In Memory
BARBARA ELIZABETH BAKER
A Special Free Spirit is still greatly missed
November 29, 1932 - November 19, 2018
Geoff and I are very grateful that we have so many happy memories of times with you. All the fun we had on our many vacations in México and the super fun trip to Europe we took in 2004. Just to mention a few memories.
JAMAL AHMAD KHASHOGGI
Critic of Saudi Crown Prince MBS
The Prince had him MURDERED & DISMEMBERED
October 13, 1958 - October 2, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi - a writer, US resident and Washington Post columnist - had entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain documentation certifying he had divorced his former wife so he could remarry. He has not been seen since then.
Nonetheless, the damage to MBS' reputation is profound and largely irreparable. The Western media, foreign businesses and politicians will no longer be able to fete him as a great moderniser and visionary pulling his desert kingdom into the 21st century. Now, he will forever be seen for what he is: a reckless authoritarian thug who uses murder as a weapon to silence those who criticise him.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
R.I.P.Our Queen of Soul
March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018
Aretha Franklin died Aug. 16 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. Aretha's funeral will be held next Friday at the Detroit church - Greater Grace Temple - where the legendary musician sang at Rosa Parks' funeral, an official with the church and her publicist said Friday.
The Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. will deliver the eulogy. He is pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta. Former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cicely Tyson will be among the speakers at Aretha Franklin's funeral next week. Mr. Clinton and the Queen of Soul were longtime friends. She sang at both of his inaugurations. Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin grew up together in Detroit.
THOMAS EARL PETTY
American singer-songwriter
sold more than 80 million records
October 20, 1950 - October 2, 2017
Tom Petty was found unconscious at his home, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest, early in the morning of October 2, 2017. He was resuscitated and taken to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died at 8:40 pm PDT.
His interest in rock and roll music began at age ten when he met Elvis Presley. In the summer of 1961, his uncle was working on the set of Presley's film Follow That Dream, in nearby Ocala, and invited Petty to watch the shoot.
His wife Dana said that Petty was in a good mood the day before his death, excited about the future saying, "He had those three shows in L.A. and the day before he died he was pounding his chest going, 'I'm on top of the world!' Never had he been so proud of himself, so happy, so looking forward to the future – and then he's gone."
You may be gone but we still have your music to get us by
....and We Won't Back Down
GLENN FREY
True Love!
November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016
Glenn Frey was an American singer, songwriter, actor and founding member of the rock band the Eagles. Frey was the co-lead singer and frontman for the Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of the Eagles' material.
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of husband, best friend, father, comrade, and Eagles founder, Glenn Frey, in New York City on Monday, January 18th, 2016. Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia.
JOAN RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Notorious RBG
March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in September 2020.
"When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
JOHN ROBERT LEWIS
If not us, then who
If not now, then when
February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020
John Robert Lewis was an American politician, statesman, and civil rights activist and leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966.
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