Ideas and Possibilities for 2021

[adrian0719 220]

On 09/12/2020 at 19:47, adrian0719 said:

 

Report from the New Yorker suggests that Dinosaur Dianne has been suffering cognitive decline for years. "Struggles to remember briefings just after they take place".

 

And she has now filed paperwork to run for another 6-year term in 2024 at which point she'll be 91...

[alt obits guy 3,371]

On 19/05/2020 at 22:34, CaptainChorizo said:

The recent passing of Annie Glenn wife of Cosmonaut John Glenn reminds me some widows of other  American Icons are still with us

 

Rachel Robinson widow of Baseball Icon Jackie Robinson turns 99 next year

Joanne Rogers widow of the late Fred Rogers turns 93 next year

Pilar Pallete widow of John Wayne turns 93 next year

 

Joanne Rogers has died https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/01/14/joanne-rogers-mister-fred-rogers-widow-dies-obituary/

[maryportfuncity 10,639]

On 13/11/2020 at 13:43, DCI Frank Burnside said:

Bamber Gascoigne

 

Turns 86 in January 

 

 

That was yesterday - highly obitable when he goes

 

 

[gcreptile 10,963]

On 09/12/2020 at 18:03, gcreptile said:

Former Vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana, George Benneh, insists on voting in spite of being frail, 86 years old, in a wheelchair, and hardly being able to speak:

https://www.modernghana.com/news/1048467/election-2020-86-year-old-wheelchair-bound-ex.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Benneh

 

He also had a short spell as finance minister.

Plus, his younger brother Emmanuel, also a professor, was recently killed, and that's in the news, which almost made me think that it was George Benneh, who was voting, and dead:

Here a BBC pidgin link: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-54144596

George Benneh dead:

https://www.myjoyonline.com/former-ug-vice-chancellor-george-benneh-passes-on/

[jcc 228]

Former World Pool Champion Jeanette Lee diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer.

[jcc 228]

On 28/12/2020 at 13:16, Joey Russ said:

Lundqvist is going to have open heart surgery

Let's hope he's not overdoing it.

[CaptainChorizo 1,977]

On 10/08/2020 at 16:32, CaptainChorizo said:

Stan Albeck(b. 1931) who was a Head Coach or Assistant Coach in the NBA/ABA or NCAA for every year btwn 1956-2002. He retired in 2002 after suffering a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.

Dead at age 89

[time 8,586]

On 30/11/2020 at 13:41, TheKeysOfMarinus said:

A long shot but how about Douglas Livingstone? Actor and writer, appeared in three well-remembered Play for Today editions with Ray Mort and Brian Glover, both of whom died yonks ago. He is 87 in May and hasn’t been active for nearly 20 years. 

Good call.

 

Douglas Livingstone, died 19 April.

[ObakeFilter 893]

On 06/12/2020 at 14:13, gcreptile said:

I guess I really have to start picking "The Love Boat" captain Gavin Macleod soon.

 

Let me see.... he recently sold his house in the desert:

https://variety.com/2020/dirt/actors/gavin-macleod-finds-buyer-in-the-desert-1234731764/

 

He was an alcoholic:

https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/gavin-macleod-the-love-boat-128315/

 

But well, that's it..

...I also had to realize that basically the whole main cast of The Love Boat is still alive. Well, that would be one Scavenger Hunt category settled, if I win.

Dead

https://www.tmz.com/2021/05/29/love-boat-star-gavin-macleod-dead-dies-mary-tyler-moore-show/

[gcreptile 10,963]

33 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

Dead

https://www.tmz.com/2021/05/29/love-boat-star-gavin-macleod-dead-dies-mary-tyler-moore-show/

Ah, hell no! He seemed to do well enough to last a while yet...

 

Btw, obviously "Cast of the Love Boat" would be one of my Scavenger Hunt categories. But the team has already lost his captain.

Edit: Woops, I already mentioned that in my post quoted above...

 

Edit: Also, is this the second time in two weeks where I should have read my own posts more?

[Perhaps 1,423]

On 15/07/2020 at 10:31, gcreptile said:

In the context of the death of Toke Talagi... there are three octogenarian ex-Premiers of pacific island nation Niue - Young Vivian, Frank Lui and Sani Lakatani.

 

Frank Lui dead.

[arghton 6,693]

On 08/06/2020 at 12:56, Predictor said:

Some of my Hare's team entries...

 

 

Hideki Hosaka (1971): Stage 4 colon & liver cancer, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Hosaka

 

 

Dead, three days before his 50th birthday:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d19c663e20e968b7f2624381bc5d662cea2b658c

[Predictor 1,018]

Journalist Carol Gould is still struggling financially and health-wise according to her GoFundMe page. However, Wikipedia has the following:

 

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In July 2021, Gould re-joined the BBC NewsUK/BBC World News roster of live newspaper analysts. She will be delivering a lecture to the Benjamin Franklin House London in the autumn about Franklin's astonishing immune system in an era of epidemics.

 

Latest Gofundme update (6 Jun): "Carol has suffered from 4 1/2 years of relentless Stage 4 cancer treatment and the absence of regular professional earnings." It also says that she is too frail to move from her home. Yet a month later, she is back working for BBC? I don't follow British media so you guys probably know better.

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/assist-carol-gould-wmajor-repair-building-work

[msc 18,434]

59 minutes ago, Predictor said:

Journalist Carol Gould is still struggling financially and health-wise according to her GoFundMe page. However, Wikipedia has the following:

 

 

Latest Gofundme update (6 Jun): "Carol has suffered from 4 1/2 years of relentless Stage 4 cancer treatment and the absence of regular professional earnings." It also says that she is too frail to move from her home. Yet a month later, she is back working for BBC? I don't follow British media so you guys probably know better.

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/assist-carol-gould-wmajor-repair-building-work

 

She's not a BBC staff member, she's someone they go to as an interviewee on News 24 sometimes. I couldn't have picked her out of a crowd. The gofundme appears to be more to get people to buy stuff for her house than about the cancer, which is apparently under control?

[Predictor 1,018]

19 hours ago, msc said:

 

She's not a BBC staff member, she's someone they go to as an interviewee on News 24 sometimes. I couldn't have picked her out of a crowd. The gofundme appears to be more to get people to buy stuff for her house than about the cancer, which is apparently under control?

It is intertwined. It is mentioned many times that she needs money to be able to pay for housing expenses because her cancer treatment is costly. Also because her ability to work as much as she wants has been debilitated.

 

Depends on what under control means here. The cancer is not in remission because the page uses present tense phrases like: "is now suffering with", " dealing with the pain and discomfort caused by harsh chemotherapy and cancer", " heavily involved with complex cancer issues", "too frail to sell her flat", "has suffered from 4 1/2 years of relentless Stage 4 cancer treatment" and "she's on morphine 24/7".

 

Or maybe she's actually fine and just wants a nicer home.

 

Edit: Didn't realize that I was in the 2021 suggestions thread. Arghton's thread bump confused me, it's like reading last week's newspaper.

[ladyfiona 2,572]

On 29/04/2020 at 16:54, The Old Crem said:

What about Una Stubbs - doesn't seem to have worked or given an interview since 2017 and is 83 on Friday.

 

@The Old Crem if only they listened.

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,880]

1st big ish death in a while in British terms (i.e. sufficient for a breaking news notification)   or am I overlooking someone from the last month or two

[Ulitzer95 12,574]

16 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

 

@The Old Crem if only they listened.

She actually gave an interview after @The Old Crem posted this, appearing in the VE Day 75 BBC doc in 2020. Predicting death by “last active/last appeared in” can be tricky but yeah, TOC had a good inclination on this one.

[The Old Crem 3,581]

13 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

She actually gave an interview after @The Old Crem posted this, appearing in the VE Day 75 BBC doc in 2020. Predicting death by “last active/last appeared in” can be tricky but yeah, TOC had a good inclination on this one.

The VE Day 75 documentary was a repeat from the 70th in 2015 I think. 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,880]

4 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

1st big ish death in a while in British terms (i.e. sufficient for a breaking news notification)   or am I overlooking someone from the last month or two

 

 

Tom O'Connor of course 

[gcreptile 10,963]

On 17/02/2021 at 23:37, jcc said:

Former World Pool Champion Jeanette Lee diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer.

Just in case you forgot about her, she gets front page coverage at Sports Illustrated. The cancer is currently under control.... until it isn't:

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2021/10/07/black-widow-cancer-little-blessings-daily-cover

 

Apparently, she has quite a health history.

[Ulitzer95 12,574]

On 03/09/2020 at 19:42, gcreptile said:

Yes, I am updating...

 

...and also, Vice-Admiral Thomas Baird apparently already died in 2019 off the sonar - picked by Stiff Upper Lip.

http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/99013/baird

For completeness, his death has now been reverted on his Wikipedia page.

This is a death notice for his wife, and it's from 2009 – not 2019. Sir Thomas Baird is still alive and will be 98 next year.

[arghton 6,693]

On 08/06/2020 at 12:56, Predictor said:

Some of my Hare's team entries...

...

George Keiser (1946): ALS, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Keiser

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/government-and-politics/4612134-Bismarck-lawmaker-diagnosed-with-ALS-will-consider-re-election

...

https://www.inforum.com/news/bismarck/longtime-bismarck-lawmaker-dies-after-battle-with-als

George Keiser dead at the age of 75.

[Gisooo 3,296]

On 08/06/2020 at 11:56, Predictor said:

Hobie Billingsley (1927): Myasthenia gravis, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie_Billingsley

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/hobie-billingsley-diagnosed-with-myasthenia-gravis-recovering-in-hospital/

 

Hobie Billingsley dead at 95

[gcreptile 10,963]

On 31/05/2020 at 12:00, gcreptile said:

Alexandre Despallieres, who is a murder suspect in the death of Australian millionaire and recording executive Peter Ikin, is apparently so ill...he might not make it to court:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8371831/Murder-charges-11-YEARS-death-Australian-multi-millionaire.html

 

Supposedly, he has Aids and multiple brain tumours... but he's also a bit of a shady person, so... decide for yourselves.

Alexandre Despalliers died last month, before his trial (while the article is from June, there are earlier articles from February):

https://lookcharms.com/alexandre-despallieres-potential-serial-poisoner-dead-before-his-trial/