Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Here's Mike Leech's obituary. He died on Dec. 12, 2017 in Nashville. Memorial service planned for Jan. 20.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?n=michael-anthony-leech&pid=187600537

That was a different guy with the same name, Edd.

I figured he hadn’t passed that early as I am a big fan and thought I would have known.

Heather Menzies-Urich, one of the daughters in "The Sound of Music," but equally well-known by B-movie fans for Joe Dante's "Piranha."

rip Louisa :(

Johnny Bower:

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/former-maple-leafs-goaltender-johnny-bower-dies/

Hard to convey how you can be in your mid-50s, barely pay attention to hockey since you were 12, and still have that name resonate a lot.

Television theme composer Dominic Frontiere
http://variety.com/2017/music/news/dominic-frontiere-dead-dies-composer-outer-limits-1202648539/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8

Foggy Mountain Boys mandolinist Curly Seckler, one of the last living links to prewar country music:

Born John Ray Sechler in North Carolina, he used Curly Seckler as his stage name from the time he and his brothers performed as The Yodeling Rangers in the mid-1930s. A big break came in 1939 when Bill and Charlie Monroe split up as The Monroe Brothers, and Charlie hired Curly to sing the high part that Bill had previously done. Once people heard Seckler’s high, clear voice he found himself in wide demand, doing stints with a number of top groups like The Stanley Brothers, Jim & Jesse, Mac Wiseman, and The Sauceman Brothers.

For most fans, though, it was his time with Flatt & Scruggs that cemented Curly’s place in the bluegrass pantheon. From 1949 to 1962 he toured and recorded with Lester and Earl, contributing to some of the most iconic tracks in the history of our music.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/12/27/bluegrass-great-curly-seckler-dead/930007001/

Actress Rose Marie, 94.

http://missrosemarie.com/

Aw.

And she was just establishing her Twitter presence

shit, g'night Ro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzlZjuy5urU

Irv Weinstein, Buffalo news anchor:

http://www.wkbw.com/news/remembering-irv-weinstein-a-buffalo-broadcasting-legend

So ubiquitous growing up in Toronto in the '60s and '70s, I think even SCTV parodied him.

Weinstein was the role model for Eugene Levy's "Earl Camembert" character on SCTV and a Buffalo newscaster, played by Pat Sajak, in "Airplane II: The Sequel."

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2017/12/26/irv-weinstein-iconic-buffalo-broadcaster-has-died.html

Actually, I didn't know that--I thought Camembert, like Floyd/Lloyd Robertson, was based on a CBC or CTV reporter.

I do know there are fire trucks racing to either Tonawanda or Cheektowaga tonight as tribute.

Holly Anderson, poet whose work became the lyrics to Mission of Burma's song "Mica" (as well as others), at 62.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/12/27/holly-anderson-misson-of-burma-lyrics/

mystery writer sue grafton of 'a is for alibi', 'b is for burglar' . . . 'y is for yesterday'

supposedly a z book was already in the can

No Z, reportedly

https://apnews.com/da95e9f22674419a8ee2fbe21736164d

Dan Talbot, founder of New Yorker Films and key distributor/exhibitor of foreign films for decades

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5235-the-daily-remembering-dan-talbot

Jim Baikie, best known for his art in British comics of the 70s and 80s.

https://2000ad.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/jim-baikie-rip/

My friend John, who died alone in his apartment in China, on Christmas morning, at the age of 41.

I'm sorry to hear that. Are you/his family okay?

I'll be OK, another friend was very close and is taking it pretty hard. His parents are in the US, never met them. Just wanted to mark it somewhere as he one of the smartest people I knew, managed to achieve fluency in three dialects of Chinese despite horrible health problems from the age of 30 or so, he had such a depth of understanding in so many areas.

Looks like reclusive Canadian author Réjean Ducharme passed away in August.

Architect John Portman.

http://www.myajc.com/news/local/john-portman-noted-architect-and-developer-dies/Yif6G5NMdKIj6fxgOz2tFJ/

(it's 2018)

People are still having deaths

John Dent, mastering engineer who worked on a load of good stuff.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/01/03/john-dent-mastering-engineer/

RIP 2017.

People are still having deaths

Jerry Van Dyke

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/jerry-van-dyke-coach-actor-dead-dies-1202655598/

Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Somebody lock this one.

How do I shot obituary thread thru bass amp?