Joey Russ 7,228 Posted February 26, 2018 Cynthia Heimel is dead according to this: Well done TJS on the gamble (I assume she’ll obit). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted February 26, 2018 Turns out she had dementia. I had no clue what her illness was, went brave on her due to a single tweet and her complete Twitter silence for about a year. Now the wait is on for an obit, surely Guardian acknowledges her? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 26, 2018 Must have been personally known information. Alls fair of course....but Google provides nothing about Heimel being ill, sick, hospitalized, suffering or battling a disease, nothing. No idea other than personal knowledge why she'd have been in anyone's radar. Well done. [If otoh it's tweet-referenced hinted info, I don't and won't tweet, my loss]. SC (Edit - ok posted almost same time as explanation above. As stated, good on you for following Twitter). (Edit 2: Where the hell do you see she had dementia?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted February 26, 2018 Well, DI ain't one of the GOAT based on only reading the Ideas thread every Christmas! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted February 26, 2018 10 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: (Edit 2: Where the hell do you see she had dementia?) One of the tweets mourning her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted February 26, 2018 Well Done, DI! Good to see you rewarded for the risk (I assume the Guardian is the only, but very likely obit source.). I tried the one-tweet + silence thing for my first B-Team with Roh Tae-Woo and Jim McLean - didn't work. I would have risked it again (and been rewarded) if Labour MP Frank Doran had survived that one tweet for more than 24 hours. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted February 26, 2018 22 minutes ago, Death Impends said: One of the tweets mourning her. Funny thing actually. On Facebook, there was a post dating back to September 2017 that she was suffering from dementia and was in a nursing home. The strange things you learn while doing research sometimes... EDIT: Well, link isn't working, so maybe someone else can post it if they know how to, but it's out there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 872 Posted February 26, 2018 Funny you should post their deaths which coincidentally also means they're out of a job, no longer active. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted February 28, 2018 Not a QO, but the New York Times write about how interesting of a person she really was. Really was a person that I wished I knew about, and she would've been a B Team lock next year for me if B team's (which I have a feeling that they'll go defunct) and Heimel were still around in 2019... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted February 28, 2018 Noticed that one of Heimel's Twitter mourners is a Sunday Times columnist. Possible this won't be a Guardian-or-bust case? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted February 28, 2018 I'm thinking of an Observer (Guardian weekend) obit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 28, 2018 15 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Not a QO, but the New York Times write about how interesting of a person she really was. Really was a person that I wished I knew about, and she would've been a B Team lock next year for me if B team's (which I have a feeling that they'll go defunct) and Heimel were still around in 2019... Well keep in mind, though the pinnacle source for celebrity obits in USA, it's also the local paper for NYC. Just like your local paper. She was a New Yorker, lived in Manhattan, wrote for the Village Voice. So where you may be over-emphasizing her celeb, she is basically getting a local write-up. You don't see many other U.S. major rags giving an obit (yet) do you? (Washington Post, Phily paper). So yes it's a NYTimes obit, but not sure in this case it's going to go transcontinental. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted March 1, 2018 Well, the independent has an obit. Will be very dissapointing if that’s the only UK source that reports her... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted March 5, 2018 Sacheen Littlefeather's cancer is now Stage 4: https://www.thewrap.com/sacheen-littlefeather-oscar-marlon-brando-stage-4-cancer/ It doesn't sound as if I'll have a chance of picking her again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted April 14, 2018 Kenyan elephant conservationist and future Last Word protagonist Daphne Sheldrick dead at 83: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43757716 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 24, 2018 On 3/1/2018 at 15:43, Joey Russ said: Well, the independent has an obit. Will be very dissapointing if that’s the only UK source that reports her... Updating your disappointment as of April 24. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted May 14, 2018 Charlie Russell, canadian naturalist who lived among bears to show that they weren't aggressive, dead at 76: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/charlie-russell-naturalist-who-lived-among-bears-has-died-76-180969071/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Russell_(naturalist) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted June 1, 2018 David Shutts funeral on June 29th...that's a long time: http://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/2018/06/funeral-set-astriid’s-founder-david-shutts-obe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,977 Posted June 11, 2018 Dorothy Cotton, top aide to Martin Luther King, dead at 88: https://www.myajc.com/news/breaking-news/dorothy-cotton-top-aide-martin-luther-king-has-died/BisLIsQClaTaIQG67WnEvM/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,228 Posted June 11, 2018 If guests were able to post, I could easily see them post her death in the June Brown thread claiming that Dot Cotton is dead... 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 12, 2018 8 hours ago, gcreptile said: Dorothy Cotton, top aide to Martin Luther King, dead at 88: https://www.myajc.com/news/breaking-news/dorothy-cotton-top-aide-martin-luther-king-has-died/BisLIsQClaTaIQG67WnEvM/ So when MLK was choosing who would be his top aide he was out picking Cotton? 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted June 12, 2018 11 hours ago, Joey Russ said: If guests were able to post, I could easily see them post her death in the June Brown thread claiming that Dot Cotton is dead... I was tempted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 19, 2018 Suman Virk, the mother of slain teen Reena Virk, who became an anti-bullying activist following her daughter's death, has died. She was 58. No specific cause of death was given but it was characterized as a 'tragic accident' on the CBC website. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/suman-virk-mother-of-slain-teen-reena-virk-dies-at-58-years-old-1.3979698 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 22, 2018 Dick Leitsch, a leading 1960s New York gay rights activist, has died. He was 83. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dick-leitsch-whose-sip-in-was-a-milestone-for-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-83/2018/06/22/eb54aae8-7667-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.99b6a5688120 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 27, 2018 Nudist activist Turner V. Stokes has died. He was 90. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/turner-v-stokes-champion-of-the-unclothed-dies-at-90/2018/06/25/92214dd4-788b-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
