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1 Obituaries South suburban obituaries and available visitation information. Lorraine Swanson , Patch Staff Posted Reply Send Flowers, Plants & Gifts Becvar Funeral Home Mary Jane Williams Joseph A. Punda Jr. Blake-Lamb Funeral Home Joseph L. Cwiklinski U.S. Army veteran, Send flowers In partnership with FTD® Armida M Boyd Mary Alice Stalzle Brady-Gill Funeral Home Margaret Unton Agnes M “Nancy” Gribbon Native of Glasgow, Scotland Chapel Hill Gardens South John Koller World War II veteran, Colonial Chapel Funeral Home Jose Camarena Send flowers In partnership with FTD® Curley Funeral Home Margaret "Peggy" E. Lucas Registered nurse throughout Forsythe-Gould Funeral Home Mary Jane Malone Worked 20 years for Sears, Vanette G. Bray Bremen High School class of 1969, CD & Me Hann Funeral Home Johan … [Read more...] about South Suburban Death Notices, Week of May 22

0 Obituaries Rose was an active member of St. Mary's Parish and local community groups for seniors. Rich Kirby , Patch Staff Posted Reply Send Flowers, Plants & Gifts Information and Photo Courtesy Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home RIDGEFIELD, CT — Rose Elizabeth Joyce, 101, died February 13th, 2023 at her home in Ridgefield. She was born December 1, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York to Mildred and Patrick Damiano. Her father was a police officer. Her mother was a devoted homemaker. Send flowers In partnership with FTD® Rose grew up in New York, and that is where she met and married her beloved husband, John Edward Joyce. Rose supported her husband’s photography business, and together they moved to Ridgefield in 1953. Shortly after their move, they welcomed their daughter, Jennifer, into their lives. Following John's death, Rose continued her career of secretarial work, which had begun at Vogue Magazine … [Read more...] about Obituary: Rose Elizabeth Joyce, 101, Of Ridgefield

0 Obituaries South suburban obituaries and available visitation information. Lorraine Swanson , Patch Staff Posted Reply Send Flowers, Plants & Gifts Becvar Funeral Home Pamela M. (Crandall) Lewis Proud member of Teamsters Local 710 William R. Hogueisson III Retired Cook County Sheriff Deputy, and a Blake-Lamb Funeral Home Patricia A. Jones Send flowers In partnership with FTD® Robert S. Janicki Jose Dolores Avina Proud Southsider, Armida M Boyd Proud graduate of Kelly High School, Joseph L. Cwiklinski U.S. Army veteran, Chapel Hill Gardens South John Milan Blazek Retired from Continental Can Company #5 Roy G. Cowan Jr. Send flowers In partnership with FTD® John Koller World War II veteran, Curley Funeral Home Michael J. Hughes Proud and beloved coach, Thomas Patrick Grady Forsythe-Gould Funeral Home … [Read more...] about South Suburban Death Notices, Week of May 29

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Two days before he was scheduled to die, John Shields roused in his hospice bed with an unusual idea. He wanted to organize an Irish wake for himself. It would be old-fashioned with music and booze, except for one notable detail — he would be present. The party should take up a big section of Swiss Chalet, a family-style chain restaurant on the road out of town. Mr. Shields wanted his last supper to be one he so often enjoyed on Friday nights when he was a young Catholic priest — rotisserie chicken legs with gravy. Then, his family would take him home and he would die there in the morning, preferably in the garden. It was his favorite spot, rocky and wild. Flowering native shrubs pressed in from all sides and a stone Buddha and birdbath peeked out from among the ferns and boulders. Before he got sick, Mr. Shields liked to sit in his old Adirondack chair and watch the bald eagles train their juveniles to soar overhead. He meditated there twice a day, … [Read more...] about At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death

President Tran Dai Quang of Vietnam, a former police general who presided over a crackdown on free speech in that one-party state, died on Friday. He was 61. The state-controlled Vietnam News Agency said the death resulted from an unspecified “serious illness.” Nguyen Quoc Trieu, a government doctor, was quoted by the state news media as saying that Mr. Quang had died of “a rare and serious viral disease” at a military hospital in Hanoi, the capital. Mr. Quang had fallen ill last July and traveled to Japan six times for treatment, Dr. Trieu said. Vietnam, like China, is governed by an authoritarian Communist Party but promotes a version of state capitalism. Unlike China, where Xi Jinping is both president and Communist Party chief, Vietnam has a power structure in which responsibilities at the top are split among a party chief; a president, who serves as head of state; and a prime minister, who runs the government. Of the three roles, the president is generally considered … [Read more...] about Tran Dai Quang, Hard-Line Vietnamese President, Dies at 61

Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88. Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause but said she had been in poor health for several months. Ms. Le Guin embraced the standard themes of her chosen genres: sorcery and dragons, spaceships and planetary conflict. But even when her protagonists are male, they avoid the macho posturing of so many science fiction and fantasy heroes. The conflicts they face are typically rooted in a clash of cultures and resolved more by conciliation and self-sacrifice than by swordplay or space battles. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Several, including “The Left Hand of Darkness” — set on a planet where the customary … [Read more...] about Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88