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Paid Notice: Deaths GILLESPIE, LORRAINE (NEE WILLIS)

2004-06-16T05:00:00+0000

GILLESPIE--Lorraine (nee Willis). Of Englewood, NJ on June 13, 2004. Beloved wife of the late Dizzy Gillespie (1993). Friends may call at the Barrett Funeral Home, 148 Dean Drive, Tenafly, NJ on Friday 2-4 and 7-9 P.M. Funeral Mass Saturday, 9:30 A.M., St. Cecilia Church, Englewood, NJ. Interment Flushing Cemetery, Queens, NY. Donations to the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Dizzy Gillespie Fund, 350 Engle Street, Englewood, NJ 07631 would be appreciated. For directions visit www.barrettf ...


Dr. J. Willis Hurst, Cardiologist to Lyndon B. Johnson, Dies at 90

2011-10-08T22:57:08+0000

Dr. Hurst was an expert in his field and the principal editor of one of the most widely used medical textbooks.


Willis Lamb Jr., 94, dies; won Nobel for work on atom

2008-05-21T05:00:00+0000

Willis Lamb Jr., who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a slight and subtle discrepancy in the quantum theory describing how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom, died on Thursday in Tucson. He was 94.


Willis Lamb Jr., 94, Dies; Won Nobel for Work on Atom

2008-05-20T04:00:00+0000

Mr. Lamb shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a discrepancy in the quantum theory describing how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom.


Willis Ware, 93, Engineer at Dawn of Computer Age, Dies

2013-12-02T04:53:20+0000

As part of a group of engineers developing an early computer, Mr. Ware was first to try to engineer many of the components that would be essential for modern computers.


Bruce Willis Shows Strength at the Box Office

2013-02-17T17:36:31+0000

“A Good Day to Die Hard” was No. 1 at North American theaters over the weekend, taking in about $25 million.


Willis Whitfield, Inventor of Clean Room That Purges Tiny Particles, Dies at 92

2012-12-05T03:51:38+0000

The process created by Mr. Whitfield could completely replace the air in the room 10 times a minute.


Dr. J. Willis Hurst, Cardiologist to Lyndon B. Johnson, Dies at 90

2011-10-08T22:57:08+0000

Dr. Hurst was an expert in his field and the principal editor of one of the most widely used medical textbooks.


Larry Willis, Pianist Who Crossed Genres, Is Dead at 76

2019-10-03T21:11:44+0000

In a career that began in the early 1960s, he worked with a long and varied list of musicians and groups including Hugh Masekela, Carla Bley and Blood, Sweat and Tears.


Willis Ware, 93, Engineer at Dawn of Computer Age, Dies

2013-12-02T04:53:20+0000

As part of a group of engineers developing an early computer, Mr. Ware was first to try to engineer many of the components that would be essential for modern computers.



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John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:08:29 +0000

He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and from many movie and TV appearances.

Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:49:36 +0000

In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.

Frank Dunlop, 98, Dies; Director Who Gave Theater a Free-Spirited Spin

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:44:21 +0000

In 1970, he founded London’s Young Vic, an adventurous “people’s theater” (the Who took the stage at one point) before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:04:10 +0000

He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.

Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:35:10 +0000

An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter Dave Frishberg, who called her technique “flawless.”

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:12:17 +0000

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.



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