Tag: Obituaries
From a prolonged pandemic, a rethink of life’s milestones?
Wedding anniversaries for Elizabeth O'Connor Cole and her husband, Michael, usually involve a dinner reservation for two at a fancy restaurant. Not this time...
Head of Poland’s Shakespeare theater, Jerzy Limon, dies
WARSAW, Poland — Jerzy Limon, a Polish academic who was honored by Queen Elizabeth II for creating and directing a Shakespeare theater and festival...
Father of boy who stole show at ’13 Huskers spring game dies
ATKINSON, Neb. — Andy Hoffman, father of the young cancer patient who captured the hearts of college football fans when he ran for a...
Zlatko Kranjcar, former Croatia national team coach, dies
ZAGREB, Croatia — Zlatko Kranjcar, a former Croatia national team coach who led his team to the 2006 World Cup and also played internationally...
Thousands of meatpacking workers to be vaccinated this week
OMAHA, Neb. — Meatpacking workers across the country have started receiving coronavirus vaccines and thousands more will have a chance to get their shots...
Finnish rally legend ‘Flying Finn’ Hannu Mikkola dies at 78
HELSINKI — Hannu Mikkola, the 1983 rally world champion and one of Finland’s rally greats who earned the nickname the “Flying Finn” and international...
‘Coronation Street’ actor Johnny Briggs dies at age 85
LONDON — Johnny Briggs, a British actor best known for his role as businessman Mike Baldwin in the long-running TV soap opera “Coronation Street,”...
‘Meyers Manx’ dune buggy creator dead at 94
LOS ANGELES — Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California's Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that...
Squires, Kansas’ first Black men’s basketball player, dies
LAWRENCE, Kan. — LaVannes Squires, the first Black men's basketball player at Kansas and a member of the Jayhawks' 1952 national title team, died...
Sheriff: Louisiana man apparently kills self in jail cell
COVINGTON, La. — A Louisiana jail inmate has died after apparently hanging himself in an isolation cell, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said...