The civil rights and education champion Bob Moses has died at 86. “He’s on the Mount Rushmore of civil rights activists,” one local leader said Sunday.

Former mayor Francis H. Duehay died Friday of complications from leukemia. He was elected to 14 terms on the City Council, starting in 1971, and served as mayor three times in a career in city politics that spanned 36 years before a 2000 retirement from public service.

A Somerville doctor with ties to Harvard and the Cambridge Health Alliance, and on the brink of announcing a local Center for Immigrant Health Research, died Nov. 3 after being hit by a car.

Cambridge Rindge and Latin School alum Na-Jae Josephs, 20, was killed Saturday in a hit-and-run accident in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey.

The death of developer Rich McKinnon was announced late Wednesday on a neighborhood email list. He was 73, and felled by a heart attack, according to the email.

Internationally renowned executive chef Leon West, inducted into the African American Chef’s Hall of Fame and honored as a Cambridge Black Trailblazer, died Aug. 21 at age 74.

The Friends of Cambridge Rindge & Latin School would like to share an appreciation of Christopher Saheed, who as principal of the high school helped the nonprofit organization gets its start – and now lives on through the Dr. Christopher Saheed Future Educators Scholarship.

Although Lillian Siagel didn’t live at Neville Place for the last two months of her life, the assisted living center with ties to city government continued to collect thousands for rent and services such as laundry. Repeated requests by the family for “an accounting” went unanswered.

Michael Pavelecky, 71, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, born March 6, 1949, passed away March 17, 2020. A celebration of his life will be held at a date and time to be announced.

Pro catcher and decorated serviceman George Yankowski, one of the 625 retired Major League Baseball players not receiving a league pension, died Feb. 25 at age 97. He was willing to die for us, but a group with $3.5 billion in the bank repaid him with a few thousands bucks.