In REMEMBRANCE---2017 AD

[Truth Seeker]

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

-Peter Henry Abrahams​

 

[Eltab]

William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahey (sp?) in M*A*S*H, died over the weekend.
He was 84 and had contracted cancer.

He was the first "pastor" character I watched who struggled with the temptation to behave ... well, like everybody else did.

- NK soldier wakes up in operating room, produces hidden grenade, and pulls pin; staff flinches then rushes to prevent 'inevitable' tragedy -
Hawkeye: "Where's the pin for this grenade?"
Father "Right under your foot !"

I'm putting him here because the news got out on the 1st.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

He actually did get posted in the 2016 thread, but it's OK to goof in the effort to be thorough. I posted the same person's obit in 2 threads...a couple years apart.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

2017 picks up where 2016 left off.

Tyrus Wong has died.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38484729

 

[Truth Seeker]

Broadcaster Brian Widlake dies aged 85

Radio and television presenter Brian Widlake, who conducted the first TV interview with Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 85.

As an ITN reporter in 1961, Widlake secretly met Mandela, who was on the run from the police at the time.

Widlake went on to become a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World At One and PM in the 1970s and '80s, and co-presented BBC Two's Money Programme.

In Remembrance

 

[trappedslider]

Former Navy SEAL Richard “Mack” Machowicz Passes Away After Long Battle with Cancer

http://shotinfo.net/former-navy-sea...cz-passes-away-after-long-battle-with-cancer/

 

[Truth Seeker]

George Kosana, sheriff in 'Night of the Living Dead,' dies at 81

George Kosana, who played the beefy Sheriff McClelland in the 1968 cult zombie film, Night of the Living Dead, has died. He was 81.

In Remembrance

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Om Puri has died.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38527232

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tilikum has died.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...rlds-famed-orca-and-subject-of-blackfish-dies

 

[tuxgeo]

Portugese politician and reformer Mario Soares has died at age 92. He steered the country toward democracy.