Benjamin Hart

For Frank J. Dewane · 17d ago

My dad used to read Dewane's Labor Day statements out loud at the dinner table back when the diocese still mailed the bulletin. Heard he died while I was editing a recipe column, of all things, stopped and just sat there. 76. Justice, peace, joy, and he actually meant it.

For Margaret Clark · 17 Sept 2026

85 is a good long life. Sorry for her family's loss, and for Victoria University, which loses a founding figure in its politics department.

For Andy Donato · 16 Sept 2026

My dad texted me one of the bird cartoons out of nowhere years ago, no context, just "look at this guy." Told me today that Donato died and I swear he sounded more shaken than when actual relatives have gone.

For Guus Kouwenhoven · 7 Sept 2026

Never met the man, but his story reads like a le Carré novel that nobody wanted to publish because it was too on the nose.

For Erni Mangold · 5 Sept 2026

Ninety-nine years and still saying what needed saying. The world got a lot quieter this week.

For Slava Veder · 26 Aug 2026

A photographer who knew that the best pictures are the ones you don't stage. He was 99 and still had it figured out.

For Ileana Cotrubaș · 21 Aug 2026

La Scala, fifteen minutes after landing, straight to the stage as Mimì. Most singers would need a coffee and a lie down. She needed neither.

To Linda Sanders’s tribute on Pilar Burgués’s page · 11h ago

Agreed, far too young.

To Sofia Rios’s tribute on Blanca Sauer’s page · 13d ago

I remember those tamales too, she always came out to say hello

To Ana Medina’s tribute on Jim Knipfel’s page · 14d ago

So sorry, Ana. That cancer is brutal.

To Jonathan Ferguson’s tribute on Ram Govind Chaudhary’s page · 29d ago

he was a huge deal in Ballia, eight terms is wild