2014---IN REMEMBRANCE

[tuxgeo]

Former US Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker is dead at 88.

Edit: At least one source is appending a "Jr." after his name.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Mary Rodgers, who wrote Once Upon a Matress and Freaky Friday, died yesterday. She was 83.

Mary was the daughter of Richard Rodgers.

 

[Mark CMG]

Bobby Womack has passed.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bobby Womack has passed.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627

What a great talent. He kept his voice in incredibly good shape even late into life, unlike many performers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1rJiCviCe0&sns=em

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Meshach Taylor has died.

http://tvline.com/2014/06/29/meshach-taylor-dies-67-designing-women/

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Paul Mazursky has died.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/showbiz/movies/obit-paul-mazursky/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Bob Hastings died June 30 after battling pancreatic cancer for 15 years. He was 89.

Hastings got his start playing Archie Andrews on the radio. He was also in Captain Video, McHale's Navy, The Phil Silvers Show, and he did voice work including Superboy on The Superman/Aquaman Hour and Commissioner Gordon on ​Batman: The Animated Series.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Louis Zamperini, Olympic athlete and World War II hero, died yesterday. He was 97.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Children's author Walter Dean Myers died Tuesday. He was 76.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Richard Mellon Scaife has died.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/04/politics/richard-mellon-scaife-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2