Obituaries
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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...
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Former Arlington Heights trustee made sure everyone was heardFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Virginia Kucera, who prided herself on making sure everybody’s voice was heard during her 12 years on the Arlington Heights Village Board, has died at the age of 72. “I ...
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Bob Dylan's lyrical muse Suze Rotolo dies at 67Feb 28, 2011 10:00 pm - Suze Rotolo was just 17 when one of the 20th century's greatest poets and musicians became smitten. "Right from the start I couldn't take my eyes off her," Bob Dylan wro...
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Jane Russell, star of ’40s and ’50s films, diesFeb 28, 2011 1:00 am - Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jane Russell, the busty brunette who shot to fame as the sexy star of Howard Hughes’ 1941 Western “The Outlaw,” died Monday of respiratory...
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District 26 mourns loss of gifted teacherFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - Janice Meyer ~ 1954-2011 Students and faculty at River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect are mourning the loss of a favorite teacher. Janice Meyer, who taught ...