Monday, August 22, 2005
John James Bell - Hitchcock, Texas - ( age 62 )
John James Bell - age 62
of Hitchcock, Texas
Passed away - August 17, 2005 in Webster, Texas.
Born: November 29, 1942
Parents: Robert Hurley Bell & Margie Alice Bell
preceding John's death were:
his parents and brother Robert Austin Bell
Surviving John are:
Susan Bell his sister-in-law in New York City, Yavone Hughes his Aunt in Dallas, Texas
his cousins Rodney Bell, William Hughes, and Bobby Hughes of Dallas.
John had retired from the University of Houston Clear Lake and he was
a veteran of the Texas National Guard and the United States Army.
Funeral Services Provided by:
James Crowder Funeral Home-La Marque
Officiating his burial service - Dr. Bobby Tollison on Monday - August 22, 2005
in Dallas, Texas at the Laurel Land Memorial Oaks Cemetery.
John would have been happy to know that memorial donations would go to the
University of Houston - Support STAFF Scholarship Fund
2700 Bay Area Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77058
of Hitchcock, Texas
Passed away - August 17, 2005 in Webster, Texas.
Born: November 29, 1942
Parents: Robert Hurley Bell & Margie Alice Bell
preceding John's death were:
his parents and brother Robert Austin Bell
Surviving John are:
Susan Bell his sister-in-law in New York City, Yavone Hughes his Aunt in Dallas, Texas
his cousins Rodney Bell, William Hughes, and Bobby Hughes of Dallas.
John had retired from the University of Houston Clear Lake and he was
a veteran of the Texas National Guard and the United States Army.
Funeral Services Provided by:
James Crowder Funeral Home-La Marque
Officiating his burial service - Dr. Bobby Tollison on Monday - August 22, 2005
in Dallas, Texas at the Laurel Land Memorial Oaks Cemetery.
John would have been happy to know that memorial donations would go to the
University of Houston - Support STAFF Scholarship Fund
2700 Bay Area Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77058
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Betty Forster Gordon - of - Conroe, Texas
Betty Forster Gordon, age 84, following a long illness, died Sunday, June 26, 2005
at The Woodlands, Regent Care Center. Betty was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on
May 5, 1921 and she grew up in central New Jersey where she graduated from Washington
High School. Later going on to educate herself she received and R.N. degree from
the Easton Hospital School of Nursing in Easton, Pennsylvania - in 1942. She enlisted
in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served at a base near Palm Springs, California in the
Army Nurse Corps. After the war, she married her hometown sweetheart, Robert Gordon (who had himself also served in the war as a B-17 bomber pilot with the 8th Air Force 490th Bomb Group based in England). Robert and Betty had recently (August 2004) celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. She is survived by her husband, Robert Gordon and son and daughter-in-law, Scott and Cathy Gordon and grandson Collin Gordon... a daughter Suzanne Gordon and a granddaughter and great-granddaughter.
Services were held at the Cashner Funeral Home - click here
the folks at Cashner Funeral Home - invite you to leave a written tribute for the family on their website at: www.cashnerfunerals.com
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial contributions be sent to the
American Lung Association - click here
American Lung Association - Houston & Southeast Region
P.O. Box 27396
Houston, Texas 77227-7396
More information about Betty Forster Gordon:
(please feel free to eMail me any additional information that you would like included here)
Mrs. Gordon sold real estate with Pine Country Realty.
Betty loved gardening and learning about antiques.
at The Woodlands, Regent Care Center. Betty was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on
May 5, 1921 and she grew up in central New Jersey where she graduated from Washington
High School. Later going on to educate herself she received and R.N. degree from
the Easton Hospital School of Nursing in Easton, Pennsylvania - in 1942. She enlisted
in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served at a base near Palm Springs, California in the
Army Nurse Corps. After the war, she married her hometown sweetheart, Robert Gordon (who had himself also served in the war as a B-17 bomber pilot with the 8th Air Force 490th Bomb Group based in England). Robert and Betty had recently (August 2004) celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. She is survived by her husband, Robert Gordon and son and daughter-in-law, Scott and Cathy Gordon and grandson Collin Gordon... a daughter Suzanne Gordon and a granddaughter and great-granddaughter.
Services were held at the Cashner Funeral Home - click here
the folks at Cashner Funeral Home - invite you to leave a written tribute for the family on their website at: www.cashnerfunerals.com
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial contributions be sent to the
American Lung Association - click here
American Lung Association - Houston & Southeast Region
P.O. Box 27396
Houston, Texas 77227-7396
More information about Betty Forster Gordon:
(please feel free to eMail me any additional information that you would like included here)
Mrs. Gordon sold real estate with Pine Country Realty.
Betty loved gardening and learning about antiques.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Sandra Dee - Actress - Alexandra Zuck
Actress Sandra Dee - America's Sweetheart, age 62 of Los Angeles, California
- passed away on Sunday - February 20. 2005 at 5:57 a.m. in Thousand Oaks,
California at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center.
She had been diagnosed in 2000 with kidney failure and throat cancer,
Ms. Dee had been on kidney dialysis for nearly four years and had recently
been hospitalized for the past two weeks as a result of complications from
the kidney disease and pneumonia said longtime family friend, Steve Blauner
(Bobby Darin's Manager).
She was survived by her son Dodd Darin of Malibu, California and two granddaughters,
Alexa and Olivia.
Private service will be held for family.
She was born in Bayonne, N.J. on April 23, 1942 with the name of Alexandra
Zuck. Her mother divorced her father when she was just 4 years old. She never
saw her biological father again. Eventually her mother remarried.
She knew as a young child at the age of 5 that she wanted to be an actress.
At age 12 she had become one of the country's cover girls and models.
Sandra Dee was the biggest teen female idol of her time... Leonard Maltin,
film historian, once said that at the height of Sandra Dee's career in the
1960's she was America's "ideal"
Many people spoke highly of Ms. Dee, saying how fairly she always treated
everyone, including the crew on the movie set... always treating people with
respect and treating them equally...
Sandra was a teen film star in the 1960's and occasionally would get roles in
non-teen type films:
Among the films she appeared in - are:
"Until They Sailed" - which she appeared in at age 14 - it was released in 1957
"Tammy"
"Gidget"
"Tammy Tell Me True"
"Tammy and the Doctor" - (1963)
"The Restless Years" - (Universal Pictures)
"Take Her She's Mine" - (Universal Pictures)
"The Reluctant Debutante" - (Universal Pictures)
"Tammy Tell Me True" - (Universal Pictures)
"A Portrait In Black"
"Imitation of Life"
"Come September"
"Romanoff and Juliet"
"I'd Rather be Rich" - (1964)
"That Funny Feeling" - (1965)
"A Man Could Get Killed" - (1966)
"Doctory, You've Got to Be Kidding" - (1967)
"Rosie" (1968) - an independent film starring with Rosalind Russell
"The Dunwich Horror" (1970)
"Lost" - (1983)
and occasionally TV cameo appearances...
Her career was largely finished - by the tender age of 26...
her full career bio can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363473/
One of the most popular roles she had was "A Summer Place" where she co-starred
with blonde actor Troy Donahue.
Ms. Dee was once married to actor - singer Bobby Darin. Her marriage to Bobby
Darin happened after just a one month courtship in 1960 in Elizabeth, N.J. The
following year the son Dodd Mitchell Darin was born. The marriage lasted 5 years.
Although Sandra Dee admitted years later that Bobby Darin (her only marriage)
remained the love of her life... Darin died in 1973 at age 37 while having open
heart surgery.
Universal drooped her film contract after the divorce in 1965.
In 1978 her name was mentioned in the song lyrics for the movie "Grease" - with
the song "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" Family friend Steve Blauner said that she had
a great since of humor and had a good laugh about her name being in the song...
People Magazine's March 1991 issue - featured an interview with Sandra Dee in
which she said that as a child of just 8 years old, she was sexually abused by
her stepfather and that she was urged into stardom by her mother. Ms. Dee's
mother died in 1988 after which Sandra Dee admitted that she turned to alcohol
and pills - hitting bottom after her mother died. She told People Magazine that
she would at times drink more than a quart of scotch a day and her 5 ' 5" frame
plummeted to just 86 pounds. She suffered from depression, anorexia and substance
abuse most of her life. She became home bound for nearly three years. With the
encouragement and love from her son Dodd, she began to turn her life around. She
was regularly seeing a therapist and had hopes of landing a job in television on
a series.
In 1994 for a brief time she toured with her son Dodd Darin on his book tour. He
wrote a tell-all book about his parents, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, titled
"Dream Lovers - The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee"
Sandra Dee was played by Kate Bosworth in a movie about Bobby Darin played by
Kevin Spacey, called "Beyond the Sea" - released in 2004.
There is a scholarship fund being established in Sandra Dee's hometown of
Bayonne, New Jersey through the Bayonne Education Foundation. For more details
check out the official Bobby Darin site that Bobby and Sandra Dee's son Dodd
Darin maintains - here: http://www.bobbydarin.net/darinnews.html
If you would like to sign the online Memorial for Sandra Dee - you can do
that here:
http://interactives.alxnet.com/cgi-bin/slither/Driver.py/WebTools//Guestbook/Guestbook.render?guestbook_id=36200
(Dodd, if you see this - I'd like to use a picture of your mom here
- please eMail me here:
bell.mail (at) gmail.com)
- passed away on Sunday - February 20. 2005 at 5:57 a.m. in Thousand Oaks,
California at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center.
She had been diagnosed in 2000 with kidney failure and throat cancer,
Ms. Dee had been on kidney dialysis for nearly four years and had recently
been hospitalized for the past two weeks as a result of complications from
the kidney disease and pneumonia said longtime family friend, Steve Blauner
(Bobby Darin's Manager).
She was survived by her son Dodd Darin of Malibu, California and two granddaughters,
Alexa and Olivia.
Private service will be held for family.
She was born in Bayonne, N.J. on April 23, 1942 with the name of Alexandra
Zuck. Her mother divorced her father when she was just 4 years old. She never
saw her biological father again. Eventually her mother remarried.
She knew as a young child at the age of 5 that she wanted to be an actress.
At age 12 she had become one of the country's cover girls and models.
Sandra Dee was the biggest teen female idol of her time... Leonard Maltin,
film historian, once said that at the height of Sandra Dee's career in the
1960's she was America's "ideal"
Many people spoke highly of Ms. Dee, saying how fairly she always treated
everyone, including the crew on the movie set... always treating people with
respect and treating them equally...
Sandra was a teen film star in the 1960's and occasionally would get roles in
non-teen type films:
Among the films she appeared in - are:
"Until They Sailed" - which she appeared in at age 14 - it was released in 1957
"Tammy"
"Gidget"
"Tammy Tell Me True"
"Tammy and the Doctor" - (1963)
"The Restless Years" - (Universal Pictures)
"Take Her She's Mine" - (Universal Pictures)
"The Reluctant Debutante" - (Universal Pictures)
"Tammy Tell Me True" - (Universal Pictures)
"A Portrait In Black"
"Imitation of Life"
"Come September"
"Romanoff and Juliet"
"I'd Rather be Rich" - (1964)
"That Funny Feeling" - (1965)
"A Man Could Get Killed" - (1966)
"Doctory, You've Got to Be Kidding" - (1967)
"Rosie" (1968) - an independent film starring with Rosalind Russell
"The Dunwich Horror" (1970)
"Lost" - (1983)
and occasionally TV cameo appearances...
Her career was largely finished - by the tender age of 26...
her full career bio can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363473/
One of the most popular roles she had was "A Summer Place" where she co-starred
with blonde actor Troy Donahue.
Ms. Dee was once married to actor - singer Bobby Darin. Her marriage to Bobby
Darin happened after just a one month courtship in 1960 in Elizabeth, N.J. The
following year the son Dodd Mitchell Darin was born. The marriage lasted 5 years.
Although Sandra Dee admitted years later that Bobby Darin (her only marriage)
remained the love of her life... Darin died in 1973 at age 37 while having open
heart surgery.
Universal drooped her film contract after the divorce in 1965.
In 1978 her name was mentioned in the song lyrics for the movie "Grease" - with
the song "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" Family friend Steve Blauner said that she had
a great since of humor and had a good laugh about her name being in the song...
People Magazine's March 1991 issue - featured an interview with Sandra Dee in
which she said that as a child of just 8 years old, she was sexually abused by
her stepfather and that she was urged into stardom by her mother. Ms. Dee's
mother died in 1988 after which Sandra Dee admitted that she turned to alcohol
and pills - hitting bottom after her mother died. She told People Magazine that
she would at times drink more than a quart of scotch a day and her 5 ' 5" frame
plummeted to just 86 pounds. She suffered from depression, anorexia and substance
abuse most of her life. She became home bound for nearly three years. With the
encouragement and love from her son Dodd, she began to turn her life around. She
was regularly seeing a therapist and had hopes of landing a job in television on
a series.
In 1994 for a brief time she toured with her son Dodd Darin on his book tour. He
wrote a tell-all book about his parents, Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, titled
"Dream Lovers - The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee"
Sandra Dee was played by Kate Bosworth in a movie about Bobby Darin played by
Kevin Spacey, called "Beyond the Sea" - released in 2004.
There is a scholarship fund being established in Sandra Dee's hometown of
Bayonne, New Jersey through the Bayonne Education Foundation. For more details
check out the official Bobby Darin site that Bobby and Sandra Dee's son Dodd
Darin maintains - here: http://www.bobbydarin.net/darinnews.html
If you would like to sign the online Memorial for Sandra Dee - you can do
that here:
http://interactives.alxnet.com/cgi-bin/slither/Driver.py/WebTools//Guestbook/Guestbook.render?guestbook_id=36200
(Dodd, if you see this - I'd like to use a picture of your mom here
- please eMail me here:
bell.mail (at) gmail.com)
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Welcome to... Obits - Worldwide - a spot on the net were you can find celebrity obits AND post those of your loved ones... Bookmark Me...
The Journey....
Welcome...
Who AM I ?? - - - What is this Site About ??
Well... I'll tell you ....
I hope this site will be able to help those of you that might be mourning the loss
of a loved one...
and give you a spot ONLINE - where you can post a FREE obituary notice for your
loved one - that will be your spot on the net as a memoriam (for as long as the
page remains online)...
you are more than welcome to submit any Obit that you personally wrote that
contains verifiable factual information... and I will do my best to get that up
on this site for you as quick as I can...
perhaps this site will also be of aide to anyone that is doing family tree roots
searches...
I welcome eMail from you... and if you want to write a poem... a saying... or even
just a comforting sentence or two to share with others - that would be MOST Welcome...
you can reach me via eMail here: bell.mail (at) gmail.com
please keep this site in mind - if you lose someone or know of someone that
does - and you want to put up a notice here for them....
bookmark this site now - you will never know when you might need it...
and if you are like me - when I hear of a celebrity that passes away - or a famous
person like a scientist or public figure - I often like to learn a little bit more
about them - on this site that will now be possible - for those of you like me -
that take a peek at the obits of public figures when you hear about them on the news...
I hope that you won't think me morbid... I am not... I just like to remember those
that touch our lives...
I personally don't even like to think of getting old and passing on... it seems so
strange to me to think that I will no longer exist... I try not to think about that
and instead - focus on what I can do today - to make a difference... to either help
someone... to make someone smile... or to improve myself in some way... and I stay
busy... I have a strong faith and know that where I will go when I pass on is better
than where I am now... but I also am not ready to go... there's allot here left for
me to do... I may not know all that it is I am yet supposed to do... but I move
forward - daily...
I love to meet people and make new friends...I cherish my friendships and nurture
those relationships...
if you want to eMail me - be sure to put this blogs name in the subject line - so
I will see it and get to it quicker... the eMail address best used for me - is:
bell.mail (at) gmail.com
. . . . . . . Bless You . . . . . . .
~Bell
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When God calls you to do something, he enables you to do it.
- Robert Schuller
Love is the master key that opens the gate of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that
nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Dale Carnegie
Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
Have faith, knowing tomorrow will hold the blessings of God.
- Robert Schuller, Jr.
Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that
you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."
- Norman Vincent Peale
What a new face courage puts on everything.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He
gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.
- Mother Teresa
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become
what they are capable of being.
- Goethe
Be happy in the moment - that's enough. Each moment is all we need - not more.
- Mother Teresa
There are only two ways to live . . . one is as though nothing is a miracle. . .
the other is as if everything is.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
- French Proverb
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and given us the deep hearts to
enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
As you practice counting your blessings, you will find that your faith is being
suddenly revitalized.
- Robert Schuller
Faith is no irresponsible shot in the dark. It is a responsible trust in God, who
knows the desires of your hearts, the dreams you are given, and the goals you have
set. He will guide your paths right.
- Robert Schuller
You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your
dominant thoughts.
- Brian Tracy
To see what's in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
- George Orwell
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're
on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really
is attainable.
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The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
- Oprah
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be
forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened
beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that
simply are the way they are.
- Wayne Dyer
The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation
or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the
questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence.
- Tony Robbins
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