Obituaries for 2017

[Sanguine]

Chris Cornell was my favorite singer.  I've been listening to his music the last two days. He was a poet and wrote very dark lyrics. His wife is saying that he may have taken one or two more Ativan than usual, was slurring his words when they last spoke. He went to rehab in 2003 and was supposedly clean. Why the benzos? They are contraindicated in those who had problems with alcohol. He had three children that he leaves behind. 

"Like A Stone"


On a cob web afternoon,
 In a room full of emptiness
 By a freeway I confess
 I was lost in the pages of a book full of death;
 Reading how we'll die alone.
 And if we're good we'll lay to rest,
 Anywhere we want to go.

Whether with Soundgarten, Audioslave or solo, his voice was exquisite and "no one sings like you anymore." RIP, Chris.

We haven't seen you much lately, @austingirl.  Glad to see you now!

[Cripplecreek]

It doesn't kill the brain   It induces a seizure and like any other seizure it can take up to 24 hours for mental status to return to normal.   This is not for everyone but in the most refractory cases it can provide relief where little else has worked

I have a cousin who recently finished a round of electroshock therapy for depression.

We haven't been close because she's a militant lesbian and I think that may be a source of a lot of her problems. However having dealt with depression of my own for many years before beating it, my uncle has encouraged us to talk.

Like me she is an insomniac and is laying awake and being haunted by the sources of her pain. I embraced my insomnia and used it for positive creative time. I told her to find an interest outside the politics that upset her so much and throw herself into that.

[TomSea]

Well, I know someone from Seattle, they play a lot of grunge up there.

[Suppressed]

I love you @Mom MD and I respect you and admire you,but I humbly will disagree with you on this one topic and ask we can still be friends here.

I've never seen it work for anyone. If it has worked for someone, hurray. I. Believe Carrie Fisher said it helped her.

It's just I've never seen it work for anyone. 

I hope you still like me.

@Freya  @Mom MD

I had a good friend who was a psychiatrist (dual-boarded; also internal medicine) and I trust her word and judgment quite thoroughly.  She told me that even though ECT is a very violent and potentially damaging treatments, and as hesitant as she was to prescribe it, she had seen miraculous results at times.

She also thought that too often, broad-brush approaches are used in psychiatry these days, rather than using more targeted approaches.  She also suggested rTMS should be used more often.  It's too bad the USA (FDA) lags in approvals so far behind the modern world.

It's a dirty little secret that we still don't have answers in effectively treating everyone with depression.  But potential solutions are held up by our backwards system.  I'd love to see more work done with ketamine, for example, and other microdosing applications of psychoactives, as there's a lot of promise there, IMO.

[austingirl]

We haven't seen you much lately, @austingirl.  Glad to see you now!

I took a break after the election. Glad to be back.

[EC]

I took a break after the election. Glad to be back.

So you're smarter than me. 

Welcome back!

[austingirl]

So you're smarter than me. 

Welcome back!

Thanks!

[Gefn]

According to article in today's Rolling Stone Magazine, Chris Cornell's wife blames anxiety medicine for her husbands death.

  http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornells-wife-issues-statement-w483179

[austingirl]

According to article in today's Rolling Stone Magazine, Chris Cornell's wife blames anxiety medicine for her husbands death.

  http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornells-wife-issues-statement-w483179

That is why I asked why benzos in my post yesterday when he had a history of alcohol abuse. Why would he be anxious after a performance- I would think he would be exhausted. He was so talented and seemed very involved with his kids. Hard to understand why...so sad.

[Cyber Liberty]

That is why I asked why benzos in my post yesterday when he had a history of alcohol abuse. Why would he be anxious after a performance- I would think he would be exhausted. He was so talented and seemed very involved with his kids. Hard to understand why...so sad.

Putting yourself out in front of a large audience has different effects on different people.  I used to do speeches for people, and people asked me how I got over the butterflies in the stomach.  I lived for those butterflies, I got off on them.  Like that.  Doesn't surprise me at all that's when he had anxiety.

Suicides make me sad.  I am a huge fan of Keith Emerson's music, for example, and he ended up shooting himself in the head.

[Wingnut]

I took a break after the election. Glad to be back.

So you're smarter than me. 

What @EC said.

[EasyAce]

Putting yourself out in front of a large audience has different effects on different people.  I used to do speeches for people, and people asked me how I got over the butterflies in the stomach.  I lived for those butterflies, I got off on them.  Like that.  Doesn't surprise me at all that's when he had anxiety.

Suicides make me sad.  I am a huge fan of Keith Emerson's music, for example, and he ended up shooting himself in the head.

Emerson apparently was driven to deeper depression than he already suffered when nerve damage in his right
arm affected his ability to play keyboards profoundly enough (despite a couple of surgeries) that he couldn't bear
it any longer, partly because (his girl friend has spoken of this) he couldn't bear letting his listeners down and
partly because giving up what was so deep a part of him proved intolerable.

Who knows what really wields what kind of impact upon a musician impaired?

The converse might be Charles Mingus. Stricken though he was with ALS, Mingus continued composing and
arranging, possibly because he'd long adopted a method whereby he wouldn't write a part down for
his musicians, he'd sing what he had in mind to them and let them take it from there. (When he was
stricken, he would do those things with new ideas and his wife would transcribe them.) Who knew that
technique would come to be the only way he could make music for the last few years of his life?

[Cyber Liberty]

Emerson apparently was driven to deeper depression than he already suffered when nerve damage in his right
arm affected his ability to play keyboards profoundly enough (despite a couple of surgeries) that he couldn't bear
it any longer, partly because (his girl friend has spoken of this) he couldn't bear letting his listeners down and
partly because giving up what was so deep a part of him proved intolerable.

Who knows what really wields what kind of impact upon a musician impaired?

The converse might be Charles Mingus. Stricken though he was with ALS, Mingus continued composing and
arranging, possibly because he'd long adopted a method whereby he wouldn't write a part down for
his musicians, he'd sing what he had in mind to them and let them take it from there. (When he was
stricken, he would do those things with new ideas and his wife would transcribe them.) Who knew that
technique would come to be the only way he could make music for the last few years of his life?

The Carpal damage and surgeries had robbed him of his gift.  I've heard the post-op recordings (See the "Three Fates Project" with the Keith Emerson Band) and they were just awful.  It made me so sad for him, and when I heard he killed himself I knew exactly why he did it.  Fans were writing him and asking him to please stop, it''s OK we know.  I never wrote, but I thought it, and his wife said that feedback is what he could not stand.

He was preparing for a farewell tour in Japan that he knew he could not execute.  I pray to God I am never faced with such a thing.

[sneakypete]

The Carpal damage and surgeries had robbed him of his gift.  I've heard the post-op recordings (See the "Three Fates Project" with the Keith Emerson Band) and they were just awful.  It made me so sad for him, and when I heard he killed himself I knew exactly why he did it.  Fans were writing him and asking him to please stop, it''s OK we know.  I never wrote, but I thought it, and his wife said that feedback is what he could not stand.

He was preparing for a farewell tour in Japan that he knew he could not execute.  I pray to God I am never faced with such a thing.

@Cyber Liberty

If you live long enough,you WILL face the equivalent. We ALL will. It is your punishment for not having more fun when you were younger.

Don't ask me how to explain why I'm still alive and moving under my own power. I damn sure made zero effort to take care of myself,yet here  I am,dealing with it.

[EasyAce]

The Carpal damage and surgeries had robbed him of his gift.  I've heard the post-op recordings (See the "Three Fates Project" with the Keith Emerson Band) and they were just awful.  It made me so sad for him, and when I heard he killed himself I knew exactly why he did it.  Fans were writing him and asking him to please stop, it''s OK we know.  I never wrote, but I thought it, and his wife said that feedback is what he could not stand.

He was preparing for a farewell tour in Japan that he knew he could not execute.  I pray to God I am never faced with such a thing.

To this day, this is my favourite performance by Keith Emerson . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwl0Et7RdlM

[Cyber Liberty]

To this day, this is my favourite performance by Keith Emerson . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwl0Et7RdlM

He had all the talent, but just didn't like it much, especially the last third.

There's this tribute group in England, Noddy's Puncture, with a guy who's fantastic on the keyboard.  He was friends with Emerson, and learned a lot from him.  Check out the website and find some audio, he's really good.

https://www.google.com/search?q=noddy%27s+puncture&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[EasyAce]

He had all the talent, but just didn't like it much, especially the last third.

I had the original album on vinyl for many years. That clip may have been from a remaster but the remaster
wasn't so hot. The album should get a complete cleanup and remaster.

[Cyber Liberty]

I had the original album on vinyl for many years. That clip may have been from a remaster but the remaster
wasn't so hot. The album should get a complete cleanup and remaster.

You should check out the Noddy's Puncture Facebook.  Emerson was teaching him (Tom?) technique.  There is a fellow in LA area Emerson was working with on the Classical side, can't recall the name, but he's on Emerson's page.  The two students are 10,000 miles apart.

[EasyAce]

You should check out the Noddy's Puncture Facebook.  Emerson was teaching him (Tom?) technique.  There is a fellow in LA area Emerson was working with on the Classical side, can't recall the name, but he's on Emerson's page.  The two students are 10,000 miles apart.

I'll check them out.

[Cripplecreek]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1mNSHvrek

[Cripplecreek]

One final interesting factoid on Cornell.

Lots of rock bands have covered country singer's songs but how many realize that Johnny Cash did a cover of Cornell's "Rusty Cage"?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZs_Py-1_0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtbuUlSGXzc

[Gefn]

Sky News is reporting that Sir Roger Moore has died from cancer.

Rest In Peace, James Bond.

Breaking

[skeeter]

Sky News is reporting that Sir Roger Moore has died from cancer.

Rest In Peace, James Bond.

Breaking

89 is a long run. RIP

[Frank Cannon]

I liked the Saint and I thought he was the better Bond because he was a little goofy.

[jmyrlefuller]

Actor Roger Moore, the comedic James Bond, dies at 89



Moore, born in London, had been acting throughout the 1940s and 1950s, mostly in obscurity, before joining the U.S. TV series Maverick as the English-accented cousin to the Maverick brothers (the end result of some convoluted casting to reduce the workload of its star, James Garner). His first long-term role was that of Simon Templar in an adaptation of The Saint, which ran for seven years; he continued to hold roles on shorter-lived TV series throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

In 1973, after George Lazenby declined to continue in the role of James Bond and Sean Connery also retired from the role, Moore was cast as the star of the franchise. Moore would star in seven Bond films over the next twelve years, beginning with Live and Let Die and ending with A View to a Kill in 1985. Moore's portrayal of Bond was slightly more camp and comic compared to the mostly straight approach taken by his predecessors, which can largely be credited to the film writers, who took a more 1970s-oriented approach to the original Ian Fleming stories.

Moore was not above self-parody, appearing as an impostor of himself in The Cannonball Run.

He mostly retired from acting, other than a few bit parts in a mini-career renaissance in the 1990s and early 2000s, after his Bond tenure. A staunch political conservative, Moore fled the UK's tax laws and resided in Switzerland and then Monaco during the last years of his life; despite this, the British Crown knighted him in 1999. He was also, much like his signature character, a profound womanizer, married four times in his life and having affairs with numerous other women during his lifetime.

Moore died in Monaco May 23, with the cause of death identified as cancer; Moore also had diabetes and health problems in the last years of his life. He is the first actor to play Bond in the film series to die; his predecessors and successors all survive.

Obituary from the BBC

Wikipedia

IMDB entry

[mountaineer]

Wow. He certainly exemplified suave.

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: TIME

URL: http://time.com/4790347/roger-moore-dead/?xid=homepage

by Dan Stewart



Roger Moore, the actor best known for his stint playing James Bond in the 1970s and 80s, has died. He was 89 years old. In a statement, his family said Moore died after a “short but brave battle with cancer.”

Moore played the archetypal super-spy starting in the 1970s, when he took the lead role from Sean Connery in Live and Let Die. He ended his run in 1985 with A View to a Kill.

The actor also starred in British TV shows The Saint, and The Persuaders! In later life, he dedicated his time to philanthropy, becoming a UNICEF ambassador.

[Just_Victor]

I liked the Saint and I thought he was the better Bond because he was a little goofy.

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I never like Moore as James Bond.  He never came across as the cold blooded killer that Bond was supposed to be.

RIP Roger.  Cancer sucks

[Idiot]

SOURCE: TIME

URL: http://time.com/4790347/roger-moore-dead/?xid=homepage

by Dan Stewart



Roger Moore, the actor best known for his stint playing James Bond in the 1970s and 80s, has died. He was 89 years old. In a statement, his family said Moore died after a “short but brave battle with cancer.”

Moore played the archetypal super-spy starting in the 1970s, when he took the lead role from Sean Connery in Live and Let Die. He ended his run in 1985 with A View to a Kill.

The actor also starred in British TV shows The Saint, and The Persuaders! In later life, he dedicated his time to philanthropy, becoming a UNICEF ambassador.

May all his drinks be "shaken, not stirred."

[Suppressed]

I never like Moore as James Bond.  He never came across as the cold blooded killer that Bond was supposed to be.

RIP Roger.  Cancer sucks

I agree with every word, @Just_Victor.  I couldn't have said it better.

[SirLinksALot]

He was not my favorite James Bond ( Sean Connery and Daniel Craig are, the latter had a dark, brooding side to him that matches the Ian Fleming character in the novels ), yet, I have to say that Moore was fun to watch. I will miss him.

In the real world, James Bond should have died as early as Goldfinger. These villains could have just shot him and that would have been the end of 007, but they have to device some esoteric torture machine and leave him alone to die and then give 007 the chance to escape with one of his clever gadgets !! SHEESH.

Rant aside Roger Moore remains a classy man who used his fame to good use. He was known for his generosity and philantropy. He also spoke Italian perfectly ( his former wife Luisa Mattioli is Italian ).

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The James Bond I grew up on... was Bond for 20 years at least right?

[SirLinksALot]

1962-1967, 1971 and 1983 Sean Connery: Sean Connery went on to play James Bond four more times in From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice, before temporarily retiring from the role. He then came back for Diamonds are Forever, then finally Never Say Never Again.

1967 David Niven : That was Casino Royale, a SPOOF

1969 George Lazenby: The under appreciated On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1972–1985 Roger Moore: ( 7 films, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill )

1986–1994 Timothy Dalton: 2 films, The Living Daylights and License to Kill

1994–2004 Pierce Brosnan: ( 4 films, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day )

2005-Present, Daniel Craig: (4 films, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre )

[Applewood]

Sean Connery was the best Bond, in my opinion.  Poor Roger Moore had some big shoes to fill, and as a result, I suppose his performance as Bond  just had to pale by comparison to Connery's.  Too bad because I think Moore was a decent actor.

For that matter, I was less impressed with the other Bonds too, although Daniel Craig is very good.

Anyway, rest in peace, Mr. Moore.

[Free Vulcan]

Peter Augustine Lawler, 1951-2017

We are very sorry to learn of the death of the distinguished scholar and writer Peter Augustine Lawler, a valued contributor to many journals, including THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

His essays for us, always worth reading and rereading, are collected here.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/peter-augustine-lawler-1951-2017/article/2008179

[Smokin Joe]

Sean Connery was the best Bond, in my opinion.  Poor Roger Moore had some big shoes to fill, and as a result, I suppose his performance as Bond  just had to pale by comparison to Connery's.  Too bad because I think Moore was a decent actor.

For that matter, I was less impressed with the other Bonds too, although Daniel Craig is very good.

Anyway, rest in peace, Mr. Moore.

I agree! RIP, Mr. Moore.

[Just_Victor]

Sean Connery was the best Bond, in my opinion.  Poor Roger Moore had some big shoes to fill, and as a result, I suppose his performance as Bond  just had to pale by comparison to Connery's.  Too bad because I think Moore was a decent actor.

For that matter, I was less impressed with the other Bonds too, although Daniel Craig is very good.

Anyway, rest in peace, Mr. Moore.

I was trying not to dis the man's grave.  He played the suave debonair man-whore very well.  But the movies were kinda campy, like the old 60s Batman series.  Prolly not Moore's fault.

Connery was good, but production values when Connery was Bond stank.  The movies with Daniel Craig are the best package (story, production, acting) IMHO.

Anyway, Moore has departed this life, and I'm saddened for the people who loved him.

Maybe we should start a Bond critique thread....

[txradioguy]

RIP Cortez Kennedy 48...HOF defensive tackle for the Seahawks.

Found dead in his home in Florida.

[jmyrlefuller]

Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle Cortez Kennedy dies at 48

96

The former University of Miami product played eleven seasons for the Seattle Seahawks as a defensive tackle. Recognized as one of the best at his position in league history, Kennedy made the Pro Bowl eight times in his career, was named an All-Pro five times, and was named Defensive Player of the Year in 1992 and a member of the All-Decade team of the 1990s. Kennedy was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.

Once dubbed the best player to ever wear the number 96 in the NFL (the number had only been made available to NFL players since the mid-1980s), the jersey was retired by the Seahawks organization.

Kennedy was found dead, alone, in his home. Foul play is not suspected.

Death notice from ESPN

Wikipedia

NFL stats

[Ghost Bear]

Austin singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave dead at 61

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Just days after a farewell concert honoring the life and times of Austin’s own singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave, the aggressive, incurable form of cancer he was diagnosed with in 2016 took him away.

LaFave died Sunday surrounded by loved ones in his home, his music label, Music Road Records announced Monday. Despite being often identified as being from Oklahoma due to musical ties to the state, LaFave had lived in Austin for nearly 30 years. He was born in Wills Point, Texas on July 12, 1955.

In 2005, LaFave told KXAN he liked playing in Austin because “I feel like I’m with my people. I like people in this part of the country and I think there’s a certain music that comes out of here that’s not affected by the East or West Coast. There’s a good purity to the music here.”

Excerpted, more at the link: http://kxan.com/2017/05/22/austin-singer-songwriter-jimmy-lafave-dead-at-61/

[Sanguine]

Austin singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave dead at 61

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Just days after a farewell concert honoring the life and times of Austin’s own singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave, the aggressive, incurable form of cancer he was diagnosed with in 2016 took him away.

LaFave died Sunday surrounded by loved ones in his home, his music label, Music Road Records announced Monday. Despite being often identified as being from Oklahoma due to musical ties to the state, LaFave had lived in Austin for nearly 30 years. He was born in Wills Point, Texas on July 12, 1955.

In 2005, LaFave told KXAN he liked playing in Austin because “I feel like I’m with my people. I like people in this part of the country and I think there’s a certain music that comes out of here that’s not affected by the East or West Coast. There’s a good purity to the music here.”

Excerpted, more at the link: http://kxan.com/2017/05/22/austin-singer-songwriter-jimmy-lafave-dead-at-61/

This seems appropriate: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFAVGedctWA

I think they were the same age too.

[goatprairie]

He was not my favorite James Bond ( Sean Connery and Daniel Craig are, the latter had a dark, brooding side to him that matches the Ian Fleming character in the novels ), yet, I have to say that Moore was fun to watch. I will miss him.

In the real world, James Bond should have died as early as Goldfinger. These villains could have just shot him and that would have been the end of 007, but they have to device some esoteric torture machine and leave him alone to die and then give 007 the chance to escape with one of his clever gadgets !! SHEESH.

Rant aside Roger Moore remains a classy man who used his fame to good use. He was known for his generosity and philantropy. He also spoke Italian perfectly ( his former wife Luisa Mattioli is Italian ).

I don't watch much modern movies or tv today, but I remember the "build a torture device for the heroes and leave" plot device for villains in many tv shows of the day. Mad Magazine did a great satire of "The Man From Uncle" where they had Napoleon Solo and some shapely babe about to be dumped into a gigantic vat of oatmeal. I still laugh when I think of Solo and the girl hanging from a hook above the oatmeal in that particular satire.

[jmyrlefuller]

A few days late, but...

Former Detroit Lions linebacker Wayne Walker dies at 80

55

One of the first professional football players to emerge from the state of Idaho, Walker played 15 seasons and 200 games in the NFL, all of them with the Detroit Lions. His best years were from 1963 to 1966, when he earned Pro-Bowl and All-Pro honors. Following his career, Walker served as a broadcaster, not only on football broadcasts but on baseball as well, being based in Oakland, California until his retirement in the 1990s. During his retirement, he returned to Idaho and continued some broadcasting.

Walker died May 19 of complications from Parkinson's disease.

Obituary from NFL.com

Wikipedia

NFL stats

[kevindavis007]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHSxLYzc6Q

[GtHawk]

1962-1967, 1971 and 1983 Sean Connery: Sean Connery went on to play James Bond four more times in From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice, before temporarily retiring from the role. He then came back for Diamonds are Forever, then finally Never Say Never Again.

1967 David Niven : That was Casino Royale, a SPOOF

1969 George Lazenby: The under appreciated On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1972–1985 Roger Moore: ( 7 films, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill )

1986–1994 Timothy Dalton: 2 films, The Living Daylights and License to Kill

1994–2004 Pierce Brosnan: ( 4 films, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day )

2005-Present, Daniel Craig: (4 films, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre )

Actually, you missed the very first Jmes Bond actor and movie, albeit on TV, Barry Nelson in Casino Royale 1954.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47p90C3IXXA

[EC]

Dina Merrill, Actress and Philanthropist, Dies at 93

Dina Merrill, the actress and heiress to two fortunes who wintered at her family’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., as a child before becoming a leading lady in movies, most often in upper-class roles, died on Monday at her home in East Hampton, N.Y. She was 93.

Her death was confirmed by her son, Stanley H. Rumbough, who said she had Lewy Body dementia.

An elegant presence in most of her 30 or so mid-20th-century movies, Ms. Merrill played the betrayed wife who loses both her husband, Laurence Harvey, and her mink coat to Elizabeth Taylor in “Butterfield 8” (1960); the chic fashion consultant who loses Glenn Ford to Shirley Jones in “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” (1963); and the steadfast socialite wife of an assistant district attorney played by Burt Lancaster in “The Young Savages” (1961).

More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/movies/dina-merrill-dead-actress-and-heiress.html

[Gefn]

@EC , I was just going to post this.

Beautiful woman, lead an extrodinary life. She was also in some funny movies and TV shows.

Every photo I saw of her she was Impeccably dressed, and oozed class.

R.I.P.

[Mod1]

Merged separate Roger Moore thread into Obituaries thread.

[Machiavelli]

Jared Martin, Who Played Rodeo Cowboy Dusty Farlow on 'Dallas,' Dies at 75

Jared Martin, the Dallas actor who portrayed Dusty Farlow, the rodeo cowboy and Sue Ellen Ewing seducer who perished in a plane crash, only to have producers resurrect his character by popular demand, has died. He was 75.

Martin died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Philadelphia, his son, Christian Martin, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Martin roomed with Brian De Palma when they both attended Columbia University in New York and appeared in the first and third features of the director's career: Murder a la Mod (1968) and The Wedding Party (1969).

More

Wikipedia

IMDb

[TomSea]

NFL Hall of Famer Cortez Kennedy found dead at age 48
Published: Friday, May 26, 2017 10:00 a.m. CDT
By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer

Cortez Kennedy was a hulking force at defensive tackle, the cornerstone of a franchise that had little to cheer about for most of his playing career.

And yet what Kennedy accomplished as a player with the Seattle Seahawks — which was good enough for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame — was secondary to the affable personality that made him a revered figure long after his career ended.

Police in Orlando, Florida, said the 48-year-old Kennedy was found dead Tuesday morning. Orlando Police Department public information officer Wanda Miglio said the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown but that there is nothing suspicious about it. An investigation is being conducted.

“The full story lies in his loving, fun, positive and giving heart,” said New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis, who worked for the Seahawks during Kennedy’s playing career. “In my many years working in the NFL, no one better exemplified what it meant to be a great player on the field, and yet that paled in comparison to what Cortez meant to the people who knew him off the field.”

Continued: http://www.newtondailynews.com/2017/05/26/nfl-hall-of-famer-cortez-kennedy-found-dead-at-age-48/af0bieb/

Rest In Peace