Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks, or maybe give 'em a final fuck you.

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
   

• Izrael “Bunz” Bishop
2nd Amendment

• Della Chen
filmmaker

• Kaden Coleman
2nd Amendment

• Jamie Cordeiro
forgotten person

• Randy DeToma, Ruben Gonzalez
forgotten people

• Hazel Dukes
made a difference

• Shirley Duncan
“girl cyclist”

• Peter Elbow
author, Writing without Teachers

• Bill Fay
rock’n’roller

• Roberta Flack
rock’n’roller, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”

• Krysta Gallagher-McMillan
forgotten person

• Gene Hackman
actor, Young Frankenstein

• Clint Hill
JFK’s Secret Service

• Peter Jason
actor, They Live

• Chris Jasper
rock’n’roller, the Isley Brothers

• Robert John
rock’n’roller, “Sad Eyes”

• Daniel Kasudluak
forgotten person

• Jennifer Pendleton
forgotten person

• Lynne Marie Stewart
Pee Wee’s Miss Yvonne

• Roberto Orci
writer, Xena: Warrior Princess

• Allen Sanderson
Build your own damned stadium

• Boris Spassky
chess dude

• Michelle Trachtenberg
actress, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Marian Turski
“If you are indifferent, before you know it another Auschwitz will come out of the blue for you or your descendants.”

• unnamed, 2
2nd Amendment

• unnamed
forgotten person

• Joseph Wambaugh
wrote cop novels

   
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.

   
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