In Memory 2024

Famous Farewell

2024

Quincy Jones - Music Producer & Composer...28 Grammy Awards, 1 Emmy Award...Especially known for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller...Kennedy Center Honor...National Medal of the Arts

Teri Garr - Actress...Best known for roles in "Young Frankenstein" & "Tootsie"...Known for roles on "Star Trek," "Dr. Kildare," & "Batman"

Phil Lesh - Bassist & co-founder of The Grateful Dead (1965, disbanded in 1995)...The Grateful Dead was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 & received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007...Kennedy Center Honor in 2024

Liam Payne - Singer and former One Direction member...One Direction - 5 albums, 6 Billboard Music Awards, 7 BRIT Awards, 7 American Music Awards, 28 Teen Choice Awards...Solo - "Strip That Down" No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 10 Billboard Hot 100, Certified Platinum in the UK & U.S.

Cissy Houston - Singer...Whitney Houston's mother...Known for working with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, and others

Pete Rose - MLB player/manager with the Cincinnati Reds (24 seasons)...Records - Most career hits, games played, plate appearances & at-bats , 17-time All Star...MVP in 1973...Charged with betting on baseball & banned from MLB...Ineligible from induction into the Hall of Fame

Dikembe Mutombo - NBA player (18 seasons)...Played with the Denver Nuggets & Houston Rockets...8-time All Star...NBA Defensive Player of the Year (4 times)...Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (2015)...Philanthropist in the Congo 

Kris Kristofferson - Country musician & Actor...Other - Rhodes Scholar, Army Veteran, Golden Gloves boxer...Golden Globe, Country Music Award

Dame Maggie Smith - Actress: "One of the true greats"...Theater, film, and television...Best known for the Harry Potter franchise & Downton Abbey...Appearances in over 50 films within over a 60-year career...2 Academy Awards, 5 BAFTA Awards, 4 Emmy Awards, 3 Golden Globes, 5 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 1 Tony Award

James Earl Jones - Actor...Debuted in "Dr. Strangelove"...Known for roles in "Coming to America" & "Field of Dreams"...Known for the voice of Darth Vader in "Star Wars" & Mufasa in "The Lion King"...2 Tony Awards/Tony Lifetime Achievement Award, 2 Emmy Awards...Kennedy Center Honor 

John Amos - Actor...Known for television roles in "Good Times" & "Roots"...Known for film roles in "Let's Do It Again," "Coming to America," & "Die Hard 2"

Bob Newhart - Actor..."The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart" (1960, First comedy album to top the Billboard charts, 2 Grammy Awards)...Best known for the variety show "The Bob Newhart Show" (Intrigue - 1 season but earned an Emmy and a Peabody), sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show," & sitcom "Newhart"...Emmy Award for recurring role in "The Big Bang Theory"

Shannen Doherty - Actress...Best known for roles in "Beverly Hills, 90210" & "Charmed"

Richard Simmons - Fitness personality & known for "The Richard Simmons Show" which earned 4 Daytime Emmy Awards...Author of 9 books...Inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame

Shelley Duvall - Actress...Best known for her role in "The Shining"...Cannes Best Actress Award for her role in "3 Women"...Peabody Award for producing and hosting "Faerie Tale Theatre"...Appeared in 7 films directed by Robert Altman

Jon Landau - Producer at 20th Century Fox...Known for producing "Die Hard 2," "True Lies," "Titanic", "Avatar," & "Avatar: The Way of Water"

Robert Towne - Screenwriter...Best known works include "Chinatown" (Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award), "Mission: Impossible," "Mission: Impossible II," and others...On television, known for "Mad Men" (Writers Guild of America Award)

Martin Mull - Comedian & Actor...Best known for roles on "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" & "Roseanne"...Emmy nomination for role on "Veep"

Donald Sutherland - Actor...Best known for roles on M*A*S*H & The Hunger Games...Emmy Award & Golden Globe Award for the 1995 miniseries "Citizen X"...Golden Globe Award for the "Path to War" film...Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...Honorary Academy Award

Willie Mays - "one of the greatest baseball players of all time"...Played in the Negro Leagues for the Birmingham Black Barons...660 Home Runs, 12 Golden Gloves for fielding, & 24 All-Star games...Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bill Walton - NBA player & sportscaster...1977 Championship with the Portland Trail Blazers & named MVP...1986 Championship with the Boston Celtics...Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Louis Gossett Jr. - Actor...Best known for "An Officer and a Gentleman"...Golden Globe Award...Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - First African American actor to win in this category...Emmy Award for "Roots"...2 Daytime Emmy Awards...First role in Louis's career was alongside Sidney Poitier in "A Raisin in the Sun" (stage version...later starred in the film version)

Carl Weathers - Pro Football (Oakland Raiders) & Actor...On television, known for roles in "Good Times" & "S.W.A.T."...On film, known for role in "Rocky" and the film's sequels...Vocals for "Toy Story 4" & "Toy Story of Terror"

Norman Jewison - Director...Best known for "Fiddler on The Roof," "In The Heat of the Night," & "Moonstruck"...Academy Lifetime Achievement Award...Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America 

David Soul - Actor...Best known for "Starsky & Hutch" (Film remake in 2004 starring Owen Wilson as Hutch & Ben Stiller as Starsky)...Chart-topping singer ("Don't Give Up on Us" & "Silver Lady")

Glynis Johns - Actress...Over 60 films in 8-decade career...Best known for role in "Mary Poppins" (Mrs. Banks character)...Tony Award...Drama Desk Award...On television, known for roles on "Cheers," "Murder She Wrote," "The Love Boat"...Passed away at the age of 100 of natural causes

Of note - 

ETHEL KENNEDY (widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama)

GAVIN CREEL (actor, singer, lyricist)

PHIL DONAHUE (television personality, 20 Emmy Awards, Television Academy Hall of Fame, Peabody Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden)

GENA ROWLANDS (actress, 2 Golden Globes, 4 Emmy Awards, Honorary Academy Award)

DR. RUTH (Karola Ruth Westheimer, addressed topics related to sex)

BILL COBBS (actor, Emmy Award)

DABNEY COLEMAN (actor, 2 Screen Actor Guild Awards, Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

ROGER CORMAN (director, producer, talent scout - launched directing careers for Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, & Peter Bogdanovich, Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Honorary Academy Award)

JOE LIEBERMAN (politician - Connecticut Attorney General & state Senator, U.S. Senator)

STEVE LAWRENCE (singer, actor, Tony Award nomination)

TOBY KEITH (country musician, debut album RIAA certified Platinum, 20 No. 1 songs on Billboard Country Songs Chart, 3 AMA Awards, 3 CMA Awards, 12 ACM Awards, Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, National Medal of Arts)

CHARLES OSGOOD (CBS journalist)

RICHARD LEWIS (Comedian & Actor, Best known for "Curb Your Enthusiasm, Comedy Central's list of the Top 50 Stand-up Comedians of All Time)