The obituaries published daily in the Butler Eagle usually list the accomplishments and interests of those individuals.These hundreds of obituaries, taken as a whole, reveal a wide range of Butler County residents who led interesting lives and who accomplished a great deal.Here is a snapshot of some of the people who died in 2009 in the county and the unique contributions they made.A list also appeared in Sunday's edition.———Butler native Victor K. "Vic" Oesterling Jr., 83, died May 31.He joined the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, South India, as chief of pharmacy in 1964, was a founding member of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry and was considered by many as the father of modern hospital pharmacy in India.———Edith P. McGrew, 94, of Center Township, who died June 12, was part of the first surviving set of triplets born in Butler County.———Helen M. Reott, 93, of Butler, died July 21. She was a foster parent for many years.———Phyllis J. Schawalder, 62, of Portersville died July 21.She was active in breast cancer programs and groups, took pride in the insurance laws that were changed and the research money she and members of these organizations won by lobbying in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. She was honored by the Butler Post Office for her work in getting the Breast Cancer Stamp introduced.———Cecil E. Bortmes, 88, of Fairview died Aug 6.When he was 65 years old, he pitched a no-hitter for the Moose Lodge and played ball until he was 70.———John R. "Jack" Crider Jr., 76, of Zelienople, formerly of Evans City, died Aug. 11.He was a founding member of the Evans City Midget Football League.———Butler native, Roger L. Cole, 73, of DeWitt, Iowa, died Aug. 31.An active member in the Baha'i faith, he pioneered the Baha'i faith to Rhodesia and Africa.———Anna Scott McLaughlin, 90, of Annapolis, Md., formerly of Butler, died Aug. 30;She was one of the first female bank managers and later vice presidents of a bank in Pennsylvania.———West Winfield native the Rev. Theodore Donald Gray, 87, formerly of New Kensington, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico, died Sept. 13.During his 60 years as a priest, he missioned in Puerto Rico, where he was the founding pastor of Our Lady of Grace Parish in Villa Prades, and became the first chaplain of the Air National Guard of Puerto Rico.———Charles K. Ridenour, 79, of Evans City, who died Sept. 20, provided a home to numerous foster children.———Marlene A. Shoop, 76, of Zelienople died Sept. 22.She crocheted more than 1,000 caps for the Caps for Kids program.———Helen A. Skunda Prokopchak, 87, of Lyndora died Sept 28.For more than a dozen years, she sewed the vestments for the altar boys at the St. John Roman Catholic Church.Along with her husband, Bill, she helped found the Lyndora midget football team.———Kay Walkup, 87, died Sept. 26 in Indianapolis, Ind.Some of her proudest work as a reporter involved her investigative reporting for the Butler Eagle on strip mines and their environmental impact.She established the first library in Saxonburg at the family home.———John "Jack" H. King, 79, of Butler died Oct. 9.An Army veteran, he served in the Korean War, where he was a prisoner-of-war and escapee. He was one of seven who survived out of his battalion.———Edward J. "Ed" Holleran, 93, formerly of Adams Township, died Oct. 14.In 1998, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame for having voted for 50 consecutive years.———Eric Knapp, 49, of Gibsonia died Oct. 19.His passion for golf brought him to the Sandy Hills Golf Course, which he transformed into the challenging 18-hole Pheasant Ridge Golf Club.———Richard M. McCandless, 60, of Cincinnati, formerly of Butler, died Oct. 26.While participating in the University of Cincinnati Cooperative Education Program, he worked with NASA during the Apollo missions and was one of the first people to see and work with the first moon rock samples.As a young Eagle Scout, he earned the Order of the Arrow for saving a boy from drowning at the Butler swimming pool.———Alvin Murchison, Ph.D., 82, of Evans City died Nov. 1.He was a Butler County Chess Champion.———Geraldine Ruth Specht Oxley, 79, died Nov. 24.Mrs. Oxley was an avid horsewoman and received awards in horsemanship. She also was a National Fly Casting Champion.———Joseph I. Waggoner Jr., 92, of Hampton Township died Dec. 9.A community developer and director of urban renewal for Butler County, he also worked for the U.S. State Department in Afghanistan, where he was an athletic director teaching sports and building goodwill.