NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Frommer, whose “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” guidebooks revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad, has died. He was 95. Frommer died from complications of pneumonia, his daughter Pauline Frommer said ...
TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated the “Peanuts” comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series “Astro Boy,” died Nov. 13, his son Kensaku Tanikawa said Tuesday. He said his father died at a Tokyo hospital due to old age. Shuntaro Tanikawa stunned the literary world with his 1952 debut “Two Billion Light Years of Solitude,” a bold look at the cosmic in daily life, sensual, vivid but ...
Together in Life and Death Donna Lorraine Allen, 91, passed away on November 14, 2024, at 2:30 am. She was born on October 21, 1933, to Ruth and Forrest Hammond. She grew up in the Jamestown, New York, area and graduated from Bob Jones University in 1956. She taught in many schools in Ohio ...
Frances West Carver, 94, of Marietta, Ohio, died Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at her home. She was born March 13, 1930, to W. Ivy and Edna Harris West. She was a 1948 graduate of Marietta High School. There she met the love of her life, Kenneth N. Carver. They married on December 29, 1948, and ...
Charlotte (Cheri) Dyrdek, of Waterford, Ohio, passed away November 14, 2024. Per her request, she will be cremated. There will be no formal services. She is survived by her husband, Michael J. Dyrdek, daughter, Amanda Blair, and two grandsons, Weston and Ryder Schaad.A private cremation will take place at Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society.
Dulcie D. Haas, 83, of Marietta, passed away Sunday, November 17, 2024, at Marietta Memorial Hospital. Dulcie was born November 4, 1941, in Patten, Maine, to Gilbert and Bessie {Goodine} Cole. She graduated from Portsmouth High School in New Hampshire in 1959. Dulcie married Robert Haas ...
