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Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 5:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a friend in Canada who's brother is on the list for a pancreas transplant. Diabeties is such an awful diseaase. My fil has it too and we are watching it slowly kill him.

Wink
Member

10-06-2000

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow AuntieMike he must have been a tough competitor. Sounds like he endured an awful lot. My heartfelt sympathies to you and your family.

Texannie, I agree. Diabetes is ruthless.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 2:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Auntiemike!!!! Oh no!!!! I am so sorry for your loss. And as you know, I am sorry to lose someone I went to school with and considered a great person. I really liked Hans,a nd although we didn't "pal around" together in school, I always enjoyed talking ot him. He was one of the really nice people in school you always remember. He had a great smile and a grteat laugh.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 2:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
(((Auntie MIke))

Heyltslori
Moderator

09-15-2001

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm very sorry for your loss Auntiemike.

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Peace and blessings to you AuntieM.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So sorry for your loss, Auntiemike.

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Chi-Lites leader dead at 64
Eugene Record wrote 'Oh Girl,' 'Have You Seen Her'

Monday, July 25, 2005; Posted: 8:16 a.m. EDT (12:16 GMT)

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Eugene Record, founder of the legendary Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites, died Friday after a long battle with cancer, the president of the group's booking agency said. He was 64.


Max
Member

08-12-2000

Monday, July 25, 2005 - 8:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Blues legend Long John Baldry dead at 64
Helped launch careers of Stewart, Stones

Monday, July 25, 2005; Posted: 8:12 a.m. EDT (12:12 GMT)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Long John Baldry, the British blues legend who helped launch the careers of such rock greats as Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, has died, his agent and friends said. He was 64.



Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

FORD RAINEY

He died the other day at age 96. I think he was probably on about every tv show during the 60s and 70s.

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And he had a good supporting role in the movie "The Sand Pebbles". Being a Steve McQueen fan at the time, I saw that long movie 17 times in the theater. I had some of the dialogue memorized.

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 2:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Colordeagua...how could you bear seeing that movie so many times. I cried...and cried...and then when I was all done crying I cried some more until I was all cried out...and then someone would ask me if I saw the movie...and I would cry again!

Something about it just got to me.

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 8:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
****makes note to rent movie****

Faerygdds
Member

08-29-2000

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 6:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ditto that Twiggy!

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
King Fahd, 82
(NY Times 08-01-2005)

King Fahd, the absolutist monarch of Saudi Arabia who guided his desert kingdom through swerves in the oil market, regional wars and the incessant, high-stakes scrimmage between Islamic tradition and breakneck modernization, died today, the Saudi royal court in Riyadh said. He was 82, according to his official Website.

Crown Prince Abdullah was swiftly named the new monarch of Saudi Arabia. King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz al-Saud, the fifth Saudi sovereign, transcended his early reputation as the playboy prince to become a leader of Arab states in the Persian Gulf region, a friend to the United States when that was not always easy and, most recently, though in a debilitated state due to repeated and deepening health problems, a principal in the war against terrorism.

King Fahd, who suffered the first of several strokes in 1995, was overweight, diabetic, and long suffered maladies from arthritis to gallbladder surgery to a blood clot in his eye. He used a cane or a wheelchair. His brother, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, ultimately assumed many executive responsibilities, and was today appointed the country's new monarch.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hildegarde, 99
(NY Times 08-01-2005)

Hildegarde, whose career as an international cabaret chanteuse spanned almost seven decades and who was credited with starting the single-name vogue among entertainers, died on Friday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital. She was 99.

Her death was confirmed yesterday by her longtime friend and manager, Don Dellair.

A regal figure in couturier gowns, jeweled glasses, glittering earrings and, in her later years, a curly platinum wig, Hildegarde influenced a number of other performers. She accompanied herself on the piano, always in her trademark long white gloves, and, fluttering a lace handkerchief, chatted between numbers, often poking fun at herself.

"Hildegarde was perhaps the most famous supper-club entertainer who ever lived," Liberace once said. "I used to absorb all the things she was doing, all the showmanship she created. It was marvelous to watch her, wearing elegant gowns, surrounded with roses and playing with white gloves on. They used to literally roll out the red carpet for her."

Although Liberace said he was careful not to imitate her, he did take a single stage name and used "I'll Be Seeing You," one of her best-known numbers, as his own theme song.

Usually billed as the Incomparable Hildegarde, an orchid bestowed on her by Walter Winchell, she was at the peak of her popularity in the 1930's and 40's, when she was booked in plush hotel cabaret rooms and supper clubs at least 45 weeks a year. At one engagement in 1946, she was paid $17,500 a week and 50 percent of the gross over $80,000. She was on the cover of Life magazine in 1939, had a top 10 radio show and traveled with her own orchestra and several dozen pieces of luggage.

Her recordings of such songs as "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup," "The Last Time I Saw Paris" and "Lili Marlene" became worldwide hits. Revlon introduced a Hildegarde shade of lipstick and nail polish, a nursery named a rose for her, and a linen company, picking up on the way she signed her autograph, introduced a "Bless You" handkerchief.

Hildegarde's admirers ranged from enlisted men and officers during World War II to King Gustaf of Sweden and the Duke of Windsor. In 1961 she was the guest of honor at a gala at which Eleanor Roosevelt presented her with an award naming her First Lady of the Supper Clubs.

From the 1950's through the 70's, in addition to her cabaret appearances and record albums, she appeared in a number of television specials and toured with the national company of the Stephen Sondheim musical "Follies." Her autobiography, "Over 50 ... So What!" was published by Doubleday in 1961. In 1980, she was in a revival of the 1927 musical "The Five O'Clock Girl" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., and took part in a tour of "The Big Broadcast of 1944," which recreated radio programs of that year. She also did a number of lecture tours at universities and auditoriums, singing, playing, chatting and answering questions.

hildegarde


Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pat McCormick, 78
(NY Times 08-02-2005)

Pat McCormick, a comedian known for his unruly appearance and his immaculate one-liners, died on Friday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Los Angeles, according to a hospital spokeswoman. He was 78.

He had resided at the hospital since suffering a stroke in 1998.

Mr. McCormick was enthusiastically admired by other comics, including Johnny Carson, who used him as a writer and had him as a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." He composed antic, sometimes surreal material for Jonathan Winters, Lucille Ball, Henny Youngman, Phyllis Diller, Merv Griffin, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Bette Midler and Steve Martin. In The New Yorker, the critic Kenneth Tynan once described him as "one of the most inventive gagmen in the business."

A typical Carson-era line went, "If you want to clear your system out, sit on a piece of cheese and swallow a mouse." Another favorite was, "Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter."

He wrote or performed on "Candid Camera," "The Gong Show," "The Danny Kaye Show," "The Don Rickles Show" and "The New Bill Cosby Show." For radio, he wrote and voiced hundreds of commercials.

Mr. McCormick appeared in broadly comic movie roles in Robert Altman's "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" and "Wedding" and three "Smokey and the Bandit" movies.

Born on June 30, 1927, in Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. McCormick served in the Army from 1946 to 1948. After attending Harvard and Harvard Law School, he moved to Cleveland, where he briefly sold advertising space for magazines. Eventually he met Mr. Winters, who helped him get a job writing for "The Jack Paar Show."

pat mccormick


Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He used to do a kids show in the afternoons here in the SF bay area.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 9:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember Pat McCormick doing some standup--his huge, rather messy figure always transfixed me growing up (not so much cuz I 'got' his off-the-wall humor, but more because he was physically so unlike the other people on the shows). The personally daunting thing to me is that he is my mother's age.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
not the same pat mccormick mamie. different one.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, August 05, 2005 - 6:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Hunter Kelly, whose battle with a fatal nervous system disease inspired his Hall of Fame father Jim Kelly's charitable works, died Friday. He was 8.

Hunter's doctor, Patricia Duffner, said he died of respiratory failure.

Hunter's Hope Foundation released a statement saying the Kelly family is grateful for the support people have shown.

"It is the family's hope that all who mourn for their son, Hunter, would join them in thanking the Lord for his precious life," the statement read.

Jim Kelly, a Hall of Fame quarterback with the
Buffalo Bills, established Hunter's Hope Foundation with his wife, Jill, in 1997 in honor of their son. It has raised more than $6 million and awarded more than $3.8 million to leukodystrophy and other neurological disease-related research.

Born in 1997, Hunter Kelly was given no more than three years to live after being diagnosed with Krabbe disease, an inherited degenerative disorder of the central and peripheral nervous systems. The disease hinders development of the myelin sheath, a fatty covering that protects the brain's nerve fibers.

The disease has no known cure.

The Bills, in Green Bay for a scrimmage against the Packers, released a statement expressing their condolences.

"The entire Buffalo Bills organization is deeply saddened today to hear of the passing of Hunter Kelly," the statement read. "This courageous young man served as an inspiration to us all during his brief life. And he will forever remain a symbol of hope."

Records are scarce, but experts believe Hunter was one of the longest living of people who developed Krabbe as an infant. The disease can also develop in juveniles and adults.

Hunter spent most of his life confined to a wheelchair and hooked up to a respirator and feeding tube, while receiving around-the-clock care from his family and therapists. He was eventually able to lift his arms and head, and learned to communicate through a series of facial expressions.

He had displayed a grasp for understanding, able to comprehend stories read to him. And he recently showed a capacity for bowling, able to hold a ball, shake his hand and aim it in the direction of pins.

Jim Kelly, who helped Buffalo win an unprecedented four consecutive AFC titles in the early 1990s, had credited his son for serving as his inspiration after he retired from football following the 1996 season.

"He'll never be able to do what daddy did," Kelly said last year. "But he's going to do greater things. He's going to make a difference in kids' lives. He already has."

He also paid tribute to Hunter in his Hall of Fame acceptance speech in 2002.

"It has been written throughout my career that toughness is my trademark," Kelly said. "Well, the toughest person I've ever met in my life is my hero, my soldier, my son, Hunter. I love you, buddy."

Kelly and his son shared a birthday — Valentine's Day.

Duffner credited the Kelly family for Hunter living well beyond the initial prognosis and for its help in Krabbe research.

"He was such a brave little boy. ... He was a tough kid, like his dad," Duffner said. "It's really quite remarkable how one family has changed the course of a disease."

She noted that New York will begin screening newborns for the disease, something which the foundation has long favored. If caught just after birth, an umbilical cord blood transplant can halt its effects.

The Kellys will hold a public memorial service Tuesday in Hamburg, N.Y., and ask that donations be made to the Hunter's Hope Foundation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fbn_obit_hunter_kelly

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Friday, August 05, 2005 - 10:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Needless to say all in Western NY are mourning. Its very sad here.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, August 06, 2005 - 5:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So very sad.

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Saturday, August 06, 2005 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
God bless them.

Spygirl
Board Administrator

04-23-2001

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ABC is reporting that Peter Jennings died tonight of lung cancer. :-(