“She was playful, inventive, and creative,” her children said in a tribute.

His publicist Carleen Donovan said Monday that Stone died in Los Angeles surrounded by family after contending with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other ailments.

“What I love is that I’m a Philly guy," he said in 2002, "and I get to work in my town, live in my town, and go to bed each night in my town.”

“He leaves a deep legacy of commitment to uplifting civic causes in Philadelphia,” his family said in a tribute. His son Eugene said: “He had a way of bringing people together."

She sold products for Fashion Fair Cosmetics, a groundbreaking brand for darker skin tones, at Gimbels for 25 years and excelled at interacting with people .

He was executive director of Awbury Arboretum for a decade and helped establish the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership in 2005.

He served as acting chairman of the biology department from 1984 through 1986 and was an expert on neurochemistry, environmental toxicology, fatty acids, sensory systems of insects, and other topics.

She belonged to book clubs, read a book every month for years, and she and her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority colleagues established an annual African American Read-In at the Willingboro Public Library.

He combined his knowledge of bodybuilding, elite athletic ability, and engaging people skills to excel as a popular strength training coach.

She was an expert in Spanish and Latin American music and piano pedagogy, and she taught piano in Temple’s Department of Keyboard Studies in the Boyer College of Music and Dance for 50 years.

He was the first in his family to attend college and work as an attorney, and he spent 38 years handling cases in state and federal court for two prestigious Philadelphia law firms.

She joined Penn in 1982 and worked in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and later with clients referred from private medical groups.

Mr. Harmelin had a hand in creating the Barnes Foundation, the Convention Center, and the National Constitution Center, among other institutions.

As a teacher and administrator, she was known for her student-centered approach to learning and warm personality.

He won an oratory competition in high school by examining religion as an empirical science, and a fellow pastor said: “His sermons lived and breathed.”