Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

The writer's wiki page has a strong "he wrote this" vibe to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Stadler

He might have.

I will say, though I've never met the guy and haven't read the Letourneau article, his work as an editor and publisher is really indispensable-- so many of the best non-commercial books of the past three decades have come from Clear Cut Press or Publication Studio.

Now You Don't See Him

Johnny Beattie, Scottish entertainer of yore

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53354314

... people you thought were...

Stanley Baxter the last one standing now

I hadn't realized Johnny Beattie was in River City for over a decade because obviously Ive never watched River City, am no daft

Now you come to mention it it wasn't that long ago he was in River City.

Una McLean is not only still going at 90 but she was in River City too up till last year.

Is Mary Lee (Jack Milroy's wife) still alive?

Don't know, tried googling, five years ago she was described as being 'in her early 90s', with the suspicion that she was lying about her age.

Dorothy Paul's still standing.

Oh she's just a wee young thing though.

Glen Michael, 94 btw.

Jack Charlton, 85

Was listening to him last night watching programme about Nottingham Forest’s European cup wins.

Jack Charlton's Match Fishing was a legendary ZX Speccy game!

Musician Judy Dyble

Elvis's grandson:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/us/benjamin-keough-elvis-presley-grandson-death/index.html

(Elvis's granddaughter, Riley Keough, is in American Honey.)

Kelly Preston

https://people.com/movies/kelly-preston-dies-of-breast-cancer-at-57/

I was today years old when I learned that Riley Keough is Elvis's granddaughter.

Did you mean to post that on Things you were shockingly old when you learned

I figured since I saw it here I'd post it here.

#onethread

Naya Rivera

Swamp Pop singer Rod Bernard ("This Should Go On Forever")

https://www.katc.com/news/iberia-parish/swamp-pop-legend-rod-bernard-dies

Man this is shitty -- Grant Imahara from Mythbusters and other things:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101

That's really sad

Thank you @grantimahara for being (and building) a friend. Your genius and creative spirit will be sorely missed. “My heart? He’s got a place there.” -Geoff Peterson 💔 pic.twitter.com/fgdNr1YDuW

— Josh Robert Thompson (@joshrthompson) July 14, 2020

Thank you @grantimahara for being (and building) a friend. Your genius and creative spirit will be sorely missed. “My heart? He’s got a place there.” -Geoff Peterson 💔 pic.twitter.com/fgdNr1YDuW

— Josh Robert Thompson (@joshrthompson) July 14, 2020

This thread made me cry
RIP Grant

Grant was the kind of person who always had something encouraging to offer when times were tough, and always made you feel so incredibly special. I feel so fortunate to call him a friend. pic.twitter.com/C19mPLmLs5

— Bobak Ferdowsi (@tweetsoutloud) July 14, 2020

Somedays I wish I had a time machine. ⁦@ToryBelleci⁩ ⁦@grantimahara⁩ pic.twitter.com/o9FRE2l16W

— Kari Byron (@KariByron) July 13, 2020

Flossie Wong-Staal, pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher, dies at 73 https://wapo.st/3fqGY1t

RIP Eddie Gale. Ghetto Music is such a brilliant and unique album

Oh no!

damn RIP Eddie

Aw

RIP

Maurice Roeves, fine actor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53415740

Too good for soap opera, yeah

Dave Kaiser, Rockefeller and climate change activist, at age 50, of GBM (glioblastoma multiforme). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/business/energy-environment/david-kaiser-dead.html. (Also one of the best friends of one of my best friend's brother/street_team)

(I never knew his family affiliation either until recentlly, at the same time I found out he was ill)

(multiple layer possessives hard to get right, sorry)

Yoshihiko Matsuo, Designer of the Iconic Datsun 240Z, Is Dead at 86

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a33327318/yoshihiko-matsuo-nissan-z-designer-dead-at-86/

Joanna Cole, author of The Magic School Bus series, 75.

'Magic School Bus' author Joanna Cole dead at age 75 https://t.co/cJAMBPMc9e pic.twitter.com/LdNQMDZ05B

— New York Post (@nypost) July 16, 2020

Mr. Chi Pig, singer of SNFU

Tony Elliott, founder and publisher of TimeOut (and publisher of Edgy Style Mag for a long time too).

Artist and Warhol superstar Brigid Berlin

Awful, awful news: Civil Rights Icon Rep John Lewis has died.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) July 18, 2020

seems to be confirmed this time

RIP John Lewis, thank you representing Georgia with dignity and honor

RIP. Wish he'd lived to see Trump gone at least.

also passing, MLK aide and minister C.T. Vivian

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892223763/c-t-vivian-civil-rights-leader-and-champion-of-nonviolent-action-dies-at-95