Sunday, August 23, 2015

Melody Patterson

Actress -- via Variety. Best known for her role as Wrangler Jane on the TV comedy series "F Troop."

Lina Morgan

Actress -- via El Mundo. AKA Maria de los Angeles Lopez Segovia. A great comic actress!

George Houser

Minister, pacifist, and civil rights leader -- via the Journal-News. Jailed for conscientious objection in World War II, he was part of the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 -- a pioneering desegregation effort  that presaged the Freedom Rides.


Harry Volkman

Weatherman -- via the New York Daily News. A regular on the Chicago scene for more than 50 years, he was the first to issue a live tornado warning on air.

Lev Durov

Actor -- via Fox News.

Khaled el-Asaad

Archeologist -- via the Independent. Beheaded by Islamic extremist group.

Antonio "Taco" Larreta

William Jay Smith

Poet -- via the New York Times.


Fynn Henkel

Actor -- via Pester Lloyd.

Arsen Dedic

Singer and composer -- via Dnebnik.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Bud Yorkin

Russell Henderson

Musician -- via the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian.



David A. Prior

Film director -- via Bloody Disgusting. A master of the direct-to-video B movie!




Clarence "Jockey" Etienne

Drummer -- via KATC.




Danny Sambello

Carl Edendorfer

Bricklayer -- via DNA Info. He just wanted to "tell his story"; his kids spent $6,000 on a paid obit for him. Here it is, via legacy.com.




Joyce Ingalls

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Ken Barnes

Johnny Slate

Songwriter -- via legacy.com.


Abdullah Hussein

Novelist -- via the Guardian.


Thursday, August 20, 2015

Doudou N’Diaye Rose

Doris Hines

Singer -- via MPR.

Hamida Salim

Writer -- via the New Indian Express.

Walter Scott

Tony Gleaton

Photographer -- via the New York Times.


Betty Beeby

Artist and illustrator -- via the Traverse City Record-Eagle. Designed and illustrated the beautiful second edition of Owen Barfield's "The Silver Trumpet" in 1968.


Kitty McGeever

Actress and comedian -- via the Telegraph.AKA Catherine Jane Mitchell.

Alex "Happy" Howden

Comedian and actor -- via the Edinburgh News.


Hans Kristiansen

Max Greger

Bandleader and saxophonist -- via Deutsche Welle.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Don Yoder

Folklorist -- via Lancaster Online. Helped found the first folk festival in the country in 1951, and helped found the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.


John "Bud" Thomas

Roger Smalley

Composer, pianist, and conductor -- via Classical Music.

Roseanne Murray

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.


Jack Ferry

Actor -- via Obits for Life.


Monday, August 17, 2015

Bob Johnston

Music producer; songwriter -- via Rolling Stone. Produced some of the great albums -- "Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison," "Highway 61 Revisited," "Sounds of Silence," "Blonde on Blonde," and worked with Leonard Cohen, Flatt and Scruggs, and Michael Murphey, to name a few.







Harold Ousley

Saxophonist -- via Broadway World.

Pierre Jansen

Composer -- via Le Monde.

Nigel Mackenzie

Stephen Lewis

John Scott

Renato Ladeira

Anne Strieber

Writer, editor, and broadcaster -- via legacy.com.


Edward Thomas

Police officer -- via the New York Times.