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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #325 on: June 27, 2024, 01:46:05 pm »
Kinky Friedman dies at 79

The legendary outlaw singer and lead vocalist for the Texas Jewboys proved himself as adept at maudlin country ballads such as "Sold American" as he was better-known for his biting satirical songs, most famously "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore" and the song that earned him the ire of feminists everywhere (and got him banned in Buffalo for four decades), "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed." Relatively liberal by Texas standards, he ran a third party candidacy for the governor of that state in 2006, finishing with over 12% of the vote.

Friedman died June 27 of Parkinson's disease.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/27/kinky-friedman-dies-texas-governor-race-musician/


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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #326 on: June 27, 2024, 05:02:59 pm »
RIP, Kinky...you were a hoot!

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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #327 on: June 27, 2024, 08:46:37 pm »
RIP, Kinky.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #328 on: June 28, 2024, 12:47:01 pm »

Wife of Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie has died


http://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1806685880330903837
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #329 on: June 28, 2024, 12:54:08 pm »
Wife of Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie has died


http://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1806685880330903837

Prayers for Representative Massie and the entire family.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #330 on: June 28, 2024, 01:01:55 pm »
Wife of Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie has died
Oh no. Such a good man
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #331 on: June 28, 2024, 01:10:04 pm »
Biden's political charade died yesterday. The nation was shocked by the suddenness of it all. Only the day before he was full of vigor and spice on top of his game. The MSM is mourning the loss trying to figure out a path forward without his leadership.

Someone who can write should elaborate on this...

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« Reply #332 on: June 28, 2024, 01:14:43 pm »
Too darn young.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #333 on: June 28, 2024, 01:16:32 pm »
Prayers for the Massie family.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #334 on: June 28, 2024, 03:11:21 pm »
Prayers for Representative Massie and the entire family.
Amen.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #335 on: June 28, 2024, 03:20:10 pm »
Biden's political charade died yesterday. The nation was shocked by the suddenness of it all. Only the day before he was full of vigor and spice on top of his game. The MSM is mourning the loss trying to figure out a path forward without his leadership.

Someone who can write should elaborate on this...
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 Now that figurehead may have fallen away, but the ship of of malicious fools, the Our Democracy continues on its heading, a leviathan prowling for our Rights and the destruction of the Republic. The same crew is keeping the boilers stoked, stands at the helm, and is working feverishly within to enure it performs smoothly.
Biden has only stepped across the threshold of irrelevancy in the minds of those who can still see and overcome their delusions, but in reality, he has been there all along.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #336 on: June 28, 2024, 03:29:56 pm »
Massie has tweeted:

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Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.

She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family.

We spent last week touring Mt Rainier with our grandson - she was the best mammaw ever! We love you Rhonda.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #337 on: June 28, 2024, 04:53:49 pm »
Massie has tweeted:
My heart goes out to him. I know that feeling. Prayers up for the whole family.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #338 on: June 28, 2024, 08:40:32 pm »
Martin Mull dies at 80



Beginning his career on the fringes of the music industry in the 1970s (including his tuba cover of "Dueling Banjos" that barely reached the hot 100), Mull segued into a role as a comic character actor over the next four decades, beginning with Garth Gimble in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (and twin brother Barth in the spin-off Fernwood 2 Night), and including recurring roles on Roseanne and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, along with a long line of supporting roles in film and television.

Mull died June 27 following a long illness.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/martin-mull-dead-clue-arrested-development-1236057168/


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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #339 on: June 29, 2024, 12:02:53 am »
RIP, Mr. Mull.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #340 on: June 29, 2024, 09:22:14 am »
One I missed from last month:

Susan Buckner, beauty queen turned brief 70s actress, dies at 72



Buckner rose to fame for her winning of the swimsuit competition in the 1972 Miss America pageant, losing the overall competition to Laurie Lea Schafer. Buckner was able to parlay her exposure into a ten-year performance career, including as a backing dancer/swimmer for Sid and Marty Krofft's variety shows and, most memorably, as popular-girl Patty Simcox in the 1978 movie Grease. She eventually walked away from entertainment before she turned 30, focusing on raising her family.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/susan-buckner-dead-grease-1235907401/
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #341 on: June 29, 2024, 10:29:37 am »
Martin Mull was really good in "Veep"- (which is a brilliant comedy that no one I know has seen)

Rest in peace sir, and thank you so much for all the giggles and laughs
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« Reply #342 on: June 30, 2024, 11:28:51 am »
Orlando Cepeda dies at 86: Former Rookie of the Year, MVP for Giants, Cardinals among greatest Latin players

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/orlando-cepeda-dies-at-86-former-rookie-of-the-year-mvp-for-giants-cardinals-among-greatest-latin-players/

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Hall of Fame slugger Orlando Cepeda has died at age 86, Major League Baseball announced on Friday:

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MLB mourns the passing of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda at the age of 86.

Known as "Cha-Cha" and "The Baby Bull," Cepeda slugged 379 home runs, batted .297, and made 11 All-Star teams over 17 seasons.

 He was unanimously selected as the NL Rookie of the Year in 1958 with the Giants. He was also a unanimous selection for the the NL MVP Award in 1967 when he helped lead the Cardinals to the World Series championship.

Another great from the Mays-McCovey years at the Giants.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #343 on: July 01, 2024, 08:05:45 pm »
Patrick Gottsch, rural television pioneer, dies at 70

Gottsch was responsible for the first full-time rural-oriented television network in America, RFD-TV, which drew upon programming targeting a rural farm audience that major network executives had largely disregarded. He followed that up with The Cowboy Channel, a channel devoted to Western sports (such as rodeo) and entertainment.

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« Reply #344 on: July 02, 2024, 06:42:20 am »
Biden's political charade died yesterday. The nation was shocked by the suddenness of it all. Only the day before he was full of vigor and spice on top of his game. The MSM is mourning the loss trying to figure out a path forward without his leadership.

Someone who can write should elaborate on this...


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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #345 on: July 02, 2024, 05:07:22 pm »
RIP, Kinky...you were a hoot!

I loved the slogan on his bumper stickers when he ran for Governor:

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« Reply #346 on: July 02, 2024, 10:17:33 pm »
I loved the slogan on his bumper stickers when he ran for Governor:

"Why the hell not?"

He was ahead of his time!.
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Re: Obituaries for 2024
« Reply #347 on: July 03, 2024, 08:40:17 am »
Robert Towne, Oscar-winning writer of ‘Chinatown,’ dies at 89

The writer also received three other Academy Award nominations for 'The Last Detail,' 'Shampoo' and 'Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes'

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« Reply #348 on: July 09, 2024, 12:35:45 pm »
Jim Inhofe, a longtime Oklahoma politician and former US senator, dies at 89


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Former U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was the longest-serving U.S. senator in Oklahoma history


Longtime Oklahoma politician and former U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has died at the age of 89 in Tulsa.

Sources told KOCO 5 that Inhofe died at 4:48 a.m. on Tuesday while surrounded by his wife and children after a stroke over the holiday.

The Republican lawmaker was a fixture in Oklahoma politics for more than 50 years. He ran for public office 51 times, winning 48 of those races.




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« Reply #349 on: July 09, 2024, 01:12:57 pm »

Joseph S. Bonsall (76) of Hendersonville, Tennessee passed on to Glory on July 9, 2024, from complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. He leaves behind his precious wife, Mary Ann, daughters Jennifer and Sabrina, granddaughter Breanne, grandson Luke, two great grandsons, Chance and Grey, and a sister, Nancy. He is preceded in death by his parents Joseph S. Bonsall Sr. and Lillie Bonsall.

As a 50-year member of the American music group The Oak Ridge Boys, Joe was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and inducted into the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame.




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