Inquirer Obituaries

Marilynn Marter services set

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:28:43 GMT

The funeral for retired Inquirer food writer Marilynn Marter will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Decker Funeral Home, 216 York Rd., Warminster. A viewing will be at 9 a.m.

George Edberg-Olsen, 84; helped build Temple U. hall

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

"My parents were immigrants, and my father worked in a factory. That's why I appreciate Temple's populist mission so much," George Edberg-Olson said in 2000.

Alice M. Anderson, 95, physician

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Alice M. Anderson, 95, a physician who practiced in East Falls, died Monday of respiratory failure at Brittany Pointe Estates, a Lansdale retirement facility.

John J. McGarry, real estate professional and coach

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

John J. McGarry, 59, of Philadelphia, a real-estate professional known throughout the city for his can-do spirit, his passion for helping others, and his longtime volunteer work as a basketball coach, died Sunday of heart failure.

Frances Sharkey | Designer, manager, 81

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Services will be held Friday for Frances Sharkey, 81, formerly of Runnemede, a retired designer and sewing manager at the old Rand & Rand firm in Philadelphia, who died March 3 in Honolulu of complications due to emphysema.

Takeo Doi | Japanese scholar, 89

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Takeo Doi, 89, a scholar who wrote that the Japanese psyche thrived on a love-hungry dependence on authority figures, died Sunday.

Point Breeze leader Mamie Nichols, 91

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

"Point Breeze would never be the same without Mamie Nichols, believe me," Philadelphia City Councilwoman - now president - Anna C. Verna said in a 1992 Inquirer profile.

Vietnam War mastermind dies

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Driven, cerebral, and pugnacious, Robert S. McNamara was the preeminent policymaker overseeing the massive buildup of U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, who masterfully deployed facts and figures to press the case for sending military advisers and then ground troops in a "limited war" to counter the advance of Communist forces in North Vietnam and Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam.

Margaret A. McVeigh | Writer, actress, 90

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Margaret A. "Pegi" McVeigh, 90, an amateur writer and actress and the mother of eight, died of heart failure June 30 at St. Joseph Villa, a nursing home in Flourtown.

G. Frank Page Jr. | Funeral director, 81

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

G. Frank Page Jr., 81, a North Philadelphia funeral home director, died of coronary artery disease June 28 at his home in Elkins Park.

Vasily Aksyonov | Exiled Russian writer, 76

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Vasily Aksyonov, 76, a prolific Russian writer and one of the last dissidents to be exiled from the Soviet Union, died yesterday at a Moscow hospital.

Mollie Sugden | Comic actress, 86

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Mollie Sugden, 86, who played the formidable saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the BBC's long-running comedy series Are You Being Served?, has died.