Read more obituary stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2812/obituary.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:33:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74525/georgia-mourns-football-mascot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe University of Georgia football team’s mascot, bulldog Uga VII, has died. He was 4 and had not yet served out two full seasons, the shortest reign in 54 years of Ugas at UGa. Uga was not only a mascot but a beloved pet to the Savannah family that provides...http://www.newser.com/story/74525/georgia-mourns-football-mascot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 12:24:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74425/artist-jeanne-claude-wife-of-christo-dead-at-74.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJeanne-Claude, the artist who with her husband, Christo, traveled the globe creating massive works of public art, died yesterday in New York at age 74 after a brain aneurysm. Christo and Jean-Claude first caught the public eye in the 1960s and '70s in Europe wrapping landmark buildings and bridges in...http://www.newser.com/story/74425/artist-jeanne-claude-wife-of-christo-dead-at-74.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 12:29:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73852/husband-of-retired-justice-oconnor-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, died today at age 79 due to complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. John O'Connor, himself a lawyer, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's nearly two decades ago. His condition deteriorated markedly in mid-decade and when she announced her...http://www.newser.com/story/73852/husband-of-retired-justice-oconnor-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 21:26:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73226/anthropologist-levi-strauss-dead-at-100.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagClaude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism—concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths,...http://www.newser.com/story/73226/anthropologist-levi-strauss-dead-at-100.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 13:11:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72489/mermaid-girl-shiloh-dies-at-10.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShiloh Pepin, a young girl in Maine born with a rare condition known as "mermaid syndrome," has died at age 10. Shiloh wasn't supposed to live more than a few days, but "she was a tough little thing," said her mom. Shiloh's legs were fused together from the waist down,...http://www.newser.com/story/72489/mermaid-girl-shiloh-dies-at-10.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 24 Oct 2009 15:56:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72382/comic-soupy-sales-dead-at-83.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSoupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died tonight at 83. A longtime friend said Sales died at a hospice in New York, which he entered last week as...http://www.newser.com/story/72382/comic-soupy-sales-dead-at-83.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 22:54:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72081/addams-family-songwriter-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSongwriter Vic Mizzy, best-known for the Addams Family and Green Acres theme tunes, has died at his Bel-Air home aged 93. Mizzy wrote songs for stars Dean Martin and Doris Day before moving into film and TV composing. The WWII vet wrote the Addams Family theme on harpsichord, singing and...http://www.newser.com/story/72081/addams-family-songwriter-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 3:18:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71789/pulitzer-winner-nan-robertson-dead-at-83.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nan Robertson died yesterday at 83, apparently of heart disease. Robertson is best known for a vivid recounting of her battle with toxic shock syndrome in the Times Magazine , which netted her the Pulitzer in 1983, and The Girls in the Balcony , a book...http://www.newser.com/story/71789/pulitzer-winner-nan-robertson-dead-at-83.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 13:20:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70460/lucy-in-the-sky-dead-at-46.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLucy O’Donnell, the girl who supposedly inspired John Lennon and Paul McCartney to write “Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds,” has died of lupus at age 46. Though the song was controversial when it debuted on Sgt. Pepper for its purported reference to LSD, Lennon’s eldest son Julian has said...http://www.newser.com/story/70460/lucy-in-the-sky-dead-at-46.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 11:24:51 CDT