Former Long Island University basketball star Dick Holub passed away on July 27 in Sun City West, Ariz., the Brooklyn school announced last week.

Holub was a member of the Blackbirds’ 1941 national championship team and was inducted into the LIU Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

Born Oct. 29, 1921, in Racine, Wisc., Holub spent his early years in Racine and North Chicago, Ill., before moving to New York City in 1938. His basketball career began after he was {read more...}

“Ted� Hallas was the longtime companion of Vernon {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BAY RIDGE – Rosemarie O’Keefe, long active in the Bay Ridge civic and political communities and former commissioner of the Mayor’s Community Assistance Unit, has died of cancer at a hospice connected with Lutheran Medical Center.

O’Keefe was the first commissioner in that post created by then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, long a close friend and supporter of O’Keefe and her husband William O’Keefe, a retired police officer and fire lieutenant. Her passing and work {read more...}

BROOKLYN – Dr. John W. Kneller, who went from being a French professor and scholar to being president of Brooklyn College during the tempestuous, protest-filled 1970s, died at 82 on July 2 at his home in Westport, N.Y.

“As a proud graduate of Brooklyn College,� said Borough President Marty Markowitz, “I understand {read more...}

By Tom Kane
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN — Our Brooklyn Poet Laureate, Ken Siegelman, passed away on Friday morning, June 19, 2009, at his home in Brooklyn. Like most famous poets, Siegelman had his share of inner demons to contend with.

Perhaps that is exactly what made him so famous — his ability to describe, in words, feelings and emotions that most of us shy away from. Siegelman embraced them, and handed them to us to {read more...}

Actress, author, teacher, musician, she had resided at 31 Joralemon Street in the house that she and her husband, the late Al Raebeck, had purchased in the early sixties.

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By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE — James Sempepos, known for his work on the Ragamuffin Parade, Community Board 10, Victory Memorial Hospital and as a Bay Ridge Community Council president, among other activities, has died in a nursing home. He was 85.

He was married to Mary Sempepos, who served as Community Board 10’s district manager in the 1980s and 1990s, highlighted by a variety of major civic {read more...}

Sister Mary Paul died on May 7 at age 88, according to an obituary published {read more...}

BAY RIDGE – Former New York State Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Clemente has died. The longtime Bay Ridge resident lived in Sullivan County since moving from Bay Ridge several years {read more...}

By Harold Egeln
Brooklyn Eagle

BAY RIDGE — The Reverend Darrell Helmers, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church from 1955 to 1990, and a pioneer in founding senior centers, died at his Colorado home in Fort Collins on Good Friday, April 10. He was 85 years old.

Reverend Helmers was {read more...}

The Brooklyn-born actor and comedian Dom DeLuise has died at the age of 75. The large and lovable actor passed away in his sleep in a hospital in Los Angeles, according to published reports.

DeLuise was born on Aug. 1, 1933, in Brooklyn, the son of John and Vincenza DeLuise. His father worked for the New York Sanitation Department. His childhood was spent in the Bensonhurst neighborhood, though he graduated from the High School {read more...}

Originally from Atlanta, she moved to Brooklyn to join her new husband Richard {read more...}