My god, is he still alive!

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From: topical tom
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 03:55 PM

Pete Seeger.

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From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 12:52 PM

"My god, is he still alive!"

In your heart, my child, in your heart.

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From: GUEST,John Foxen
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 12:50 PM

I was about to say "Good lord, have the Canadians actually got as modern as 2010" then I remembered the chap from Ontario is a good six inches taller than me and far fitter so I won't   denigrate them. Thanks for the link to the website, Beer. I was amused to see that it opens with the words: "Yes, despite some skeptical emails received, all of the following people really are alive ... yes, really ... "
Not worth sending them a sceptical email then…

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 08:46 PM

"Don't know what beer you're drinking Beer but Dolores Hope died in September 2011 aged 102"

Actually the confusion is understandable; on the Canadian calendar, this year is only 2010.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,Rev Bayes
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 02:30 PM

On the topic of Civil War pensions, there are in fact two pensioners still living (at least, as of not that long ago). Both are disabled children of late-marrying veterans.

And this, kids, is why you should ensure your defined benefit scheme is fully funded.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Beer
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 01:57 PM

My apologies John. Here is where I found the information. It wasn't the beer.
Ad.

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/viewdocs-nf/oldpeople

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 01:00 PM

Our dog Valdy finally took the "long walk" one night after reaching a pretty incredible age for a Dachshund. I think he was in his 17th year. He was barely able to walk at that point, but he went out by his own choice on a rainy, cold night...extraordinary! You would not normally have been able to persuade him to do that. He headed down to the forest at the back of the property and vanished. I went out after 1/2 hour and looked all over for him...never found any sign of him. It snowed lightly that night, the first snow of that winter. I looked for him the next day too. Never found a thing. Valdy had left in the way that suited him best, and I have to say that I rather admire him for having done so in the way he did. That's how I'd like to do it too....just "poof!"...gone without a trace.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,John Foxen
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 11:44 AM

Don't know what beer you're drinking Beer but Dolores Hope died in September 2011 aged 102. There were stories in the news eight days ago about the Hope kids holding a garage sale at Bob and Dolores' mansion to clear out their late parents' belongings.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:37 PM

God

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From: Beer
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:14 PM

Dolores Hope(103). One-time singer and longtime wife of comedian Bob Hope.
ad.

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From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:00 PM

Jerry Lee Lewis

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 10:04 AM

Compared to some in this thread he is a mere stripling but Tom Lehrer is still with us ! He'll be 85 next April .

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From: GUEST,ltlwidget
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 05:43 AM

That's very sad to hear about Rex Hickok. I went all thru grade and middle school with him.

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From: Trevor Thomas
Date: 22 Aug 11 - 10:13 AM

Coleridge Goode, who played double bass in the UK with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli at the end of the second world war is still alive, and will be about 96 or 97.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,Cody_M
Date: 21 Aug 11 - 10:42 PM

George Beverly Shea is still alive at age 102 - AND he is still occasionally singing. Heard him a couple of years ago and he is still good ( not up to his earlier time with Billy Graham - but still good)

Cody_M

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From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jul 10 - 11:20 AM

sadly, I missed the opportunity to post that Art Linkletter was still alive. He died in May, at 97.

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From: LadyJean
Date: 03 Jul 10 - 11:11 PM

In 1989, the last living survivor of the Johnstown flood was three to be part of the centennial commemoration. She was 104, but she could still remember the flood and the courageous engineer who drove his train into town at top speed with the whistle screaming, to warn people that the water was coming. (He jumped out of the cab at the last minute and did, indeed, survive.)

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From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 03 Jul 10 - 03:26 PM

God is alive, magic is afoot..........sang Buffy St. Marie on an old album.

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From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 08:39 PM

Herbert Hamrol was a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and died in the Spring of 2009 at the age of 106. He was working as a stock clerk at Andronico's market in San Francisco up until a couple of weeks before his passing. He remembered being carried down stairs by his mother at the time of the earthquake.

Zachariah Blackistone taught my maternal grandfather to be a florist in Washington DC circa 1910, and was still running the business in the 1970s. When my grandfather died in 1955, Mr. Blackistone took the Greyhound or Trailways bus at age 85 from DC to Norfolk, VA for my grandfather's funeral. In the early 1970's, my uncle accompanied Mr. Blackistone at the age of 100 or 101 to a florist convention in Seattle, WA. Mr. Blackistone passed at the age of 111 in a nursing home - I don't know how long he had been there. He is at about #65 among men on longevity lists.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: LadyJean
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 12:35 AM

Mentioning my dad again, when he began his law practice in the 1930s, he spent a lot of time arranging for pensions for civil war widows. These ladies had all married veterans LONG after their military service ended.
Civil war veterans had a certain appeal as husbands, because they would get a pension and so would their widows.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,Stuart Lutz
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 07:28 AM

All three final Civil War widows lived into their 90s. They were teenaged girls who married 80something Civil War vets in the 1920s or 1930s. The last Union pension was paid until 2003.

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From: Effsee
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 11:04 PM

Stuart Lutz..."I interview the last Civil War widows (the last died in 2008)"... the American Civil War finished in 1865, just how old was this lady?

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From: GUEST,old techie
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 05:35 PM

Chuck Berry, still rockin'

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From: pdq
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 05:22 PM

Thanks to a recent introduction to an Irish site thats love US bluegrass music...

Curly Sechler, 90

...his friend and leader of the Medicine Show, which once had Marty Stuart in it...

Tommy Scott, 93

...and member of Mainer's Mountaineers from the 1930s...

Wade Mainer, 103

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 02:12 PM

We just lost John Finn, Medal of Honor winner of Pearl Harbor fame. He had lived and been active in our area for many years and was a revered attendee at many public events until very recently, especially those celebrating our armed forces. I had the privilege of meeting and speaking with him twice. That generation, of which Mr. Finn was a special member, is rapidly leaving us. Heroes, as he told me, are ordinary people placed in extraordinary circumstances. No one ever plans to be and successfully becomes one.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,Stuart Lutz
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 01:41 PM

You all may enjoy my oral history book The Last Leaf (www.TheLastLeaf.com). I interview the last Civil War widows (the last died in 2008), the last US World War I soldier (still alive at 109), the final pitcher to surrender a home run to Babe Ruth, the last suffragette, Houdini's final stagehand (she's still alive), the last Pearl Harbor Day Medal of Honor winner, and dozens more.

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From: LadyJean
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 12:27 AM

My dad died on April 13, 1981 at one in the afternoon, having lunched, as he did every weekday, with Mr. Tolstoy Fabiani, the son of one of Garibaldi's veterans.

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From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 11:02 PM

Apparently nobody recognized my nominee back at:

Date: 24 Apr 07 - 03:11 PM

We never thought he'd last this long when he looked like THIS!

Check the link, and see if you recognize him from ca. 1956. Then note:

Almost as amazing as that the link is still good, is that now he is still touring 200 days per year, at 77, and looks kinda like this.

John

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From: semiotic
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 07:48 PM

My father used to tell me that when he was in school (1920s) he shook the hand of an old man who's father fought on the plains of Waterloo. But then I live in a house that was old when they discovered that van Dieman's Land is an island.
My Wife met both Ursula Vaughn-Williams and Maud Karpeles many times when she worked at Cecil Sharp House.
...and we're not drawing our pensions yet!

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: LadyJean
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 12:12 AM

My cousin John Caldwell, who died in 2005, had known people who could remember John Morgan's Ohio raid. Talking to him was the next best thing to actual time travel. He told us about great great uncle Solomon Eversull, who had been one of the first settlers in the Ohio territory and lived to be more than 100. He told us about how his grandfather, my great grandfather, had played poker with Warren G. Harding, and kept the silver dollar he won. One night he produced the target great grandfather had hit, almost dead center, firing the openning shot of the Cincinnatti Gun Club's annual shooting match. I wonder if it was the one where Phoebe Anne Moses (who would be Annie Oakley) met her husband Frank Butler.

As a freshman in college I got to know an elderly lady who lived near my dorm. I was taking a womens' history course, and we were learning about the suffrage movement of the early twentieth century. I mentioned it to her, and she told me about going to the first meeting of the League of Women Voters and MEETING everyone I had been reading about.

But the best one I have, is something I found in a book about the Charge of the Light Brigade. The last survivor lived well into the 1920s. Either one of my parents could have spoken to him and would have remembered.

Subject: Ray Whitley
From: GUEST,The Bistro, Atlanta, Ga.
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 06:21 PM

Last I heard, Ray Whitley, composer of I've Been Hurt. Run, Run, Look and See, Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy is still living in NorthEast Atlanta near the Lowery Music Group headquarters on Clairmont Rd. What an interesting guy during the 60's and early 70's.
He played at The Bistro on West Peachtree St. Club is now gone, but they have a website at www.bistroatlanta.com

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From: Stringsinger
Date: 19 May 10 - 06:13 PM

Bertand Russell Lived to 98.

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From: GUEST,PSzymeczek
Date: 18 May 10 - 10:50 PM

George Beverly Shea is still alive, according to Wikipedia.

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From: Bugsy
Date: 18 May 10 - 08:37 PM

I'm sure that George Bush jr is still alive. Unfortunately his brain died when he was a child.

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 May 10 - 02:00 PM

Yes, I am.

Deal with it!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 18 May 10 - 01:21 PM

I go with "Thank you, God. He's still alive", whenever I think of Pete Seeger(& his wonderful Toshi). Not only still alive, but still teaching(by doing)how to live a free, just, healthy, happy life. Doesn't take much to remember Woody, Leadbelly. Friends of the family. If God is ever cruel enough to take her from us, I will be able to say I knew Jean Ritchie, too. Met Josh White(& his son while he was early teen). Roger Sprung is, I think, still with us, somewhere up there in the frozen wastelands(anywhere no. of Dallas). & always, Thank God for Doc Watson...Tw

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From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 14 May 10 - 05:21 PM

As children, we often went down from California to visit my Dad's mother and father in Beaumont, Texas (mid-forties to mid-fifties). My cousins and I would often visit a closet under a staircase off the dining room where my grandfather kept his father's civil war uniform, bugle and a big Colt .44 Army model percussion revolver that weighed about 2 1/2 pounds. It makes you wonder if those fast-draw guys had one arm larger than the other. His father was the first white settler at Sabine Pass, circa 1825.

One cousin was a signer of the Texas declaration of independence from Mexico. Another two fought at San Jacinto under Houston. My Dad's grandmother, who lived until around 1924, remembered her father hosting Sam Houston in their home at Sabine Pass while a young girl. None of them appear to have been particularly musical, save one great-aunt, who was a piano teacher. My Dad tried, but sounded a lot like Harry Truman, who had trouble with minor chords too.

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From: glueman
Date: 14 May 10 - 01:50 PM

My mother was born in a Zeppelin raid, yet I have a 3 year old son. My uncle is in his late 90s and his mother died at 100 as did her father, yet my uncle's father died very young in WW1 before he was born. He pre-deceased his wife by 70 years and she never re-married. Most of his family make 100.
I was once to my uncle's uncle's cottage as a youngster and he told me the furniture he sat on as a child was from Napoleon's time.

This sounds like a school arithmatic test, doesn't it. Life is weird.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: frogprince
Date: 14 May 10 - 01:30 PM

I mentioned Doris Eaton Travis on this thread a couple of years ago. My father-in-law managed a farm for her late husband, Paul Travis, for many years. The FIL attended her 106th birthday party a month or so ago. She died tuesday.

The last of the Ziegfield girls

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From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 10:20 AM

Keith Richard will never live to be as old as he looks.

Dave H

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From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 07:47 AM

Jackie Toaduff
He was featured in the EDS magazine this issue. Doubt he is doing much clogging, but he is still inspiring the likes of the cloggers in the Demon Barber Roadshow.

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From: GUEST,Ramsey Nickleback
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 06:57 AM

The great London folk performer Tom Jenkinson, who records as Squarepusher wrote and recorded a marvellous tribute to Earnest Borgine, which can be heard here - http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=2CHV44WpKw4

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From: Amergin
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 05:01 AM

Beer, they were up in Montana, north of Missoula.

Ebbie, Ernest Borgnine is still around...still working in fact.

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From: scouse
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 04:59 AM

Heard this morning that Stirling Moss whom I thought had gone to the big "Racing Circuit." in the sky had recently walked into the "lift shaft." of his house a fell braking only his Ankles.Furthermore, he hopes to be back behind the wheel of a car by May.. As Aye,
Phil.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 04:54 AM

My grandfather emigrated to the US when he was 16 in the late 1880s. The story is that one of his jobs was as a labourer on the Brooklyn Bridge while they were still builiding it. I always point it out to my daughter when we see in on TV or on a movie - she always says 'is that the bridge my great-grandad built?' Indeed it is...

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From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 01:12 AM

If you notice, quite a few of the people listed here in '07 have since died: Utah, Fess Parker, Salinger, Mitch Miller, Peter Graves, Les Paul, Ernest Borgnine, George Beverly Shea, Patty Andrews...

Suddenly, I'm not certain of some of them: Is Mitch Miller gone? Ernest Borgnine?

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Beer
Date: 31 Mar 10 - 12:05 AM

Amergin!
Were were they from. Just a State or Province would be fine. In my earlier days all my booze was purchased from honest folks.
Adrien

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 11:16 PM

And Sam has passed on since my last post here, I am sorry to say.

A

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Effsee
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 10:51 PM

Well, I'm always a bit surprised when I open my eyes of a morning...

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Mar 10 - 06:55 PM

A great of mine died not too long ago...she was 99. Her brothers were moonshiners and rum runners.