Deaths So Far (and it's just July)

[IceWizard]

[Charon]

he was a good man. a godly man. and he shall be missed. i followed him via radio for a number of years.

[Bubba Gamps]

Junior Edwards, an alligator hunter who starred in the History Channel docuseries Swamp People,
has died. His grandson announced the news on July 26, at age 62, sources say due to cardiac arrest. 
Spanning 15 seasons to date, Swamp People follows the proud descendants of French Canadian
refugees who settled in the swamp region of Louisiana in the 18th century as they struggle to
preserve their way of life during alligator-hunting season. Junior appeared regularly on the show
from 2010 until 2015 alongside his son, William "Willie" Edwards, and grandson, "Little" Willie.
After starring as an original cast member throughout the first six seasons, he returned
for season 12 in 2021.

Wilie better stop chain smoking.

[IceWizard]

I know that's right Brother!!!
The older here "Cajun's" down here used to
smoke "Picayune Extra Mild Cigarettes"
I smoked a pack or 2 of those Marlboro reds
and when I tried those "extra mild" cigs...

A half of that no filter cig gave me a head rush!!!
Extra mild???? I couldn't have survived a regular one!!!



*Note
Most folks that did smoke those ARE dead and
the production has been cut ...

Laissez les bon temps rouler!!!

Bubba Gamps wrote >>>

Wilie better stop chain smoking.

[IceWizard]

SEPT CONTINUED




Rick Davies performing with Supertramp in Cologne, Germany

Rick Davies, the influential co-founder and vocalist of the English
rock band Supertramp, died on Sept. 5 at the age of 81. Davies
wrote, composed, and sang many of the band's most iconic hits,
like "Bloody Well Right" and "Goodbye Stranger."
Born in Swindon, England, in 1944, Davies formed Supertramp
(originally called Daddy) in 1969 with Roger Hodgson, his primary
creative partner until a bitter falling out prompted Hodgson's exit
in 1983. Davies carried Supertramp to multiple Grammy wins and
several bestselling albums, and his music remains resonant,
appearing in films and series like The Office, I, Tonya, and
The Simpsons. Davies is survived by Sue, his wife since 1977
and the band's manager since 1984.






Paula Shaw
appears on 'Cedar Cove' in 2013

Paula Shaw, an actress who appeared in the Hallmark Channel series
Cedar Cove and multiple TV movies for the network, died Sept. 10 at 84.
In a career that dated back to 1969, she also appeared on classic TV shows
such as Little House on the Prairie and Starsky and Hutch. Shaw also
portrayed the mother of horror icon Jason Vorhees in the 2003 movie
Freddy vs. Jason. In addition, Shaw was part of the Actors Studio,
and she worked internationally teaching acting and self-expression.






Charlie Kirk at a Trump rally in 2024


Charlie Kirk, the right-wing commentator and founder of Turning Point USA,
was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
He was 31. Known for his viral "Prove Me Wrong" series, Kirk emerged in
recent years as an influential media and internet personality after founding
Turning Point at 18. He became a frequent Fox News guest and a staple
on college campuses, where he would man a booth and invite students
to challenge his stances. Similarly, at events he would bring audience
members on stage to debate him. Kirk was a staunch supporter of
President Donald Trump, who announced his death.






Bobby Hart in 1968

Bobby Hart, the songwriter who worked on some of the Monkees'
greatest hits, died Sept. 12 at 86. Born in Phoenix in 1939, Hart
began playing music as a kid and met his best friend, Tommy Boyce,
in the '50s. Together they would go on to write a series of popular
Monkees tunes, including the theme song for the TV series that
spawned the fictional group. In addition to their work on The Monkees,
Hart and Boyce released three albums and had one big hit, the
gold-selling single "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight,"
which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.






Pat Crowley starring in television series
'Please Don't Eat the Daisies'.

Pat Crowley, the prolific actress who appeared on the ABC soap Dynasty
and the '60s sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, died of natural causes
on Sunday, Sept. 14. She was 91. The young star made her Broadway
debut as a high school senior, playing the lead in Southern Exposure
in 1950. She then broke into film three years later, with roles in
Paramount’s Forever Female and Money From Home, winning the
1953 Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her dual performances.
Crowley later led Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, the 1965-67 NBC series
based on the 1960 movie starring Doris Day. She went on to accrue
over 100 screen credits, with guest-starring roles on TV shows including
The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Columbo,
Friends, Hawaii Five-O, Frasier, Charmed, and Murder, She Wrote.
Crowley also appeared on several daytime soaps, including the
General Hospital spinoff, Port Charles, Dynasty, Generations,
The Bold and the Beautiful, and Falcon Crest.








Stuart Craig in 2016

Stuart Craig, the Oscar-winning production designer known for creating
the visual worlds of all eight Harry Potter films and the three Fantastic Beasts
spinoffs, died Sept. 14 at 83. After studying film design at the
Royal College of Art, Craig worked on such movies as Casino Royale;
Three Sisters; Scrooge; The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes;
The Secret Garden; and Notting Hill. He won three Oscars, for Gandhi (1982),
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The English Patient (1996).
His work on the Harry Potter films also carried over into the
Wizarding World attractions at Universal's theme parks in
Los Angeles, Florida, Beijing, and Japan.






Robert Redford

Robert Redford, the movie star and founder of the Sundance Film Festival,
died Sept. 16 at his home in Utah. He was 89. Born Aug. 18, 1936,
in Santa Monica, Calif., Redford starred in more than two dozen films over
a career spanning over half a century, including Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid (1969), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and All the
President's Men (1976). In 1973, he starred in two big hits,
The Way We Were and Best Picture Oscar winner The Sting,
the latter producing his only Oscar nomination for acting.
Behind the camera, he became the first actor to win a
Best Director Oscar for his debut film, 1980's Ordinary People.
He also created the Sundance Film Festival and Institute in
Park City, Utah. Redford’s last feature directorial project was
2012’s The Company You Keep, but he continued acting through
the final decade of his life and appeared in films like
2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Redford is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars,
daughters Shauna and Amy, and seven grandchildren.

[IceWizard]

SEPT CONTINUED




Brett James, Grammy-winning songwriter
behind Carrie Underwood's 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,'

Brett James, the songwriter behind Carrie Underwood's Grammy-winning hit
"Jesus, Take The Wheel," has died in a small-engine plane crash. He was 57.
James was one of three people on board a Cirrus SR22T aircraft that crashed
in Macon County near Franklin, NC, around 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, Sept. 18.
James would pen more than 300 major-label cut songs, including Underwood's
"Jesus, Take The Wheel," which hit No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned
the 2006 Grammy for Best Country Song, 2005 ACM Single of the Year trophy,
and the Nashville Songwriter Award for Song of the Year.
During his two-decade-long career, James was known primarily as a songwriter
for other country and pop music artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Rascal Flats,
and Tim McGraw.

[IceWizard]

OCTOBER




Jane Goodall in 1965

Jane Goodall, the legendary zoologist who dedicated her life's work to the
study of chimpanzees, died from natural causes on Oct. 1. She was 91.
Born in London in 1934, Goodall began researching chimps in what is
now Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park in 1960, kicking off a lifelong
career that revolutionized primatology. Goodall's research revealed that
chimps are capable of using tools to fish for ants, that they hunt and
eat smaller primates, and that they would sometimes cannibalize their
own in acts of aggression. Goodall also advocated against animal testing
in medical research, warned of climate change's dangerous effects on
wildlife, and promoted a meatless diet, penning the vegan cookbook
Eat Meat Less in 2021. Goodall published over two dozen books in her
lifetime, and also participated in a number of documentaries, including
2010's Jane's Journey and 2017's Jane. Goodall also voiced herself in
episodes of The Wild Thornberrys and The Simpsons, and was the
inspiration for Stevie Nicks' 1994 song "Jane."

[Charon]

and the list goes on...

[IceWizard]

Yes Ma'am ...

I reckon you could say ...
People are just dying to get in this list

Ice

[IceWizard]

OCTOBER 2025




Patricia Routledge
on April 30, 2014

Patricia Routledge, the award-winning British actress and singer
best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket on Keeping Up Appearances,
died on Oct. 3 in Chichester, England. She was 96.
Born Katherine Patricia Routledge on Feb. 17, 1929, in Birkenhead, England,
Routledge began her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse in
the early 1950s and went on to act with the Royal Shakespeare Company,
in the West End, and on Broadway. The actress won a Tony Award for her
1968 Broadway appearance in the musical Darling of the Day
(a tie with Leslie Uggams, for Hallelujah, Baby!) and its British equivalent,
the Laurence Olivier Award, as the Old Lady in a 1988 production of Candide
at the Old Vic. She became a household name as Keeping Up Appearances'
snotty Hyacinth, who insisted her last name was pronounced 'Bouquet' and
wore pearls and floral print dresses, showcasing her aspiration to be
middle class despite her working class reality. The sitcom ran in Britain from
1990 to 1995, making its debut on American television in 1993. The role
bagged her two BAFTA TV nominations, and she was voted the UK's most
popular actress at the BBC's 60th anniversary awards a year after the series
concluded. And following the show's succession run, Routledge went on to
lead her second big BBC series, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996-98),
based on characters from a David Cook novel. Routledge never married or
had children, and although she never formally retired, one of her last stage
appearances was as the two-faced Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband at
the 2014 Chichester Festival Theater.






Kimberly Hébert Gregory
on 'Vice Principals'

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, the actress best known for her role on the HBO
comedy Vice Principals, died on Oct. 3 at age 52. No cause of death was
disclosed. After beginning her acting career in the Chicago theater scene,
Gregory's first onscreen credits came in 2007, with a small role in the
Kerry Washington and Chris Rock comedy, I Think I Love My Wife, and
a brief appearance in the Gossip Girl pilot. Many more TV credits would
follow, including roles in New Amsterdam, Grey’s Anatomy, Two and a Half Men,
Law & Order, Shameless, and The Big Bang Theory. After a recurring gig
on Devious Maids, she booked her breakthrough role as Dr. Belinda Brown,
the fiery principal of North Jackson High School on Vice Principals. The
two-season comedy also starred Walton Goggins and Danny McBride.
Gregory would go on to appear on shows including Kevin (Probably)
Saves The World, Craig of the Creek, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and
Better Call Saul. She is survived by her ex-husband and their son.






Ike Turner Jr.


Izear "Ike" Turner Jr., the son of rock icon Tina Turner and her ex-husband
Ike Turner, died Oct. 4 at age 67. Born in 1958 to parents Ike Sr. and
Lorraine Taylor, Ike Jr. was adopted by the Queen of Rock and Roll upon
her 1962 marriage to the record producer. He grew up amid their whirlwind
careers and eventually sought his own place in the music industry as a
producer and musician. In 2007, he won the Best Traditional Blues Album
at the Grammys as a producer for his father’s 2006 album Risin’ With
the Blues. He also played in tribute band The Love Thang Band, alongside
singer Sweet Randi Love. Ike Jr. is preceded in death by both of his
parents and two of his brothers, Craig and Ronnie.





Diane Keaton in 2019

Diane Keaton, who rose to fame for her iconic roles in beloved films such
as Annie Hall, The First Wives Club, The Godfather, and many more,
died Oct. 11 at 79. The actress made her film debut in 1970's Lovers and
Other Strangers, but her big break came when Francis Ford Coppola cast
her as Kay Adams, the girlfriend of Al Pacino's Michael Corleone, in 1972's
cultural phenomenon and Best Picture Oscar winner, The Godfather. She
later starred in both of that film's sequels, but she was perhaps best known
for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, including Play It Again, Sam;
Sleeper; Love and Death; Interiors; Manhattan; Radio Days;
Manhattan Murder Mystery; and Annie Hall, with the latter earning Keaton
the Oscar for Best Actress and cementing her status as a fashion icon.
She also worked with filmmaker Nancy Meyers on several occasions, with
1987's Baby Boom, 1991's Father of the Bride, 1995's Father of the Bride Part II,
and 2003's Something’s Gotta Give, which garnered her another Oscar nod.
Other notable screen credits included 1977's Looking for Mr. Goodbar,
1981's Reds, 1982's Shoot the Moon, 1984's The Little Drummer Girl,
and 1996's The First Wives Club, with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler. Keaton
also took her talents behind the camera, helming a music video for
Belinda Carlisle's 1987 solo hit "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and episodes
of the series China Beach and Twin Peaks. Keaton published three best-selling
memoirs as well: 2011's Then Again, 2015's Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty,
and 2020's Brother and Sister. She was also a talented writer, singer,
and photographer.






Drew Struzan
in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2008

Drew Struzan, the legendary movie poster artist whose illustrations epitomized
Hollywood blockbuster marketing art for generations, died Oct. 13 at age 78.
Born in Oregon City, Ore., in 1947, Struzan trained at ArtCenter College of Design
in Los Angeles in the 1960s. He began his work in the entertainment industry
as an illustrator at the Pacific Eye & Ear design studio, where he created
album covers for records like Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare,
the Bee Gees' Main Course, and Roy Orbison's Memphis. Struzan began
designing art for movie posters in 1975, working on B-movie projects before
breaking through with a poster for George Lucas' original Star Wars for its 1978
rerelease (a year after it originally premiered). He went on to craft posters for
the Star Wars sequels (and, later, prequels) as well as the Indiana Jones franchise,
which Lucas wrote and produced. Struzan also designed posters for E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Blade Runner, The Muppet Movie, The Goonies, The Thing, Risky Business,
First Blood, Coming to America, Hocus Pocus, Hellboy, and many more.








Samantha Eggar in 1970

Samantha Eggar, the English actress who starred in such films as The Collector
and The Brood, died Oct. 15 at 86.
Born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in London,
she began her acting career on the stage in productions of
A Midsummer Night's Dream and Landscape With Figures before making
her film debut in 1962's Dr. Crippen. Eggar's most acclaimed film role came
in 1965's The Collector, for which she received an Oscar nomination for
Best Actress (ultimately losing to Julie Christie in Darling) and won
Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Best Actress in a
Motion Picture — Drama at the Golden Globes. She went on to star in
major films like the musical Doctor Dolittle, David Cronenberg's psychological
horror movie The Brood, the Sherlock Holmes film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,
Audrey Hepburn's penultimate project Love Among Thieves, and Disney's Hercules.
She also appeared on shows including Anna and the King, All My Children,
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Hawaii Five-O, Commander in Chief, Columbo,
The Love Boat, Starsky & Hutch, and Fantasy Island.






Ace Frehley
performing with Kiss
in Sacramento, Calif., on Aug 28. 1996

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist for the rock band Kiss,
died Oct. 16 at 74, after falling at his home in Morristown, N.J.
Born Paul Daniel Frehley, the musician grew up in the Bronx, where
he began playing guitar at 13. Frehley auditioned for Kiss in 1972
and adopted the stage persona of the Spaceman (or Space Ace)
upon joining the group. He wrote songs for eight of the band's first
nine albums, and occasionally sang lead vocals on songs like "Shock Me"
and "Save Your Love." His 1978 solo album spawned the hit cover
"New York Groove," and he pursued further solo endeavors after leaving
Kiss in 1982. Frehley rejoined Kiss for a 1996 reunion tour, and
appeared on the group's 1998 album Psycho Circus. Following another
tour with the group in 2001, Frehley departed Kiss once again. He
released several more solo albums in the last two decades of his life,
and reunited with Kiss on the 2018 Kiss Kruise.






June Lockhart
with Lassie

June Lockhart, the veteran Hollywood star famous for projects like
Lassie and Lost in Space, died Oct. 23 at 100. Lockhart was born in
New York City in 1925 to actors Gene and Kathleen Lockhart. June Lockhart
made her stage debut at age 8 in a 1933 production of Peter Ibbetson,
and her first film appearance came in 1938's A Christmas Carol,
which also starred her real-life parents. Lockhart later acted in
Meet Me in St. Louis, Sergeant York, and All This, and Heaven Too.
She won a Special Tony Award for Best Newcomer for her Broadway
debut, For Love or Money, in 1947 — the first year that the theater
awards were handed out. She played Ruth Martin, the adoptive
mother of young boy Timmy Martin (Jon Provost), in Lassie from
1958 to 1964. She then joined Lost in Space, in which she portrayed
biochemist Dr. Maureen Robinson, from 1965 to 1968. Lockhart
also appeared on two seasons of Petticoat Junction, acted in 14 episodes
of General Hospital, and guested in episodes of Bewitched,
The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Full House, and Grey's Anatomy.



(I thought she would look better in color, Lassie too)







Maria Riva

Maria Riva, the only child of old Hollywood starlet Marlene Dietrich,
who herself was an actress and writer known for Scrooged and Suspense,
died Oct 29. She was 100. Riva began her career with a small role
in the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress. She followed this up with parts
in the classic anthology series Studio One, Lux Video Theatre,
Suspense and The Philco Television Playhouse, as well as on the
shows Danger, Crime Photographer, and Climax! Though she was
nominated for two Primetime Emmys in 1952 and '53, Riva quit
acting in the late '50s. However, she would make her return to
the screen as Mrs. Rhinelander in 1988's Scrooged. Her final
acting credit came in the 2018 short film, All Aboard. In addition
to her TV and film career, Riva also worked in commercials and
on the stage, and, in 1992, published a memoir of her mother's life.