DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[Doctor Strange]

Another great film director:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/obituaries/bernardo-bertolucci-dead.html

 

[BobHufford]

Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush dead at 94. R.I.P.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"The World's Oldest Rebel" has died at the age of 94. Harry Leslie Smith, a British-Canadian who fought the Nazis during the Second World War, and never gave up fighting fascism and oppression wherever they appeared, was an author, columnist, commentator, and world traveler who could usually be found wherever there was oppression to battle and injustice to resist. Raised in desperate working-class poverty during the depths of the Depression, Smith never forgot what it was to be hungry and persecuted, and devoted the last years of his life to fighting for the rights of refugees, supporting national health programs, and opposing the latter-day recrudescence of fascism wherever it appeared.

 

[scotrace]

George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States, has died at age 94. He had a remarkable record of heroism in WWII, and is one of only two presidential fathers who also saw his son rise to the presidency.

 

[ChiTownScion]

The classic Yale gentleman. Far from flawless, as we all are, but still possessing an awareness of noblesse oblige.

 

[Worf]

I guess it's that time... I attended the funeral of a WWII Vet yesterday at Saratoga National Cemetery. He was 94, lived a full life. Sad it was sparsely attended but I guess he'd outlived his comrades just as he'd done his 2 wives. Used the G.I. Bill to get a Masters in Chemistry, taught for over 30 years. Taps still gets me.

Worf

 

[Fading Fast]

I guess it's that time... I attended the funeral of a WWII Vet yesterday at Saratoga National Cemetery. He was 94, lived a full life. Sad it was sparsely attended but I guess he'd outlived his comrades just as he'd done his 2 wives. Used the G.I. Bill to get a Masters in Chemistry, taught for over 30 years. Taps still gets me.

Worf

My girlfriend's dad is 89 and he has outlived all but one of his friends and all his contemporaries in the family, except, thankfully, his 86 year old wife (my girlfriend's mom) - at that age, it just happens. My girlfriend and I now email and text with him everyday and call him every week just to keep him engaged.

It's funny, he and I have become good email friends. We've always gotten along nicely, but the regular emailing, which I ramped up five or so years ago as we started to see his friends pass away, has taken our relationship up a solid notch.

I've tried to do the same with my mom, but despite all the times I've calmly showed her how to use email and text, her email and text skills are, what's the word, horrible. Which is a shame as, while calling works, you can have lighter and more frequent engagements via email or text.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Longtime TV actor/comedian Ken Berry has died at 85. A former song-and-dance man, his best TV work by far was his schtick-filled turn as Captain Parmenter on "F Troop," in which he demonstrated time and again that you have to be an extremely skilled and gracefully physical performer in order to convincingly play the role of a clumsy, bumbling, accident-prone oaf.

When I was a small TV fan, I was amazed that Ken Berry could be a TV star and still find time to play center field for the White Sox.

Berry's passing leaves the immortal -- in more ways than one -- Larry Storch as the last survivor of Fort Courage.

 

[3fingers]

Also on Andy Griffith, Mayberry RFD and in later times Mama's Family.

 

[BobHufford]

Paul Sherwen at age 62 of heart failure. Longtime voice of the Tour de France as a commentator for 33 years (along with Phil Liggett), he was also a former Pro Cyclist participating in seven editions of the Tour de France. Originally from England he was a long-time resident of Uganda.

https://www.velonews.com/2018/12/news/longtime-commentator-ex-pro-paul-sherwen-dies-at-62_481891

 

[Doctor Strange]

Ace character actor Philip Bosco:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/obituaries/philip-bosco-dead.html

While he did appear in movies, he was primarily a legitimate theater actor. I was lucky to see a couple of his performances in NYC productions of Shaw plays in the 70s/80s... he was awesome.

 

[MisterCairo]

Dammit, dammit, dammit...

Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has died, aged only 63:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/buzzcocks-shelley-dead-1.4936018

 

[Zombie_61]

Actress Sondra Locke died on November 3rd at the age of 74. According to a death certificate obtained by the Associated Press the cause was cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer.

 

[MisterCairo]

Singer (don't call her a jazz singer!) Nancy Wilson (not the Nancy Wilson from the rock group Heart) has died, aged 81:

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainm...er-dies-at-81/ar-BBQW34o?li=AAggSpD&ocid=iehp

 

[MisterCairo]

Actress Sondra Locke died on November 3rd at the age of 74. According to a death certificate obtained by the Associated Press the cause was cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer.

I grew up on movies in which she starred, with and without Clint Eastwood. A great actor and director, and such a terrible way to leave.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Actress and director Penny Marshall has died at age 75. The Laverne and Shirley star and director of such movies as Big and A League of Their Own died of complications from diabetes.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Always a favorite of mine, going back to her days as Oscar Madison's secretary Moina Toina.

 

[Frunobulax]

I shall have a milk and Pepsi in her honor.

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[MisterCairo]

^^^
Dammit, dammit, dammit.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainme...-of-tv-s-laverne-shirley-dead-at-75-1.4951099