(Read award-winning obits on the SPOW Obituaries page.)

 

Gerry Hostetler (Charlotte Observer) (People's Pick winner)

Clay and Tracy shared big heart, a gift for dance

 

Joe Simnacher (Dallas Morning News)

Ray "Thunder" Stern: Wrestler who owned several fitness centers

 

Amy Rabideau Silvers (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Murray led early efforts for gay rights

 

Casey McNerthney (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Agatha 'Pete' Doman: At 79, she bopped a Brewer to protect her beloved M's

 

Stephanie Hayes (St. Petersburg Times)

She'll always be the first strawberry queen

 

Larken Bradley (West Marin Citizen)

Phil Frank, “Farley” cartoonist and Bolinas historian, dies at 64

 

Michael Currie Schaffer (Obit Magazine)

Moneypenny, the Actress and the Archetype

 

Kimberly Matas (Arizona Daily Star)

Cuts, scrapes? Sure, but Nurse Vonda mended hearts, too

 

Jay Levin (The Record - Bergen County, N.J.)

A Life: Linn Pierson, 1946-2007 Wild birds lose feather-ruffling friend

 

Heather Lende (Chilkat Valley News - Haines, Alaska)

Hazel Nelson

 

Dick Polman (Obit Magazine)

Lisa Richette, An Uncommon Judge

 

Casey Lessard (Grand Bend Strip - Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada)

Restore Us

 

Bruce Rheins (The CBS Evening News)

Merv Griffin Dies

 

Alana Baranick (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Free spirit let music guide him