Obituaries http://www.news-spider.com/Top_Stories/Obituaries/index.html Latest Obituaries from news-spider.com. News from more than 2,000 sources, updated continuously. en-us © 2008 news-spider.com. All rights reserved. Tue, 13 May 2008 10:13:09 GMT Meteorologist made forecasting a science http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210666658.html George P. Cressman, a former National Weather Service director who took the lead in applying computers to meteorology and helped change weather forecasting from a form of cloud-gazing guesswork to a c ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210666658.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Larry Levine, 80; engineered record producer Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound' in the 1960s http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210666659.html Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped translate the grandiose sonic vision of record producer Phil Spector into some of the biggest-selling and most influential recordings of the rock era, d ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210666659.html Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Irena Sendler, 98; member of resistance saved lives of 2,500 Polish Jews http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210663066.html Fate may have led Irena Sendler to the moment almost 70 years ago when she began to risk her life for the children of strangers. But for this humble Polish Catholic social worker, who was barely 30 wh ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210663066.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:03:00 GMT Leyla Gencer, Turkish-Born Soprano and a Popular Star of La Scala, Dies http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210659435.html Ms. Gencer was an operatic soprano who was among the last of a generation of larger-than-life divas that included Maria Callas. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210659435.html Tue, 13 May 2008 04:52:24 GMT Obituaries in the news http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210650368.html AP - Nuala O'Faolain http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210650368.html Tue, 13 May 2008 02:15:55 GMT Polish Holocaust hero dies at age 98 http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210646785.html AP - Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died Monday, her family said. She was ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210646785.html Tue, 13 May 2008 00:41:24 GMT Larry Levine: Gold Star recording engineer who played a crucial role in the building of Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound' http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210637875.html The recording engineer is the producer's right-hand man, there to help capture a performance from the musicians and singers and mix all the elements into a coherent, cohesive whole, and it was in this ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210637875.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:00:01 GMT Laverne Meyer: Founder of Northern Dance Theatre http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210637876.html Like many of the prominent figures of British dance during the 1950s and 1960s, Laverne Meyer arrived at the Royal Ballet School from the Commonwealth – Canada in his case. But unlike his Commonwealth ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210637876.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:00:01 GMT Lucy Appleby: Influential artisan cheesemaker http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210639657.html The cheese was always known as "Mrs Appleby's Cheshire", because making it was Lucy Appleby's idea, and it was her ambition to revive a cheese that was nearly extinct. In the 1930s more than 400 farms ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210639657.html Mon, 12 May 2008 23:00:01 GMT Leyla Gencer http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210636139.html Imperious soprano known as the Turkish Diva who made a glittering career at La Scala http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1210636139.html Mon, 12 May 2008 22:11:12 GMT