Obituary

María Amalia Revelo, Costa Rica's former Tourism Minster, died on Friday, May 14. She was 65.

Henrietta Boggs, the First Lady of the Revolution in Costa Rica, died earlier this month at 102.

Family, friends and Tico Times staff members remember owner and publisher Jonathan Harris.

MaryLu Tosi was ubiquitous on the Little Theatre Group stage during her years in Costa Rica.

Dean Hinton died at his home in Escazú after a long and distinguished diplomatic career.

Pop icon Prince -- one of the most influential but elusive figures in music -- died suddenly at his compound in Minnesota on Thursday, a representative said. He was 57.

Over and over, Phife Dawg went for big laughs by spilling his guts at the top of his lungs. There was so much generosity in that. Hearing about his bad days made ours better. "To top it off, Starks got ejected."

Phife Dawg, the high-pitched but street-smart rapper whose pioneering group A Tribe Called Quest brought a fresh artistic aesthetic to hip-hop, has died, a colleague said Wednesday. He was 45.

Eagles guitarist and founding member Glenn Frey, a U.S. rocker whose band dominated charts throughout the 1970s with hits such as "Hotel California," died Monday, the group said. Frey died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.

Twenty-year Costa Rica resident John Koger, the owner of bus-ticketing and travel service A Safe Passage, died of a heart attack on Nov. 9, 2015, at the age of 61.