Archive for the 'Gone but Not Forgotten' Category

Nine years after singers untimely Aug. 25 death in a plane crash in the Bahamas, Missy Elliott is still mourning the loss of her friend.

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Friends and family gathered Friday to mourn the passing of Stephen Pitcairn — a 23-year-old Johns Hopkins researcher who was stabbed to death Sunday night as he was walking to his Charles Village apartment.

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A body found in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday has been identified as that of former professional basketball player Lorenzen Wright, Memphis police said.

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Al Goodman who sang baritone on such soul classics as “Love on a Two Way Street” and “Special Lady” died Monday, a fellow musician and friend told CNN. He was 63.

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Vonetta McGee dies at 65

Vonetta McGee, an actress whose big-screen heyday during the blaxploitation era of the 1970s included leading roles in “Blacula” and “Shaft in Africa,” has died. She was 65.

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Singer, songwriter and record producer Harvey Fuqua, an early mentor of Marvin Gaye, has died. Fuqua was 80.

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Gary Coleman’s remains were cremated Thursday and his ashes will be locked away until a court decides who should get them, the special administrator of his estate said.

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Garry Shider, the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe and earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.

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Gary Coleman’s funeral, if there is one, will wait for several months while a Utah judge decides who will permanently control of the former child actor’s estate, a lawyer said Wednesday.

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Gary Coleman’s living will called for the actor to be kept alive unless he was in an irreversible coma for at least 15 days, according to a court document.

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In the beginning, Motown’s mighty Temptations sounded like they came straight out of the church, and they did. But of all their line-up of singers, Ali “Ollie” Woodson took them back … literally.

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Marvie Isely dead at 56

Marvin Isley, the bass backbone of his sibling band The Isley Brothers, died Monday in Chicago at age 56.

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It’s the ultimate gift someone can give — a heart — and when Chris Henry passed away last year, his vital organs were donated to someone else in need.

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Gary Coleman’s estranged parents abandoned their effort to bury him in his native Illinois Friday after a Utah attorney revealed the actor named an executor in a 1999 will.

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The estranged parents of former child TV star Gary Coleman are seeking custody of his body and want it returned to the star’s boyhood home in Illinois, his former manager said Thursday.

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