Bassist -- via ryanfunk.wordpress.com. His career stretched from the Electric Prunes to Smashing Pumpkins.
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.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Suze Rotolo
Teacher, painter and illustrator -- via the New York Daily News. She will be forever remembered as the girl on the cover of Bob Dylan's "The Freewheeling Bob Dylan" album; she was his girlfriend and muse for a time.
Andy Jurinko
Artist who specialized in art on the subject of baseball. He was a Phillies fan -- via the New York Times.
Greg Goossen
MLB man, boxing trainer, private detective, actor, and long-time stand-in for Gene Hackman -- via the L.A. Daily News. A much more colorful and comprehensive obit from the New York Times is here.
Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider aka The Silver Fox aka The Duke of Flatbush
Hall of Fame center fielder, primarily for the Brooklyn Dodgers -- via the New York Daily News. He was the last surviving player who was on the field when the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series their first and only time in 1955.
Anant Pai aka Uncle Pai
Comic-book writer -- via the dnaindia.com. These educational comics proved extremely popular, and focused on Indian history, mythology, biography and folktales.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Please leave your eulogy after the tone: recorded remembrances coming
A press release posted on boston.citybizlist.com states that the obituary site Tributes.com is teaming up with audio archive service Remembered Voices to provide a service that will "to enable family and friends to leave personalized audio messages within the memory books of obituaries and Eternal Tributes posted to the popular Obituary database to express their sympathy to the immediate family or recall special memories of the deceased."
Len Gilmore
Determined baseball player -- via Baseball Fever. He pitched one game in the majors, for the Pirates, on Oct. 1, 1944.
Chris Dale
Mountaineer -- via the Telegraph. A very unique and outgoing individual! More memories from the Caledonian Mercury.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Florinda Chico aka Forlinda Chico Martin Mora
Actress on stage, in film and television -- via typicallyspanish.com.
Forrest Vandergrift "Spook" Jacobs
MLB second baseman -- via Delaware Online. The first, and only one of three, major leaguers to go four-for-four in his debut. Never a long-baller, he slapped hits through the infield, or drove them just over infielders' heads; thus, his nickname.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Vivien Noakes
Biographer, editor and critic -- via the Times of London. She was an expert on the life and works of Edward Lear.
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