In REMEMBRANCE---2017 AD

Dannyalcatraz · Feb 18, 2017

Norma McCorvey has died.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccorvey-center-roe-v-wade-185634628.html

Dannyalcatraz · Feb 19, 2017

Omar Abdel-Rahman has died.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trade-center-bomber-omar-abdel-rahman-dies-prison-161837334.html

tuxgeo · Feb 19, 2017

Dannyalcatraz said:
Norma McCorvey has died.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccorvey-center-roe-v-wade-185634628.html

May she find peace and joy in whatever sort of existence she may encounter after her death. By now, she has earned some measure of peace and joy. (But I like to think that of nearly everyone.)

(Mixed Cajun and Cherokee ancestry? That sounds much like my ignorant, personal mental stereotype of Louisiana -- at least partly because I have never been there.) (Texarkana, yes; Louisiana, no.)

Dannyalcatraz · Feb 19, 2017

Lots of Louisianans- myself included- have very mixed ancestry, which often includes a dose of Cherokee or Choctaw.

Dannyalcatraz · Feb 19, 2017

Ivan Koloff has died.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/l...day-after-george-steele/ar-AAn5cPS?li=BBnb7Kz

tomBitonti · Feb 19, 2017

Sorry for the lateness of posting. Raymond Smullyan, Logician, died on 06-Feb-2017:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/raymond-smullyan-dead-puzzle-creator.html?_r=0

Dannyalcatraz · Feb 20, 2017

Larry Coryell has died.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thereco...-larry-coryell-godfather-of-fusion-dies-at-73

Darkness · Feb 21, 2017

Vitaly Churkin passed away one day before his 65th birthday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/20/europe/russia-un-ambassador-vitaly-churkin-dead/

freyar · Feb 22, 2017

Mildred Dresselhaus has passed away at the age of 86. She was a pioneer in solid state physics, especially carbon physics including buckyballs, as well as a strong advocate for women in the sciences and the first female full professor at MIT. She received both the US National Medal of Science (1990) and Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014) along with many other awards.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/institute-professor-emerita-mildred-dresselhaus-dies-86-0221