In Remembrance--2011

[Truth Seeker]

Hazel Dickens, bluegrass performer, dies at 75

Hazel Dickens, a folk singer and bluegrass musician who advocated for coal miners, has died at age 75.

Dickens died (last) Friday morning at a Washington hospice of complications from pneumonia. Her death was confirmed by Ken Irwin, a founder of Rounder Records, her label for about 40 years.

In Remembrance.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Poly Styrene, lead singer of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, died yesterday of breast cancer. She was 53.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow, who had a top 10 hit with "Poetry Man", but then largely dropped out of the spotlight to take care of her disabled daughter, died today from complications of a brain hemorrhage she suffered last year. She was 58.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Teleprompter inventor 'Hub' Schlafly dies at 91

Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter and rescued decades' worth of soap opera actors, newscasters and politicians from the embarrassment of stumbling over their words on live television, has died. He was 91.

In Remembrnace


This deserves a noble prize...it really does.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Ngo Dinh Nhu, first lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, died Easter. She was 87.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Former Miami Dolphins tight end and broadcaster Jim Mandich died Tuesday after a battle with bile-duct cancer.

 

[Truth Seeker]

News: MM! Light Novel Author Akinari Matsuno Passes Away

The Japanese publisher Media Factory announced on Tuesday that MM! light novel author Akinari Matsuno suddenly passed away on April 18. Matsuno won the 1st Media Factory Bunko J Light Novel New Author Award and made his debut with the science-fiction comedy work Aoba-kun to Uchu-Jin in October of 2005. He then launched the first volume in his second series — MM! — in February of 2007.

In Remembrance

 

[Ahzad]

Doug Chaffee BattleTech Artist Passed Away

Doug Chaffee artist of BattleTech, Shadowrun, Netrunner, Mtg, and TSR products has passed away. I always remembered his BT art as fun and very evocative. He also had some nice D&D pieces.

Catalyst Game Labs Archive Doug Chaffee: Passing of an Artist, of a Friend

 

[Truth Seeker]

'The Fighter' Mom Alice Ward Dies at 79

Alice Ward -- mother to boxers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund and whose portrayal in "The Fighter" won Melissa Leo a Best Support Actress Oscar -- has died.

She was 79

In Remembrance

 

[Mark CMG]

Elmer Lynn Hauldren dead at 89 -

Lynn Hauldren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia