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- Charles Patton, former police officer and activist, dies at 70
INQUIRER OBITUARIES
Harry G. Ochs Jr., the feisty Italian teenager who apprenticed at the Reading Terminal Market when it was still a lively railroad hub and stayed on to become its iconic butcher and for more than half a century the market's convivial public face, died yesterday.
Last month, Josh Winheld made the final revisions to his master's thesis on handicapped accessibility, a subject he began researching at age 10, when Duchenne muscular dystrophy forced him into a wheelchair.
Judy Dillon Wilkins, 49, formerly of Cherry Hill and a registered nurse, died of ovarian cancer Wednesday at her home in Somers Point, N.J.
Susan Lipskin Ross, 53, of Chestnut Hill, a manager and contracts administrator for Henkels & McCoy Construction Co., died of ovarian cancer Thanksgiving Day at Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse.
Mary Patricia "Maripat" Cope Pressler, 60, of Maple Glen, a former bank branch manager, died of complications from the H1N1 strain of flu Nov. 27 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
William A. Wilson, 95, a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" and the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, died early Saturday in Carmel Valley, Calif., where he had a home, his daughter Marcia Wilson Hobbs said. He had cancer.
Alfred Hrdlicka, 81, an Austrian artist whose controversial works in metal, paint, and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public, died Saturday in Vienna, Austria, the Austrian Press Agency reported.
Roy Hoopes, 87, a longtime Washington journalist who wrote an acclaimed biography of crime novelist James M. Cain and more than 30 other books, died of pneumonia Tuesday at AAA Atrium Classic Assisted Living in Silver Spring, Md.
Charles Patton, 70, of East Oak Lane, a retired Philadelphia police lieutenant and an investigator for the MOVE commission who founded a mentoring organization for black youths, died Wednesday at Albert Einstein Medical Center of complications from a fall at home.
John Alden Philbrick III, 82, of Bryn Mawr, a retired insurance broker and chairman emeritus of the Free Library of Philadelphia, died of a heart attack Nov. 28 in Wilton, Conn., where he was spending Thanksgiving weekend with family.
DAILY NEWS OBITUARIES
IF YOU WENT to lunch with Charles Patton you were advised to leave a little early.
Walking on a city street with him was an adventure and an education because it seemed that Charlie knew everybody and everybody knew Charlie.
GRACE RICKS was devoted to her nieces and nephews, spoiling them rotten with gifts and homemade pastry, but mostly with her full attention.
IMAM KHAIRI A. Shakur, leader of Masjid Muhammad of Atlantic City for 30 years and a spiritual force in the region who reached out to other religious faiths, died Nov. 28 at the age of 61.
TRUMMELL V. GILL was a teacher who taught not only students, but also teachers.
A multitalented woman - author, columnist, radio hostess and artist - Trummell died Friday at age 98. She was living in Satellite Beach, Fla., but was a longtime resident of South Philadelphia.
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