Celebrity Obituaries - Page 30

January 4, 2021

Food Network star Kerry Vincent dead at 75

News of Vincent's passing, due to an illness not made public, was announced by the nonprofit organization she co-founded, Oklahoma Sugar Art Show, via their Facebook page on Saturday. 

January 1, 2021

Dick Thornburgh, ex-Pa. governor and US attorney general, dead at 88

Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the Iran-Contra scandal, has died. He was 88.

December 30, 2020

Paul Batura: ‘Gilligan’s Island’ star Dawn Wells dies — unlike on TV, she was rescued in real life

Dawn Wells, the actress who went on a fictional “three-hour tour” in 1964 and found lifelong fame as the bubbly girl-next-door Mary Ann Summers on the TV sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19

December 17, 2020

Sam Jayne, frontman of Brooklyn band Love as Laughter, dead at 46

Sam Jayne, the musician who was the frontman for the Brooklyn band Love as Laughter, has died. 

December 12, 2020

Paul Batura: Charley Pride dies — country music star bounced back after baseball stardom eluded him

Baseball’s loss was the music world’s gain when Charley Pride failed to make it from Negro League Baseball to Major League Baseball and took up music instead. On Saturday the world suffered the loss of the first Black superstar of country music when Pride died at 86.

December 7, 2020

French chef Jacques Pépin mourns wife Gloria following her death: 'We are overcome with grief'

Gloria, born in New York City on June 19, 1937, of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, met her beloved husband of 54 years while skiing in Hunter Mountain N.Y.

December 2, 2020

Hunter in Minnesota fatally shoots another hunter after mistaking him for deer

A Minnesota man who was out hunting at the end of last month was shot and killed after another hunter mistook him for a deer. 

November 22, 2020

Pat Quinn, co-creator of ‘Ice Bucket Challenge,’ dies at 37 from ALS

Pat Quinn, a co-founder of the social media “Ice Bucket Challenge,” died Sunday at the age of 37, the ALS association has confirmed.

November 19, 2020

Missing mom Suzanne Morphew presumed dead in her father's obituary

Missing Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew was "presumed dead" in her father's obituary.

October 6, 2020

Michael Levin: Eddie Van Halen played soundtrack for my generation — his death shows even rock gods are mortal

The soundtrack to the lives of many of my fellow American baby boomers features song after song from the matchless guitar (the Frankenstrat) of Eddie Van Halen, who died of cancer Tuesday at age 65.