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Obituaries
The late Joe Pratte’s daughters say they are more focused on the happy memories they have of their father than the sadness of his passing.
Mary Jane Kiepe headed up a club no one ever really wants to be admitted to: America’s Gold Star Mothers, the organization for those who have lost a child during military service.
Gerald “Jerry” O’Connor, Fox High School’s winningest football coach and a respected retired Fox C-6 School District administrator, has died. He was 87.
One of Fox High School’s most treasured teachers has died.
Marty Johnson was passionate about everything he did, his family says.
Vernon Sullivan spent much of his adult life working to help people and to improve Arnold, the town he quickly came to love after moving there as a young man, said his friends and family.
