In Remembrance---2009

[Mark]

Musician Jack Rose Dead at 38

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Actor Gene Barry, who played a well dressed man of action in the TV series Bat Masterson, Burke's Law, and The Name of the Game, and starred in the sci-fi classics The War of the Worlds and Invaders From Mars, died Wednesday. He was 90.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Robert G. Heft, who designed the first 50 star U.S. flag, died today. He was 67.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Robert G. Heft, who designed the first 50 star U.S. flag, died today. He was 67.

It's a shame they didn't lower flags to half staff. It would have been fitting.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Evangelist Oral Roberts, who also founded Oral Roberts University, died today. He was 91.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hope he gets to see his 900ft Jesus again, instead of a similarly statured Devil.

 

[Mark]

Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, dies

 

[Truth Seeker]

NFL star Chris Henry dies after falling out of truck

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry has died, one day after suffering serious injuries upon falling out of the back of a pickup truck in what authorities describe as a domestic dispute with his fiancee.

In Remembrance.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Jennifer Jones, one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1940s and 1950s, died today. She was 90.

Among her films were Duel in the Sun, The Song of Bernadette (for which she won an Oscar), Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, and The Towering Inferno.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Dan O'Bannon died yesterday after a short illness. He was 63.

O'Bannon did special effects for Star Wars, wrote the screenplay for what would become Alien, and wrote and directed Return of the Living Dead.