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L. Broadous, a community leader who was matriarch both of a prominent San Fernando Valley family with 10 children and of the Baptist church she co-founded with her husband in 1955, has died.
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Milton Katselas, a prominent acting teacher and director whose students included George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer and hundreds of other actors, has died.
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Delmar Watson, a member of a family of child actors who appeared in more than 1,000 films in the early days of Hollywood, has died.
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Enid Hart Douglass, who was largely responsible for developing the oral history program at Claremont Graduate University and led it for more than three decades, has died.
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Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of the legendary Motown group the Four Tops whose tough yet soulful voice was showcased on dozens of singles, including “Baby I Need Your Loving” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” has died.
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Jack Narz, the host on “Dotto” when it became one of the first television programs ensnared in the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s and who went on to emcee “Concentration” and other game shows, died Wednesday.
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Bob Jones, the longtime publicist for Michael Jackson who said he dubbed the singer “the king of pop” and who co-wrote “The Man Behind the Mask,” an unauthorized biography critical of the star, has died.
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Frances Lomas Feldman, a
USC professor and social work pioneer who conducted a groundbreaking study in the 1970s that showed cancer patients faced discrimination in the workplace, has died.
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Dale Pitt, who co-wrote with her husband “Los Angeles A to Z,” the first encyclopedia on the city and county of Los Angeles, a 1997 local best-seller that was admired for its scholarship and readability, has died.
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Robert Steinberg, a physician who helped revolutionize America’s appreciation of fine chocolate after launching a Bay Area company that produces some of the best chocolate in the country, has died.
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