In Remembrance--2011

[Dannyalcatraz]

Guitar resale icon and industry Ed Roman has passed.

Ed owned what was at one time the biggest & most famous guitar store in the world, frequented by rock royalty. His rants about guitar manufacturing & sales practices were legendary.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Eva Ekvall has died of cancer, aged 28.

Former Miss Venezuela dies of breast cancer at 28 - Yahoo! News

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Dutch-born Johannes Heesters has died.

Dutch-born entertainer Heesters dies at age 108 after long career started in Nazi Germany - The Washington Post

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Robert Morvillo, attorney who represented mostly high-profile white collar criminal defendants- including Martha Stewart and John Zaccaro- has died.

Lawyer Morvillo, Martha Stewart defender, dies - Yahoo! News

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

John G. Lawrence, gay rights pioneer who was part of a landmark US Supreme Court case granting gays privacy rights has died of heart failure at age 68.

Gay Privacy Case Winner Dead at 68

 

[billd91]

Are some of these death references starting to be a bit obscure? Do some of them need to be mentioned on a gaming/fanboy message board?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Color Field movement founder, Helen Frankenthaler, has died.


Abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83 - Yahoo! News

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Are some of these death references starting to be a bit obscure? Do some of them need to be mentioned on a gaming/fanboy message board?

I've been participating in GrayLinnorm's threads for a few years now- many of the notices are obscure. I frequently see people I've never heard of memorialized here, so I'm sure it's the same for everyone else.

 

[Fast Learner]

Are some of these death references starting to be a bit obscure? Do some of them need to be mentioned on a gaming/fanboy message board?

Not "starting to", there's a multi-year history of obscure death notices here. I felt the same way at first, but have come to appreciate being introduced to interesting people that I never even knew existed.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Ex-SNL writer/Kids in the Hall producer Joe Bodolai has died.

Ex-'Saturday Night Live' writer Joe Bodolai dies - Yahoo! News