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Mar 16, 2023 · Albert L. DiGiacomo, 73, of Phoenixville, retired chief detective for Chester County, former captain of the Philadelphia Police Department’s South Detective Division, and professor of criminal justice at West Chester University, died Thursday, Feb. 23, of cancer at his home. Capt. DiGiacomo launched his remarkable career with the Police ...
Mar 15, 2024 · Published Mar. 15, 2024, 11:12 a.m. ET. Devon Claire Mizzell Madison, 34, of Point Breeze, a Philadelphia educator, died Tuesday, March 5, of brain cancer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Madison devoted her professional life to serving children — both in the nonprofit sector, and as a teacher and administrator in ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Ms. Rahke died in her Francisville home on Feb. 1 from coronary artery disease, her stepdaughter Jennifer Kurz said. She was 75. The successful Boston University campaign was the beginning of Ms. Rahke’s career as a labor organizer who transformed the face of the United Autoworkers, one of the nation’s largest unions, empowered women ...
Apr 12, 2023 · Published Apr. 12, 2023, 5:03 p.m. ET. Dave Racher, 85, formerly of Southampton, Bucks County, celebrated and colorful longtime Philadelphia court reporter for the Daily News, died Sunday, March 19, of heart failure at his home in Lake Worth, Fla. Called the “consummate professional” and “as much a fixture in this town as a scrapple ...
Jan 22, 2024 · Thomas J. Quinlan, 98, formerly of Levittown, longtime English teacher for the School District of Philadelphia, poetry scholar, guidance counselor, drama club director, and veteran, died Monday, Jan. 15, of age-associated decline at Pine Run Village Health Center in Doylestown. An inspiring teacher and poetry scholar-in-residence at Abraham ...
Oct 24, 2023 · Ms. Summers’ first job as an economist was working for one of the Standard Oil Co. successors, where “her new boss said to her, ‘I figure I am getting the same brains for less money,’” because women were paid less than men, according to Sheryl Sandberg, a former Facebook executive who chronicled Ms. Summers’ career in her 2013 best-selling book, Lean In.
Jan 20, 2023 · Published Jan. 20, 2023, 9:15 a.m. ET. Jerry Blavat, the fast-talking Philadelphia DJ and impresario known as “The Geator with the Heater,” has died at 82. His tireless promotion of pioneering Black artists of the 1950s and 1960s shaped the pop music culture of the city where he maintained an iconic presence for seven decades.
