http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ Local obituaries and death notices en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:40:04 -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/12035/1208109-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died Friday in New York City. He was 81. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208114-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Kenneth Whitlock, a star Sewickley athlete who became the first black Marine from Allegheny County and then spent three decades as a school administrator in Virginia, died Tuesday. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207818-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Thomas J. Murrin, who rose to the top ranks of Westinghouse Electric Corp. and went on to lead the business school of Duquesne University, died Monday at his home in McCandless with his wife, Dee, and their eight children at his side. He was 82. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207821-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207863-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Angelo Dundee, the renowned trainer who guided Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard to boxing glory, died Wednesday in Clearwater, Fla. He was 90. His death was announced by his son-in-law, James Coughlin, who said Mr. Dundee had recently been treated for blood clots. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207636-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Don Cornelius, creator and host of "Soul Train," a milestone in television programming that introduced generations of viewers to new music and dance trends emerging from black America, died Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Los Angeles, according to police. He was 75. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12032/1207344-122-0.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml PHILADELPHIA -- Cardinal Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua, whose 15 years as shepherd of the 1.5 million-member Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia was marked by both celebration and crisis, died in his sleep Tuesday night in his apartment at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. He was 88. Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:29:00 -0500