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Frank H. Abbott, 90, a Philadelphia corporate lawyer who aided the hospital work of the Sisters of Mercy for decades, died Nov. 15 of renal failure at St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, Pa. He was a longtime resident of Berwyn.
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Frederick H. Etherington, 96, a retired company owner and community activist, died Nov. 12 at Beaumont, a retirement community in Bryn Mawr.
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Nao Takasugi, 87, a former California state assemblyman who was sent to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, died Thursday in Sacramento, Calif., of complications from a stroke.
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Meg Votta earned her Manhattan credentials in the late 1990s as a sous chef at Tabla, the Flatiron district restaurant on Madison Avenue at 25th Street.
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Frank J. Tornetta, 93, of Audubon, an anesthesiologist, died Thursday of a lung infection at Montgomery Hospital in Norristown, where he had served on the staff for 45 years.
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George A. Sargent, 94, of Haverford, a retired engineer, died Monday at home.
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Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom, 82, an international opera star, died in Stockholm yesterday of complications from a stroke, said her husband, Sverker Olow.
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Constantine "Chris" Pavlides, 62, of West Chester, founder and chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group and an associate professor at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, died Tuesday in a single-car crash after suffering a heart attack.
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Stephen Barcus, 68, of Narberth, a former Philadelphia advertising executive and Hollywood scriptwriter, died of a heart attack Nov. 12 at the Penn Valley home of his brother.
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The funeral for James E. Cogan III, an assistant track coach at Central Bucks High School West, will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Joseph A. Fluehr Funeral Home, 241 E. Butler Ave., New Britain.
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Glenda A. Christopher, 64, of Southwest Philadelphia, an executive assistant and a political activist, died of cancer last Friday at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Harry A. Duffort, 76, of Northeast Philadelphia, a retired engineering supervisor and church volunteer, died of lymphoma Nov. 7 at Aria Health-Torresdale Campus.
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NEW YORK - Artist Jeanne-Claude, 74, who created the Central Park installation The Gates and other large-scale "wrapping" projects worldwide with her husband, Christo, has died.
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Huang Tingxin, 91, the last Chinese veteran of the 1944 liberation of France, died Nov. 11, state media reported Wednesday.
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Lewis L. Millett, 88, a retired Army colonel and veteran of three wars who received a Medal of Honor for leading a bayonet charge up a heavily defended hill during the Korean War, died Saturday at a hospital in Loma Linda, Calif.
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Herbert J. "Jack" Miller Jr., 85, who led the Justice Department's war on organized crime in the 1960s and later brokered the pardon of former President Richard M. Nixon and prevented the release of Nixon's White House tapes after the Watergate scandal, died Nov. 14 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Md., of renal failure.
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Dell Hathaway Hymes, 82, a linguist, an anthropologist, and a folklorist who was dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania for 12 years, died of complications of Alzheimer's disease Nov. 13 at the Cedars Nursing Home in Charlottesville, Va.
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Katie Pump Zimring, 68, a teacher at Samuel Powel Elementary School in West Philadelphia for 27 years, died of lung cancer Saturday at home in Elkins Park.
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Charles A.J. Halpin Jr., 88, of Hatboro, a professor who taught students at La Salle University for 55 years - longer than any other teacher in the school's history - died of cancer Sunday at Abington Hospice at Warminster.
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Jane Mills Glick, 65, of Swarthmore, a biochemist, died Sunday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania of head trauma from a fall in her home.
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The Rev. David M. Merchant, 65, who retired last year as a teacher at North Catholic High School, died Saturday of cancer at the community of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales in Childs, Md.
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Sy Syms, 83, founder and chairman of the SYMS Corp. discount clothing chain, died of heart failure yesterday in New York, according to a statement by the company.
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Edward Woodward, 79, the star of such films as Breaker Morant and The Wicker Man, died Monday after an illness in Cornwall, England.
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Paul Wendkos, 84, who directed more than 100 films and television shows during a 50-year career, including the 1959 surf movie Gidget, died Thursday in Malibu, Calif., of a lung infection that followed a stroke.
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Valerie Oppenheimer, 77, a University of California-Los Angeles sociologist whose pioneering research documented the post-World War II surge of married women into the U.S. workforce and the ramifications of work on marriage, died Nov. 2 in Los Angeles after a stroke.
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Joan L. Powers, 73, a Delaware County teacher for 35 years, died of colon cancer Friday at her home in Maris Grove, a retirement community in Glen Mills.
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Dr. Mustapha M. Khan, 84, of Cherry Hill, a family physician in Camden for more than half a century, died last Tuesday of complications from kidney disease at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden.
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Yvonne Neely Dunning, 87, an artist, interior designer, and volunteer, died of a stroke Oct. 30 at Cathedral Village in Roxborough.
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