Tag: Obituaries

FILE- This is a Jan. 14, 1980 file photo of Spain's Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez , left, as he meets with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the White House in Washington. Suarez Spain's first democratically-elected prime minister after decades of right-wing rule under Gen. Francisco Franco, died Sunday March 23, 2014. Suarez was 81-years-old. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

Former Spanish prime minister Suarez dies at 81

Harold Heckle · March 23, 2014 11:45 pm

FILE - This May 11, 1989 file photo shows Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh speaking to reporters outside U.S. District in Washington. Walsh, the Iran-Contra prosecutor who investigated Reagan officials, has died. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Lawrence Walsh, Iran-Contra prosecutor, has died

Pete Yost · March 20, 2014 5:02 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2010 file photo, Khushwant Singh, 96, talks sitting next to a fireplace in his house in New Delhi, India. Singh, a force in India's literary world for more than 60 years, has passed away at his New Delhi home, his daughter said, Thursday, March 20, 2014. He was 99. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Indian writer, editor Khushwant Singh dies at 99

Tim Sullivan · March 20, 2014 10:46 am

Anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps Sr. dies at 84

Washington Examiner · March 20, 2014 12:00 am

Tony Benn, devoted British socialist, dies at 88

Cassandra Vinograd · March 14, 2014 6:10 am

FILE - In this April 30, 2007, file photo, son Jeffrey Corzine, left, and daughter Jennifer Corzine-Pisani, listen as New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine addresses the media outside Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., as he was released after being hospitalized for serious injuries in an automobile accident on April 12. A spokesman for the former governor announced on Thursday, March 13, 2014, that Jeffrey Corzine had died at age 31. There were no other details available. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

New Jersey ex-governor Corzine’s son dies at 31

Washington Examiner · March 13, 2014 11:21 pm

Voice-over legend Hal Douglas dead at 89

Washington Examiner · March 13, 2014 8:09 pm

Ex-Sierra Leone president Kabbah dies at 82

Clarence RoyMacaulay · March 13, 2014 4:27 pm

British transit union leader Bob Crow dies at 52

Washington Examiner · March 11, 2014 8:22 am

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, actor and director Harold Ramis laughs as he walks the red carpet to celebrate The Second City's 50th anniversary in Chicago. An attorney for Ramis said the actor died Monday morning, Feb. 24, 2014, from complications of autoimmune inflammatory disease. He was 69. Ramis is best known for his roles in the comedies "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes." (AP Photo/Jim Prisching, File)

Obama pays tribute to Harold Ramis

Meghashyam Mali · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - This Sept. 23, 2013 file photo shows Brig. Gen. Miroslav Standera in Plzen, the Czech Republic. Standera, one of the last of the Czechoslovak pilots who fought in the French and British air forces during World War II, has died at age 95 in Plzen on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/CTK, Petr Eret,File) Slovakia Out

Czech WWII pilot who for UK, France dies at 95

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 5:25 pm

Gregory Kane's last Thanksgiving column was about his much-loved mother who had passed away in August 2013, and it included a telling passage about how in his early childhood she once saved his life in the hospital.

Gregory Kane, it was an honor to know you

Mark Tapscott · February 20, 2014 5:00 am