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Obituaries

Springboks World Cup winner Van der Westhuizen dies at 45

By GERALD IMRAY
Feb 06, 2017 6:00 am - Joost van der Westhuizen, who won the 1995 World Cup with South Africa as Nelson Mandela looked on, has died after a six-year-battle with motor neuron disease. He was 45...
Former fire chief remembered as Glen Ellyn 'royalty'

By Katlyn Smith
Feb 04, 2017 12:00 am - Village President Alex Demos considered Stuart Stone his mentor and "as close to royalty as Glen Ellyn ever had." But whenever he told him as much, Stone would dismiss s...
Okano, Japan's organizer of 2002 World Cup, dies at 85

The Associated Press
Feb 03, 2017 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The soccer official who led Japan's organizing committee of the 2002 World Cup has died. Shun-Ichiro Okano was 85. Japan's soccer federation announced on Fr...
Mexican bakery magnate Lorenzo Servitje dies at 98

The Associated Press
Feb 03, 2017 6:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican bakery magnate Lorenzo Servitje has died at the age of 98 after building his Grupo Bimbo into an international snack and baked-goods empire th...
Ex-Wisconsin hockey coach Jeff Sauer dies; won 2 NCAA titles

The Associated Press
Feb 02, 2017 6:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Jeff Sauer, who led Wisconsin to two men's hockey NCAA titles, has died. He was 73. Friend Bill Brophy says Sauer died Thursday at University Hospit...
Bobby Watson, part of Kentucky's 1951 NCAA title team, dies

The Associated Press
Feb 02, 2017 6:00 am - OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) - Bobby Watson, a key player on Kentucky's 1951 NCAA championship team who also coached Owensboro High School to two state titles, has died. He was 8...
Stranded by flat tire, Marta Becket made the desert dance

By ALISON NOON and SCOTT SONNER
Feb 01, 2017 6:00 am - CARSON CITY, Nevada (AP) - A ballerina who drew audiences from around the world to an abandoned Mojave Desert stage she adopted after being stranded there by a flat tire...
Actor Frank Pellegrino of 'The Sopranos' dies at 72

The Associated Press
Feb 01, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Former "Sopranos" cast member and New York restaurateur Frank Pellegrino has died. Pellegrino died Tuesday in New York of lung cancer, according to publi...
Spokesman: Congolese opposition leader Tshisekedi dies at 84

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO and KRISTA LARSON
Feb 01, 2017 6:00 am - KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi, who pushed for democratic reforms for decades in the vast Central African nation throughout dictatorsh...
Wisconsin artist who cast Mary Tyler Moore sculpture dies

The Associated Press
Jan 31, 2017 6:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Gwendolyn Gillen, a Wisconsin artist whose bronze sculpture of Mary Tyler Moore tossing her hat became a downtown Minneapolis landmark, has died. Sh...

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