2022 Obituary

[Rick]

Ray Guy, ex-punter for the Oakland Raiders (American football). Only punter picked number one by at team as their first choice. Probably the best punter in the N.F.L., past and present. He was a fun to watch and to marvel at as a teen in the '70's.

[Ivanhoe]

41 minutes ago, Rick said:

Ray Guy, ex-punter for the Oakland Raiders (American football). Only punter picked number one by at team as their first choice. Probably the best punter in the N.F.L., past and present. He was a fun to watch and to marvel at as a teen in the '70's.

An exceptional athlete, and capable of being a NFL QB for a lesser team.

[Stargrunt6]

2 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

An exceptional athlete, and capable of being a NFL QB for a lesser team.

He went to my brother and father's alma mater too.

[Rick]

5 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

An exceptional athlete, and capable of being a NFL QB for a lesser team.

That and I always thought he had the best male name.

[MiloMorai]

He was the person buzzed by the Spitfire.

Alain de Cadenet - Wikipedia

[sunday]

The one in the right

[Stargrunt6]

Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman on the animated series in the 90s and the Arkham Asylum games has passed away at 66.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63597266

[Stargrunt6]

Gallagher the comedian, dead at 76.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/comedian-gallagher-famous-smashing-watermelons-dies-76-rcna56770

[DB]

Greg Bear

[Tim Sielbeck]

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-europe-obituaries-sitcoms-d4d90b6a9548bc50f36354794ac7cdf4

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96.

[MiloMorai]

'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' star Jason David Frank has died at age 49 (aol.com)

[Stuart Galbraith]

I found this very sad. Far, far too young.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11451103/Nicki-Aycox-actress-starred-Supernatural-Dark-Blue-passed-away-47.html

Actress Nicki Aycox - best known for roles such as Meg Masters on The CW's Supernatural and Jaimie Allen on TNT's Dark Blue - has passed away at just 47 following a grueling battle with cancer. 

The star was diagnosed with leukemia in 2020 and died from the disease on Thursday, it was confirmed on social media by her sister-in-law, Susan Raab Ceklosky.

[Stefan Fredriksson]

Börje Salming dies at 71. Earlier this year diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's?).

He was up moving about recently. In my experience the ilness itself usually has a slower progress. Guess time will tell. Still a legend.

[BansheeOne]

I learned from my favorite uncle's case that ALS has two basic courses, one which goes bottom up starting with the legs, which is the popular image due to high-profile cases like Lou Gehrig and Stephen Hawkings; and another which goes top down starting with facial muscles and will kill you a lot faster once it affects your breathing apparatus. Which could be considered the more merciful variant.

[DKTanker]

Christine McVie has passed at age 79.  RIP, Song Bird.

Edited November 30, 2022 by DKTanker

[Angrybk]

39 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

Christine McVie has passed at age 79.  RIP, Song Bird.

For sure. Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands that old fogies and young hipsters both respect and like (and given their '70s excesses it's pretty amazing they've lived long enough to start dying of natural causes). 

[RETAC21]

13 hours ago, Angrybk said:

For sure. Fleetwood Mac is one of those bands that old fogies and young hipsters both respect and like (and given their '70s excesses it's pretty amazing they've lived long enough to start dying of natural causes). 

They went their own way...

[DougRichards]

Kirstie Alley

[Soren Ras]

RIP

[Stuart Galbraith]

Probably unknown outside the UK aviation scene, but one of the two best Spitfire pilots I've ever seen.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Looks like Guy Gibson can complete the final muster now.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/last-surviving-dambuster-johnny-johnson-dies-aged-101/ar-AA152Qe7

The last survivor of the World War Two Dambusters has died at the age of 101.

George Leonard "Johnny" Johnson was the last surviving original member of the 617 squadron which destroyed vital dams in Germany during World War Two.

His family said that he died peacefully at his care home in Westbury on Trym, Bristol on Wednesday night.

Born in Lincolnshire, the retired Royal Air Force officer rose to fame as a bomb aimer in the squadron during Operation Chastise.

He was just 21 when the squadron used experimental bouncing bombs to target the Ruhr Valley, which released large volumes of water into areas used for war production.

In later life he described the experience as “exhilarating” and that he felt honoured to have had “the chance to take part”.

Following the death of his wartime colleague Fred Sutherland in January 2019, Mr Johnson became the last survivor of the original Squadron.

After the war Mr Johnson worked as a teacher in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

He was awarded an MBE in 2017 and celebrated his 100^th birthday last year, telling the BBC: “I’ve had a very lucky life in every respect."

The former Dambuster leaves behind his wife Gwynn Johnson, three children, eight grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

Historian, James Holland also paid tribute to the World War Two veteran, saying: “Lovely Johnny Johnson - what a wonderful, gentle, thoughtful human being.

“The last of the Dambusters. That’s it. End of an era. A big and sad moment.”

[Ivanhoe]

[Stuart Galbraith]

RIP Little Joe.

 

[NickM]

2 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

RIP Little Joe.

 

We all know him as Angel Martin,  Jim Rockford's less than helpful friend

[Stuart Galbraith]

Gawd, so long since I saw the Rockford Files, I had completely forgotten that.