Obituaries
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Former WSU star William Roffler dies at 84Jan 20, 2015 10:00 pm - SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Former Washington State and NFL football player William "Bud" Roffler has died at the age of 84. Family members told The Spokesman-Review newspaper...
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Former Miss. Supreme Court chief justice Lee dies at 99Jan 20, 2015 10:00 pm - FOREST, Miss. (AP) - Roy Noble Lee, who served 16 years on the Mississippi Supreme Court and retired as chief justice in 1993, died Wednesday at his home in Forest. He w...
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Famed Austrian tenor Waldemar Kmentt dead at 85Jan 20, 2015 10:00 pm - VIENNA (AP) - The Vienna State Opera says that famed Austrian tenor Waldemar Kmentt has died at age 85. A statement said Kmentt died Wednesday in Vienna, where he began ...
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Melvin Gordon, CEO who built empire from Tootsie Rolls, diesJan 20, 2015 10:00 pm - CHICAGO (AP) - Melvin Gordon, who helped turn the enduring popularity of the humble Tootsie Roll into a candy empire, has died. He was 95. The longtime Tootsie Roll Indu...
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Former Iowa, Utah football coach Ray Nagel dies at 87Jan 20, 2015 10:00 pm - IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Former Iowa and Utah head football coach Ray Nagel has died at age 87. The University of Iowa says Nagel died Jan. 15 in San Antonio. His daughter...
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Geneva man remembered as city's 'champion'Jan 20, 2015 12:01 am - Weldon Johnson believed in supporting Geneva through his business and as a volunteer. He elicited smiles for years as he walked the Swedish Days parade in his Viking get...
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Bo Dollis, longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias, diesJan 19, 2015 10:00 pm - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Theodore Emile "Bo" Dollis, the longtime Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians, died Tuesday at his home in New Orleans. His death was an...
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Former F1 and Le Mans driver Robert Manzon diesJan 19, 2015 10:00 pm - PARIS (AP) - Robert Manzon, the last surviving driver of Formula One's inaugural season in 1950, has died. He was 97. Manzon, a member of the 24 Hours of Le Mans hall of...
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Romanian who claimed he invented world's 1st jetpack diesJan 19, 2015 10:00 pm - BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A Romanian inventor who claimed he beat the Americans to make the world's first jetpack and went on to design and build dozens of vehicles, cal...
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Civil rights activist and lawyer Faith Seidenberg dies at 91Jan 19, 2015 10:00 pm - SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Faith Seidenberg, an attorney and activist known for her civil rights and civil liberties work, has died. She was 91. Her family says she died Frid...