[Deke40]

Angel that is so sad to loose one's parents at such an early age.

I was raised mostly by my grandmother, as my mother was divorced and had to work to support three boys. My grandmother died on Christmas morning 1968. After that I could barely make it through the following Christmases without being very depressed. It has taken me almost the full 35 years to move on with my life and feelings on that day.

I remember after I moved away to Texas and would visit and get ready to leave for home how she would always cry. I thought it was entirely just because she wouldn't see us for awhile. Now that I have got much older ,and hopefully wiser, I know she was thinking she wouldn't see us again in this life. So as you stated don't put off hugging and telling your love ones that "I Love You".

[angelize56]

Chari, Bruce and Deke: Thank you for your kind replies. Just feeling a bit melancholy these days. Always happens around the time of my Mom's death. It felt good to write about her. You take care and I appreciate friends like you. Marlene (angel)

[angelize56]

I remember after I moved away to Texas and would visit and get ready to leave for home how she would always cry. I thought it was entirely just because she wouldn't see us for awhile. Now that I have got much older ,and hopefully wiser, I know she was thinking she wouldn't see us again in this life. So as you stated don't put off hugging and telling your love ones that "I Love You".

Thanks for that sentiment Deke. *sniff* I'm having health problems and my son has been very caring and helpful around me and the house. He hugs me and tells me he loves me more often and every time he leaves the house. The one thing I dread in life is dying and leaving him behind....but may I never experience what the parents of children who died that I make memorial pages for....my child dying first. I can't even imagine the pain and grief those parents are going through. Children definitely should outlive their parents. Sad it doesn't always work out that way.

Ok on to pleasant thoughts! Take care and have a lovely week! angel *HUGS*

[eggplant43]

Songwriter Felice Bryant Dies Of Cancer
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 23, 2003


Felice Bryant, who with her late husband wrote "Bye Bye Love" and other Everly Brothers hits and the hand-clapping bluegrass standard "Rocky Top," died Tuesday. She was 77.

Bryant, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died at her Gatlinburg home, said Caroline Davis, spokeswoman for the songwriters licensing agency BMI.

Her husband, Boudleaux, who died in 1987, and she wrote or co-wrote 800 recorded songs cut by more than 500 vocalists. Their songs have accounted for approximately 500 million record sales.

Their other big hits include the Everlys' "Wake Up Little Susie," "We Could," recorded by various artists including Jim Reeves and Al Martino, and "Raining in My Heart," recorded by Buddy Holly, Dean Martin and Ray Price.

Others who recorded songs by the Bryants included Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, the Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Simon & Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison and Sarah Vaughan.

The couple began writing songs together when Boudleaux Bryant set his wife's poetry to music. Their first major success was "Country Boy" by Little Jimmy Dickens in 1948.

They were among the first in Nashville to make songwriting a full-time career. They were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1991 and inducted into the National Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986.

"Rocky Top," written in 10 minutes in 1968 and recorded by the Osborne Brothers, became a state song in 1982, joining "Tennessee Waltz" and others. It has been the fight song for the University of Tennessee athletic teams since the early 1970s, whipping football crowds into a frenzy at Neyland Stadium.

"We played it in a drill and the crowd loved it so much, we kept playing it," W.J. Julian, the marching band's former director, said Tuesday.

The song, with a bouncy beat, is about a secluded spot in the Smoky Mountains where there's no "smoggy smoke" or telephone bills. "Corn don't grow at all on Rocky Top, dirt's too rocky by far," the song says. "That's why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar."

Felice Bryant recalled she and her husband stumbled on the song when she became tired of writing sad lyrics and refused to continue. Her husband started to strum a guitar tune, and they made up the words.

"Boudleaux accepted every dumb line I said just to get it over with. Ten minutes later, 'Rocky Top' was finished. I had my diversion, and we went back to work. But in the back of my mind I kept thinking, 'What a gem,"' she said in a 1997 interview.

Her husband did most of the melody writing and she provided the lyrics. Alone, Boudleaux Bryant also wrote "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Devoted to You," both recorded by the Everly Brothers, and "Love Hurts," recorded by Orbison.

Felice Bryant was born in Milwaukee. She sang on the radio as a child but her true passion was poetry.

Survivors include two sons.

[angelize56]

Film, Broadway Writer Peter Stone Dies

NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Stone, who won an Oscar, an Emmy and three Tony awards during a career in which he wrote the musicals "1776" and "Titanic" and the film classic "Charade," has died. He was 73.

He died Saturday at New York-Cornell Hospital of pulmonary fibrosis, said Maury Yeston, a close friend who collaborated with him on three shows, including "Titanic."

Stone was an acclaimed writer for both the stage and screen. He won Tonys for writing the books to the musicals "1776" (1969), "Woman of the Year" (1981) and "Titanic" (1997).

He also revised the musical "Annie Get Your Gun," originally produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein in the late 1940s, for a revival that ran more than 1,000 performances before closing in September 2001.

With co-writers S.H. Barnett and Frank Tarloff, Stone won an Oscar in 1964 for "Father Goose," the World War II comedy starring Cary Grant as a man who watches Japanese spy planes on a deserted South Seas island. His Emmy was for the 1960s television drama "The Defenders.

His other writing credits include "Charade," starring Grant and Audrey Hepburn; the screenplay for the musical "Sweet Charity" and the 1974 drama about a hijacked New York subway, "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."

In an interview with The Associated Press in 1997, Stone offered advice to creators of musicals.

"You listen to the audience," he said. "The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble."

For "1776," producer Stuart Ostrow asked Stone to sort out historical material that had been gathered by composer Sherman Edwards. So Stone laid out index cards marked with bits of information, eventually stringing them together for the book.

The result was a musical built around the declaration's signing, with John Adams emerging as its hero.

Stone is survived by his wife, Mary Stone. His funeral was to be private, and a memorial on Broadway would be planned, Yeston said.

[angelize56]

Two doors down from me live four boys and their Dad. The boys are 18, 16, 15 and 9. Their parents have been divorced 5 years and Dad has custody...due to the Mom having problems with her life and getting into the wrong life style and those damned drugs. I found out that their Mom Sherry died last Friday unexpectedly at the age of 34. Even though she hasn't been there much for the boy's lives and her life wasn't the best, I still feel her passing deserves some diginity and a moment of rememberance. So.....rest in peace.....God bless you Sherry.....Take care. angel

[eggplant43]

Chanel Girl Suzy Parker Dead At 69

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 6, 2003


Model-actress Suzy Parker, one of the most recognizable faces of the 1950s and a forerunner of the supermodel, has died. She was 69.

Parker, known in later life as Suzy Parker Dillman, died Saturday night at her home in Montecito, according to her stepdaughter, Pamela Dillman Harmon.

Parker, known for her full, red hair and beautiful bone structure, was the signature face for designer Coco Chanel, photographed by the likes of Richard Avedon and Milton H. Greene. Greene once said Parker helped redefine the word "elegance" in magazines.

Author Eleanor Dwight, in her 2002 biography "Diana Vreeland," about the famed fashion editor who gave Parker her start, said Parker was "the" model of the 1950s. She was at one time the highest paid model, earning $200 an hour.

"I believe in the gold standard," Parker told The Washington Post in the early 1960s. "I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down."

In 1957, Parker made her Hollywood debut in the musical "Funny Face," starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. She danced in a number called "Think Pink" that spoofed fashion editors like Vreeland.

Parker's other film credits include "Kiss Them for Me" (also 1957), opposite Cary Grant, and "Ten North Frederick" (1958) starring Gary Cooper. She also appeared in "The Twilight Zone" and "Tarzan" television series.

Dillman, born Cecelia Anne Renee Parker, was the younger sister of model Dorian Leigh, who graced the cover of fashion magazines beginning in the 1940s.

Leigh helped her sister get into modeling at the age of 14, according to the Vreeland biography. She took her sister to see modeling agent Eileen Ford, who promptly declared that the teenager - at 5 feet, 9 inches - was too tall.

But Vreeland wasn't put off by Parker's height and put her to work.

In Hollywood, Parker met her third husband, actor Bradford Dillman, who is best known for his work on television, on just about every show from "Kraft Television Theater" and "Dr. Kildare" on through "McCloud" and "Murder, She Wrote." They married in 1963. The couple moved to Montecito in 1968 to escape the celebrity life, longtime friend Nancy Failing said.

"She'd led the glamorous life and she was ready to draw in her horns," Failing said.

Dillman is survived by her husband; four children; two stepchildren; and two sisters, Dorian Leigh and Florian Lee.

[angelize56]

A classmate of my nephew. <br><br><img src="http://forums.techguy.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=850622"><br>

Jessica L. Ayrton

PORT HURON -- Our angel, Jessica L. Ayrton, 15, of Port Huron, passed away of natural causes on Sunday, May 4, 2003 and began a new life with her Savior, Jesus Christ.

She was born Nov. 26, 1987 in Port Huron, attended Port Huron Northern High School, and worked at the Port Huron Pastry Shop.

She enjoyed drawing, writing, music, dancing and modeling. She especially loved being with her family and her many friends.

Her laughter, smile and love for others will be with her family and friends always.

Jessica is survived by her mother, Suzanne R. Ayrton of Port Huron; her father, Robert C. (Laurie Dinger) Ayrton of Marysville; her three sisters, Irene (Larry) Schuck of Port Huron, Lindsay (Chris Travis) Ayrton of Port Huron and Amanda Ayrton of Port Huron; her grandparents, Otto and Ruth Mohni of Port Huron; her grandmother JoAnn McDonald of Port Huron; one nieces and three nephews, Nichole and Craig Schuck and Caleb and Ashton Travis; many aunts, uncles and cousins; and many very special friends.

The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 8, 2003 in Colonial Woods Missionary Church. The Rev. Link Howard, Pastor of Interfaith Community Church will officiate. Burial will follow in Lakeside Cemetery.

Visitation will be 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Smith Family Funeral Home-North, 1525 Hancock St. and on Thursday at the church beginning at 10 a.m.

Pallbearers will be Robert C. Ayrton, Larry Schuck, Robert and Richard Mohni, Jody Mahosky and Roger Williams Jr.

Contributions may be made in Jessica's memory to the wishes of her family.

[angelize56]

^ Jessica's photo in the above obituary didn't do her justice. Here is how she really looks. She was a beautiful girl. God bless her and her family. Take care. angel <br><br><img src="http://forums.techguy.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=854071">

[hewee]

So sorry to hear if some so young passing way.

GOD Bless the family hearts over the lost.

[LANMaster]

George Morrow

Computer pioneer dies at 69 (I think)

Creator of "Microstuff"

[angelize56]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Nell Carter, who played the sassy housekeeper on the 1980s TV sitcom "Gimme a Break!" died of natural causes, the coroner's office said Tuesday.

An autopsy and toxicological tests determined the death was natural because of probable heart disease and diabetes complications, said coroner's Capt. Deborah Peterson.

Carter died January 23 at age 54 after collapsing in her Beverly Hills home. She had undergone two brain operations in 1992 to fix aneurysms.

Blessed with a big voice and a strong stage presence despite her 4-foot-11 height, she won a Tony Award in 1978 for her sultry turn in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin' " and an Emmy in 1982 for a TV broadcast of the show, which was a revue of Fats Waller songs. Her quietly soulful number "Mean to Me" was a show highlight.

Carter received two more Emmy nominations in 1982 and 1983 for "Gimme a Break!" playing a housekeeper to a family headed by a widower who was the town police chief. The show ran from 1981 to 1987.

She also played the cruel orphanage operator Miss Hannigan in the 1997 Broadway revival of "Annie" and appeared in the movies "The Grass Harp" (1995), "Modern Problems" (1981) and "Hair" (1979).

[angelize56]

Cowboys' Haywood dead at 23

Posted: Sunday May 11, 2003 6:53 PM
Updated: Sunday May 11, 2003 11:19 PM

DALLAS (AP) -- Dallas Cowboys running back Ennis Haywood died Sunday, a day after being placed on life support with an undisclosed illness. He was 23.

Haywood died at Medical Center of Arlington, hospital spokeswoman Diane Stout said.

"The cause of death at this time is unknown," she told The Associated Press. She said she doesn't know what Haywood was being treated for.

Haywood was taken to the hospital early Saturday after waking up feeling ill and vomiting, Iowa State director of media relations Tom Kroeschell told AP on Sunday. Kroeschell said he got the information about the former Cyclones player from the school's head football coach, Dan McCarney.

Haywood participated in the Cowboys' three-day minicamp last week and was expected to compete for a roster spot at halfback.

"This is a time to offer support and deepest sympathy to the family," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "Our hearts go out to them. This is a tragedy involving a person who was very well-liked and respected by anyone who had the opportunity to know him."

Haywood, an undrafted free agent, was on the Cowboys' practice squad last season. He led the team in rushing in the preseason with 120 yards on 31 carries.

"It's such a shock because I talked to him every single day," Cowboys offensive tackle Flozell Adams said. "I just talked to him on Thursday and everything was fine.

"Every time I talked to him, he was never negative and always spirited. I know he was so excited about this season," Adams said. "He was in the weight room a lot and just getting ready. He kept saying this was going to be his year."

Haywood ranks fifth in career rushing at Iowa State with 2,862 yards, and sixth in touchdowns with 27. As a senior, he ran for 1,169 yards and 14 touchdowns to lead the Big 12.

"Like everyone in the Cyclones' football family, we are shocked and saddened beyond words," McCarney said Sunday. "Ennis was one of the classiest gentlemen there has ever been, on and off the field. He was an unbelievable competitor, and one of the most tenacious football players I've ever been around."

The Dallas Morning News first reported that Haywood was hospitalized in its Sunday editions. The newspaper said Haywood remained on life support late Saturday and that he had stopped breathing early Saturday.

[jimi]

(5/13/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding died Sunday (May 11) at his home in Ireland at the age of 57, according to billboard.com. The cause of death is still unknown.

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while mitch mitchell and noel were over shadowed by the master of the stratocaster, both these guys were very accomplished musicians in their own right - in my not-so-humble-opinion!!

[angelize56]

Ex-NBA Star Dave DeBusschere Dies
Posted: 2:17 p.m. EDT May 14, 2003
Updated: 4:28 p.m. EDT May 14, 2003

NEW YORK -- NBA Hall of Famer Dave DeBusschere, a forward on two championship teams with the New York Knicks and also the youngest coach in league history, died Wednesday of a heart attack at 62.

The team, which announced his death, had no other details.

DeBusschere's exploits in the world of sports also included a stint as commissioner of the ABA and parts of two seasons as a major league pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in 1962-63.

But it was in basketball that DeBusschere excelled. He gave up baseball after two seasons and a 3-4 record in 36 games to concentrate on his NBA career.

By 1964, he was player-coach of the Detroit Pistons, becoming at age 24 the youngest to guide a team. He played six full seasons for the Pistons before being traded in 1968 to the Knicks.

In New York, the 6-foot-6 forward teamed with fellow Hall of Famers Walt Frazier, Willis Reed and Bill Bradley to win championships in 1970 and 1973.

DeBusschere was elected to the Hall in 1983 after playing 11 seasons in the NBA. In 1997, he was picked as one of the 50 greatest players in league history.

DeBusschere was picked for the NBA's All-Defensive team six straight years from 1969-74. He retired after the 1973-74 season with a career average of 16.1 points, plus totals of 9,618 rebounds, and 2,497 assists.