Services are set for April 20 in West Palm Beach for Vernie A. Boots, whose ordeal as a 14-year-old in the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane was one of the most compelling stories of America’s second-deadliest natural disaster. … Read full obituary
Bob DeBuhr is known as the former Red Cross manager who rushed to help citizens after Mount St. Helens ruptured — even though his own home had been ruined in the volcano’s wake.
Others recall his humorous commentary, 30-year career in the Boy Scouts of America and his devotion to wife Bette DeBuhr, who died in 1999 after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. … Read full obituary
The last American to remember seeing hundreds of fellow passengers drown in the icy North Atlantic when the Titanic sank 94 years ago has died at age 99, a funeral home spokesman said on Sunday. … Read full obituary
The controversial mountaineering legend, Heinrich Harrer, died peacefully over the weekend; he was in his nineties. Harrer is likely most known by younger climbers through the film, Seven Years in Tibet, which was based on his life. … Read full obituary
BURLINGTON — The pilot of a plane that crashed in Skagit County over the weekend had been flying for 34 years and was known throughout the world for his aerobatic stunt flying. … Read full obituary
Uli Derickson, a flight attendant who displayed remarkable courage while dealing with terrorists threatening passengers aboard a hijacked international flight in 1985, has died. She was 60. … Read full obituary
Among them:
- Aussie footballer Troy Broadbridge;
- Poom Jensen, 21, grandson of Thai King Bhumipol Adulyadej;
- Lucy Attenborough, 14, granddaughter of director-actor Richard Attenborough (whose “daughter, Jane, and her mother-in-law are missing in Phuket”)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A German statesman, a Czech supermodel and a Swedish Olympic ski champion were among the vacationers whose search for peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was shattered by the tsunamis that spared neither rich nor poor…. Read full story
Kalpana Chawla, who is feared to have perished in the Columbia space shuttle mishap along with six others, had done India proud when she embarked on her first space mission on November 19, 1997. … Read full obituary
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA declared an emergency after losing communication with space shuttle Columbia as the ship soared over Texas several minutes before its expected landing time Saturday morning. … Read full story
Senator Paul Wellstone, a two-term Democrat locked in one of the tightest campaigns in the nation, was killed this morning when his campaign plane crashed in freezing rain near Eveleth, Minn., a small town in the northeastern part of the state. Mr. Wellstone’s high school sweetheart and wife of 39 years, Sheila, 58; their 33-year-old daughter, Marcia Markuson; three campaign aides; and two pilots also died in the fiery crash, which obliterated their 11-seat turboprop among the pine trees. … Read full story
Details to come.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - John E. Lerro, the harbor pilot who crashed a freighter into the Sunshine Skyway bridge more than two decades ago, collapsing part of the span and killing 35 people, has died after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 59. … Read full obituary
Winnifred Quick Van Tongerloo, one the few remaining survivors of the Titanic sinking, died on July 4 in East Lansing, Mich. She was 98.
Ms. Van Tongerloo was 8 when the Titanic went down after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage in 1912. Of the nearly 2,200 people aboard, only 705 were saved. …
Ms. Van Tongerloo’s sister and her mother also survived the sinking. … Read full obituary
The last surviving hero of the Titanic, Herbert Johnston has died in hospital at Port Shepstone on KwaZulu-Natal South Coast at the age of 104 years. The man dubbed as “Pops” was a crewmember of the Carpathia, the first ship to arrive, after the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
Johnstone lived to tell detailed stories of the fateful night in 1912 when the so-called unsinkable Titanic sank on its maiden voyage. He was a 15-year old crewmember of the Carpathia that was bound for the Italian port of Genoa when the SOS came through. … Read full obituary
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