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BERKELEY, Calif. - Robert Mondavi, 94, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home yesterday.
- Pasquale Lerro, 93, a candy store owner who lived by the sweet motto "Never make money on someone else's hardship," died of a heart attack Tuesday at Methodist Hospital. He was a lifelong resident of South Philadelphia.
- George J. McHugh III, 78, of Berwyn, an inventor and company owner, died of apparent heart failure Monday at his home.
- Ruth A. Sliwinski, 86, a grand dame of the Philadelphia charitable social scene who stepped down as president of the Hero Scholarship Fund in 2007 after 40 years with the organization, died May 7 of lymphoma at Martins Run Retirement Community in Media, where she had been for two weeks. She lived in Wynnewood.
- Antonia Sulena-Wetzel McMenamin, 67, of Jenkintown, a Drexel University administrator, died of complications from lymphoma Tuesday at Holy Redeemer Hospital in Meadowbrook.
- John Walsh Sr., 92, a retired road-construction foreman and community activist formerly of Oreland, died of heart failure last Friday at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla.
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- John Walsh Sr., 92, a retired road-construction foreman and community activist formerly of Oreland, died of heart failure last Friday at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla.
- Korean Hester Harrington, 85, of East Mount Airy, a talented children's dress designer and a draftsman during World War II, died last Friday of a staph infection at Chestnut Hill Lodge Health & Rehabilitation Center, where she had lived for three years.
- Oakley Hall, 87, a novelist and writing teacher who helped define California literature in the generation after John Steinbeck, has died.
- Nuala O'Faolain, 68, a journalist and feminist who gained international fame with her outspoken 1996 memoir, Are You Somebody?, has died. She died last Friday of lung cancer at a hospice in Dublin, Ireland, her family said.
- Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, 86, of Benin, whose influence in the Catholic Church was felt in Europe as well as West Africa, has died.
- Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, 74, a gospel singer and songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Dolly Parton, died Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway at Mount Vernon, Mo., and struck an embankment.
- Larry Levine, 80, the recording engineer who helped Phil Spector change rock and roll with his Wall of Sound technique and who won a Grammy for his work with Herb Alpert, has died.
- Sarle H. Cohen, 78, of Wynnewood, a retired internist and geriatrician, died of complications from dementia May 8 at home.
- Duane R. Hardy, 95, of Newtown Square, a retired bookkeeper and lifelong peace and civil-rights activist, died at home April 22 of complications from a fall.
- He combined real objects with pigment, creating improbable combinations and changing the direction of art.Robert Rauschenberg, who with contemporary Jasper Johns provoked a profound shift in 20th-century art after World War II, died Monday night at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. According to his New York dealer, Arne Glimcher of PaceWildenstein gallery, the cause was heart failure.
- Irena Sendler, 98, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped lead a smuggling operation that rescued thousands of children from Warsaw's Jewish ghetto during World War II, died Monday at a Warsaw hospital. She had pneumonia.
- Charles "Chuck" H. Groom III, 83, of Roxborough, a Navy veteran who was blinded in World War II, did not allow his affliction to get in the way of enjoying life. After losing his eyesight in combat in the South Pacific, he returned to the States, married, and fathered eight children, for whom he was the center of the world. Mr. Groom died May 7 after suffering seizures at the Veterans Affairs Nursing Home, where he had been for less than a year.
- Wayne Conner, 79, a retired operatic tenor, teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Academy of Vocal Arts and Peabody Conservatory, and engaging classical-music radio personality, died Friday of liver cancer.
- Robert C. Fernley, 85, of Blue Bell, a retired company chairman and Episcopal Church activist, died Thursday at Abington Memorial Hospital Hospice of complications from a fall at home.
- James T. Whitaker Jr., 56, of Lawnside, chief press officer for SEPTA, died of complications from a liver transplant on May 6 at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.
- David H. Cushwa, 82, of Bala Cynwyd, a civil engineer and railroad enthusiast, died of a stroke April 30 at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind. He had become ill while traveling home from Chicago, where he was visiting relatives.
- Clement Augustine Haas III, 85, who participated in the liberation of the Wobbelin concentration camp in Germany as a paratrooper with the 82d Airborne Division, died of a stroke May 2 in the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Conn.
- Ian Ellery Brodie, 72, a British journalist who covered most of the biggest news stories in the United States from the 1960s to the end of the 20th century, died of a stroke Thursday in Bethesda, Md.
- Douglas C. Wilson, 67, the reporter who broke the story that President Richard M. Nixon would resign, died Monday at his home in Amherst, Mass. A cause was not immediately known.
- Louis Peck, 89, a former Vermont Supreme Court justice who survived a debilitating war injury to become one of state government's most respected lawyers and jurists, died Thursday.
- Murray Jarvik, 84, a researcher of smoking addiction and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., of congestive heart failure.
- Paul Haeberlin, 84, a famous French chef who transformed his family's modest restaurant into a world-class affair that won Michelin stars, died yesterday.
- Soprano Leyla Gencer, 79, who made her career at Italy's famed La Scala opera house, died of respiratory problems and heart failure at home Friday in Milan, officials said.
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