DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[V.C. Brunswick]

Jerry Buss, owner of the LA Lakers died today. He was 79.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

It's a shame, so young, so talented, and leaving so much behind.

Country music star Mindy McCready was found dead Sunday at her home in Arkansas from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 37. This after years of struggles with alcohol, drugs and mental illness.

McCready leaves behind two boys, one of whom is 10 months old. The infant's father, record producer David Wilson, killed himself last month.

Doesn't get much worse than this. PC.

 

[Lenore]

Actor Richard Briers, known for The Good Life, passed. He was 79.

 

[MisterCairo]

English singer Tony Sheridan, best known over here for having the Beatles as his backing band for a time, especially on his single "My Bonnie", a copy of which, it is believed, convinced Brian Epstein of NEMS Music to check out a local band. Very sad, and not old at all really:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beatles-collaborator-tony-sheridan-dead-at-72-20130217

 

[MisterCairo]

Actor Richard Briers, known for The Good Life, passed. He was 79.

I was very sad to have read this. I grew up watching The Good Life (Good Neighbors as it was called on American broadcasts) on WNED, PBS in Buffalo. One of our favourite Saturday night Britcoms. Our girls know his voice as Ratty in The Wind in the Willows. Now he and Paul Eddington are both gone.

Demon bloody cigarettes again...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-peacefully-79-long-battle-lung-disease.html

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Singer Tony Sheridan has passed away. Tony is famous as a friend and mentor to the savage young Beatles during their woodshedding in Hamburg. Their first professional recording session was with Tony and he performed the vocals on the disc 'My Bonnie'. That is the song that a gent named Raymond Jones came seeking at NEMS record shop in Liverpool that piqued the curiosity of the manager, Brian Epstein. The rest is just Beatlemania, so to speak. Tony was England's 'Elvis' at the time and performed regularly almost to his very last days. History will remember Tony Sheridan very kindly. -dixon cannon

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/19/entertainment-us-germany-beatles-sherida-idUSBRE91I00020130219

 

[Giftmacher]

English singer Tony Sheridan, best known over here for having the Beatles as his backing band for a time, especially on his single "My Bonnie", a copy of which, it is believed, convinced Brian Epstein of NEMS Music to check out a local band. Very sad, and not old at all really:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beatles-collaborator-tony-sheridan-dead-at-72-20130217

Very sad, rest in peace Tony.

 

[HadleyH]

Actor Richard Briers, known for The Good Life, passed. He was 79.

I remember him from that TV series .... sad ... RIP Richard Briers.

 

[Master Mason]

C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General died today at 96

 

[dhermann1]

Van Cliburn, famous concert pianist, has died at 78.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...burn-american-classical-pianist-dies/1951217/

He studied a couple of summers at Chautauqua in the early 50s, and made a triumphant appearance there in 1963, after his great victory in Moscow. I'll never forget it. There were upwards of 8,000 people tyring to crowd into the 6,000 capacity Chautauqua Amphitheatre that night. What a madhouse!

 

[AmateisGal]

Ed Reep, WW2 combat artist in Italy and noted watercolor artist. He was 95. I wrote an article on him for America in WWII magazine. He appeared in the documentary, They Drew Fire and was a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.
http://www.californiawatercolor.com/pages/edward-reep-biography

 

[hatophile]

Dale Robertson, best known for TV Westerns, but also a decorated WWII Vet.

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/actor-dale-robertson-dies-in-california-hospital?ocid=ansnews11

 

[Edward]

Davy Jones of the Monkees is dead a year today. Still much missed.

 

[Alice Blue]

CINCINNATI — Maj. Thomas C. "Tom" Griffin, a B-25 bomber navigator in the audacious Doolittle's Raid attack on mainland Japan during World War II, has died.

His death at age 96 leaves four surviving Raiders.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/thomas-griffin-dead-dies_n_2781281.html

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Roy Brown, Designer of the Edsel

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/02/28/roy-brown-designer-of-the-edsel-dies/

 

[gtdean48]

Dale Robertson, best known for TV Westerns, but also a decorated WWII Vet.

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/actor-dale-robertson-dies-in-california-hospital?ocid=ansnews11

Enjoyed him many a Saturday with my grandfather...

 

[LocktownDog]

One Day At A Time star Bonnie Franklin passed today. Was only 69.

 

[gtdean48]

One Day At A Time star Bonnie Franklin passed today. Was only 69.

Stunned....

 

[rlk]

Dale Robertson In Memoriam Dead at 89 on Wednesday

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/arts/television/dale-robertson-actor-dies-at-89.html?_r=0

 

[Touchofevil]

Davy Jones of the Monkees is dead a year today. Still much missed.

And still hard to believe.