Obituaries
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Suburban doctor remembered as caring leader, excellent surgeonMay 16, 2013 5:32 pm - A portrait of Dr. Peter Pleotis still hangs in the doctors’ lounge at Northwest Community Hospital, some 14 years after he retired. The former obstetrician and gynecolog...
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Pop psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at 85May 13, 2013 5:43 pm - LOS ANGELES — Joyce Brothers, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist...
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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...