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2010-01-06 16:33:43 UTC
Good morning. The Washington Post's blog software went kablooey this
morning and we can't publish blogs (or accept comments on existing
blogs) until it's fixed. But Postmortem's Daily Goodbye is written, so
I thought I'd share it with all the alt.obit-ers. (In trade, once
things are working again, we'd appreciate a visit and maybe even a
comment at our blog.
A woman so committed to peace that she walked across the U.S., Theresa
Marie Gandhi campaigned for environmental causes on Washington's
Whidbey Island and Puget Sound, crafted a "Bill of Rights for Planet
Earth" and wrote seven volumes of poetry. She was a follower of Mother
Teresa who married into the family of Mahatma Gandhid. "Pretty much
everything that Al Gore got a Nobel Peace Prize for, she's been saying
that stuff since I was 4 years old," her son said.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/obituaries/2010708554_gandhiobit06m.html
Billy Arjan Singh once hunted big cats until he had a revelation one
night when he shot a leopard in the lights of his vehicle, but then
felt a sudden revulsion, and vowed from that moment to protect India's
dwindling wild animals rather than hunt them. For the next 50 years,
until his death Jan. 1 in Uttar Pradesh, he devoted himself to the
conservation of tigers and leopards.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/billy-arjan-singh-hunter-of-indias-big-cats-who-became-a-passionate-and-awardwinning-conservationist-1858748.html
When illness forced Newfoundland artist Ron Pelley to lay down his
brush, he picked up a computer mouse and found a creative outlet in
pixels. One of the earliest artists to experiment in the new media, he
ultimately found it more gratifying than his previous medium. He died
Dec. 28.
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20100106.OBPELLEY06ART12203/BDAStory/BDA/deaths
One of San Francisco's legendary criminal attorneys, Nate Cohn, has
died. A colorful barrister, he was straight out of the history books,
one of a corps of lawyers who represented celebrities, but also lived
large themselves. "They were all high profile and very colorful," said
historian Kevin Starr. "They had a kind of urban style. They were part
of the scene of the city, when the city had a scene."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/06/BA6Q1BE2FB.DTL
The interesting part is pretty buried in this obit of Joe Shannon, who
died yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, but he supervised the training
of Cuban Liberation Air Force pilots for the Bay of Pigs invasion and
flew a final desperation mission against Castro's forces. (Thanks to
alt. obit's Matthew Kruk, again)
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/01/birmingham_pilot_joe_shannon_d.html
morning and we can't publish blogs (or accept comments on existing
blogs) until it's fixed. But Postmortem's Daily Goodbye is written, so
I thought I'd share it with all the alt.obit-ers. (In trade, once
things are working again, we'd appreciate a visit and maybe even a
comment at our blog.
A woman so committed to peace that she walked across the U.S., Theresa
Marie Gandhi campaigned for environmental causes on Washington's
Whidbey Island and Puget Sound, crafted a "Bill of Rights for Planet
Earth" and wrote seven volumes of poetry. She was a follower of Mother
Teresa who married into the family of Mahatma Gandhid. "Pretty much
everything that Al Gore got a Nobel Peace Prize for, she's been saying
that stuff since I was 4 years old," her son said.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/obituaries/2010708554_gandhiobit06m.html
Billy Arjan Singh once hunted big cats until he had a revelation one
night when he shot a leopard in the lights of his vehicle, but then
felt a sudden revulsion, and vowed from that moment to protect India's
dwindling wild animals rather than hunt them. For the next 50 years,
until his death Jan. 1 in Uttar Pradesh, he devoted himself to the
conservation of tigers and leopards.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/billy-arjan-singh-hunter-of-indias-big-cats-who-became-a-passionate-and-awardwinning-conservationist-1858748.html
When illness forced Newfoundland artist Ron Pelley to lay down his
brush, he picked up a computer mouse and found a creative outlet in
pixels. One of the earliest artists to experiment in the new media, he
ultimately found it more gratifying than his previous medium. He died
Dec. 28.
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20100106.OBPELLEY06ART12203/BDAStory/BDA/deaths
One of San Francisco's legendary criminal attorneys, Nate Cohn, has
died. A colorful barrister, he was straight out of the history books,
one of a corps of lawyers who represented celebrities, but also lived
large themselves. "They were all high profile and very colorful," said
historian Kevin Starr. "They had a kind of urban style. They were part
of the scene of the city, when the city had a scene."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/06/BA6Q1BE2FB.DTL
The interesting part is pretty buried in this obit of Joe Shannon, who
died yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, but he supervised the training
of Cuban Liberation Air Force pilots for the Bay of Pigs invasion and
flew a final desperation mission against Castro's forces. (Thanks to
alt. obit's Matthew Kruk, again)
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/01/birmingham_pilot_joe_shannon_d.html