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Oct 12, 2022

Gabriela Ines Sevilla, Advocate For Unhoused Residents, Dies at 29

Included among lives Sevilla touched were a D.C. couple for whom she helped raise over $40,000 to find a place to rent in 2019.

Sep 14, 2020

Florence Pendleton, Shadow Senator Who Fought For D.C. Statehood, Dies At 94

Pendleton was a champion of D.C. statehood and one of the city’s first non-voting shadow senators.

Aug 24, 2020

D.C. Nightlife Titan Joe Englert Was A ‘Party King’ With A Big Heart, Friends Say

Englert opened or helped open dozens of bars across the city, especially on H Street NE and U Street.

Jun 17, 2020

Maiesha Rashad, The ‘First Lady Of Go-Go,’ Dies Of Stomach Cancer Complications

She led the band Maiesha and the Hip Huggers, which was part of a resurgence in popularity of go-go in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Mar 20, 2017

Local Jazz Legend Buck Hill Dies At 90

Buck Hill, the “Wailin’ Mailman,” played with jazz luminaries and mentored many of D.C.’s jazz musicians.

Nov 13, 2014

Virginia Man’s Obituary: 1. Washington Football Team: 0.

A Virginia man’s obituary asked for team players to be his pallbearers “so they can let him down one last time.”

Oct 21, 2014

Famed Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee Dies

He was 93.

Jul 20, 2013

Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent Who Covered 10 Presidents, Dead at 92

Thomas, the tireless White House correspondent who covered every president from Kennedy to Obama, died at her apartment in Washington on Saturday following a long illness.

Feb 11, 2013

Donald Byrd, Producer of “Rock Creek Park,” Dead at 80

The legendary trumpeter Donald Byrd died February 4 in Dover, Del. Byrd, whose career blended jazz, soul, funk and rhythm and blues, was 80.

Dec 12, 2012

Local Media Boss Joe Allbritton Dies at 87

Joe Allbritton, the founder of the media company that bears his name, died today at hospital in Houston.

 
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