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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #90 on: April 08, 2019, 01:26:12 PM »
Ah, did miss that line. Mea culpa.
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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #91 on: April 10, 2019, 11:49:26 AM »
Charles Van Doren, author, professor and perhaps the most infamous game show contestant in history has died at age 93.

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« Reply #92 on: April 10, 2019, 02:22:18 PM »
Earl Thomas Conley, popular country star of the 80's, has died at the age of 77.

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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #93 on: April 13, 2019, 10:33:22 PM »
Hall of Fame Packers lineman Forrest Gregg, who would also coach the Bengals to Super Bowl XVI, and resituate SMU's program after its death penalty hiatus, has passed on at 85: 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/forrest-gregg-hall-of-fame-tackle-for-lombardis-green-bay-packers-dies-at-85/2019/04/12/50c20d78-5d4c-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html?utm_term=.792f6ed2e137

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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #94 on: April 16, 2019, 04:08:53 AM »
Georgia Engel, best known as Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, age 70, cause unknown.
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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #95 on: April 17, 2019, 12:52:15 AM »
Manga artist Kazuhiko Kato (known by his pen name, Monkey Punch), the author of Lupin III, died in Japan after suffering from an episode of pneumonia. He was 81.
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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #96 on: April 17, 2019, 04:01:33 AM »
Georgia Engel, best known as Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, age 70, cause unknown.

RIP Georgia Engel.  :cry:

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« Reply #97 on: April 22, 2019, 01:59:36 PM »
David Picker, movie executive (United Artists, Paramount, Columbia) who in the 1960s brought the Beatles and James Bond to movie theaters, age 87, from colon cancer.
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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #98 on: April 25, 2019, 04:27:49 AM »
From People Magazine: Ken Kercheval (Cliff Barnes on both O-R CBS Dallas from 1978-91, and the TNT show from 2012-14) passed on Sunday at 83...

https://people.com/tv/dallas-actor-ken-kercheval-who-played-j-r-s-nemesis-dies-at-83/

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« Reply #99 on: April 26, 2019, 04:07:31 AM »
From People Magazine: Ken Kercheval (Cliff Barnes on both O-R CBS Dallas from 1978-91, and the TNT show from 2012-14) passed on Sunday at 83...

https://people.com/tv/dallas-actor-ken-kercheval-who-played-j-r-s-nemesis-dies-at-83/

RIP Ken Kercheval.  :cry:

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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #100 on: April 26, 2019, 04:13:16 AM »
Boston Celtics legend John Havlicek, age 79, from complications of Parkinson's Disease.
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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #101 on: May 02, 2019, 06:54:19 PM »
Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, has passed at age 74.
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« Reply #102 on: May 04, 2019, 07:26:58 AM »
John Singleton, director of the film Boyz n The Hood, age 51 of complications from a stroke.
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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #103 on: May 07, 2019, 09:34:45 PM »
Max Azria, fashion icon and founder of BCBG, dead at 70. https://people.com/style/max-azria-dies-obituary/

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Re: 2019 Obituaries Thread
« Reply #104 on: May 09, 2019, 05:11:55 PM »
Jim Fowler, frequent Tonight Show guest during Carson's tenure and host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, age 89.
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