I didn't even know she was still alive. I'd been watching an episode or two here and there while making dinner on weekends the last couple months. It was one of Mom's favorite shows as a kid.

French actor Tcheky Karyo, perhaps best known for his role in "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson, passed away October 31st, 2025 at the age of 72.

Cause of death is listed as cancer, specifically adrenocortical carcinoma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tch%C3%A9ky_Karyo

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/laura-dern-shares-statement-news-195820403.html
Actress Diane Ladd, age 89. Mother of Laura Dern.

Donna Jean Godchaux---singer for the Grateful Dead in the 70s

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donna-jean-dead-grateful-dead-vocalist-1235458509/


https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/11/03/donna-jean-godchaux-grateful-dead-singer-death/87067605007/

Dick Cheney dead at 84

Quote from: Lambykins on November 03, 2025, 03:38:40 PMActress Diane Ladd, age 89. Mother of Laura Dern.

I'll always think of her as Clark Griswold's mom.

Duane Roberts, the guy who invented the frozen burrito, has died

former NFL commissioner  Paul Tagliabue

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15274449/paul-tagliabue-nfl-commissioner-death.html

Burt Meyer, dead at 99.

You don't know of him by name, but if any part of your childhood was spent in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s, you sure as shootin' know his role in your childhood.  The toy designer who helped develop a list of toys that read like a Hall of Fame Roll Call from my childhood: Lite Brite, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Mouse Trap, Toss Across and more.  If bringing endless joy to generations of children can be a measure on one's life, his was certainly one very well-lived.

QuoteIn addition to inventing toys, Mr. Meyer was an adventurer who flew single-engine planes until he was in his late 80s; rode his bicycle on a 45-day solo trip from San Francisco to Charleston, S.C.; scuba-dived in Fiji and the Solomon Islands; and traveled to the North Pole for a 12-day, 135-mile trek when he was 69.

Reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-cliff-jamaican-singer-took-120357119.html

CEO of Rock Island Armory and co-creator of the .22 TCM round, Martin Tuason passed away November 19th, 2025 at the age of 51.

His family said he passed due to a long illness. 

noted ax man Steve Cropper
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-cropper-dead-guitarist-booker-t-otis-redding-blues-brothers-1236599198/

Quote from: aikorob on December 03, 2025, 04:21:03 PMnoted ax man Steve Cropper
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-cropper-dead-guitarist-booker-t-otis-redding-blues-brothers-1236599198/

I'll forever picture him with his long hair, beard, and sunglasses from the Blues Brothers.  Makes me want to watch the movie again!

Quote from: EBuff75 on December 03, 2025, 04:31:07 PM

Quote from: aikorob on December 03, 2025, 04:21:03 PMnoted ax man Steve Cropper
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-cropper-dead-guitarist-booker-t-otis-redding-blues-brothers-1236599198/

I'll forever picture him with his long hair, beard, and sunglasses from the Blues Brothers.  Makes me want to watch the movie again!

I didn't realize he played on the original recording of "Soul Man" as well as the BB version

It seems like Cropper's death should be somewhere under "Disasters in Current Events".  He was only 84. . . .

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Quote from: tirls on December 05, 2025, 10:38:25 AMCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Dang it.

Voice actors Jeff Garcia and Jim Ward both passed away on December 10th, 2025. Jeff Garcia was 50 and Jim Ward was 66.

Both Garcia and Ward did work for Nickelodeon with Garcia portraying Sheen Estevez in "Jimmy Neutron" and Ward working on "The Fairly Odd-Parents".

Garcia's cause of death is listed as complications from a collapsed lung (he'd been in the hospital multiple times this year for an aneurysm, a stroke and finally pneumonia, which likely caused the collapsed lung.)

Ward's cause of death is listed as complications due to Alzheimer's disease, which he'd been suffering from since 2021.

Jeff Garcia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Garcia_(comedian)

Jim Ward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ward_(voice_actor)

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on December 11, 2025, 04:50:30 PMVoice actors Jeff Garcia and Jim Ward both passed away on December 10th, 2025. Jeff Garcia was 50 and Jim Ward was 66.

Both Garcia and Ward did work for Nickelodeon with Garcia portraying Sheen Estevez in "Jimmy Neutron" and Ward working on "The Fairly Odd-Parents".

Garcia's cause of death is listed as complications from a collapsed lung (he'd been in the hospital multiple times this year for an aneurysm, a stroke and finally pneumonia, which likely caused the collapsed lung.)

Ward's cause of death is listed as complications due to Alzheimer's disease, which he'd been suffering from since 2021.

Jeff Garcia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Garcia_(comedian)

Jim Ward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ward_(voice_actor)

Oof, both greats from my childhood.

Quote from: Crimson_Phoenix on December 11, 2025, 11:56:49 PM

Quote from: 12_Gauge_Chimp on December 11, 2025, 04:50:30 PMVoice actors Jeff Garcia and Jim Ward both passed away on December 10th, 2025. Jeff Garcia was 50 and Jim Ward was 66.

Both Garcia and Ward did work for Nickelodeon with Garcia portraying Sheen Estevez in "Jimmy Neutron" and Ward working on "The Fairly Odd-Parents".

Garcia's cause of death is listed as complications from a collapsed lung (he'd been in the hospital multiple times this year for an aneurysm, a stroke and finally pneumonia, which likely caused the collapsed lung.)

Ward's cause of death is listed as complications due to Alzheimer's disease, which he'd been suffering from since 2021.

Jeff Garcia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Garcia_(comedian)

Jim Ward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ward_(voice_actor)

Oof, both greats from my childhood.

My favorite character on "Jimmy Neutron" was Sheen, so Jeff Garcia's death is especially sad for me.