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| Richard Grace, 80, illustrator; created brain research center |
| Illustrator, cartoonist, and painter, Richard E Grace also led a colorful life away from the drawing board At 16, during World War II, he joined the Marines, was wounded at Okinawa, and received the Purple Heart But like so many veterans, Mr Grace (more) |
| 'Food Lover's Companion' Author Sharon Tyler Herbst |
| SAN FRANCISCO Author Sharon Tyler Herbst, whose popular cookbook "The Food Lover's Companion" provided definitions of thousands of edibles from around the world, died Jan 26 at her Bodega Bay home (more) |
| Gian Carlo Menotti, 95; composer won Pulitzers for operas |
| ROME Gian Carlo Menotti, who composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in Italy and the United States, died yesterday at a hospital in Monaco He was 95 The Italian composer won Pulitzers for a pair o (more) |
| Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, opera composer |
| Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, opera composer Published: February 2, 2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two (more) |
| Sharon Tyler Herbst | Cookbook author |
| Sharon Tyler Herbst, a cookbook author whose The Food Lover's Companion is a must read among celebrity chefs and food aficionados, has died Ms Herbst died Jan 26 in Bodega Bay, Calif , after a battle with ovarian cancer, according to Ron Herbst, h (more) |
| Opera's Gian Carlo Menotti; Popular Composer of 'Amahl' |
| With works seen on Broadway and television and at the opera house, few classical composers enjoyed as much popular success during the mid 20th century as Gian Carlo Menotti, who died Feb 1 at Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco He was 95, and the ca (more) |
| Obituaries |
| Martina Foley Crawford, 88, a homemaker and church member, died of congestive heart failure Jan 19 at her home in Fairfax (more) |
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| E Taylor Chewning Jr , 84, retired president of the Washington based United Clay Products, died of complications of cancer Jan 26 at his home in Middletown, R I (more) |
| Bartender and Raconteur John 'The Squid' Squitero |
| John "The Squid" Squitero, 86, a retired bartender who died of congestive heart disease Jan 28 at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the District, was renowned among regular customers of Poor Robert's Tavern for his gift of gab and for his penchant f (more) |
| Motown's first Funk Brother dies at age 79 |
| Essentials Homepage 1 week archive: Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Today Photo Galleries Photo Store Multimedia Weather Horoscope Lottery Crossword Sudoku Contact Us Opinions Editorials Blogs Columnists CyberSurveys Forums Autos Autos Insider Auto Sho (more) |
| Gen. Adrian St. John II; Key Adviser On Europe |
| Adrian St John II, 85, a major general in the Army who was considered an architect of European security, died Jan 6 at The Fairfax retirement community at Fort Belvoir, where he lived He had congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmon (more) |
| Executive, Volunteer Emily A. DeCicco |
| Emily A DeCicco, 62, a retired education professor who headed a Washington executive search firm and was a Democratic political volunteer, died Jan 27 at her home in Washington She had stomach cancer (more) |
| A model neighbor and father on Queen Anne |
| Murray Ferguson knew what was important to him, and what wasn't He wasn't much of a gardener, but he spent lots of time puttering around the yard so he could meet his Queen Anne Hill neighbors as they walked by Home repairs weren't always at the t (more) |
| Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, opera composer |
| Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, opera composer Published: February 2, 2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two Pulitz (more) |
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| Herbert Winfield Akers, 80, a retired expert on business mail management, died Jan 8 of pneumonia at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Gaithersburg He was a Rockville resident (more) |
| Majid Khadduri, 98; Formed Graduate Program For Middle East Studies |
| Majid Khadduri, 98, founding faculty member of the Middle East studies program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, died Jan 25 of failure to thrive at Manor Care in Potomac He was a resident of t (more) |
| Richard Kelley | Bill Clinton's stepfather, 91 |
| Richard Kelley, 91, the stepfather of former President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at his home in Little Rock Mr Kelley, a retired salesman, had been in declining health in recent weeks, and the former president visited him Monday Mr Kelley ran (more) |
| Services for soldier |
| A memorial service for Sergeant Gregroy A Wright, who was killed in action in Iraq Jan 13, will be held at 6 p m tomorrow at Concord Baptist Church in Boston (more) |
| Whitney Balliett; Jazz Reporter Known for Poetic Prose |
| Whitney Balliett, 80, a jazz reporter who spent more than four decades writing thousands of graceful and definitive stories for the New Yorker magazine and helped create one of the finest jazz programs on television, died Feb 1 at his home in Manha (more) |
| Bob Carroll, 87; writer linked to classic shows of Lucille Ball |
| LOS ANGELES Bob Carroll Jr and Madelyn Pugh Davis were walking down a street in Hollywood one day in the 1950s when they noticed a pizza maker in the window of an Italian restaurant tossing pizza dough into the air nothing out of the ordinary (more) |
| Plumbers Union Official Marvin Boede |
| Marvin John Boede, 78, general president emeritus of the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Sprinklerfitters, died of acute pancreatitis Jan 17 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital He lived in Potomac (more) |
| Sidney Wax made name in home projects |
| Before local do it yourselfers had Home Depot or Lowe's, they had Wax and Raine But it wasn't the catchiest of names for a home improvement business, so co founders Sidney Wax and David Raine encouraged people to think of candles and the Seattle (more) |
| Gian Carlo Menotti -- Pulitzer winner wrote 'Amahl' opera |
| Gian Carlo Menotti, who wrote his first opera before he was 11 and went on to become perhaps the most popular and prolific opera composer of his time, winning two Pulitzer Prizes, died Thursday in Monaco, where he had a home He was 95 His death, at (more) |
| 02 - [Obituary] Long-serving Catholic bishop dies of lingering |
| Retired Catholic bishop Generoso Camia, who served in the Diocese of Digos from 1980 to 2003, died Thursday morning at the San Pedro Hospital in Digos City from a lingering illness He was 75 years old Camia was born on November 22, 1931 in Leon, Il (more) |
| Steve Krantz; TV producer was novelist's spouse |
| LOS ANGELES Steve Krantz, the husband of novelist Judith Krantz, the producer of the X rated animated movie 'Fritz the Cat,' and creator of successful TV miniseries, died Jan 4 from complications of pneumonia He was 83 During his TV career, Mr (more) |
| Kathleen F. McIlvaine | Teacher, 66 |
| Kathleen Flanagan McIlvaine, 66, of Lansdale, a former teacher who assisted her funeral director husband, died Jan 29 of cancer at home Mrs McIlvaine graduated from Mount St Joseph Academy in Chestnut Hill, where she played field hockey and capta (more) |
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| Mary Peterson Schwenker, 84, who with her husband owned and operated Peterson Pump & Plumbing, died Jan 15 at Holy Cross Hospital of complications from pneumonia She lived in Chevy Chase (more) |
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| Sue Ann Lambert Rees, 88, a retired government secretary who was an active member of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, died of cerebrovascular disease Jan 2 at Thomas House in Washington, where she had lived since the early 1990s (more) |
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