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<title><![CDATA[ Paul Hemphill, 73; Journalist, Novelist Rooted in the South ]]></title>
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Paul Hemphill, a journalist and novelist who wrote about sports, country music and the haunted legacy of the South, died July 11 of oral cancer at a hospice in Atlanta. He was 73.
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<title><![CDATA[ Constantine Raitzky, Exhibition Designer at Smithsonian, Met Museums, Dies ]]></title>
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Constantine Raitzky, 78, who designed exhibitions for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and was the former exhibition designer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, died June 29 of lung cancer at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He lived in Reston.
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<title><![CDATA[ Annette Karnow, 81, American Artist and Diplomat, Dies ]]></title>
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Annette Karnow, 81, a world-traveling artist and diplomat, died of cancer and a stroke July 2 at her home in Potomac.
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<title><![CDATA[ Elizabeth 'Skip' Schaler, Relief Worker in China and Teacher in Fairfax, Dies ]]></title>
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Elizabeth "Skip" Schaler, 91, a relief worker with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in China in the late 1940s and a retired French and Spanish teacher in Fairfax County public schools, died June 26 at Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville of...
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<dc:creator>Joe Holley</dc:creator>
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Alfred A. Tillmann, 89, a retired Marine Corps colonel who became a mortgage broker and real estate agent for Skinrood Real Estate in Falls Church from 1967 to 1976, died of congestive heart failure July 7 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County.
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<title><![CDATA[ Football Coach John Buckley, 87 ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Back in the mid-1950s, when the boys of Anacostia were playing recreational football every autumn in a league sponsored by the Metropolitan Police Boys Club, the coach they clamored to play for was a burly, hard-nosed Vince Lombardi-type named John Buckley. The kids lucky enough to play for him...
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<dc:creator>Joe Holley</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Harold W. Snider, 61; Advocate for the Blind Helped Craft Disabilities Act ]]></title>
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Harold W. Snider, 61, a prominent advocate for the blind who helped craft legislation that expanded the civil rights of Americans with disabilities and aided in the launching of an audible newspaper service, died June 26 at his home in Rockville after a heart attack.
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<dc:creator>T. Rees Shapiro</dc:creator>
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Barbara R. Bick, 83, who helped start the advocacy organization Friends of St. Elizabeths Hospital, which works to improve conditions and obtain resources for the Anacostia hospital for the mentally ill, died April 3 at her home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. She had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also...
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Paul George Varoutsos, 88, who had a long career as a family and divorce lawyer, died June 25 of congestive heart failure at his home in Arlington County.
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<title><![CDATA[ Thomas J. Tourish Jr., 60, Longtime U.S. Attorney's Office Mainstay ]]></title>
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Thomas J. Tourish Jr., 60, the deputy chief of the appellate division of the U.S. attorney's office in the District for 25 years, died July 2 at Casey House in Rockville. He had pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare cancer of the abdominal cavity.
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<dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator>
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James Bernard Sullivan Jr., 85, a structural engineer who was active in the Catholic archdiocese and a supervisor of ushers at RFK Stadium for more than 30 years, died of cancer June 28 at his home in Bethesda.
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<title><![CDATA[ Béla Király; Hungarian General Led 1956 Uprising Against Soviets ]]></title>
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Gen. Béla Király, 97, a Hungarian military leader who survived a death sentence imposed by Budapest's Kremlin-controlled government, commanded the tumultuous 1956 uprising against Soviet invaders and decades later served in his country's first post-communist parliament, died July 4 in Budapest. N...
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<dc:creator>Alexander F. Remington</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Harry J. Gray Dies; Transformed United Technologies Into Defense and Industrial Giant ]]></title>
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Harry J. Gray, 89, a retired United Technologies chief executive credited with transforming the company into a defense and industrial giant, died July 8 at a hospital in Hartford, Conn. No cause of death was reported.
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<title><![CDATA[ Gertie Lee Brooks Dies; Aided Those in Need ]]></title>
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Gertie Lee Brooks, a retired civil servant whose passion for service and giving to those in need extended far beyond her church community, died of lung cancer July 2 at Manor Care Nursing Home in Chevy Chase. She was 69.
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John A. Keel, 79, who wrote the book "The Mothman Prophecies," an account of his 1966-67 investigation into sightings in West Virginia of a winged creature known as the Mothman, died July 3 at a hospital in Manhattan. He had congestive heart failure.
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Jean Bell, 101, who worked as a nursery school teacher for many years in Alexandria, died June 10 at Goodwin House Baileys Crossroads. She had congestive heart disease.
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<title><![CDATA[ W. Proctor Jones, Powerful Senate Staffer and Energy Lobbyist, Dies at 68 ]]></title>
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W. Proctor Jones, 68, a powerful Senate staffer for more than 34 years who became an energy lobbyist, died of lung cancer July 7 at his home near Flint Hill in Rappahannock County, Va.
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The July 8 obituary for Vassily Aksyonov misspelled his mother's last name. It was Ginzburg.
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<title><![CDATA[ Vassily Aksyonov, 76; Author Was Stripped of Russian Citizenship for Writings ]]></title>
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Vassily Aksyonov, 76, who was one of the most gifted and eminent Russian writers of a generation that emerged in the post-Stalin cultural thaw of the 1960s and who evolved into a dynamic, racy and surreal stylist, died July 6 at a clinic in Moscow after a stroke last year.
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<dc:creator>Adam Bernstein</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Philip Glaessner, 86; Economist, WWII Veteran Devoted Life to Promoting Liberty ]]></title>
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Philip Glaessner, a World Bank economist whose language skills helped keep fellow prisoners of war informed during World War II, died of congestive heart failure June 23 at his home in Evanston, Ill. He was six days short of his 90th birthday.
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<dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Mollie Sugden, 86; British Actress 'Served' Laughs with Comedy Series Persona ]]></title>
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Mollie Sugden, 86, the British actress who provoked hilarity on both sides of the Atlantic as an absurdly haughty department store functionary in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?," died July 1 in Guildford, England. No cause of death was reported.
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<dc:creator>Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Allen Klein, 77; Brash Record Executive Managed 'Beatles' and Other Big Names ]]></title>
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Allen Klein, 77, a cunning record executive whose clients included the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and who was known as the "toughest wheeler-dealer in the pop jungle," but whose ego and temperament also contributed to the breakup of the Fab Four, died July 4 at his home in Manhattan. He had...
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Donald C. McCandless, 87, a commercial and industrial real estate appraiser who specialized in railroad rights-of-way, died June 6 at the Casey House in Rockville of bacterial meningitis. He was a Sandy Spring resident since 1980.
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Robert A. Derzon, 78, the first director of the federal agency that manages Medicare and Medicaid, died June 17 in Orangeville, Ontario, of swine flu, the New York Times reported.
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Michael Lawrence Tappan, 68, State Farm Insurance agent in Silver Spring and Bethesda for 41 years, died June 8 at his home in Rockville. He had lung cancer.
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<title><![CDATA[ Texas Sharpshooter Joe Bowman Dies at 84 ]]></title>
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Joe Bowman, a nationally known Texas sharpshooter who could blast an aspirin to powder at 30 paces and split a playing card edgewise at 20, died June 29 in Junction, Tex.
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<title><![CDATA[ Defense Secretary, Architect of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam Robert McNamara Dies ]]></title>
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Robert S. McNamara, 93, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased from public memory by his reputation as the primary architect of U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, died yesterday at his home in...
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<dc:creator>Thomas W. Lippman</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Leo H. Mugmon, Area Doctor for Six Decades, Dies at 95 ]]></title>
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Dr. Leo H. Mugmon, 95, a general practitioner in the Washington area for six decades and a former chief of the medical staff at the facility then known as Greater Southeast Community Hospital, died June 29 at Prince George's Hospital Center of a head injury caused by a fall two days earlier at his...
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<title><![CDATA[ Juan M. Cameron, Washington Bureau Chief for Fortune Magazine, Dies ]]></title>
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Juan M. Cameron, 84, the Washington editor for Fortune magazine from 1968 until his retirement in 1982, died June 25 at his home in the District of complications from recent spinal surgery.
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<title><![CDATA[ Retired Washington Post Circulation Employee Manfred Blumenthal Dies at 87 ]]></title>
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Manfred Blumenthal, 87, a retired circulation employee for The Washington Post who had also worked at the old Washington Times-Herald, died of congestive heart failure June 30 at his home in Laguna Woods, Calif.
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Nikki Carrillo, 54, who oversaw the operation of heart-lung machines at George Washington University Hospital from 1980 to 1997, died of cancer June 16 at a hospice in Mount Pleasant, S.C. She was moving to Charleston, S.C., from Vienna when she died.
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<title><![CDATA[ Jean W. Randolph, D.C. Public Schools Teacher, Die ]]></title>
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Jean W. Randolph, 90, a D.C. Public Schools teacher who taught English, history and reading from 1946 until her retirement in 1974, died June 22 at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly of complications from a fall at her home in Washington.
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<title><![CDATA[ A Local Life: Doris DeBoe; Math Teacher's Dedication Was Absolute, Too ]]></title>
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Doris Broome DeBoe, who became one of the District's leading math teachers, said she was drawn to the subject because it was absolute. Where other subjects were subjective, she said, math was exact.
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<title><![CDATA[ William E. Hutchinson, Stymied Newspaper Editor During Pearl Harbor Attack ]]></title>
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William E. Hutchinson, 92, a retired Foreign Service officer who was a Honolulu newspaper editor when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, died of bladder cancer June 20 at his home in Gaithersburg.
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<title><![CDATA[ Kenneth L. Reusser; Daring Fighter Pilot Received 2 Awards of the Navy Cross ]]></title>
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Kenneth L. Reusser, a minister's son and motorcycle racer, became a Marine Corps fighter pilot during World War II and earned top decorations for his daring in combat.
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<title><![CDATA[ Daniel D. Boccabella Sr., 72; Lead Detective on 1973 D.C. Mass Murder Case ]]></title>
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Daniel D. Boccabella Sr., 72, a retired D.C. police officer who was the lead detective in a 1973 mass murder case, died June 25 at a hospice in Cape Coral, Fla. He had complications from melanoma.
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<title><![CDATA[ Architect Anthony F. Musolino, 82 ]]></title>
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Anthony F. Musolino, 82, an architect whose buildings included Fairfax High School, Fort Hunt High School and the Bob Peck Chevrolet showroom in Arlington County, died June 29 of congestive heart failure at his home in Aldie.
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Helen B. Dougherty, 94, a volunteer and writer who saw the world as the wife of an Air Force officer, died June 2 at The Fairfax near Fort Belvoir. She had aspiration pneumonia.
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<title><![CDATA[ Herbert G. Klein, 91; White House Communications Director During Watergate ]]></title>
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Herbert G. Klein, 91, a San Diego newspaperman who was a longtime aide to Richard M. Nixon and was White House communications director during much of the Watergate era, died July 2 at his home in La Jolla, Calif., after a heart attack.
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Daniel D. Woolston, 82, former president of Underwater Systems, a Silver Spring company that made underwater components for commercial and government uses, died of advanced dementia June 5 at the Sanctuary at Holy Cross Nursing Home in Burtonsville.
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<title><![CDATA[ Shi Pei Pu Dies; Convicted Spy's Affair With Man Inspired 'M. Butterfly' Play ]]></title>
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Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play "M. Butterfly" and movie of the same title, died June 30 in Paris. An aide confirmed Mr. Shi's death to Agence France-Presse...
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<title><![CDATA[ Baritone Harve Presnell Dies; Starred in 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' on Broadway ]]></title>
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Harve Presnell, a tall, strapping baritone who was the leading man in the 1964 Broadway musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," spent 10 years touring the country as Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" and flourished as a Hollywood character actor, notably in "Fargo" as an outrageously bullying father-in-law,...
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<title><![CDATA[ Electrical Engineer Louis Costrell Dies; Wrote Key Nuclear Reference Work ]]></title>
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Louis Costrell, 93, an electrical engineer who wrote a fundamental reference manual for nuclear equipment, died June 8 at the Ring House independent living facility in Rockville. He had prostate cancer.
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Dorothy LeSueur, 86, a onetime fashion editor for the New York Times who worked at The Washington Post in the same capacity from 1965 to 1972, died June 28 of lung cancer at Grand Oaks, an assisted living facility in the District.
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<title><![CDATA[ Karl Malden, 97; Oscar-Winning Character Actor Had Long, Varied Career ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Karl Malden, 97, an Academy Award-winning actor who excelled in plainspoken, working-class roles and was memorable as the shy suitor in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and as a brave priest in "On the Waterfront," died July 1 at his home in Los Angeles. No cause of death was reported.
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<dc:creator>Adam Bernstein</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Alexis Arguello, 57; Three-Time Boxing Champion ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Alexis Arguello, a three-time world champion boxer and national hero of Nicaragua, who was elected mayor of the capital city of Managua last year, was found dead July 1 at his home in Managua. He was 57 and, according to press accounts, had shot himself in the chest.
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<dc:creator>Matt Schudel</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Yuri Olkhovsky, 79; Expert on Soviet Union, Voice of America Broadcaster ]]></title>
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Yuri Olkhovsky, 79, a retired Sovietologist at George Washington University and a broadcaster for the Voice of America, died of cancer June 7 at his home in Arlington.
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<title><![CDATA[ Robert W. Peebles, 83; Soft-Spoken, Jazz-Loving Alexandria, Va., Schools Chief ]]></title>
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Robert W. Peebles, 83, an affable, jazz-playing school administrator who had a serene tenure as Alexandria's school superintendent in the 1980s, died June 30 at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He had pneumonia.
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<dc:creator>Adam Bernstein</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ OBITUARY CORRECTION ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The June 28 obituary for Jean Stapleton Hellier misidentified the location of her church. She was a member of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in McLean.
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<title><![CDATA[ Choreographer Pina Bausch Renowned for Innovative, Unconventional Works ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Pina Bausch, 68, the influential German-born choreographer known for dark, jagged, experimental works that melded aspects of traditional dance, dialogue and outrageous set design to form a subgenre all its own, died June 30 in the western German industrial city of Wuppertal after being diagnosed...
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<dc:creator>Sarah Halzack</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Blair G. Ewing, 75; Montgomery Pol Advocated School Integration, Managed Growth ]]></title>
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Blair G. Ewing, who was regarded as the longtime liberal conscience of the Montgomery County school board and County Council, and who championed school desegregation efforts and controlled growth in the county, died Monday at the Casey House hospice in Rockville. His wife said he had a malignant...
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<dc:creator>Matt Schudel</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Frank Keenan Dies at 85; Capitol Hill Staffer Advocated Televising Sessions ]]></title>
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Frank Keenan, 85, a former congressional staff member and an early advocate of broadcasting sessions of Congress, died June 27 at Washington Hospital Center of a pulmonary embolism.
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<title><![CDATA[ James P. Tillman Sr., 89; Truck Driver and Ballplayer ]]></title>
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James P. Tillman Sr., 89, a catcher for the Homestead Grays in the Negro Leagues during the 1940s who became a truck driver, died May 31 at Bradford Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Clinton of complications from a stroke. He had been a Capitol Heights resident since 1952.
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Jean Thompson Ferguson, 94, a longtime member of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase who was an active outdoorswoman for much of her life, died June 15 of congestive heart failure at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She moved to McLean this year after living in Chevy Chase for more than 60 years.
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<title><![CDATA[ Gale Storm, 1950s TV Sitcom Star, Dies at 87 ]]></title>
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Gale Storm, 87, an actress and pop singer whose chirpy, upbeat charm made her a leading television star on two 1950s sitcoms, "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show," died June 27 at a convalescent hospital in Danville, Calif. No cause of death was reported.
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<dc:creator>Adam Bernstein and Martin Weil</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Mary Lou Forbes, 83; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist ]]></title>
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Mary Lou Forbes, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 at the Washington Star for her coverage of Virginia school desegregation and became founding editor of the Washington Times's Commentary opinion page, died June 27 at Inova Alexandria Hospital of breast cancer. She was 83.
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<dc:creator>Adam Bernstein</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ CORRECTIONS ]]></title>
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The June 28 obituary of Ken Roberts incorrectly reported an early acting credit for Christopher Reeve. Reeve appeared on "Love of Life," not "The Secret Storm."
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Rita M. Wagner, 88, an administrator for the Montgomery County Public School System who ran the Head Start program from the late 1960s until her retirement in 1985, died June 19 at her daughter's home in Chicago Heights, Ill. She had Alzheimer's disease.
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<title><![CDATA[ Billy Mays, King of TV Yell and Sell, Dies at 50 ]]></title>
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Billy Mays, the bearded, boisterous pitchman who, as the undisputed king of TV yell and sell, became an unlikely pop culture icon, died June 28 at his Tampa home at age 50. Tampa police told the Associated Press that his wife discovered him unresponsive early in the morning. A fire rescue crew...
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<dc:creator>Joe Holley</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Creekmore Fath, 93; Texas Lawyer, Longtime Democratic Activist ]]></title>
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Creekmore Fath, 93, an Austin lawyer and one of the last of the FDR New Dealers, died June 25 of renal failure at his home in Austin.
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<title><![CDATA[ A Local Life: Charlie Taylor's Voice a Fixture in 'Blue-Eyed Soul' Scene ]]></title>
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If you lived in the Washington area in the 1970s and '80s, you could have heard Charlie Taylor sing almost any night. He was the robust vocalist behind one of the area's most popular Top 40 show bands, Second Coming.
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<title><![CDATA[ Ken Roberts, 99; Golden-Throated Announcer Introduced Soap Operas ]]></title>
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Ken Roberts, 99, an announcer whose urbane baritone introduced the long-running TV soap operas "Love of Life" and "The Secret Storm," and who memorably parodied his dramatic delivery on the 1970s children's show "The Electric Company," died June 19 at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had pneumo...
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<title><![CDATA[ Thomas M. King Dies at 80 ]]></title>
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Thomas M. King, 80, a Jesuit priest and Georgetown University theology professor who blessed the film crew and sets for the 1973 movie "The Exorcist," died June 23 at his home in Washington after an apparent heart attack.
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<title><![CDATA[ Burch Millsap, 85; Fairfax Judge Presided Over 'Roy Rogers' Murder Case ]]></title>
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Burch Millsap, 85, a retired Fairfax County Circuit Court judge who in 1976 presided over one of the region's most infamous murder trials, died June 6 of lung disease at Suburban Hospital. He had lived in Silver Spring in recent years.
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<title><![CDATA[ Arthur W. Lehman, 91, Retired Sergeant Played Euphonium With the Marine Band ]]></title>
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Arthur W. Lehman, 91, a retired master gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps who spent 24 years as a member of the Marine Band and who was among the most influential euphonium virtuosos of his time, died June 19 at his home in Camp Springs. He had pulmonary fibrosis.
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Carl E. Bates, 76, a retired master sergeant in the Air Force, died June 10 at his home in Winchester of closed head trauma, a result of injuries sustained in a car crash a year ago.
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Cathy Forshay, 59, an administrative assistant in the Fairfax County Public School system for 18 years, died June 18 at her home in Burke. She had ovarian cancer.
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Rose Marie Otto, 79, a retired accounting clerk at the University of Maryland, died June 23 at her sister's home in Chesapeake, Va., of pancreatic cancer.
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<title><![CDATA[ Operatic Mezzo-Soprano Betty Allen Dies at 82 ]]></title>
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Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82 and had complications from kidney disease.
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<dc:creator>Emily Langer</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Cancer Survivor Maria Carolina Hinestrosa, 50, Advocated Research, Treatment ]]></title>
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Maria Carolina Hinestrosa, 50, whose breast cancer diagnosis 15 years ago prompted her to become a leading advocate of health care reform and medical research, died June 21 at her home in Bethesda of soft tissue sarcoma, a side effect of her previous cancer treatment.
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<dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituaries ]]></title>
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Myrna Baughman, 69, a former legal secretary with the litigation unit of State Farm Insurance in Lanham, died June 15 at Prince George's Hospital Center of complications from leukemia. She was a resident of Kettering, in Prince George's County.
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: Farrah Fawcett; '70s Sex Symbol Won Respect as Dramatic Actress ]]></title>
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Farrah Fawcett, 62, the golden-haired sex symbol of the late 1970s who is best remembered for a popular bedroom poster and the detective series "Charlie's Angels" and who later found a niche portraying troubled women in made-for-TV dramas, died June 25 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.
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<dc:creator>Alexander F. Remington</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: Jerri Nielsen; Doctor Battled Cancer at South Pole ]]></title>
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Jerri Nielsen, an emergency room physician from Ohio working for a year at the South Pole's scientific station, had no other medical professional to rely upon when she discovered a lump in her breast in March 1999.
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: Craig Tufts; Naturalist Championed Backyard Wildlife Habitat ]]></title>
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Craig Tufts, 62, a naturalist who saw every back yard as a potential haven for wildlife, died June 21 at his home in Middleburg. He had brain cancer.
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<dc:creator>Adrian Higgins</dc:creator>
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Catherine Theresa Peterson, 79, a former food services employee for the Fairfax County schools, died June 14 of lung disease at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She lived in Annandale.
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<title><![CDATA[ Catherine C. Hayes, 90; Church Member ]]></title>
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Catherine C. Hayes, 90, a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria from 1969 to 1998 and who was a past parish council president, died June 22 at Potomac Valley nursing home in Rockville of congestive heart failure.
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<title><![CDATA[ Michael Jackson, 'King of Pop,' Dies of Apparent Heart Attack in L.A. ]]></title>
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Michael Jackson, 50, died yesterday in Los Angeles as sensationally as he lived, as famous as a human being can get. He was a child Motown phenomenon who grew into a moonwalking megastar, the self-anointed King of Pop who sold 750 million records over his career and enjoyed worldwide adoration.
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<title><![CDATA[ Alec Gallup Dies at 81; Gallup Poll Chairman Who 'Could Smell Out a Bad Question' ]]></title>
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Alec Gallup, 81, who served as chairman of his family's business, the Gallup Poll, which was started by his father and is considered among the most-trusted political polls in the United States, died of a heart ailment June 22 at his home in Princeton, N.J.
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<title><![CDATA[ C. Richard A. Gilbert, 93, Area Gynecologist Whose Career Spanned 65 Years ]]></title>
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C. Richard A. Gilbert, 93, a gynecologist who still saw patients several days a week, died June 18 at his home in Silver Spring after a heart attack.
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Douglas S. Ormerod, 78, who retired from the Internal Revenue Service in 1987 as a director of foreign tax assistance, died May 31 at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton after a heart attack. He was a Washington resident.
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Thurman Adams Jr., 80, a veteran Democratic lawmaker and leader of the Delaware state Senate, died June 23 at a hospital in Dover, Del. He had pancreatic cancer.
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<title><![CDATA[ Legendary ÂTonight Show' Personality Ed McMahon, 86, Dies ]]></title>
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Ed McMahon, 86, the veteran television entertainer best remembered as the giggle-prone sidekick to Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" for 30 years, died June 23 at a Los Angeles hospital.
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<title><![CDATA[ Mediator Negotiated Top Labor Union Disputes During Carter Years ]]></title>
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Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, who as a top federal mediator in the Carter administration helped end a massive coal miners' strike, died June 17 at his home in Washington. He had cancer.
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<title><![CDATA[ Wife of Chilean Leader Rallied Opposition to Coup ]]></title>
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Hortensia Bussi, 94, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, died June 18 in the Chilean capital of Santiago. No cause of death was disclosed.
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<title><![CDATA[ 1st Army Chaplain Believed to Be Wounded in Iraq ]]></title>
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The Rev. Timothy Vakoc, 49, a Minnesota priest who was gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq five years ago, died June 20 at a nursing home in New Hope, Minn. The Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis did not release the cause of death.
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<title><![CDATA[ Salesman Dan Ogle, 69, Dies; He Was a Decorated Marine ]]></title>
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Dan Ogle, 69, who retired from Royal Cup Coffee in 2002 after 27 years as a salesman at local food-service companies, died June 9 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the District. He had Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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<dc:creator>T. Rees Shapiro</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Engineer Tasked to Apollo Missions in Florida, Nuclear Power Plants ]]></title>
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Lawrence J. "Larry" Perez Jr., 72, an engineer who became manager of the hydrology and geology department of NUS Corp., a company involved in nuclear power plant engineering, died June 20 at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh. He had melanoma and multiple sclerosis.
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<dc:creator>Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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Claire M. Bursley, 81, a former president of what is now the National Council of Coast Guard Spouses Clubs, died June 11 at Riderwood Village retirement community in Silver Spring after a heart attack.
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Thomas C. Leak Jr., 78, the former owner of a service station in Washington's Shepherd Park neighborhood, died June 17 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney after a heart attack. He was an Ashton resident.
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<title><![CDATA[ John Houghtaling, Inventor of Magic Fingers ]]></title>
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John Houghtaling, who put a little buzz in America's motel rooms with his invention of Magic Fingers, a once-ubiquitous device that caused beds to vibrate in a gentle rocking motion, died June 17 after a fall at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. He was 92.
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<dc:creator>Matt Schudel</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: Accomplished Amateur Golfer Rita S. Weitzen ]]></title>
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Rita S. Weitzen, 90, a competitive amateur golfer in the Washington area for many years and a perennial champion at the old Indian Spring Country Club in Silver Spring, died June 14 of ovarian cancer at Montgomery Hospice's Casey House in Rockville.
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Robert W. Mueller, 88, a legislative assistant specializing in international relations for Rep. Phil Crane (R-Ill.) during the mid-1980s and again from 1996 to 2003, died May 18 at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. He had lymphoma.
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<title><![CDATA[ A Local Life: Emma Daniel Gray Cleaner, 'Christian Lady' Served 6 Presidents ]]></title>
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Each night for 24 years, Emma Daniel Gray would diligently clean the White House. When she came to the president's chair, she would pause, cleaning materials in hand, and say a quick prayer.
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<dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Heyward Isham, 82, Dies; Ambassador to Haiti Played Key Role in Cold War ]]></title>
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Heyward Isham, 82, a career Foreign Service officer and a Russian scholar who held key posts during the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, died June 18 at a hospital near his Long Island home. He had complications from an infection and pulmonary fibrosis.
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<dc:creator>Martin Weil</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Bengali Musician Ali Akbar Khan Dies at 87 ]]></title>
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Ali Akbar Khan, 87, a Bengali musician who was regarded as one of the finest artists of Indian classical music who helped popularize the genre in the West through appearances on television, record and stage, died June 18 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif., of a kidney ailment.
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<dc:creator>Robert E. Thomason</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ CORRECTIONS ]]></title>
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The June 18 obituary of Valerie Patterson incorrectly referred to the Washington high school from which she graduated. She was a 1969 graduate of Western High School.
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<title><![CDATA[ Sarod Virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan Dies at 87 ]]></title>
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Ali Akbar Khan, 87, a Bengali musician who was regarded as one of the finest artists of Indian classical music and who helped popularize the genre in the West through appearances on television, record and stage, died June 18 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif., of a kidney ailment.
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<dc:creator>Robert E. Thomason</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Kenneth P. Gorelick, Psychiatrist, Advocate of Poetry Therapy, Dies in Md. at 67 ]]></title>
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Kenneth P. Gorelick, who died of brain cancer June 8 at his home in Washington, was a psychiatrist, essayist, professor, poet and poetry therapist, to mention just a few of his many interests. An abbreviated version of his curricula vitae ran to 10 pages.
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<title><![CDATA[ Dusty Rhodes, Pinch Hitter Who Led N.Y. Giants to '54 Series Sweep, Dies at 82 ]]></title>
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Dusty Rhodes, 82, a carefree country boy from Alabama who came off the bench to lead the New York Giants to a four-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series, died June 17 of diabetes, emphysema and other illnesses at the Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas. He lived in...
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Neil Nicholas Muhonen, 96, a retired Foreign Service Officer, died June 10 of acute coronary artery disease at Tall Oaks at Reston, an assisted living center where he recently resided.
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: Edith 'Jackie' Ronne, First U.S. Woman on Antarctica ]]></title>
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Edith "Jackie" Ronne never intended to leave Bethesda. She had gone to Beaumont, Tex., in 1947, to see off her explorer husband as he and a volunteer crew headed to Antarctica to fill in the blanks on the map of the last continent. She packed little more than a good suit, a good dress, nylon stoc...
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<dc:creator>Patricia Sullivan</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: John C. 'Jack' Hoffman; Capitol Page School Principal ]]></title>
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John C. "Jack" Hoffman, 86, a retired principal of the Capitol Page School who was also a baseball umpire and youth coach, died June 3 at Charlotte Hall (Md.) Veterans Home of complications of Alzheimer's disease.
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<title><![CDATA[ Obituary: Tom Simkin: Smithsonian Geologist, Volcanologist ]]></title>
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Tom Simkin, 75, a geologist who became a senior curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, died of esophageal cancer and sepsis June 10 at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
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Benjamin Brudner, 92, an appliance salesman who worked at the old Wards department store in Wheaton from 1976 to 1981, died May 31 at his home in Silver Spring. He had prostate cancer.
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