http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ Local obituaries and death notices en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:17:37 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042213-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Howard Lotsof was 19, addicted to heroin and searching for a new high in 1962 when he swallowed a bitter-tasting white powder taken from an exotic West African shrub. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042209-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Vincent Chianese, who became a Pittsburgh icon after more than five decades of owning and operating the renowned Vincent's Pizza Park, died Sunday at Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042214-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame pro football defensive lineman with the Los Angeles Rams who was a charter member of the team's famed Fearsome Foursome, then made a remarkably smooth transition into careers in broadcasting and acting, has died. He was 69. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041947-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml The Rev. James Ruggiero, 74, who left a career in supermarket management to become a Catholic priest, died Tuesday of cancer. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041944-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml When Samuel Drake played minor league baseball in Macon, Ga., in 1955, he was called unspeakable, unprintable things simply because of the color of his skin. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10070/1041945-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml As chancellor of Penn State Fayette, Eberly Campus, Emmanuel I. Osagie worked to bring the campus closer to the community and to the world at large. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041481-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Sylvia Pressler, a trailblazing New Jersey judge whose 1973 ruling opened Little League baseball to girls, has died. She was 75. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041480-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Jerry Hale Owens, the son of a small-town West Virginia newspaper publisher who grew up to travel the world working on high-stakes newspaper acquisition deals, died Saturday after a long bout with Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041482-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Willie Davis, a speedy center fielder who collected two World Series rings, three Gold Gloves and was a two-time All-Star during his 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died. He was 69. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041300-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041299-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml A friend says he doesn't know anyone who was more organized than Paul Kuzmich of McKees Rocks. Mr. Kuzmich had to be organized. He was a vice president of Columbia Gas, where he worked for 31 years, and took leadership positions in a host of civic activities. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:18:00 -0500