In Remembrance---2009

[Dannyalcatraz]

Carolyn Pfeifer Horchow, co-founder of Dallas' Horchow Collection, died Monday at her Dallas home of complications of cancer. She was 75.

She delivered Meals on Wheels as a volunteer for the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas, where she also served on the board of directors.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

~messed up post~

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Bob Bogle, a member of the instrumental rock band The Ventures, died Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphona. He was 75.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Bob Bogle, a member of the instrumental rock band The Ventures, died Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphona. He was 75.

Darn. The Ventures was my favorite instrumental group in the 60s.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Tomoji Tanabe, the world's oldest living man, died today. He was 113.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Edith Ronne, the first U.S. woman to visit Antarctica, died Sunday. She was 89.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Roger "Bill" Terry, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, died June 11 of heart failure. He was 87.

Terry was dishonorably discharged for helping to send black airmen to a segregated officers' club - an event that would be known as the Freeman Field Mutiny. He was pardoned in 1995.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

John Houghtaling, the inventor of the "Magic Fingers" vibrating bed, died last Wednesday, of complications from a fall. He was 92.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Ed McMahon, best known as Johnny Carson's announcer and sidekick on The Tonight Show, died today. He was 86.

McMahon also hosted Star Search and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, and was the spokesman for Publisher's Clearing House. Earlier this year, he was in a "Cash for Gold" commercial.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

British actor Colin Bean, best known for playing Private Sponge in Dad's Army, died last Saturday. He was 82.