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Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 8 Nov 20

Alex Trebek has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. The second host of the TV game show Jeopardy! passed away peacefully at his home today, according to a tweet by the show. Old timers will remember Art Fleming as the...

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Heartbroken Yet Again.

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 7 Apr 20

When the announcement came, I guess we weren't all that surprised. After all, COVID-19 is taking young and healthy people...so what chance did a guy in his 70s with half a lung missing have? Still, it leaves me heartbroken yet...

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TV Legend Gene Reynolds Dies

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 5 Feb 20

You may be perplexed by the title of this discussion. “Gene Reynolds? A legend? I’ve never heard of him!” Oh, was he ever a legend. The one-time actor who became one of the most prolific directors in the 60s through...

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Replacing 90-Year-Old Leader With a 93-Year Old

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 3 Jan 18

The president is dead. The president of the Mormon church, that is. Thomas S. Monson, the 16th president of the church headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, died last night (1/2) mountain time (early this morning eastern...

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You Never Forget Your First One

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 5 Dec 17

Amid the list of obituaries yesterday I saw John Anderson's name. No, not the country singer who did "Swingin'." Rather, this was a moderate Republican Congressman from Illinois who ran for president in 1980 as an...

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Sad Phone Call

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 15 Oct 17

I got a phone call today that changed my whole day. I'm still numb with shock. My granddaughter, Sabrina, called just before the game started to let me know that she had gotten off the phone with her best friend, Mo. Mo's...

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Preliminary Autopsy Rules Erin Moran a Cancer Victim

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 24 Apr 17

It's rare that a "Hollywood" story has such close ties. Erin Moran, the Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi actor who was found dead on Saturday, lived not too far from me, in southern Indiana. The reports are she...

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Obituaries, who else reads them?

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 31 Mar 17

I am not sure when exactly I started reading the obits in the newspaper, but I can remember in high shcool stumbling across them in the State paper and finding out that the custodian from my middle school had been killed in a head...

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Talk Review Steve Halliwell – My Work As A Local History Detective

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Jan 17

On Friday 27th January I attended a talk at Ingol’s Intact Community Centre in Preston, given by Preston based historian, Steve Halliwell, in which he explained his life as history researcher, with lots of tips for anyone...

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What Does 2016 Have Against the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 13 Nov 16

This has been an unprecedented year for loss in music. We can lose two or three hall of famers in a year, but TEN? On the heels of the loss of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen comes the news this...

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leon russell

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Disturbed By the Jubilation

Four Walls @FourWalls (86765) • United States 6 Sep 16

Phyllis Schlafly died Monday. She was 92, so I think everyone would say she lived a long life. But what disturbs me is the jubilation over this woman's death. You'd think Hitler had died, or some mass murderer had...

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So Patty Duke is Dead

Vincent Summers @KuznVinny (768) • United States 1 Apr 16

I was informed Patty Duke is dead. Really, I was not particularly a fan of hers, although I didn't mind her in The Miracle Worker. But some others have recently died yet you hear little of. Grizzly Adams, aka Dan Haggerty died in...

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In lieu of...

Amber @AmbiePam (120908) • United States 15 Feb 13

I've always thought that when I die, I'd be like some of the obituaries I see in the newspaper that would say "in lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations made to___". And then there would be a cause or a charity that would...

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The Reports of My Death have been Greatly Exaggerated

Amber @AmbiePam (120908) • United States 24 Nov 12

Well, this is in the category of life only because I don't have death in any of my own categories. My dad has been getting calls today that range from curious to panicked. Apparently, someone with the same name as...

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Guest book on my husbands obituary only u for 1 month

ShannyBananny @shaggin (74987) • United States 5 Apr 11

I just went to look at my husbands obituary online. The newspaper that it was printed in partners with legacy.com to provide a guest book for people to leave comments after viewing my husbands obituary. There is 9 pages of...

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Billy Mays

TheGreatWhiteBuffalo @TheGreatWhiteBuffalo (4822) • United States 28 Jun 09

I just read that Billy Mays had passed away... What a week? Ed McMahon Farrah Fawcet Irv Homer Micheal Jackson Billy Mays

people who have died in a week

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Antoinette Kdoe

Canellita @Canellita (12029) • United States 25 Feb 09

This is such a trip! I was just talking to my partner who said that Chuck Perkins, who he worked with Monday at the Mother In Law Lounge, told him he received a text message from someone in NY today that Antoinette K-doe had died....

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Need big help!

SukiSmiles @SukiSmiles (1991) • United States 7 Aug 08

So, I was just "volunteered" to help find relatives of mine that I have never met. And of course, it has to happen ASAP because my mom doesn't want to pay the lawyer to do it (and it should have been done weeks ago). So, I have to...

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Obituaries

angelface23 @angelface23 (2494) • United States 25 Jun 08

In the movie Closer, Jude Law played an obituary writer. I just responded to a discussion about you want people to remember you, so my question is, what would your obituary say if you were writing it. I want it in the format that...

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Your Obituary

dmillman @dmillman (2273) • United States 4 Apr 08

I know this sounds morbid, but I'm curious about what others think their obituary might say about them. What do you think yours will say? What would you want it to say? Have fun with this!!!

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