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Almeda Jean Duroux, 85, died on Dec. 19, 2009, at Carbondale, Colo. She was born in a ranch house on Hooks Spur near Basalt on June 21, 1924, to Rosina Tisseur and John Letey — immigrants from Aosta, Italy. Almeda attended Emma School and then graduated from Basalt Union High School in 1941. She married Rene Joseph Duroux on May 31, 1941, in Moab, Utah. read more  

Fred YerbyFred Yerby, a centenarian who embraced change with enthusiasm as Sacramento outgrew its small-town origins, died Sunday of congestive heart failure. He was 101. The son of a Civil War veteran, Mr. Yerby was 5 years old when his family settled on a farm near Jackson Highway in the Perkins area. He opened a North Sacramento gas station in 1927 with his brothers, Thomas and Norman. The family operation moved downtown and...  

NEWARK — Funeral services for Wanda L. Stewart, 81 of Heath are incomplete. Mrs. Stewart died Monday, Dec. 21, at her residence. The family has entrusted Vensil-Orr & Chute Funeral Home with the services. Additional information and guestbook are available at www.vocfh.com.  

A Mass of Christian Burial for Douglas P. Gordon, Sr., 82, of Heath, will be held at St. Leonard Catholic Church, 10:30 a.m., Monday, Dec. 28, with Rev. Michael Reis officiating. Interment will follow in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, with military honors provided by the Marine Corp. League and the Licking County Veterans Alliance.  

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Pauline Grace McGee Medearis passed away Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, at The Pines at Davidson. She was 94. Born on Oct. 13, 1915, in Elberton, Georgia to the late Robert James and Mattie Ramseur McGee, she was predeceased by her husband John William ...  

A funeral service for Ruth Sarah Fiest, age 80, of Heath, will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 23, at the Heath Chapel of Henderson-Van Atta-Stickle Funeral & Cremation Service, with Dave Mason officiating. Burial will follow in Newark Memorial Gardens.  

My father, Ian Warren, who has died aged 96, enjoyed the fine things in life: fast cars, dashing clothes, good food, fine wine and entertaining friends. He also loved music and rugby. He was one of the earliest jazz fans in Britain, had his own band while still a schoolboy (he played the saxophone and clarinet) and jammed with many of the big names of the day at his parents' house in Kensington, west London.He befriended Duke Ellington and his...  

From age five she was determined to be a Hollywood starIt has become something of a Hollywood formality that any young woman actor fresh on the scene is pencilled in to play Janis Joplin sooner or later. Brittany Murphy, who has died aged 32 from cardiac arrest, was one of many performers over the years who were attached to some Joplin biopic or another.In this case, it was Piece of My Heart, for which Murphy auditioned successfully in 1999...  

Service arrangements are incomplete for Martha E. McDaniel, age 77, of Newark, who died December 16, 2009 at the Selma Markowitz Care Center (operated by Hospice of Central Ohio). The Newark Chapel of Henderson-Van Atta-Stickle Funeral & Cremation Service is assisting the family with arrangements.  

American death metal legends Obituary has announced that they will be heading to Europe in March of next year for a headlining tour. More details, including support acts, are expected to be revealed nearer the time. The tour dates are as follows: March 4 - Helling - Utrecht, Holland March 5 - Watt - Rotterdam, Holland March 6 - Maximum HXC ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com  

US photographer who assembled Evidence, a landmark exhibition of conceptual artIn 1996, Larry Sultan, who has died of cancer aged 63, had an exhibition of his photographic work, Pictures from Home, at the Queens Museum of Art in New York. The show consisted of large, saturated-colour, staged photographs of his parents, exhibited alongside prints made from their home-movie stills and family albums.At the opening of the exhibition, an elderly...  

Serbian master of the interactive novel'He thinks the way we dream," wrote the American critic Robert Coover of Milorad Pavic, the Serbian writer, who has died aged 80. When Pavic's masterpiece, Dictionary of the Khazars (1984; English translation 1988), appeared in France, it was hailed as "the first book of the 21st century". It is a novel presented as a reconstruction of three long-lost dictionaries – Jewish, Muslim and Christian – that...  

A nephew of Walt, he restored Disney to classic cartoon statusRoy E Disney, who has died from stomach cancer aged 79, was the last member of the Disney family involved in the company and saw himself as the protector of its tradition. As the family enterprise grew into a huge conglomerate, he retained a strong influence. Twice he exiled himself from the business and then returned to lead shareholder revolts which saw the corporation's...  

Written by Ken Whitehouse: According to witnesses, Party’s ominous final words to be etched onto his gravestone were: “Moderate Republicans will resurrect me once they get a load of them crazy-ass tea baggers.” Party is survived by the cities of Memphis and Nashville. In lieu of flowers, it has been requested that donations be made in his [...]