes (6/21/04) (See a remembrance here)   
• Robert Moore, uncle of Carolyn Moore Layton and Ann Elizabeth Moore (January 2007). See remembrance here. An article he wrote for Ten Years After Jonestown, a collection of essays published by Edwin Mellen Press in 1989, appears here.
• Beverly and Howard Oliver, who were active with the Concerned Relatives organization in an effort to remove her sons, Bruce and Bill, from Jonestown, have died. Beverly died in 2002. Howard pre-deceased his wife, although his date of death is unknown.
• Martin Tropp, brother of Richard and Harriet Tropp (December 2006)

U.S. and California Government figures

• John Burke, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana (8/10/93, Washington Post)
• Joseph Freitas Jr., San Francisco District Attorney (4/19/06, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Richard Dwyer, U.S. Embassy official (8/31/91, Washington Post)
• Harvey Milk, San Francisco Board of Supervisors (12/3/78, Washington Post)
• George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (12/1/78, Washington Post)
• Robert Ode, U.S. Embassy official in Guyana in months after November 1978 (9/11/95, New York Times)
• Cyrus Vance, U.S. Secretary of State during Jonestown body evacuation (1/14/2002, New York Times)

Guyana officials and figures

• Forbes Burnham, Guyana Prime Minister (8/7/85, Washington Post)
• Desmond Hoyte, who served as Guyana’s Minister of Development in Forbes Burnham’s government during the life of Jonestown – and whom the Jonestown leadership considered as an antagonist to their cause – died in December 2002. Information about his life and other tributes may be found here.
• Cheddi Jagan, head of Guyanese political opposition (3/7/97, Los Angeles Times)
• Sir Lionel Luckhoo, Guyana lawyer (12/22/97, London Daily Telegraph)
• Laurence E. Mann, Guyana’s ambassador to the U.S. Also known as "Bonny" Mann, the Ambassador killed his partner Paula Adams, their child, and then himself. (10/26/83, Washington Post)
• Leslie Mootoo, Guyana pathologist at Jonestown following deaths (2/28/2000, Guyana Chronicle)
• The Rev. Andrew Morrison, a priest who ran a Catholic newspaper in Georgetown and criticized Guyana's government for failing to do more to prevent the Jonestown massacre (28 January 2004, Associated Press)
• Ptolemy Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana (9/4/03, Guyana Chronicle)
• Walter Rodney, political activist in Guyana, was assassinated in Guyana on December 13, 1980
• Vincent Teekah, Guyana’s Minister of Education who had close ties with Jim Jones and who certified the Jonestown school, was assassinated in Guyana in October 1979.

Other

• Michael Bellefountaine, a frequent contributor to the jonestown report and the author of A Lavender Look at Peoples Temple, a history of gays and lesbians in the Temple (May 10, 2007). An obituary for Michael appears here. Numerous remembrances appear here.
• Rev. Hamilton Boswell, pastor of Jones United Methodist Church in San Francisco’s Fillmore district who shared the critical views of most African American pastors of Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (May 6, 2007). His daughter’s obituary appears here.
• Robert Fabian, Peoples Temple receiver following November 1978 (6/11/93, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Charles Garry, attorney for Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (8/17/91, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Carlton Goodlett, newspaper publisher and physician to Jim Jones (1/27/97, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Chris Hatcher, psychiatrist who met with returning Temple members after November 18 (2/27/99, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Joe Holsinger, an aide to Rep. Leo Ryan at the time of the congressman’s assassination and a persistent critic of official government findings on the deaths in Guyana (9/10/04). An appreciation of him appeared in the Congressional Record.
• John Jacobs, reporter, co-author of Raven (5/25/00, Los Angeles Times)
• Joseph Mazor, private detective hired by Concerned Relatives to try to get relatives to leave Jonestown, killed by his wife (11/16/85, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Steven Rose, author of Jesus and Jim Jones (date unknown)
• Garrett Scott, documentary film-maker working on Peoples Temple project at time of his death (3/1/06)
• Margaret Singer, psychologist and Peoples Temple critic (11/23/03)
• Feodor Timofeyev, official at Soviet embassy in Guyana who met with Jonestown leaders (date unknown)