"Increasing attention has been paid in the ceramics community nationwide to the role played by the ceramics program at Conestoga High School in Berwyn," Inquirer art critic Victoria Donohue wrote in January 2000.
Stanley Wagner, 83, a vintner who three decades ago was one of the first people to open a winery in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, and whose wines quickly earned state and national recognition, died June 26 at his home in Lodi, N.Y.
Louis Marius Moyroud, 96, who helped create the first practical phototypesetting machine, ending the era of "hot type" and revolutionizing printing, has died.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, 74, one of the most revered clerics in the Shiite Muslim faith and a spiritual mentor to the Lebanese political organization Hezbollah, died Sunday in a Beirut hospital, Lebanon's official National News Agency reported.
Irving W. Shandler, 81, who headed a major Center City addiction treatment center from the 1960s to the 2000s, died of congestive heart failure on Thursday, July 1, at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Ed Limato, 73, a longtime Hollywood agent known for overseeing the careers of Marlon Brando, Denzel Washington, Richard Gere, and other high-profile actors, has died.
William L. Taylor, 78, a Washington lawyer and civil-rights activist who fought in courts and in government to desegregate schools, died last Monday of complications from a fall.
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Ilene Woods, 81, who provided the speaking and singing voice for the title character in Walt Disney's classic 1950 animated feature Cinderella, died Thursday in Los Angeles.
John M. Rosenburg, 92, of Newtown Square, a retired Bell Telephone executive and author of books for young readers, died Friday, June 25, at Prospect Park Nursing Home.
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Jeanette LaRosa Feeley, 92, a former longtime president of the Hammonton Historical Society who worked as a teacher and reading specialist at Joseph C. Shaner Memorial Elementary School, died Friday, July 2, at the Fairview Care Center in Philadelphia.
Barbara A. Morrison, 80, of Westmont, a first-grade teacher who set up the libraries at various Cherry Hill elementary schools, died Wednesday, June 30, at her home.
Arnold Friberg, 96, a Utah artist best known for his painting of George Washington in prayer at Valley Forge, died Thursday at a Salt Lake City rehabilitation center after hip-replacement surgery, his family said.
James F. Lafferty, 82, of Wayne, a retired vice president of Henkels & McCoy, died of complications from kidney failure Tuesday, June 29, at his summer home in the Cheshaven section of Earleville, Md.
Elliott Kastner, 80, a producer whose affinity for literary writers and man's-man movie stars resulted in films like Harper, Where Eagles Dare, The Long Goodbye, The Missouri Breaks, and Equus, died Wednesday in London, where he had lived and worked for many years. The cause was cancer, stepson Cassian Elwes said.
Ronald Bernard Merriweather, 72, of East Mount Airy, a Municipal Court judge in Philadelphia for more than 25 years, died of cancer Thursday, June 24, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
From as far back as anyone can remember, John S. Streep was a rebellious charmer.
He almost didn't graduate from high school, he would always joke. But his personality and fearlessness led him to found a series of successful enterprises, including a multimillion-dollar telecommunications company that was first on Inc. magazine's 1995 list of the nation's 500 fastest-growing private companies.
Francis J. Rainer, 87, founder and retired president of Rainer & Co., an accounting firm in Newtown Square, died of complications from abdominal problems Monday, June 21, at the Forum at the Crossing, a nursing home in Indianapolis.
Nicolas Hayek, 82, chairman and former chief executive of the giant Swiss watch-manufacturing firm Swatch, died Monday of heart failure in Biel, Switzerland.
Henry L. "Harry" Parratto, 96, of North Hills, a librarian at The Inquirer for 43 years, died of heart failure Monday, June 21, at St. Joseph's Villa in Flourtown.
Regina "Jeanne" Ward Ryan, 77, of Narberth, a lawyer who was the first woman to graduate from Villanova University School of Law, died of complications from emphysema Monday, June 28, at Wayne Center, a nursing and rehabilitation facility.
Richard B. Sellars, 94, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson who resisted abandoning the company's hometown in New Jersey and then helped revitalize its downtown, died Friday at his home in Osterville, Mass.
George A. Rogers, 85, a founder of the psychiatry department at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, died of pneumonia Monday, June 28, at Friends Village in Woodstown, N.J., where the longtime Cinnaminson resident had lived in recent years.
D. Virginia Roosevelt Armentrout, 91, of Gladwyne, a community volunteer and artist, died of heart failure Sunday, June 20, at Providence-Newberg Medical Center in Newberg, Ore., where she was visiting her daughter.
Sondra Jones Shippen, 61, of Brookhaven, elected last year as president of the Delaware Charter School Network, died of cancer Wednesday, June 23, at Taylor Hospice in Ridley Park.
Diane E. Boyd Davis, 70, of West Oak Lane, a school-nurse supervisor who helped initiate the Eagles Eye Mobile program, died Thursday, June 24, of a heart attack at home.
Allyn Ferguson, 85, an Emmy-winning composer who cowrote the themes for the 1970s TV shows Charlie's Angels and Barney Miller, died at his home near Los Angeles last Wednesday.
