Obituaries   

 

Hugh B. Brown, 93, advertising representative - 02/08/2010

Hugh B. Brown, 93, a former Philadelphia newspaper advertising representative, died of heart failure Jan. 22 at the Artman Lutheran Home in Ambler, where he had lived for the last 10 years.

 

Sir John Dankworth | Jazz musician, 82 - 02/08/2010

Sir John Dankworth, 82, the British jazz composer, saxophonist, and band leader, died Saturday in a London hospital after an illness.

 

Geoffrey Burbidge | Physicist, 84 - 02/08/2010

Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, an English physicist who became a towering figure in astronomy by helping to explain how people and everything else are made of stardust, died Jan. 26 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego.

 

Ralph McInerny | Father Dowling author, 80 - 02/08/2010

Ralph McInerny, 80, a longtime professor of philosophy and medieval studies at the University of Notre Dame and a popular mystery writer best known for his Father Dowling series of novels, died Jan. 29 at Our Lady of Peace Hospital in Mishawaka, Ind., after a long illness, according to the university.

 

Professor explored how we learn, or don't learn - 02/07/2010

In 1988, well before the bubble burst on high-flying computer-era stocks, Glenn E. Snelbecker noted that financial planners and their clients can be blind to risk.

 

Paul Sherr, Rider chairman - 02/07/2010

Paul C. Sherr, 89, a former chairman of Rider University's English department, an author, and a longtime musician, died Jan. 18 at his home in Holland, Bucks County, after complications from various tick-borne diseases.

 

Cec Heftel | Hawaii congressman, 85 - 02/07/2010

Cec Heftel, 85, a former Democratic U.S. representative from Hawaii, died Thursday in San Diego.

 

Frank Fasi | Honolulu mayor, 89 - 02/07/2010

Frank Fasi, 89, who was Honolulu's mayor for 22 years and ran unsuccessfully for governor five times, died Wednesday at his home in Hawaii.

 

Susan Hill | Abortion-clinic owner, 61 - 02/07/2010

Susan Hill, 61, a national women's rights advocate and the owner of several abortion clinics around the country, died of breast cancer Jan. 30. She lived in Raleigh, N.C.

 

Paul D. Lanza, 81; baker supplied stores in region - 02/06/2010

When Paul D. Lanza was 8, he already was working at his father's wholesale bakery in Bristol, learning the tricks of the trade - how best to mix ingredients and roll out dough.

 

Lawrence M. Davies III, 51; headed addiction-care agency - 02/06/2010

Lawrence M. Davies III, 51, of Glenmoore, head of a multistate addiction-treatment agency, died of complications from lung cancer on Wednesday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Phillip Martin | Choctaw chief, 83 - 02/06/2010

Phillip Martin, 83, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, died Thursday at a Jackson, Miss., hospital after suffering a stroke a few days earlier, said his niece, Natasha Phillips.

 

Hans L. Trefousse | Historian, author, 88 - 02/06/2010

Hans L. Trefousse, 88, a specialist in Civil War and Reconstruction-era history and known for his well-received books about Presidents Andrew Johnson and Rutherford B. Hayes, died Jan. 8 at his home on Staten Island, N.Y., his son, Roger, said.

 

Evelyn Haas | Philanthropist, 92 - 02/06/2010

Evelyn Haas, 92, a prominent philanthropist and widow of Levi Strauss & Co. chief executive officer Walter Haas Jr., died Wednesday in San Francisco, her charitable foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, announced.

 

Marika Rivera | Artist's daughter, 90 - 02/06/2010

Marika Rivera, 90, a daughter of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, died Jan. 14 in England of advanced dementia, her son David Phillips said Tuesday.

 

G. Willoughby service changed - 02/06/2010

A memorial service scheduled for today for the longtime peace activist George Willoughby, 95, of Deptford, who died Jan. 5, was postponed because of the expected bad weather. The service now will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Friends Center, 15th and Cherry Streets.

 

Judith Taylor, 56, artist and Arcadia professor - 02/05/2010

Fresh from graduating summa cum laude at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978, Judith Taylor lived what her brother, John, called a "hardscrabble" life in the East Village of Manhattan.

 

Harold Angeroth, fire chief, veteran - 02/05/2010

Before pagers and house alert systems, volunteer firefighters in Deptford Township had to keep one ear cocked at all times to hear their company siren.

 

Luis Leal | Literary scholar, 102 - 02/05/2010

Luis Leal, 102, an internationally recognized scholar of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American literature who was one of the founders of the field of Chicano literary studies, died Jan. 25 of natural causes in Santa Barbara, Calif.

 

Frances Reid | Of 'Days of Our Lives,' 95 - 02/05/2010

Frances Reid, 95, who played matriarch Alice Horton on Days of Our Lives for four decades, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, NBC said yesterday.

 

George Willoughby, 95, peace activist - 02/05/2010

Age was nothing but a number for 95-year-old peace activist George Willoughby of Deptford. His worldwide antiwar protests and nonviolent teachings started when he was in his mid-40s and continued until just weeks ago.

 

Joseph T. Battersby, 94, art insurer - 02/04/2010

Joseph T. Battersby, 94, who oversaw insuring art at several museums and private collections in the Philadelphia region, died of pneumonia Jan. 20 at the Gettysburg Lutheran Retirement Village in Gettysburg, Pa.

 

Roy W. Smith | Little League coach, 65 - 02/04/2010

Roy W. Smith, 65, of Grenloch, the first South Jersey Little League coach to take a team of 13-year-olds to the Junior League World Series in Michigan in 1981, died of cardiac arrest Sunday at his home.

 

Ivan Vranetic | Holocaust rescuer, 84 - 02/04/2010

Ivan Vranetic, 84, a Yugoslav partisan who saved Jews during the Holocaust and went on to head the organization that honors non-Jews who saved Jews from the Nazis, has died in Israel.

 

Aaron Ruben | TV producer, writer, 95 - 02/04/2010

Aaron Ruben, 95, a producer, writer, and director for some of the most popular television comedies of the 1960s and '70s, notably The Andy Griffith Show; Gomer Pyle, USMC; and Sanford and Son, died of pneumonia Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.

 

Stefan J. Garvin, a founder of economic training agency - 02/03/2010

At a lunch for four at the Union League of Philadelphia in 1950, Stefan J. Garvin voiced his growing concern about a communist threat to American democracy.

 

David T. Sykes, 72, lawyer and civic leader - 02/03/2010

David T. Sykes, 72, of Gladwyne, a bankruptcy lawyer who spent his career with Duane Morris L.L.P., died Monday of cancer at Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse.

 

John A. Fleming | Contractor, 89 - 02/03/2010

John A. Fleming, 89, a principal in his family's former construction firm in Wynnewood, died of a heart problem last Wednesday at his home in Plymouth Meeting.

 

David Brown, 93, producer of popular Hollywood films - 02/03/2010

David Brown, 93, a film and theater producer who helped bring to the screen two of the 1970s' biggest hits, Jaws and The Sting, died Monday in Manhattan after a long illness. He was the husband of longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown.