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Bobbye Pratt, news researcher at Washington Post, dies at 89
Bobbye Pratt, who spent 16 years as a news researcher on The Washington Post’s Metro Desk ... correction A previous version of this obituary incorrectly said that Mrs. Pratt's stepfather ...
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They wrote obituaries about Jimmy Carter — but died before he did
“Ex-presidents are always at the top of the advance obituary list,” the elder Eichel told The Washington Post in a phone interview. “These are important people, major historical figure ...
What reading about dead people tells us about life
The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer ...
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Burton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91
Burton L. Gerber, who as an operations officer for the CIA pushed for greater risk-taking in spying against the Soviet Union, and who later as the agency’s chief of station in Moscow managed one ...
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Jules Feiffer, cartoonist of acerbic wit and satire, dies at 95
Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation, died Jan ...
Pete Medhurst, the ‘Voice of Navy Athletics,’ dies at 55
The longtime radio voice lost his brief battle with cancer. He had broadcast 240 consecutive Midshipmen football games until ...
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Friedrich St. Florian, designer of World War II Memorial, dies at 91
“In this memorial, St. Florian got the fundamentals right,” Washington Post architecture critic Benjamin Forgey wrote in a review, adding that “you come away convinced that the World War II ...
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Jeff Baena, darkly comic writer and director, dies at 47
Barbara Stern and Roger Stern; his father and stepmother, Scott Baena and Michele Baena; a brother; and two stepsiblings. The Washington Post contributed to this report.
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Matt Schudel
Matt Schudel has been an obituary writer at The Washington Post since 2004. He previously worked for publications in Washington, New York, North Carolina and Florida. In addition to writing ...