http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ Local obituaries and death notices en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:40:00 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210546-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml For some, a college degree simply represents what they have studied over the past four years. For Raymond E. Haynes, it kick-started a way of life. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210547-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml W. Gunther Plaut, a rabbi whose vast, scholarly and ardently contemporary edition of the Torah has helped define Reform Judaism in late-20th-century North America, died last Wednesday in Toronto. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12047/1210548-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Jenny Tomasin, a British actress forever known to television viewers as the clumsy, disheveled, Valentino-obsessed kitchen maid Ruby Finch in "Upstairs, Downstairs," died Jan. 3 at her home in London. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12046/1210275-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Wynn Kenyon, whose ordination by Pittsburgh Presbytery was rejected by the national church in 1974 because he wouldn't ordain women, died Monday after suffering a heart attack at the university where he had been a beloved philosophy professor for 31 years. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12045/1210052-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Theatergoers around Pittsburgh might have seen Mary Alice Nicholas Bialock in any number of productions from the 1940s to 1980s, ranging from the serious drama of Tennessee Williams to the frothier musical entertainment of the Civic Light Opera. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209864-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Raymond L. Casper believed in second chances. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209873-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Fred Yee was 20-something and wasn't exactly enthralled working in the business world. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:58:00 -0500