DEATHS

WIOD host, Miami News writer Billie O’Day dies

Billie Corinne Womack was an original from the day she was born — Oct. 1, 1919 — in Little Rock, Ark.

Dr. Cleide Suguihara, JMH neonatologist, dies

Dr. Cleide Suguihara, who helped save thousands of tiny lives in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital, lost her own on Thursday to complications of breast cancer.

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Carl Lewis, teacher and Overtown barbecue manager, dies

At Hialeah Senior High School, Carl Avery Lewis was known as a veteran biology teacher.

Obituaries

Ruth Kassewitz, public relations professional in Miami, dies at 84

Ruth Kassewitz was a powerhouse Miami publicist and glass-ceiling breaker.

Warren D. Holmes, 1927-2013

Warren D. Holmes, polygraph expert on famous cases, dies

Polygraph expert Warren Holmes helped free wrongly convicted men from death row, and was working on a report about the man long believed to have killed a candy heiress.

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Rocco, heroic police K9, euthanized

Few cops anywhere were as tough and dedicated as Miami-Dade Police Officer Rocco.

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Gustavo Noguera, Beethoven devotee, dies

Gustavo Alberto Noguera Delgado believed he was prenatally programmed to love Ludwig van Beethoven.

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E.L. “Shorty’’ Allen Sr., founder of Shorty’s Bar BQ, dies

Edward Louis “Shorty” Allen built a South Florida dining institution one rib at a time.

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Frances Greer, first woman to head Miami-Dade’s Office of Health Services, dies

Frances Kruvand Greer, Miami-Dade County’s top public health official in the 1980s, championed programs for the needy — because she could relate.

DEATHS

Margarita Dosal, tobacco company president, dies

Margarita Chavez Dosal, the flamboyantly fancy, gleefully generous matriarch of a family that reestablished its Cuban tobacco company in Opa-locka after fleeing the Castro regime, died Monday night at her Miami Shores home of complications from diabetes. She was 73.

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Award-winning architect Barry Sugerman dies

Well known South Florida architect Barry Sugerman, who designed dozens of capacious luxury homes with tropical touches in a prolific career that spanned more than four decades, died Tuesday.

ROSANN SIDENER, 1955-2013

Rosann Sidener, Miami Beach High principal, succumbs to cancer

Miami Beach High’s much beloved principal since 2007, Sidener knew every kid by first name, and worked to bring the “D” school up to an “A.”

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Crash victims Mark Palmieri, Ross Allan shared love of choppers

Mark S. Palmieri and Ross V. Allan loved helicopters.

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Service for former Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Joe Davis will be Tuesday

Funeral services for Dr. Joseph H. Davis, the revered former Miami-Dade County medical examiner, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, 2901 W. Flagler St.

ENRIQUE ROS (1924-2013)

Cuba historian and anti-Castro militant Enrique Ros, the father of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has died

Born Enrique Emilio Ros y Perez in Cienfuegos, Cuba, he was a businessman, writer and historian, authoring 19 books chronicling Cuba’s history and local politics.

SERVICES

Services in Miami Tuesday for victim of wrong-way crash on I-95

A memorial service for Lily Marie Azarcon Tuason, one of four young adults killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 last week, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Florida Funeral Home & Crematory, 1495 NW 17th Ave. in Miami.

DEATHS

Vilius Vilsaint, a Haitian super centenarian devoted to God and family, dies

Vilius Vilsaint lived through a great swath of world history: the invention of the automobile and the airplane, both world wars, a U.S. occupation of his Haitian homeland that began in 1915 and lasted almost 20 years. Florvil Hyppolite, Haiti’s president from 1889 to 1896, was in power when he was born; Michel Martelly held that office on Sunday, the day Vilsaint passed away at Vitas Hospice Center in Fort Lauderdale.

Jaime Parladé: 1915-2013

‘Quintessential doctor’ Jaime Parladé dies at 98

Pediatrician Jaime Parladé made medicine his life, from his native Santiago de Cuba to North Dakota and the northeast before retiring to South Florida.

DEATHS  |  BEBO VALDÉS, 94

Pianist Bebo Valdés, giant of Cuban music, dies at 94

A former leader of ‘one of the great orchestras in Cuban music history passed away in Sweden. Bebo Valdés was 94.