http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Obituaries 60 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:04:26 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/795307.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/795307.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Helmut N. Friedlaender, a book-loving lawyer and financial advisor whose quietly assembled collection of early printed books and illuminated manuscripts caused a stir in bibliophilic circles when it went to auction, died Tuesday in Yarmouth, Maine. He was 95 and lived in Manhattan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/793899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/793899.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:51 EST Al Burt never tired of the people of Florida, from the Baker County brothers who refused to use electricity to the Stuart man who helped build a reef of, among other things, toilet bowls. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/792820.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/792820.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Andrew J. McKelvey, a serial entrepreneur who in his early 60s jumped into Internet commerce as the executive who built Monster.com into the leading job recruitment website, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 74. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/791870.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/791870.html Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Sidney Wynn was never one to brag, even though he was hard to beat at any sport or game of skill. That said, bystanders could expect to hear the following after a particularly impressive shot at the pool table or on the golf course: ``My daddy named me Wynn because I win all the time.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/790908.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/790908.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:43 EST (AP) -- Playwright William Gibson, whose The Miracle Worker has thrilled audiences for nearly a half-century with the true story of the deaf-blind Helen Keller's rescue from a world of ignorance, has died. He was 94. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/787835.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/787835.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Betty James, who came up with the name Slinky for the stair-walking spring that has delighted children for more than 60 years and who ran the toy company after her husband, the inventor, left it and his family in 1960, died Thursday in Philadelphia. She was 90 and lived in Hollidaysburg, Pa., where the company, James Industries, is located. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/787836.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/787836.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Richard Hickox, a conductor who championed the works of his fellow Britons, recorded prodigiously and was most recently music director of Opera Australia, died Sunday in Wales. He was 60. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/786345.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/786345.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 EST (AP) -- Screenwriter John Michael Hayes, nominated for Academy Awards for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window and for Peyton Place, has died at age 89. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/786348.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/786348.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:01 EST (AP) -- It was in the gritty, blue-collar city of Flint that Eric Breed grew up amid the dimming opportunities of a declining auto industry. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/784910.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/784910.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01 EST With her Doris Day-meets-Angie Dickinson looks, supermodel figure and lush blond mane, Gloria Maguire could easily have pursued the acting career that 20th Century Fox offered after World War II. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/784904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/784904.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, the Homestead airboater who witnesses the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Florida Everglades 36 years ago -- and then rushed to help rescue survivors -- died Friday of complications from an accident five weeks ago. He was 79. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783862.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783862.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Jan Krugier, who survived two years in Nazi concentration camps as a young man and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti, died on Nov. 15 at his home in Geneva. He was 80. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783865.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Boris G. Fyodorov, who was prominent among the young economists responsible for post-Soviet Russia's striking economic reforms and who served twice as Russia's minister of finance before founding one of its first investment banks, died in London on Thursday. He was 50. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783859.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783859.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Donald Finkel, a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself, died on Nov. 15 at his home in St. Louis. He was 79. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783860.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/783860.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville sketches for Milton Berle, jokes for Henny Youngman, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series for Jackie Gleason and screenplays for movie musicals including Meet Me in St. Louis and Bye Bye Birdie, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 94. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/782853.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/782853.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Clive Barnes, a witty and powerful arts critic whose voracious interest in theater of all forms led him from ballet to discotheques, died of cancer Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 81. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/782851.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/782851.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:01 EST LOS ANGELES -- Irving Gertz, a film and television composer who contributed music to 1950s science-fiction films such as It Came From Outer Space and The Incredible Shrinking Man and to 1960s TV series such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, has died. He was 93. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/781243.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/781243.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Donning night vision goggles and soaring over Collier County in a Bell 206L4 LongRanger helicopter, Lt. Joseph Andrew Martyna spent the late evening of Saturday searching for a hunter lost in the Everglades. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/793899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/793899.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Al Burt never tired of the people of Florida, from the Baker County brothers who refused to use electricity to the Stuart man who helped build a reef of, among other things, toilet bowls. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/791870.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/791870.html Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Sidney Wynn was never one to brag, even though he was hard to beat at any sport or game of skill. That said, bystanders could expect to hear the following after a particularly impressive shot at the pool table or on the golf course: ``My daddy named me Wynn because I win all the time.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/784904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/784904.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Robert ''Bud'' Marquis, the Homestead airboater who witnesses the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Florida Everglades 36 years ago -- and then rushed to help rescue survivors -- died Friday of complications from an accident five weeks ago. He was 79. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/784910.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/784910.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01 EST With her Doris Day-meets-Angie Dickinson looks, supermodel figure and lush blond mane, Gloria Maguire could easily have pursued the acting career that 20th Century Fox offered after World War II. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/777761.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/777761.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The scene unfolding in the intensive-care unit was extraordinary. Milton M. Ferrell Jr. -- a second-generation Miami lawyer, philanthropist and Democratic Party activist just nine days past his 57th birthday -- lay dying. The primary cause: mesothelioma, an asbestos-linked cancer that cost him a lung in May. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/777909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/777909.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Orlando C. Manrique -- who smuggled weapons into Cuba to try and overthrow the government, was later shot seven times in a failed 1957 coup and took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion -- died Saturday. He was 84. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/772256.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/772256.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:01 EST In the 1950s, vocalist Lynn Baumel dazzled Miami club-goers with her bandleader husband's Latin combo -- a vision of postwar glamour in body-hugging satin gowns. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/767121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/767121.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Nita Rous Manitzas, a Ford Foundation Latin America expert, died Nov. 6 at her Coral Gables home. She was 74. She had been suffering from multiple health problems, according to her husband, journalist Frank Manitzas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/760533.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/760533.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:01 EST John Ballard Tower III descended from one of Homestead's founding families. Tower Road bears its name. His grandfather was one of the town's early doctors, his father a grower who lectured widely on the care and cultivation of fruit trees. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/750993.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/750993.html Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:01 EDT Wilkes J.S. Kemp, the son of migrant workers who educated himself out of poverty then mentored thousands of black teens through his fraternity -- while teaching math for 32 years in the Miami-Dade County schools -- died Oct. 19. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/749407.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/749407.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:01 EDT When Nettie Elizabeth Cook-Dove was watching a Miami Heat or Chicago Bulls game on television, you knew not to interrupt -- unless Barack Obama was on another station. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/781243.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/781243.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Donning night vision goggles and soaring over Collier County in a Bell 206L4 LongRanger helicopter, Lt. Joseph Andrew Martyna spent the late evening of Saturday searching for a hunter lost in the Everglades. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/770452.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/770452.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Detention Lt. Ryan Allen, right-hand-man to the leader of Broward County's jails, has died. Allen was 40. He died Nov. 4 from complications following a kidney transplant. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/728102.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/728102.html Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:40 EDT Broward Judge Charles Kaplan was found dead at his home in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea on Wednesday morning, becoming the second juvenile judge to die this month and shocking colleagues at the courthouse.