In the interest of consolidating Cooler threads...

Female Deaths:

Brittany Murphy

Marie Antionette

Eve

Marilyn Monroe

Bonnie Parker

Cold Ethyl

Bea Arthur

Janis Joplin

Harper Lee at 89

Nancy Reagan - Classy First Lady RIP

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/...ml?intcmp=hpbt3

RIP. She was definitely a class act.

Lana Rae Meisner, wife of Randy Meisner, former bassist for the Eagles. According to the media, she accidently shot herself trying to remove a rifle from a gun rack in a closet. This occurred about 90 minutes after police responded to a domestic disturbance call.

One of those things that makes you say, "Hmmmm...."

Patty Duke, 69.

I wonder is Cathy knows yet?

I saw that. I don't think the article mentioned how she died, though.

Could it have something to do with her identical cousin?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-patty-duke-dead-20160329-story.html

Duke's agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine

The Miracle Worker was a great film about two amazing women in a time when women were largely kept in the background. True pioneers in what later became the womens movement, imho. I'll have to get my grangirls to watch it.
RIP, Patty. And thank you for your work in the mental health field too.

"...in a time when women were largely kept in the background."

Those were the days....


::Runs out of the thread, off the internet and into hiding::

AWWWwwwww.... I always loved her shows. Poor Samwise - his mom is dead...

Ruptured intestine? Don't they have time to go in and clean up and do a work around. Goodnight, this could happen to anyone. Ugh, she was only 69.

She could have been your daughter, Pale! !

fixed

Pale, she went septic after the ruptured intestine. That's not something you can 'clean up' through surgery.

And it sounds exceptionally painful. Poor woman.

Very sad, she was a joy to watch on the Patty Duke show! Too young...

PSA: I had no idea so many people don't know what sepsis is or how deadly it can be.
This article explains a lot we all should know. http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/...ocid=spartandhp

WWE wrestler Chyna died last night at age 45

Margaret Vinci Heldt
the inventor of the beehive hairdo

! I am SO glad I missed that era!!!

out of the country at the time?

Me too, a beehive hairdo would not look good in the swamp with your cammo hat on top

No...it would be horrid...and a potential attractant to hornets! !!!

You could always ask DeeQ to describe what that era was like. Didn't she try and bring that style back a few years ago?

:kiss smack:!!!

beehive wasn't tall enough for you?

Pat Summit

Amazing woman.....gone too soon. :-(

Janet Waldo (the voice of Judy Jetson)

Lois Lane

Very sad!

Lady Liberty.

And her cousin Lady Justice.

Ladies in general...(ducks)...

unfortunately more and more true. (still smacked you, because you shouldn't say not nice things)

LOL! I deserved it!

Famed(?) Psychic, Miss Cleo, 53.

Did she predict her own death?

I wonder if she saw it coming.

I wonder if she saw that coming.

Inappropriate and an attempt to introduce a political perspective. Please do NOT do this again.

Jia Jia, world's oldest living Giant Panda. RIP Jia Jia

How can she be the oldest living panda if she is dead?

Because she still holds the World record.

Rigor mortis makes it hard to get her to let go...;-)

Gwen Ifill

Holly Dunn, writer and singer of Daddy's Hands, dead of ovarian cancer at 59

The amazing Sharon Jones, pancreatic cancer, age 60.

Florence Henderson, 82, from heart failure. Farewell Carol Brady.

Alice Drummond, 88, best known for her roles in Awakenings and as the librarian in the original Ghostbusters.

Carrie Fisher

That's awful. She was way too young.

Only 60. George Michael was only 53.

2016 has been a serious pain. RIP Princess Leia.

My husband said the same thing last night, although Leon Russell was the hardest one for him this year.

Debbie Reynolds - just a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

2016 was a bad year for celebs.

Clare Hollingworth, the journalist who first broke the news that WWII had started, died at age 105 in Hong Kong.

Mary Tyler Moore, 80

Not even the Chuckles the Clown sketch could make me laugh right now...sad day with the loss of the lovely lady...

Very sad - and she was too young.

Such a huge part of my childhood gone.....:-(

Chuckles the Clown to Ordinary People The lady had range...

So much more than just a fantastic actress who used her production company to advance women's rights.
She had type 1 diabetes and was a HUGE advocate for finding a cure.
A true example about how to use your star power for good.
RIP

Barbara Hale (Della Street - Perry Mason)

David Letterman's mother Dorothy died the day before his 70th birthday (she was 95). I used to love when she would 'report' on various things on the show.

Erin Moran from Happy Days

I just read that it may have been cancer.

Dina Merrill, Actress

Barbara Sinatra, Frankie's wife

Barbara Cook

Penny Chenery, owner of Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Riva Ridge. She was 95.

Any chance of Hillary running for office again, after the publication of her book

Karin Dor

Jana Novotna

Della Reese

Oh - that's so sad. I really liked her work.

Rose Marie, 94

She used to be a regular on the old Hollywood Squares. Displayed a dry, acerbic wit:

Peter Marshall (host): Rose Marie, what's a perfect score in bowling?

Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Peter Marshall: Rose Marie, if a tornado comes, are you safer in the bedroom or the bathroom?

Rose Marie: Unfortunately, Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.

Sue Grafton

Bookworkgirl (you beat me to it) - I'm devastated. I was so anxious to read the final Kinsey Millhone book 'Z' is for Zero in 2019.

Her daughter posted a beautiful tribute on Sue Grafton's Facebook page: (paraphrasing) Sue Grafton was never one to want ghostwriting to occur in her name, so for the family, the alphabet will always end in "Y" in tribute to her.

It sounds like Sue did not finish Z, and it will not be finished by someone else. She was one of my favorite authors, even if I wasn't thrilled with X.

I agree with you, OldTyme. That certainly wasn't my favorite. I even gave some to my parents to read - and they enjoyed them also.

Olivia Nova

Dolores O'Riordan

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entertainm...intl/index.html

Yeah, Joker, that's really sad. Loved her voice.

Winnie Mandela, anti-apartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela, age 81

Barbara Bush

Mrs. Bush just seemed like a good person and a classy woman, may she rest in peace.

Margot Kidder at 69. RIP Lois Lane.

ahhhh.... sorry to hear that. May she finally have peace.

Fashion designer Kate Spade, age 55

Love her handbags.

Whoa.

I didn't know she was David Spade's SIL.

Death was by her own hand.

How sad for her and her family.

apparently she hung herself with a red scarf - but it is unknown whether it was Hermes or Ferragamo...

From a doorknob. Me thinks there is much more to this story.

https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=334003

another case

1. The door is 15ft high...

2. She tied the scarf on the knob, and threw it over the top of the door.

3. She was laying down...

4. The door was near a stairwll or balcony...

Eunice Gayson

Koko the Gorilla, 46.

Along those lines:

Puan, the oldest Sumatran orangutan in the world, has died at the Perth Zoo in Australia, officials said. She was 62. [June 19]

Vibeke Skofterud - Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist.

Charlotte Rae - age 92

I loved watching the Facts of Life. May Mrs. Garrett rest in peace!

Oh NO!

Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, 76

I loved her music! So sorry to hear that she has passed.

My Dad will be enjoying her singing up high!

Get artist, she'll be missed.

76 is pretty young too. I watched her Kennedy Center performance of Carole King's song again yesterday. She really could move an audience.

i'll never watch the Blues Brothers movie the same way...how sad

Vanessa Marquez, actress - age 49

I didn't recognize the name until I read the story, but she had a recurring role as a nurse on ER for a few seasons. Apparently the police were performing a welfare check and it went tragically wrong.

Wow, so sad!!

Dorcas Reilly, Campbell's Test Kitchen - age 92

Dorcas was the lead on the team that created the green bean casserole recipe that appeared on the cream of mushroom soup can. Her recipe card for the dish was presented to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002.

That is one vile legacy, poor thing.

Hey, I actually like that casserole!

Sorry.

Anything with cream of mushroom soup in it is gross.

there should be a Mt. Rushmore of food pioneers;

1) the person who invented bacon (but not turkey bacon)
2) the person who first decided to wrap something in bacon (unless it was vegetables because that's just a waste of bacon)
3) the person who first decided to use bacon as an ingredient (such as adding it to deviled eggs, stuffed chicken breasts, etc.)
4) Kevin Bacon

Peepers, I like your thinking on this bacon monument..

We need a "but not turkey sausage" addendum too please....really ticks me off when someone offers sausage and come to find out, it's turkey sausage. Blech.

I haven't had the turkey bacon experience and hopefully never will.

I asked the wife what she was watching on TV last week and she said "Footloose", Sadly it was also missing Bacon

Turkey and chicken sausages can be really good. Turkey bacon is just garbage.

What ever happened to the name Dorcas? That should make a comeback.

I can think of one reason. As that young lady made her way through the American education system, there would be bullies who shortened her name (and no doubt would substitute that name often). In my own experience, my first name wasn't shortened, it just rhymed too easily with a mucous-like substance.

my brothers and I often refer to each other as "dorkus"...does that count?

Never heard that name before. My last name was turned into all sorts of things...most of them non-offensive

I've had turkey bacon...it wasn't that bad.

The only turkey sausage i've ever had (breakfast sausage) was totally nasty.

Never had turkey sausage to my knowledge...I would think the texture would be horrid.

Turkey bacon and sausage isn't that bad. No, it's not full flavor like anything made with pork. However, it's an acceptable substitute for those who can't have pork. Back in the day, pork was the first thing on the restricted list for heart patients like my Dad. He was thrilled when Mom found turkey bacon. I prefer turkey hot dogs to regular. Don't need to be eating all those pig pieces parts including snouts.

No souse meat for you!

Souse meat a/k/a hogs head cheese....is made of cow's face or heel, chicken feet or pig's face, shoulder, feet or knuckle.

A friend of mine grew up with hogs...they were dirt poor...Mom wasted nothing and to this day said friend likes souse meat...my son and I used to laugh at it/make fun of it in the grocery store because it had 'hog noses' in it. When we were farming Indian Corn on their SE GA farm, she offered us some...of course we were like NO...she was highly and unmistakenly insulted that we snubbed it. Oops!

Dorcas (Greek: Δορκάς, Dorkás; Aramaic: טביתא‎ Ṭabītā) was a disciple who lived in Joppa, referenced in the Acts of the Apostles (9:36–42) in the New Testament. ... The name Dorcas is a Greek translation of the Aramaic name Tabitha, meaning "gazelle". One species of gazelle is now known as the dorcas gazelle.

Interesting.

I have known 2 Dorcas' in my life - one in Louisville, KY and one in Middle GA.

In my coaching days, one of my softball girls had an aunt named Dorcas.