Today’s Obituaries
- Lois Patricia Andersen
- Kirk J. 'Andy' Anderson
- Mary K. (Hehir) Antil
- Lois D. Bauer
- Sandra H. 'Sandy' (Escribano) Bergstrom
- Liselotte 'Lisa Lilo' Bochnak
- Mary Ann Bretl
- Clarence Herman Bursey
- Joyce Estelle Cain
- Pamela Jane Danforth
- Darrell J. Drumm
- Ellen Ja Kyung Farquharson
- Orville Hanken
- Patricia M. (Wherley) Hasse
- Gerald L. 'Jerry' Hermsen
- Claudia R. Johnson
- Paul M. Johnson
- Shirley Johnson
- John E. 'Eddie' Jones
- Daniel S. Kleve
- David H. Klocek
- Richard M. 'Dick' Kruse
- Dr. Jian-Ming Li
- Edward A. Marks
- Marjorie Jean 'Marge' (Eckman) Mellem
- Alfred 'Mickey' Mickelson
- Rita Marie Miller
- Daniel H. Nicolai
- Marlys Jeanne (Jonason) Nordgren
- Lynn Olson
- Edward Thomas 'Tom' Ossanna
- Richard Clarence Paulson, DDS
- Donald T. Pederson
- Valerie S. (Johnson) Quiel
- James E. Rasmussen
- Nickalos Sahr
- Clinton A. Schroeder
- Marlene L. Schultz
- Beverly Ann Skipton
- Alfred E. Smith
- Phyllis Eileen (DeGeest) Yeager
Stephen Wanvig, artist who conceived today's Goldy Gopher, dies at 70
Wanvig, who came up with the current version of Goldy in the mid-1980s, died at his home in Burnsville on June 6 after a long battle with cancer.
David Preuss, former Gophers hockey player, dies at 56
Preuss made an immediate impression as a freshman, but his promising hockey career would end prematurely because of a freak injury.
Rep. Omar's father dies of complications from COVID-19
"It is with tremendous sadness and pain that I share that my father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passed away today due to complications from COVID-19," Rep. Ilhan Omar said.
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TV & Media
Marj Carpenter, reporter who became Presbyterian head, dies
Marj Carpenter, who pushed international missionary work while briefly leading the nation's largest Presbyterian denomination in the mid-1990s following a journalism career in West Texas that included covering millionaire swindler Billie Sol Estes, has died. She was 93.
National
Poll: Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim
African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic.
Gophers
Garmaker, former Gophers All-America basketball star, dies at 87
Dick Garmaker was also a four-time NBA All-Star, playing for the Minneapolis Lakers and Knicks in the late '50s and early '60s.
Local
Doug Adkins, 'superstar' advertising executive, dies at 53
The "Get to know 'em" campaign for the 2001 Twins, produced by a team led by Adkins, turned out to be immensely popular.
Local
Randy Staten, civil rights leader and former legislator, dies at 76
Staten was an advocate for civil rights and recovery from chemical dependency, a scourge he knew all too well.
Variety
Lives Lost: Weatherman built career on skills learned in war
Robert Fleury knew he wanted to serve his country when he was a teenager, so he signed up for one of the most remote assignments in World War II — tracking the weather for the U.S. Navy in the frigid Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
National
William Sessions, FBI head fired by President Clinton, dies
William S. Sessions, a former federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan to head the FBI and fired years later by President Bill Clinton, died Friday at his San Antonio home. He was 90.
Nation
William S. Sessions, who led the FBI during a turbulent time and was fired, dies at 90
His tenure was crowded with troubles and stumbling responses, including the deadly sieges at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas.
Obituaries
Virginia Mae 'Ginny' Anderson, a longtime bank teller and editorial librarian, dies of COVID-19 at 91
For almost 40 years with the Second Northwestern Bank of Minneapolis on University Avenue, Virginia Mae “Ginny” Anderson was the smiling face at the teller’s…
Celebrities
Hollywood power publicist and pal to stars Nanci Ryder dies
Nanci Ryder, a powerful Hollywood publicist and co-founder of BWR Public Relations who became close to such stars as Renée Zellweger and Courteney Cox, died…
Local
American Indian leader and lawyer Kurt BlueDog dies at 70
He assisted in drafting legislation that became the American Indian Religious Freedom Act and was a consistent voice nationally.
National
Watchdog: Agency misspent money meant for migrant care
U.S. Customs and Border Protection violated the law when it misspent money appropriated for migrant care on items like all-terrain vehicles, boats and its police dog program, according to a federal investigation.
Obituaries
Duane Solem, a businessman and swing band musician, dies of COVID-19 complications at 91
Duane Jerome Solem always had advice — even if it wasn’t always what his company wanted to hear. He was a pragmatic man, a believer…
Variety
Bill Gossman dies at 67: An artist in clay, he left his fingerprints on the town of New London, Minnesota
Bill Gossman had a way with clay. Whistling, he’d dig his thumbs into a big hunk of it and, in minutes, form it into an…
Minneapolis
Former Hennepin County Attorney Tom Johnson dies
Johnson endured stage IV cancer for six years, kept working.
Local
Dr. James Meyer, longtime Twin Cities urologist, dies at 80
He worked his way through his undergraduate years at St. John's by playing saxophone in a big band. Outside of work, he was avid about fitness.
Obituaries
Audrey Larsen, cheerful mother of nine, dies of COVID-19 at 93
Outgoing and cheerful, Audrey Josephine Larsen rarely missed an opportunity to make someone else smile or laugh. With friends and family, new acquaintances and even…
Music
Bonnie Pointer, early member of Pointer Sisters, dies at 69
Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of the next two decades, died Monday.
Variety
Lives Lost: Family of doctors loses 2 shining lights
Priya Khanna may have been destined to practice medicine all along, and not necessarily because she grew up in a family of doctors.
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