Traci Lynn Lazenby obituary in Gazette details
Traci Lynn Lazenby died May 12 2025 in Arizona after a three year battle with valley fever. She was born December 30 1970 and is survived by Malcolm and Roberta Meader and several family members including her sons and grandson Durbee. A Celebration of Life is set June 21 at Wakema Park Lodge Center Point Town.
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Traci Lynn Lazenby
Comried
Arizona
Traci
Andrew Filling
Angel
Alex Filling
Stephanie
James
Jocelynn
Jenna
Durbee
Brad Comried
Wakema Park Lodge
Center Point
Town
Gene E Floerchinger 89 Mesa Arizona dies after illness
Gene E Floerchinger of Mesa Arizona died May 27 2025 after a long illness. Born 1936 in Cedar Rapids Iowa he worked at Rockwell Collins and retired with wife Geri to Mesa. Survived by wife and five children. Body donated to science per his wishes. No services.
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Gene E. Floerchinger
Mesa
Arizona
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Gene
Roosevelt High School
Rockwell Collins
Geri
Lester
Lucille Floetchinger
Danny
Bob
Al Foster Dies at 82 Jazz Drummer for Miles Davis
Al Foster, renowned jazz drummer who played with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died at 82 in New York City after a serious illness. Born Aloysius Tyrone Foster in 1943, he rose from Harlem roots to back giants like Davis, Rollins, Hancock, and Henderson, contributing on landmark albums and shaping bebop and fusion grooves.
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al Foster
Miles Davis
Sonny Rollins
Los Angeles
Herbie Hancock
Foster
Bonnie Rose Steinberg
NPR
New York City
Kierra Foster- Ba
Davis
Miles
Big Fun
Dark Magus
Agharta
Mr. Foster
Aloysius Tyrone Foster
Richmond
Harlem
Max Roach
Rollins
Joe Henderson
Art Pepper
McCoy Tyner
Horace Silver
Milestones Jazzstars
Tyner
Ron Carter
Betsy Jochum Dies at 104 Last surviving AAGPBL player
Betsy Jochum the final link to the 1943 inaugural AAGPBL season died May 31 at her South Bend home at age 104. A hard hitting outfielder and pitcher for the Blue Sox, she helped launch women’s professional team sports decades before the WNBA, with a .246 career average and 232 RBIs.
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Betsy Jochum
South Bend
Ind
Carol Sheldon
Players’ Association
Midwest
WNBA
Rockford Peaches
Illinois
Jochum
Joch-Em
Blue Sox
Sheldon
Cincinnati
Connecticut
H.H. Meyer Meatpacking
Wisconsin
Kenosha Comets
Racine Belles
Detroit
Cincinnati Post
Sultana
Swat
Illinois State University
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Taxol chemist Robert Holton dies at 81 in Florida
Robert Holton, a chemist who helped develop a cost efficient partial synthesis of Taxol, died May 21 at his home in Tallahassee, Florida. He was 81 and the cause was emphysema. Holton’s method enabled production from the English yew, easing supply concerns for the cancer drug used against breast, ovarian, and other cancers. He taught at Florida State University and licensed his research to Bristol-Myers Squibb, aiding FDA approvals in 1992 and 1994.
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Robert Holton
Tallahassee
Fla
Robert L. Holton
National Institutes of Health
Eric Winer
Yale Cancer Center
Winer
Washington State
Research Triangle Institute
North Carolina
Monroe Wall
Mansukh C. Wani
Johns Hopkins
Washington Post
Pacific Northwest
Bruce Chabner
National Cancer Institute
New York Times
Holton
Times
Florida State University
Saturday Evening Post
the Times
Kyriacos C. Nicolaou
Scripps Research Institute
San Diego
Florida State
Bristol Myers Squibb
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Gene E. Floetchinger
Mesa, AZ
Comred
Tucson, AZ
Decorah
Elgin Elvin Ole Anderson
Burnham-Wood-Gray Funeral Home
West Union
League of Their Own
Chicago Cubs
Philip K. Wrigley
Cubs
Jack Sheehan
Turkey Ridge Field
Sheehan
H.H. Meyer
Dorothy Kamenshek
Chicago
Wrigley Field
The
Peaches
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