The Heart is Indeed a Very Important Organ
Three dead today, all very different, but all dead from heart disease. Heart disease is still the number one killer of men and women. Exercise, keep your weight down, don’t smoke, and choose your parents wisely.
Robert Donner, dead at 75 was a gifted improv comedian and character actor. Some of you ODDfans may remember him as the Prophet Exidor of the Friends of Venus in “Mork and Mindy.” (We ODDones favor the prophet Exlax of the Friends of Uranus.) Donnor also played Yancy Tucker on “The Waltons.” (“Good night Bob-Boy”)
Kenneth Thompson, formally age 82 years, was the richest man in Canada ($19.6 billion with a “b”). He made his money in newspapers. Described as an “astute businessman,” this raises the question as to whether in the death you’d rather be remembered as “astute” or “a very funny person.”
Finally, the last known survivor of a Southern lynching, James Cameron, has died at age 92. From his jail cell, he watched two of his friends lynched after being accused of killing a man and raping his girl friend. Cameron was dragged from the cell, and the rope was placed around his neck; however, through what he described as “divine intervention” the rope was removed, and he was spared. Cameron went on to found several chapters of the NAACP and Milwaukee’s “Black Holocaust Museum.”
Eat your oatmeal.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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