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Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94

By HILLEL ITALIE
Dec 03, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga 'œThe War Between the...
Lon Adams, Slim Jim jerky recipe creator, dies of COVID-19

The Associated Press
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Alonzo 'œLon'ť T. Adams II, the man who created the formula for Slim Jim beef jerky sticks, has died from complications of COVID-19. He was 95. Lyn...
American Indian Movement co-founder Benton-Banai dies at 89

By AMY FORLITI and FELICIA FONSECA
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, has died. ...
Ex-French leader Valery Giscard d'Estaing dies at age 94

By SYLVIE CORBET
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, died on Wednesday. He was 94. Giscard d'E...
Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86

By BETH HARRIS
Dec 02, 2020 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He d...
Wheaton man who died from COVID-19 remembered as loving father who could fix anything

By Scott C. Morgan
Dec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Allan L. Rhoades is being remembered as a loving father and a handyman who "knew how to fix anything." "There wasn't anything he couldn't build, there wasn't anything he...
Palatine's Dave Seiffert remembered for community spirit, love of local sports

By Elena Ferrarin
Dec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Dave Seiffert, a former Palatine Township School District 15 board member, is being remembered for his gregarious personality, and his love of local sports and the commu...
Irina Antonova, head of top Moscow art museum, dies at 98

The Associated Press
Dec 01, 2020 6:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Irina Antonova, a charismatic art historian who presided over one of Russia's top art museums for more than half a century, has died at 98. The Pushkin Sta...
Acclaimed art scholar, ex-RISD president Roger Mandle dies

By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Dec 01, 2020 6:00 am - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Roger Mandle, an internationally renowned art scholar and the former longtime president of the Rhode Island School of Design, has died, RISD said...
George Johnson, one of Elk Grove's pioneers and the mayor's father, dies

By Christopher Placek
Dec 01, 2020 12:00 am - One of Elk Grove Village's pioneers - and the father of longtime Mayor Craig Johnson - is being remembered as a dedicated volunteer, passionate business owner and strong...

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