Friday, December 5, 2014

Bob Montgomery

Singer, songwriter, and music producer -- via ABC. Buddy Holly's best friend, the two started laying together in junior high school as Buddy & Bob. Montgomery co-wrote classics such as "Heartbeat" and "Misty Blue."








Claudia Emerson

Pulitzer-winning poet -- via the Free Lance-Star.

Gravenhurst

Ann Marcus

TV writer and producer -- via deadline.com.

L. Stephen Coles

Researcher on aging -- via the L.A. Times.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Dick Rietveld

Singer with the Deep River Quartet -- via Classic Urban Harmony.

Paige Martinez

Filmmaker -- via the Austin Chronicle.

Mary Burkett

Ann Paludan

Art historian -- via the Guardian.

Paul Buissonneau

Theater director -- via Radio Canada.

Joanna Dunham

Actress -- via the Guardian. A prolific performer of wide range on TV, stage, and film, she is best remembered for roles in films as diverse as "The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The House That Dripped Blood."

Ian McLagan

Keyboardist for Faces and the Rolling Stones -- via the New York Times. He can be hard on classics such as "Itchykoo Park," "Stay with Me," and "Miss You."






Kazue Ouchi

Actress -- via legacy.com. AKA Mariko Niki. she played the original Lotus Blossom in the original production of "Teahouse of the August Moon."


Mario Abramovich

Violinist and composer -- via telam.com.ar.

Rocky Wood

Expert on the writings of Stephen King -- via the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.


Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Giulio Questi

Film director and screenwriter -- via artslife.com. His outrageous imagination was shaped by his horrifying experiences in WWII, and resulted in films such as the avant-garde giallo "La morte ha fatto l'uovo (Death Lays an Egg)" and "Django Kill!", the latter of which has been described as the most graphically violent of any spaghetti Western.








C. Ronald Nicoll

Jeff Truman

Screenwriter and actor -- via tvtonight.au.com.

Martin Litton

Environmentalist and writer -- via the L.A. Times. A long-time protector of rivers in the Southwest, he led the trip that inspired the book "Time and the River Flowing." He wrote "The Life and Death of Lake Mead."

Deven Verma

Actor and director -- via the Hindustan Times.

Bunta Sugawara

Actor -- via Mainichi. Best remembered for two roles -- Shozo Hirono in Fukasaku's five-film yakuza series "Battles without Honor or Humanity," and Momojiro Hoshi in the 10-film comedy series "Torakku yaro" ("Truck Guys").






Valentina Leyva

Singer of rancheras -- via the Latin Times.

Radwa Ashour

Novelist -- via Ahram Online.

Cherry Wainer


Pianist and organist -- via the Telegraph.



Brian Macdonald

Choreographer -- via the CBC.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Bobby Keys

Saxophonist best known for his work with the Rolling Stones -- via The Nashville Scene. His career began in 1958 with Bobby Vee and Buddy Holly; he worked with the Stones from 1969-1974 and 1980 to the present. He also played with Joe Cocker, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, B.B. King, Chuck Berry . . . a long list.

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2014/12/02/rolling-stones-saxophonist-bobby-keys-dead-at-70

LeRoy Crume, Sr.

Jan Thomas Njerve

Artist -- via the Aftenposten.

Willie Lewis

Rockabilly musician -- via rockabillywillie.com.

George Hilliard

George is at far right in photo.
Tenor in the group the Latineers -- via classicurbanharmony.net. He was replaced as second tenor by George Williams in 1960; the group's name changed to the Tymes, and their big hit "So Much in Love" was recorded in 1963. Classic Urban Harmony reports that he died on Sept. 24.


Mark Loomis

Guitarist, keyboardist, and co-founder of the Chocolate Watchband -- via the band's Wikipedia page. No primary sources for this, but the report is that he died on Sept. 26 in Hawaii.



Monday, December 1, 2014

DEATHCETERA: Weekly roundup of worldwide stories on death, dying, mourning and more

TOP STORIES

For some Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a National Day of Mourning – by Matt Juul at boston.com. More on this from Fred Hanson at the Plymouth Patriot Ledger, and Liberation.

Modern Loss, just completing its first year, has three Thanksgiving-related stories posted on its site

The holidays will kill you. – from Dan Diamond at Forbes


DEATH


Caleb Wilde of Confessions of a Funeral Director gives a TedX talk on “Embracing Death”

‘The Immortalists’ – a review of the new documentary, concerning two men fighting aging and death, by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg – from Nicolas Rapold in the New York Times

Video report: Deceased psychiatric patients finally get memorials – from Kassie Bracken at the New York Times

Tours of hell: five cultures look at postmortem damnation – via Rebecca Burgan at Atlas Obscura

Return of man assumed dead a “pleasant shock” for his family – via V Mayilvaganan at the Times of India

Hiker photographs bear that kills him – via Lauren Gambino in the Guardian



MOURNING


A funeral for a beloved homeless man – via Corey Kilgannon at the New York Times

Oyate community mourns its murdered members – via Elisa Sand at the Aberdeen, SD News

Churchill’s railway funeral carriage restored – from Britain’s National Railway Museum


FUNERALS

Going green when it comes to funerals – from Lucy Siegle at the Guardian

Author calls for removing the fun from funeral – via Terry Mattingly at the Gaston, NC Gazette


Funeral procession – sacrosanct or a nuisance? – from The Order of the Good Death

Reiterating the details of King Tut’s curse – from Jennifer Latson at TIME magazine

Worst funeral ever? Demented man steals hearse with coffin inside – via May Slater for Daily Mail Australia


END-OF-LIFE

Trouble at an assisted-living facility – from Vivian Vee at the New York Times


OBITS

Beautiful obit of journalist James Ragsdale by Ruben Rosario at the the St. Paul Pioneer Press



Kent Haruf

Novelist -- via the Washington Post.

Les Wasley

Cinematographer and cameraman -- via the Sydney Morning Herald.

Qayyum Chowdhury

Artist -- via bdnews24.com.

Luc de Vos

Musician, singer, and writer -- via De Redactie.

T.J. Martinez

Priest -- via the Valley Morning Star.




Sunday, November 30, 2014

Mark Strand

Poet -- via the New York Times.

Frances Nero

Singer -- via soulandjazzandfunk.com. AKA Willie Frances Peak. Her bighit: "Footsteps Following Me."




Mary Hinkson

Dancer -- via the New York Times.

Aaron Shirley

Mordecai Lawner

Actor -- via legacy.com.

Saturday, November 29, 2014