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.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
Danny Lee
Oscar-winning special effects artist -- via the Prescott, AZ Daily Courier and westernboothill.blogspot.com. He created the death scene in "Bonnie and Clyde"; he won the Oscar for "The Black Hole." Ran the special effects department at Disney from 1969 to 1981.
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."
Thursday, December 4, 2014
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."
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.
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."
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").
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
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2014/12/02/rolling-stones-saxophonist-bobby-keys-dead-at-70
George Hilliard
George is at far right in photo. |
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
‘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
Xavier Quijas Yxayotl presenting the Aztec
death whistle – via BoskoVideo and YouTube
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
Mother feeds six
families at Thanksgiving in honor of her late son – from
Katherine Mozzone at KRQE
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
Illuminating
details of how a pandemic changed the customs of death and dying in England – from Krystal
D’Costa in the Scientific American
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
Loving obit
reveals beloved husband was Spider-Man – via Daniel Politi at Slate
Mameve
Medwed remembers her eccentric Aunt Felicia – in the Boston Globe
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Frances Nero
Singer -- via soulandjazzandfunk.com. AKA Willie Frances Peak. Her bighit: "Footsteps Following Me."
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