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INQUIRER OBITUARIES
Joseph I. Gradel, 91, a retired Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News librarian, and a founder of the Pennypack Woods housing development in Holmesburg, died at St. John Neumann's Nursing Home in Philadelphia on Thursday.
John Patrick Toner, 79, of Maple Glen, owner of Toner's Beef-n-Ale in Fort Washington, died last Monday at home of a heart attack.
The Rev. Henry Chadwick, 87, a Church of England priest and renowned scholar of the early centuries of Christianity, died Tuesday in Oxford, England.
The Rev. Brewster Yale Beach, 83, who presented proof that the Associated Press originated two years earlier than the date previously accepted by historians and the news cooperative itself, died Tuesday in Staatsburg, in Upstate New York.
Allen "Red" Gagnon, 71, whose informal Maine coastal eatery Red's Eats was known far and wide, died June 13 of respiratory failure in Lewiston.
Robert Foster, 78, a former Secret Service agent charged with protecting the children of President John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure in Columbus, Ohio.
Monroe J. Carell Jr., 76, a Nashville businessman who helped Central Parking Corp. become one of the largest parking providers in North America, died Friday of cancer.
Hewitt D. Crane, 81, who was instrumental in the design and construction of the first commercial computer to automate checking accounts, died Tuesday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif.
Gene Persson, 74, a movie and theater producer best known for a controversial racial drama, Dutchman, and a charming children's musical, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, died of a heart attack in Manhattan on June 6.
Michael Shernoff, 57, a psychotherapist who, beginning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, wrote widely on its emotional toll on gay men and who organized an early safe-sex workshop, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.
DAILY NEWS OBITUARIES
JAMES HARRINGTON had such an arcane knowledge of street lingo that sometimes he had to translate what he was telling you into plain old English.
Tanya Butcher Woods, an executive secretary to the commissioner of the city Department of Revenue for 10 years, died of breast cancer June 11. She was 49.
WHEN Daily News or Inquirer staffers needed information or photos for stories they were writing with deadlines looming, they would call the library, and it was a great relief to hear the reassuring voice of Joe Gradel.
CHRISTMAS MORNING was a special treat for the family of Frances Juanita Evans.
Try fried oysters, chicken and rice, and, of course, eggs. Not your usual breakfast fare, perhaps, but one that the family looked forward to every year.
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George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
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CBS3 today announced that anchor Larry Mendte has been released from his contract.
The announcement came nearly four weeks after the FBI seized Mendte's personal computer and showed up at the station to inform management that Mendte was being investigated for allegedly reading former coanchor Alycia Lane's e-mail and feeding gossip to reporters.
The announcement came nearly four weeks after the FBI seized Mendte's personal computer and showed up at the station to inform management that Mendte was being investigated for allegedly reading former coanchor Alycia Lane's e-mail and feeding gossip to reporters.
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