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| Louis Murillo at far left, Karl Wallenda, Jennie Wallenda, Andy Anderson. |
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Louis H. Murillo
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Elizabeth Pena
Marie Dubois
Gary McLarty
McLarty figured prominently in two Hollywood tragedies. First, he was Vic Morrow's stunt double in "Twilight Zone: The Movie," and was in the helicopter when it crashed during filming on June 23, 1982, killing Morrow and two child actors. McCarty asserted he warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous to perform.
Second, he testified during the trial of actor Robert Blake for the 2001 murder of his wife, claiming that Blake offered him $10,000 to do the job.
Bob Orrison
Howard Cocks Dickinson IV
Howard Cocks Dickinson IV, aka Crow, King of The Hill, and
"Uncle Foof" crossed over to the other side at 4:20 AM on October 8,
2014, as stormy skies covered up the eclipse of the full blood moon and the
North winds swept in to carry his spirit away from his home on Baird Hill. He
walked through heaven's gate "prick first," just as he would have
wanted.
Born in Schenectady N.Y., January 29, 1936 to Cynthia Potter
Read and Howard C. Dickinson, Jr. Crow grew up at Peach's Point in Marblehead,
Mass., and from there went on to St. Paul's School, Harvard University '58, and
Yale Forestry School.
In 1967 Crow bought his farm on Baird Hill Road in Center
Conway, N.H. where he spent the rest of his life. Crow is survived by three
children (that we know of) James Russell Dickinson, Alexander Solely Dickinson,
and Anne Staveley, six grandchildren Cree, Taylor, Nathaniel "Tait",
Eric, Cypress, and Howard "Jack," and by his brother Read Dickinson.
He was pre-deceased by his beloved dog and faithful last companion Tia, among
many other adored Jack Russells.
Crow was very proud to have dedicated his life to public
service and helping those in his community. He served in the Navy, spent 32
years as a N.H. State Representative, served many years as a selectman for the
Town of Conway, and was a member multiple local boards and committees. In his
lengthy political career Crow touched the lives of many many people. A few of
his accomplishments that he was most proud of were the "Ski Area Liability
Law," creating "The Board of Midwifery," "The Current-Use
law" and the new "Moose Lottery."
In his younger days, Crow was an adventure traveler who
sailed in the Newport-Bermuda Race; rowed at the Henley Regatta in England; fly
fished in Iceland, Argentina as well as throughout New England. He hunted in
Italy, England, Austria, South America and throughout the Northeast.
Crow was a lover of hunting, fishing, food, the woods, women,
politics, dogs, guns,porn, and last but not least, himself. He was The Master
teacher of knife sharpening, iron pan cleaning, lawn mowing, gun cleaning,
cooking roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and gravy, making "dredge,"
double-buttered toast, turning off lights, closing windows, sharpening chain
saws ... and much much more!
As he begins his new journey we wish him: Fair Winds &
Following Seas, Tight Loops & Fish On, Sharp Knives & Good Food, Steady
Points & Crossing Shots, A Sharp Saw & Sound Wood, Voice Votes with
Unanimous Consent & Bipartisanship, and a room full of women with an open
bar!
Services will be held 2 p.m. on November 1, 2014 at the
Salyard Center for the Arts in Conway Village, N.H. Please bring your favorite
written story, memory or photograph to post and share on a wall created in his
memory. No flowers please, instead plant a chestnut tree.
Lesson to be learned: be nice to your children, because they
are the ones who hold your hand when you are dying and write your obituary ;)
Fred Branfman
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Isaac "Ike" Jones
WEEKLY READER: International roundup of stories on death, dying, mourning, and more
TOP STORIES
John
Cleese looks forward to death – via Abid Rahman at the Hollywood Reporter
A
few steps from death: life in an Ebola clinic – via Sheri Fink in the New
York Times
DEATH
What
does a manager do when an employee dies? – from Ann Belser at the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Consciousness
after death – new scientific study – via Sarah Knapton at the Telegraph
Some
wish to preserve their tattoos after their deaths – from Martha Bebinger on
NPR
MOURNING
Via Confessions of a Funeral Director – What
being a funeral photographer is all about, by John Slaytor
“Why
I Commemorate the Anniversary of my Father’s Death on Social Media” – by Jackie
Oshry on the Huffington Post
Laughing
to keep from crying – from Sarah Rosenblum on Slate
Mourning
before and after Facebook – by Jenny Chang on shizznat.com
FUNERALS
How
to handle funeral costs – by Susan Johnston at U.S. News and World Report
Funeral
director accused of mishandling remains, and funeral funds – via Roberto
Scalese at boston.com
OBITUARIES
Director
Vanessa Gould working on new documentary film about obit writing – by Michelle
Young on Untapped Cities
END-OF-LIFE
Dying
woman chooses to end her life Nov. 1 – via CBS News
HUMOR
“North
Korean Populace Already Mentally Preparing For Whatever Insane Bullshit They’ll
Have To Do For Kim Jong-Un Funeral” – via The Onion
Monday, October 13, 2014
Bill Vielehr
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Stanley Chase
Friday, October 10, 2014
FRIDAY REVIEW: 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth,
and a Quest for Faith
Studs Terkel
2001
The New Press
New York
Studying death is not a barrel of laughs. However, in
keeping with the behavior of a crackpot autodidact on any given topic, I am
constantly absorbing a never-shrinking pile of information on thanatology,
obituaries, geriatrics, postmortem legalities, and tangent issues.
As I blunder through the literature, it’s a real treat to
read Studs on the subject. Studs Terkel, if you haven’t been conscious
recently, was a maker of raconteurs. He could draw people out. Over the course
of his hour-long, five-days-a-week interview show on Chicago radio over the
course of 45 years, he talked to any- and everybody. He knew how to phrase
questions to prompt the most fruitful answer. He knew how to shut up and
actively listen.
His oral histories, such as “Working,” “Hard Times,” and “’The
Good War’” are gripping because they stand history and sociology on their heads.
Instead of analyzing theories, summarizing speeches and quoting big shots,
Studs talks to people at every level and across every range of interest. What
you get is a people’s history, from the ground up and out of the midst of
things. At their best, Studs’ interviewees make poetic flights, utter heartrending
words of insight, and just come alive on the page.
Such is the case with “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”, a
project that examines the end of life and the afterlife through the voices of
doctors, patients, activists, painters, poets, singers, holy men, students, garbage
men. Studs lets his people speak. The questions, hesitations, interruptions are
excised, and the subjects hold forth in a series of monologues. A hierarchy of
flow and meaning inhabits the path the book takes; we move from the stark
contemplation of death to thoughts about postmortem possibilities for the soul,
to ruminations on lives well- and not-so-well lived.
There are large portions on the AIDS crisis of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
It is hard to believe in retrospect that so many people lost their lives in the
epidemic, and the issues of tolerance, compassion, and political expedience raised
in these pages still resonated today.
Anyone seeking to get away from more grim and tedious
discussions of this topic will find this an antidote.
Mark A. Harris
Journalist; his work spurred the passing of California's open-meetings law -- via the L.A. Times.
Steve Curry
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