http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ Local obituaries and death notices en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:44:09 -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/09326/1015465-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Eugene F. Connelly was a charitable, civic-minded businessman who helped create such institutions as the Gateway Clipper Fleet and the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta but later ran afoul of the law over the annual event's funds. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014943-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Chances are, if you went to school in Brentwood before 1981, Geraldine Franz Sullivan knew you. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014940-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml After working an unfulfilling job upon his graduation from Duquesne University, where he helped to manage the club football team, Jon Neiderer decided it was time to get into professional sports. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014653-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Retired Navy Capt. William B. Ecker, who led low-level sorties over Cuba in October 1962 and provided photographic evidence of Russian missile installations that almost led to a nuclear confrontation between the Soviets and the United States, died Nov. 5 at a hospital near his home in Punta Gorda, Fla. He was 85 and had coronary artery disease. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014651-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml A memorial service today will honor E.J. Josey, the first black president of the American Library Association and professor emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09323/1014649-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Bruce A. Bartolotta, who served the Monongahela Valley community with an unusual blended career as attorney and grocer, died Monday at the age of 55, ending a four-year battle with lymphoma. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:34:00 -0500