http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/ Local obituaries and death notices en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:14:53 -0400 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/10081/1044686-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Like much of the music he critiqued in his three decades at The Pittsburgh Press, Carl Apone's life was marked by artistic discipline, textured with dynamic range, nuanced with creative passion. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044539-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Edgar Wayburn, 103, a physician and five-time Sierra Club president who is credited with protecting more wilderness and parkland than any other American citizen, died March 5 at his home in San Francisco. No cause of death was reported. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:35:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044504-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Stewart Udall, an advocate for the American West who oversaw the addition of 2.4 million acres to national parks and pushed for landmark environmental legislation as U.S. Interior secretary under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, has died. He was 90. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10078/1044021-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Sir Kenneth Dover, an eminent scholar of ancient Greek life, language and literature who became known for his willingness to break longstanding taboos in print, from his frank descriptions of sexual behavior (both the Greeks' and his own) to his baldly stated desire to bring about the death of a vexing Oxford colleague, died March 7 in Cupar, Scotland. He was 89. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:21:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10078/1044022-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10078/1044023-122.stm?cmpid=newsobits.xml For many years, Jack Poloka worked 9 to 5 as an administrative manager for Equitable Gas. But it was what he did after his day job that really mattered. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:20:00 -0400