John Andrews "Jay" Harris IV, 81, an environmental philanthropist, died last Tuesday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania of complications from head trauma. He had fallen while walking his dog near his Berwyn home.
William Carl Liss, 73, of Glenside, a former administrator, educator, and model, died of heart failure Thursday at Einstein at Elkins Park Hospital.
Seymour Wittek, 88, a former Coast Guardsman who helped battle a fire that threatened to devastate New York Harbor during World War II, died Wednesday at a hospital in the Bronx.
Freya von Moltke, 98, a prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II, died Friday after suffering a viral infection, her son Helmuth von Moltke said.
Leon Yao Liang, 87, a bishop in China's underground church who was imprisoned for more than 28 years under the communists, died Wednesday, a U.S.-based Catholic group reported yesterday.
Helen Jenkins Bigham was a groundbreaker, in her 50s and again in her 70s.
The second time it was at the People's Emergency Center in West Philadelphia, which helps families that often "are headed by single young mothers who have never lived on their own."
Lawrence J. Strange, 76, of Juniata Park, a retired insurance agency owner, died of lung cancer Dec. 17 at St. Joseph's Manor in Huntingdon Valley.
BACK IN THE '70s, when the B. Pietrini & Sons concrete-construction company acquired one of the first concrete pumps in the industry, they had a problem.
THROUGH HER service in the Army and her work for the federal government in civilian life, Mary Ruth Allen was often subjected to security checks.
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Carrie Rickey: That roar you hear at the multiplex this week can be measured in dollars as well as decibels. Hollywood enjoyed a record 2009 in terms of dollars grossed, raking in $10.6 billion in the United States and Canada, and $26.3 billion worldwide.
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