Obituaries

[grapevine]

Brenda Fricker, Irish Oscar-winning actor, has died aged 81
(17 February 1945 – 16 July 2026)
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/f...-died-aged-81/

Brenda Fricker, among the most respected Irish actors of her generation, has died at the age of 81, her agent has confirmed.

A busy performer on television and film, she became, in 1990, the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar when she took the best supporting actress prize for Jim Sheridan’s My Left Foot.By that stage she was already a familiar presence on television thanks to her role as Megan Roach on the BBC medical soap Casualty. Other key film roles included those in Omagh, A Man of No Importance and Sheridan’s The Field.

Fricker was an unmistakable Dubliner. Her mother, Bina, from Kerry, was a teacher of languages at Stratford College in Rathgar. Her father, Desmond Fricker, worked in the Department of Agriculture and as a journalist for The Irish Times."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6BV393g8k2Q

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

UK footballing legend Kevin Keegan has died aged 75. That's very sad indeed. When I was kid Keegan was looked upon as a god.

https://x.com/SkySports_Keith/status...10214604128661

[Ewan]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
UK footballing legend Kevin Keegan has died aged 75. That's very sad indeed. When I was kid Keegan was looked upon as a god.

https://x.com/SkySports_Keith/status...10214604128661

Indeed he was, one of my biggest heroes. Not just for his accomplishments but also his honesty, his heart on the sleeve comments. One of the true giants.

(Plus: I was a Newcastle United supporter who got to see him as a player and a manager)

[Brigantia]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
UK footballing legend Kevin Keegan has died aged 75. That's very sad indeed. When I was kid Keegan was looked upon as a god.

Yes, that saddens me as well. I watched him play a few times in my home city at Filbert Street; he was a brilliant player. He was not only a great player but gentlemanly too.

[Ravenlocke]

Marcoslrua

Translated from Spanish
Farewell to Marcos, the boy who found a family among wolves 🐺

Today, the life of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, the wolf boy of Sierra Morena, fades away. He was 80 years old and passed away in Rante, Ourense, the place he had chosen as home for his final years and where he wanted his ashes to remain.

But his story should not remain confined to the legend of a boy who lived with wolves. Behind that extraordinary tale was an abandoned, mistreated child, condemned to survive in a nature that ultimately became his refuge.

For more than a decade, he lived in Sierra Morena, far from human beings and in the company of animals. There, he learned to survive, to know the wilderness, and to communicate with the wolves. Years later, when he returned to society, he never stopped remembering that time as the happiest stage of his life.

Perhaps that's why Marcos always looked at wolves in a different way. He did not see them as monsters or enemies. He remembered them as part of his family, as those animals that stood by his side when human beings had turned their backs on him.

His life leaves us with an uncomfortable question: who was truly wild?

The wolves who welcomed a lost boy in the mountains?
Or the human beings who allowed that child to be abandoned to his fate?

Marcos departs, but his story endures. It endures in Sierra Morena, in Rante, among those who knew him and, above all, in the memory of those wolves he never stopped considering his family.

Run free, Marcos.
Walk again through those mountains. And wherever you are, hear once more the howl of those who one day taught you that it is also possible to survive with love.

Rest in peace, wolf boy. 🐺🖤

https://x.com/Marcoslrua/status/2089432515798880404

Juan Gómez

Aug 17
Translated from Spanish
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja has passed away. The “wolf child” of Sierra Morena.
He was “raised” by wolves from the age of 6 until 19.
He never fully understood the human world, because, as he used to tell me, “Animals don’t lie”
R.I.P.


https://x.com/nuevadradio/status/2089290684909928633

San Cibrao das Viñas

Aug 17
Translated from Spanish
🖤🐺 On August 15th we bid farewell to Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, the «wolf child of Sierra Morena», a fellow neighbor of Rante since 2001.

He passed away during the parish festivities, leaving behind more than two decades of shared life.

Marcos, San Cibrao will not forget you.


https://x.com/csancibrao/status/2089322166139371865

[DNA]

This one caught me off guard.
She was just 36 and cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Apparently she didn't get the placebo.

How do vaccine damage deniers reconcile with these kinds of deaths?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews...3fid=135698473

[Inversion]

Posted by DNA (here)
This one caught me off guard.
She was just 36 and cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Apparently she didn't get the placebo.

How do vaccine damage deniers reconcile with these kinds of deaths?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews...3fid=135698473

Michael Jaco claims she was offed for revealing things about the Deep State. I only watched the opening of the video and can't provide a summary beyond that. He did mention she died on the same day as Elvis 08/16/77 and her death on 08/16/26.

Actress Hayden Panettiere murdered by the deep state for revealing? Huge winter changes and quakes.

01/17/26 (1:42)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fIpLGNSJO-w

[Inversion]

Frank Beard from the band ZZ Top has died at age 77.

Dailymail

Frank Beard, the longtime drummer of American rock-blues group ZZ Top, has died at the age of 77, the band and their publicist announced Tuesday.

Beard, whose beats carried hits like "La Grange" and "Sharp Dressed Man," had stepped back from touring last year after suffering unspecified health issues.

ZZ Top's lead singer Billy Gibbons paid tribute to Beard as a "great friend and collaborator."

08/18/26 (3:09)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ukHtrAdT3Nk

[Paul D.]

In a band world famous for their beards, Frank Beard, real name , famously did'nt have one.
Always tickled me that did. A very ticklish no beard to be sure



R.I.P. Frank Beard

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU

[samsdice]

When asked why he didn't have a beard, Frank Beard replied "....female thigh burn." True story.

[Ravenlocke]

New York Post

Country music icon Dolly Parton dead at 80 https://trib.al/1AjsDpU
https://x.com/nypost/status/2092310698403524721

Dolly Parton

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

https://x.com/DollyParton/status/2092309743981228273

[RunningDeer]

Quote: “Dolly has lived the Light.”

Beautiful life. Godspeed, Dolly Parton.

As the years pass, I’m beginning to understand that it really is that simple.

[Bluegreen]

One of the finest musicians America has ever produced. She wrote hundreds of songs – over 3000. She could play just about anything. No knock on anyone; the woman had more talent in her little finger than 99% of her contemporaries. RIP.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ixrje2rXLMA

[Ravenlocke]

Miley Official

It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.

https://x.com/MileyCyrusBz/status/2092462650068287846

Dope thrills

Dolly Parton sits down with her parents and five sisters for a Christmas special and the real show starts the second the banter begins.

She cracks jokes, teases the whole clan and within minutes the living room energy takes over pure Appalachian wit, overlapping stories and that unmistakable Parton laugh.

Then the sisters lock into perfect family harmony and the room just lifts

No polished celebrity gloss, just blood, history, and voices that only come from growing up under the same roof.

This is still one of the warmest, most rewatched family moments she ever put on television for a reason.


https://x.com/essa_muse/status/2092347819449254057

[Isserley]

R.I.P. Dolly Parton..

[Inversion]

I learned of Dolly's death while driving to the gym last night.

08/25/26 (6:43)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nr_dft1GMp0

[grapevine]

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80



https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...it-legend-film
"A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock’n’roll musical in which he made his breakthrough.

Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Reports say Curry died at his home in Los Angeles.

Ironically, Curry’s best-known roles all required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in all of them. Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror’s deranged scientist, saw him daubed in garish makeup and wearing stockings and suspenders, for the stage show (which debuted in 1973) and the film adaptation (released in 1975). In the Ridley Scott-directed fantasy Legend (1985), he was equipped with giant horns and scarlet skin as the Lord of Darkness. And in 1990, Curry was transformed with full-face clown pancake to play Pennywise in the TV miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel."

Although he will be forever known as Frankenfurter and Pennywise, he was an amazing actor and played many varied roles, all of them brilliantly.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3xK1tBhx8W0

[DNA]

I hope this isn't considered tacky.
If there is one performance that comes to mind for Tim Curry

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JWoYy4Ah81s

Pretty tame for this day and age but pretty shocking in the 70s