Dies

In addition to her father and mother, Mrs. Gilmer also leaves her brother Christopher. An aggressive swimmer as a baby, Ms. Gilmer began developing health problems in high school. She had jaw surgery and a rotator cuff, as her father…

Besides her parents, Gilmer survived from her brother Christopher. As a child, a competitive swimmer, Gilmer began developing health problems in high school. She had jaw and rotator cuff surgery, her father said in an interview, and she…

In these he offered meditative, meticulous deconstructions of familiar images, whereby the slow, sometimes enigmatic gestures of the actors referred to the original works, as if the movement had been broken by a prism. Mr. Hoghe,…

Mark York, an actor best known for playing a character on the NBC sitcom "The Office" who was paralyzed like him, died on May 19 in Dayton, Ohio. He was 55 years old.His hospital death has been confirmed by the Montgomery County Coroner…

Mark York, the actor best known for playing Billy Merchant on the NBC sitcom "The Office," died last week in Dayton, Ohio. He was 55 years old.His death was confirmed by the Montgomery County Coroner Office, which announced Tuesday that he…

After a three day 30 mile hike, he experienced flulike symptoms that continued to worsen over the next 16 hours. There were purple spots on his stomach, indicating blood clots. All were symptoms of meningococcal meningitis, a bacterial…

Bibian Mentel, a Dutch snowboarder who lost her right lower leg to cancer, returned to the sport a few months later and dominated it for the next 16 years, died on Monday at her home in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands. She was 48 years…

Before long, Kitty Cone enrolled at Mount Vernon Seminary in Washington and felt discriminated against.Cone was walking with a stick, and the headmistress of the seminary, a private women's school, began to…

Edith Prentiss, a bitter and ardent lawyer for the disabled who struggled to make the city she loved more navigable for all, died on March 16 at her home in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She was 69 years old.The cause…

HOLLAND, Mass. - Dick Hoyt - one half of a father-and-son team immortalized near the start line for the Boston Marathon to inspire and involve athletes with disabilities - has died. He was 80 years old.Hoyt died…