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Frank Yarosh, 83, formerly of Erdenheim, a retired PGW manager and World War II prisoner of war, died of cancer Monday at Maris Grove Retirement Community in Glen Mills.
- Frederick L. Smith, 79, of Exton, a former project manager for NASA construction sites, died Aug. 8 at Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester after a stroke.
- The Rev. Albert W. Dock, 62, pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia for 24 years, died of pneumonia Monday at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del. He lived in Wilmington.
- Pioneering lesbian-rights activist Del Martin, 87, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day same-sex couples in California gained that right, died.
- Philomena Gotti, 96, whose brood of 13 children included Gambino crime-family kingpin John Gotti and four other sons with mob ties, has died.
- Robert Bass, 55, the longtime musical director of New York City's renowned Collegiate Chorale, has died.
- Irwin Silas Rubin, 92, of Souderton, a lawyer who was committed to community service, died of pancreatic cancer Monday at home.
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- Sometimes, love lasts as long as it takes two folks to meet again. In the late 1970s, Jarvis Wilsher and Elizabeth Nevin dated at Radnor High School, lost contact, and didn't find each other until 2006.
- Estelle Cohen, 86, of Haverford, whom the State of Israel honored for her strong support, died of a stroke Aug. 16 at Lankenau Hospital.
- Phyllis Dunst, 87, of the Andorra section of Upper Roxborough, who worked for several federal agencies in Philadelphia, died of a stroke Monday at Roxborough Memorial Hospital.
- Anthony Lewandowski, 80, a former president and journal editor for the Philadelphia County Dental Society, died from complications of pneumonia Monday at Chestnut Hill Hospital. He lived in Lafayette Hill.
- Jose Torres, 56, a Philadelphia Gas Works manager, died of lung cancer Monday at his home in Folsom.
- Lt. Col. Howard Lee Baugh, 88, who flew scores of WWII combat missions as one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died Saturday at a Richmond, Va., hospital after a brief illness.
- Fred Crane, 90, the actor whose Southern accent won him a slot as one of Scarlett O'Hara's beaux and the opening line in Gone With the Wind, has died.
- Dave Freeman, 47, coauthor of 100 Things to Do Before You Die, a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, has died.
- Buddy Harman, 79, one of country music's most-recorded drummers, died Aug. 21 in Nashville. He reportedly had congestive heart failure.
- Leslie J. Carson Jr., 72, of Overbrook Farms, a lawyer and community activist, died of myelofibrosis, a bone-marrow disease, Friday at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
- Albert M. Postus, 87, a star Philadelphia athlete who coached high school football in the region for 20 years, died of lung cancer Sunday at Lima Estates, a retirement community in Media.
- James A. Grundy, 81, formerly of Riverton, retired owner of an insurance agency for car collectors, died of Alzheimer's disease Friday at Manor Care in Towson, Md.
- Norman Goldstein, 71, of Phoenixville, an ear, nose and throat physician, died of cardiac arrest at Phoenixville Hospital on Monday.
- Max Lerner, 98, owner of electric manufacturing firms, died Monday at Seashore Gardens Living Center, in Galloway Township, N.J., where he lived.
- Albert H. Schuster Jr., 72, of the Bustleton section of Philadelphia, a urologist, died of cancer Sunday at Harlee Manor in Springfield Township, Delaware County.
- Thomas H. Weller, 93, a Harvard professor whose research on the polio virus earned him and two others a Nobel Prize in 1954, died Saturday at his home in Needham, Mass.
- George Silverman, 86, co-owner of B & G Silverman menswear in Center City, died of Parkinson's disease Friday at Dunwoody Village in Newtown Square. He was a longtime resident of Bala Cynwyd.
- Richmond Riley, 81, formerly of Cherry Hill, a retired systems analyst and civic activist, died of cancer Saturday at Normandy Farms Estates in Blue Bell.
- Alexandra Biddle "Bimmy" Basinski, 59, an herbalist and horticulturist, died of complications from a brain injury Aug. 14 at the hospice unit at Abington Memorial Hospital.
- Henry McAdoo Jr., 92, of Lower Gwynedd, a retired company president and decorated World War II veteran, died Aug. 13 at home.
- Marykay Scarlett, 73, co-owner of a Philadelphia boutique, died of leukemia Aug. 12 at her Society Hill home.
- Charles A. Nuzum, 85, the FBI agent who was in charge of the agency's investigation into the Watergate burglary, died Aug. 2 in Tallahassee, Fla., in an accidental fall.
- Henri Cartan, 104, who was known as one of the world's foremost mathematicians of the last half of the 20th century, died Aug. 13 in Paris.
- Roger Bryan, 87, a German-born translator for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war-crime trials who moved to West Philadelphia after World War II and worked in the garment industry, died of heart disease Aug. 10 at Saunders House in Wynnewood.
- Alfred Zappala went the distance - at marathons and in his opposition to the war in Iraq. His foster son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, 30, was killed in a warehouse explosion in Iraq in April 2004, becoming the first soldier from the Pennsylvania National Guard to die in action since 1945.
- In the early 20th century, Howard Schultz's father was a Philadelphia traffic officer who worked the 15th and Locust Streets intersection with "Stop" and "Go" placards.
- Mary K. Sheehan Howett, 60, of Harrisburg, chairwoman of the department of bioscience and biotechnology at Drexel University, died of complications from leukemia Wednesday at Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center.
- Wolfgang Vogel, 82, the point man for spy swaps and prisoner exchanges between West and East Germany during the Cold War, died Thursday in Schliersee, Germany.
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