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HELENE FALK LEIBOWITZ, 65

Fun-loving counselor was a people magnet

Helene Falk Leibowitz died in Atlanta on the Fourth of July. The next day, the girls at Raquette Lake Camp in New York's Adirondack Mountains, where she had been head counselor for 15 summers, lowered their flag to half-staff.
ANDREW AND LILLIAN MANDEL

67-year romance grew into a `subliminal connection'

After 67 years together, five days apart was too long for Andrew and Lillian Mandel. Andrew died on July 2 at 97; Lillian on July 7 at 90, both of natural causes.
ROCKY AOKI, 69

From adventurer to Benihana mastermind

Rocky Aoki, who brought Japanese food into the mainstream with his Miami-based chain of Benihana restaurants and colorful antics, has died. He was 69.
EDWARD KIMBALL, 89

Among first black Miami police officers

In September 1944, the city of Miami hired its first black police officers: five men who had to train in secret and, couldn't arrest a white person, wear their uniforms to court or drive squad cars.
BURNETT ROTH, 97

A leader, a collector, an enemy of hate

Burnett Roth, a 1950s-era Miami Beach vice mayor, fought for civil rights, low-income housing and church-state separation, and against anti-Semitism, segregation and intolerance.
ABRAHAM SEIF, 86

Performed thousands of circumcisions

Cantor Abraham Seif, the ritual circumciser who probably separated more newborn Jewish boys from their foreskins than any other mohel in South Florida history, has died at 86.

WILLIE H. LEWIS, 76

Coach at Hallandale Beach schools

To his U.S. Air Force buddies stationed with him in Italy, Willie H. Lewis was ''Luigie'' -- an articulate and handsome man. To the student athletes at schools in Hallandale Beach where he worked for more than three decades, he was just ``coach.''
VINCENT J. SCHAFMEISTER JR., 84

Veteran fundraiser, civic booster

Vincent J. Schafmeister Jr. of Miramar, a civic booster and professional fundraiser who may have uniquely held the tongue-in-cheek honorific, ''Doctor of Arm Twisting,'' died July 4 at Memorial West Hospital, 10 days before his 85th birthday.

GEE GEE ENGESSER, 81

Gee Gee Engesser, 81, circus icon

Gee Gee Engesser, in a waist-cinching strapless leotard and fur-trimmed boots, skipped around stage with the gait of a sprite and the body of a bombshell.
ROBERT LEWIS SHAYON, 95

Acclaimed radio writer, TV critic

Robert Lewis Shayon, who wrote and produced groundbreaking radio programs in the 1940s, including the You Are There series for CBS, and who later became a longtime television critic for The Saturday Review and an Ivy League professor -- all without a college education of his own -- died at his home in Frankfort, Ky., on June 28. He was 95.
MICHAEL GREGG, 78

Published early reports on AIDS

Michael B. Gregg, an epidemiologist and former editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, died July 9 in Brattleboro, Vt. He was 78.
OLIVE RILEY, 108

Aussie was called world's oldest blogger

(AP) -- A 108-year-old Australian woman who was promoted as the world's oldest blogger has died two weeks after making her last post about ''singing a happy song,'' her great-grandson and her online forum said.
ROY M. HUFFINGTON, 90

Oilman, U.S. ambassador to Austria

(AP) -- Roy M. Huffington, an oilman who played a major role in developing Indonesia's oil and natural gas sector and later served as a U.S. ambassador to Austria, has died. He was 90.

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