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 2009 MiamiHerald.com Obituaries 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:06:04 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1346268.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1346268.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ``I never dreamed I'd live to be this old,'' Estelle Caldwell Overstreet said as she turned 100 on Sept. 29, 2007.<p/> She'd have two more years to ponder a life that spanned more than a century. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1342977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1342977.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST (AP) -- Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates and other large scale ``wrapping'' projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1340977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1340977.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Ken Ober, a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show Remote Control, was found dead on Sunday in his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 52. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1332919.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1332919.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST David Lloyd, who wrote scores of scripts for some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s and '90s -- including the memorable Chuckles the Clown episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was revered by comedy connoisseurs for wringing belly laughs from a funeral -- died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 75. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1323758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1323758.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Clara Rush Oesterle's legacy as a Miami-Dade County commissioner runs on 30 miles of electrified track: the Metrorail/Metromover system.<p/> As commissioner from 1974 to 1988 and close ally of the late county Mayor Steve Clark, she championed light rail as essential to controlled county growth. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1322673.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1322673.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Jeremy N. Morris, a British epidemiologist whose comparison of heart-attack rates among double-decker bus drivers and conductors in London in the late 1940s and early '50s laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement, died Oct. 28 in Hampstead, London. He was 99 1/2. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1319230.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1319230.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Francisco Ayala, an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence, died on Tuesday at his home in Madrid. He was 103. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1319239.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1319239.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST George Na'ope, whose mastery of the hula -- the flowing, pantomimic dance of Hawaii -- and its lilting chants made him a last link between an ancient ritual and modern entertainment, died on Oct. 26 at his home in Hilo, Hawaii. He was 81. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1319243.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1319243.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fred L. Singer, the documentary and TV-commercial producer/director whose Coronado Studios helped pioneer Miami's film industry -- and launch several protégés' successful careers -- died of pancreatic cancer on Oct. 25. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1313128.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1313128.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST August Coppola, a former literature professor and the father of actor Nicolas Cage and the brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, has died. He was 75. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1313123.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1313123.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Marshall Stanton Harris, a powerful Democratic legislator from Miami-Dade County in the 1960s and '70s -- and running mate of then-Florida Attorney General Jim Smith in an unsuccessful 1986 bid for governor -- died Monday of cancer at his Coral Gables home, said his son, Andrew. He was 77. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1311680.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1311680.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Qian Xuesen, a former rocket scientist at the California Institute of Technology who helped establish the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., before being deported in 1955 on suspicion of being a Communist and who became known as the father of China's space and missile programs, has died. He was 98. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1310557.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1310557.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Richard Windsor McEwen, an astute businessman who more than doubled the size of the Burdines department store chain while its CEO from 1977 to 1984, was also a civic leader who worked toward multicultural harmony during a tumultuous time in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1309205.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1309205.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT (AP) -- Flamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1309217.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1309217.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Elmer Winter, whose very bad day at the office -- he and his law partner madly scrambled to find emergency secretarial help -- spurred them to start Manpower, the worldwide temp agency, died Oct. 22 in Mequon, Wis. He was 97 and lived in Fox Point, Wis. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1309204.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1309204.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT (AP) -- Michelle Triola Marvin, who fought a landmark ``palimony'' case against her former lover, actor Lee Marvin, has died. She was 76.<p/> A family spokesman says Marvin died Friday morning of lung cancer at the Malibu home she shared with partner actor Dick Van Dyke. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1308076.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1308076.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Judge Dixie Chastain, the first female University of Miami law school graduate and a Miami-Dade County juvenile judge for two decades, died Sunday at 100. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1301684.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1301684.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Home to the young Lola Grace Hayes Dowling was a defunct airfield where her father test-grew fruit and foliage under the guidance of David Fairchild. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1346268.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1346268.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ``I never dreamed I'd live to be this old,'' Estelle Caldwell Overstreet said as she turned 100 on Sept. 29, 2007.<p/> She'd have two more years to ponder a life that spanned more than a century. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1323758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1323758.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Clara Rush Oesterle's legacy as a Miami-Dade County commissioner runs on 30 miles of electrified track: the Metrorail/Metromover system.<p/> As commissioner from 1974 to 1988 and close ally of the late county Mayor Steve Clark, she championed light rail as essential to controlled county growth. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1319243.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1319243.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fred L. Singer, the documentary and TV-commercial producer/director whose Coronado Studios helped pioneer Miami's film industry -- and launch several protégés' successful careers -- died of pancreatic cancer on Oct. 25. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1313123.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1313123.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Marshall Stanton Harris, a powerful Democratic legislator from Miami-Dade County in the 1960s and '70s -- and running mate of then-Florida Attorney General Jim Smith in an unsuccessful 1986 bid for governor -- died Monday of cancer at his Coral Gables home, said his son, Andrew. He was 77. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1312602.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1312602.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07 EST Marshall Stanton Harris, a longtime travel agent and powerful legislator from Miami-Dade County in the 1960s and '70s -- running mate of then-Attorney General Jim Smith in an unsuccessful 1986 bid for governor -- has died of cancer at his Coral Gables home, said his son, Andrew. He was 77. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1310557.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1310557.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Richard Windsor McEwen, an astute businessman who more than doubled the size of the Burdines department store chain while its CEO from 1977 to 1984, was also a civic leader who worked toward multicultural harmony during a tumultuous time in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1308076.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1308076.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Judge Dixie Chastain, the first female University of Miami law school graduate and a Miami-Dade County juvenile judge for two decades, died Sunday at 100. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1301684.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1301684.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Home to the young Lola Grace Hayes Dowling was a defunct airfield where her father test-grew fruit and foliage under the guidance of David Fairchild. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1301677.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1301677.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT What's now the city of Dania Beach was a giant tomato field when Marion Jeanette Frost Eby grew up there in the 1920s and '30s.<p/> The Frost family lived in a Dade County pine house at 400 South Federal Hwy. with a second story that offered her father, Dania pioneer Martin Christian Frost, a panoramic view of his 300-acre holdings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1300092.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1300092.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Mike McQueen, a journalist raised in Coconut Grove whose long career included three stints at The Miami Herald, has died. He was 52.<p/> McQueen died Sunday in New Orleans of complications from cancer and congestive heart failure. He most recently worked as the Associated Press' bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1296059.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/miami-dade/story/1296059.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Dr. Ralph J. Slonim Jr., a prominent South Florida cardiologist who established Baptist Hospital's first coronary ICU and worked with Jackson Memorial Hospital's first open-heart surgery team, died on Oct. 13. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1301684.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1301684.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Home to the young Lola Grace Hayes Dowling was a defunct airfield where her father test-grew fruit and foliage under the guidance of David Fairchild. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1301677.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1301677.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT What's now the city of Dania Beach was a giant tomato field when Marion Jeanette Frost Eby grew up there in the 1920s and '30s.<p/> The Frost family lived in a Dade County pine house at 400 South Federal Hwy. with a second story that offered her father, Dania pioneer Martin Christian Frost, a panoramic view of his 300-acre holdings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1297736.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1297736.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Painter Charles Norman Mills, whose sense of black history and culture graces canvases, boards and neighborhood walls, died Tuesday morning in hospice care in Pembroke Pines. He was 88. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1150121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1150121.html Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:37 EDT Dr. Anthony Joseph Vento, a father of five when he started medical school and seven when he finished, transitioned from pharmacist to physician and became a popular Fort Lauderdale family practitioner. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1252459.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1252459.html Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Charles E. Lomax, the first black partner at the huge Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, where Barack and Michelle Obama would later meet, died Sunday in Boca Raton. He was 85. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1229662.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1229662.html Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Gruff and wry, longtime Sun Sentinel reporter and editor Ray Lynch straddled the eras of old-school, bare-knuckled journalism and flashy, rapid-fire Internet news. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1227797.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/broward/story/1227797.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Thomas Daniel McCarthy, Fort Lauderdale police chief for 18 months in the 1990s, died Monday following a heart attack. He had been interim chief in Hope Mills, N.C., since June 1.