Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Don Harron
Comedian, actor, director, journalist, writer, playwright, and composer -- via the CBC. Best known as his comic alter ego, Charlie Farquharson.
Rimma Markova
Actress -- via echo.msk.ru. Best known for her role as Koldunya Darya, the witch, in the Russian "Night Watch"/"Day Watch" films.
Deathcetera: Your week in mortality news
DEATH
The town that
talks about death
– via Chana Joffe-Walt at NPR
MOURNING
Millenials in
mourning
– via Eric Ringham, Emily Kaiser at MPR
FUNERALS
Minister denies
funeral to lesbian woman – via Ryan Haarer from KUSA-TV
Chronicle of a
home funeral
– from Ann Zaniewski at USA Today
Disabled man
achieves dream of becoming a mortician – from Jay Levin at the Record
Retired funeral
director has tons of fun stories – via Steve Pokin at the Springfield
News-Leader
Who’s stealing
hearse stretchers?
– via the Claims Journal
Ronnie Ronalde
Vocalist, yodeler, and siffleur (expert whistler) -- via Island FM, Guernsey. AKA Ronald Charles Waldron.
Tony Verna
Emmy-winning TV producer and director; the man who invented instant replay -- via the New York Daily News.
A$AP Yams
Music organizer, mentor, hiphop artist and producer -- via the Rolling Stone. AKA STeven Rodriguez, Yamorbghini.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Ervin Drake
Songwriter and lyricist -- via the Washington Post. AKA Ervin Druckman. He wrote the classics "It Was a Very Good Year" and "I Believe," and the lyrics for such hits as "Perdido," "Tico Tico," and "Good Morning Heartache."
Friday, January 16, 2015
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Louise Kane
Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. AKA Louise Kane Grueneberg. She died in March, 2014, but it has become public knowledge only now.
Al Delugach
Journalist -- via the L.A. Times. also, one of the last rewrite men -- those at daily publications that can take a stack of disparate facts, quotes, and ideas and craft a compelling and accurate new story out of them in record time.
Bernard Williams
Production manager, assistant director, and producer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Helped to create films such as "A Clockwork Orange," "The Bounty," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," and "What About Bob?"
Robert Kinoshita
Artist, art director, set and production designer; creator of Robbie the Robot -- via the Hollywood Reporter. He actually invented three iconic robots for film and TV -- Tobor in "Tobor the Great," Robby the Robot in "Forbidden Planet," and Robot in "Lost in Space."
Dottie Thomas
Medical researcher who helped develop bone-marrow transplants -- via the Seattle Times.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Gilberto Perez
Film scholar, historian, and critic -- via Sarah Lawrence College. Here's a warm personal remembrance from Jonathan Rosenbaum --
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