alt obits guy

Chuck Dauphin, a radio broadcaster, country music writer and contributor to Billboard magazine the past eight years, has died. He was 45. Dauphin died of complications from diabetes. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8530442/billboard-country-writer-chuck-dauphin-dead

Confirmed (as you probably know). He was picked by 22 teams, including everyone who was in the top 10.

Which reminds me Brian Knobbs has suffered a nasty knee infection and will need a complete joint replacement, which he can't afford. A GoFundMe has been set up. https://www.prowrestling.com/gofundme-launched-for-nasty-boy-brian-knobbs/

Graeme Gibson obit: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-graeme-gibson-1.5288049 Long-time partner of Margaret Atwood.

John Cohen obit: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761593122/banjo-player-folklorist-photographer-and-filmmaker-john-cohen-has-died

Brian Turk, who played Gabriel in the TV series Carnivale, has died. He was 49. https://www.tmz.com/2019/09/15/brian-turk-actor-dead-dies-cancer-carnivale/

Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award-winner and long-time stage actress, has died. She was 86. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Phyllis-Newman-Has-Passed-Away-at-86-20190915

Francis Xavier Roque, American Roman Catholic prelate and a retired Auxiliary Bishop of Military Archdiocese, has died. He was 90. https://dioceseofprovidence.org/most-reverend-francis-x-roque-dd

never mind

Debatable, particularly since this person wasn't frail...she went from healthy to dead in an instant. A matter of either accepting threads both as good or narrowing this thread's scope to avoid overlap.

South African Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy Bavelile Hlongwa dies in car accident. She was 38. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-mines/south-africas-deputy-mines-minister-dies-in-car-accident-idUSKCN1VZ04M

Hits a little close to home. Same high school graduating class. Didn't know him, but had at least one class with his doppleganger brother, a year his elder .

I. Beverly Lake Jr., a former North Carolina Chief Justice, has died. He was 85. https://www.wunc.org/post/former-chief-justice-who-pushed-innocence-process-dies

Juanita Abernathy, widow of civic rights activist Ralph David Abernathy, has died. She was 89. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/juanita-abernathy-widow-of-ralph-david-abernathy-has-died-at-age-89/985727777

Akilisi Pōhiva, the current Tongan Prime Minister, has died. He was 78. A unique DDP pick, too. https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-national/tongan-prime-minister-dies