Caroline Yvonne Cochran, 37, of 107 Ten Tall Trail died Saturday at Duke Hospital.

She was a member of Annunciation Catholic Church.

Funeral will be 10 a.m. today at the church with Frederick Flaherty officiating.

Burial will be in Greenleaf Memorial Park.

She is survived by her widower, Jerry Cochran; one son, Jerry Dwaine Cochran of New Bern; one daughter, Elizabeth Ann Cochran of New Bern; two brothers, John and Howard Dorough of Orlando, Fla.; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hoke D. Dorough of Orlando, Fla.; two sisters, Angelia M. Herring of Palm Bay, Fla., and Polly Anna Dorough of Orlando, Fla.

Backstreet Boys back out of concert due to family death

SHAKOPEE, Minn. (AP) -- The Backstreet Boys canceled a concert in this Minneapolis suburb at the last minute when the sister of one of the band members unexpectedly died.

About 19, 000 fans were waiting for the band to take the stage as the last of eight bands during Sunday' s Last Chance Summer Dance when an official from sponsor KDWB Radio announced the band would not appear.

" I' m in love with them, " said a sobbing Kim Jensen, 13, of Minneapolis, wearing two Backstreet Boys necklaces, a T-shirt and baseball cap. " They should have announced it earlier."

KDWB program director Rob Morris said he got the word while the group prior to the Backstreet Boys was performing about 8 p.m.

Singer Kevin Richardson said that' s about when the band found out, also, that the 25-year-old sister of Howie Dorough died Saturday of lupus in North Carolina. The group planned to perform as a quartet, which it' s done before, but one member was stranded in Florida partly because of the recently ended Northwest Airlines strike, Richardson said.

" We would have been able to do the show at 10:30 (p.m.), but that' s too late on a school night, " Richardson said. " In six years of touring, we' ve never canceled a show. We' re sorry. ... It' s important for us to make it up." No date was set.

About 40 people were taken to area hospitals for heat-related illnesses as the crowd endured 93-degree heat.

Backstreet Boys back out of show

About 19,000 people were panting for the BackstreetBoys (BSB), the biggest-selling band of 1998, to take the stage about 8 p.m. Sunday at Canterbury Park in Shakopee. Then an official from KDWB Radio (101.3 FM), which sponsored the eight-act, eight-hour Last Chance Summer Dance, announced that the BSB would not appear because of a death in the family of a member.

"I'm in love with them," said a sobbing Kim Jensen, 13, of Minneapolis.

She was wearing two BackstreetBoys necklaces, a T-shirt and baseball cap. "They should have announced it earlier."

"It upsets me royally," said Anna Bruder, 16, of Blaine, who had paid $100 for VIP seats.

"We went to Milwaukee two weeks ago to see them and we missed it because we got stuck in traffic," said Dena Bruder, 18, of Blaine. "I'm so mad that they canceled."

KDWB program director Rob Morris, who had made the announcement onstage, said backstage that he got the word during the performance by Next, the group that preceded BSB, that BSB would not appear. That's about the same time the BackstreetBoys themselves found out, singer Kevin Richardson said in an interview Sunday night.

The 25-year-old sister of BSB's Howie Dorough had died unexpectedly Saturday of lupus in Raleigh, N.C., Richardson said. The group had planned to perform the Canterbury show as a quartet, something BSB had done a handful of times before. Two of the band members were at their Twin Cities hotel, one was en route to Canterbury Park but another was stranded in Tampa, Fla., partly because of the recentNorthwest Airlines strike, Richardson said.

"We would have been able to do the show at 10:30 [p.m.], but that's too late on a school night," he said in a phone interview after appearing on KDWB Sunday night. "In six years of touring, we've never canceled a show. We're sorry. It's not the fault of the radio station. It's important for us to make it up."

On its current tour, BSB has two more concerts in the United States and two in South America and then plans to record its next album. Richardson said he thinks the band can rework its recording plans to make up the Twin Cities concert.

The biggest-selling recording act of 1998 (not named Celine Dion), the Orlando, Fla., quintet has sold 6 million copies of "BackstreetBoys" in the United States and more than 22 million worldwide. The group's bubblegum soul hits have included "As Long As You Love Me" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)."

Morris told festivalgoers that a concert with the BackstreetBoys would be rescheduled. "We may have to do two shows at Target Center or one at the Metrodome," he said. Sunday's concertgoers can receive a refund or hold on to their ticket stubs for the rescheduled show, he said.

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