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INQUIRER OBITUARIES
Brad Ecklund, 87, of Vincentown, a former NCAA and NFL football player who coached the Eagles' offensive line in the 1970s, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at Samaritan Hospice in Mount Holly.
For 10 years, from Feb. 1 to 14, artist Dennis Kuronen created whimsical Valentines for his two daughters and hid them around their Glenside home.
Seymour B. Sarason, 91, a psychologist whose groundbreaking work on social settings and their influence on individual problems helped establish the field of community psychology, died Jan. 28 in New Haven, Conn.
Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, a legal expert who became Poland's first foreign minister after communism's collapse and helped the country chart a pro-Western course, has died, Poland's Foreign Ministry announced yesterday.
Jacob "Jack" Block, 85, a prominent psychologist of personality who in 1968 began studying a group of California preschoolers and for decades kept watch as they moved from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood, died Jan. 13 at his home in El Cerrito, Calif. The cause was complications of a spinal-cord injury he suffered 10 years ago, his daughter Susan Block said.
Carl Kaysen, 89, who during the Kennedy administration helped achieve the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. His health had failed after a bad fall in October and a decade of battling spinal stenosis.
Margaret Dale, 87, an illustrious dancer who went on to become an important producer and director of dance for British television, died Jan. 28 in London, her sister, Elsa, announced.
The first Vietnam combat veteran to serve in Congress was Pa.'s longest-serving House member.
John P. Murtha, 77, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation who survived scandal and seismic political shifts to become the longest-serving House member from the state, died yesterday at a hospital in Arlington, Va., after complications from gallbladder surgery.
Joseph A. Regan Jr., 76, of Mayfair, who won numerous accolades during his 36-year career as a Philadelphia police officer, died of heart failure Friday at Aria Health-Torresdale Campus.
Yolanda "Yo" DiRocco, 78, a longtime Gibbsboro resident who rose through the ranks of the local women's club, was elected to the Borough Council, and served as mayor for four years, died Thursday of cancer at Vitas Inpatient Hospice Unit in Stratford.
DAILY NEWS OBITUARIES
SARA L. GARVIN, a schoolteacher and guidance counselor in Burlington County, N.J., who also taught in the schools at McGuire Air Force Base, died Feb. 4 of ovarian cancer. She was 62 and lived on Cape Cod, Mass.
HARRY J. GILLIN JR. was the quintessential grandpop.
As his seven grandchildren related in a tribute to him, "You were the man who stood on the proverbial sidelines cheering each of us on as we navigated our way through life.
VIOLET B. JOHNSON was a multitalented woman of many interests and accomplishments, but her abiding interest in her long life was overcoming the barriers that kept women, especially African-American women, from pursuing meaningful careers.
SO YOUR KID can't swim, huh? Apparently he or she never met Vanessa Ellen Barnett.
Vanessa liked to boast that she could teach anyone to swim. And she proved that over and over in a career as a lifeguard at Kelly Pool in Fairmount Park and elsewhere.
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