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Bob T Posts: 934 Joined: 8th Jan 2009 Location: USA | Posted at 20:12 on 16th December 2009 Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney. The consummate sailor. Shattered Trans-Pac record with his racing yacht, Pyewacket. A man I personally admired. LOS ANGELES — Roy E. Disney, the son and nephew of The Walt Disney Co. founders who twice led shareholder revolts that shook up the family business, died Wednesday. He was 79. |
Paul Hilton Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | Posted at 03:12 on 21st December 2009 Actress Jennifer Jones, aged 90. Was born in 1919 in Tulsa as Phylis Lee Isley. A five time Acadamy Awards nominee, she won Best Actress in 1943. She had played opposite many of Hollywood's legendary leading men in her films. Her last big screen role was playing Lisolette opposite Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno. |
Diana Sinclair Posts: 10119 Joined: 3rd Apr 2008 Location: USA | Posted at 19:43 on 21st December 2009 Jennifer Jones...was she the actress who played the original "Morticia" in the TV sitcom "The Adams Family"? |
Shirley K. Lawson Posts: 2310 Joined: 17th Jul 2008 Location: USA | Posted at 20:04 on 21st December 2009 Did you people get in Oral Roberts, the famous evanglist, he died last week at... 91 years of age. Thsi morning the Murphy girl at 32 years old, they said she was sick with the flu.....the week before her death...maybe the swine flu maybe?....hum. We have lost an many find group of people this year. |
Bob T Posts: 934 Joined: 8th Jan 2009 Location: USA | Posted at 23:02 on 21st December 2009 On 21st December 2009 19:43, Diana Sinclair wrote:
No, Diana; that would be Carolyn Jones. BTW, the Addams Family was based on a comic by Charles Addams. Merry Christmas to you! Bob |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | Posted at 18:44 on 22nd December 2009 Brittany Murphy has died at the age of 32 years! Apparently from a heart attack. She appeared in 'Clueless' and '8 Mile'. Such a tradegy! |
Rita Iton Posts: 325 Joined: 28th Jun 2009 Location: USA | Posted at 22:57 on 9th January 2010 Friends. Just wanted to share the passing of a friend Lady Marguerite Berthoud. Her husband was our British High Commissionor to Trinidad and Tobago, we become friends while i was the manager of the Asa Wright Nature Center, where they both loved to visit.They moved back to the UK some years ago. She was a very lovely and interesting person. Marguerite's funeral is on the 16th of January. May she rest in peace. Edited by: Rita Iton at:10th January 2010 02:12 |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | Posted at 02:19 on 10th January 2010 I'm very sorry, Rita.
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Rita Iton Posts: 325 Joined: 28th Jun 2009 Location: USA | Posted at 02:37 on 10th January 2010 Thanks Ruth. I feel so very sad! |
Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | Posted at 02:43 on 10th January 2010 I know, Rita. I'm sure it will hurt for a while. But that's OK. I remember the old saying, "Grief is the price we pay for love." You are such a kind person, I'm sure you were a real light in her life, and she in yours. You're in my thoughts and prayers, Rita. God bless.
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