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INQUIRER OBITUARIES
Evangeline Janus, 91, co-owner of Konstantino's, a Greek restaurant on Head House Square, died of pneumonia April 23 at Meese Countryside Hospital in Clearwater, Fla., where she had lived since 1996. She was a longtime resident of West Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON - George P. Cressman, 88, a former National Weather Service director who took the lead in applying computers to meteorology and helped change weather forecasting from a form of cloud-gazing guesswork to a codified science, died April 17 in Rockville, Md. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Jerry Wallace, 79, who shot to fame in the late 1950s with a pair of hit songs including "Primrose Lane," died Monday in Victorville, Calif...
Alvin Colt, 92, a Tony-winning costume designer whose work spanned 60 years of theater from On the Town to the Forbidden Broadway revues, died Sunday...
NASHVILLE - Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died yesterday, days short of his 90th birthday.
Morgan Sparks, 91, a Bell Laboratories scientist who invented a semiconductor device that has revolutionized almost every aspect of modern life, has died...
Alfred W. Morse, 89, of Kennett Square, a librarian at Temple University for 24 years, an advocate of world peace with Quaker organizations, and an expert in Romance languages, died of congestive heart failure April 19 at Kendal at Longwood, a retirement home where he had lived for 11 years.
The Rev. Stephen N. Mustos, 76, a former headmaster of Devon Preparatory School who cared for the spiritual needs of Hungarian Americans, died in his native Hungary on April 20, the 50th anniversary of his priesthood. He had been in poor health after a fall in 2006.
A. Barton Lewis, 82, of Radnor, a mortgage banker, died of Parkinson's disease Monday at Devon Manor.
For 41 years, Mr. Lewis headed A. Barton Lewis &...
Joel Levitt, 61, of Melrose Park, who started a global DVD manufacturing and distribution business in his basement in 1990, died April 26 at his home after...
DAILY NEWS OBITUARIES
GERALDINE E. CORBI, who sold advertising for the County Press newspaper in Newtown Square and reveled in the camaraderie of the newspaper office, died Saturday of complications of surgery. She was 64 and lived in Westgate Hills, Havertown.
Burton M. Woskoff, a retired delivery supervisor for the old Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and a decorated World War II bombardier, died Sunday from complications of a fall. He was 88 and lived in Garnet Valley.
JOE McFADDEN couldn't walk along a street without being hailed by passers-by, young and old.
"Hey, Coach," "Yo, Old Man," "West Philly Joe," "Pops."
TED KEY was most famous for creating the bossy but lovable maid Hazel, in cartoons and a TV series, but he was equally known for the funny animals he developed for children's books, TV and films.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Searing is a great critics' word that must be used rarely and carefully. So much film stuff that's supposed to shock your soul is just special effects that may cook emotions, but doesn't leave them juicy.
NEWS
Kevin Carroll, 50, left the Army in 1979 and became "a slave to heroin."
His addiction, he said, took him to low places. He's fished for meals from trash cans, slept on the streets, even curled up inside Dumpsters.
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