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MIAMI-DADE

Obituaries

  • FRAN BERGER, 61

    Dedicated debate legend was an `unforgettable hero'

    Amy Chafetz tells this story about her mother, local-legend debate coach and National Forensic League Hall of Famer Fran Berger: She went to a funeral recently that many of her one-time students attended.

  • DANIEL NEAL HELLER, 83

    Miami attorney who won freedom in IRS fight

    Daniel Neal Heller, the bow tie-wearing, Harvard-educated lawyer and arts benefactor who won a record $500,000 settlement from the IRS in a long-running tax-evasion case, died Sunday at his Venetian Islands home. Photo Gallery Available

  • DEATHS | CAROL VITALE, 1946-2008

    Playboy model, talk host took it all off for 3 decades

    She was blond. She was beautiful. And in the 1970s, Carol Ann Marie Vitale was frequently naked in Playboy magazine. The August 1972 cover girl and Miss July 1974 -- later a Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie designer and host of a long-running, eponymous cable talk show -- died at her Aventura condo on July 23.

  • ANTHONY MANSOLILLO, 46

    Islamorada chef set high standard

    It was not like Anthony Mansolillo to miss work, so when he failed to show up Saturday at Islamorada's Cheeca Lodge and Spa, co-workers were concerned.

  • STEVEN E. CHAYKIN 1951 -- 2008

    Miami lawyer dies trying to save wife

    Prominent Miami attorney Steven E. Chaykin died Wednesday in a freak hiking accident as he tried to rescue his wife after she slipped on a wet rock and fell into fast-flowing water near Aspen, Colo.

  • HARVEY IRA HOUTKIN, 59

    Author of books on stock trading

    Harvey Ira Houtkin of Aventura, known as the ''father of day trading'' and author of several books about SOES -- the Small Order Execution System -- is dead at 59. His titles include The SOES Bandit's Guide: Day Trading in the 21st Century, published in 1995, and Secrets of the Soes Bandit: Harvey Houtkin Reveals His Battle-Tested Electronic Trading Techniques, three years later.

  • JASON MORSE BERKMAN, 86

    Judge ruled 'Deep Throat' film too obscene for Dade County

    Jason Morse Berkman, the former Miami Beach municipal judge who 35 years ago ruled the pornographic blockbuster Deep Throat too obscene for Dade County, died July 27 at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He was 86 and had been afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

BROWARD

Obituaries

  • VETA MAE PETERMAN, 90

    School's founder aided community

    Veta Mae Peterman, a longtime Dania Beach community activist who started a preschool and kindergarten for black children during the Jim Crow era, died Tuesday at her home. She was 90.

  • DAVID PATTERSON, 72

    Ft. Lauderdale investigator made rookie cops better

    When Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley was a rookie more than two decades ago, he got sick at his first sight of a real dead body.

  • DEBORAH NYCZ, 62

    BC professor Deborah Nycz championed faculty rights

    Deborah Nycz was a fighter during her 32 years at Broward College, battling cancer even as she pushed students to achieve in the sciences and worked to expand faculty rights.

ELSEWHERE

Obituaries

  • ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN, 89

    Nobel-winning Gulag author inspired millions

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.

  • GENE EVANS, 70

    Theatrical pyrotechnic designer lit up the Hollywood Bowl

    Gene Evans, the pyrotechnic designer whose fireworks displays lighted up the night sky at the Hollywood Bowl for the last 39 years, has died. He was 70.

  • JULIUS RICHMOND, 91

    Served as surgeon general in Carter administration

    (AP) -- Dr. Julius Richmond, the U.S. surgeon general in the Carter administration who issued a massive report labeling cigarette smoking ''slow-motion suicide,'' has died. He was 91.

  • ANNE ARMSTRONG, 80

    Republican leader, former ambassador

    McALLEN, Texas -- Anne Armstrong, a powerful Republican in the 1970s and '80s who advocated a greater role for women and served as U.S. ambassador to Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday. She was 80.

  • REV. C.A.W. CLARK SR., 93

    Led Dallas church more than 50 years

    (AP) -- The Rev. C.A.W. Clark Sr., who spent more than half a century preaching from the pulpit of the Good Street Baptist Church, one of Dallas' first black megachurches, has died. He was 93.

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