Obituaries
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Notable deaths last weekOct 12, 2013 3:51 pm - Scott Carpenter conquered the heights of space, the depths of the ocean, and the darkness of fear. And in doing so he became the second American to orbit the Earth, powe...
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Former Elk Grove priest diesOct 11, 2013 3:29 pm - The Rev. Bernard C. White, 87, the associate pastor at Queen of the Rosary Catholic Church in Elk Grove Village for three years in the 1980s, has died, the Archdiocese o...
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Scott Carpenter, second U.S. astronaut in orbit, diesOct 10, 2013 3:57 pm - DENVER — Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth and first person to explore both the heights of space and depths of the ocean, died Thursday a...
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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...