Monday, 31 December 2018

Karel Engel, Czech Olympic wrestler, Died at 78

Karel Engel was born on May 28, 1940, and died on December 31, 2018.

He was a Czech wrestler.

Engel competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Karel Engel passed away at 78 years old.

Cameron M. Alexander, American Baptist minister, Died at 86

Cameron M. Alexander was born on February 12, 1932, and died on December 30, 2018.

He was an American Baptist minister.

Alexander led 12,000-member Antioch Baptist Church North and community leader in the English Avenue neighborhood (also known as part of "The Bluff") in Atlanta.

Kennedy Street in English Avenue was renamed Cameron M. Alexander Blvd in October 2010, in his honor.

Cameron passed away at 86 years old.

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.