Obituaries
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‘It was never a job for him’: Longtime Mount Prospect florist dies at 97Jan 30, 2025 12:31 pm - Harold Busse, who turned Busse’s Flowers into a Mount Prospect institution, has died at 97.
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Former Des Plaines Fire Chief David Clark dies at 86Jan 14, 2025 6:27 pm - Des Plaines firefighters will honor former Chief David Clark with a bell-ringing ceremony Wednesday before a funeral Mass the next morning.
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Paul Saletnik, who helped save historic Des Plaines Theatre, dies at 74Jan 13, 2025 9:09 pm - A funeral Mass will be said Wednesday for a Des Plaines’ planning and zoning board member and community volunteer who worked to save the historic Des Plaines Theatre.
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Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82
Jan 11, 2025 5:23 pm - Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders, who were battered, bloodied and nearly killed as they traveled across the South in 1961, helping the civil...
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Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86
Jan 07, 2025 11:40 am - Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96
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Wayne Osmond, singer and guitarist for The Osmonds, is dead at 73
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Founder of Elgin’s Laird Funeral Home to be laid to rest this weekDec 31, 2024 1:25 pm - Services will be held this week for Donald Laird, founder of Laird Funeral Home in Elgin. Laird died at the age of 93 in his home on Dec. 23.
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Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, who helped viewers through the Sept. 11 attacks, has died
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‘The greatest former president’: Suburban admirers reflect on Carter’s legacyDec 30, 2024 10:42 am - Chicago-area admirers of Jimmy Carter are paying tribute to the former president and humanitarian, who died Sunday.