The Ones That Got Away...

[adrian0719 224]

John M. Johansen, the last surviving member of the 'Harvard Five' architects, has died at 96.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,360]

According to, ahem, "The Alien-UFOs Discussion Forum" :

 

Rochus Misch, the last survivor of Hitler's bunker, is seriously ill in a Berlin Hospital.

[charon 4,943]

According to, ahem, "The Alien-UFOs Discussion Forum" :

 

Rochus Misch, the last survivor of Hitler's bunker, is seriously ill in a Berlin Hospital.

 

Hope so, would put me top of the DP I'm in..............

[angryGreatness 96]

Paul Tanner, last living member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, dead at 95.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

The Swing era is swinging to a standstill with Tanner and Patti Andrews falling silent within days of each other.

[angryGreatness 96]

Ewald-Heinrich Von Kleist, the last living participant in the July 20th Plot to assassinate Hitler, has died aged 90.

 

 

A hit for my Theme Team.

[Spade_Cooley 9,562]

Reg Twigg, the last surviving POW to have worked on the Bridge Over the River Kwai, has taken the death railway aged 99.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,360]

There are two surviving residents of St Kilda, including the son of Mary Gillies, the woman whose death from appendicitis in January 1930 finally prompted the remaining islanders to petition for evacuation. It's widely - and wrongly - believed now that the islanders were driven off, in fact they got together and decided to leave.

Funny you should mention this. I was chatting to someone only last week about the upcoming 80th anniversary. Many years ago I asked about interviewing some survivors but was told they didn't like to talk about their time there.

 

Not sure about the reluctance with regard to interview, 85 year old Mr Gillies was quoted in the Guardian piece and clearly had the journo round to his home. No mention name wise of the other survivor though.

 

Norman Gillies has died.

(I like this old photo of the St Kilda locals. Strange to think that only a little over 100 years ago, there were adults in the UK who didn't have shoes)

[Octopus of Odstock 2,206]

Sad to hear. When watching QI only two weeks ago, they talked about St. Kilda and Gillies and I thought what an excellent candidate to add onto my DDP list. Seemed quite healthy though, having travelled there recently. Having just discovered the story, it's a lititle deflating that he's died so soon afterwards.

[time 8,641]

There are two surviving residents of St Kilda, including the son of Mary Gillies, the woman whose death from appendicitis in January 1930 finally prompted the remaining islanders to petition for evacuation. It's widely - and wrongly - believed now that the islanders were driven off, in fact they got together and decided to leave.

Funny you should mention this. I was chatting to someone only last week about the upcoming 80th anniversary. Many years ago I asked about interviewing some survivors but was told they didn't like to talk about their time there.

 

Not sure about the reluctance with regard to interview, 85 year old Mr Gillies was quoted in the Guardian piece and clearly had the journo round to his home. No mention name wise of the other survivor though.

 

Norman Gillies has died.

(I like this old photo of the St Kilda locals. Strange to think that only a little over 100 years ago, there were adults in the UK who didn't have shoes)

His first cousin, Rachel Johnson, who is 91, is now the last survivor of the evacuees from St Kilda.

according to his Telegraph obit

[Death Impends 8,010]

Anthony Wayne, next-to-last surviving member of Richard E. Byrd's third Antarctic expedition in 1939, gone cold at 98.

[TAFKAG 70]

Great escape in the news this week, 65 years on. Frank Stone, one left behind, featured here may get an obit for his role as a witness to what happened.

And he did.

[Death Impends 8,010]

Article here on the last toast of the Doolittle Raiders, of which three of four survivors have attended. Probably not really UK-obit worthy but a fair punt for your US-based pools.

[maryportfuncity 10,662]

There are two surviving residents of St Kilda, including the son of Mary Gillies, the woman whose death from appendicitis in January 1930 finally prompted the remaining islanders to petition for evacuation. It's widely - and wrongly - believed now that the islanders were driven off, in fact they got together and decided to leave.

Funny you should mention this. I was chatting to someone only last week about the upcoming 80th anniversary. Many years ago I asked about interviewing some survivors but was told they didn't like to talk about their time there.

 

Not sure about the reluctance with regard to interview, 85 year old Mr Gillies was quoted in the Guardian piece and clearly had the journo round to his home. No mention name wise of the other survivor though.

 

Norman Gillies has died.

(I like this old photo of the St Kilda locals. Strange to think that only a little over 100 years ago, there were adults in the UK who didn't have shoes)

His first cousin, Rachel Johnson, who is 91, is now the last survivor of the evacuees from St Kilda.

according to his Telegraph obit

 

So, on that evidence the Telelgraph are keeping tabs on Rachel Johnson, I might do the same for next year's DDP.

[Spade_Cooley 9,562]

Maurice Faure, the last-surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome, dead at 92.Where's that poster with the UKIP tendencies, he'd be good value here.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

Maurice Faure, the last-surviving signatory of the Treaty of Rome, dead at 92.Where's that poster with the UKIP tendencies, he'd be good value here.

 

I thought we had a thread for animals somewhere, couldn't you find it?

[adrian0719 224]

Mae Keane, 107, last surviving Radium Girl.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Seems we need a place for 'the last of the Mohicans' as it were. I recall last year the last survivor of the Hindenburg and the last surviving Navajo Code Talker dying, and they should be noted not necessarily for being terribly famous, but for the sad end of an era in the history of mankind from which first-hand accounts are no longer available.

And with that, I present 98-year old Gus Villalta, who died May 26, 2015, just one day before the 78th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge's opening, and who was very likely the last living person who worked on the bridge.
SC
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/national/obituaries/story/2015/may/30/mthought-be-likely-last-golden-gate-bridge-wo/307072/

Edited June 7, 2015 by DevonDeathTrip
Agree with all of that SC, however we do already have a thread which should meet your requirements. I've therefore merged your new thread with the existing one.

[YoungWillz 21,081]

The last of the Train Robbery Squad who investigated the 1963 Great Train Robbery, (then Detective Sergeant) Stanley "Steve" Moore, 88. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4476313.ece?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

Probably the most dramatic arrest when he pursued Roy James across a rooftop. He became a DCI before he retired.

[Spade_Cooley 9,562]

With the death of Val Doonican, that leaves Eric Clapton and Princess Anne as the only two people mentioned in the lyrics of "The Intro and the Outro" (except for the Bonzos themselves) to still be with us.

[YoungWillz 21,081]

Tahsin Sahinkaya, the last surviving member of a junta that led Turkey's 1980 military coup, has died. He was 90. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3154768/Last-surviving-Turkish-coup-leader-Sahinkaya-dies.html

[YoungWillz 21,081]

Walter Kastner, the last surviving member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lexington battleship which conducted the unsuccessful search for Amelia Earhart, 99. http://www.whittierdailynews.com/obituaries/20150801/last-member-of-amelia-earhart-search-crew-dies-in-whittier-at-age-99

[Guest Guest]

One of the last 2 survivors from the famous ' great escape ' ,Paul Royle, has died at 101 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212149/Australian-Great-Escape-hero-Paul-Royle-dies-age-101.html

[maryportfuncity 10,662]

With the death of Val Doonican, that leaves Eric Clapton and Princess Anne as the only two people mentioned in the lyrics of "The Intro and the Outro" (except for the Bonzos themselves) to still be with us.

 

 

Yeah, but one of the Bonzos is already gone. So we're well into single figures on this.

 

Have we established if the sessionist Gorilla is still alive.

[maryportfuncity 10,662]

Paul Royle, WW2 great escaper has died in Australia (reported on BBC this morning)

 

Only Dick Churchill from that famed escapade continues to breath, and is - therefore - hugely obitable when he goes.