Monday, 31 December 2018

Elazar Mordechai Koenig, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, Died at 73

Elazar Mordechai Koenig was born in 1945, in Jerusalem and died on December 31, 2018.

He was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and the spiritual leader of the Breslov Hasidic community in Safed, Israel.

He was born to Rabbi Gedaliah Aharon Koenig and his wife Esther Yehudit Koenig.

Koenig's father was a leading disciple of Breslov elder Rabbi Abraham Sternhartz, who immigrated to Jerusalem from Uman, Ukraine in 1936.

He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Koenig studied kabbalah with his father as well as with several leading Sephardic masters, including Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi.

Elazar Mordechai Koenig passed away at 73 years old.

Warren MacKenzie, American potter, Died at 94

Warren MacKenzie was born on February 16, 1924, and died on December 31, 2018.

He was an American potter.

MacKenzie experienced childhood in Wilmette, Illinois the second most seasoned of five kids including his siblings, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn.

MacKenzie's secondary school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.

He and his first spouse, Alix, contemplated with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952.

MacKenzie's basic, wheel-tossed useful earthenware is vigorously affected by the oriental tasteful of Shoji Hamada and Korean pottery.

MacKenzie is credited with bringing the Japanese Mingei style of ceramics to Minnesota, affectionately alluded to as the "Mingei-sota style."MacKenzie was outstanding as an educator.

Since 1952 he had instructed at the University of Minnesota, where he was a Regents' teacher emeritus.

His understudies have included Randy Johnston, Dick Cooter, Mike Norman, Jeff Oestreich, Wayne Branum, Mark Pharis, Barbara Diduk, Paul Dresang, Shirley Johnson, Michael Brady, Sandy Simon, and E.A. (Mike) Mikkelsen.

His second spouse of 30 years, Nancy MacKenzie, kicked the bucket in October 2014, at 80 years old.

Nancy was a practiced material craftsman utilizing discovered items from nature and the reuse receptacle.

For a long time, they were the essence of expressions of the human experience network of St. Croix River Valley.

He keeps on living in the home they shared outside Stillwater, Minnesota, where he kept on keeping up his studio until his demise on December 31, 2018. Warren

MacKenzie passed away at 94 years old.

Simon Britto Rodrigues, Indian politician, Died at 64

Simon Britto Rodrigues was born on March 27, 1954, in Pongikkara, Ernakulam District, Kerala and died on December 31, 2018.

He was an Indian politician and writer.

Rodrigues was an Anglo-Indian part in the Kerala Legislative Assembly amid the term of Left Democratic Front government from 2006 to 2011.

Rodrigues was a functioning individual from Students' Federation of India (SFI), Rodrigues is a previous understudy of St. Albert's College, Ernakulam, Government Law College, Ernakulam, Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram, Lalit Narayan Mithila University. in his school days amid the '80s.

In 1983, he turned into the Kerala state VP of SFI and in a vicious conflict between understudy associations, he got his lower body deadened.

He wrote two or three books: Agragami and Maharandram. Agragami won a Sakti grant and a Patyam Gopalan grant.

Rodrigues was a state illustrative of Kerala Grandhasala Sangam.

Simon Britto Rodrigues passed away at 64 years old.

Ray Sawyer, American singer, Died at 81

Ray Sawyer was born on February 1, 1937, Chickasaw, Alabama, United States and died on December 31, 2018.

He was an American singer.

He was best known as a vocalist with the 1970s rock band, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.

In spite of the fact that principally a sponsorship vocalist and incidental percussionist on congas or maracas, he sang lead on their hit melody "The Cover of Rolling Stone" and was a conspicuous nearness in the band because of the eyepatch and cowhand cap he wore.

Ray Sawyer was also the uncle of the vocalist of Wild Fire, Zack Sawyer.

Sawyer lost his right eye in a 1967 automobile accident.

Ray Sawyer passed away at 81 years old.

István Seregély, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Died at 87

István Seregély was born on March 13, 1931, in Szombathely and died on December 31, 2018.

He was a Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Eger from 5 June 1987 to 15 March 2007.

István Seregély began his religious investigations in the neighborhood theological college of Szombathely, yet after its conclusion, he went to the Central Seminary of Budapest (Latin: Seminarium Centrale).

He was appointed as a cleric by Sándor Kovács, the Bishop of Szombathely on 19 June 1955.

From 1956 to 1963, he was a minister in Gyöngyösfalu, Nyőgér, Bagod and Zalae

gerszeg, at that point from 1963 to 1974, Cathedral of the Visitation of Our Lady in Szombathely. He was made vicar of Kőszegszerdahely by Bishop Árpád Fábián in 1974.

He served in this situation until 1981.

All of four houses of worship, which had a place with his ward – the All Saints Church of Kőszegszerdahely, the St. Vitus Church of Velem, the St. Dwindle and Paul Church of Cák and the St. Martin Church of Kőszegdoroszló – were revamped.

István Seregély was vicar of Kőszeg from 1981 to 1987, and nine holy places were remodeled under his parsonage.

Pope John Paul II designated him Archbishop of Eger on 5 June 1987. He was sanctified as diocesan on 25 July by László Paskai at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Apostle.

His witticism was "Christus est by means of veritas et vita" ("Christ is the way, reality, and the life").

Seregély was President of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference somewhere in the range of 1990 and 2005, and all the while was likewise Grand Chancellor of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University from 1992 to 2005.

István Seregély filled in as Vice President of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) from 1993 to 2001.

István Seregély was granted Fraknói Vilmos Prize in 2005. After the arrangement of Csaba Ternyák as his successor, Seregély worked as biblical legislative leader of the Archdiocese of Eger since 15 March 2007.

At the point when Ternyák took the situation on 9 June, Seregély moved toward becoming ecclesiastical overseer emeritus.

Istavan Seregély passed away at 87 years old in a priest social home in Nyíregyháza.

Peter Thompson, English footballer, Died at 76

Peter Thompson was born on November 27, 1942, in Carlisle and died on December 2018.

He was an English footballer.

Thompson showed up in the Football League playing for Preston North End, Liverpool, and Bolton Wanderers.

Thompson played as an outside left for the Liverpool group which had significant achievements during the 1960s, and was topped multiple times for England. Known for his fast and electric style of play.

As an individual from the underlying England squad in front of the 1970 World Cup, he was associated with the Bogotá Bracelet occurrence.

By a few records, Thompson was in or around the Green Fire adornments shop when Bobby Moore was affirmed to have taken a wrist trinket.

Since 2006, Thompson had been living in Portugal.

In the wake of resigning from the amusement, he ran a parade park for a long time around the Knott End-on-Sea territory and after that lodgings in the Lake District and Harrogate.

Peter Thompson passed away at 76 years old.

Bill Watson, Australian Test cricketer, Died at 87

William James Watson was born on January 31, 1931, and died on December 31, 2018.

He was an Australian cricketer.

He played in four Tests in 1955. Watson was a right-hand opening batsman.

Watson scored 155 for New South Wales verse the MCC at Sydney in 1954-55 in his second top-notch coordinate.

To a great extent on the quality of that innings, and after just four top notch matches, he was chosen in the Sydney Test that started on 25 February 1955, opening with Colin McDonald.


Watson was made just 18 and 3, however, figured out how to inspire selectors enough that he was picked for the West Indies visit half a month later.

In spite of the fact that he scored 122 against Barbados, Watson neglected to discover shape against the West Indians in the Tests, scoring 27, 6, 22 not out, 30 and 0, and was dropped after the Fourth Test.

Watson was scored firmly for New South Wales in the 1956-57 household season, with 664 keeps running at 44.26.

The season incorporated his most elevated score, 206, at number five, in an innings triumph over Western Australia in Perth, and, opening the batting once more, 50 and 198 against Queensland in Sydney.

Watson was was chosen for an Australian group that visited New Zealand toward the finish of the season, however, made just 23 keeps running in four top-notch coordinates and was ignored for determination on the visit to South Africa in 1957-58.

In 14 coordinates in the following four seasons, Watson was made just 450 keeps running at 25.00, and he resigned after the 1960-61 season.

Bill Watson passed away at 87 years old.