Ben and Celia's father, Raphael Littauer died on 10/19/2009. His obituary can be found at the Ithaca Journal. There is a guest book there as well, and we fervently request that visitors contribute any stories about our "Papa" that they might have.
The obituary itself is not particularly well formatted on the Ithaca Journal site; if you want to see a somewhat more readable version, it's here.