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Dinah Faye Derby, 73, of Heritage Health in Dwight, Illinois, formerly of Murdock, Illinois, died Sept. 30 at Morris Hospital in Morris, Illinois. She was a secretary at the university.

Roy Lloyd Nugent, 90, of Champaign, died Oct. 31 at Amber Glen Alzheimer’s Special Care Center in Urbana. He was a building service worker. Memorials: The Honor Flight Network, Land of Lincoln Honor Flight, 57 Country Place, Springfield, IL 62703.

Klaus Schulten, 69, of Urbana, died Oct. 31 at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Schulten was a Swanlund Professor of Physics, the director for the National Institute of Health Center for Macromolecular Modeling at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the co-director of the National Science Foundation Center for the Physics of Living Cells. He was affiliated with the department of chemistry and the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology. His funeral is 10 a.m. Nov. 7 at St. John’s Catholic Newman Center, 604 E. Armory Ave., Champaign, followed by a reception to celebrate his life.
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Dorothy I. Tipton, 96, of Champaign, died Oct. 27 at the Illini Heritage Nursing Home in Champaign. She retired from the university as a secretary.

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