The LuLac Edition #3963, December 26th, 2018

MOVING ON 2018

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As is our custom, we look at those who moved on in 2018. These were people of note, stature and some curiosities. But their lives were duly noted by media and pop culture. This year's "Moving On".

JANUARY

Jerry Van Dyke, was an American actor, musician and comedian. He was the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke. He was an entertainment jack of all trades. 
Van Dyke made his television acting debut on The Dick Van Dyke Show with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother Stacey. While his infrequent starring roles were typically in poorly received sitcoms (My Mother the Car, one of the shows where he was the lead actor, is considered one of the worst sitcoms of all time), he enjoyed a long and successful career as a character actor in supporting and guest roles. From 1989 to 1997 he portrayed Luther Van Dam in Coach. Then of course there was "Accidental Family".

He was a household name and made it on his own after a start from his older brother. 
John Young, the American astronaut who reportedly took a Corned Beef Sandwich up in space on a Gemini mission was a naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to fly six space missions (with seven launches, counting his lunar liftoff) over the course of 42 years of active NASA service. He is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle. 
In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969 during Apollo 10, he became the first person to fly solo around the Moon.  He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974 to 1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004. He died on January 5, 2018

Marjorie Holt, American politician, first woman elected to Congress from Maryland in the 1970s.
France Gall, French singer 
Bennie Jean Porter  was an American film and television actress. She was notable for her roles in The Youngest Profession (1943), Bathing Beauty (1944), Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945), Till the End of Time (1946), Cry Danger (1951), and in The Left Hand of God (1956
Hugh Hamilton Wilson Jr. was an American film director, writer and television showrunner. He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the film comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club.
Edwin Reuben Hawkins  was an American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. He was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He (as leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers) was probably best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" (1968–69), which was included on the "Songs of the Century" list. The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".

Bradford Dillman, Was contracted early in his career to 20th Century Fox. When he left Fox, Dillman mostly concentrated on television. He co-starred with Barbara Barrie on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in the episode "Isabel" (1964) and with Peter Graves in Court Martial (1966).[He guest-starred on series such as Ironside, Shane, The Name of the Game, Columbo, Wild Wild West, The Eleventh Hour, Wagon Train, The Greatest Show on Earth, Breaking Point, Mission Impossible, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Barnaby Jones and Three for the Road, and a two part episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was made into the feature film The Helicopter Spies (1968)
Stansfield Turner  was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as President of the Naval War College from 1972–74, commander of the United States Second Fleet from 1974 to 1975, Supreme Allied Commander NATO Southern Europe 1975-1977, and was Director of Central Intelligence from 1977–81 under the Carter administration.

Joseph Henry White, nicknamed "Jo Jo"  was an American professional basketball player. As an amateur, he played basketball at the University of Kansas and represented the U.S. men's basketball team during the 1968 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he is best known for his ten-year stint with the Boston Celtics of the NBA, where he led the team towards two NBA championships and set a franchise record of 488 consecutive games playey.
Dorothy Malone: Her film career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place from (1964–68). Less active in her later years, Malone's last screen appearance was in Basic Instinct in 1992.
Malone died on January 19, 2018. She had been one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Louis Zorich is perhaps best known to television audiences for his portrayal of Paul Buchman's father, Burt Buchman, on the NBC series Mad About You. He played the role from 1993 to 1999.

Addison Morton Walker  was an American comic strip writer, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. He signed Addison to some of his strips.

Daniel Sexton Gurney was an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958.
Gurney won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series. Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy cars (1967). (The other two were Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya).
John Varick Tunney was a former United States Senator and Representative from the state of California. Tunney first elected to the Senate in 1970 was a fierce defender of good environmental policies.

Anna Mae Violet McCabe Hays was an American military officer who served as the 13th chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She was the first woman in the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to a General Officer rank; in 1970, she was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. Hays paved the way for equal treatment of women, countering occupational sexism, and made a number of recommendations, which were accepted into military policy.

FEBRUARY

Jon Meade Huntsman Sr.  was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Huntsman plastics are used in a wide variety of familiar objects, including (formerly) McDonald's clamshell burger containers.

Charles John Mahoney  was an English-American actor of stage, film, and television.
Born in Blackpool, England, Mahoney emigrated to the United States at the age of 18 and started his acting career on the stage in 1977, moving into film in 1980. He was best known for playing the blue-collar patriarch Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier, which aired on NBC from 1993 to 2004. In addition to his film and television work, Mahoney also worked as a voice actor and was particularly passionate about his stage work on Broadway and in Chicago theater. 

John Gavin (born Juan Vincent Apablasa Jr. was an American actor who was the United States Ambassador to Mexico (1981–86) and the President of the Screen Actors Guild (1971–73). He was best known for his performances in the films Imitation of Life (1959), Spartacus (1960), Psycho (1960), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), playing leading roles in a series of films for producer Ross Hunter.
A Republican, Gavin was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mexico in June 1981 by President Ronald Reagan and served until June 12, 1986.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Gavin was an "activist envoy to Mexico" who "won praise in many circles for his handling of such issues as trade and illegal drug dealing as well as for speaking out against anti-American sentiment. But his candor and meetings with critics of the ruling party prompted accusations by Mexicans of meddling in the country's domestic affairs."
In 1991, Gavin was sounded out about running for the Senate for the Republican Party but decided not to.
Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer. He is best known for his performances of songs such as the number one hit "You're Breaking My Heart", and "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady) and "My Heart Cries for You" which were both number four hits
In 1972, he was offered the role of Johnny Fontane in The Godfather. The role ultimately went to Al Martino, as Damone turned down the role for a variety of reasons, reportedly including his not thinking the role had enough screen time or paid enough, but also due to a fear of provoking the mob and Frank Sinatra, whom Damone profoundly respected.
Damone appeared in a Diet Pepsi commercial first aired during Super Bowl XXV in January 1991. Damone and other stars, including Jerry Lewis, Tiny Tim, Charo and Bo Jackson, attempt to sing Diet Pepsi's theme song, "You've Got the Right One Baby (Uh-Huh)", which was performed by Ray Charles.

Nanette Fabray (born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares;  was an American actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and became a musical-theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life. In the mid-1950s, she served as Sid Caesar's comedic partner on Caesar's Hour, for which she won three Emmy Awards, as well as co-starring with Fred Astaire in the film musical The Band Wagon. From 1979 to 1984, she appeared as Katherine Romano on the TV series One Day at a Time.
Lewis Gilbert  was a British film director, producer and screenwriter, who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)[1] and Moonraker (1979).
William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE, known as Billy Graham, was an American evangelical Christian evangelist, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, who became well known internationally after 1949.
In Florida, a loser shot up a high school, Stoneman Douglas. The fourteen students and three staff members killed were:
Alyssa Alhadeff, age 14
Scott Beigel, 35
Martin Duque, 14
Nicholas Dworet, 17
Aaron Feis, 37
Jaime Guttenberg, 14
Chris Hixon, 49
Luke Hoyer, 15
Cara Loughran, 14
Gina Montalto, 14
Joaquin Oliver, 17
Alaina Petty, 14
Meadow Pollack, 18
Helena Ramsay, 17
Alex Schachter, 14
Carmen Schentrup, 16
Peter Wang, 15

MARCH

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister was a British middle-distance athlete and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile

At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Bannister set a British record in the 1500 metres and finished in fourth place. This achievement strengthened his resolve to become the first athlete to finish the mile run in under four minutes. He accomplished this feat on 6 May 1954 at Iffley Road track in Oxford, with Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher providing the pacing. When the announcer, Norris McWhirter, declared "The time was three...", the cheers of the crowd drowned out Bannister's exact time, which was 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds. He had attained this record with minimal training, while practising as a junior doctor. Bannister's record lasted just 46 days.
Bannister went on to become a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, before retiring in 1993. When asked whether the 4-minute mile was his proudest achievement, he said he felt prouder of his contribution to academic medicine through research into the responses of the nervous system. Bannister was patron of the MSA Trust. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2011.
David Allen Ogden Stiers   was an actor, voice actor, and conductor. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Stiers was primarily raised in Oregon. He attended the University of Oregon before enrolling at the Juilliard School in New York City, from where he graduated in 1972. He went on to appear in numerous productions on Broadway, and originated the role of Feldman in The Magic Show, in which he appeared for four years between 1974 and 1978.
In 1977, he was cast as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the television series M*A*S*H, a role he would portray until the series' conclusion in 1983 and which earned him two Emmy Award nominations. He appeared prominently in the 1980s in the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in several Perry Mason television films
Craig Mack, His first single "Get Retarded/Just Rhymin'" was released under the name MC EZ ,alongside Troup, in 1988 on Fresh Records. Mack is best known for his 1994 hit single "Flava In Ya Ear", which was released under his real name. The remix of the single was the breakout appearance of The Notorious B.I.G., as well as one of the first solo appearances by Busta Rhymes. The success of The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album Ready to Die overshadowed Mack's early success on the Bad Boy label. However, B.I.G. himself namedropped Mack in his breakout hit "Big Poppa" with the line "I got more Mack than Craig".
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.
His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. His book A Brief History of Time appeared on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Hawking was a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. In 2002, Hawking was ranked number 25 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
Dorothy Louise McIntosh Slaughter  was an American politician who served as a United States Representative from New York from 1987 until her death in 2018.
Slaughter was born in Lynch, Kentucky. She studied microbiology and public health at the University of Kentucky, obtaining a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree. After moving to New York and becoming involved in politics as a member of the Democratic Party, she was elected to a seat in the New York State Assembly in 1982 and to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986.
Zell Bryan Miller was an American author and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. A Democrat, Miller served as lieutenant governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as U.S. Senator from 2000 to 2005.
Lawrence Grossman, 86 former head of PBS. Expanded the McNeil-Leher Report to an hour, made PBS the first network to broadcast via satellite. Moved to NBC News, revamped the Today Show and hired Tim Russert for Meet The Press.
Linda Brown, Brown was the child associated with the lead name in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, which led to the outlawing of U.S. school segregation in 1954.

APRIL

George Alusik Professional baseball player in his youth, of Woodbridge George Alusik of Woodbridge, N.J., passed away peacefully on Friday, April 20, 2018, at his home, surrounded by his family. He was 84 years old. 

Born in Ashley, Pa., to Stephen and Anna Pavlick Alusik, he was one of six children that included Michael, John, Joseph, Steven and Andrew. They were raised in Elizabeth, N.J., and he had resided in Woodbridge since 1963. George Alusik was a Major League Baseball player for five years with the Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Athletics during the 1960s. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Rosa Ann "Tootsie" Ziesemer Alusik, in 2000. Alusik was on hand when Mickey Mantle hit one of his tape measure home runs vs. Kansas City at Yankee Stadium on May 22nd, 1963. .Alusik was mentioned in a book about Mantle by best selling author Jane Levy. book about Mantle .
Steven Ronald Bochco  was a television producer and writer. He developed a number of television series, including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D., and NYPD Blue.

Gertrude Hadley Jeannette was an African American playwright and film and stage actress. She is also known for being the first woman to work as a licensed taxi driver in New York City, which she began doing in 1942. Despite being blacklisted during the Red Scare in the 1950s, she wrote five plays and founded the H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players in Harlem, New York, remaining active in mentoring African-American actors in New York City.  In the 1960s and 1970s she appeared in Broadway productions such as The Long Dream, Nobody Loves an Albatross, The Amen Corner, The Skin of Our Teeth and Vieux Carré. She also appeared in films such as Cotton Comes to Harlem in 1969, Shaft in 1971, and Black Girl in 1972. She acted into her 80s and retired from directing theater at the age of 98
Ronald Lee Ermey  was an American actor and Marine corps drill instructor. He achieved fame when he played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ermey was also a United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant.
Harry Laverne Anderson  was an actor, comedian, and magician. He is best known for the lead role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–1992 television series Night Court, and later starred in the sitcom Dave's World from 1993 to 1997.
In addition to eight appearances on Saturday Night Live between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man Harry "The Hat" Gittes on Cheers, toured extensively as a magician, and did several magic/comedy shows for broadcast, including Harry Anderson's Sideshow (1987). He played Richie Tozier in the 1990 miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

Barbara Bush was the First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 as the wife of George H. W. Bush, who served as the 41st President of the United States, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. She previously was Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Among her six children are George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida.
Barbara Pierce was born in Flushing, New York, on June 8, 1925. She met George Herbert Walker Bush at the age of sixteen, and the two married in Rye, New York, in 1945, while he was on leave during his deployment as a Naval officer in World War II. They moved to Texas in 1948, where George later began his political career
Daniel Kahikina Akaka was an American educator and politician who was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Akaka was the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestor.

MAY

Wanda Wiłkomirska was a Polish violinist and academic teacher. She was known for both the classical repertoire and for her interpretation of 20th-century music, having received two Polish State Awards for promoting Polish music to the world as well as other awards for her contribution to music. She gave world premiere performances of numerous contemporary works, including music by Tadeusz Baird and Krzysztof Penderecki. Wiłkomirska performed on a violin crafted by Pietro Guarneri in 1734 in Venice. She taught at the music academies of Mannheim and Sydney.
Courken George Deukmejian Jr.  was an American politician who was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983. Deukmejian was the first and so far the only governor of a U.S. state of Armenian descent.
Margaret Ruth Kidder professionally known as Margot Kidder, was a Canadian-American actress and activist whose career spanned over five decades. Her accolades include three Canadian Screen Awards and one Daytime Emmy Award. Though she appeared in an array of films and television, Kidder is most widely known for her performance as Lois Lane in the Superman film series.
Elaine Lucille Edwards was an American politician from Louisiana. Edwards was a Democratic member of the United States Senate in 1972 appointed by her husband, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, following the death of Allen Ellender. She was the First Lady of Louisiana for twelve non-consecutive years from 1972 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1988, making her the state's longest-serving First Lady. In her later years, she was a small fashion businesswoman and a low-profile soap opera actress based in New York City.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.
His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma.

Joseph Anthony Campanella was the ultimate  American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009. Campanella was best remembered for his role as Joe Turino in Guiding Light and as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, a role he starred in from 1987 to 1988, and his later recurring roles on General Hospital from 1991 to 1992 and The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.
Campanella voiced the character of Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard on Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994–1997). He narrated the Discover science series on the Disney Channel from 1992 until 1994.
One of his most popular roles was as Lew Wickersham in season 1 (1967–1968) of the television series Mannix, serving as the head of the detective agency Joe Mannix (Mike Connors) worked for. Campanella was let go from his role after the first season due to a reworking of the program's concept.  Campanella appeared as attorney Brian Darrell from 1969 to 1972 in The Bold Ones: The Lawyers.  In 1973, he played an old flame of Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the twenty-second episode of season 3, titled "Remembrance of Things Past".Campanella played Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Captain Monty Ballard in the crime drama TV movie Sky Hei$t in 1975.
He played Ann Romano's (Bonnie Franklin) ex-husband, Ed Cooper, in eight episodes of One Day at a Time (1975–1984) and Barbara Stanwyck's love interest in the first season (1985–1986) of Aaron Spelling's short-lived Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys. He appeared in a second-season episode of The Golden Girls as a detective.[He had a prominent role as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1988, had a recurring role as a doctor in Beauty and the Beast (1989–1990), a recurring role as Jimmy Everett on General Hospital from 1991 to 1992, and a recurring role on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.
Dovey Johnson Roundtree  was an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney. Her 1955 victory before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first bus desegregation case to be brought before the ICC resulted in the only explicit repudiation of the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of interstate bus transportation by a court or federal administrative body.
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker was an American actor and singer. He was perhaps best known for his starring role as cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Bros. western series Cheyenne from 1955-63 Cheyenne was an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original series produced by William T. Orr.

Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. This book "Portnoy's Complaint" was a hot commodity when I was in high school.

Roth's fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity.
Roth first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Alan LaVern Bean was an American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3.
He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. He was the last living crew member of Apollo 12.
Don Peterson, was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, but, when that was canceled, he became a NASA astronaut in September 1969. He was a mission specialist on STS-6 on board Challenger. During the mission Peterson performed a spacewalk to test the new airlock and space suits. He logged 120 hours in space. Peterson retired from NASA in 1984.
Richard Naradof Goodwin was an American writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

JUNE

Frank Charles Carlucci III was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989 in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Carlucci served in a variety of senior-level governmental positions, including Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Richard Nixon administration, Deputy Director of the CIA in the Jimmy Carter administration, and Deputy Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration.Carlucci is best known locally for being the Flood Czar in Wyoming Valley when he was appointed by President Richard Nixon to oversee recovery operations
Katherine Noel Valentine Brosnahan known professionally as Kate Spade and Kate Valentine was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and former co-owner of the designer brand Kate Spade New York.
After working in the accessories department at the fashion magazine Mademoiselle, Brosnahan and her husband, Andy Spade, identified a market for quality stylish handbags, and founded Kate Spade New York in 1993. The handbags Spade designed and produced quickly found popularity, owing to their sophistication and affordability, and have been described as a symbol of New York City in the 1990s
Anthony Michael Bourdain was an American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. He is considered one of the most influential chefs in the world.
Bourdain was a 1978 graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and a veteran of a number of professional kitchens in his long career, which included many years spent as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan. He first became known for his bestselling book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000). His first food and world-travel television show, A Cook's Tour, ran for 35 episodes on the Food Network in 2002 and 2003. In 2005, he began hosting the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure programs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005–2012) and The Layover (2011–2013). In 2013, he began a three-season run as a judge on The Taste, and concurrently switched his travelogue programming to CNN to host Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

Tom McEwen was an American drag racer who was a winner of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) U.S. Nationals.  His racing career spanned 45 years. He is ranked at number 16 on a list of the 50 most significant drivers of NHRA’s first 50 years.
Starting as an owner-driver, he received the nickname "the Mongoose" in 1964 from engine builder Ed Donovan, after McEwen signed up to drive Donovan's "vaunted" Donovan Engineering Special. It was originally used as a device to entice Don "the Snake" Prudhomme into a high-exposure match race.

Irving Charles Krauthammer was an American political columnist. A conservative political pundit, in 1987 Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his column in The Washington Post. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide.
While in his first year studying medicine at Harvard Medical School, Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the waist down after a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord at cervical spinal nerve 5. After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to medical school, graduating to become a psychiatrist involved in the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III in 1980.He joined the Carter administration in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research, eventually becoming the speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980.
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr.  also known by the nicknames The Old Man and The Appraiser, was an American businessman and reality television personality, best known as the co-owner of the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, as featured on the History Channel series Pawn Stars. Harrison was the co-owner of the pawn shop with his son Rick Harrison. They opened the store together in 1989. Harrison was usually referred to by his nickname, "The Old Man",[which he earned at the age of 38.
Joseph Walter Jackson was an American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers that includes his children Michael and Janet. He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2014
Stephen John Ditko was an American comics artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.
Ditko studied under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonist and Illustrators School in New York City. He began his professional career in 1953, working in the studio of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, beginning as an inker and coming under the influence of artist Mort Meskin. During this time, he then began his long association with Charlton Comics, where he did work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and mystery. He also co-created the superhero Captain Atom in 1960.
During the 1950s, Ditko also drew for Atlas Comics, a forerunner of Marvel Comics.

JULY

Dick Feagler, 79, American journalist (The Plain Dealer), playwright, and television personality (WKYC, WEWS
Harvey Gentry was an American baseball infielder. He played for 10 years in the minor leagues, from 1947 through 1956. He also played briefly in the Major Leagues, appearing in five games for the New York Giants as a pinch hitter in 1954. Grntry died on July 1, 2018 at the age of 92
Dame Gillian Lynne, 92, British dancer and choreographer (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, The Muppet Show
Lorraine Zillner Rodgers  was a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot for the United States Army Air Forces.
Bradford A. Smith was an American astronomer and an associate of the International Astronomical Union. He was employed by the Voyager program, and discovered the moon Bianca (which orbits Uranus) on January 23, 1986.
Dave VanDam, 63, American voice actor and impressionist (David Letterman, Barack Obama), member of the Wack Pack
Richard Swift, 41, American singer-songwriter, producer and musician (The Shins, The Black Keys, Starflyer 59), complications from hepatitis.
Edward Andrew Schultz was an American television / radio host, a political commentator, news anchor, and a sports broadcaster. He was the host of The Ed Show, a weekday news talk program on MSNBC from 2009 to 2015, and The Ed Schultz Show, a talk radio show, nationally syndicated by Dial Global from 2004 to 2014. The radio show ended on May 23, 2014, and was replaced by a one-hour podcast, Ed Schultz News and Commentary, which ran from 2015 until his 2018 death.[Schultz most recently hosted a daily primetime weekday show, News with Ed Schultz, on RT America TV channel based in Washington, D.C., that is part of the RT network.
Bruce Maher, 80, American football player, (Detroit Lions, New York Giants), cancer.
Vince Martin, 81, American folk singer ("Cindy, Oh Cindy"), pulmonary fibrosis.

Frank Ramsey, 86, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics)
Lonnie Shelton, 62, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Seattle SuperSonics, Cleveland Cavaliers), hypertension
Tab Hunter, 86, American actor (Damn Yankees, Grease 2) and singer ("Young Love"), blood clot.
Henry Morgenthau III, 101, American author and television producer.
Roger Perry was an American film and television actor whose career began in the late 1950s. He served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force during the early 1950s. In NBC's Star Trek episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (1967) he guested as a 20th century airforce pilot. Other television series in which he appeared include Emergency!, Love, American Style, The Andy Griffith Show, Ironside, The F.B.I., The Eleventh Hour, The Munsters, Barnaby Jones, The Facts of Life, Adam-12 and Falcon Crest. In the 1960–1961 television season, Perry portrayed attorney Jim Harrigan, Jr. in Harrigan and Son.
Len Chappell, 77, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks, Milwaukee Bucks).
Dave Dave, 42, American conceptual artist, subject of David. David Rothenberg was six years old and living with his mother, Marie Rothenberg, in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York,  when his father, Charles Rothenberg, took him on a trip to Disneyland, in California. The parents were divorced and in conflict over custody of David; after the two argued on the telephone, on the evening of March 3, 1983, at a motel in Buena Park, Charles gave his son a sleeping pill and after he fell asleep, poured kerosene on the bed and set fire to it. He left the room and watched from a telephone booth across the street while other guests rescued Daviid. Rothenberg attended ArtCenter College of Design.[By 1996 he was using only his first name;[6] he then legally changed his name to Dave Dave, to "free myself of [Charles Rothenberg's] name and his legacy", as he said then.
Stan Lewis, 91, American record label owner (Jewel Records). Jewell Records had Jon Fred and The playboy Band as an act.
Adrian Cronauer, 79, American disc jockey (AFN), subject of Good Morning, Vietnam was a United States Air Force Sergeant and radio personality whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam.[
Tony Sparano, 56, American football coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins), arteriosclerotic heart disease
Vladimir Komarov, 69, Russian speed skater and sports official
Mary Jane McCaffree Monroe  was a White House Social Secretary during the Eisenhower administration and a press and personal secretary for First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. She also served as a protocol specialist in the office of the Chief of Protocol and co-wrote a book on the subject.

Tony Cloninger, 77, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds) and coach (New York Yankees) On July 3, 1966, in the Braves' 17–3 win over the Giants at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Cloninger helped his team's cause with two grand slams and nine RBIs; as of 2018, this stands as the Braves' franchise record for RBI in a game  Cloninger became the first player in the National League, and the only pitcher to date, to hit two grand slams in the same game.
Cloninger used a bat of teammate Denis Menke to hit both of these big home runs. After retiring, Cloninger served as a bullpen coach for the New York Yankees (1992–2001), where he was a member of five American League champions and four World Series champion teams,
Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, 97, Singaporean pathologist.

Carmella Rizzo, wife of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, was 101.
She was born on July 25, 1916 — during WWI — and married Frank Rizzo during World War II, on April 18, 1942.
She was called her "consistent and dignified as first lady of Philadelphia" and said "she should be admired as an example of a woman who always stood by her principles, encouraging and loving others, especially her husband and children."

AUGUST

Nancy Tuckerman, 89, American secretary, White House Social Secretary (1963), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas was the White House Social Secretary during the Kennedy administration. After the Kennedy assassination, she remained the personal secretary to Jackie Kennedy until the latter's death in 1994
Myron White, 61, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Margaret Heckler, 87, American politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland (1986–1989), Secretary of Health and Human Services (1983–1985), member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1967–1983), cardiac arrest.

Paul Laxalt, 96, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1967–1971), member of the U.S. Senate (1974–1987) He was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. After Reagan was elected President in 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as "The First Friend.

John Kennedy, 77, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Senators)
Aretha Franklin, 76, American Hall of Fame singer ("Respect", "Chain of Fools", "A Natural Woman"), pianist and songwriter, 18-time Grammy winner, pancreatic cancer.

Doc Edwards, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics) and manager (Cleveland Indians)
Barbara Harris, 83, American actress (The Apple Tree, Freaky Friday, Nashville), Tony winner (1967), co-founder of The Second City, lung cancer
Dean Stone, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators
Ed King, 68, American Hall of Fame guitarist (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd) and songwriter ("Sweet Home Alabama"), lung cancer.


Neil Simon, 91, American playwright (Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple) and screenwriter (The Goodbye Girl), Tony winner (1965, 1985, 1991), complications from pneumonia.

John McCain, former Presidential nominee, Prisoner of War in Vietnam, multi term Senator from Arizona and the lawmaker who killed President Trump's attempt to end The Affordable Care Act.
Barbara Densmoor Harris was an American actress. She appeared in such movies as A Thousand Clowns, Plaza Suite, Nashville, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Grosse Pointe Blank. Harris won a Tony Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also received four Golden Globe Award nominations.
Kofi Atta Annan, was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

SEPTEMBER

Clarence Lee Brandley was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas where Fergeson was a 16-year-old student athlete visiting the school from Bellville, Texas.
Brandley was held for nine years on death row. After lengthy legal proceedings and community outcry that eventually ended in the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Brandley was freed in 1990. After his release, Brandley was involved in further legal proceedings over child support payments that had accrued over his time in prison, and ultimately with an unsuccessful $120 million lawsuit against various agencies of the State of Texas.

Bill Daily, 91, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) and game show panelist (Match Game)
Christopher Lawford, 63, American actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Thirteen Days, All My Children), memoirist and political activist, heart attack.
Dick Lane, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox.)
Thad Mumford, 67, American television producer and writer (The Electric Company, M*A*S*H, The Cosby Show), Emmy winner (1973).
Burt Reynolds, 82, American actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights, Deliverance), Emmy winner (1991), heart attack.

Billy O'Dell, 85, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Kyle Stone (born Mark Hynes was an American pornographic actor and stand-up comedian. Stone appeared in over 1,700 pornographic films over a career that spanned 25 years
Stone began working in the porn industry in 1993 after dialing a wrong number led to a sexual encounter with a porn actress known as Nasty Natasha. Stone was working at a law firm doing filing at the time but decided to try doing pornography at Natasha's suggestion. Natasha was his first pornographic partner.
Joseph Hoo Kim, 76, Jamaican record producer, liver cancer.

Lee Stange, 81, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox)

Tommy McDonald, 84, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles. As a young boy I became familiar with McDonald because one of the first book I ever read in the sports genre was his "They Pay Me To Catch Footballs".

OCTOBER

Jerry González, 69, American bandleader and trumpeter, heart attack
Dave Anderson, 89, American sportswriter (The New York Times), Pulitzer Prize winner (1981).

Betty Grissom, 91, American plaintiff winner against NASA contractor was the plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against a NASA contractor which established a precedent for families of astronauts killed in service to receive compensation. Her husband Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, died in the first fatal accident in the history of the United States space program. Ms. Grissom has been portrayed in the books The Right Stuff by Tom Wolf and The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel and by the actors Veronica Cartwright and JoAnna Garcia in the film and television adaptations of those books.[3] n 1971 Grissom filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Apollo program’s prime contractor, North American Rockwell. In 1972, she settled for $350,000, which adjusted for inflation, would be worth nearly $3 million in 2018.[5] As a result of her legal action the widows of Chaffee and White received $125,000 apiece. Following the Challenger explosion of 1986, Grissom encouraged the families of crew members killed in the incident to file lawsuits. Grissom's lawyer, Ronald D. Krist, went on to represent Cheryl McNair, widow of astronaut Ronald McNair, in her lawsuit against Morton Thiokol, the manufacture of blamed for the Challenger accident.[2]
In 1984, Grissom and the six surviving Mercury 7 astronauts created the Mercury 7 Foundation, later renamed the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships for science and engineering students.

Walter "Dee" Huddleston, 92, American politician, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (1973–1985).[ He was defeated that year by Mitch McConnell who has since proven himself to be lapdog and enabler of a treasonous criminal.
Sid Michaels Kavulich, 62, American sportscaster (WBRE-TV) and politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (since 2011), complications from heart surgery
Wayne Krenchicki, 64, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles
Dick Modzelewski, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New York Giants)
Hank Greenwald, 83, American sportscaster (San Francisco Giants)
Benny Valenzuela, 85, Mexican baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), renal failure.
Wah Wah Watson, 67, American guitarist (The Funk Brothers).
Tony Joe White, 75, American singer-songwriter ("Polk Salad Annie", "Rainy Night in Georgia"), heart attack.

Jim Taylor, Green Bay Packer Full back.

Audrey Wells was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.[
She wrote a number of successful screenplays and directed three for which she had created the script. Her works were primarily comedies and/or romance films. Among her notable films are The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), both of which she also produced. Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Wells also co-wrote the script for the comedy The Game Plan.

George Tallafero professional American football player who was the first African American drafted by a National Football League (NFL) team. Beginning his football career at Indiana University for the Hoosiers team, he played in the NFL for the New York Yanks from 1950 to 1951, the Dallas Texans in 1952, the Baltimore Colts from 1953 to 1954, and Philadelphia Eagles in 1955. Taliaferro was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. 

Margaret Ann "Peggy" McCay was an American actress whose career began in 1949, and includes theatre, television, soap operas, and feature films. McCay may be best known for originating the roles of Vanessa Dale on the CBS soap opera Love of Life (a role she played from 1951–55), and Caroline Brady, which she played from 1983 to 2016 on NBC's Days of Our Lives. She was also on Ben Casey. 

Kitty O’Neil was a stunt double for TV. In one stunt, as a double for Lindsay Wagner, she flipped a dune buggy on the television series “The Bionic Woman”; in another, she leapt 127 feet from a hotel balcony onto an inflated airbag as Lynda Carter’s stunt double on “Wonder Woman.”
Ms. O’Neil died on Friday at 72 in Eureka, S.D., where she had lived since 1993. The cause was pneumonia, said Ky Michaelson, a close friend who built rocket-powered vehicles, including some for Ms. O’Neil.

Willie Lee McCovey was an American Major League baseball first baseman. Known as "Stretch" during his playing days, and later also nicknamed "Mac" and "Willie Mac," he is best known for his long tenure as one of the sport's greatest stars with the San Francisco Giants. Over a 22-year career between 1959 and 1980 he played 19 seasons with the Giants and three more for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics. A fearsome left-handed hitter, he was a six time All-Star, three-time home run champion. 

James Karen best known as an American character actor of Broadway, film and television. Karen was best known for his roles in Poltergeist, The Return of the Living Dead, Invaders from Mars, and in The Pursuit of Happyness.
Karen was also known for his recurring television role as Tom Bradford's boss, Eliot Randolph, in Eight Is Enough. He appeared in commercials for Pathmark which earned his nickname "Mr. Pathmark".He was nominated for a Saturn Award for his 1985 role in The Return of the Living Dead.
In Pittsburgh, a synagogue was shot up on a Saturday morning during services by a right wing Trump inspired nut. The dead were: 
Joyce Fienberg, 75
Richard Gottfried, 65
Rose Mallinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil Rosenthal, 59
David Rosenthal, 54
Bernice Simon, 84
Sylvan Simon, 86
Daniel Stein, 71
Melvin Wax, 88
Irving Younger, 69.

NOVEMBER

Betty Bumpers, 93, American childhood immunizations activist, First Lady of Arkansas (1971–1975), complications from dementia and a broken hip
William Goldman, 87, American author (The Princess Bride) and screenwriter (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men), Oscar winner (1970, 1977), complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. 

Stan Lee, 95, American comic book writer and publisher (Marvel Comics).

 David Pearson, 83, American Hall of Fame racing driver (NASCAR).
Richard Paul Conaboy, 93, American judge, District Court Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1979–1992), heart attack.

Adair Simon, 68, American actress (In the Heat of the Night)
Eddie Foy III, 83, American casting director (Barney Miller).
Glenn Schwartz, 78, American musician (James Gang, Pacific Gas & Electric, All Saved Freak Band)
Katherine “Scottie” MacGregor, the actress who played the villainous Harriet Oleson on the long-running TV show Little House on the Prairie, died Tuesday at her home, PEOPLE confirms. She was 93.
MacGregor is best known as playing the wealthy, haughty, mean-spirited Harriet on the popular TV series that aired from 1974 to 1982.

Wallace Triplett (was a professional American football player, the first African-American draftee to play for a National Football League team. For that reason, his portrait hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

James Greene, 91, American actor (Parks and Recreation, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The Missouri Breaks).
Ken Howell, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies)
Ron Johnson, 71, American football player (New York Giants, Michigan Wolverines), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Floyd Lloyd, 70, Jamaican reggae musician
Roy Clark, 85, American Hall of Fame country singer and television host (Hee Haw), complications from pneumonia.

Bob McNair, 81, American businessman and sports club owner (Houston Texans), cancer
Ed Galigher, 68, American football player (New York Jets, San Francisco 49ers), complications following lung transplant surgery.
George H. W. Bush, 94, American politician, President (1989–1993), Vice President (1981–1989), Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977).

Frederick John Caligiuri was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played during 1941 and 1942 for the Philadelphia Athletics. Listed at 6' 0", 190 lb., he batted and threw right-handed.A native of West Hickory, Pennsylvania, Caligiuri was one of many major leaguers who saw his baseball career interrupted by a stint in the United States Army during World War II. A late-season 1941 call-up from Wilmington of the Interstate League, he entered the baseball record books while starting the last game of the season against the Boston Red Sox at Shibe Park. It was the game in which Ted Williams finished the season with a .406. batting average, the most recent .400 average in the majors. Williams went 2-for-3 against Caligiuri, who did not yield a run until the ninth inning, and finished with a complete game, six-hit, 7–1 victory over Lefty Grove and the Red Sox. This game also marked the last start for Grove, who retired before the 1942 season.
Over parts of two seasons, Caligiuri posted a 2-5 record with a 4.52 ERA in 18 appearances, including seven starts, giving up 49 runs (nine unearned) on 90 hits and 32 walks while striking out 27 in 79 ⅔ innings of work. From 1943 to 1945 Caligiuri served in the military during World War II.[1] He was the last surviving retired MLB player who made his debut prior to the Pearl Harbor attack/US involvement in WWII.
Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968's "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter'' and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, has died. She was 74.
Locked died November 3, 2018 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by The Associated Press. Authorities were promptly notified at the time, but her death was not publicized until RadarOnline first reported it in mid December.

DECEMBER

Bill Fralic, 56, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Panthers), cancer.

Joan Steinbrenner, 83, American philanthropist and sports executive, vice chairperson of the New York Yankees.
Jessica Starr, 35, American meteorologist and television news presenter (WJBK), suicide.]
Nancy Wilson, 81, American jazz singer ("(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am"), Grammy winner in 1965, 2005, and 2007.

Bob Giggie, 85, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Kansas City Athletics)
Rod Jones, 54, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by gunshot
José Castillo, 37, Venezuelan professional baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants), traffic collision
Isiah Robertson, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills), traffic collision
Bobby Treviño, 73, Mexican baseball player (California Angels)

Philip Bosco, 88, American actor (Lend Me a Tenor, Working Girl, My Best Friend's Wedding), Tony winner (1989), complications from dementia
Ken Berry, 85, American actor (F Troop, Mayberry R.F.D., Mama's Family). He also did a summer replacement show on ABC in 1972. Check this out.

Marvin Terrell, 80, American football player (Dallas Texans).
Donald Moffat, 87, British-born American actor (The Thing, The Right Stuff, Clear and Present Danger), complications from a stroke. One of his final roles was as Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in the HBO movie, 61*.
Peter Masterson, 84, American writer (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), director (The Trip to Bountiful), and actor (The Exorcist), complications from a fall.
Lawrence Curry, 82, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Penny Marshall, 75, American actress (Laverne & Shirley) and director (Big, A League of Their Own), complications from diabetes. Here’s Penny Marshall in a1972 Public Service Announcement for Safety belts.

And then of course this was her iconic role in “Laverne and Shirley”

Then this wonderful movie that was impactful to its stars and fans to this very day.

Jerry Chesnut, 87, American songwriter ("Good Year for the Roses", "T-R-O-U-B-L-E", "It's Four in the Morning").

Lee Leonard, 89, American television host (The NFL Today, ESPN). Leonard was the first voice heard on ESPN TV when it started in 1979.
John Culver, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1975–1981) and House of Representatives (1965–1975
Frank Adonis, 83, American actor (Goodfellas), kidney failure.
Warren Wells, 76, American football player (Detroit Lions, Oakland Raiders), heart failure.
Richard Arvin Overton, 112, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest living veteran.
Ray Sawyer, 81, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
Sister Wendy Beckett, died at age 88, was not only a Carmelite nun but a popular TV art critic for the BBC. She did it all in a traditional nun's habit, attesting to her vow of poverty. I don't know how you can call this an art show, though? When asked why she took time from a hermetic life for the TV broadcasts, she explained a need to pay for her keep at the nunnery, according to The Guardian. The Royal Academy also honored the centennial of Gustave [VIDEO].

PROMINENT CITIZENS OF LULAC LAND WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY

Bob Butts, owner of CeeKay Auto Stores and prolific advertiser who presented radio commercials with thoughtful messages to consumers about life. He was also an advocate fo the water cure advising that drinking water through the day would stave off health issues.
Ruth K. Smith, well known realtor in the Wilkes Barre and Luzerne County area.
Linda Kohut,, well respected and very active Management team member of the Area Agency on Aging. She was also very involved in her church, originally St. John the Baptist in Exeter and later St. Cecelia’s.
Attorney Bill Ruzzo, best known for his defense of Judge Mark Ciaverella in his trial in 2011. Also a very prominent Defense Attorney in the County.
Richard Conaboy, Federal Judge from the city of Scranton. He served a very long tenure in that office. In a documentary he described how he urged the then grieving Attorney General Robert Kennedy to come speak to the 1964 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Day dinner.
Earl Watson, longtime writer, editorialist and bon vivant writer from the Sunday Independent.
Attorney Clem Kisailus, well known Wilkes Barre barrister who was a mainstay in the community. As a young man, he ran for Wilkes Barre School Board in the early 1970s.
Frank Henry, transportation innovator who turned Martz Bus into a well known East Coast brand. He was very philanthropic to the community both in front of the cameras and significantly behind them.
Bob Leonardi, local Labor leader, baseball coach, Chair of the United Fund, and all around active and friendly gentleman who was a friend of this blog.
David Barber, Treasurer of the NAACP Branch 2136 and community activist.
Ray Gustave, candidate for Luzerne County Council and a former career officer of the Federal government.
William Davidowitz was a World War II veteran who founded Penn Footwear in Nanticoke.
Rev. Louis Falcone, of Luzerne, also served as a longtime youth sports coach and teacher on the West Side.
Joseph P. Keating served as a school board member, a magisterial district judge, a state Senate aide and as Pittston’s mayor from 2006 to 2009.
Vince Wojnar was a long-time fixture in the local running community as a coach and co-founder of the Wyoming Valley Striders. Vince was passionate about everything and worked with me on a few projects when I was with the United Way.
Ted Zuba,  was longtime caretaker of Our Lady of Fatima Blessed Grotto on North Street in Wilkes-Barre,
Bill Sordoni, a prominent businessman and philanthropist, led Sordoni Construction Services, Northeast Pennsylvania’s largest construction manager and general contractor.
Dr. George “Doc” Moses, was a prominent surgeon, sports booster and fan and community benefactor often known as “Mr. Mercy Hospital.”
Jerome Cohen,  was a longtime local attorney who once served as Luzerne County district attorney during transitional periods in the 80s and 90s.
A. William Kelly, known as Bill Kelly, former WARM personality who joined WVIA TV/FM and made it into the broadcast powerhouse it now is. Kelly was recognized both nationally and locally for his dedication to the broadcast entity.
Sid Michaels Kavulich, former sportscaster at WBRE TV as well as State Representative from the Taylor-Riverside section of Lackawanna County.
Richard Wiaterowski of Nanticoke passed away. Wiatrowski, who was also a volunteer firefighter in the city, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in November 2017.He was serving his second term. 
Harold Golomb of Plains. A very popular farmer from Plains who passed away suddenly in January. Harold loved the land, his family, his faith and his church.