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, February 26, 2011
Please leave your eulogy after the tone: recorded remembrances coming
A press release posted on boston.citybizlist.com states that the obituary site Tributes.com is teaming up with audio archive service Remembered Voices to provide a service that will "to enable family and friends to leave personalized audio messages within the memory books of obituaries and Eternal Tributes posted to the popular Obituary database to express their sympathy to the immediate family or recall special memories of the deceased."
Len Gilmore
Determined baseball player -- via Baseball Fever. He pitched one game in the majors, for the Pirates, on Oct. 1, 1944.
Chris Dale
Mountaineer -- via the Telegraph. A very unique and outgoing individual! More memories from the Caledonian Mercury.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Florinda Chico aka Forlinda Chico Martin Mora
Actress on stage, in film and television -- via typicallyspanish.com.
Forrest Vandergrift "Spook" Jacobs
MLB second baseman -- via Delaware Online. The first, and only one of three, major leaguers to go four-for-four in his debut. Never a long-baller, he slapped hits through the infield, or drove them just over infielders' heads; thus, his nickname.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Vivien Noakes
Biographer, editor and critic -- via the Times of London. She was an expert on the life and works of Edward Lear.
Isadore Nathaniel (Niel) Parker
Trumpeter -- via Variety. He worked with Jerry Colonna, Bix Beiderbecke, the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, Eddy Duchin, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Paul Whiteman. He also performed extensively on radio and for Hollywood composers.
Terry Clements
Guitarist best remembered for his work wth Gordon Lightfoot -- via themusicsover.wordpress.com.
Haila Stoddard
Stoddard with husband Jack Kirkland (who wrote the astonishingly successful stage adaptation of "Tobacco Road") in 1941. |
My very first published story was a profile of the Elitch Theater, 30 years ago, and I began to learn about her then. Stoddard was a talent, and an intrepid thespian. She did a lot of good.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Alfred Burke
Actor -- via the Telegraph. Best known for his portrayal of Frank Marker in the TV detective series "Public Eye."
Sofia Cosma
Concert pianist -- via the L.A. Times. She survived seven years in a Soviet prison camp, and eventually defected to the West.
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