Inquirer Obituaries

Korean Harrington | Dress designer, 85

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

Joyce Rambo | Gospel singer, 74

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

Oakley Hall | Novelist and teacher, 87

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Oakley Hall, 87, a novelist and writing teacher who helped define California literature in the generation after John Steinbeck, has died.

Larry Levine | Wall of Sound engineer, 80

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

John W. Burke | Electrical engineer, 89

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

John Walsh Sr. | Road foreman, 92

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

Bernardin Gantin | Benin cardinal, 86

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, 86, of Benin, whose influence in the Catholic Church was felt in Europe as well as West Africa, has died.

Nuala O'Faolain | Irish journalist, 68

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

Ruth Sliwinski, charity fund-raiser

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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 McMenamin, Drexel official

Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Antonia Sulena-Wetzel McMenamin, 67, of Jenkintown, a Drexel University administrator, died of complications from lymphoma Tuesday at Holy Redeemer Hospital in Meadowbrook.

Duane R. Hardy; worked for peace and civil rights

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

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.

Dr. Sarle H. Cohen, 78, geriatric specialist

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Sarle H. Cohen, 78, of Wynnewood, a retired internist and geriatrician, died of complications from dementia May 8 at home.

Francis J. Tarquini Sr. | Lawyer, 78

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

C.F. Kostenbauder Jr. | Accountant, 90

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Diana B. Walker | Aviation pioneer, 90

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:01:00 GMT