Obituaries
The latest Obituaries coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our News section.
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Bobby Bowden, folksy coach of Florida State football dynasty, dies at 91
Bobby Bowden did it all, leaving a legacy as a top-notch college football coach and human being that won't be forgotten.
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Kool & the Gang co-founder Dennis Thomas dead at age 70
Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, a founding member of the long-running soul-funk band Kool & the Gang known for such hits as "Celebration" and "Get Down On It," has died. He was 70.
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Ron Popeil was the sizzle of American ingenuity, personified
Come, young ones: Gather around the glow of the smartphone's screen for a tale of a distant time when we watched TV on big boxy machines, and switched channels when we were bored.
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Wiedmer: A male guardian angel named Daisy
The pain in former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfing great Derek Rende's voice late Tuesday afternoon was obvious, yet sadly familiar.
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Wiedmer: Amazing Grace Keith a Hall of Famer in every way
It was the summer of 1974. Beverly Narrimore had just graduated from Hixson High School and was working in her parents' bait and tackle shop, selling worms, when she got a phone call from Grace Keith.
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Biz Markie, known for classic rap song ‘Just a Friend,’ dies
Biz Markie, a hip-hop staple known for his beatboxing prowess, turntable mastery and the 1989 classic "Just a Friend," has died. He was 57.
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Chattanooga activist Sherman Matthews remembered as drum major for social justice
The life and legacy of longtime Chattanooga community activist Sherman Matthews, who died earlier this month at 73, will be celebrated Saturday.
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UTC women’s basketball pioneer Grace Keith dies
A member of both the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame and the UTC Athletics Hall of Fame, Grace Keith coached the team known then as the Mocettes for two seasons, doing so after she had already retired two years earlier from coaching high school girls' basketball for Hixson.
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Family, friends share memories of ‘amazing’ Chattanoogan who died in Florida building collapse
Former Chattanoogan Judy Spiegel was laid to rest in a Miami cemetery Tuesday, 20 days since her home at the Champlain Towers South condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, abruptly collapsed and took her life along with nearly 100 other confirmed victims.
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Former Chattanoogan Judy Spiegel’s family on condo collapse: ‘We still don’t believe how this could happen’
Funeral services for former Chattanoogan Judy Spiegel - one of nearly 100 confirmed victims in last month's Surfside, Florida, condo collapse - will be held Tuesday morning in Miami.
