Robert J. Reger, 43, of Worcester, founding partner of the law firm Reger, Rizzo & Darnall in Philadelphia, died of an apparent heart attack Sunday at his vacation home in Avalon.
He lost a long cancer fight. The ex-president called him "my closest political adviser."
ATLANTA - Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
Sister Catherine Mulkerrin, 73, who pressed Roman Catholic Church leaders in Boston to warn parishioners about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children, has died.
Irving Rosenthal, 95, who taught journalism at the City College of New York for 40 years and became a mentor to some of the country's top reporters, has died.
John F. King, 83, of Lafayette Hill, a retired paper company president, died of heart failure Friday at The Hill at Whitemarsh.
Maryann Green Mayer, 77, formerly of Malvern, a controller for restaurants and a real estate developer, died of kidney failure April 27 at Naples Community Hospital in Florida.
Charles O. Hopson, 92, of Wynnefield Heights, who retired as mailroom supervisor at Reliance Insurance Co. at 86, died May 14 at home.
Albert E. Holl Jr., 92, a lawyer in Media for 50 years, died Friday of pneumonia at Brandywine Hall in West Chester.
Maxine "Mickie" Sablosky, 80, a Center City Realtor who loved golf and big-brimmed hats, died of a stroke Sunday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard J. Walsh, 78, of Maple Glen, an retired aerospace engineer, died of heart failure Wednesday at Abington Memorial Hospital.
TONY BOTTONE was the kind of guy who, once you made friends with him, you were his friend for life.
EDWARD HAGARTY JR. was driving on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge one day in 1970 when his car ran out of gas. Ed got out and was trying to push the car when he was rammed by a drunk driver.
Sister Irene Elizabeth Riley, a teacher in Roman Catholic parochial schools during most of her 66 years as a member of the Sisters of Mercy, died Saturday. She was 86 and was living in the McAuley Convent in Merion.
GEORGE T. DUKES, a Philadelphia political and community leader of the '60s and '70s who was at the forefront of numerous causes of benefit to minorities, a high school teacher, hospital administrator and Air Force veteran of the Korean War, died Tuesday. He was 76 and lived in Fern Park, Fla., but had lived most of his life in South Philadelphia.
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'Time, the subtle thief of youth." It's a line from the poet John Milton, but not the line that's cited by a crazy old professor in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That bit o' Milton is about death - "the palace of eternity."
Vistors might want to be careful planting that beach umbrella at the southern end of Surf City this summer.
Thirteen World War I-era artillery components have been removed from the Long Beach Island shoreline.
The beach is open - it hasn't closed since more than 1,100 munitions were cleared by last Memorial Day weekend.


