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May Obituaries

Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 7:24 am
by AARR
Barb Perry from the Dick Van Dyke show passes at 97
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/d ... dead-at-97

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Posted: Fri May 10, 2019 9:20 am
by AARR

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2019 1:19 pm
by Garry K
Peggy Lipton (Mod Squad actress) has died at age 72.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/peo ... 181519001/

Garry K

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2019 3:54 pm
by AARR
Elsa Patton, ‘Real Housewives of Miami’ fixture, dead at 84. Don't know this lady and have never watched the show. I don't know if this was her intended "look" or if her surgery went bad :?
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/e ... miami-dead

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Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 11:36 am
by Garry K
Doris Day has passed away at age 97. For those young(er) folks, she was an actress that made "wholesome" family films. As it says in the Detroit News obituary, "she stood for a time of innocence and G-rated love."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/obitu ... /39474845/

Garry K

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Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 4:33 pm
by AARR

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Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 9:18 pm
by hoborich
He was a really funny guy. Watched the Mary Tyler Moore show every week. He used to crack her and Harvey Korman up.

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Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 2:19 am
by Jochs
hoborich wrote:He was a really funny guy. Watched the Mary Tyler Moore show every week. He used to crack her and Harvey Korman up.
Except he was a semi-regular on The Carol Burnett Show. ;) He was a guest most of the time, and eventually became one of the regulars on the show.

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Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 8:36 am
by Jetlink
So I loved his character, "Dorf". Dorf on Golf being a favorite title of our family as my dad was an avid golfer. He made a couple of other Dorf programs too that I remember watching on VHS tapes as a youth. Then there was the short lived program, Tim Conway's Funny America. I remember one of the bits was that Tim Conway stood on a corner and convinced people they had to drag a metal chain across the intersection while they crossed a road to electrically ground themselves out or they would be electrocuted by a curious electric field that was only present at that particular intersection.

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Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 12:36 pm
by Garry K
Reruns of the old Carol Burnett show (with Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, and Vicki Lawrence) are still WAY funnier than any of the so-called comedies of today's television world. Who of us (or a certain age) doesn't remember Conway as Ensign Parker in McHale's Navy?

Garry K

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Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 12:52 pm
by AARR
I'm sooo out of the loop. I don't know who this is or the shows he was apparently on.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/i ... rump-qanon

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Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 10:07 am
by Jochs
R.I.P. Grumpy Cat. Her real name was Tardar Sauce. She developed a urinary tract infection which she was unable to fight off. She died on Tuesday at the age of 7.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertai ... 2hZ30Bxnsk

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Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 2:30 pm
by Garry K
Herman Wouk, author of "The Caine Mutiny" and "The Winds of War," has died at age 103. He was 10 days away from his 104th birthday.

https://apnews.com/1ee28153a1e54f52a516352171c7f41d

Garry K

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Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 4:26 pm
by AARR
Urinary Tract Infection...no wonder she was grumpy :lol:
Jochs wrote:R.I.P. Grumpy Cat. Her real name was Tardar Sauce. She developed a urinary tract infection which she was unable to fight off. She was died on Tuesday at the age of 7.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertai ... 2hZ30Bxnsk

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Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 8:02 pm
by AARR
Actress Geneviève Waïte, Former Wife of Musician John Phillips, Dead at 71
Aka another celebrity I've never heard of :?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment ... spartanntp

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Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 11:26 pm
by Garry K
Niki Lauda, former Formula One racing three-time champion, has passed away at age 70.

https://news.sky.com/story/formula-1-le ... 0-11725108

Lauda was my racing hero. In 1976, he was almost burned alive in a fiery wreck, and still almost won the championship that year. The racing movie "Rush" documents Lauda's battles with James Hunt during that 1976 season very well. Probably most people would have never got back into a race car after getting burned like Lauda.

I also race the #8 Marlboro McLaren (a car that Lauda won a championship with) in an auto-racing boardgame, "Championship Formula Racing," that we race in the Detroit area. Our CFR-Detroit home page is at http://michigumbo.com/cfr/.

Garry K

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Posted: Sun May 26, 2019 1:23 pm
by trnwatcher

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Posted: Mon May 27, 2019 3:40 pm
by AARR
Bill Buckner former MLB player passed away
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bill-buc ... icago-cubs

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Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 9:11 pm
by Jochs
Singer Leon Redbone is dead at the age of 69.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sin ... rc=fauxdal

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Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:10 pm
by Garry K