Obituaries
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Tony-nominated actress Helen Stenborg dies at 86Mar 22, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Helen Stenborg, a Tony-nominated stage, film and TV actress who was the wife of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes and mother of the Tony Award...
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U-46 mourns former principalMar 20, 2011 12:00 am - William R. “Bill” White, an Elgin resident who spent his career in Elgin Area School Distict U-46, died Saturday at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer. Bill's daug...
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John Fergus of Mount Prospect will be missed by manyMar 13, 2011 11:00 pm - On the 25th of February the SALUTE, INC. family lost a key volunteer, supporter, and friend, as John Fergus of Mount Prospect died suddenly. John had four young boys, a ...
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Fox Valley developer Vantreese ‘lived a full life’Mar 07, 2011 11:00 pm - Fox Valley developer Joseph Vantreese may not have lived a long life, but family and friends say it was a passionate one, full of energy and enthusiasm. Vantreese, of Ba...
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John Hersey HS community mourns ‘Mr. Huskie’Mar 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Nearly 20 years after Peter Titre retired as associate principal at John Hersey High School, he still wore orange and brown on his sleeve. Even his car proclaimed his de...
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British director Charles Jarrott dies in LA at 83Mar 05, 2011 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES — British director Charles Jarrott, whose career of nearly 50 years in film and television included the acclaimed British royalty dramas "Anne of the Thousa...
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Romance publisher Walter Zacharius dies at 87Mar 02, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Walter Zacharius, a publisher and iconoclast who released an unauthorized version of the erotic classic "Candy" and had the savvy and sales talk to help roma...
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Wheeling High School mourns ‘van lady’Mar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - For more than 35 years, students at Wheeling High School knew Georgia Lee Blyth as the security guard who monitored the outside part of the building, from the parking lo...
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About 200 attend service for Dalai Lama's nephewMar 01, 2011 10:00 pm - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — About 200 people attended a memorial service for Jigme Norbu, the Dalai Lama's nephew who was killed last month on an advocacy walk for Tibet. The s...
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Gay rights activist from Buffalo Grove diesMar 01, 2011 1:00 am - A 32-year-old gay rights activist from Buffalo Grove who waged a public campaign challenging people to “make things better now” for troubled youths has died. Friends gre...