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Rosaly Yalow Passes At Age 89

Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-developed the laboratory technique of radioimmunoassay that permits measurement of once immeasurably small quantities of hormones and other biological molecules, died May 30 in the Bronx. She was 89.
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Cosimo Serio Passes At Age 59

On May 5, 2011 the world lost a legend and a man who lived for his family and touched everyone he encountered....
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Geraldine Anne Ferraro Dies At 75

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party....
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Mike DeStefano Dies At 44

He was known for his appearance on NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and the sometimes uncomfortable honesty he put into in his shows. He was set to start a one-man show in New York on Wednesday....
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John Concannon Dies At 86

John Concannon, an Irish-American journalist and a former public relations guru for the St. Patrick's Day Parade, has died. He was 86....
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Dr. Mary Theresa Gillespie-Miles, 70

Dr. Mary Theresa Gillespie-Miles, 70, died on March 1, 2011 at the Talbot Hospice House in Easton, MD....
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Dr. Richard Daines, Former Health Commissioner, Dies At 60

Dr. Richard F. Daines, the former state health commissioner who presided over hospital downsizing, the fight against swine flu and an unsuccessful attempt to enact a soda tax, died Saturday at his family farm in Dutchess County....
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Guy J. Velella, Bronx (R), Dies At 66

Ex-Sen. Guy Velella, who went to jail after being convicted on federal bribery charges, has died at the age of 66....
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Dr. Eleanor Galenson Passes At 94

Eleanor Galenson was born in the Bronx on Oct. 28, 1916, one of two children of Louis and Libby Galenson....
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Mike Silverman Dies At 90

The son of a sweatshop tailor, he started life living above a pickle shop in the Bronx and ended it owning a Cape Cod-style home on a stretch of Malibu called Billionaire's Beach....
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In Memoriam Of Girolama Brancaccio

Girolama “Gerry” Brancaccio, age 86 of Wilton, wife of the late Nicholas Brancaccio, died on Monday, March 22, 2010 at her home. Born in NYC, Gerry was a lifelong resident of the Pelham Bay section of Bronx....
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The Passing Of Megan Charlo

Statement from the Borough President Diaz: The Passing of Megan Charlop:...
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Soupy Sales Dies At 83

Slapstick comic Soupy Sales died yesterday at the age of 83. His manager and friend Dave Usher says Sales passed away at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, where he was admitted last week. He had been battling health problems for the past several years....
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Madeline Betzler Passes At 102

Madeline (Valenti) Betzler died March 6, 2012 at Genesis-Troy Hills Center in Parsippany, NJ. She was 102.
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Rev. Matthew J. O'Rourke Passes At 93

The Very Rev. Matthew J. O'Rourke, a Josephite priest and former superior general of his Roman Catholic religious order, died of congestive heart failure March 9, 2012 at St. Joseph Manor in North Baltimore, MD. He was 93.

Eleanor Patricia Gosik Passed At 87

Eleanor Patricia Gosik, longtime resident of Marlboro, previously of Bronx, entered into eternal rest on March 10, 2012 at the King Street Home for Nursing Care & Rehabilitation in Rye Brook, NY. She was 87.
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Robert J. ‘Bob’ Sicilia: April 27, 1940 – February 24, 2012

Robert J. ‘Bob’ Sicilia, of Sarasota, FL and formerly of Bronx, NY, peacefully passed away, February 24, 2012. A memorial service with Military Honors was held on Friday, March 2, 2012, 10:30 a.m. at the Sarasota National Cemetery, 9810 State Road 72, Sarasota, FL 34241.

Ann M. Lewis Passes At 87

Ann M. Lewis, age 87 of Somerville, died Thursday, March 1, 2012, at her daughters home in Branchburg.

Eugene L. Lyver Passes At 77

Eugene L. Lyver of New City passed on January 17, 2012.
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Len Rinaldi, Sr. Dies At 69

Len Rinaldi, Sr., a Bronx native and Falls Church, VA resident and poet, died on December 15, 2011. He was 69 years old.

Jillian B. Andrews Dies At 30

Jillian B. Andrews, Coordinator of Membership Services for the Middletown YMCA, passed away peacefully at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She was 30. The loving daughter of Neville and Beverly Ballard Andrews, she was born on January 21, 1981 in Bronx.
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Anthony Amato Passes At Age 91

Anthony Amato, the founder and artistic director of the Amato Opera Theater, the scrappy, often threadbare and very rarely dull chamber opera company on the Lower East Side of Manhattan that was a mainstay of New York’s cultural life for 61 years, died on Tuesday at his home on City Island, in Bronx.
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Sanford Garelik Passes At 93

Bronx native Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral candidate and a City Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and criminal turmoil of the 1970s, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 93.

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