Former MLB player -- via the Helena, MT Independent Record.
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.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Larry Henley
Songwriter and singer -- via Hollywood.com. He started off as one of the Newbeats, singing the falsetto part in "Bread and Butter." He is best known for writing "Wind Beneath My Wings."
Harold M. Schulweis
Rabbi -- via Yahoo News. He popularized the concept of chavurah -- the Jewish concept of a small group of families who study, celebrate Shabbat, and look out for each other. I'm in one, and it works great! He was one of the first Conservative rabbis to welcome LGBT people to his congregation.
Mary Dawne Arden
Actress and model -- via legacy.com. Best known for her role in Mario Bava's "Blood and Black Lace."
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Virna Lisi
Actress -- via Variety. AKA Virna Lisa Pieralisi. Originally styled as an Italian variant on blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe, Lisi made her way through several 1960's sex comedies, but redefined herself as a serious actress later in her career, winning awards for her ruthless Catherine De Medici in "Queen Margot."
Wendy Rene
Singer and songwriter -- via soul-source.co.uk. AKA Mary Frierson, Mary Cross. Best known for "Bar-B-Q," she just missed being on the fatal flight that killed Otis Redding.
Treadwell Covington
TV producer -- via legacy.com. One of the key players in Total Television, which produced Saturday-morning cartoon shows such as "Tennessee Tuxedo," "King Leonardo," "The Beagles," and "Go Go Gophers." One of the creators of "Underdog."
Millie Kirkham
Back-up singer best known for her work with Elvis -- via the Nashville Scene. AKA Mildred Eakes. She can be heard on classics such as "Blue Christmas," "I'm Sorry," "Pretty Woman," and "She Stopped Loving Him Today."
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Richard C. Hottelet
Journalist; the last of "Murrow's boys" -- via CBS News. One of the Voices of God on our radios and TVs, Hottelet was the last of that first extraordinary generation of news and broadcasting talent developed at CBS -- first via radio, then TV -- for 41 years. He began reporting for UP in 1938. Thought by the Gestapo to be a spy, he was imprisoned for four months until FDR helped spring him. He covered D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. Later in his career he focused on election work, civil rights coverage, and wound up as the U.N. correspondent for 25 years. A very good reporter and writer!
Booth Colman
Actor -- via boothcolman.com. An instantly recognizable TV character actor, Colman was the go-to guy for worried scientists, anxious villains, and comic bosses -- although he did a much broader range of work than this in film and on stage.
Norman Bridwell
Writer and illustrator; creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog -- via the New York Times. Great quote from him: "Sometimes you'll do something that you really like and no one else does. You'll feel horrible, but you've got to just press on and keep trying. If you like doing it and keep working at it, then someday you will succeed."
Irene Dalis
Mezzo-soprano; a stalwart and deeply gifted performer at the Met for 20 years -- via the San Jose Mercury News.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
DEATHCETERA: A weekly roundup of stories worldwide on death, mourning and more
TOP
STORIES
‘Death
is always the best career move’ – the Telegraph on celebrity’s digital
afterlife
Livestreaming
funerals: innovation or abomination? – from Lex Berko via the Atlantic
‘Second-Hand Grief’ – Laura
Leigh Abby on how mourning affects life for a partner, at Modern Loss
DEATH
More on the cult
of Santa Muerte
– from Oriana Gonzalez and Alasdair Baverstock at the Daily Mail
Stephen
Colbert’s last guest will be Death – via Patrick Kevin Day at the L.A.
Times
Magical website
tells you when you’re going to die – from fastcodesign.com
MOURNING
Digital mourning – by Adam
Wernick at PRI
‘How to Survive
the Mourning After’
by Monique Minahan in Elephant Journal
FUNERALS
A mass funeral
for the unclaimed dead in Los Angeles – from John Schleuss, Taylor
Goldenstein, and Maloy Moore at the L.A. Times
This
is definitely not the funeral director for you – via Barry Smythe at the
Mirror
We
discover the National Museum of Funeral History in a story concerning ‘weird
museums’ – via Donna Gordon Blankinship and AP
OBITS
Newspapers want
to regain financial benefits of publishing obituaries – from Diana
Marszalek at Net News Check.
Raoul J. Cita
Songwriter, arranger, pianist, and singer; best known for his work with the Harptones; one of the unsung (pardon) progenitors of doo-wop -- via the New York Daily News. He wrote the standard "Life is But a Dream," sang on "Sunday Kind of Love," and had an immense influence on the sound of a cappella groups.
Monday, December 15, 2014
Sy Berger
Invented the modern baseball trading card -- via the New York Times. Hey, don't act like it's not a big deal -- he added color, stats, a facsimile autograph, all elements that made these little cards so fascinating and fun to collect and trade.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
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