Actress, TV personality, and beauty pageant winner -- via the Clarion-Ledger. Was crowned Miss america in 1959. She was wholesome -- hey, she was in TWO Elvis movies!
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.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Monday, December 8, 2014
DEATHCETERA: Weekly roundup of stories on death, dying, and more
A photo from Cathrine Ertmann's photo essay "About Dying," as shown at beautifuldecay.com. |
TOP
STORIES
Protests,
some violent, break out after burial of police victim Eric Garner – by Jennie
Matthew at AFP via Yahoo News
An interesting thought and responses in
the Guardian, initiated by Kathrine Whitehorn – obituary
– tribute or truth?
Photographer
Cathrine Ertmann makes bold photo essay at morgue – from Leslie
Tane at Beautiful/Decay. CAUTION: GRAPHIC AND UNSETTLING.
DEATH
New York City’s
mass grave that no one can visit – from Alison Meier at Hyperallergic
MOURNING
Black poets
speak out about police homicide cases – via Matt Petronzio in Mashable
Rabbis recite
kaddish (memorial prayer) for police-murdered Eric Garner, go to jail – via Antonia
Blumberg at Huffington Post
Photographer
couple explored American funeral services and customs – from Ann
Strainchamps at Public Radio Interntional.
FUNERALS
Death without
Darkness – a crematory redesign from Caitlin Doughty via Medium/Re-form
Confessions of a
Funeral Director’s Caleb Wilde interviewed by Eric Puchner in Medium/Matter
END-OF-LIFE
Elizabeth Reis
tells us why an advance directive is so important, from personal experience – via the New
York Times
OBITS
Did Kirk Douglas
die? No. But People magazine published his obit – via Brittany
King, Hollywood Life
Dictator’s son
disputes his obituary 11 years after it’s published – via Craig
Silverman at Poynter.
Neil Steinberg
discusses being an advance obituarist – in the Chicago Sun-Times
Tugce Albayrak
Student who stood up for harassed women and died from a resulting assault -- via the New York Times.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Ralph H. Baer
Father of the video game -- via Game Informer. He invented what came to be known as the Magnavox Odyssey, which featured Shooting Gallery and the classic Pong.
Mick Barry
Legendary road bowler -- via the Southern Star of West Cork. Did you know there was such a thing as road bowling? There is. It looks fascinating!
Edward "Sonny" Bivins
Original member of the Manhattans -- via soulfuldetroit.com. Their big hits: "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Shining Star." I must confess this is the kind of group we would mimic in school, down to the moves. We loved these guys!
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."
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