MiamiHerald.com: Obituaries http://www.miamiherald.com/511/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Obituaries http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/511/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Obituaries 60 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:12:10 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Art teacher was avid outdoorswoman http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/528781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/528781.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT To her students at West Kendall's Claude Pepper Elementary School, Shawnn Wieder was the elegant and stylishly dressed art teacher with long blond hair, bright blue eyes and an illuminating smile. They didn't know her other side: hunter, angler and lover of the outdoors. Fedco founder a generous but shrewd businessman http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/526502.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/526502.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Joseph H. Davidson -- who in the 1960s thought offering products at a discount would be the business of the future and started a drugstore company in that mold -- died Thursday at 95. The cause of death was not released. Young Haitian sought cancer treatment in Miami http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/523767.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/523767.html Wed, 07 May 2008 03:01 EDT Last fall, Chaumala Laurent came to Miami from Haiti hoping that doctors would rebuild her cancer-savaged face. After six months of chemotherapy, radiation and prayer, she'll get her wish -- not from a plastic surgeon, but from an undertaker. Firefighter, father dies from bike crash injuries http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/523772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/523772.html Wed, 07 May 2008 03:01 EDT A Miami firefighter died Tuesday from injuries he suffered in a weekend motorcycle crash on the Dolphin Expressway. Alexis Lopez-Lima was riding his sports bike east on the highway near LeJeune Road at about 10 p.m. Sunday when he crashed into a sports utility vehicle, scattering debris for several hundred feet. Maitre d' `lived his life onstage' http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/519185.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/519185.html Sat, 03 May 2008 14:41 EDT In the gilded universe of South Beach dining -- where success depends as much on image and buzz as food and service -- George Slover sparkled like $200 champagne. Recent FSU grad became a South Dade champion http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/517901.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/517901.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT At 23, Alyssa Nicole Mulhern was passionate about many things: the orchids in the garden of her father's inn; planning events for the Redland Tropical Gardens organization; and keeping Krome Avenue a scenic, two-lane highway. Performed thousands of circumcisions http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/511007.html http://www.miamiherald.com/512/story/511007.html Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:40 EDT 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. Influential artist used wide variety of media http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/532709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/532709.html Wed, 14 May 2008 09:55 EDT Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg's media knew few bounds. One of his most famous works or ''combines'' was Bed, created when he woke up in the mood to paint but had no money for a canvas. His solution was to take the quilt off his bed and use paint, toothpaste and fingernail polish for his creation. He was also a sculptor and a choreographer. WWII veteran was a pioneering pilot http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/532190.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/532190.html Wed, 14 May 2008 03:01 EDT (AP) -- Diana Barnato Walker, a World War II veteran who was first British woman to pilot an airplane at supersonic speed, has died. She was 90. Polish savior of 2,500 Jewish kids http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/530675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/530675.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:01 EDT Irena Sendler -- a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities -- has died. Gospel singer a victim of bus crash http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/530673.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/530673.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:01 EDT (AP) -- Joyce ''Dottie'' Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. Irish journalist and feminist, author of `Are You Somebody?' http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/530674.html http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/530674.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:01 EDT Nuala O'Faolain, a journalist and feminist who gained international fame with her outspoken 1996 memoir Are You Somebody?, has died of lung cancer, weeks after revealing her illness on state radio.