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Columnist Art Buchwald dies at age 81

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer
10:43 AM (ET)

WASHINGTON - Columnist and author Art Buchwald, who for over four decades chronicled the life and times of Washington with an infectious wit and endeared himself to many with his never-say-die battle with failing kidneys, is dead at 81.

Buchwald's son, Joel, who was with his father, disclosed the satirist's death, saying he had passed away quietly at his home late Wednesday with his family.

Buchwald had refused dialysis treatments for his failing kidneys last year and was expected to die within weeks of moving to a hospice on Feb. 7. But he lived to return home and even write a book about his experiences.

Since it is a long obituary notice, I will just link to it at: Yahoo News

 

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From TV Guide online:

Barney Miller Star Dead at 71

"Ron Carey, the pint-sized, round-faced comic best known as the unjustifiably cocky police officer Carl Levitt on the long-running television situation comedy Barney Miller, died [of a stroke] Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 71."

 

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Denny Doherty of Mamas and Papas dies

Denny Doherty, from the 60s folk-pop group the Mamas and the Papas, has died aged 66 in Mississauga, Canada.
His sister Frances Arnold said the singer-songwriter died at his home outside Toronto after a short illness.

The Mamas and the Papas shot to fame in the late 1960s with hits California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday.

The group also featured chief songwriter John Phillips, his wife Michelle and female vocalist "Mama Cass" Elliot.

Denny Doherty was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 29 November 1940.

 

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RIP Denny. You'll be missed.

 

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Two deaths to report, one Animal and one Human.

Race Horse Barbaro Euthanized

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Marcheline Bertrand, mother of film star Angelina Jolie, dies

 

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Poor Angelina

56 is not very old for you mother to die

RIP Marcheline Bertrand

 

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Barbaro put up a good fight and I am glad that they gave him a chance to live. At least he is out of pain now. RIP

 

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World's oldest person dies at 114
POSTED: 10:18 a.m. EST, January 29, 2007

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Emma Faust Tillman, who was born to former slaves and lived to see 21 American presidencies, died at a nursing home just four days after becoming the world's oldest-known living person. She was 114.

Tillman, who lived independently until she was 110, died Sunday night in the company of several family members, said Karen Chadderton, administrator of Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center in East Hartford.

"She went peacefully," Chadderton said Monday. "She was a wonderful woman."

Tillman assumed the title as world's oldest person on Wednesday with the death of 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Her four-day reign was the shortest on record, said Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records.

With Tillman's death, the world's oldest person is believed to be Yone Minagawa of Fukuoka, Japan, who is 114, Guinness said.

Tillman was deeply religious since childhood and always attributed her longevity to God's will, friends and family members said.

"She has a lot of faith and says, 'Whatever the good Lord wants is what will happen,"' Chadderton said after Tillman was recognized as the world's oldest known woman.

Tillman's great-nephew, former Hartford fire chief John B. Stewart Jr., has said she never smoked, never drank, did not need glasses and only reluctantly agreed to wear a hearing aid.

Tillman was born November 22, 1892, during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison. She was born on a plantation near Gibsonville, North Carolina, where her father was born into slavery and where her parents and grandfather were sharecroppers, according to interviews she gave the Glastonbury, Connecticut, Historical Society for a 1994 newsletter.

She was one of 23 children in the family, some of whom died at birth or in infancy.

Many of those who survived lived almost as long as Tillman, including a brother who lived to be 108, a sister who reached 105 and two others who reached 102.

Seeking to escape Jim Crow legislation and the economic havoc that the boll weevil had wreaked on the region's cotton crops, the Fausts -- who had taken the name of their former masters -- moved from North Carolina to Glastonbury in 1900.

Her father and some of her brothers got jobs on local tobacco and milk farms, while Tillman and her mother cooked, picked and sold berries and did housework for several local white families.

She was the only black student in her high school when she graduated in 1909 but said she never experienced discrimination there whether she was in class, churning butter for a local family or playing shortstop on a town baseball team.

"In Glastonbury, I didn't know if I was white or black," she said in 1994. "People were just fine, even way back then, to me. They treated me just like everybody else."

Tillman worked as a cook, maid, party caterer and caretaker for several wealthy Hartford-area families. She later ran her own baking and catering service whose regular customers included Dr. Thomas Hepburn, father of actress Katharine Hepburn.

She married Arthur Tillman in 1914, and they raised two daughters in Hartford before his death in 1939. One of her daughters is deceased and the other, Marjorie, was her caretaker and a constant presence with her at the nursing home.

Minagawa, now believed to be the world's oldest living person, was born January 4, 1893. She has been living at a nursing home for several years and maintains a healthy appetite though she seldom leaves her bed, nurse Sumako Katsuki said by phone late Monday.

"When she feels good, she ventures to the dining room by motorized wheelchair," Katsuki said.

Minagawa was not available for comment because she had already gone to sleep for the night, Katsuki said.

 

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^^Hmmm...I have the feeling that lately I've been reading this very same news but regarding different people quite too often.
See:
World's oldest person dies at 115:Emiliano Mercado del Toro.
World's oldest woman dies at 115:Julie Winnefred Bertrand.
World's oldest person dies at 116:Elizabeth Bolden.

And so on....

 

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My sister and I were just talking about Barbaro. We rooted him on throughout his search for the triple crown as well as his fight with the broken foot. He put up a good fight.

And my condolences to Marcheline Bertrand's friends and family.

 

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Poor Barbaro at least he won't be in pain anymore which is sort of a comforting thought.

 

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From TV Guide Entertainment News blog:

I Love Lucy cocreator Bob Carroll Jr. died on Saturday, at age 87.

Bio on Wikipedia

 

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Marcheline Bertrand died on Saturday, too. Ovarian Cancer.

 

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Sidney Sheldon passed away Tuesday afternoon
He was 89

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070131/ap_on_en_ot/obit_sheldon