DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[HoosierDaddy]

Thanks for the pictorial rlk.
Dale Robertson was one of my favorites as a kid. 'One of a kind'.
HD

 

[hatsRme]

Thanks for the pictorial rlk.
Dale Robertson was one of my favorites as a kid. 'One of a kind'.
HD

+1 Terrific, Rlk!

 

[MisterCairo]

Col. John Wilpers, the last-surviving member of the US Army team that captured Tojo has died:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21664326

 

[dhermann1]

Another rocker of my generation, Alvin Lee.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21688814

 

[Giftmacher]

Very sad, I'm going to play his LP now

 

[rocketeer]

Kenny Ball, Jazz trumpeter.

Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter best known for his tune, 'Midnight in Moscow' died yesterday. He got to play it on a Moscow stage as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21700146
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[AtomicEraTom]

Claude King, famous for his Country Song 'Wolverton Mountain' passed away.

 

[MisterCairo]

Canadian icon Stompin' Tom Connors passed away. A true Canadian in every sense of the term...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/03/07/stompin-tom-remembered.html

 

[MikeBravo]

Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter best known for his tune, 'Midnight in Moscow' died yesterday. He got to play it on a Moscow stage as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21700146
J

Well into his 80's I believe. I was listening to him just the other day

 

[Aristaeus]

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!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=apNTq-Tgf4w[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter best known for his tune, 'Midnight in Moscow' died yesterday. He got to play it on a Moscow stage as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21700146
J

Kenny Ball was also known for his numerous appearances on The Morecambe & Wise Show

[video=youtube;PIlZze-Mu8s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIlZze-Mu8s[/video]

 

[GoldenEraFan]

Mary Louise Whitham Eastman, color model supervisor at Disney who worked on Fantasia and Bambi passed away at age 97.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/mary-louise-whitham-eastman-rip-78961.html

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

I've never heard of this woman. I came across her obit while I was searching for news articles and thought she would be appropriate for this thread. Florence Wadlow,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9858641/Florence-Wadlow.html

 

[Dixon Cannon]

I've never heard of this woman. I came across her obit while I was searching for news articles and thought she would be appropriate for this thread. Florence Wadlow,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9858641/Florence-Wadlow.html

Fascinating! The end of an era really. -dixon cannon

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Jack Greene.

[video=youtube_share;odMJMnKnkPU]http://youtu.be/odMJMnKnkPU[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

The book has closed on one of the strangest sports scandals of the Era with the recent passing in Chicago of 83-year-old Ruth Ann Steinhagen -- the woman who, as a teenager, developed an obsessive crush on Chicago Cubs infielder Eddie Waitkus. When the Cubs traded her idol to the Phillies in 1949 she became unhinged, stalked Waitkus to a hotel room during a Phillies road trip to Chicago, and shot him point-blank in the chest with a hunting rifle. She was declared insane, and Waitkus refused to press charges against her -- recovering to resume his baseball career in 1950. Steinhagen was released from a mental hospital in the mid-fifties, after doctors declared her cured, and she disappeared into obscurity. But not before Bernard Malamud used her story as the inspiration for his novel "The Natural."

 

[W4ASZ]

Frank Thornton

The wonderful Frank Thornton has passed away. He saw that we were well served.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/18/frank-thornton

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

The wonderful Frank Thornton has passed away. He saw that we were well served.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/18/frank-thornton

Yes, he was 92, and as well as starring in "Are you Being Served" he was also in "Last of the Summer Wine", both great TV Programmes.

 

[MisterCairo]

I know he was 92 and had a good innings, but it's still a shame to see him go! I've been watching Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine for over twenty years. My family's from Britain and watching britcoms goes back to the 70s for us, so for me it's part of my childhood dying.
Mr. Rumbold is the only major character left, Messrs Humphries, Granger, Lucas and Mrs. Slocombe and even young Miss Brahms all having left us, many of them far too early. Young Mr. Grace, too, of course, has gone to the department store in the sky!

 

[dhermann1]

I had never heard of Will Barnet till I saw a posting in FaceBook by Knox Martin, my late wife's teacher and mentor. Knox is one of the greatest living painters. Will Barnet was his dear friend. Barnet just passed away last November at the age of 101.
http://willbarnet.wordpress.com/
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...01D783C28EA1C1FFFE3901&view=detail&FORM=VIRE7
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...F5ED83C3C5D2E85236C3F5&view=detail&FORM=VIRE3