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Riggio, who died Aug. 27, launched Project Home Again, which helped New Orleans families obtain homes after Hurricane Katrina. A celebration of his life will be held in New York.

Dr. Nia Terezakis, a New Orleans dermatologist who was a mentor to two generations of women physicians who specialize in treating skin conditions, died Thursday of cancer at Lambeth House, her stepdaughter, Karen Gundlach, said. She was 90.

Marigold “Margot” McNeely, who warned British cities of German air attacks during World War II, died Sept. 12 in her Covington home. She was 98.

While the expressway would have alleviated French Quarter traffic, it also would have cut off pedestrian access to the river from Jackson Square.

The life of Sybil Haydel Morial, an activist and university administrator who was the wife of one New Orleans mayor and the mother of another, will be celebrated in a

"Sybil Haydel Morial is a giant in New Orleans history, and I know the entire city mourns her passing," former Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a statement Wednesday. "Few women have played such an outsized role in the recent history of New Orleans."

He enjoyed a 43-year career in the food-service industry in New Orleans.

Edward Douglas Johnson Jr., a founder of a New Orleans-based investment banking firm who enjoyed spending his workdays in the middle of the nonstop buzz of the trading desk, died Wednesday at Ochsner Medical Center. He was 81.

Vernon Shorty, who for more than three decades ran a center in the Desire public housing complex that treated hundreds of people suffering from a range of addiction-related problems, died Tuesday at Tulane Medical Center of complications from a stroke. He was 69.

Social worker Shannon Coyne poses for a portrait with her 11-month-old son in Philadelphia. Coyne and her husband decided against circumcision for their son. The nation's most influential pediatricians group