http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ Local obituaries and death notices en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:28:20 -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/09311/1011589-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml John Dennis Ursu believed a quick wit and sense of humor could lighten almost any situation. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011248-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Dr. Cynthia Ayers, a trailblazing Pittsburgh physician who broke down barriers of race and gender in the medical profession and in 2007 became the first woman to receive the Physician of the Year Award from Gateway Medical Society, died Wednesday. She was 67. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011250-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Nien Cheng, whose memoir "Life and Death in Shanghai" was widely praised as one of the most riveting accounts of the Cultural Revolution, died Monday of cardiovascular and renal disease at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 94. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011252-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml John Kenley, a Midwest theater impresario renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds, died on Oct. 23 in Cleveland. He was 103 and had homes in Cleveland and Florida. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1011004-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml John Mashek, a Washington, D.C., fixture who covered every president since John F. Kennedy and enjoyed a front-row seat in the pageant called the American Century, died Tuesday. He was 77. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:29:00 -0500