i just posted a message with a bunch of links with more info and obits
but it never ended up in the threads...here are a few of them

www.tombrumley.com

www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-tom-brumley6-2009feb06,0,6613593.story

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=tom+brumley&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=Lt-dSebcM5m0sQPL-cjLCQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#