Rest in Peace

John Thomas8 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:37 pm

LAS VEGAS (ESPN, Terry Blount) -- Dan Wheldon, the 2011 Indianapolis 500 winner and one of the most popular drivers in open-wheel racing, died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in a horrific multi-car crash only 11 laps into the IndyCar Series season finale.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:00 pm

That was terrible. I tuned in after the crash but before the word about Wheldon was given. He had a wife and young children.

Adrianinflorida · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:46 am

Reality Check wrote:

That was terrible. I tuned in after the crash but before the word about Wheldon was given. He had a wife and young children.

Wheldon came along after I left working in CART, I met him one year while working for a Rolex team at the 24 Hours of Daytona, he was a genuinely nice guy, and, ironically had just signed a deal for a full time ride next season (his Indy win was a one off drive this year).

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23583

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
~Andy Rooney~

Former '60 minutes' commentator Andy Rooney dies at 92, CBS reports

NEW YORK — CBS says former “60 Minutes” humorist Andy Rooney has died just a month after his final commentary aired.
He was 92. CBS says he died Friday night in New York.
Rooney spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for “60 Minutes.”

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obi ... story.html

SueDB · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:44 am

realist wrote:

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
~Andy Rooney~

Former '60 minutes' commentator Andy Rooney dies at 92, CBS reports

NEW YORK — CBS says former “60 Minutes” humorist Andy Rooney has died just a month after his final commentary aired.
He was 92. CBS says he died Friday night in New York.
Rooney spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for “60 Minutes.”

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obi ... story.html

Somerset · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:11 am

realist wrote:

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
~Andy Rooney~

Former '60 minutes' commentator Andy Rooney dies at 92, CBS reports

NEW YORK — CBS says former “60 Minutes” humorist Andy Rooney has died just a month after his final commentary aired.

Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obi ... story.html

While I haz a sad - he was one of my favorites - I have to say that after 92 years he's done his part to impact our world, and has earned his rest.

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9402

Somerset wrote:

While I haz a sad - he was one of my favorites - I have to say that after 92 years he's done his part to impact our world, and has earned his rest.

I kind of suspected it might happen. Rooney didn't strike me as the kind of person to quit a job unless he felt he could literally no longer do it. RIP.

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:48 pm

Retirement is bad for your health.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:44 pm

Sorry to see the youngster go. Except for the bushy eyebrows he was like a son to me. :((

Joseph Robidoux III · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:00 pm

I missed this obituary from the St Louis papers somehow.

Judith Widdicombe, founder of Reproductive Health Services died Nov 3.

Quote:

Judy Widdicombe, an obstetrical nurse who helped guide women to safe abortions before the procedure was legal and who opened the first abortion clinic in Missouri after Roe v. Wade made it the law of the land, died Thursday, (Nov. 3) at Gambrill Gardens Retirement Community. She was 73.
<<snipped>>
In 1968, while working the second shift as a labor and delivery nurse at the old St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood, Ms. Widdicombe began volunteering as a suicide prevention counselor for the Life Crisis Services hotline.

After hearing a number of pleas from pregnant women who threatened suicide if they could not have an abortion, Ms. Widdicombe soon set about to deliberately break the law by referring women, herself included, to safe but illegal abortion providers in New York, Chicago and Mexico.
<<snipped>>
While working as a 16-year-old nurse’s aide at a local hospital, she saw a woman in her hospital’s emergency room die from complications of a botched illegal abortion.

http://www.stlbeacon.org/issues-politic ... widdicombe

Plutodog · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:05 pm

Can Michael Jackson RIP now that there's been a conviction? :-?

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:01 pm

Plutodog wrote:

Can Michael Jackson RIP now that there's been a conviction? :-?

One could hope, but the inevitable civil suits will dash those hopes.

Taverl · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:21 am

According to the AP and ESPN, Joe Frazier has died. He was 67.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:32 am

Taverl wrote:

According to the AP and ESPN, Joe Frazier has died. He was 67.

Down goes Frazier!

RIP, Joe.

Bob Ross · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:57 pm

Heavy D is dead

Quote:

Rapper Heavy D died today after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital. He was 44 years old. His cause of death was not immediately known.
Heavy D, born Dwight Arrington Myers, was one of the most influential rappers of the 1990s. He was the leader of the hip-hop trio Heavy D & the Boyz, which gained mainstream fame for the theme song for the TV show “In Living Color.” (The song was first “In Living Color,” Heavy D & the Boyz later recorded a new theme, “Cause That’s the Way You Livin’ When You’re in Living Color.”) Heavy D also rapped on Michael Jackson’s “Jam” and Janet Jackson’s “Alright.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainme ... ead-at-44/

John Thomas8 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:45 pm

Bill Keane (Amanda Lee Myers, ABC News), who drew Family Circle longer than I've been alive, passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

nycpeter · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 3:50 pm **Posts:** 306

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9402

nycpeter wrote:

What a personal story he had in the article below. And the Munchkins got their Star on the Walk of Fame, that's great.

It's pretty appalling how this guy's scumbucket "father" treated him.

Quote:

"In those uninformed days, his father tried witch doctor treatments to make him grow," Fricke said. "Knowing Karl and his triumph over his early life, you can't help but celebrate the man at a time like this."

He was buried in the backyard, immersed in heated oil until his skin blistered and then attached to a stretching machine at a hospital, all in the attempt to make him become taller. Eventually he was sold by his father at age 9 to a traveling show in Europe, Fricke said.

While scumbag parents are one thing, that this could be done in a "hospital" is particularly appalling. This is probably why a cult like Christian Science could have started. When actual "medicine" was this appalling, refusing to engage in it probably made some sense.

kate520 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:45 am

What's truly amazing is that he lived to such a ripe old age, especially considering his early treatment. RIP, Karl. You made a lot of people smile in your lifetime.

Joseph Robidoux III · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:36 pm

The Oklahoma State University Womens Head Basketball Coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash Thursday while returning from a recruiting visit in Arkansas. Olin Branstetter, a former Oklahoma state senator, and his wife Paula also died in the crash.
http://www.stwnewspress.com/local/x2293 ... udke-Serna
Some here may remember the 2001 plane crash that killed 10 members of the Oklahoma State University mens basketball program who died returning home after a game at the University of Colorado.

mimi · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:21 pm

Nobody's gonna post the "he's really most sincerely" video?

RIP.

nycpeter wrote:

What a personal story he had in the article below. And the Munchkins got their Star on the Walk of Fame, that's great.

Quote:

DUBLIN, Ga. — Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," has died. He was 93. [/img]

http://peoplelikeusdublinlaurens.blogsp ... chkin.html

Joseph Robidoux III · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:15 am

Former UCLA basketball player and coach Walt Hazzard died today after a long illness. He was co-captain of John Wooden's first NCAA championship team. Hazzard was 69 years old.
http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/m-bask ... 11aaa.html

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:41 am

Joseph Robidoux III wrote:

Former UCLA basketball player and coach Walt Hazzard died today after a long illness. He was co-captain of John Wooden's first NCAA championship team. Hazzard was 69 years old.
http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/m-bask ... 11aaa.html

Walt had the locker next to mine when I was on the track team and he was on the basketball team. Good guy.

SueDB · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:25 am

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

Joseph Robidoux III wrote:

Former UCLA basketball player and coach Walt Hazzard died today after a long illness. He was co-captain of John Wooden's first NCAA championship team. Hazzard was 69 years old.
http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/m-bask ... 11aaa.html

Walt had the locker next to mine when I was on the track team and he was on the basketball team. Good guy.

Yeah, but you shared a locker with Babe Ruth in grade school. :yawn:

Joseph Robidoux III · **Posted:** Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:12 pm

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

Walt had the locker next to mine when I was on the track team and he was on the basketball team. Good guy.

Prior to reading the UCLA article about Hazzard, I didn't know what high school he attended. Hazzard's high school produced another future college All-America basketball player just a few years before him.

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

Rest in Peace

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