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MIAMI-DADE

Obituaries

  • WILLIAM LUCIEN ‘BILLY' KEEN JR., 51

    Co-founder of Lulu's restaurant

    William Lucien ''Billy'' Keen Jr., who launched the popular Southern-themed restaurant Lulu's on South Beach at the dawn of the area's rebirth -- a fun-loving party planner who threw spectacular Halloween benefits, sold real estate and believed that banana pudding could cure any bad mood -- has died at 51.

  • BERNICE BRUCIE BALL, 57

    Dade school district special-ed director

    Bernice Brucie Ball, the Miami-Dade school district's special-education administrator known universally by her middle name, wanted colleagues to embrace her guiding principle, so she put it on buttons: a red circle with a diagonal line through the word "whining."

  • MARCUS PREUDHOMME, 23

    S. Florida Marine in Iraq attack

    A North Miami Beach Marine was among 20 killed in a suicide bombing in Al Anbar province, Iraq, officials said Saturday. Cpl. Marcus Preudhomme, 23, along with 1two other Marines, was killed Thursday when a suicide bomber reportedly dressed in a police uniform detonated an explosive belt during a meeting of tribal sheiks opposed to al Qaeda in Iraq. A suspect has been arrested, but officials said, it's unclear whether he was directly involved in planning the attack.

  • PEDRO DIAZ LANZ, 81

    Flew guns to Castro, but soon fought him

    Pedro Díaz Lanz, a Cuban pilot who helped supply weapons to Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains and then became the first chief of the Revolutionary Air Force before breaking with the Cuban leader, died in Miami Thursday night of a self-inflicted bullet wound to the chest, relatives and friends said. He was 81.

  • WILLIAM A. MOSS JR., 89

    Music teacher, cancer volunteer

    William A. Moss, Jr., a multi-instrumentalist who taught music in South Florida for nearly 50 years -- even after losing his larynx to cancer -- died June 24 in hospice care at his Westchester home. He was 89. . Photo Gallery Available

  • HARRY H. TROEGER, 92

    Nature lover lived like a pioneer

    For half a century, Harry H. Troeger lived a nearly invisible life in his hand-hewn coral rock house, eschewing even the most basic conveniences like plumbing and electricity.

  • RALPH 'SKIP' BISZ JR.

    Miami Shores native was shot down over Vietnam

    On Aug. 4, 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ralph ''Skip'' Bisz Jr., a Miami Shores 25-year-old, roared off the deck of the USS Oriskany in his A-4E Skyhawk toward the North Vietnamese city of Haiphong.

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Obituaries

  • BABETTE KULKA, 65

    Triathlete, in training, suffered heart failure

    Babette Kulka conquered most of her fears by the time she was 65. She swam countless miles in the ocean, pedaled on treacherous trails and ran across a finish line with a broken ankle.

  • MICHAEL McQUADE, 36

    Respected Margate officer

    Michael McQuade was a Margate police officer and former Marine who had focus and determination -- and a soft spot for his pint-size Yorkie, Bella.

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Obituaries

  • CLAY FELKER, 82

    Editor founded New York magazine

    Clay Felker, who revolutionized the magazine genre as founding editor of New York, bringing readers a smart, sassy mix of gossip and news that was replicated relentlessly across the country, died Tuesday. He was 82.

  • IRA B. TUCKER, 83

    Influential singer of `soul gospel'

    Ira B. Tucker, lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds, performed a style of gospel music that erased boundaries: between music and movement, praise and performance, style and spirit.

  • KATHERINE B. LOKER, 92

    Heir to StarKist fortune

    Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, an heir to the StarKist tuna fortune and a major philanthropist in Southern California, died Thursday at her Oceanside, Calif., home of complications of a stroke, according to a spokesman for the University of Southern California, her alma mater. She was 92.

  • VIC HERSHKOWITZ, 89

    Fireman, handball champion

    Vic Hershkowitz, a New York City fireman who learned handball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn and was considered by many to be the sport's most brilliant player, died Monday in Plantation. He was 89 and lived in Davie.

  • ED ARNO, 92

    The New Yorker cartoonist

    Ed Arno, whose sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics domestic and cosmic appeared regularly in The New Yorker for more than 30 years, died May 27. He was 92.

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