Susan Mary Alsop, Washington Hostess and Author, is Dead at 86
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usan Mary Alsop, who proclaimed that she saw &quot;no future in being an ordinary person&quot; and became a celebrated political hostess and later an author, died on Wednesday at her home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. She was 86.
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Nellie Connally, the widow of former Gov. John Connally and the last remaining survivor who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a longtime family friend said Saturday. She was 87.
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HOOPERSVILLE, Md. -- After Annie E. Wroten died in July 1903, she was laid in a red-brick vault in a little cemetery here among tomato farms and loblolly pines. Almost 104 years later, she's about to be buried at sea.
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Mary Rettig Irish, a philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, died Sunday after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 59.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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A US woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in Alaska has died at the age of 89.
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Veteran journalist John W.  "Pat" Heffernan, the only foreigner to have been president of  the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, died on  Tuesday after a brief illness, friends said. He was 96.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress and first wife of former US President Ronald Reagan, dies at 93.
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Helen K. Copley, retired longtime publisher of The San Diego Union, has died. She was 81.
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Thelen, Helen Victoria  (Nee Lisiewski) Age 83, died peacefully at home September 17, 2006. preceded in death by her son Gary. Survived by sons Thomas (Mary) and Craig (Joe). Daughter-in-law Sue. Granddaughters Lori (Jose) and Jamie.
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Susan Sontag, the internationally renowned novelist, essayist and critic died yesterday in New York. Her impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.
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Carter, Priscilla "Meme" Owner of Priscilla's Diner in the 60's. Passed December 8, 2006 at the age of 92. Survived by daughter, Julia Griffin and a host of other relatives. Viewing 9-10AM at Providence Baptist Church (West), 3865 N. 82nd St., Milwaukee, WI 53222.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during seven terms in the House, died Saturday near Daytona Beach, friends said. She was 80.
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The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was established in 1982 by Nancy Brinker to honor the memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36.
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Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, who held "endangered salmon bakes" and once accused federal agents of using black helicopter gunships, died Monday in a car crash, her daughter said. She was 68.