2026 Obituaries Thread

[Ccook]

Nedra Talley Ross, last surviving member of the Ronettes (Be My Baby), age 80.

[Ccook]

David Allen Coe, country music star who wrote Take This Job And Shove It for Johnny Paycheck, age 86.

[whowouldeverhurtawhammy]

During the latest website outage, it was reported that Roger Sweet, the creator of He-Man, passed away on 4/28/26 after a bout with dementia. He was 91.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/man-creator-roger-sweet-dies-123022093.html

[Briguy]

David Allen Coe, country music star who wrote Take This Job And Shove It for Johnny Paycheck, age 86.

Also well known for writing Tanya Tucker’s “Would You Lay With Me In a Field Of Stone,” and his own string of hits:

* “You Never Even Called Me By My Name.” Steve “Go Cubs Go” Goodman wrote it in the quest for the “perfect country and western song.

* “The Ride,” from 1983, about a ghostly encounter with Hank Williams Sr.

* “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile,” his biggest country hit, reaching No. 2 in the late spring of 1984.

He was one of country music’s outlaws, living as hard as their music, and one of the last. Only Willie Nelson still walks among the old outlaws.

Brian

[SamJ93]

Alex Zanardi, former CART and F1 racing driver who became a gold-medal-winning Paralympian after a crash severed both of his legs, age 59.

[PatrickRox80]

John Sterling, longtime play-by-play caller for the New York Yankees, has passed on at the age of 87.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/05/04/longtime-yankees-radio-voice-john-sterling-dies-at-87/

[Ccook]

When Sterling did Atlanta Hawks games, his signature quote when a Hawk scored nothing-but-net from a distance was "Bullseye!" My younger brother Mike (RIP) was a valet at a bar Sterling frequented. Sterling gave him a very generous gratuity, so Mike pumped his fist and called out "Bullseye!" Sterling got a kick out of it.

[Ccook]

Ted Turner, television enterpreneur behind CNN among other outlets, age 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia earlier.

[GRWHAMMY the 2nd]

i'll admit, i watched a lot of Cartoon Network back in the 90s-2000s (another one of his channels)

[Ccook]

Turner showed he was going to be a handful early on. In 1970 he bought an independent station in Atlanta, WJRJ/ch. 17, which changed call to WTCG (became WTBS in 1979 and is now Gray-owned CW affiliate WPCH). He then took out billboards saying WTCG was "joining" NBC because of the number of NBC shows they cleared that then-NBC station WSB/ch. 2 (now ABC) blacked out. WSB threatened Turner with a lawsuit and the billboards were removed.

[TinoStar11]

HOF MLB manager Bobby Cox, longtime Braves manager and 1995 World Series champ, dead the age of 84 , no cause given.

[Ccook]

Here's a link to Bobby Cox's passing.

[GRWHAMMY the 2nd]

ok, this is spooky

first, the man who made Braves games viewable to a lot of people (Ted Turner with TBS).. and now a legendary manager in Bobby Cox

[BillyGr]

ok, this is spooky

first, the man who made Braves games viewable to a lot of people (Ted Turner with TBS).. and now a legendary manager in Booby Cox

Legendary manager WHO, now?

[GRWHAMMY the 2nd]

typo corrected. but funny in hindsight