Fatality: 2019

[MoodyBlues]

There are lots of relatively perilous stretches of it and the dangers are boredom and excessive speed. I-10 has some really boring spots along it.

Indeed it does. Like you, I've driven it many times, and long stretches of it just don't have much to look at.

 

[MoodyBlues]

Rapper Nipsey Hussle killed in shooting at his clothing store.

Can't say I'm a fan...actually have never heard of him, but getting killed sucks. I'll never understand how people can be okay with ending the life of another person. Don't get it...

 

[today]

I wasn't really familiar with them, but they died on a stretch of I-10 in Aridzona (not California as has been mistakenly reported) with which I'm very familiar, having driven over it scores of times. There are lots of relatively perilous stretches of it and the dangers are boredom and excessive speed. I-10 has some really boring spots along it.

I'll assume your misspelling as a pun intended?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I had no idea there where Arizona rappers. RIP Nipsey Hussle. Wish I had heard your raps.

 

[ocnbrze]

yeah GQ just released a video of Nippsey and his then girlfriend of 5 years on Saturday.....such weird irony.

 

[MoodyBlues]

Aridzona?
Yeah, I stole that from a friend a looong time ago. Fits quite well...

Fits VERY well!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

This is hyper-local to where I live...

RIP: Eleanor Maloney. An ORT technician for many years.
I was an ORTTech...

 

[MoodyBlues]

DPB, I agree with @rootabaga. I think this thread should be renamed to indicate that it's the 'local' edition.

 

[Unforgiven]

I think a single fatality thread is enough. Celebrity is a malleable enough claim that local celebrities can be memorialized in the broader thread.

 

[joe71]

Ray Sawyer co singer from Dr Hook he was the pirate/cowboy died December 31st 2018. I am a big fan of 70's music

 

[MoodyBlues]

Pilot Jerrie Cobb, America’s first female astronaut candidate, died last month in Florida after a brief illness. She was 88.

Rather than a link, I put the obit article in a quote below so you can easily expand and read it if you like. Jerrie was one of the Mercury 13, who sadly never really went anywhere.

RIP, Jerrie. Thanks for trying, and thanks for reaching.

I'm so in awe of, and grateful to, women like Cobb who paved the way for the rest of us.

It's a shame she never made it into space, but that doesn't diminish the trailblazing she did that led to other women getting there.

RIP.

 

[Deleted User]

Ken Kercheval (Cliff Barnes in Dallas) - 83

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48046872

 

[MoodyBlues]

Boston Celtics legend, John Havlicek, dies at 79.

Although I bleed Lakers purple and gold, I recognize what a great player Havlicek was. Condolences to all who loved him.

 

[mikedt]

Boston Celtics legend, John Havlicek, dies at 79.

Although I bleed Lakers purple and gold, I recognize what a great player Havlicek was. Condolences to all who loved him.

I'm the Lekars number one fan.

 

[MoodyBlues]

This is a little different--and weird...and ghoulish: Famed director John Singleton, 51, will die today.

The local TV stations are reporting that it's confirmed he will be taken off life support later today. He suffered a major stroke 12 days ago.

Singleton is best known for his 1991 masterpiece, Boyz N the Hood.

 

[joe71]

Strokes are nothing to take lightly, first Luke Perry now Mr Singleton booth of them younger than 55

 

[MoodyBlues]

Strokes are nothing to take lightly, first Luke Perry now Mr Singleton booth of them younger than 55

I know. It's scary...as someone *cough* over 55...to see such young people (by today's standards) dying like this is very troubling and sad.

RIP, John.

 

[joe71]

My deepest condolences to the Singleton family. God forbid I am in ever that situation where I have to make that decision.

 

[ocnbrze]

"......we all gotta go sometime"

it is one of my favorite movies all time.....RIP Mr. Singleton.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

@rootabaga Was she the boot lady?

 

[mikedt]

Peter Mathew, probably best known for his portrayal of Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” films, has passed at 74.

RIP, Peter. Thanks for being such a huge part (figuratively and literally) of so many beloved movies.

Variety article here.

Think I might watch Star Wars Holiday Special again.

 

[joe71]

Rachel held Evans Christian speaker, blogger and Author, gone at 37.

 

[MoodyBlues]

Rachel held Evans Christian speaker, blogger and Author, gone at 37.

I'm not familiar with Rachel Held Evans, but apparently she was a Christian writer/blogger.

It's tragic to die so young.

 

[joe71]

I'm not familiar with Rachel Held Evans, but apparently she was a Christian writer/blogger.

It's tragic to die so young.

I had never heard of her. My heart broke when I read she had a one and three year old

 

[MoodyBlues]

I had never heard of her. My heart broke when I read she had a one and three year old

I know...it's just awful.