In Remembrance---2009

[Dannyalcatraz]

Aplington-Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas- who helped launch several professional football careers- was gunned down by a former player Wednesday morning in front of students taking part in an offseason workout, authorities said. Thomas, 58, died at a Waterloo hospital.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, who made headlines when she found out she had breast cancer while working in Antarctica, and treated it herself until she could be rescued, died Tuesday. Her cancer had been in remission for a while, but it returned in 2005. She was 57.

 

[Immortalis]

Farrah Fawcett - Passed away at 62

Breaking: Farrah Fawcett Has Died at Age 62 (The TV Zone) - Newsday.com

"ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT has learned that Farrah Fawcett died today at St. John's Health Center in Los Angeles after a courageous and lengthy battle with anal cancer. She was 62."

 

[Immortalis]

Not sure how this one was missed but: June 17:

Band Of Brothers Hero, Darrell &#39Shifty&#39 Powers Dies | TriCities


Darrell “Shifty” Powers, one of the soldiers depicted in “Band of Brothers," from the legendary 101st Airborne, Easy Company, passed away from his battle with cancer.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Micheal Jackson is dead!

 

[Plane Sailing]

Micheal Jackson is dead!

And example reference

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Singer Michael Jackson 'is dead'

Paramedics were called to the singer's home around midday local time on Thursday after he stopped breathing and suffered a suspected cardiac arrest.

He was rushed by ambulance to a local medical centre, but his death was announced shortly afterwards.

 

[Knightfall]

Micheal Jackson is dead!

... I'm not sure how I feel about his death.

 

[Relique du Madde]

... I'm not sure how I feel about his death.

It's sort of a mixed bag. It's good to see an alleged pedophile who was famous and squandered away all the respect he created within the community and become a sick joke and parody of himself die. It's bad to see an American icon die. What makes it especially sad is if no one took him aside during the late 1980s and 1990s and said "Seriously Micheal, you need help. The way you are living your life will only lead you to a place where you don't want to end up."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

What makes it especially sad is if no one took him aside during the late 1980s and 1990s and said "Seriously Micheal, you need help. The way you are living your life will only lead you to a place where you don't want to end up."

He had friends like that, notably a particular rabbi buddy of his.

Each one he either ignored or his entourage (including certain family members) made sure were marginalized. In the end, most of them were outside of his inner circle.

But that's all for another thread. I really think this is more of an "obits only" place.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Chicago broadcaster John Callaway, who helped launch an all-news station for CBS Radio and won 16 Emmys and a Peabody in his long career, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 72.