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Abel Davis (14 February 1925 — 30 September 2013)
Abel Davis riding an event course on Solvay. Catching up with my back issues of Chronicle of the Horse, I found in the December 16, 2013 issue the obituary of another great sportsman. Money quote:...
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Margot, Dowager Marchioness of Reading, 11 January 1919 — 19 April 2015
The Telegraph does the best obituaries, and its subjects seem to live the best lives. The Dowager Marchioness of Reading, who has died aged 96, was a society beauty of the 1930s and 1940s and a woman...
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Tanith Lee, 1947-2015
Sci Fi/Fantasy writer Tanith Lee has passed away. Heavy has five facts about Lee. Locusmag obituary. Tor.
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Jean Ritchie, 8 December 1922 — 1 June 2015
Jean Ritchie, the best singer in the American Appalachian folk tradition, passed away last evening at the age of 92. She was born in Viper, an unincorporated settlement in Eastern Kentucky, and died...
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015)
Christopher Lee died at 8:30 A.M. last Sunday morning in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London at the age of 93. His family delayed the public announcement of his death until today to allow...
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His was just about the only Jazz I ever liked. Times obituary
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James Salter, 1925 – 2015
James Salter, West Point graduate, fighter pilot, novelist, film director, lady killer, and mountain climber, died last Friday suddenly at his local gymnasium in Sag Harbor, Long Island at the age of...
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Brian Sewell (1931-2015): “Odi Profanum Vulgus!”
Brian Sewell Art critic and cultural commentator Brian Sewell deservedly received one of the Telegraph‘s celebrated obituary tributes. Brian Sewell, the loquacious art critic and broadcaster known for...
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Antonin Gregory Scalia (1936-2016)
Let’s remember him with some of his best comments. “A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.” ————————————– “[There’s] the argument of flexibility and it goes...
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Jim Harrison (1937-2016)
Harrison looked like one of those European mastiffs, so ugly that he was beautiful. Jim Harrison, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 78, was for my money the best living American writer of...
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And Who Can Blame Her?
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 17 May 2016: NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass...
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Another Epic Obit
Via Instapundit, “Irishman Dies from Stubbornness, Whiskey“: Chris Connors died, at age 67, after trying to box his bikini-clad hospice nurse just moments earlier. Ladies man, game slayer, and outlaw...
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Lt.-Gen Hal Moore (February 13, 1922 – February 10, 2017)
Russ Vaughn met Hal Moore in Vietnam and penned a nice tribute to a great combat officer. We had no idea who this tall, strapping, lean colonel was who blew through the flaps of our forward Tactical...
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“I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
Leslie Ray Charping, Nov 20, 1942 – Jan 30, 2017 Texas families don’t mince words. This outspoken obituary made international news. Leslie Ray “Popeye” Charping was born in Galveston on November 20,...
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Paul Novgorod, Claremont Owner Dies at 73
The Times reports: Paul Novograd, whose reluctant decision to shutter his family’s century-old Claremont Riding Academy in 2007 turned Manhattan into a no-horse town, died on Friday. He was 73. His...
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Robert Maynard Pirsig (6 September 1928 – 24 April 2017)
Plato’s Chariot Metaphor as sculpture. Plato, in the Phaedrus, conceives of the soul as having three parts: A rational part (the part that loves truth and knowledge, which should rule over the other...
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Ueli Steck (4 October 1976 — 30 April 2017)
The Washington Post reports the speed-climber, a hero to the international Alpinist community, died from a fall on Sunday. The last time Ueli Steck traversed the route near Mount Everest that would...
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Bye, Mom!
This obituary from the Redwood Fall (Minnesota) Gazette went viral yesterday.
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