The Fringes Of Fame/family Of The Famous

[the_engineer 1,405]

2 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Sam Younger, son of MI6 chief Alex Younger, dies in car crash.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/01/son-mi6-chief-alex-younger-killed-car-crash-scottish-estate/

 

 

The good die younger

[The Old Crem 3,181]

Nechama Rivlin, first lady of Isreal, seriously ill.

[The Old Crem 3,181]

Person who flew Concorde while the Queen was on board and his wife found dead.

[The Old Crem 3,181]

Bill Heine, man who stuck a giant shark on the roof in oxford, has died.

[Toast 14,847]

Bill Heine could go in various topics, eg, Journalists or Presenters. 

He doesn't belong in this one.

[The Old Crem 3,181]

5 minutes ago, Toast said:

Bill Heine could go in various topics, eg, Journalists or Presenters. 

He doesn't belong in this one.

I clearly didnt read the whole article and just assumed his only claim to fame was the shark.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

On the fringe of the world of fame but not a family member. Best selling British novelist Joanne Harris tweets that one of her closest friends has died from lung cancer. 

[alt obits guy 3,098]

Marilyn Taylor Gleason, the widow of Jackie Gleason, has died.  She was 93.

 

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/fl-ne-jackie-gleason-widow-dead-20190403-story.html

 

[YoungWillz 19,104]

18 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Marilyn Taylor Gleason, the widow of Jackie Gleason, has died.  She was 93.

 

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/fl-ne-jackie-gleason-widow-dead-20190403-story.html

 

A widow, you say?

[alt obits guy 3,098]

2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

A widow, you say?

Yep.  And away she went (but probably not to the moon).

[YoungWillz 19,104]

Just now, alt obits guy said:

Yep.  And away she went (but probably not to the moon).

Okay....

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6887537/Roy-Chubby-Browns-son-dies-comic-paying-tribute-lost-soul-peace.html

 

Son of comedian Roy Chubby Brown dies aged 45.

[Clorox Bleachman 2,022]

Makeup artist Jeffree Star says his estranged mother is "very sick".

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8802933/delia-smith-friend-death-youth-hostel-amazon/

 

Delia Smith devastated after her friend is murdered in a youth hostel in the Amazon. 

[YoungWillz 19,104]

5 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8802933/delia-smith-friend-death-youth-hostel-amazon/

 

Delia Smith devastated in a stew after her friend is murdered in a youth hostel in the Amazon. 

FTFY.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

45 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

FTFY.

Naughty! 

[The Old Crem 3,181]

Mother of Siobhan McDonagh Mp and her sister Margret, peer and former general secretary of the Labour party, dies aged 95.

 

[Book 3,352]

The mother of Angela Merkel has died at 90 (German link): https://www.merkur.de/politik/angela-merkels-mutter-ist-tot-schock-fuer-kanzlerin-vor-brexit-gipfel-zr-12181467.html

[DevonDeathTrip 2,290]

Máire 'Baba' Brennan, 94, mother of Enya and three of the five members of Clannad - the other two were her brothers - is 'nearing the end', according to a folkie podcast I was just listening to...

[Joey Russ 7,119]

On 09/04/2019 at 11:42, TomTomTelekom said:

Last surviving Doolittle Raider Richard E. Cole passes away at 103 years:

https://www.tdn-net.com/news/60988/last-surviving-doolittle-raider-passes-away

His son Sambo dies 2 days later.

[Gooseberry Crumble 5,211]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/8860377/line-of-duty-vicky-mcclure-kate-fleming-devastated/

 

Line of duty actress Vicky McClure devastated as her friend dies of a brain tumour. 

[mollyafox 446]

On 18/01/2018 at 11:27, time said:

Paula Abdul's mother, Lorraine, died Sunday aged 85.

Paula Abdul's father, Harry, dies one year later. 

https://people.com/music/paula-abduls-father-dies-one-year-after-mom-death/ 

[Phantom 2,469]

Judy Yates, mother-in-law to Dick Dale has entered hospice care.

It's been a crap year for Lana Dale.

First her husband, now she's about to lose her mum.

[alt obits guy 3,098]

Brenda Jackson, the mother of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the ex-wife of the late Dale Earnhardt, has died.  She was 65.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/us/brenda-jackson-mother-of-dale-earnhardt-jr-dies-obit-trnd/index.html

 

[gcreptile 10,236]

Richard Wagner's last grandchild, Verena Lafferentz-Wagner, has died at 98:

https://slippedisc.com/2019/04/wagners-last-grandchild-has-died/

 

Married an SS guy - was a frequent guest at Bayreuth.