I enjoy reading the tributes to people’s lives when they pass on. I find them inspiring. Please enjoy some of my recent favorites. Those highlighted are my friends and relatives, or people who have personally touched my life.
- Paula Louise Ettelbrick, 1955-2011
- Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, 1922-2011
- Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
- Wangari Maathai, 1940-2011
- Stetson Kennedy, 1917-2011
- Betty Ford, 1918-2011
- Gill Scott-Heron, 1949-2011
- Kate Swift, 1923-2011
- Hazel Dickens, 1936-2011
- Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011
- Manning Marable, 1951-2011
- Geraldine Ferraro, 1936-2011
- Peter Gomes, 1943-2011
- R. Sargent Shriver, 1916-2011
- Margaret Burroughs, 1915-2010
- Amy Van Meter, 1967-2010
- Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010
- Elise Boulding, 1920-2010
- Lena Horne, 1918-2010
- Dee Dee Allen, 1924-2010
- Dorothy Height, 1912-2010
- Stewart Udall, 1920-2010
- Alex Chilton, 1950-2010
- Doris “Granny D” Haddock, 1910-2010
- Rev. Robert Carter, 1927-2010
- Lucile Clifton, 1937-2010
- Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
- Miep Gies, 1910-2010
- Dennis Brutus, 1924-2009
- Percy Sutton, 1920-2009
- Vic Chestnutt, 1964-2009
- Lula Maria Walker Smith, 1933-2009
- Ann Nixon Cooper, 1902-2009
- Walter Trochez, 1982-2009
- Herb Brokering, 1926-2009
- Roy DeCarava, 1920-2009
- James Krenov, 1921-2009
- Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932-2009
- Margaret Wilson, 1919-2009
- Les Paul, 1915-2009
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009
- Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009
- Bonnie Tinker, 1948-2009
- Michael Jackson, 1958-2009
- James Andrew Lacey, 1968-2009
- Rodger McFarlane, 1955-2009
- Bea Arthur, 1922-2009
- Judith Krug, 1940-2009
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009
- John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009
- Theodore Gordon Larson, 1928-2009
- Lux Interior, 1947-2009
- Blossom Dearie, 1926-2009
- Millard Fuller, 1935-2009
- Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008
- Robert Mulligan, 1925-2008
- Bettie Page, 1923-2008
- Odetta, 1930-2008
- Don Wadia Moses, 1942-2008
- Miriam Makeba, 1932-2008
- Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
- Tony Hillerman, 1925-2008
- Andrew Johnston, 1968-2008
- Paul Newman, 1925-2008
- Bill Melendez, 1916-2008
- Del Martin, 1921-2008
- Stephanie Tubbs-Jones 1949-2008
- George Carlin 1937-2008
- Cyd Charisse 1922-2008
- Harvey Korman 1927-2008
- Mildred Loving 1940-2008
- Richard Sandman 1962-2008
- Sarah-Maud Sivertsen 1908-2008
- John O’Donohe 1956-2008
- Johnnie Carr 1910-2007
- Marie Smith Jones 1919-2007
- Alan Berube 1946-2007
- Madeleine L’Engle 1919-2007
- Kurt Vonnegut 1923-2007
- Molly Ivins 1945-2007
- Alice Coltrane 1938-2007
- Mayme Clayton 1923-2006
- Edna Lewis 1917-2006
- Julia Child, 1912-2004
- Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002
- June Jordan 1937-2002
- Anne Sivertsen Conner 1933-2001. This isn’t her obituary, rather an award her high school in Minneapolis honored her with in 2002. She was the first alumna of Blake/Northrup to receive the Alumni Award posthumously. My mother’s life continues to inspire me.
- Richard Mulligan 1932-2000
- Audre Lorde 1934-1992
[...] Inspiring Lives [...]