Obituaries
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Sally Ride, cosmic trailblazer, dead at 61Jul 23, 2012 6:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail for U.S. women into orbit. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refr...
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Firefighter recognized in Des Plaines almost 60 years after his deathJul 23, 2012 6:00 am - No one knows how John Minich ended up in a grave with no headstone in All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines. The 43-year-old Chicago firefighter died almost 60 years ago on...
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Country music trailblazer; self-help pioneerJul 21, 2012 7:07 pm - Considered a pioneer in the self-help genre aimed at helping readers become more productive in their lives, author Stephen R. Covey had an enormous impact on both the co...
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Funeral Friday for former St. Edna, St. Colette priestJul 19, 2012 5:00 pm - The Rev. Eugene J. Faucher ~ 1925-2012 By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent A longtime Catholic priest, who served at two Northwest suburban parishes durin...
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Mt. Prospect mourns longtime community contributorJul 13, 2012 10:00 am - George Luteri, president of the Friends of the Mount Prospect Public Library and former chairman of Mount Prospect's Solid Waste Commission, passed away Wednesday after ...
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Matriarch of one of Wheeling's biggest farms has diedJul 12, 2012 12:45 pm - One of Wheeling's last pioneers from its rural heritage has died. Erna Koeppen passed away on July 5 after suffering a massive stroke. She was 90. “She was truly a farm ...
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First president of Palatine Boys Baseball never lost interestJul 11, 2012 12:01 pm - Thomas Bowman ~ 1921-2012 By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent Thomas Bowman Jr. built a career in real estate and he volunteered in several youth organiza...
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Chicago Public Radio loses a key visionaryJul 09, 2012 4:00 pm - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent The founding president and CEO of WBEZ-FM lived quietly in her Arlington Heights condominium in retirement, secure in...
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Marketer who helped start Seventeen dies in NYCJul 08, 2012 9:53 am - NEW YORK — A pioneering marketing executive who helped start Seventeen magazine in 1944 has died at age 92. Estelle Ellis Rubinstein died July 1 at her home in Manhattan...
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Influential Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Saud diesJul 08, 2012 9:53 am - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia says a senior prince and former defense minister has died. The 78-year-old Prince Mohammed bin Saud was not in line for the Saud...