Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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

https://www.ajc.com/john-lewis-obituary/

RIP to a genuinely great one

Emitt Rhodes

For real?

Saw it in FB from a guy who would know.

Weirdly enough he is not friends with any other ILX0rs, as far as I can tell. I am connected with him through a different route.

I saw some others music nerds posting it. So I did as well.

My source usually seems to be super reliable. He has a recent picture of him and Emitt and he produces lots and lots of reissues which presumably he was doing with him as well at some point.

his fan club page on FB is open, lots of posts about it there too, some seem pretty first hand and no is disputing it.

Ah, guy I know did I Merry-Go-Round reissue.

We have a few Emitt Rhodes threads we could revive, two were started by me but don't seem quite apropos, well one of them especially.

Just went ahead with my other one.

Wikip is 'was'ing..

Confirmation on fanclub page came from guy who lives in his house, my source says.

Which post I read as well and couldn't figure out.

this guy
https://johnlewis.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-john-lewis-announces-plans-grow-beard

<3

This happened a couple of days ago but I didnt see her mentioned:

Figure skater Ekaterina Alexandovskaya, just 20 years old. v tragic, suicide from a sixth floor window apparently? Awful.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ekaterina-alexandrovskaya-olympic-skater-dies-apparent-suicide-age-20/

Michael Brooks, journalist and political commentator, 37.

This year I met this young American, a journalist, who turned out to be a friend, who I thought that we would meet again. How is it possible? My heart and prayers go to his family and friends. May his passion for social justice be remembered and inspire people around the world. https://t.co/OgGmzh5kMl

— Lula (@LulaOficial) July 20, 2020

oh no, I just saw about Michael, was watching him just yesterday

https://queenspost.com/jerry-wolkoff-owner-and-developer-of-5pointz-in-long-island-city-has-died
fairly or unfairly, he will be remembered forever as the guy who destroyed one of the greatest galleries in the city

Annie Ross.