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Jon Wool, who spent 12 years in New Orleans working to improve the criminal-justice system, died Dec. 18 at New York University’s hospice center in Brooklyn. He was 67.

Michael Carbine, whose attention to the tiniest details in the houses he restored won him a long list of grateful well-heeled clients, died Sunday at Ochsner Medical Center of complications

Dr. Kurt Gitter, an innovator in eye surgery who amassed and donated a vast collection of Japanese art, died Wednesday at Touro Infirmary. He was 89.

David A. Kerstein, a soft-spoken lawyer, oil-company executive and philanthropist, does whatever he can to make all kinds of art accessible to any and all people, and to preserve the New Orleans institutions that make that possible.

Mark Fredric Fernandez, a history professor who was equally at home in the classroom and on the bandstand at local music clubs, died Tuesday of brain cancer at his New Orleans home, his family confirmed. He was 67.

Michael Fawer, a lawyer known for his outspoken advocacy on behalf of such high-profile clients as former Gov. Edwin W.

David Cuthbert, who wrote about entertainment for decades and never lost his enthusiasm for all kinds of show business, died Thursday at Passages Hospice in New Orleans. He was 79.

Raymond Bowie, a self-taught Mardi Gras parade artist who for a half-century used vibrant color combinations and an innate sense of design to turn

Her determination and leadership helped save New Orleans’ symphony orchestra.

Richard West Freeman, Jr., a civic leader and business executive who ran Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and in retirement became a successful horse breeder, died Wednesday at Lambeth House in New Orleans. He was 88.