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Monday, February 5, 2007

Joe Hunter

Joe Hunter, a member of Motown's The Funk Brothers, has died at age 79. Although he did have a history of diabetes, no immediate cause of death was known, according to his son (and the obituary I read on Celebrity Death Beeper). Hunter did a lot of backup work, backing up other Motown artists both... Sign in to see full entry.

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Barbara McNair

Singer/actress Barbara McNair has died, apparently of complications of throat cancer, at age 72. She started out as a cabaret and nightclub singer, then went on to TV and movie work as the effects of the civil-rights movement prevalent in the 1960s took hold. She starred with Sidney Poitier in They... Sign in to see full entry.

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Billy Henderson

Billy Henderson, a member of the pop/rock band the Spinners, died at age 67 from complications of diabetes. The Spinners - Billy Henderson among them - were five high-school friends who formed the band in 1954. They had such hits as I'll Be Around, Could It Be I'm Falling In Love, Then Came You and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 2, 2007

Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti was a composer who specialized in writing operas. He died on February 1, 2007, at age 95. I have been unable to learn what caused his death. Perhaps his most famous work is Amahl and the Night Visitors, performed over 600 times, and also by high school students and amateur... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 1, 2007

Challenger

The second tribute I posted in this blog was to the Columbia crew; the Columbia disintegrated over Texas during reentry in 2003, very near the time when Blogit (then known as The Blogging Network) first opened its doors to the general paying public. (It had apparently been in beta testing for a few... Sign in to see full entry.

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Richard Kelley

The name Richard Kelley may not be familiar to the average American, but he was the stepfather of former American President Bill Clinton. He died on January 31, 2007, at age 91. Apparently, his death was due to complications of cancer. Kelley married Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia, in 1982. It was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Molly Ivins

Journalist Molly Ivins died at age 62, after a long struggle with breast cancer. Ivins, an unabashed liberal, moved from California to Houston as a youngster. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, Ivins was given a 70% chance of surviving five years without a recurrence of the cancer, but it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker was an influential tenor saxophonist who apparently was little-known outside certain musical circles. He died on 1/13/2007 at age 57, of leukemia. Brecker had had a history of a disorder called myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, which often progresses (as it did in Brecker's case) to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Marcheline Bertrand

The name Marcheline Bertrand is another one that isn't going to "ring a bell" with the average American. She was Angelina Jolie's mother, and an actress in her own right. Jolie announced her mother's passing on Sunday, January 28, 2007. The cause of her death was listed as cancer. Ms. Bertrand had... Sign in to see full entry.

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Emma Faust Tillman

At the time of her death, Emma Faust Tillman was the world's oldest-living person, at age 114. The obituary at Legacy.com doesn't give a cause of death, but it did mention that her reign as the world's oldest-living person was brief - only four days prior to Mrs. Tillman's death, the previous... Sign in to see full entry.

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Originally published on Epinions.com, this is my tribute to Fr. Mychal Judge of the Fire Department of New York. I have since added tributes to others who have gone on before.

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