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Lougheed, Trent Jason, 53, Rochester, died Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Lacey. Funeral Alternatives of Washington, Tumwater, 360-753-1065. MacLean, Gail Fox, 94, Lacey, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, at ...

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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 ...

In 1958, he met Rosalie Marie Prokarym at the CIA, and they married in Washington that September. She died in 1999. He wrote a classified memoir, “Splendid Day: A Case Officer’s Journey ...