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Zachary Ioerger, 28, died early Saturday in a crash with another car at the intersection of North Hillside and Douglas.

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Zach Ioerger put smiles on others' faces, professionally and personally

Zach Ioerger, a program manager for the American Dentists Care Foundation, will be remembered for his infectious smile — and his love for his daughter.

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Through carpet ads, Tom Jabara was a TV fixture. He donated time, money to help others

Thomas "Tom" Jabara, president of Jabara's Carpet Outlet in Wichita, was recognized by many for the discount business's local TV commercials. He died Wednesday after a four-year battle with cancer.

Kenton Cox of Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey Architecture shared drawings of what later became Wichita's Northeast Magnet High School in 2011. Cox, an architect with Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey, managed educational building projects in Kansas and elsewhere. He died Saturday.

Kenton Cox, an architect and partner at Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey, managed countless school building projects for area districts and was the face of the 2000 and 2008 bond issues in Wichita. He died Saturday at age 75.

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Renowned entrepreneur Leslie Rudd, 76, loved to combine history with innovation

Wichita native Leslie Rudd, who died Thursday at 76, was a creative force who relished history but was always looking ahead.

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Town prepares to welcome home Willard Aldridge, 76 years after his death at Pearl Harbor

The VFW post in Ashland is named for Willard Aldridge. Next month, the Pearl Harbor sailor's remains will be returned home for burial next to his family.

Danielle Dick encouraged the people she met to have their skin checked and to wear sunscreen. The 32-year-old wife and mother of three children died April 25 from metastatic melanoma.

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As she fought skin cancer, Goddard mom encouraged people to get their own skin checked

Goddard mother of three, 32, loses battle with skin cancer. To the end she encouraged people to always have their skin checked and to wear sunscreen.

Guy Munroe, first Kansan to head the Kaw Nation since 1873, stands outside the Kaw Indian Nation Tribal
Headquarters in Kaw City, Okla., in 2003.

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The first Kansan in 130 years to lead the Kaw Nation, Guy Munroe, dies

Guy Munroe was instrumental in leaving state of Kansas with a more complete Kaw Nation heritage. The Sedgwick County businessman led the Nation for 12 years.

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C. Patric Mitchell taught at Wichita State, rescued dogs and adored family

After student inquired why he didn't show up for class, WSU lecturer found dead in office.

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'Full Metal Jacket' actor Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey dies; actor had Kansas roots

World War II B-29 pilot honored at funeral with 'Doc' flyover

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World War II pilot Charles Chauncey often spoke to students about B-29 missions

Charles Chauncey flew deadly missions over Japan, came home after World War II, then spoke to area schools about his experiences as a B-29 pilot.

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Makeup artist Damen Page made people beautiful and doted on her young family

Wichita makeup artist and mother Damen Page encouraged others, made people beautiful, and doted on her husband and their three small children.

Linda Fair died Tuesday at the age of 77. Authorities credit her for bringing justice in a crime that had originally been ruled an accident.

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Remembering a social worker who couldn't forget a badly burned child

Linda Fair didn't believe a man's account of how his stepdaughter was burned, and her determination eventually led to his confession and conviction.

FILE -- Linda Brown at an event in Topeka, Kansas, on May 16, 2004, marking the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Brown, whose father objected when she was not allowed to attend an all-white school in her neighborhood and who thus came to symbolize one of the most transformative court proceedings in American history, the school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, died on March 25, 2018, in Topeka.

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Kansas girl at center of 1954 school segregation ruling dies

Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76.

Kathy Hull was an Eclectic Wiccan who performed life ceremonies for family and close friends.

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WSU employee Kathy Hull led moon dances, helped students discover works of art

Kathy Hull embraced different cultures, helped WSU students study art and left her own artistic and spiritual works of art throughout Wichita

Famed movie producer Spike Lee, left, and Arthur McAfee Jr. shared the love of basketball. Mr. McAfee was longtime coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta, with 518 career victories. He died March 7 in Atlanta.

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Morehouse’s legendary basketball coach Arthur McAfee Jr. had strong ties to Wichita

Arthur McAfee, Jr. grew up in Wichita, was a Wichita University graduate and went on to become Morehouse College’s winningest basketball coaches.

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An arranged marriage brought her to Wichita. Georgie Porgie brought her renown.

Kim Suey Wong scrimped, saved, and learned to invest while teaching her children the importance of striking fair business deals.

Karen Capps and her son, Mike. Karen Capps was killed Saturday in west Wichita when she pulled over to wait for a funeral procession to pass.

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She placed flowers on her father’s grave and pulled away. Then a van hit her SUV

Karen Capps lived her life taking care of others — her son and pets.

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Wichita college professor dies suddenly at 36

Suzanne Berg, mom, college professor and advocate of equal rights, had taught at Newman since 2013.

A customer looks through the plants at a Stutzmans near 13th and Tyler in 2013. Ervin Stutzman — who, along with his wife, Emma, started Stutzmans Greenhouse west of Hutchinson and ran the business until 1985 — died Friday.

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Ervin Stutzman, founder of Stutzmans greenhouse, nurtured gardeners’ dreams

Ervin Stutzman and his wife, Emma, started a garden center at Pleasantview, west of Hutchinson, with just two rows of onions

Cartoonist Mort Walker talks about his most famous character Beetle Bailey at a luncheon honoring him in El Dorado in 1994. Walker, who was born in El Dorado, died Saturday at the age of 94.

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Mort Walker, El Dorado native who created ‘Beetle Bailey,’ dies at 94

Mort Walker, who was born in El Dorado and created the legendary comic strip “Beetle Bailey,” died Saturday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. He was 94.

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