Sister Theresa O'Donnell, 84, who taught school in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere, died of heart failure at Holy Child Center in Rosemont on Easter, March 31.
He went from a no-hitter wiffle ball pitcher into an expert on debtors' rights and bankruptcy law.
Jim Mees, 57, an Emmy-winning set decorator who helped bring alien worlds to life in the long-running Star Trek TV series, died Friday, March 29, at his home in Selinsgrove, Pa., said his partner, Michael Smyth. He had pancreatic cancer.
Milo O'Shea, 86, a versatile Dublin-born stage and screen actor known for his famously bristling, agile eyebrows and roles in such disparate films as Ulysses, Barbarella, and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, died Tuesday, April 2, in New York after a short illness, according to Irish news accounts.
Stan Isaacs, 83, a storied sports columnist at Newsday from 1978 to 1992, died Tuesday, April 2, at home in Haverford, Pa., his daughter Ellen said.
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Robert Saul Blau, 61, of Upper Chichester, a bankruptcy lawyer with a wacky sense of humor, died of heart failure at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on April Fools' Day, one day before his 62d birthday.
Roger Ebert, America's moviegoer-in-chief, died Thursday in his beloved Chicago where for 46 years his ardent reviews drew readers to the Sun-Times. He was 70 and since 2002 valiantly had faced down cancers of the salivary and thyroid kind.
Sister Mary Florian Heck, 90, an educator and administrator at schools in the Philadelphia Archdiocese and other locations, died Wednesday, March 27, at McAuley Convent in Merion Station.
A quiet force who got things done for her church and community.
She was a Polish farmer's daughter who emigrated to the United States, a maid who worked for a wealthy American heir, and a third wife who inherited much of the Johnson & Johnson fortune after a sensational court battle with her six stepchildren.
Gloria M. Harris, 68, of Philadelphia's Brewerytown section, a retired customer service representative for several area companies and department stores, died of cancer on Friday, March 29, at home.
KELLY CLARK looked forward to the Saturday "Irish Hour" on the radio, drifting into a pleasant reverie and occasionally shedding tears at one of those songs only the Irish can make so poignant.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 85, a German-born novelist whose fiction was set largely in India and who gained her greatest acclaim as a two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter with the Merchant-Ivory filmmaking team, died Wednesday, April 3, at her home in New York City.
Achille Joseph Vicoli, 88, of Newtown Square, a businessman and decorated World War II veteran, died Saturday, March 30, of cardiac arrest at Delaware County Memorial Hospital.
The Jim Henson Co. says Henson's partner in marriage and Muppets has died.
Edward W. Gormley, 64, of Fort Washington, a banking executive in eastern Montgomery County for many years, died on Thursday, March 28, of sepsis at Abington Hospice at Warminster.
When Beatrice Katz Zitomer moved to Margate in 1979 and became a real estate agent, she had visions of catching the big housing wave powered by casino gambling.
Francis R. Manlove, 100, of Bryn Mawr, a retired physician and professor of medicine who held positions at Temple University Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of Colorado, died Sunday, March 24, at the Beaumont at Bryn Mawr retirement community.
He was known for his outgoing personality, fashion sense and generous nature.
Rodman B. Finkbiner, 85, of Bryn Mawr, a longtime gastroenterologist on the Main Line, died Sunday, March 24, of complications from ALS at his home. He became ill four months ago.
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Robert Bauers, 87, of Lower Gwynedd, a commercial photographer in the Philadelphia area for nearly 50 years, died of congestive heart failure Friday, March 29, at the Springhouse Estates retirement community.
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