Brian McIntyre, 42, Former News Channel 5 Reporter

The former news anchor who lived in Cleveland Heights died at age 42 after battling cancer.

Scene: Paul Gurgol, 55, Co-Founder of Kalliope Stage

The Cleveland theater director was getting ready to direct "Avenue Q" at Cain Park this summer

Scene Magazine reported Wednesday that Cleveland theater director Paul Gurgol passed away Saturday. Gurgol co-founded Kalliope Stage in Cleveland Heights, and was getting ready to direct Avenue Q this summer at Cain Park, according to the article. He also directed Sweeney Todd at the park in 2010. A mass for Gurgol, 55, is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at St. John’s Cathedral downtown, 1007 Superior Ave. To read the full article, click here.

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Cleveland Heights Police Department Mourns Loss of First Woman Officer

Susan Jane Calihan was the first woman officer when she joined the force in 1975

There are now 10 women out of 108 officers on the Cleveland Heights Police Department. But back in 1975, there was just one. Susan Jane Calihan, who died of pneumonia in early March, joined the force after graduating from John Carroll University. Being a police officer was originally just going to be a job, a way to earn money for law school. “You think about a 22-year-old female coming into a police department, where at the time in 1975, was staffed by a lot of veteran policeman, older guys … anybody coming onto a police department, you’re going to be a little bit intimidated,” said Police Chief Jeffrey Robertson, who met her on his first day in 1978. “I just can’t imagine what she felt like coming on the job as the first female.” But she…

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Herbert Schlosser, 85, Retired CSU Professor

Services for the Cleveland Heights man will be at the Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel

UPDATE: Beachwood Resident, Mother Raise Over $130K for Cancer Research

Mother's bout with cancer inspired Sarah Keil Chernoff's volunteerism

In June, Morris, NJ, Patch writer Todd Cohen shared the inspiring story of Beachwood resident Sarah Keil Chernoff with Beachwood Patch. In the nine months since finding out her mother had pancreatic cancer, Chernoff, her mother Wendy Keil and other members of her family raised $130,000 through PurpleStride walks around the country to fund cancer research. On Tuesday, Wendy Keil died. However, Cohen writes, her legacy lives on. Read more at Morris Patch.

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Dr. Bernadine Healy Loop, Who Led National Institutes of Health, American Red Cross and More, Died Saturday at 67

The Gates Mills resident and wife of former Cleveland Clinic CEO Floyd D. Loop wrote a book about her journey with brain cancer.

Dr. Bernadine Healy Loop, the first woman to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health and past president of the American Red Cross, died Saturday, Aug. 6, at age 67. The Gates Mills resident wrote a memoir about her experience with brain cancer titled The Living Time: Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey in 2007. She was named Cleveland Clinic head of research in 1985, NIH director in 1991, Ohio State University college of medicine dean in 1995, American Heart Association president in 1998 and Red Cross CEO in 1999. In 1994, she ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, losing in the primary to Mike DeWine. Healy, who had been a science and technology adviser to President Ronald Reagan…

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Rev. Robert W. Kline, Who Served at St. Ann Church More Than 50 Years Ago, Died Friday

Kline, pastor at the Mentor church St. John Vianney from 1969 to 1998, died Friday at the parish

The Rev. Robert W. Kline, 88, founding pastor of St. John Vianney Catholic Church, died at 10:45 a.m. Friday at the parish, according to Robert Tayek, communications director for the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Kline, who was pastor emeritus in residence at the church in recent years, was assigned to assist in establishing the parish to serve Catholics in Mentor and northern Willoughby at the end of 1969. He served the congregation until retiring in January 1998. Calling hours are 1-3 and 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, at McMahon-Coyne-Vitantonio Funeral Home, 6330 Center St., Mentor. Vespers are set for 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, followed by viewing until 9 p.m. at St. John Vianney, 7575 Bellflower Road, Mentor, where funeral Mass will be …

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Eric Wright, Organist and Vocalist with Wright Family Singers, Dies at 46

He performed with the Heights High Gospel Choir and served as minister of music at Mt. Zion Oakwood Village

Eric Wright, minister of music at Mt. Zion Oakwood Village, grew up making music with the Wright Family Singers, led by his mother, internationally known gospel singer Willie Mae Wright. He also participated in the choir and played drums, bass, piano and organ at Greater Metropolitan Church in Cleveland, where his late father, Willie J., was pastor. The Cleveland Heights resident died June 3 at age 46 as the result of a motorcycle accident in Cleveland, his family said. “Eric was born a gifted child,” his sister Sandra said. “He never formally studied music. He played by ear. Little commercials he would hear, he’d try to find the tune on the piano.” His gift, along with his reputation as a top-notch musician, developed. “Then he discovered…

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Ryan Torgerson, World Champion Rower and CHHS Graduate, Dies at Age 38

The former Cleveland Heights High School football player won three world championship medals as a member of the U.S. National Rowing Team

Ryan Patrick Torgerson, 38, a former Cleveland Heights High School football player and Ironman award recipient, won three world championship medals as a member of the U.S. National Rowing Team. USRowing, recognized as the governing body for the sport of rowing in the United States by the United States Olympic Committee, reported that Torgerson died unexpectedly and suddenly on May 30 at his home in Wauconda, IL, outside of Chicago. Peter Cipollone, a member of the national rowing team, remembers Torgerson, known to many as “Torgy,” for his nearly white blond crewcut and high voice for a guy who was around 6'4" and 220 pounds. “But most of all, it was how he was this rare combination of good humor and tenacity,” Cipollone said in an emailed…

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Eugene 'Gene' Myslenski, 95, Former Principal of Cleveland Heights and Lakewood High Schools

He was a football star at Western Reserve University in the mid-1930s

Eugene “Gene” W. Myslenski, a Western Reserve University football star of the 1930s who died April 25 at age 95, served as principal at Cleveland Heights High School in the late 1960s and Lakewood High School in the 1970s. Myslenski, a graduate of East High School in Cleveland, was an All-Big Four guard for the Western Reserve Red Cats before graduating from WRU in 1938. He later served as an assistant coach for his alma mater and longtime secretary of the Case-Reserve Athletic Club. He was inducted into the Case Western Reserve Varsity Athletics Hall of Fame in 1978. The World War II Army veteran coached and taught many student-athletes and belonged to numerous sports and education-related associations over the years. Myslenski was …

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3:33 pm on Thursday, April 28, 2011

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