Obituaries
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Notable deaths last weekMay 11, 2013 4:05 pm - Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on “The Young and the Restless,” has died. She was 84. “O...
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Beloved Larkin High School teacher dies at 56May 08, 2013 5:00 pm - A Larkin High School nursing teacher, around whom hundreds rallied as she struggled to recover from multiple strokes and fight a rare form of cancer, died Tuesday at age...
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Notable deaths last weekApr 27, 2013 4:16 pm - When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice. Other great singers have come and gone, but this fact remained inviolate until Jones passed away Friday at 8...
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Former Illinois chief justice diesApr 26, 2013 5:48 pm - The Illinois Supreme Court has announced the death at age 81 of former Chief Justice Moses Harrison. Harrison died Thursday at a St. Louis hospital. The cause of death w...
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Geneva mourns loss of school counselor 'Chic' WilliamsApr 24, 2013 2:00 pm - Charles “Chic” Williams had a profound effect on Geneva schoolchildren, as a teacher, coach, dean and counselor. “I can't tell you the number of people I've run into ove...
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Funeral held for diplomat killed in AfghanistanApr 17, 2013 3:56 pm - A taste for adventure and a belief that good can be done in tough places led young American diplomat Anne Smedinghoff to Afghanistan, where she reached out to Afghanis, ...
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Leave It to Beaver' actor Frank Bank diesApr 16, 2013 5:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — Frank Bank, who played oafish troublemaker Lumpy on the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver,” has died. He was 71. A spokesman for the Hillside Memorial Park in Los...
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Notable deaths last weekApr 13, 2013 5:20 pm - She was the first crush for a generation of boys, the perfect playmate for a generation of girls. Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a cute-as-a-button Mousek...
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Longtime Conant math teacher remembered as ‘great enthusiast’Apr 12, 2013 3:15 pm - In the 1960s and 1970s, the population at Conant High School was on the rise, and therefore, the number of teachers being hired was also increasing. At that time, Bill M...
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Ebert's services set for MondayApr 06, 2013 6:00 pm - The funeral service for film critic Roger Ebert will be held Monday at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. The 10 a.m. service will be open to friends and fans of the belove...