http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obituaries/ en-us Tue, 5 May 2009 15:29:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244530/posts Another comic great has died. Dom DeLuise passed away at a Los Angeles hospital around 6:00 PM Monday, reports TMZ. A film and TV staple since the mid-1960's, DeLuise was an expert foil for other performers, including Dean Martin, Mel Brooks (in six of his films) and Burt Reynolds, with whom he starred in the "Cannonball Run" flicks. In 1980, he played the lead in "Fatso," a film written and directed by Anne Bancroft, the late wife of Mel Brooks. A noted gourmand, DeLuise authored two books of his Italian recipes, and wrote several children's books. He voiced numerous characters... Extratv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244530/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 15:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156127/posts <p>From the summit of Everest, the top of the world - to the intricate workings of the human heart. From outer galaxies to the dungeons of Stalin's gulag.</p> <p>Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to stand atop the world's highest mountain. Dr. Michael DeBakey developed treatments for heart disease that prolonged the lives of millions.</p> Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156127/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128864/posts Valley Libertarian crusader Marshall W. Fritz dead at 65 By Vanessa Colón / The Fresno Bee11/06/08 22:39:34 Marshall William Fritz, an icon of the Libertarian movement who opposed state-run schools, once ran for Congress and created a widely circulated political quiz, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday in Fresno. Mr. Fritz, 65, a writer and adventurer, began his political life as a liberal in the 1960s but shifted to libertarianism in the 1970s and clung to it to the very end. ... He established Advocates for Self-Government in 1984, now based in Georgia, to promote Libertarian ideals. He also established the... The Fresno Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128864/posts#comment Sun, 9 Nov 2008 18:21:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098725/posts Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other guy to die. The obit says he died because of the strain "of living in this unjust country“. An avid atheist, he studied the bible and religion with more fervor than most Christians. He had strong political opinions and followed Amy Goodman’s radio broadcast “Democracy Now.” Alas the stolen election of 2000 and living with right-winged Americans finally brought him to his early demise. Stress from living in this unjust country brought about several heart attacks rendering him disabled. But I expect it’s more what Will Smith said to his... theanchoressonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098725/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:18:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876149/posts Father Sir Hugh Barrett-Lennard, 6th Bt, who has died aged 89, was a greatly admired if highly eccentric priest of the London Oratory.Pursuing a busy and eclectic apostolate in Knightsbridge, he was a dedicated parish visitor, so unconcerned about his appearance that he sometimes wore odd shoes; thus attired he would knock firmly on the doors of rich and poor alike.He visited the Household Cavalry, and served as a chaplain to both the local St Thomas More school and the St Christopher cycling club, though his cassock occasionally became tangled in a bicycle wheel and had to be cut free.... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876149/posts#comment Sat, 4 Aug 2007 02:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1820630/posts Helen Carey Collins, 88, devoted, hardworking motherBy Gayle Ronan Sims Inquirer Staff Writer Helen Carey Collins raised nine children in a 2-bedroom house. Helen Carey Collins' life was marked by hard times, hard work and devotion to her family. She was sent to an orphanage when she was 2, she went to work in a factory when she was 14, and she reared nine children in a two-bedroom rowhouse in Pennsport. And after her children were old enough to take care of themselves, she returned to working in factories. Mrs. Collins, 88, died Sunday of diabetes and hypertension at the... Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1820630/posts#comment Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814042/posts (Posted Vanity due to copyright restrictions) We have just learned from our local Gannett Newspaper site in Broome County NY that Johnny Hart, creator of "BC" and "Wizard of Id" died in his Ninevah NY home yesterday. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814042/posts#comment Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:24:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804627/posts Letterman Regular Larry 'Bud' Melman Dies By LARRY MCSHANE, AP NEW YORK (March 21) - The balding, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows has died after a long illness. The Brooklyn-born Calvert DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, the Letterman show announced Wednesday. He made dozens of appearances on Letterman's shows from 1982 through 2002, handling a variety of twisted duties: dueting with Sonny Bono on "I Got You, Babe," doing a Mary Tyler Moore impression during a visit to Minneapolis,... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804627/posts#comment Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:29:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709574/posts Roland L. Ruhl, a top forensic engineer and nationally and internationally recognized expert in accident reconstruction who testified in hundreds of Chicago cases, died last week in Oklahoma. Mr. Ruhl had lived in Champaign since 1991. He was 63. He was in Purcell, Okla., at the scene of a high-profile accident he had been hired to investigate when he was fatally struck by the extended mirror of a utility-type vehicle, his family said. "He was one of the leading people in the industry and had done this thousands of times," said his daughter, Laura Ruhl Genson. "It's highly unusual. It's... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709574/posts#comment Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:41:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663468/posts Frederic Arthur (Fred) Clark, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other's courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle as a result of an automobile accident on June 18, 2006. True to Fred's personal style, his final hours were spent joking with medical personnel while he whimpered, cussed, begged for narcotics and bargained with God to look over his wife and kids. He loved his family. His heart beat faster when his wife of 37 years Alice Rennie Clark entered the room and saddened a little when she left. His legacy was... Times dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663468/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:17:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643476/posts George Roche, Captain of Hillsdale Ship by Ron TrowbridgePosted May 16, 2006George Roche, president of Hillsdale College for 28 years, from l971 to l999, died May 5 at age 70. His body had been torn by diabetes most of his life. It is nearly impossible to exaggerate his accomplishments. He made Hillsdale College what it is, even today where the foundation he established remains, with the college presently building upon it. He was the captain of the ship, steering the boat and giving us mates direction. He gave the college the best faculty and the best students it had ever... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643476/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jun 2006 05:51:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1589513/posts I love to read, but I'm not an avid newspaper reader. I learned a long time ago not to believe everything I see in the paper or on TV. But I have noticed lately a lot of fairly young people are mentioned in the obituary column. Some, of course, are quite young, in their 20s or 30s, but there seems to be a very large number in their 40s and 50s, and that's getting too close to home. Perhaps it is just that too many people in my own age group are dying and it re-minds me of my own... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1589513/posts#comment Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:07:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558278/posts W. Cleon Skousen died Monday, January 9. Skousen was one of the leading anti-Communists of the day. His nephew, Mark Skousen, editor of the just-released Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (Regnery) and editor of the financial newsletter Forecasts and Strategies, has written this tribute about the man he calls “ a giant in the land.” W. Cleo Skousen: 1913-2006 "There were giants in the earth in those days....the same became might men who were of old, men of renown." (Genesis 6:4)A giant has died! My uncle Cleon, age 92, died of natural causes Jan.9, 2006. He lived a vigorous... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558278/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jan 2006 02:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541942/posts Ian Brunskill, editor GREAT LIVES A century in obituaries 684pp. Times Books. £20. 0 00 720168 0 Neither a memorial address nor a full-scale biography, the obituary notice is an underrated literary genre. To narrate the life, evoke the personality and assess the historical significance of someone who died only a day or so previously is no trivial task. Obituarists have to work quickly. They should avoid causing unnecessary pain to the living, but they must also be candid. They have to hazard an instant judgement, while recognizing that it may be overturned by later revelations. If they make mistakes,... Times Literary Supplement http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541942/posts#comment Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535967/posts Lady Mills, the actress, playwright and novelist Mary Hayley Bell, who died on Thursday aged 94, wrote one of the West End’s most successful post-war plays, Duet for Two Hands, and a novel, Whistle Down the Wind, which was turned into a memorable film.Often drawn in her fiction to medical or psychological case histories, Mary Hayley Bell gave up a promising career as an actress in the early 1940s when she married John Mills. She became a dramatist on the ground that she could write where and when she chose to suit her family, whereas acting was bound to keep... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535967/posts#comment Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:33:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491579/posts Don Adams, who gained worldwide fame and three Emmy Awards starring as Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, in the classic television comedy GET SMART, died at 8:02 p.m PDT, Sunday, September 25, 2005, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills. He was 82. Although he had been in failing health for more than two years due to bone lymphoma, his death resulted from a sudden lung infection for which he was hospitalized the previous day. Born Donald James Yarmy on April 13, 1923 [correct, despite frequently reported erroneous dates] in New York City to Irish-Hungarian parents, Adams hoped for an engineering career.... Alt Obits http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491579/posts#comment Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:12:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487931/posts LOS ANGELES - Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following World War II, then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “I think he’ll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In a way he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice,” MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487931/posts#comment Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:30:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1402513/posts I do while perusing the morning Internet is read the military obituaries in the British press, mainly The Daily Telegraph. Invariably, these write-ups mark the passing of a veteran of World War II in the kind of scope and detail, as critic James Bowman has noted, rarely found in an American paper. Sometimes, I feel compelled to save them in a file. Last summer, there was Wing Commander David Penman, 85, one of five Lancaster bombers pilots (out of 12 who started on the mission) to return in 1942 from a daring, low-flying, daylight raid on a German engine plant;... http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1402513/posts#comment Fri, 13 May 2005 15:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382502/posts Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a microbiologist who developed vaccines for mumps, measles, chickenpox, pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases, saving tens of millions of lives, died yesterday at a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 85. The cause was cancer, said a son-in-law, Greg Slamowitz. Raised on a farm in Montana, Dr. Hilleman credited much of his success to his boyhood work with chickens, whose eggs form the foundation of so many vaccines. Much of modern preventive medicine is based on Dr. Hilleman's work, though he never received the public recognition of Salk, Sabin or Pasteur. He is credited with having developed... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382502/posts#comment Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:15:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371659/posts Ernest Childers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for knocking out two German machine-gun nests in Italy in World War II, died on March 17 in Muskogee, Okla. He was 87 and lived Coweta, Okla. The cause was complications of a stroke and a heart attack, said his wife, Yolanda Chadwell Childers. On Sept. 22, 1943, after securing the beaches in Salerno, Second Lt. Childers's unit, the 45th Infantry Division, began an assault on the mountain town of Oliveto Citra. When the division came under heavy machine-gun fire, he rounded up eight soldiers for a mission, despite having slipped... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371659/posts#comment Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:54:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367001/posts George H. O'Brien Jr., a Marine lieutenant in the Korean War who was awarded the Medal of Honor for spearheading the capture of an enemy-held hill while wounded by automatic-weapons fire, died on March 11 in Midland, Tex. Mr. O'Brien, who lived in Midland, was 78. The cause was complications of emphysema, his son George said. On the night of Oct. 26, 1952, with the Korean War well into its third year, Chinese Communist troops, backed by artillery, besieged marines holding a fishhook-shaped hill known as the Hook. If the Communists took the hill, the way could have been open... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1367001/posts#comment Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328584/posts WHEN A PROMINENT AMERICAN in any field passes on, it's front page news. Some sneer at this and say, "The same thing happens to everyone. Why is it bigger if it happens to a star?" But I think it is bigger. Yes, thousands probably die in the same way at the same time, and each is a sorrow, but the passing of a beloved icon makes us all stop and think and reflect and remember, and gives a country with too little in common a great deal in common, if only briefly. So it is with Johnny Carson. Even in... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328584/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:47:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1317299/posts LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Danny Sugerman, longtime manager of the Doors and the principal caretaker of the Los Angeles band's legend, died Wednesday in West Hollywood after a long battle with cancer. He was 50. Sugerman became involved with the Doors as a teenage fan during the group's heyday in the late '60s. He worked as a go-fer for the band, and idolized flamboyant lead singer Jim Morrison. After Morrison's death in Paris in 1971, he became increasingly involved with the surviving members' career and eventually served as their manager. At his death, he was partnered with co-manager Jeff... Reuters/Hollywood Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1317299/posts#comment Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:59:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315441/posts With Alger Hiss dead and Gloria Steinem married, liberals were in desperate need of an "intellectual." Woody Allen was a possibility, as were Carter and Clinton, but they were all too cliché. The Left needed someone relatively unknown to the masses -- public opinion isn't good for liberals -- and someone who knew lots and lots of words. (The definitions were essentially irrelevant, but pronunciation was key.) They settled, at long last, on someone just as good as any Soviet apparatchik they could have ever found: Susan Sontag. Recently deceased at the age of 71, Sontag was to liberal elitists... HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315441/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:52:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314095/posts MIAMI (AP)-Will Eisner, the artist who revolutionized comic books, helped pioneer the graphic novel and taught generations of soldiers how to maintain their equipment with the "Joe Dope" series, has died. He was 87. ap.tbo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314095/posts#comment Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:44:54 GMT