Obituaries
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Notable deaths: 'Hurricane' Carter, Princess Camilla's brotherApr 26, 2014 1:01 am - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, 76, was a professional boxer whose career ended when he was convicted of murder in New Jersey. He spent 19 years in prison before being freed a...
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Slain Chicago doctor's tireless work rememberedApr 25, 2014 1:01 am - A Chicago children's doctor killed in Afghanistan often told young medical trainees that the financial sacrifice was worth the privilege of helping the world's neediest ...
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St. Charles golf pro remembered as teacher, mentor, boosterApr 24, 2014 1:01 am - Jim Wheeler never intended to spend more than 30 years as the golf pro at St. Charles' Pottawatomie Golf Course. He never even intended to be a golf mentor. But he love...
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No matter her age, 'Dolly' Hein never quit working for WheelingApr 23, 2014 1:00 am - Life story Ida 'Dolly' Hein ~ 1919-2014 By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent The village of Wheeling has lost one of its best ambassadors. Ida “Dolly” Hei...
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Former Cook County sheriff dies at 80Apr 21, 2014 1:01 am - Former Cook County Sheriff Richard J. Elrod has died at age 80. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Elrod died Saturday of liver cancer and cirrhosis. Elrod served four...
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Colombia loses a literary giantApr 19, 2014 1:01 am - • Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child g...
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Photographer captured humanity amid chaosApr 12, 2014 1:01 am - HOEXTER, Germany - Hundreds of mourners packed a church in central Germany on Saturday to remember Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed on ass...
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Notable deaths: Iconic Hollywood great; Obama's aunt; WWE superstarApr 12, 2014 1:01 am - Mickey Rooney's approach to life was simple: "Let's put on a show!" He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage and in his extravagant per...
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Charles S. Stone Jr., a prominent and pioneering American journalist, diesApr 07, 2014 1:01 am - Charles S. "Chuck" Stone Jr., a prominent and pioneering American journalist who touched and shaped many lives as a big-city newspaper columnist, university professor an...
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Christian Life editor, philanthropist dies at 92Apr 06, 2014 6:00 am - Family and friends are not only mourning the loss of Janice Gosnell Franzen, the longtime editor of Wheaton-based Christian Life Publications, but they are heartbroken t...