Category Gone But Not Forgotten

Gone But Not Forgotten is the category where those well-known people who gave so much to society died

Dead at 86 is ‘ICU Grandpa’ who won hearts by snuggling babies, dies from pancreatic cancer.

Dead at 86 is 'ICU Grandpa' who won hearts by snuggling babies, dies from pancreatic cancer

ICU Grandpa story: For nearly 15 years, David Deutchman — aka the “ICU Grandpa” — cuddled babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and played with ailing toddlers as a volunteer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. His efforts to help…

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Doctor J. Michael Lane, a globe-trotting epidemiologist, waged a 13-year war against smallpox dead at 84

Doctor J. Michael Lane, a globe-trotting epidemiologist

Wife of Dr. J. Michael Lane, Lila Elizabeth Summer, said her husband’s died from colon cancer. John Michael Lane was born in Boston on Feb. 14, 1936, to Eileen O’Connor and Alfred Baker Lewis II. Their subsequent marriage was her…

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Bernard Cohen, age 68, a civil liberties attorney, is Dead

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Bernard Cohen was a civil liberties attorney and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates; he died at age 68. On April 10, 1967, with co-counsel Philip Hirschkop, he presented an oral argument for the petitioners in Loving v. Virginia before the U. S. Supreme Court. On June 12,…

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