Obituaries
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Local WWII vet remembered for special diplomaSep 10, 2012 10:00 am - Buffalo Grove man dies at 86
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Former D103 administrator dies:Sep 07, 2012 4:20 pm - Former Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103 teacher and administrator Darryl Handcock died Friday morning after a two-year fight with cancer, officials have ann...
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Northwest suburbs loses longtime music educatorSep 06, 2012 1:00 pm - Robert Henry taught band students in Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 for nearly four decades, before retiring to teach privately throughout the District 214 area. ...
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Former Elgin man drowned saving grandson in WisconsinSep 05, 2012 11:00 pm - Sunday afternoon was a beautiful day on Lake Michigan. Fran Schmidt said the day her husband died at a beach in Sheboygan, Wis., the water looked like the beautiful aqua...
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Chicago-born 'Green Mile' actor dead at 54Sep 03, 2012 4:45 pm - LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan was one big, irresistible jumble of contradictions. His presence was formidable, even intimidating: The former bodyguard had a muscul...
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‘Raindrops’ lyricist Hal David dies at 91Sep 02, 2012 9:17 am - LOS ANGELES — Hal David was a man of simple words. A writer by trade — and a journalist by education — David had a knack for encapsulating love, earnestness and a wry s...
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Notable deaths last weekSep 01, 2012 4:35 pm - Hal David, who along with partner Burt Bacharach penned dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, has d...
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Renowned Olympian, judo coach from Buffalo Grove diesAug 28, 2012 10:00 am - Irwin Cohen competed for the United States in the 1972 Munich Olympics, but for him and the athletes he coached since, judo was always much more than a sport. It was fam...
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Services set for 13-year-old Palatine boyAug 27, 2012 5:14 pm - Services have been scheduled for a 13-year-old Palatine boy who drowned over the weekend while attending a family reunion near downstate Effingham. A funeral Mass for Be...
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Hanover Twp. grateful for all Simon accomplishedAug 27, 2012 4:06 pm - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent Staff members with Hanover Township in Bartlett are mourning the loss of their community health director, who in six short ...