2017 started out slow until that first cache popped up and BOOM!!! We were out that door and on the hunt for that smiley.
But now 2017 is almost over, it is time to get that last Park & Grab cache of the year and remember those we have lost.
In Memorium
Paul Gable – Children’s Books Author; Sylvester Ports – Singer – The Contours; Clare Hollingworth – Reporter – 1st to report the start of WWII; Buddy Geco – Jazz Singer; Tommy Allsup – Muscian – toured with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper; Larry Steinbachek – Muscian – Bronski Beat; William Peter Blatty – Writer – Novel & Screenplay for The Exorcist; Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka – Wrestler; Richie Ingui – Singer/Muscian – Soul Survivors; Eugene Cernan – Astronaut – Last Man on the Moon; Miguel Ferrer – Actor; Gregg Allman & Butch Trucks - Singers/Muscians – Allman Brothers Band; Ron “Bingo” Mundy – Singer/Muscian – The Marcels; John Hurt – Actor; Mary Tyler Moore – Actress; Mike Conners – Actor; Barbara Hale – Actress; Geoff Nicholls – Muscian – Black Sabbath; Bobby Freeman – Muscian/Singer; Guitar Gable – Muscian/Songwriter; Ken Hartle – Navy Diver – recovered sailors at Pearl Harbor [Salute]; Doris Lockness – American Aviator Pioneer – flew in WWII with Womens Air Force Service [Salute]; John Whetton – Muscian – Asia, King Crimson, Uriah Heap; Frank Pellegrino – Actor; David Axelrod – Jazz Muscian; Richard Hatch – Actor; LTG Hal Moore – U.S. Army [Salute] Al Jarreau – Jazz Singer; George “The Animal” Steele – Wrestler; Bill Paxton – Actor; Judge Joseph Wapner – People’s Court; Paula Fox – Writer Children’s Books; Robert Osborn – Film Historian – Host of Turner Classic Movies; Joni Sledge – Singer – Sister Sledge; Lawrence Montaigne – Actor; Derek Walcott – Poet; Chuck Berry – Singer/Songwriter/Guitar God; Chuck Barris – Game Show Host; Sib Hashian – Muscian – Boston; Peter Shotton – Muscian – played with John Lennon & Paul McCartney; Don Rickles – Hockey Puck: Linda Hopkins – Blues Singer; J. Geils – Muscian – J. Geils Band; Bruce Langhorne – Folk Muscian; Clifton Hames – Actor; Cuba Gooding Sr. – Singer; Erin Moran – Actress; Jonathan Demme – Filmmaker/Director – The Silence of the Lambs [yummy]; Clifford Brewer – Surgeon – operated on over 1000 soldiers during D-Day invasion [Respect]; Powers Boothe – Actor; Chris Cornell – Singer/Songwriter – Soundgarden; Sir Roger Moore – Bond, James Bond; Molly Peters – Actress – Bond Girl; Adam West – Batman; Jim Galton – Publisher – Marvel Comics [nuff said]; Stephen Furst – Actor – Flounder in Animal House; Gary DeCarlo – Singer – Kiss Him Goodbye; Sir Nicholas Winton – Humanitarian – Saved 669 jewish children from Nazis in Czechoslovakia [bless you]; John Blackwell – Drummer – played with Prince; Joan Boocock Lee – Model – married to Stan Lee [Excelsior!]; Nelson Ellis – Actor – Lafayette on True Blood [my favorite character]; John Bernecker – Stuntman – died on set of Walking Dead [and became one]; Martin Landau – Actor; George A. Romero – Filmmaker – Night of the Living Dead; Chester Bennington – Muscian/Singer – Linkin Park; John Heard – Actor; June Foray – Voice Actress – Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Granny & Witch Hazel, (Looney Toons) Aunt May Parker; Sam Shepard – Actor/Playwright/Author; Dick Locher – Cartoonist – Dick Tracy 1973-2013; Haruo Nakajima – Actor - played Godzilla 12 times; Barbara Cook – Actress; Glen Campbell – Singer/Songwriter/Actor/Arkansas Native/ Rhinestone Cowboy; Yisrael Kristal – Survivor – Oldest Man (at time of death) & Oldest Holocaust Survivor at age of 113, 330 days. [Rest in Peace]; Sonny Landham – Actor/Stuntman; Dick Gregory – Comedian/Civil Rights Activist; Jerry Lewis – Actor/Singer/Humanitarian [Labor Day isn’t the same now]; Tobe Hooper – Horror Film Writer/Director – Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist; Richard Anderson – Actor – Oscar Goldman on $6 Million Dollar Man; Troy Gentry – C&W Singer – Montgomery Gentry; Don Williams – C&W Singer [Loved his voice] Harry Dean Stanton – Actor; Berniw Casey – Actor; Jake LaMotta – Boxer; Hugh Hefner – Publisher; Monty Hall – Games Show Host; Tom Petty – Singer/Songwriter; Y. A. Tiddle – NFL Quarterback; Paul J. Weitz – Astronaut – Commanded 1st Challenger mission; Fats Domino – Singer/Songwriter; Robert Guillaume – Actor; Richard F. Gordon Jr. – Astronaut – Apollo 12 Moon Mission; John Hillerman – Actor; Malcolm Young – Muscian/Songwriter – AC/DC {wrote some of the greatest riffs in Rock history]; Warren “Pete” Moore – Singer/Songwriter – The Miracles; Della Reese – Singer/Actress; Mel Tillis – C&W Singer/Songwriter; Wayne Cochran – Soul Singer; David Cassidy – Singer/Actor; Col. Wesley L. Fox – U.S. Army – Medal of Honor Recipent, Vietnam [Salute]; Jim Nabors – Actor/Singer [RIP Gomer]; Pat DiNizio – Singer/Songwriter – The Smithereens; Warren Dane – Muscian/Singer – Sanctuary.
May They Rest In Peace
