OBITUARIES


Obituary: Leonard Glassner / Left mark helping Russian emigres adjust

Obituary: Leonard Glassner / Left mark helping Russian emigres adjust

2012-05-16 00:15:40

Leonard Glassner's love for learning and volunteering led him into the military, city public schoosl and into a circle of Russian emigres.


Obituary: Frank Knight / Maine man who cared for famed old elm tree

2012-05-16 00:02:57

Frank Knight's decades-long battle to save New England's tallest elm served as an inspiring tale of devotion.


Obituary: John William Costeron / Pioneering microbiologist came to WPAHS four years ago

2012-05-15 01:16:16

John William Costerton was one of the most esteemed microbiologists in the world.


Obituary: Samuel J. Astorino / Beloved history and law professor at Duquesne University

2012-05-15 01:15:58

Samuel Astorino worked to earn a doctorate in history from the University of Pittsburgh and become a university professor.


Obituary: Floyd D. Hall / Former head of Eastern Airlines

2012-05-15 00:08:38

Floyd D. Hall was a former airline pilot who rose to chairman and chief executive of Eastern Airlines in the mid-1960s.


Obituary: Henry Fisher / Investment adviser, avid traveler knew how to connect with others

2012-05-14 00:08:18

Whether with Aliquippa or Alcosan, the thrill of closing a deal with a client thrilled Mr. Fisher, his friends and family members say.


Obituary: Joyce Redman / Oscar-nominated actress for 'Tom Jones'

2012-05-13 00:16:17

Joyce Redman brought a mischievous sparkle to the most suggestive scene ever filmed at a dining table.


Obituary: Carroll Shelby / Legendary sports car designer who worked for Ford, Chrysler

Obituary: Carroll Shelby / Legendary sports car designer who worked for Ford, Chrysler

2012-05-12 00:23:13

Carroll Shelby, who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang, died Thursday.


Obituary: Charles E. Copeland / Surgeon founded state's first burn center at Mercy

2012-05-12 00:06:47

Charles E. Copeland, a surgeon and teacher for five decades who founded the Mercy Hospital burn center, died Tuesday of liver cancer.


Obituary: Rev. Eugene Hrabovsky / Pastor knew how to reach everyone

2012-05-10 12:23:15

Known as "Pastor Eugene" around much of the Chartiers Valley, the ever-smiling Rev. Eugene Hrabovsky died Saturday in Bridgeville.


Obituary: Nicholas Katzenbach / Played pivotal role in formulating civil rights and Vietnam War policies

2012-05-10 12:21:49

Nicholas Katzenbach helped shape the political history of the 1960s, as a central player in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.


Obituary: Vidal Sassoon / Revolutionized hairstyling with sleek cuts for a price

2012-05-10 00:43:58

With one high-profile haircut on the Paramount Studios lot in 1967, Vidal Sassoon vaulted to fame in Hollywood.


Obituary: Frank Klingensmith / Forest Hills man known for his ability to entertain

2012-05-09 16:01:08

To go to a party at Frank Klingensmith's Forest Hills home was to be transported back in time.


Obituary: Adrienne Rich / Poet at the forefront of feminism

Obituary: Adrienne Rich / Poet at the forefront of feminism

2012-05-09 15:57:39

The finely tuned verse of Adrienne Rich explored her identity as feminist, lesbian and agent for political change.


Obituary: Earl Scruggs / Banjo picker of memorable tunes

Obituary: Earl Scruggs / Banjo picker of memorable tunes

2012-05-09 15:57:38

The hard-driving picking style of bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs influenced a generation of players.


Obituary: Bernard L. Cohen / Noted physicist and Pitt professor never wanted to stop learning

2012-05-09 15:54:10

Bernard L. Cohen, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, never stopped learning.


Obituary: Abiathar 'Abby' Bishop / Successful basketball coach at St. George High in Allentown

2012-05-09 15:51:17

He once won $6.4 million dollars in the lottery. But one of his players said teenagers were the lucky ones if they got to play for him.


Obituary: Mary Bride O'Malley / Nun devoted to God, St. Mary of the Mount School

Obituary: Mary Bride O'Malley / Nun devoted to God, St. Mary of the Mount School

2012-05-09 15:48:46

Sister Mary Bride O'Malley, whose faith found expression in fierce love for the school at St. Mary of the Mount on Mount Washington, died.


Obituary: Patience Abbe / Best-selling child author

2012-05-09 15:47:26

Patience Abbe, who was just 11 when she wrote the memoir "Around the World in Eleven Years" with her two brothers, has died.


Special prosecutor during Watergate probe

2012-05-09 15:43:02

Henry Ruth, who was a key figure in the federal investigation of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s and who spent a year leading the


Obituary: Kenneth J. Fisher / Pearl Harbor survivor, 'fair and honest man'

2012-05-09 15:43:01

Kenneth J. Fisher survived the attack on Pearl Harbor while serving in the Navy during World War II and outlived his wife and two children.


Famed, prolific Italian screenwriter

2012-05-09 15:39:22

Tonino Guerra, a prolific Italian screenwriter and poet whose roster of film collaborators, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico


Abie Abraham / Survivor of Bataan Death March, volunteer at VA hospital

Abie Abraham / Survivor of Bataan Death March, volunteer at VA hospital

2012-05-09 15:37:56

He survived disease, starvation and brutal violence during the Bataan Death March and years of confinement as a Japanese prisoner of war.


Obituary: Samuel L. Glazer / His Mr. Coffee became top-selling coffeemaker

Obituary: Samuel L. Glazer / His Mr. Coffee became top-selling coffeemaker

2012-05-09 15:32:43

Samuel L. Glazer, co-owner of the company that revolutionized American mornings with the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89.


Obituary: Murray Lender / Owner of Lender's introduced bagels around nation

Obituary: Murray Lender / Owner of Lender's introduced bagels around nation

2012-05-09 15:32:31

Murray Lender helped turn his father's small Connecticut bakery into a national company credited for introducing bagels to many Americans.


Obituary: Mary Dee Maloney / Operated chain of Downtown card shops

2012-05-09 15:32:12

Mary Dee Maloney, with her husband, owned and operated a chain of Hallmark card shops in Downtown Pittsburgh for nearly 50 years.


Obituary: Marco Giovengo | Robert Morris student refused to let muscular dystrophy define him

2012-05-09 15:26:52

Born with a rare type of muscular dystrophy that confined him to a wheelchair since childhood, Marco Giovengo became an inspiration.


Obituary: Jean Henri Gaston Giraud / Comics artist influenced alien worlds

2012-05-09 15:23:21

Jean Giraud was an enduring figure in European comics whose fantasy and sci-fi work influenced alien-world imagery throughout pop culture.


Obituary: Peter Brown / His passions included karate, hunting, dancing

2012-05-09 15:23:21

Peter Brown sold liquor for a living but found his true passions in pursuits as varied as dancing, hunting, skiing and karate.


Obituary: Noble Fearnley Hutchinson Fleming / Arbiter of tea taste sipped and sniffed leaves for Lipton

2012-05-09 15:23:21

For nearly 50 years, Noble Fleming sipped and sniffed from teaspoons and fine china cups to ensure the quality of tea for millions.


Obituary: Georgiane Wilson / Helped less fortunate despite disability

2012-05-09 15:21:47

Georgiane Wilson never considered her cerebral palsy a handicap and volunteered to help those she considered less fortunate.


Obituary: Francis E. Krushinski / Pole who immersed himself, family in Irish culture

2012-05-09 15:16:38

Francis Krushinski spoke Polish like his father. But he became the inspiration for, and a fixture at, the Pittsburgh Irish Festival.


Obituary: Peter Bergman / Satirist with Firesign Theater in late 1960s

2012-05-09 15:15:19

Peter Bergman, a founding member of the surrealist comedy troupe Firesign Theater, died March 9.


Obituary: Rudolph J. "Rudy" Ricci / Prolific writer was part of creative team behind 'Night of the Living Dead'

2012-05-09 15:15:19

Rudy Ricci walked out of a cemetery as a zombie in the 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead."


Obituary: Lawrence Anthony / Baghdad Zoo savior after Saddam's ouster

2012-05-09 15:15:18

Lawrence Anthony was a South African who abandoned a career in insurance and real estate to play Noah to the world's endangered species.


Obituary: William Overholt Robinson | Leader in emergency medicine, avid conservationist

2012-05-09 15:12:14

A former president of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a leading conservationist died Sunday.


Obituary: Jan Duchoslav / The duke of Ascot Imported Cars dealership in Sewickley

2012-05-09 15:09:16

Jan Duchoslav, a luxury car dealer whose dapper European manner and last name earned him the name "the duke of Sewickley," died Sunday.


Obituary: F. Sherwood Rowland / Nobel winner who warned of CFCs' danger to ozone

2012-05-09 15:06:26

F. Sherwood Rowland, the University of California, Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the


Obituary: Joshua Corey / Love, determination boosted his quality of life

2012-05-09 15:06:25

Without ever uttering a word other than "hon" in his 38 years, Joshua Corey had been in the newspaper multiple times.


Obituary: Herb Carnegie / Hockey trailblazer never got his NHL shot

2012-05-09 15:03:51

Herb Carnegie laughed with delight when he reminisced about his youthful hockey experiences.


Obituary: Walter H. Henricks II / Upper St. Clair educator was 'a fine example'

2012-05-09 15:03:51

"How could a farm boy boy from Butler and a city boy from Clairton become such good friends?"


Obituary: Robert Ayres / Illustrator created Ponderosa map for 'Bonanza'

2012-05-09 15:00:13

As a set illustrator for Hollywood studios, Robert Temple Ayres created his most famous work at Paramount in 1959.


Obituary: Lynn D. Compton / WWII hero portrayed in HBO's 'Band of Brothers'

2012-05-09 15:00:12

Lynn D. "Buck" Compton, an Army paratrooper whose World War II service was portrayed in the book and HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers"


Obituary: Harry Wendelstedt / Umpire worked 5 Series, involved in disputed call in '60s

Obituary: Harry Wendelstedt / Umpire worked 5 Series, involved in disputed call in '60s

2012-05-09 14:56:22

Umpire Harry Wendelstedt worked five World Series and made a call involving Don Drysdale that became one of baseball's most disputed plays


Obituary: Mary McVay / Pharmacist, avid party planner who worked for numerous causes

2012-05-09 14:56:15

Mary McVay was the star of myriad fundraisers and a fixture in the society pages of local magazines and newspapers


Obituary: Joe Byrd / Bassist, performed with guitarist brother, Charlie

Obituary: Joe Byrd / Bassist, performed with guitarist brother, Charlie

2012-05-09 14:55:19

Joe Byrd, a bassist who helped introduce bossa nova-inflected jazz to the United States, died Tuesday from injuries in a car accident.


Obituary: Edward Greiner Jr. / Army sergeant about to deploy to Afghanistan

2012-05-09 14:55:08

Army Staff Sgt. Edward Greiner Jr. died Tuesday in a motorcycle crash near his base in North Carolina.


Obituary: Tina Strobos / Psychiatry student in Holland who saved Jews from the Nazis

2012-05-09 14:55:08

Tina Strobos, a psychiatry student who joined the Dutch underground during World War II, died Feb. 27.


Obituary: Donald Payne / New Jersey's only black congressman

Obituary: Donald Payne / New Jersey's only black congressman

2012-05-09 14:51:27

Donald Payne, New Jersey's first and so far only black congressman and a leading advocate for democracy in Africa during 23 years in the


Obituary: Ralph McQuarrie / Artist who drew film characters Darth Vader, humanoid robot C-3PO

2012-05-09 14:51:12

Ralph McQuarrie, an artist whose paintings of a gold-plated robot in an otherworldly desert and an intergalactic sword duel between a


Obituary: Van Barfoot / Hero fought in U.S. wars and to fly its flag

2012-05-09 14:51:11

Van Barfoot, a Medal of Honor recipient in World War II whose fight to fly an American flag outside his home 65 years later drew national


Obituary: George 'Pete' Dillon / Nuclear services leader at Westinghouse

2012-05-09 14:51:11

From a boy who took pleasure in reassembling transistor radios, George "Pete"


Obituary: Jerome Eisner / Musician who thrived on local jazz scene

Obituary: Jerome Eisner / Musician who thrived on local jazz scene

2012-05-09 14:48:30

Publicly, their gigs were separate. He played to earn a living, she chose the fun singing engagements.


Obituary: Douglas L. Root Jr. / Alcoa labor negotiator had collegial style

Obituary: Douglas L. Root Jr. / Alcoa labor negotiator had collegial style

2012-05-09 14:46:07

Douglas L. Root Jr., whose diplomatic and collegial style helped immensely in avoiding rancor while negotiating labor contracts as as an


Obituary: Sam Stearns / Took iconic photo at JFK funeral

2012-05-09 14:45:46

"One exposure on a roll of 36 exposures," Stan Stearns marveled decades later.


Obituary: Charles F. Lloyd Jr. / Steel company leader loved people, and they loved him back

2012-05-09 14:44:39

Along with great love of people, good conversation and handsome clothes, Charles F. Lloyd Jr. most cherished family and song.


Obituary: William J. McKenna Sr. / Engineer who specialized in water projects

2012-05-09 14:44:38

Maybe William J. McKenna Sr.'s lifelong fascination with water stemmed from the day in the early 1930s when his father sent him


Obituary: Maurice Andre | Transformed the trumpet

2012-05-09 14:44:26

Maurice Andre, a virtuoso credited with having transformed the trumpet from a workaday cog in the back of the orchestra into a seductive


Obituary: James Q. Wilson / Pioneered 'broken windows' policing

Obituary: James Q. Wilson / Pioneered 'broken windows' policing

2012-05-09 14:39:31

James Q. Wilson, a social scientist who helped launch a revolution in law enforcement as the co-inventor of the "broken windows"


Obituary: Bruce Surtees / Oscar-nominated cinematographer known as 'Prince of Darkness'

2012-05-09 14:39:20

Bruce Surtees, an Oscar-nominated cinematographer known as the "Prince of Darkness" for his skill at summoning sharply etched figures


Obituary: Ulric Neisser / Reshaped study of the mind

2012-05-09 14:39:19

Ulric Neisser, a psychological researcher who helped lead a postwar revolution in the study of the human mind by advancing the


Obituary: Margaret Horne Weis / Judge's wife who thought everyone was special

Obituary: Margaret Horne Weis / Judge's wife who thought everyone was special

2012-05-09 14:38:08

Margaret Horne Weis was as comfortable socializing and smoking with U.S.


Obituary: Andrew Breitbart / Conservative blogger and activist

2012-05-09 14:37:57

Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger and activist who used undercover video to bring discredit and disgrace to his liberal targets,


Obituary: L. James Huegel / Retired executive vice president of Consolidation Coal

2012-05-09 14:32:23

L. James Huegel, a retired executive vice president of Consolidation Coal Co., now Consol Energy, died Sunday of heart failure at his home


Obituary: Jan Berenstain / Writer of popular children's books

2012-05-09 14:28:34

Jan Berenstain's personality and art merged in the wise and gentle Mama Bear of the cartoon clan she and her husband created.


Obituary: Harry C. McPherson Jr. / Adviser, speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson, and later a lobbyist

2012-05-09 14:28:33

Harry C. McPherson Jr. served as special counsel and chief speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson from 1966 to '69.


Obituary: Erland Josephson / Actor linked with Ingmar Bergman

2012-05-09 14:28:33

Erland Josephson, a Swedish actor notable as the star of the acclaimed 1973 film "Scenes From a Marriage," died Saturday.


Obituary: Rose Marie Cioppa / Tireless mother of 5 kept working till age 89

2012-05-09 14:26:31

"Hard-working" is the first thing that comes to mind when friends and family are asked to describe Rose Marie , who lived most of her life


Obituary: Rev. Clarence Wendell Holmes / Minister from McKeesport worked in steel mill, state unemployment centers

2012-05-09 14:23:07

In his 80s, long after he had retired and had lost a leg and sight in one eye, the Rev.


Obituary: Mary Jane McNulty / Prize-winning poet and compassionate volunteer

2012-05-09 14:20:22

Mary Jane McNulty, who became an accomplished poet while raising six children and tending to troubled souls in the wider community, died


Obituary: Bernard J. McGowan / Ex-Common Pleas judge was a natural, 'took no prisoners'

Obituary: Bernard J. McGowan / Ex-Common Pleas judge was a natural, 'took no prisoners'

2012-05-09 14:15:29

Retired Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Bernard J.


Obituary: Barney Rosset / Book publisher who fought obscenity laws

2012-05-09 14:15:15

Barney Rosset, the maverick publisher who chafed at puritanism and whose relentless challenges of obscenity laws helped overthrow the final


Obituary: Steve Kordek / His flippers hit the jackpot for pinball machines

2012-05-09 14:15:14

In modern-day arcades, pinball machines are widely considered four-legged, glass-topped dinosaurs.


Obituary: Oscar Luigi Scalfaro / Ex-Italian president helped shape nation's post-war politics

Obituary: Oscar Luigi Scalfaro / Ex-Italian president helped shape nation's post-war politics

2012-05-09 14:13:39

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a president of Italy who held the post during the sweeping corruption scandal of the early 1990s that reshaped the


Obituary: Kate Brennan / Boosted women with strength, grace

2012-05-09 14:13:27

Remembered by friends and family as a woman who "laughed and cried with reckless abandon,"


Obituary: John Turner Sargent Sr. / Publisher worked with top writers as leader of Doubleday

2012-05-09 14:08:40

John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen


Obituary: Paul J. Kuszaj / Defied all expectations, inspired many after aneurysm

2012-05-09 14:08:39

When Paul J. Kuszaj suffered a severe brain hemorrhage in 2001, his wife was told he likely had just hours to live.


Obituary: Philip Vannatter / O.J. Simpson investigator

2012-05-09 14:08:39

Philip Vannatter, who as a Los Angeles police detective helped lead the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L.


Obituary: Bruce W. McCalley / Top expert on Ford's Model T and its era

2012-05-09 14:07:35

Known as "Mr. Model T," Bruce McCalley knew more about the car that transformed the world than the company that made it.


Obituary: F. Walter Jones / Shady Side Academy leader never failed to inspire

2012-05-09 14:05:33

Pinpointing the single greatest accomplishment in the life of an acclaimed artist, athlete and educator isn't difficult for friends


Obituary: Helen J. Clark / Female bank president in male-dominated industry

Obituary: Helen J. Clark / Female bank president in male-dominated industry

2012-05-09 14:03:23

Helen J. Clark was perhaps the antithesis of the fat-cat Wall Street banker.


Obituary: Anthony Shadid / Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Middle East

Obituary: Anthony Shadid / Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Middle East

2012-05-09 14:03:14

Anthony Shadid, one of the most incisive and honored foreign correspondents of his generation, died Thursday in Syria, where he was


Obituary: Dory Previn / Broken marriage inspired her ballads to wounded souls

2012-05-09 13:59:50

Although she was an Oscar-nominated songwriter, Dory Previn was better known for ballads that spoke to wounded souls.


Obituary: George R. Boulware / Pioneering doctor based in Indiana County

2012-05-09 13:59:49

One family paid their bills with a truckload of hogs, others with chickens, which George R.


Obituary: Lillian Bassman / Groundbreaking fashion photographer

2012-05-09 13:59:48

"I didn't bring you to Paris to make art; I brought you here to do the buttons and bows,"


Obituary: Raymond E. Haynes / Former CMU administrator shared love of health, athletics with pupils, family

2012-05-09 13:53:22

For some, a college degree simply represents what they have studied over the past four years. For Raymond E.


Obituary: Jenny Tomasin / Maid on 'Upstairs, Downstairs'

2012-05-09 13:53:22

Jenny Tomasin, a British actress forever known to television viewers as the clumsy, disheveled, Valentino-obsessed kitchen maid Ruby Finch


Obituary: W. Gunther Plaut / Rabbi and scholar whose Torah helped define Reform Judaism

2012-05-09 13:53:21

W. Gunther Plaut, a rabbi whose vast, scholarly and ardently contemporary edition of the Torah has helped define Reform Judaism in


Obituary: Wynn Kenyon / Became beloved philosophy professor after ordination ordeal

2012-05-09 13:50:03

Wynn Kenyon, whose ordination by Pittsburgh Presbytery was rejected by the national church in 1974 because he wouldn't ordain women, died


Obituary: Mary Bialock / Vocal talent from Butler called 'undiscovered gem'

2012-05-09 13:49:04

Theatergoers around Pittsburgh might have seen Mary Alice Nicholas Bialock in any number of productions from the 1940s to 1980s, ranging


Obituary: Raymond L. Casper / District judge in Sharpsburg for 18 years

2012-05-09 13:46:35

Raymond L. Casper believed in second chances.


Obituary: Fred Yee / State champion basketball coach at Schenley

2012-05-09 13:46:35

Fred Yee was 20-something and wasn't exactly enthralled working in the business world.


Obituary: Jeffrey Zaslow / Randy Pausch's 'The Last Lecture' co-author killed in Michigan car crash

Obituary: Jeffrey Zaslow / Randy Pausch's 'The Last Lecture' co-author killed in Michigan car crash

2012-05-09 13:43:49

Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow was killed Friday when he lost control of his car on a snowy road after promoting his latest book in


Obituary: Hal Sanders / Advocate of single-payer health care

2012-05-09 13:41:18

Hal Sanders was the epitome of the small-town boy who makes good, except he wasn't even from a small town.


Obituary: Calvin Kane Jr. / Helped lead Schenley High to 1978 state championship

2012-05-09 13:41:17

When the Schenley High School basketball team won a state championship in 1978, Calvin Kane was one of the main catalysts for the Spartans.


Obituary: Robert B. Cohen / Hudson News founder

2012-05-09 13:39:53

Magazine distributor Robert B.


Obituary: Leon Lynch / First black vice president of a major labor union

Obituary: Leon Lynch / First black vice president of a major labor union

2012-05-08 00:21:39

Leon Lynch, the first African-American to serve as an any union's international vice president and to the White House, has died.


Obituary: Bob Stewart / Created classic TV game shows

2012-05-08 00:08:03

Bob Stewart, a TV producer who understood that Americans love to find bargains and win prizes, and who created such game shows, has died.


Obituary: Robert E. Whitaker / Founder of Christian publishing house was passionate about faith

2012-05-07 17:37:15

Robert E. Whitaker didn't set out to establish a large, successful publication house of contemporary and classic Christian literature.


Obituary: George Lindsey / Auto mechanic Goober Pyle on two '60s television sitcoms

Obituary: George Lindsey / Auto mechanic Goober Pyle on two '60s television sitcoms

2012-05-07 00:13:13

George Lindsey, who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gasoline station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" died Sunday.


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