Cheryl Bland knew that she and her husband, Lael, as well as their three kids — daughters Kaela, 15, and India, 8, and their 12-year-old son, Branford — couldn't take their health for granted.
Laurence Urdang, a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books, died on Thursday in Branford, Conn. He was 81 and lived in Old Lyme, Conn.