Obituaries for 2022

[jmyrlefuller]

Her Christmas records will likely stand as her longest and most enduring contribution to popular music.

[rustynail]

Colin Flaherty 66, the author of books  White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America,  'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

[mountaineer]

Colin Flaherty 66, the author of books  White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America,  'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

Thanks, I was going to post this and didn't get around to it. I followed him on Tw*tter. He spoke an uncomfortable truth.

[jmyrlefuller]

R. Dean Taylor, Canadian singer who found fame in the USA with “Indiana Wants Me,” dies at 82.

https://bestclassicbands.com/r-dean-taylor-obituary-indiana-wants-me-1-13-22/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J1-S4QNsaFE

[jmyrlefuller]

Legendary Nashville songwriter Dallas Frazier dies at 82.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/dallas-frazier-writer-of-elvira-and-so-many-more-has-died/

[Polly Ticks]

Legendary Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall dies at 93


LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) - A Kentucky basketball legend is no longer with us.

According to UK, legendary head coach Joe B. Hall died Saturday morning.


https://www.wave3.com/2022/01/15/legendary-kentucky-coach-joe-b-hall-dies-93/

[jmyrlefuller]

Ralph Emery, Nashville broadcaster who brought country music to a national audience in the 1970s and 1980s, dies at 88.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/remembering-ralph-emery-country-musics-preeminent-broadcaster-rip/

[mountaineer]

Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee Dies at 102
Sunday, 16 January 2022 05:27 PM
Newsmax

Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the age of 102, his family said in a statement.

McGee, who flew 409 combat missions spanning World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, died in his sleep Sunday morning, a family spokesperson said. "He had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely," his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee said in a statement released by the spokesperson.

"Today, we lost an America hero," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Twitter. "While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy and his character. Rest in Peace, General."  ...


 

[Smokin Joe]

Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee Dies at 102
Sunday, 16 January 2022 05:27 PM
Newsmax

Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the age of 102, his family said in a statement.

McGee, who flew 409 combat missions spanning World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, died in his sleep Sunday morning, a family spokesperson said. "He had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely," his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee said in a statement released by the spokesperson.

"Today, we lost an America hero," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Twitter. "While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy and his character. Rest in Peace, General."  ...


 

[GtHawk]

Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee Dies at 102
Sunday, 16 January 2022 05:27 PM
Newsmax

Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the age of 102, his family said in a statement.

McGee, who flew 409 combat missions spanning World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, died in his sleep Sunday morning, a family spokesperson said. "He had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely," his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee said in a statement released by the spokesperson.

"Today, we lost an America hero," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Twitter. "While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy and his character. Rest in Peace, General."  ...


 

102, that's a hell of a good run and now he's joining back up with the squad. God Bless and RIP Sir!

[Free Vulcan]

Legendary Platters singer Sonny Turner dies at 82

Sonny Turner was a master showman who recited the Platters’ hits with classic eloquence.

“My father had the gift of singing songs as if he were singing directly to you,” Turner’s daughter Kyle Tolliver-Jordan said Friday morning. “The lyrics in those classic songs were like poetry.”

The last link to the legendary R&B vocal group the Platters to headline in Las Vegas, Sonny Turner died Thursday at his daughter’s home in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. He was 82.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/legendary-platters-singer-sonny-turner-dies-at-82-2513048/

[Free Vulcan]

Fred Parris, “In the Still of the Night” Songwriter and Five Satins Frontman, Dies at 85

Fred Parris, frontman for The Five Satins, the doo-wop group whose smash 1956 ballad “In the Still of the Night” became an enduring standard and was prominently used in movies including Dirty Dancing and The Irishman, died Thursday after a brief illness. He was 85.

“I never expected it to have so much of an impact,” Parris told the New Haven Register in 2014. “I didn’t know if they were going to listen to it 15 minutes later, let alone 50 years.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/fred-parris-dead-five-satins-1235075668/

[Smokin Joe]

R.I.P. TO both Sonny Turner and Fred Parris, and thank you for the beautiful music!

Still on my playlists...

[Gefn]

Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee Dies at 102
Sunday, 16 January 2022 05:27 PM
Newsmax

Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the age of 102, his family said in a statement.

McGee, who flew 409 combat missions spanning World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, died in his sleep Sunday morning, a family spokesperson said. "He had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely," his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee said in a statement released by the spokesperson.

"Today, we lost an America hero," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Twitter. "While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy and his character. Rest in Peace, General."  ...


 

Rest In Peace, Sir. 

[GtHawk]

This seems appropriate for Brigadier General Charles McGee, this was read at my FIL's funeral he was a WWII pilot also.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God

[Kamaji]

This seems appropriate for Brigadier General Charles McGee, this was read at my FIL's funeral he was a WWII pilot also.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God

[EdinVA]

This seems appropriate for Brigadier General Charles McGee, this was read at my FIL's funeral he was a WWII pilot also.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God

John Gillespie Magee’s ‘High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy)’
https://interestingliterature.com/2019/12/analysis-john-gillespie-magee-high-flight-an-airmans-ecstasy/#:~:text=%E2%80%98High%20Flight%20%28An%20Airman%E2%80%99s%20Ecstasy%29%E2%80%99%20is%20the%20one,who%20served%20in%20the%20Royal%20Canadian%20Air%20Force.

[Wingnut]

Pioneering Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee Dies at 102
Sunday, 16 January 2022 05:27 PM
Newsmax

Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decorated pilots, died on Sunday at the age of 102, his family said in a statement.

McGee, who flew 409 combat missions spanning World War Two, Korea and Vietnam, died in his sleep Sunday morning, a family spokesperson said. "He had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely," his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee said in a statement released by the spokesperson.

"Today, we lost an America hero," Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Twitter. "While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy and his character. Rest in Peace, General."  ...


 

RIP General.

[Kamaji]

That guy just impresses me every time I see him or read about him.

[mystery-ak]

So was mine...B-17's

[Cyber Liberty]

So was mine...B-17's

I had one of those fly over me back in Chandler.  I have to think a while before I can adequately describe it.  They are.....loud....

[Kamaji]

I had one of those fly over me back in Chandler.  I have to think a while before I can adequately describe it.  They are.....loud....

"Loud" doesn't quite do it justice.  They have a sky-filling volume that rattles one's teeth and simply won't be denied.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Is this the only place for reporting/discussing deaths @Cyber Liberty ?

Thanks.

[Wingnut]

Is this the only place for reporting/discussing deaths @Cyber Liberty ?

Thanks.

When Biden goes it can go in "Breaking News"  j/s

[GtHawk]

So was mine...B-17's

My FIL was very fortunate, talented and capable he trained pilots for the B-17 and when I say fortunate it's because he was both well liked and an excellent instructor so that he spent his enlistment here in the states. Still I think that came back to bite him, one flight they were out in New Mexico when they saw a huge flash in the sky and flew over to look. I still think flying threw the radiation from that blast is what brought on the cancers that ended his life.