Obituaries for 2019

[EasyAce]

RIP, Night Tripper . . .


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[TomSea]

Rest in peace, he was also used often as a reference about rock and roll.  Often quoted.

[truth_seeker]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John#Battle_with_addiction

Became a big time fan,  after he appeared several times on Midnight Special.


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[Sanguine]

Another one of my favorites by Dr. John is a Louis Jordan tune, called "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't" with BB King.


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[dfwgator]

Another one of my favorites by Dr. John is a Louis Jordan tune, called "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't" with BB King.

 

Yeah, but nothing will ever top the Tom and Jerry version.

[Sanguine]

Yeah, but nothing will ever top the Tom and Jerry version.

 

[jmyrlefuller]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John#Battle_with_addiction

Became a big time fan,  after he appeared several times on Midnight Special.


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Awesome find. Thanks for the share.

[mountaineer]

Body found in home confirmed to be missing Mouseketeer Dennis Day
By Joshua Rhett Miller
June 7, 2019 | 9:48am

A body found at the Oregon home of an original member of Disney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” has been confirmed to be former Mouseketeer Dennis Day, state police and relatives said.

Day, 76, who was among the show’s original cast of child actors in the 1950s, was reported missing in July by his husband, Ernie Caswell, who was hospitalized at the time and suffers from memory loss, the Oregonian reports.

A body was then found in April at Day’s home in Phoenix, Oregon, and state police confirmed Thursday that a medical examiner’s office has identified the remains as the missing man, who “uncharacteristically” left his dog with a friend prior to his disappearance, according to missing persons reports. ...

Full story

[GrouchoTex]

Oh, no!  One of my favorites.  I saw him with White Trash many years ago. 

A tribute to Dr. John:

That makes sense, since the Winter Bros and Mac were from Beaumont.
Later when Johnny Winter started making blues records on the Alligator label, Dr. John was on a few of his songs.

[TomSea]

Body found in home confirmed to be missing Mouseketeer Dennis Day
By Joshua Rhett Miller
June 7, 2019 | 9:48amFull story

Prayers for Dennis Day as well. I do remember I'd watch him on the Jack Benny show.


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[EasyAce]

Prayers for Dennis Day as well. I do remember I'd watch him on the Jack Benny show.

Not the same Dennis Day. Not even a relative. Doing our homework is our friend.

[dfwgator]

Not the same Dennis Day. Not even a relative. Doing our homework is our friend.

The other Dennis Day passed away in 1988.

[EasyAce]

The other Dennis Day passed away in 1988.

Of Lou Gehrig's disease, no less, the poor man.

[jmyrlefuller]

Not the same Dennis Day. Not even a relative. Doing our homework is our friend.

Was gonna say: that Dennis Day (a/k/a Gene McNulty) was a little older than that (despite Mr. Benny's protests to the contrary)!

[EasyAce]

Was gonna say: that Dennis Day (a/k/a Gene McNulty) was a little older than that (despite Mr. Benny's protests to the contrary)!

Well, if Jack Benny could be 39 years old for about the last 49 years of his life, why couldn't the first Dennis Day be a naive late-teenage mama's boy for the middle thirty years of his life? 

[TomSea]

The other day, that former Arkansas woman Senator was found dead, I'm just haring about this.

Another Former Republican State Senator Found Shot Dead at Home Former Oklahoma state Sen. Jonathan Nichols found dead with gunshot wound By: Jay Greenberg |@NeonNettle on 7th June 2019

A second former Republican state senator has been found dead at home from a gunshot within a span of two days. 53-year-old Former Oklahoma GOP state Sen. Jonathan Nichols was found dead inside his home in Norman on Wednesday night from an apparent gunshot wound, according to police. Investigators are working with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the exact cause and manner of death.

READ MORE: https://neonnettle.com/news/7735-another-former-republican-state-senator-found-shot-dead-at-home
© Neon Nettle

[Sanguine]

Acclaimed 'Star Trek' artist Keith Birdsong dies



Oklahoma artist Keith Birdsong, whose realistic likenesses of “Star Trek” actors made him one of the world’s most in-demand Trek illustrators, died Tuesday. He was 59.

Birdsong was born July 14, 1959, in Muskogee, where he spent much of his childhood. He had a residence in Tulsa at the time of his death.

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Birdsong’s body of work includes hundreds of illustrations linked to the “Star Trek” franchise, including posters, book covers and collector plates. But he also was hired to provide likenesses of Elvis Presley and others for the U.S. Postal service. Some of his works are in the Smithsonian Institution, including a likeness of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

https://www.tulsaworld.com/entertainment/acclaimed-star-trek-artist-keith-birdsong-dies/article_54434878-5585-5a8a-91e9-91ec8870a1e5.html

He was way too young.

[jmyrlefuller]

Tony Rodham
Hillary Clinton's younger brother dies at 64

A college dropout and lifelong grunt, Rodham held jobs such as process server, repo man, private investigator and political operative. Largely surviving on political incest and nepotism, her sister Hillary married Bill Clinton while he married the daughter of senator Barbara Boxer; he benefited largely from cronyism and favors from his well-connected family members.

No cause of death was stated.

Obituary from CBS News

Wikipedia

[Wingnut]

Tony Rodham
Hillary Clinton's younger brother dies at 64

A college dropout and lifelong grunt, Rodham held jobs such as process server, repo man, private investigator and political operative. Largely surviving on political incest and nepotism, her sister Hillary married Bill Clinton while he married the daughter of senator Barbara Boxer; he benefited largely from cronyism and favors from his well-connected family members.

No cause of death was stated.

Poor guy.  A younger sibling should out live their olders.  May Hillary pass away soon to make up for his passing so early.  Hell is waiting for her

[TomSea]

W.E.B. Griffin

I went back to February, he passed on Feb. 12, 2019, I saw no mention of this, this fellow was a fairly prolific writer of ? military and police novels? I know I have one of his books, "Close Combat" which isn't suppose to be one of his best.  I saw a picture of him with Gingrich too.

W.E.B. Griffith



It appears his series on the Marine Corps was well-received.



It's a bit strange that this one got my us, this is when one of the obits touched on Ballantine books. Maybe someone posted it about a week after.

[sneakypete]

W.E.B. Griffin

I went back to February, he passed on Feb. 12, 2019, I saw no mention of this, this fellow was a fairly prolific writer of ? military and police novels? I know I have one of his books, "Close Combat" which isn't suppose to be one of his best.  I saw a picture of him with Gingrich too.

W.E.B. Griffith



It appears his series on the Marine Corps was well-received.



It's a bit strange that this one got my us, this is when one of the obits touched on Ballantine books. Maybe someone posted it about a week after.

@TomSea

NOBODY wrote better novels about the military than WEB Griffin. His books about the US Army that start before WW-2 and go though to the Muddle East were so well thought-of that he was made an honorary member of the Special Operations Association. At least some of his characters are composite characters of real men that served.

His series about the USMC (The Corps)  that began in pre-WW-2 China is a must-read series,too.

I honestly think I have read every book he has ever written,and was prepared to buy more.

He ranks right up there with Louis L'Amour as a writer,and I don't give praise higher than that.

[jmyrlefuller]

Pat Bowlen
Owner of the Denver Broncos dies at 75



Bowlen, born into wealth through his father's oil company, owned the Denver Broncos from 1984 until his death. During his tenure his Broncos appeared in seven Super Bowls, three of them wins, and was one of the winningest teams in the NFL during that span. He is credited with nurturing a family atmosphere, maintaining close ties with Broncos alumni, including selling a portion of the team to his longtime starting quarterback John Elway after Elway's retirement.

Bowlen had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for approximately nine years prior to his death at age 75 on June 13. He died a month before he was to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. An estate fight is expected, as Bowlen was unsure of which of his children would want to inherit the team, and two of them (both daughters) have stepped forward; in the meantime, the team will be held in trust by Elway and CEO Joe Ellis.

Obituary from the Denver Post

Wikipedia

[TomSea]

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli has died aged 96, Italian media report.

The Florence native directed stars including Elizabeth Taylor in the 1967 film Taming of the Shrew and Dame Judi Dench on stage in Romeo and Juliet.

Italian media said Zeffirelli died after a long illness which had grown worse in recent months.

The two-time Oscar nominee also served in the Italian senate for two terms as a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278

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Directed  The Champ with John Voight. I think I saw it and liked it but I don't remember a lot about it now. Also, directed "Taming of the Shrew" and "Romeo and Juliet"(1968) and "Jesus of Nazareth" per link.

[Applewood]

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Directed  The Champ with John Voight. I think I saw it and liked it but I don't remember a lot about it now. Also, directed "Taming of the Shrew" and "Romeo and Juliet"(1968) and "Jesus of Nazareth" per link.

I saw Romeo and Juliet as a teenager.  For us kids it was the in movie to see  at the time.  Leonard Whiting (Romeo) was a hunk and the girls went crazy over him.  The film itself was ok -- more of a modern retelling of the story, which didn't go over well with purists.  The film did win a few awards.

Rest in peace, Mr. Zefferelli 

[Sanguine]

Fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt, the only daughter of a railroad magnate and heiress to industrialist has died at age 95
Gloria Vanderbilt died at age 95, her son Anderson Cooper revealed on Monday. Cooper said he took Vanderbilt to the hospital several weeks earlier, where she learned she had severe stomach cancer.
http://inbox.foxnews.com/t?r=6053&c=616&l=1&ctl=E6C:EBD0A72B6E305F1ECEDF8111EBC210A01CEE7F7F70D81760&