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    LIFE STORIES
    Letters to the editor from the print edition and longer, online-only letters from readers
    Saturday, July 04, 2009

    Michael Francis Pennock, St. Ignatius teacher and coach
    Michael Francis Pen nock led the theology de partment at his alma mater, St. Ig natius High School. He also coached swimming and golf there and wrote more than three dozen Catholic textbooks, including some best-sellers in the field.

    Friday, July 03, 2009

    Frank Kucinich, was veteran of Vietnam War
    Frank Ku cinich met President Barack Obama at a White House luau on June 25.

    Thursday, July 02, 2009

    Gerald M. Luskin, veteran, South Euclid policeman, Gaelic-football star: Obituary
    Mayfield Heights -- Jerry Luskin, All-Ireland football star, fought for his adopted United States in Korea. Then he won a political battle to become an American citizen and a South Euclid cop.

    Karl Malden, 97, was actor on stage, film and television
    Karl Malden, an Academy Award-winning actor who excelled in plainspoken, working-class roles, including the awkward Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and a brave priest in "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. No cause of death was immediately disclosed. He was 97.

    Wednesday, July 01, 2009

    Obituary: Ewa Czaruk Olijar, 85, was in Soviet prison camps, ran J&K Tavern in Cleveland
    Brooklyn -- Ewa Olijar hid Ukrainian liberators, passed their secret messages and withstood torture in Soviet prisons.

    Tuesday, June 30, 2009

    Henry H. Marvin Jr., helped develop lighting, alternative energy: Obituary
    Cleveland Heights -- Henry Howard Marvin Jr. helped pioneer sodium lamps, which light countless roadways.

    Monday, June 29, 2009

    Dr. Charles Allen White, Richard Orzechowski, Myrtis Jean Small: Notable Local Deaths -- Obituaries
    Richard Ed ward Orze chowski spent nearly 33 years with what be came NASA Glenn Research Center.

    Sunday, June 28, 2009

    Betty Allen, 82, Ohio native, prominent black opera singer
    Washington- Betty Allen, one of the first black singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died Monday at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82 and had complications from kidney disease.

    Nelson Charles Ledsky, Vernice Holt, John D. "Jack" Donahey Sr.: Notable Local Deaths -- Obituaries
    Nelson Charles Ledsky was a 35-year diplo mat who orga nized the Lib erty Bell Classic, also known as the Olympic Boycott Games, in 1980.

    Saturday, June 27, 2009

    Boyd Edward Graves, William J. Urban, Ruth Hallett Nordlander Edwards: Notable Local Deaths - Obituaries
    Boyd Edward Graves was a lawyer, author, midshipman, disabilities expert and HIV crusader.

    Boyd Edward Graves, William J. Urban, Ruth Hallett Nordlander Edwards: Notable Local Deaths - Obituaries
    Boyd Edward Graves was a lawyer, author, midshipman, disabilities expert and HIV crusader.

    Thursday, June 25, 2009

    Jerri Lin Nielsen FitzGerald, performed breast biopsy on herself while in Antarctica
    Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who died Tuesday, performed one of the most famous feats by a Cleveland doctor, and did it in Antarctica.

    Wednesday, June 24, 2009

    Brian Chalmers, TV news illustrator drew the Buzzard - OBITUARY
    Parma Heights- Brian Chalmers drew the Buzzard, photographed rock stars, illustrated TV news and helped Hollywood showcase Cleveland.

    Past and present PD writers honored
    Both current and former members of The Plain Dealer Sports Department garnered top honors at the 31st Annual Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, held Friday at the Marriott Downtown at Key Center.

    Tuesday, June 23, 2009

    Timothy Elliott, 63, fixed up old homes on the West Side -- Obituary
    Tim Elliott helped to turn around the West Side.

    Monday, June 22, 2009

    Imre Balassa, 88, his travel agency catered to Hungarians
    Imre Balassa helped many Clevelanders visit their native Hungary.

    Saturday, June 20, 2009

    Ruth Mae Lanier, Raymond P. Zelch, Donald Ray Meyers: Notable Local Deaths - Obituaries
    Sgt. Ruth Mae Lanier helped modernize the Cleveland police during her 32 years on the force.

    Thursday, June 18, 2009
    Wednesday, June 17, 2009

    Roy Allen Holt, 51, of Olmsted Township, saved lives on 9/11- Obituary
    Olmsted Township- While others fled the World Trade Center, Roy Allen Holt plunged deeper into the basement of the south tower and led his colleagues to safety.

    Tuesday, June 16, 2009

    Alan Berkman, radical found a way to serve
    Physician, fugitive, federal prisoner, clinician to the homeless, advocate for AIDS patients, epidemiologist: That was the arc of Alan Berkman's career.

    George Vasu
    Avon- George Vasu liked to talk about the early years at Lewis Field, with fires in the wind tunnel and a jet engine that broke loose, punching a hole in a wall.

    Monday, June 15, 2009
    Sunday, June 14, 2009

    Bill Nichols, covered the Cleveland Cavaliers for The Plain Dealer: Obituary
    Bill Nichols, who broke the story for The Plain Dealer in early 1970 that Cleveland would be awarded an NBA franchise, died early Saturday morning of a heart attack suffered at his home in Rocky River.

    Saturday, June 13, 2009

    Elinda Ann Wing
    Twinsburg- Elinda Ann Wing sang in Europe, chronicled the elderly in China and promoted her views on psychotherapy around the world.

    Funeral services planned for Spc. Marko M. Samson and Maj. Rocco Martin Barnes, who died in Iraq and Afghanistan
    One soldier died in Iraq in May and the other in Afghanistan in June. But their bodies came home together to Cleveland on Thursday.

    Walter J. Manns, accountant, former Rocky River councilman at large: obituary
    Rocky River- Wally Manns was president of the Bond Court and the Hollenden House hotels.

    Friday, June 12, 2009

    WOODIE HELD ö 1932-2009
    Woodie Held hit lots of homers back when other shortstops didn't.

    Thursday, June 11, 2009

    CSU's Levin dies at 81
    Merle Levin, who spent 38 years as the sports information director at Cleveland State and its forerunner Fenn College, died Wednesday night. He was 81.

    Tuesday, June 09, 2009

    Phyllis Ross, 91, actress, hospital administrator
    Phyllis Ross was an actress and hospital ad ministrator.

    Monday, June 08, 2009

    Alfred P. Ferrara Sr., Betsy Small Schrader, Warren E. Finkel, Rev. Jon Freshwater, Glenn Combes, John M. Romoser, Dr. John H. Sanders: Obituaries - Notable Local Deaths
    Alfred P. Fer rara Sr. co- founded Fer rara Foods and belonged to the Kruse Interna tional Collector Car Hall of Fame.

    Saturday, June 06, 2009

    Jim Calvert, naval leader in WWII, dies at 88
    Jim Calvert, who died Wednesday at age 88, went from sweeping cottages beside Lake Erie to leading the first subma rine that sur faced at the North Pole.

    Friday, June 05, 2009

    David Carradine, starred in 'Kill Bill'
    David Carradine, who became a TV icon in the early 1970s starring as an enigmatic Buddhist monk with a flair for martial arts in "Kung Fu" and more recently played the head of a group of assassins in the "Kill Bill" movies, was found dead in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday.

    Michael Woods, football player paralyzed by robber's bullet: Obituary
    Richmond Heights- Mike Woods died watching a favorite thing: sports.

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