Obituaries - 2025

[AARR]

Garth Hudson, the last surviving member of the highly influential and experimental music group The Band, has died aged 87. He ‘passed away peacefully in his sleep’ at his nursing home in Woodstock, New York, according to the Toronto Star

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ic ... 11#image=1

[Jochs]

Celebrity jeweley designer Lynn Ban died in a skiing accident on Monday. She was 51.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ly ... ffae&ei=16

[AARR]

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78, her spokesperson has said.

Faithfull’s hits included As Tears Go By, which was written by The Rolling Stones’ Sir Mick Jagger, her boyfriend in the 1960s, and Keith Richards.

In addition to her music career, Faithfull also acted in films including The Girl on a Motorcycle, as well as theatre productions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment ... f6d8&ei=15

[AARR]

John Shumate, who sparked Notre Dame to the 1974 upset of UCLA that snapped the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak, has died. He was 72. He also played for the Detroit Pistons.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... ak-dies-72

[AARR]

One of the Baltimore Orioles former players has sadly passed away.

Rich Dauer, the second baseman on the 1983 World Series-winning team, has died at the age of 72 in an announcement made by the Orioles.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... 2ae6&ei=11

[AARR]

Tiger Woods: Mother Kultida, 'force of nature,' dies at 80
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/43 ... re-dies-78

[Trainman2223]

2/4/2025
Detroit broadcasting legend Al Allen has died

From Mumford High School to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame, broadcaster Al Allen spent nearly five decades reporting news in Detroit.

The Little Rock, Arkansas, native died Tuesday night at a Metro Detroit hospital, according to Fox 2 Detroit. He was 79.

Allen is preceded in death by his wife Alfreda Long, who died in 2023. They had a son, Andrew Long Jr. and two grandsons. According to Fox 2 Detroit, funeral and visitation details are pending.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/enter ... 245680007/

https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/1588332

[AARR]

Longtime NFL player and coach Dick Jauron, who led the Chicago Bears to the playoffs and was voted AP Coach of the Year in 2001, died Saturday. He was 74.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/437 ... ch-dies-74

[Jochs]

R.I.P. actress Lynne Marie Stewart, who has died at the age of 78.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/its- ... fRgIPGenfA

[AARR]

Donovan Munger, former Ohio State player who won national title, dead at 30. Munger was forced to retire over blood clot issues.
Donovan Munger, a former college football defensive lineman who played for the 2014 Ohio State national championship team, has died, his mother announced on social media.
A cause of death wasn’t announced.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/donovan- ... le-dead-30

[AARR]

Roberta Flack, the iconic R&B singer best known for the track “Killing Me Softly (with His Song)” died on Monday morning. She was 88. Her representatives confirmed the news in a statement to Variety.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/le ... 0bc5&ei=15

[Jochs]

R.I.P. Actor John Lawlor, who died on 2/13/25 at the age of 83.
https://people.com/john-lawlor-dead-the ... 3-11685684

[Jochs]

R.I.P. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who died at the age of 39.
https://wgntv.com/news/deans-list/miche ... aiERgIY52Q

[AARR]

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, wife found dead in Santa Fe home
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman was found dead alongside his wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday afternoon.

Hackman was 95 at the time of his death and his wife 63.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/o ... ta-fe-home

[Manistique]

Jim Adams died on November 16, 2024. Jim was a lifelong Michigan railfan and model railroader. He was very active in the Michigan Railroad Club in the 1950's and 1960's, often as a train/car attendant on many of their steam excursions in Michigan and Ontario. He was an accomplished photographer especially with wide format black and white. He had a side business enlarging negatives to poster size prints and advertised in TRAINS Magazine into the 1970's. In 2000 he started working part-time on the Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road, eventually becoming a conductor and licensed engineer. He was instrumental in starting up the operations of its subsidiaries, Detroit Connecting, Lapper Industrial, Charlotte Southern and the Jackson and Lansing Railroad, of which he was an Assistant Superintendent for its start up in October 2011. After retiring from the A&B he was very active with the Steam Railroad Institute, Project 1225, in Owosso, helping to rebuild 1225 in that period and, with his wife Lynn, as a car attendant on the Polar Express excursion trains. For years Jim was very active with many of the metro Detroit model railroad layouts and was building his own layout when he died. Quietly and without fanfare Jim contributed greatly to the railroad hobbies in Michigan all the way until his passing. He was loved by all, he had no enemies.

[Jochs]

Singer Angie Stone died yesterday in a car crash in Alabama.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment ... 9194&ei=13
Singer David Johansen, aka Buster Poindexter, has died at the age of 75.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... c2b4&ei=16

[Jochs]

R.I.P. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of 60 years, who died today in Nashville, TN at the age of 82.
https://www.wfla.com/entertainment-news ... ip0OcMFYTg

[Jochs]

Pamela Bach, an actor and the ex-wife of “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff, has died at 62.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-p ... VXw4cFUteQ