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George Whitmore, legendary El Capitan climber, dies at 89:
From the LA Times
George Whitmore, a member of the first team of climbers to scale El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and a conservationist who devoted his life to protecting the Sierra Nevada, has died at age 89.
Whitmore died on New Year’s Day from complications of COVID-19, said his wife, Nancy. She said Whitmore, a cancer survivor, was extremely careful about wearing a mask and his family doesn’t know where he contracted the coronavirus. He tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 13, after developing a rattling but occasional cough and subsequent fever.
Whitmore died in a Fresno rehabilitation facility from damage to his lungs about a week after being released from a hospital, his wife said.
Friends, family, colleagues and fellow climbers mourned the passing of a legend in the world of rock climbing and the last surviving member of the trio that was the first to reach the top of El Capitan on Nov. 12, 1958. Ascending the 3,000-foot sheer granite rock wall that now attracts climbers from around the world was, at the time, a feat considered out of human reach.
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Letterman7
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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I think.
Tanya Roberts dead at 65 — a day after publicist mistakenly reports death |
You Only Live Twice?
Die Another Day?
Never Say Never Again? |
Apparently so, if CNN has it: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/entertainment/tanya-roberts-obit/index.html |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:46 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Author Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Marion Ramsey, "Police Academy" actress and funny as hell, has left us at 73. |
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LAGrunthaner
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:51 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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I forgot how funny, I'll have to see it again, RIP.
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| Marion Ramsey, "Police Academy" actress and funny as hell, has left us at 73. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:01 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Sad week for Dodger fans...
Tommy Lasorda, Dodgers icon, dead at 93
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/tommy-lasorda-dodgers-icon-dead-at-93/
He was released from the hospital Tuesday, raising hopes. Perhaps it was the opposite.
R.I.P., Tommy, we all bleed Dodger blue today.
I am happy he lived to see another Dodger World Series championship, along with Vinny.
He was the spark plug and human genius that built the Dodgers into a TEAM.
And the genius behind the '88 clutch Kirk Gibson homer in all its drama.
There has been no bigger cheerleader for the team. Ask any umpire.
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:00 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| KTPhil wrote: |
Sad week for Dodger fans...
Tommy Lasorda, Dodgers icon, dead at 93
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/tommy-lasorda-dodgers-icon-dead-at-93/
He was released from the hospital Tuesday, raising hopes. Perhaps it was the opposite.
R.I.P., Tommy, we all bleed Dodger blue today.
I am happy he lived to see another Dodger World Series championship, along with Vinny. |
+1. I will miss him... |
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Ed Bruce is legendary especially in South Texas. He was quite an accomplished guy.......who you were always going "whos that" He wrote songs, sang many, acted and really kept busy in the 1970s. Everybody that was in Texas during the 70s, including me, really tried to live up to his many songs. He will be missed. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:00 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Michael Apted: 'Visionary' film director dies aged 79
Apted won four Baftas and was known for directing James Bond film The World Is Not Enough and the Up series of documentaries.
another one for the bond list...
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One of the last surviving "Spitfire Women", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.
Eleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.
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engine builder extraordinaire Sonny Leonard
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| engine builder extraordinaire Sonny Leonard |
oh crap.thats oh so sad. he sure had some awesome stuff.I think I must of spent almost 2 hours instecting his new hemi head prototype display back when it was new at rockingham for the world finals ( we qualified #6 ( on a very soft tune)out of a 64 car field with almost 100 cars showing up to qualify( 2005 or 2006 I think) that hemi head was oh so fricking awesome, I may of walked around all day on 3 leggs....but the stickey stuff on the starting like wasent from me..and it was dam sticky, so dam sticky one of our crew members walked out of his shews!!  RIP SONNY!!! |
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Sir David Barclay, multi-millionaire co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Not necessarily a celebrity, but Helen Viola Jackson died a couple weeks ago at age 101. She "married" a Civil War veteran in 1936 when she was 17 (he was 93). She was a neighbor girl looking after him because he was in frail health and in the Depression, he wanted her to have his Union pension benefits after he died. According to the account, they were never intimate and she never remarried. She also never wanted to collected on the pension. Sad...  Most likely the last link to anyone from that era... |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:23 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Tim Lester, a former NFL fullback who played eight seasons between 1992 and 1999, died Tuesday from coronavirus complications. He was 52.
Lester played for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys. With the Steelers, he became known as "The Bus Driver" because his task was to block for star running back and eventual Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis.
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