Obituaries

Gusta Fuhrmann, whose family stayed out of concentration camps by making clothing for German officers and their wives, died Sept. 1. She was 98. Fuhrmann...

Gerald Shur, who founded the Federal Witness Protection Program, died at Ann’s Choice Senior Living Community on Aug. 25 due to complications from lung...

Real estate manager and developer Leonard Mellman died on July 11 after suffering complications from an earlier fall. He was 96. A Philadelphia native, Mellman...

As of press time, 316,000 people worldwide have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.In the United States, 90,263 people have died, and...

By Marcy Oster / JTA Jerry Stiller, the longtime Jewish comic who became best known for playing the belligerent character Frank Costanza on “Seinfeld,” has died. Stiller...

Edgar R. Goldenberg, former CEO and chairman of Goldenberg Candy Co., died of congestive heart failure at Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida on...

As of press time, 211,000 people worldwide have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. In the U.S., 56,634 people have died, and...

Broadcaster Gene Shay, who over six decades introduced generation after generation of Philadelphians to the expansive patchwork tapestry of folk music, has died from...

Madlyn Abramson was a cancer survivor who championed cancer research, a Philadelphia public school teacher who championed education locally and in Israel and one...

Suzanne F. Roberts, one of Philadelphia’s most prominent civic icons, died at her Center City home on April 20 of natural causes. She was...