Celebrity Deaths

[twinsrwe]

Wayne Fontana, was a singer with the Mindbenders known for their 1965 No. 1 hit, "The Game of Love", died from cancer on August, 6, 2020, at the age of 74.

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The Game Of Love, by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders 1965: https://tinyurl.com/yxnctqou

[twinsrwe]

Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to two presidents, Gerald Ford (1913 – 2006) and George H.W. Bush (1924 – 2018), died on August 6, 2020, at his home in Falls Church, Virginia at the age of 95.

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[twinsrwe]

Raymond Allen was a TV character actor who starred as Uncle Woody on "Sanford and Son" and Ned the Wino on "Good Times", died on August 10, 2020, from a respiratory illness. He was 91.

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[twinsrwe]

Ben Cross, was a British actor best known for starring as Harold Abrahams in "Chariots of Fire" and Sarek in "Star Trek (2009)", died on August 18, 2020, at the age of 72 after a short illness.

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[twinsrwe]

Kevin Dobson died on September 6, 2020, after struggling with an autoimmune deficiency. He was 77.

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[twinsrwe]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at her home in Washington from complications of pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at age 87.

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[twinsrwe]

Winston Groom, Author of ‘Forrest Gump’, died on September 17, 2020, At the age of 77.

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[twinsrwe]

Tommy DeVito, founding member of The Four Seasons, died on September 21, 2020, from COVID-19 at age 92.

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[twinsrwe]

Jackie Stallone, Astrologer and Sylvester Stallone's Mother, died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles on September 21, 2020, at the age of 98.

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[twinsrwe]

Edna Wright, lead singer of the female vocal trio Honey Cone, known for their 1971 hit "Want Ads", died on September 12, 2020, from a heart attack at the age of 75.

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[twinsrwe]

W.S. "Fluke" Holland, was an American drummer who played with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. He died at his home in Jackson, Tennessee on September 23, 2020 at the age of 85.

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[twinsrwe]

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person who was known to have been cured of HIV infection, died on September 29, 2020, at his home in Palm Springs, California of leukemia at the age of 54.

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[twinsrwe]

Mac Davis, singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit in 1972 with "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" and wrote hit songs for other artists including Elvis Presley's "In the Ghetto", died on September 29, 2020, following heart surgery, at the age of 78.

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Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me, by Mac Davis: https://tinyurl.com/yyo4a2dz

Mac Davis - In The Ghetto 1972: https://tinyurl.com/yadwkp4w

[twinsrwe]

Helen Reddy, an Australian-American singer, actress and activist, died on September 29, 2020, in Los Angeles, at the age of 78. She suffered from Addison’s disease and dementia in her later years.

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Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1971): https://tinyurl.com/yaupept3

[twinsrwe]

Bonni Lou Kern was an original Mouseketeer who appeared on the first season (1955-56) of the popular Disney children's show The Mickey Mouse Club. She was featured in the episode titled “Save Bonni Lou Kern!” in which the 14-year-old girl was caught in a fishing net. She also appeared in the spinoff film Save the Wonder Mouseketeers!, and she was given the Mousecar Award by Disney which is the highest honor awarded by the Company. She died on September 28, 2020, from natural causes at an assisted living facility in Wooster, OH., at the age of 79.

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[twinsrwe]

Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and founder of the Van Halen band, died at the age of 65, on October 6, 2020, at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, from throat cancer.

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[twinsrwe]

Johnny Nash, was a singer best known for his number one hit song "I Can See Clearly Now" in 1972, died at his home of natural causes in Houston, Texas, on October 6, 2020, after a period of failing health. He was 80 years old.

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[twinsrwe]

Conchata Ferrell, who portrayed Berta for all 12 seasons of the hit sitcom, Two and a Half Men, died on October 12, 2020, from complications following a cardiac arrest at the Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, California. She was 77 years old.

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[Constantine]

Actress and singer Rhonda Fleming died on October 14th at the age of 97 of aspiration pneumonia. She was known as "the queen of Technicolor." Some of her best-known films are Spellbound, The Spiral Staircase, Out of the Past, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Great Lover.

[twinsrwe]

Jerry Jeff Walker, Texas singer and songwriter who wrote 'Mr. Bojangles,' died on October 23, 2020, after a years-long fight against throat cancer, at the age of 78.

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[twinsrwe]

James Redford, filmmaker and Robert Redford's son, died at his home in Marin County, on October 16, 2020, from bile-duct cancer in his liver. He was only 58.

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[mbhenty]

I liked him. He was a classy actor. "Shaken not Stirred" died today. He was 90 years old.




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[twinsrwe]

Thank you for posting this MB. I agree, he was a classy actor!

I was in the process of putting his death information together, when I saw the notification come in. May he rest in peace.

[mbhenty]

You know Twins, I never want to meet my heroes. I'd always be afraid that they were really jerks.

Many women would not wish old Sean a pleasant rest in the afterlife if they knew about an interview he gave back in the 80s

I'll post the article below, accompanied by a video.

https://www.newsweek.com/amid-tributes- ... ed-1543819

[twinsrwe]

You’re right MB, I had forgotten about his comments about slapping a woman. Thank you for posting the article with a video. I found it interesting, mainly because he wasn't someone I was ever into; the James Bond movies were not my cup of tea.

Men who are abusive to women, feel inferior to strong willed women, so they slap them in order to feel they are in control. Some men don’t feel macho without slapping around a much weaker person; guess they think it makes them a man, when in fact it just makes them an abuser of women.

Here is what Snopes.com has to say about Connery and slapping women: https://tinyurl.com/yymp65hs

Here is a People Magazine article regarding Sean Connery’s comment about slapping a woman, that I found interesting: https://tinyurl.com/y5mlulw5

[mbhenty]

Let's play Jeopardy...

READY

He was the host of a game show and appeared on TV for thirty six years as its emcee until his death on November 8, 2020.

Answer:

Who was Alex Trebek

[twinsrwe]

Let's play Jeopardy...

READY

He was the host of a game show and appeared on TV for thirty six years as its emcee until his death on November 8, 2020.

Answer:

Who was Alex Trebek

Thanks for posting this, MB. I found out that he died following a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer, at the age of 80.

[mbhenty]

Yes Twins:

Diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer, one is given a year to live. The chances of living two to five years after diagnoses is less than one percent. Add to that his age and......well

He was on the same treatment as former Nevada senator Harry Reid who has suffered from Pancreatic cancer, also. Both men were in their 80s and both men received the same experimental treatment. Harry Reid is doing well. Last year he looked like a walking dead man. I saw him on TV just last week and he looked remarkably good. Faith plays us differently.

[twinsrwe]

I didn't realize that once you are are diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer, you only have about a year to live.

You are so right in saying that "faith plays us differently"; we never know when our time on this earth is up.

[twinsrwe]

Frank Carney, co-founder of Pizza Hut, passed away on December 2, 2020, in an assisted living facility in Wichita, Kansas, from pneumonia. He was 82.

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Here is a pic of the very first Pizza Hut. (Click on image to enlarge).

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[twinsrwe]

David Lander, the actor best known as “Squiggy” on the long-running Laverne & Shirley television show, has died. He was 73 and passed Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from complications related to multiple sclerosis, which he battled for 37 years.

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[twinsrwe]

Chuck Yeager, the pilot who broke the sound barrier, died on December 7, 2020, at the age of 97

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[mbhenty]

Well, sadly Ginger Grant (Tina Louise) is the only one left alive on Gilligan's Island.

[mbhenty]

Kiri died this week. She was only 65.

Oh yes, Kiri was a character she played in the movie The Beastmaster with Marc Singer, as she is seen in the photo below.

Beautiful person. You may know her as Tonya Roberts. She died of a blood infection which was the consequence of a urinary track infection. Ugh

So beautiful, so young, sad.

[Kat]

I can hardly stand reading this topic knowing our very own twinsrwe Judy Franks died 1-8-21, just one month after her last post here about the death of Chuck YeagerWe still miss you, dear girl