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Obituaries

Monique Joseph was a devoted J. reader.
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Death announcements for the week of Sept. 15, 2023

by J. Staff September 14, 2023September 21, 2023
Sylvia Simmons Prozan
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Death announcements for the week of Sept. 1, 2023

by J. Staff August 31, 2023September 1, 2023
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Death announcements for the week of Aug. 18, 2023

by J. Staff August 18, 2023August 22, 2023
Director William Friedkin at the 2017 Stiges Film Festival in Stiges, Spain. (Photo/Wikimedia-GuillemMedina CC BY-SA 4.0)
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How William Friedkin, a Jewish kid from Chicago, made us fear the Catholic devil

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Marlena Spieler wrote that she carried her signature green and white polkadot handbag "to most corners of the world." (Photo/JTA)
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Marlena Spieler, globetrotting cookbook writer, had her roots in Jewish S.F.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 7, 2023August 7, 2023
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Death announcements for the week of Aug. 4, 2023

by J. Staff August 3, 2023August 4, 2023
Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman in the 2016 movie "Pee-wee's Big Holiday."
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Paul Reubens, son of a founding Israeli Air Force pilot and father of Pee-wee Herman, dies at 70

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Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the "Monuments Men" in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Photos/Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial)
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Richard Barancik, last of the ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered art and treasure looted by the Nazis, dies at 98

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 27, 2023
Larry Griffin protesting at the “Disrupt Inequality Rally” alongside local members of local labor unions in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Photo/Brooke Anderson)
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Larry Griffin, S.F. civic and labor leader, was a ‘mensch’s mensch’

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Death announcements for the week of July 21, 2023

by J. Staff July 20, 2023July 24, 2023

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