Tag: obituaries
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August 31, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
While going through the newspaper today, I scanned the obituaries and saw a lady named Carrie Yunt had passed away. This made me wonder how in heck could you write a poem in tribute . . . more
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August 18, 2008 08:05 PM EDT --
One of the original members of the R&B group The Spinners, Pervis Jackson, Has passed away in Detroit. He died about 2 a.m. Monday at Sinai-Grace Hospital. He was 70 years old. He was diagnosed with . . . more
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August 18, 2008 08:20 PM EDT --
One of only three fillies to win the Kentucky Derby, Genuine Risk, died Monday at Newstead Farm. Genuine Risk won the Derby in 1980.
She died peacefully about 7:30 a.m. at the age of 31 after eating . . . more
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August 20, 2008 07:20 PM EDT --
A Cleveland Clinic official says Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio has died.
Tubbs Jones was found Tuesday night unconscious at the wheel of her car after police had seen it swerving . . . more
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August 21, 2008 09:20 AM EDT --
NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw has died at age 63.
As union head, Ups haw helped NFL players obtain free agency and the riches that came with it.
His outstanding 15-season . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
A posting on the Web site of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Society has announced the death of Ruth Bell Grhaam, who will always be remembered as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Ruth, though, left . . . more
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August 03, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn died late Sunday, the Itar-Tass news ag ency reported, citing his son Stepan. He was 89.
The Nobel laureate and former dissident died of heart failure . . . more
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April 06, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
My initial response to the news of Charlton Heston's passing was not good. I scribbled out a joke here on Gather that was in truly bad taste. I am not going to repeat the joke, but it had something . . . more
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March 18, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
British film director Anthony Minghella has died at the age of 54, his agent has said.
Minghella, whose films include Truly, Madly, Deeply and Cold Mountain, was chairman of the British Film Institute. . . . more
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July 03, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday at his home of congestive heart failure, his publicist . . . more
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July 01, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
TV actor Don S. Davis, who played Major General George Hammond in TV series Stargate SG-1 and was agent Scully's father Captain William Scully in the X-Files, has died, aged 65.
Davis, a former . . . more
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July 30, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
One of the 20th century’s most influential filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, has died in Sweden at age 89. His contributions to cinema are inestimable and have been widely-recognized. Three . . . more
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January 27, 2008 10:15 PM EST --
It's inevitable.
The Hooded One With The Weird Farm Tool is coming to get you, eventually, and perhaps earlier than you'd hoped, despite the miracles of modern medicine and all those encouraging . . . more
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May 26, 2008 09:29 PM EDT --
Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like "The Way We Were," "Tootsie" and "Out of Africa" were among the . . . more
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June 03, 2008 06:44 PM EDT --
Actor and director Mel Ferrer has died at the age of 90, a spokesman for his family has said.
Ferrer died at his ranch in Santa Barbara surrounded by family and friends, the spokesman said.
Ferrer . . . more
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July 04, 2008 11:23 AM EDT --
Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who became an icon to conservatives, died Friday at the age of 86, a senior congressional source said. Helms died at 1:15 this morning, according . . . more
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July 12, 2008 10:13 AM EDT --
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow -- who once told reporters "I'm a very lucky guy" -- died at the age of 53 early Saturday after a second battle with cancer.
He resigned . . . more
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November 06, 2006 04:41 PM EST --
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July 12, 2008 10:18 AM EDT --
Dr. Michael DeBa key, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died. He was 99.
DeBakey . . . more
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April 19, 2007 11:11 PM EDT --
To be honest, I have entered the Funeral and Obituary Season of my life. Death no longer takes just Uncles, Aunts and Parents, but now cousins and friends.
I should read the obituaries. Mom read them . . . more
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