Obituaries
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Former Cub Pafko dies at 92Oct 08, 2013 11:00 pm - Former outfielder was longtime Mount Prospect resident
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Former Chicago Cardinal dies at 82Oct 07, 2013 7:28 pm - KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Gordon Polofsky, who played three seasons in the NFL and was a linebacker and fullback on Tennessee’s 1951 national championship team, has died. He wa...
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Death of Israeli kingmaker leaves huge voidOct 07, 2013 1:38 pm - JERUSALEM — To his supporters, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a revered spiritual sage who empowered masses of disenfranchised Sephardic Jews. Among secular Israelis, he was wid...
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Veteran Hollywood producer A.C. Lyles diesSep 30, 2013 5:44 pm - LOS ANGELES — A.C. Lyles, who rose from mail boy to producer during a career at Paramount Studios that lasted more than three-quarters of a century, has died at age 95. ...
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Hall of Fame Maine Township HS baseball coach Carstens diesSep 30, 2013 4:00 pm - A former Maine Township baseball coach who holds a spot in Illinois High School Association record book as the only coach to win three state championships — including ba...
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Influential director Richard Sarafian dies at 83Sep 22, 2013 7:24 am - LOS ANGELES — Richard Sarafian, an influential film director whose 1971 countercultural car-chase thriller “Vanishing Point” brought him a decades-long cult following, h...
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Writer Carolyn Cassady of Beat generation diesSep 22, 2013 6:12 am - LONDON — Carolyn Cassady, a writer who was married to Jack Kerouac’s travel companion and a lover of the famous Beat author, has died. She was 90 years old. Longtime fri...
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Notable deaths last weekSep 21, 2013 4:44 pm - One point on one card, a couple of points on some others. Ken Norton fought the greats, but the decisions he needed to be great never seemed to go his way. He busted Muh...
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Nintendo’s Yamauchi dies at 85Sep 19, 2013 6:59 pm - TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for more than 50 years and led the Japanese company’s transition from traditional playing-card maker to video game giant,...
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Former Bears RB Rick Casares diesSep 15, 2013 3:17 pm - Rick Casares, a star running back for the Bears who was once their all-time leading rusher, has died. He was 82. The Bears reported on their website that he died at his ...