Obituaries   

 

Mae M. Braun | Executive secretary, 90 - 11/06/2009

Mae M. Braun, 90, of Bustleton, a retired executive secretary, died of kidney failure Monday at Jeanes Hospital.

 

Sheldon Dorf | Comic-book devotee, 76 - 11/06/2009

Sheldon Dorf, 76, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic-book convention, died at a San Diego hospital Tuesday from kidney failure.

 

Carl Ballantine | Actor, entertainer, 92 - 11/06/2009

Carl Ballantine, 92, the comedy magician and character actor who was part of the PT boat crew on the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy, died in his sleep Tuesday at his home in Hollywood Hills, Calif., said his daughter, Saratoga.

 

Thomas Dixon Diamond, 84, businessman - 11/05/2009

Thomas Dixon Diamond, 84, of Rydal, a retired software-company owner who was a plaintiff in a lawsuit involving thalidomide, a drug prescribed for pregnant women in the 1950s and early '60s, died of heart failure last Thursday at Abington Memorial Hospital.

 

Max Odlen, 98, S. Jersey builder - 11/05/2009

Max Odlen, 98, a developer of residential communities in South Jersey for more than 40 years, died Tuesday at Doctors Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. He previously lived in Cherry Hill.

 

Louis S. D'Anjolell | Sales manager, 84 - 11/05/2009

Louis S. D'Anjolell, 84, of Springfield, Delaware County, a sales manager and former plumbing contractor, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday at Springfield Hospital.

 

Linda W. Carilli, 58, PR leader - 11/05/2009

Linda Webb Carilli, 58, of Moorestown, a public-relations executive, died Friday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania of lung-surgery complications.

 

Carol Reid | Real estate investor, 90 - 11/05/2009

Carol Jurgens Reid, 90, of King of Prussia, a real estate investor, died Sept. 11 at Manor Care in King of Prussia of complications from a stroke.

 

Irene Tyler | Preservationist, 87 - 11/05/2009

Irene Brown Tyler, 87, a preservationist and gardener, died of lymphoma Saturday at Rydal Park, a retirement community in Abington.

 

Paul J. Gallagher, Realtor, sportsman - 11/04/2009

Paul J. Gallagher, 67, of West Chester, a Realtor and sportsman, died of a brain aneurysm Saturday while golfing with friends at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square.

 

Mary Elizabeth Somers, community volunteer - 11/04/2009

Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Cashman Somers, 84, a community volunteer, died of cancer Saturday at Dunwoody Village, a retirement community in Newtown Square.

 

Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, a towering anthropologist - 11/04/2009

Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, one of the preeminent social anthropologists of the 20th century, whose studies of indigenous Brazilian tribes led to influential theories examining human behavior and culture, died over the weekend in Paris. No cause of death was reported.

 

Charles T. Hill Jr. | Company executive, 79 - 11/04/2009

 

Bernard Harding | WWII bomber pilot, 90 - 11/04/2009

Bernard Harding, 90, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died yesterday.

 

Robert H. Rines | Inventor, physicist, 87 - 11/04/2009

Robert H. Rines, 87, a lawyer, composer, inventor, and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar, and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, died of heart failure at his home in Boston on Sunday.

 

Francisco Ayala | Spanish scholar, 103 - 11/04/2009

Francisco Ayala, 103, a novelist, sociologist, and one of Spain's leading scholars, died yesterday at his home in Madrid after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.

 

William J. Brophy Jr., law officer - 11/03/2009

William J. Brophy Jr., 82, formerly of Southwest Philadelphia, a musician and comedian who spent more than 50 years in law enforcement and was the oldest recruit in Philadelphia Police Department history, died of cancer Oct. 24 at Vitas Hospice at Nazareth Hospital.

 

Dr. Russell L. Ackoff, 90, Wharton School official - 11/03/2009

When the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania hired Russell L. Ackoff in 1964, it didn't get one man. It got an eight-person team.

 

Margaret E. Covert | Teacher, 60 - 11/03/2009

Margaret Elaine Cottingham Covert, 60, of Yeadon, a special-education teacher for 30 years in the Philadelphia School District, died Friday of cancer at Penn Rittenhouse Hospice.

 

Grace Charleston, patron of arts, businesswoman - 11/02/2009

Grace Briskman Charleston, 94, formerly of Rittenhouse Square, who was a real estate entrepreneur and a patron of cultural and educational institutions in Philadelphia, died Sept. 24 at Sunrise Senior Living in Cleveland. She moved to Cleveland last year to be near family.

 

M. Albert Linton Jr., 94, teacher and coach - 11/02/2009

M. Albert Linton Jr. taught math at William Penn Charter School from 1946 to 1992. But sports fans of private schools in the Philadelphia region might remember him better as a golfer.

 

Qian Xuesen | Rocket scientist, 98 - 11/02/2009

Qian Xuesen, 98, a rocket scientist known as the father of China's space-technology program, died Saturday in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said.

 

Lee Hu-rak | S. Korean spy chief, 85 - 11/02/2009

Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, 85, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea after a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday of a brain tumor in Seoul.