Kenneth L. Montgomery, 71, of Roslyn, an auto dealership operator and drag racer, died Monday, Jan. 28, of lewy body dementia and multiple myeloma at Abington Hospice in Warminster.
Helen Vitkow Guggino, 96, who began her career as a copy girl at The Inquirer and eventually became the paper's radio and television editor, died of heart failure Friday, Jan. 4, at Hampton Care Center in Southampton.
Sister Mary Isidore Gilewitch, 99, a nun who was as capable with a needle as with a hammer and who taught at many local schools, died Thursday, Jan. 31, in Fox Chase of cardiovascular problems.
Warren W. "Barney" Cunningham, 90, a founding partner of the Philadelphia architecture firm Geddes, Brecher, Qualls & Cunningham, died Thursday, Jan. 24, at his home in Wyndmoor.
NEW YORK - When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Mayor Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling.
Louis T. Harms, 96, an economist and long-tenured professor and administrator at Temple University's School of Business, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, at Taylor Hospice Residence in Ridley Park.
Pianist and vocalist Ann Rabson, 67, cofounder of the trio Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, died Wednesday in Virginia after a battle with cancer, her label announced.
Xu Liangying, 92, a renowned Chinese rights advocate, physicist, and translator of Albert Einstein's writings, died Jan. 28, in Beijing's university district, where he lived for many years. No cause of death was given.
Pham Duy, 91, Vietnam's most prolific songwriter, who captured the strength of his people through years of turbulence, and composed dozens of tunes after settling in California, died Jan. 27, from heart ailments after two operations, in Ho Chi Minh City, said his daughter Thai Hanh.
BRYAN, Ohio - Andre Cassagnes, 86, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up, and started over, has died in France, the toy's maker said.
Patty Andrews never served in the military, but she and her singing sisters certainly supported the troops.
Msgr. Henry B. Degnan, 91, retired pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Aston, who delivered wise counsel and one-liners along with the homily, died Monday, Jan. 28, of a heart attack at Mercy Suburban Hospital.
The Rev. Carl W. Halvorsen was a pastor to Methodist congregations in South Jersey for four decades, and a devoted man of God for far longer. Yet that didn't stop him from engaging the Almighty from time to time in some stern, even impertinent, conversations.
LaNieta "Niety" Garbutt, 69, of Abington, a sign-language interpreter in Montgomery County schools, died Thursday, Jan. 24, of pancreatic cancer at her home.
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ONE THING about Arlene Ackerman: You knew she was here.
Arlene had a way of generating strong feelings one way or another; loved by many parents and educational advocates, often scorned by politicians, unions and government leaders.
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