My god, is he still alive!

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

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

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
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.)

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
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.

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

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
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,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.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
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 .

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:00 PM

Jerry Lee Lewis

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: Beer
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:14 PM

Dolores Hope(103). One-time singer and longtime wife of comedian Bob Hope.
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Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Dec 12 - 12:37 PM

God

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: 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: Beer
Date: 17 Dec 12 - 01:57 PM

My apologies John. Here is where I found the information. It wasn't the beer.
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http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/viewdocs-nf/oldpeople

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

"My god, is he still alive!"

In your heart, my child, in your heart.

Subject: RE: My god, is he still alive!
From: topical tom
Date: 18 Dec 12 - 03:55 PM

Pete Seeger.