For many years, Jack Poloka worked 9 to 5 as an administrative manager for Equitable Gas. But it was what he did after his day job that really mattered. (Yesterday)

Actor Fess Parker, who became every baby boomer's idol in the 1950s and launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. (Yesterday)

Sir Kenneth Dover, an eminent scholar of ancient Greek life, language and literature who became known for his willingness to break longstanding taboos in print, from his frank descriptions of sexual behavior (both the Greeks' and his own) to his baldly stated desire to bring about the death of a vexing Oxford colleague, died March 7 in Cupar, Scotland. He was 89. (Yesterday)

Francis R. Lynch, a Baldwin Borough businessman and volunteer firefighter who was instrumental in starting the borough's emergency medical service, died Sunday. (03/18/2010)

As recently as this fall, 73-year-old Paul Garlitz Jr. was throwing flags, calling penalties and running all over Western Pennsylvania's high school football fields with able-bodied teenagers. (03/17/2010)