Quantcast
Channel: Obituaries – East Bay Times
Browsing all 1564 articles
Browse latest View live

--- Article Not Found! ---

*** *** *** RSSing Note: Article is missing! We don't know where we put it!!. *** ***

View Article


--- Article Not Found! ---

*** *** *** RSSing Note: Article is missing! We don't know where we put it!!. *** ***

View Article


--- Article Not Found! ---

*** *** *** RSSing Note: Article is missing! We don't know where we put it!!. *** ***

View Article

Candlelight vigil set for Alexis Gabe, the 24-year-old Oakley woman whose...

OAKLEY — A community still reeling from the disappearance and murder of a 24-year-old woman earlier this year will have an opportunity to grieve together at a candlelight vigil Friday night. The vigil...

View Article

Joseph Kittinger dies at 94; former military officer set record for parachute...

By Terry Spencer | Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Retired Air Force Col. Joseph Kittinger, whose 1960 parachute jump from almost 20 miles above the Earth stood as a world record for more than...

View Article


Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

By JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK (AP) — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hundreds pay tribute to Alexis Gabe at Oakley vigil

Hundreds gathered around the large Christmas tree in downtown Oakley on a chilly Friday evening to pay tribute to 24-year-old Alexis Gabe, who was murdered nearly a year ago. The woman’s father, Gwyn...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Paul Silas, ex-NBA All-Star, head coach from Oakland, dies at 79

Oakland’s Paul Silas, who ushered in the most dominant high school basketball era in California history on his way to becoming a three-time NBA champion, has died, his family announced Sunday. He was...

View Article


Last member of Hawaii’s royal family dies at 96

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher | Associated Press HONOLULU — Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands...

View Article


Mike Leach dies at 61: Coach revolutionized college football

By RALPH D. RUSSO (AP College Football Writer) Mike Leach, the gruff, pioneering and unfiltered college football coach who helped revolutionize the game with the Air Raid offense, has died following...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm at World Cup, wife says

By Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson | CNN Grant Wahl, the American soccer reporter who collapsed and died while covering the World Cup in Qatar last week, died of an aortic aneurysm that ruptured,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, DJ for ‘Ellen DeGeneres Show,’ dead at 40

Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the amiable DJ for “Ellen DeGeneres Show” and dancer who rose to fame on “So You Think You Can Dance,” has died, according to information from the Los Angeles County Coroner. He...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’ suicide part of alarming trend in the United States

As Ellen DeGeneres and others in the entertainment world mourned the death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, her show’s amiable DJ and co-executive producer, it also emerged that his loss points to a...

View Article


Gilroy: Garlic legend, philanthropist Don Christopher dies at 88

Don Christopher, the legendary Gilroy farmer who turned Christopher Ranch into the nation’s largest garlic processor and helped put the Garlic Capital of the World on the map, has died. The 88-year-old...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Billie Moore dies at 79; legendary coach led first U.S. Olympic women’s...

Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Billie Moore, who coached the first U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team to a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Games, has died. She was 79. Billie Moore, head coach for...

View Article


Ex-Mafia boss ‘Cadillac Frank’ Salemme dies in prison at 89

By Alanna Durkin Richer | Associated Press BOSTON — Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a...

View Article

Fairfield Mayor Harry T. Price dies days before end of term

Fairfield Mayor Harry T. Price died Friday morning, just days before his fourth term was set to end, city officials said. The city declined to release a cause of death. Price was 85. Councilmember...

View Article


Former San Jose High School and City College football standout killed in auto...

A former football standout at San Jose High School and San Jose City College who had transferred to Kansas died in a car crash last week while he was driving back home for the holidays. Bryant Rosas, a...

View Article

Terry Hall, singer with iconic ska band The Specials, dead at 63

By Jill Lawless | Associated Press LONDON — Musician Terry Hall, who helped create some of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63. The band...

View Article

Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris dies at 72

By WILL GRAVES | AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored “The Immaculate Reception,” considered the most iconic play in NFL...

View Article
Browsing all 1564 articles
Browse latest View live