Jim Gordon, funeral director, dies of cancer
He was the Gordon in Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapels, a third generation funeral director who buried thousands of South Floridians.
View ArticleContact lens inventor arrived with Pedro Pan
Agustin De Rojas de la Portilla, who invented a type of extended wear contact lens and came to the United State during the famed Operation Pedro Pan, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday in Palm...
View ArticleAngel Calzadilla, former Miami police spokesman, dies at 48
Hostage negotiator, department spokesman, executive assistant to the police chief – during a 22-year career, Miami Sgt. Angel Calzadilla reveled in the high-visibility assignments.
View ArticleBob Callahan, 63, portfolio manager who loved running and picking stocks
For Bob Callahan, fitness buff, a 5K race was, as one friend put it, “a walk in the park.”
View ArticleWorld-renowned Barry University music teacher Thomas D. Moore dies
Thomas D. Moore had battled kidney cancer for more than a year
View ArticleComic book creator championed diversity
Dwayne McDuffie, a top comics writer who created textured characters and helped introduce compelling minority superheroes on the page and TV screen, died Feb. 21 at a care facility in Burbank, Calif.,...
View ArticleHolocaust survivor shared her story with all who would listen
In 1955, Miriam S. Einstein, a Polish Jew who’d survived the Auschwitz death camp, erased the most visible symbol of her Holocaust ordeal: the camp tattoo on her left arm.
View ArticleA life in music comes to an end
At a concert honoring him on Dec. 30, his 72nd birthday, retired Barry University and University of Miami music teacher Tom Moore announced that he’d be dead in a few days from late-stage...
View ArticleWashington Post: Columnist David Broder dead at 81
WASHINGTON (AP) – Washington Post officials say prize-winning political reporter David Broder has died at age 81.
View ArticleBrowning Parker, legendary architect, dies on day he was to be honored
Alfred Browning Parker, a leader of Miami’s Modernist architectural movement, was to be honored Friday as a “living legend’’ by the Dade Heritage Trust.
View ArticlePasadena Homes co-founder Ady Berger dies
In the late 1950s, brothers-in-law Adolph J. Berger and Leonard Miller worked together at a Hollywood mortgage company.
View ArticleFormer Broward legislator Jack Tobin dies
The powerful ex-lawmaker was once a steadying force in Broward’s Democratic delegation.
View ArticleOrlando Bosch dies in Miami at 84
Orlando Bosch, a prominent Cuban exile militant charged and then acquitted in the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976, died in Miami Wednesday. He was 84.
View ArticleJerome ‘Jerry’ Nagelbush, prominent plumber, dies
Jerome “Jerry” Nagelbush, who rose from installing bathtubs in the original Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood to overseeing a plumbing company whose work spanned the state, died Sunday...
View ArticleMichael Tamburro, Hollywood activist, dies
Michael Albert Tamburro Sr., an outspoken advocate for good government in Hollywood whose opinions were a staple of The Miami Herald’s Letters to the Editor page for half a century, died at...
View ArticleSusan Forman, wife of Broward clerk of courts, dies at 65
Susan Joy Schwartzman Forman, a retired Broward Democratic activist, lobbyist and political consultant, died Sunday.
View ArticleJames Hunter, inspiring teacher, dies at 67
As a sculptor, Jim Hunter turned rusted metal and weathered wood into found-object assemblages.
View ArticleHarvey Breeding, 96, ‘old-school’ pharmacist and civic leader
Prominent South Florida drug-store owner Harvey Breeding, who died recently at age 96, will be memorialized Wednesday
View ArticleJohn Hardwick, Hallandale Beach activist and barber
With his hands, eyes and talent, John Hardwick made a good living as a barber.
View ArticleLinda Pallot, locally known painter, dies
Linda Fried Pallot fell in love with oil painting on summer trip to Aspen about 10 years ago.
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