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Diane Carlson Evans, a former Army nurse, spent years championing military women. She died of a rare cancer linked to Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide.

“It was a simple idea,” Diane Carlson Evans recalled, marveling at how a project that should have taken no more than two years, in her estimation, required nearly a decade

Carlo Petrini, who has died at 76, founded the organization Slow Food while championing access to “good, clean and fair food.”

At his family’s Chicago funeral home, Spencer Leak Jr. handled Jesse Jackson’s services and helped families who were unable to pay. He died in May at 56.

Spencer Leak Jr. got the text message around 1:30 a.m. at his home in Chicago's south suburbs. The Rev.

The Post is publishing short essays about everyday but extraordinary people and the legacies they’ve left behind.

A veteran pilot and air safety investigator, she dreamed of space for six decades before Jeff Bezos invited her to join him on a Blue Origin rocket.

When Wally Funk was 5, she donned a Superman cape and leaped from the roof of her family's barn in New Mexico, dreaming of flight and landing in a haystack.

Mary-Dell Chilton, who has died at 87, led a team credited with developing the first genetically modified plant.

Sam Neill, a New Zealand actor who brought a quiet intensity to art-house fare and Hollywood blockbusters alike, including films such as “The Piano” and “Jurassic Park,” died July 13. He was 78.