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MIAMI-DADE

Obituaries

  • DUMERCY LORFILS, 65

    A father's grief finally ends

    On Aug. 13, 1979, Dumercy Lorfils's wife and five of their seven children drowned off the Palm Beach coast in the first documented case of smugglers dumping their human cargo.

  • HELENE FALK LEIBOWITZ, 65

    Fun-loving counselor was a people magnet

    Helene Falk Leibowitz died in Atlanta on the Fourth of July. The next day, the girls at Raquette Lake Camp in New York's Adirondack Mountains, where she had been head counselor for 15 summers, lowered their flag to half-staff.

  • ANDREW AND LILLIAN MANDEL

    67-year romance grew into a `subliminal connection'

    After 67 years together, five days apart was too long for Andrew and Lillian Mandel. Andrew died on July 2 at 97; Lillian on July 7 at 90, both of natural causes.

  • ROCKY AOKI, 69

    From adventurer to Benihana mastermind

    Rocky Aoki, who brought Japanese food into the mainstream with his Miami-based chain of Benihana restaurants and colorful antics, has died. He was 69.

  • EDWARD KIMBALL, 89

    Among first black Miami police officers

    In September 1944, the city of Miami hired its first black police officers: five men who had to train in secret and, couldn't arrest a white person, wear their uniforms to court or drive squad cars.

  • BURNETT ROTH, 97

    A leader, a collector, an enemy of hate

    Burnett Roth, a 1950s-era Miami Beach vice mayor, fought for civil rights, low-income housing and church-state separation, and against anti-Semitism, segregation and intolerance.

  • ABRAHAM SEIF, 86

    Performed thousands of circumcisions

    Cantor Abraham Seif, the ritual circumciser who probably separated more newborn Jewish boys from their foreskins than any other mohel in South Florida history, has died at 86.

BROWARD

Obituaries

  • WILLIE H. LEWIS, 76

    Coach at Hallandale Beach schools

    To his U.S. Air Force buddies stationed with him in Italy, Willie H. Lewis was ''Luigie'' -- an articulate and handsome man. To the student athletes at schools in Hallandale Beach where he worked for more than three decades, he was just ``coach.''

  • VINCENT J. SCHAFMEISTER JR., 84

    Veteran fundraiser, civic booster

    Vincent J. Schafmeister Jr. of Miramar, a civic booster and professional fundraiser who may have uniquely held the tongue-in-cheek honorific, ''Doctor of Arm Twisting,'' died July 4 at Memorial West Hospital, 10 days before his 85th birthday.

ELSEWHERE

Obituaries

  • ESTELLE GETTY, 84

    Achieved fame as elderly mom on TV's `Golden Girls'

    Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing the role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's The Golden Girls, has died. She was 84.

  • DINKO SAKIC, 87

    Last surviving WWII concentration camp commander

    (AP) -- Dinko Sakic, the last known living commander of a World War II concentration camp, died overnight in a Croatian hospital while serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes, officials said Monday. He was 87.

  • JO STAFFORD, 90

    Singer of folk songs, ballads

    (AP) -- Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folk songs, has died. She was 90.

  • MICHAEL GREGG, 78

    Published early reports on AIDS

    Michael B. Gregg, an epidemiologist and former editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, died July 9 in Brattleboro, Vt. He was 78.

  • GEE GEE ENGESSER, 81

    Circus icon

    Gee Gee Engesser, in a waist-cinching strapless leotard and fur-trimmed boots, skipped around stage with the gait of a sprite and the body of a bombshell.

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