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INQUIRER OBITUARIES
Joseph I. McDevitt, 91, a retired 21-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, died of pneumonia July 18 at his King of Prussia home.
Robert J. Byrnes, 86, of Berwyn, a retired corporate vice president, died of a stroke Sunday at his home.
In 1988, Mr. Byrnes retired as a corporate vice president of SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline. At the time, he was also president of the pharmaceutical company's chemical division. He had supervised construction of plants all over the world, said his son Robert Jr.
Margaret E. Anderson Brakel, 85, of West Chester, a World War II veteran, teacher, organist, and chess enthusiast, died July 17 at Reading Hospital and Medical Center of complications from a fall.
George L. Compton, 79, of Lafayette Hill, a retired vice president of Strawbridge & Clothier, died of pneumonia Monday at Chestnut Hill Hospital.
Samuel Kesselman, 85, of Northeast Philadelphia, an accountant and a retired teacher, died of cancer Monday at Frankford Hospital-Torresdale Campus.
Alfred S. Friedman, 96, of Haverford, a family therapist and authority on the study of substance abuse among young people, died of pneumonia Sunday at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Stanley W. Cooper, 81, of Upper Gwynedd, retired owner of a plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning company, died Friday at Abington Memorial Hospital of complications from heart surgery.
James E. Kennedy, 82, of Media, a Gulf Oil engineer, died of heart failure Sunday at Riddle Memorial Hospital in Media.
Roger Hall, 89, who wrote You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger, a wry memoir about World War II spycraft that became a cult classic in intelligence circles and appealed to a wide audience for its irreverence, died Sunday at his home in Wilmington. He had congestive heart failure.
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Estelle Getty, 84, an actress best known for her Emmy-winning role on The Golden Girls as an abrasive octogenarian robbed of her "tact cells" after a stroke, died yesterday at her Los Angeles home. She had dementia.
DAILY NEWS OBITUARIES
LORETTA Oree Turner was famous for her "black eyes."
No, she hadn't suffered any injury. "Black eyes" was what she called black-eyed peas, and friends, family and customers at a popular bar in West Philadelphia were the happy beneficiaries of her soul-food concoctions.
JOHN R. CENTANNI Sr. didn't like to hear the word "good-bye."
"Never say good-bye," he would admonish family and friends. "Always say, 'See ya later.' "
THAT JESUIT priest riding a motor scooter around the rural villages of India - why was he carrying a Louisville Slugger?
SAMUEL WALKER SR. liked to tell his family that when he came to Philadelphia from South Carolina at the age of 17, he had $2.50 in his pocket.
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Zooey Deschanel thought that she might explode.
"I've been writing music since I was a little girl," says the 28-year-old indie-movie ingenue who makes up half of She & Him. The duo will play the Trocadero tomorrow in support of their fetching folk-rock debut, Volume One.
NEWS
With nicknames like 'Bent Finger Lou' and 'Nicky the Hat,' the alleged Delco Nosta mob represented an "enormous moneymaker" and potential for violence, officials say.
One alleged mobster discussed having another killed, records show. Instead, he settled on having the victim beaten badly.
One alleged mobster discussed having another killed, records show. Instead, he settled on having the victim beaten badly.
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