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Abby Dalton, 'Hennesey' and 'Falcon Crest' actress, dead at 88
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/a ... tress-dead

Who?

December 1.

Bill Palmer, 70, American restaurateur, co-founder of Applebee's, pancreatic cancer.
Hugh Keays-Byrne, 73, English-Australian actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Stone, Farscape).

December 2.

David Sheehan, 82, American reporter, prostate cancer.
Bill Spanswick, 82, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
Pat Patterson, 79, Canadian-American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWE, AWA), liver failure.
Frank Carney, 82, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Pizza Hut, pneumonia.
Warren Berlinger, 83, American actor (The Joey Bishop Show, The Cannonball Run, The World According to Garp).

December 3.

Marv Marinovich, 81, American football player (Oakland Raiders).

December 4.

Pamela Tiffin, 78, American actress (One, Two, Three, Harper, Summer and Smoke) and model.
Larry Mavety, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Sharks, Philadelphia Blazers) and coach (Belleville Bulls).

Walter Williams, conservative economics professor, columnist, dead at 84
https://www.foxnews.com/us/walter-willi ... dead-at-84

David Lander, known as Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley, has died. He was 73.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/david ... li=BBnbfcL

The actor died of multiple sclerosis on Friday evening (12/4/2020) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to multiple reports.

Chuck Yeager, 97. He was first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chuck ... d=msedgntp

08 Dec 2020, 37-year-old Capt. Durwood "Hawk" Jones.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... ining.html

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... alted.html

"The Wisconsin Air National Guard has identified the F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot killed during a crash in Michigan's Upper Peninsula earlier this week as 37-year-old Capt. Durwood "Hawk" Jones.

Jones, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, joined the Guard in 2011, according to a Friday Facebook announcement from the 115th Fighter Wing out of Truax Field Air National Guard Base in Madison. He completed F-16 basic qualification training in 2015 and deployed to Japan that same year to support operations in the Pacific, the post said."

Jones' F-16 crashed around 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Hiawatha National Forest, roughly 300 miles northeast of the base, during a routine night training mission. The wing had planned to conduct night drills Monday through Thursday, according to unit announcements.

Local emergency responders, the Coast Guard, additional Air Force units and other government agencies initiated immediate search-and-rescue efforts on the ground, in the air, and in the water following the crash.

Jones is survived by his wife and two children, the State Journal said.

In June, 1st Lt. David Schmitz, of the 77th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, died after attempting to land at the end of an F-16 nighttime qualification sortie.

The Air Force found that Schmitz could not recover the jet after he severely damaged the aircraft's landing gear upon touching down, but added that there were additional contributing factors that led to his death -- including an ejection attempt that failed because of a seat malfunction.

R.I.P. Charley Pride, who was a pioneering black country singer. He died at the age of 86 due to complications from Covid-19.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... it-192455/

R.I.P. to New Orleans stage and screen actor, Carol Sutton. She has died at the age of 76 from Covid-19 complications.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/new- ... OwfIae4ENc

Thank you for posting the story

Trainman2223 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 12, 2020 3:11 am

08 Dec 2020, 37-year-old Capt. Durwood "Hawk" Jones.

Benny Napoleon, 65, American police officer, sheriff of Wayne County, Michigan (since 2009), complications from COVID-19. (10-17-2020)

Sheriff Napoleon dies at 65 after battle with virus.

"DETROIT – Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon has died Thursday after a battle with COVID-19, officials say.

He was 65 years old.

Napoleon was hospitalized late last month. He tested negative Nov. 13, but on Nov. 17 he experienced a rise in temperature. That is when his primary care doctor conducted a second test. He was notified about testing positive for the virus two days later.

Since March, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office has lost one commander and two deputies to COVID-19."

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/loc ... mily-says/

https://www.wxyz.com/news/wayne-county- ... h-covid-19

NFL hall of famer Kevin Greene died at 58.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Gre ... _football)

Legendary Boston Celtics player, coach K.C. Jones dies at 88
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/305 ... es-dies-88

Phil Niekro, Hall of Fame knuckleball pitcher, dead at 81. The Hall of Famer played until he was 48 years old.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/phil-nie ... dies-at-81

Dawn Wells Dies Of Covid-19: Mary Ann On ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Was 82
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/dawn-w ... IE11FRENTP