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George F. Grant, 102 (1906 - 2008)
HELENA, Mont. - George Grant, a celebrated fly fisherman and conservationist who cherished the Big Hole River and successfully fought a dam there, died Sunday. He was 102. Grant died in Butte, Wayrynen-Richards Funeral Home said. He had an international reputation for fly tying, with a pattern called the Black Creeper perhaps his most famous. Grant's conservation work included fighting...
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Domenico Leccisi (2008)
ROME - The right-wing activist and politician who stole the corpse of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini more than a half century ago has died, his son said Monday. He was 88. Domenico Leccisi died Sunday at a retirement home in Milan after a battle with heart and respiratory problems, his son Gabriele said. In 1946, Leccisi and two other Italians marked the first anniversary of the death...
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Betty Spandikow, 85 (1923 - 2008)
GLEN ELLYN, Ill. - Betty Wagner Spandikow, an advocate of breast-feeding whose book on the subject has sold more than two million copies, died Sunday. She was 85. The death was announced by La Leche League International spokeswoman Jane Crouse. Spandikow had a stroke two years ago. She was one of seven suburban Chicago women who founded the organization in 1956, naming it for the Spanish...
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Martin Hanson, 81 (1927 - 2008)
MADISON, Wis. - Martin Hanson, a prominent Wisconsin conservationist who helped preserve the pristine Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, died Wednesday. He was 81. Hanson was found dead outside his log cabin in Mellen in northern Wisconsin, said William Bechtel, a longtime friend. He had been in poor health and apparently had fallen and broken his hip, he said. The heir to a...
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Marian McQuade, 91 (1917 - 2008)
Following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller After Marian McQuade's 15 children grew up, she set out to provide companionship for the lonely by lobbying for what became National Grandparents Day. An official U.S. holiday since President Jimmy Carter signed it into law in 1979, Grandparents Day doesn't have quite the visibility of America's favorites, Valentine...
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Dionicio Morales (2008)
LOS ANGELES - Dionicio Morales, a former labor organizer whose efforts helped lead to one of the nation's largest Latino social service providers, died Wednesday. He was 89. Morales died of...
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Thomas Doerflein (2008)
BERLIN - Police say the zookeeper who gained fame for hand-rearing the famous polar bear Knut has been found dead in a Berlin apartment. A police spokeswoman says Thomas Doerflein was found...
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Simmie Lee Harvey, 90 (1918 - 2008)
NEW ORLEANS -The Rev. Simmie Lee Harvey, a civil rights stalwart who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and helped plan the March on Washington in 1963, died Sept. 10. He was 90. Harvey...
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Brook Jacobs (2008)
JACKSON, Miss. - Brook Jacobs, a florist who started the "Good Neighbor" rose giveaway that has become an annual nationwide event, died Thursday. He was 60. The circumstances of his death were...
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Abie Nathan, 81 (1927 - 2008)
JERUSALEM - Abie Nathan, the peace activist who made a dramatic solo flight to Egypt in a rattletrap single-engine plane and later founded the groundbreaking "Voice of Peace" radio station, died...
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Del Martin, 87 (1921 - 2008)
SAN FRANCISCO - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California's same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She...
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Adrian Sudbury (2008)
LONDON - Adrian Sudbury, a young British journalist who blogged about his fight with cancer and campaigned for more bone marrow donations, died in his sleep Wednesday, his family said. He was 27. ...
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Darren "Bo" Taylor (2008)
LOS ANGELES - Darren "Bo" Taylor, a former member of the Crips who brokered a truce between warring inner-city gangs after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has died. He was 42. Taylor died Monday of...
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Victoria Levin (2008)
ROYAL OAK, Mich. - Victoria Levin, the wife of Democratic U.S. Rep. Sander Levin and an advocate for research on children's mental health issues, has died, the congressman's office said. She was...
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Alberto Achacaz Walakial (2008)
SANTIAGO, Chile Alberto Achacaz Walakial, one of the last surviving members of the nomadic Kaweskar tribe that once plied the waters off Chile's Patagonian coast, has died of blood poisoning,...
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Aurelius H. Piper, Sr. (2008)
TRUMBULL, Conn. - Aurelius H. Piper Sr., hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Tribe, died Sunday. He was 92. He died of natural causes on the tribe's reservation in Trumbull,...
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Arlene Raven, 62 (1944 - 2006)
Arlene Raven, an art historian, writer and co-founder of the Los Angeles Women's Building, died Tuesday of cancer, the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery said. She was 62. Raven wrote or edited nine...
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Thich Huyen Quang, 88 (1919 - 2008)
Thich Huyen Quang, the patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam who spent more than two decades in and out of house arrest, died Saturday after months of ailing health. He was 87. ...
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Katheen 'Kat' Kinkade (2008)
LOUISA, Va. -- Kathleen "Kat" Kinkade, one of the founders of the rural Twin Oaks commune, has died. Kinkade, 77, died on July 3 at Twin Oaks from complications from bone cancer, the commune...
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John Barnett (2008)
John Barnett, who led Washington state's Cowlitz Indians to federal recognition, has died. He was 73. Barnett, a longtime timber industry worker, died Sunday at his home north of Aberdeen,...
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Harriet McBryde Johnson, 50 (1957 - 2008)
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Harriet McBryde Johnson, a civil and disability rights attorney who drew national attention by protesting the annual Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethon, died Wednesday....
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Mildred Loving, 68 (1939 - 2008)
Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws across the United States, has died, her...
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Ester Soriano, 61 (1946 - 2008)
Ester Soriano, a Filipino-American civil rights activist who was the jury foreperson in the civil damages trial of Rodney King, has died. She was 61. Soriano died April 3 in a Los Angeles...
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Barbara Seaman, 72 (1935 - 2008)
Barbara Seaman, an advocate for women's health who raised questions about the safety of birth control pills in the 1960s, died Wednesday. She was 72. Seaman died at her home from lung cancer,...
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Johnnie Carr, 97 (1911 - 2008)
Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and became a prominent civil rights activist over the past half century, has died. She was 97. ...
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Marie Smith Jones, 89 (1918 - 2008)
Marie Smith Jones, who worked to preserve her heritage as the last full-blooded member of Alaska's Eyak Indians and the last fluent speaker of their native language, has died. She was 89. Jones...
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Yolanda King, 51 (1955 - 2007)
Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. King died late Tuesday in...
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Barbara Gittings, 74 (1932 - 2007)
Barbara Gittings, a gay rights activist since the late 1950s, died Sunday. She was 74. Gittings died after a lengthy fight with breast cancer, said Mark Segal, a friend and the publisher of the...
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Joseph Kauffman (2006)
Joseph Kauffman, one of the architects of the Peace Corps, died Friday of cancer, said his daughter, Marcia Krasnow. He was 84. Kauffman advocated for a national youth corps during John F....
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Victoria Gray Adams, 79 (1926 - 2006)
Victoria Gray Adams, who helped open Freedom Schools that pushed for civil rights in Mississippi in 1964 and became a founding member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, died Saturday at...
