Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Jan Wiese

Writer -- via vg.no.


Earl Robinson

Robert Porter

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Jimmy Hayes

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.


Marvin Richard Percy "Dickie" Jones

Monday, July 7, 2014

Paul Apted

Sound editor -- via Variety. Son of director Michael Apted.

Hisham Rizk

Graffiti artist -- via Ahram Online.

Ange-Aimée Woods

Radio journalist -- via Colorado Public Radio.

Seth Teller

Sharifah Aini aka Datuk Sharifah Aini Syed Jaafar aka Kak Pah aka Biduanita Negara

Singer -- via the Malay Mail.





OBIT READER: Our weekly roundup of stories on death, dying, mourning, and more

TOP STORIES

Let’s put the fun back in funeral? From Jaleed Kaleem in the Huffington Post:

Denver trumpeter writes his own threnody – an account by David Hill on Colorado Public Radio  https://www.cpr.org/news/story/trumpeter-joshua-trinidad-writes-music-his-own-funeral

Valentina Zanoni announces on Swide that the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s fall exhibition concerns the history of mourning attire http://www.swide.com/art-culture/met-museum-fall-2014-exhibition-mourning-dress/2014/07/03

DEATH


Jenny Che of the Wall Street Journal reports on a Copper Age funerary ware exhibit http://online.wsj.com/articles/masters-of-fire-spotlights-the-copper-age-1404421180?mod=rss_Books

MOURNING

A heartrending photo essay from NBC shows us those mourning a teen who died en route to America http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/family-mourns-guatemalan-boy-who-died-border-n146636

From Funeral News: Maintaining a relationship with the dead: an African perspective http://funeralnews.co.za/top-scholar-explains-african-way-of-mourning/

Patti Woods of NPR reports -- Mourning under cover: when a lover had to pretend to be just a friend http://www.npr.org/2014/07/02/327404618/mourning-in-the-closet-she-was-more-than-my-best-friend


The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation tell us that Ebola victim families are warned to avoid traditional mourning practices to prevent spread the epidemic http://www.gbcghana.com/1.1773089

OBITS

How does it feel to read your own obituary? Roz Warren tells us in the digital pages of Viva Fifty! http://www.vivafifty.com/reading-my-obituary-online-1265/

Slavik Boyechko & Travis Gilmour of Alaska Public Media meet the town obituarist http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/06/29/i-am-the-town-obituary-writer/

FUNERAL HOMES

Why can’t she get her husband’s death certificate fixed? Jon Yates of the Chicago Tribune wants to know http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/problemsolver/ct-death-certificate-error-problem-0701-biz-20140701,0,5645740.column

Funeral business drawing new recruits, says Jim Ryan of the Columbus Dispatch  http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2014/07/01/a-renewed-undertaking.html

Robin L. Flanigan of the Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle interviews an undertaker http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/06/30/funeral-director-love-embalming/11259461/

In the People's Post, Henry Booysen reports on a horrible funeral in South Africa http://www.peoplespost.co.za/articles/articledetails.aspx?mode=news&id=161947


Michael Burrell

Actor and director -- via the Huntingdon Post.

Torill Thorstad Hauger

Writer and illustrator -- via nrk.no.

Emilio Álvarez Montalván

Giorgio Faletti

Ivan Junqueira

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Mavis Whyte aka the Tiddley-Winkie Girl

Entertainer -- via Wirral Globe.






Jeffry Wickham

Damaso Ruano

Painter -- via Diario Sur.

Oscar C. Yatco

Conductor and violinist -- via the Philippine Star.

María Bernarda Seitz

Nun with a cooking show -- via clarin.com.

Therese Vanier

Doctor and pioneer in palliative and hospice care, as well as integrative living plans for the disabled (L'Arche) -- via EAPC.

From the obit -- "Unassuming and gentle, wise and simple in reaching the truth, constantly searching for justice in the service to the most vulnerable in society, Thérèse Vanier’s deep commitment was to humanity.
«S’il n’y a plus rien à faire, tout reste à faire. »(When there is nothing more that can be done, everything can still be done.)"

Ku Tho

Comedian, actor, and director -- via myanmarcelebrity.com.

Dick Seltzer

Actor and educator -- via philly.com. He's the gut in that Pennsylvania Lottery Christmas TV commercial!

Marilyn "Mitzie" Welch

Betty Cody aka Rita Cote

Singer -- via the AP.





Friday, July 4, 2014

Walter Dean Myers

Sue Fryer Ward

Activist for elders' rights -- via the Washington Post.

Louis Zamperini

Athlete, war hero, and spiritual modeler of forgiveness -- via the New York Times. An Olympian, he survived 47 days at sea after a plane crash, then a long term of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Japanese. After a period of despair and addiction, a religious epiphany led him to forgive his captors and remake his life.

Jim Brosnan

Frederick I. Ordway III

Space scientist, prolific writer, and art collector -- via the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He dreamed of space flight as a child; he read avidly science fiction and joined the American Rocket Society in 1939, at the age of 12. His dreams came true -- he worked to develop rocket travel and space flight, and helped man go to the moon!






Stephen Gaskin

Man with a vision who figured out how to implement it; "Hippy Priest, Spiritual Revolutionary, Cannabis Advocate, shade tree mechanic, cultural engineer, tractor driver and community starter" -- via the New York Times.





Linda Rodney

Songstress -- via veooz.com.

Peter Pragas

Composer and musician -- via mysinchew.com.



Jeffrey Ressner

Journalist -- via Billboard.

Anatoly Klyan

Cameraman -- via the Guardian.

Francis Matthews

Actor; best known for roles as TV detective Paul Temple and voice of Captain Scarlet in the "supermarionation" series "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons."






Paul Horn

Don Matheson

Actor best remembered for his role in "Land of the Giants" -- via Stefan Arngrim on Facebook. I was a sucker for all things Irwin Allen in 1960s television; loved this cheesy series in which Mathews played good guy Dan Erickson.



http://www.hulu.com/watch/2568


Terry Burnham

Child actress -- via twilightzonemuseum.com.

Lasse Kuhler

Dancer, choreographer, and teacher -- via the Aftonbladet.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Bob Hastings

Actor in radio, film, and television -- via the New York Daily News. Best remembered as Carpenter in the TV comedy series "McHale's Navy," the long-lived Hastings began his career in 1936 in radio shows such as "Coast to Coast on a Bus" and, after WWII, the lead character in "The Adventures of Archie Andrews." He did extensive work in early TV -- "Captain Video," "Atom Squad," "Sgt. Bilko," and dozens of others. After "McHale's Navy," his extensive work continued on shows auch as "All in the Family," "General Hospital," and eventually he did an inrcedible amount of voice work, returning to his sound-studio roots. A thoroughly dependable performer!



Peire Bec

Poet -- via Generalitat de Catalunya.