*Official* In Memoriam Thread

[revo]

1960s pop star Bobby Vee, 73
1980s new wave band Dead or Alive ("You Spin Me Round") frontman Pete Burns, 57
1960s activist Tom Hayden, 76

[TranaGreg]

1960s pop star Bobby Vee, 73
1980s new wave band Dead or Alive ("You Spin Me Round") frontman Pete Burns, 57
1960s activist Tom Hayden, 76

a "holy crap" tidbit: "Earlier this year, Burns admitted he had endured more than 300 procedures to fix botched surgeries on his face, which left him depressed and fighting for his life."

[senorsheep]

a "holy crap" tidbit: "Earlier this year, Burns admitted he had endured more than 300 procedures to fix botched surgeries on his face, which left him depressed and fighting for his life."

You don't say?

[TranaGreg]

I'd just like to point out for the record that I posted words, words only ...

[madducks]

WWE is saddened to learn of reports that Joanie Laurer, best known for competing in WWE as Chyna, has passed away.

http://www.wwe.com/article/chyna-pas...y?sf24752031=1

Good article about the rise and fall of Joanie Laurer entitled "The Great Fall of Chyna".

http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/the...fall-of-chyna/

[revo]

Robert Vaughn, best known for playing Napoleon Solo in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." dies at age 83.

[Gregg]

Leonard Cohen passed away at age 82.

[revo]

Leon Russell, the prolific singer/songwriter perhaps best known for 1972's "Tightrope", died at age 74.

[revo]

Sharon Jones, lead singer of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, died at age 60 from pancreatic cancer.

[revo]

Ron Glass, who famously portrayed Det. Ron Harris on "Barney Miller" died at age 71. RIP.

[Pauly]

We missed America's mom's passing: Florence Henderson at the age of 82.

[madducks]

We missed America's mom's passing: Florence Henderson at the age of 82.

I thought she deserved her own thread. But being mentioned in two threads seems appropriate as well. RIP Florence. And long live Carol Brady.

[madducks]

Michael "Jim" Delligatti, inventor of the Big Mac in 1967 and a Pittsburgh resident has died at the age of 98. I never realized that the Big Mac originated right here in Western PA.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/30/news...lds/index.html

[revo]

Greg Lake, of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson, died at age 69.

[madducks]

John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth and a longtime U.S. senator died Thursday at the age of 95.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health...ead/index.html