Harold Edward "Ted" Urness was born on June 23, 1937, and died on December 29, 2018.
He was a football offensive lineman for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1961 to 1970.
He played in three Gray Cups for the Roughriders, winning one out of 1966, the 54th Gray Cup against the Ottawa Rough Riders, losing two, the 55th Gray Cup of 1967 against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and the 57th Gray Cup of 1969 against Ottawa once more.
With the exception of his new kid on the block year, he and the Roughriders never missed the playoffs.
He was an All-Star focus six years in succession and was accepted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1989.
After he left as a player, Ted served as the Chairman for the Saskatchewan Liquor Control Board, and long serving General Manager for Redhead Equipment in Saskatoon.
Ted Urness passed away at 81 years old.
Monday 31 December 2018
Don Lusk, American animator and director, Died at 105
Donald Lusk was born on October 28, 1913, Los Angeles County, California, and died on December 30, 2018, in San Clemente, California.
He was an American animator and director.
He was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933.
A few of his more popular work included Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Song of the South, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady, and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
He resigned from Disney in 1960 but when on to work as an animator during the 1960s and 1970s. He career lasted decades before he retired.
Don Lusk passed away at 105 years old.
He was an American animator and director.
He was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933.
A few of his more popular work included Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Song of the South, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady, and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
He resigned from Disney in 1960 but when on to work as an animator during the 1960s and 1970s. He career lasted decades before he retired.
Don Lusk passed away at 105 years old.
Edgar Hilsenrath, German writer, Died at 92
Edgar Hilsenrath was born on April 2, 1926, in Leipzig and died on December 30, 2018. He was a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin.
Hilsenrath main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.
During 1938 his mom got away with her two youngsters to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they delighted in a break from oppression.
At the time that he ought to have gotten a passageway card to advanced education, he and his mom were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi.
Edgar Hilsenrath started to expound on the Holocaust after his freedom when he moved to Paris. He got numerous prizes for his works.
For his novel The Story of the Last Thought on the Armenian Genocide, he got the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from its leader.
Edgar Hilsenrath passed away at 92 years old.
Hilsenrath main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought.
During 1938 his mom got away with her two youngsters to Siret (Sereth), in Romanian Bukovina, where they delighted in a break from oppression.
At the time that he ought to have gotten a passageway card to advanced education, he and his mom were interned in the ghetto of Cernăuţi.
Edgar Hilsenrath started to expound on the Holocaust after his freedom when he moved to Paris. He got numerous prizes for his works.
For his novel The Story of the Last Thought on the Armenian Genocide, he got the State Award in Literature of the Republic of Armenia from its leader.
Edgar Hilsenrath passed away at 92 years old.
Dick Helling, Dutch footballer, Died at 68
He was a Dutch professional footballer.
He played in the position of midfielder.
He started his career with Telstar, and also played for Ajax, before spending 8 seasons with Volendam, for whom he scored 48 goals in 218 games in all competitions.
At Ajax in 1975, the footballer famously missed a penalty in an European Cup match against Levski-Spartak, resulting in Ajax's elimination from the competition.
At Volendam, Helling was part of the team which won promotion in May 1983.
Dick Helling passed away at 68 years old.
Claude Gingras, Canadian journalist and music critic, Died at 87
Claude Gingras was born on July 1, 1931, and died on December 30, 2018.
He was a French Canadian journalist and musical critic.
He was a local of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Gingras was the most youthful of five kin.
Gingras was acquainted with music by his mom, who was a musician, and put into the St Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Gingras contemplated sociologies at the Université de Montréal and started composing for Sherbrooke's La Tribune in 1952.
In the wake of teaming up, Gingras started working for La Presse, where he composed a segment on melodic analysis.
Gingras began scrutinizing just musical drama and established however later extended to pop, assortment, and artful dance.
He would stay at La Presse for over 60 years.
Claude Gingras secured the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and I Musici de Montréal.
Gingras was viewed as a merciless commentator.
Claude Gingras retired from La Presse on 28 December 2015.
Claude Gingras passed away at 87 years old.
He was a French Canadian journalist and musical critic.
He was a local of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Gingras was the most youthful of five kin.
Gingras was acquainted with music by his mom, who was a musician, and put into the St Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Gingras contemplated sociologies at the Université de Montréal and started composing for Sherbrooke's La Tribune in 1952.
In the wake of teaming up, Gingras started working for La Presse, where he composed a segment on melodic analysis.
Gingras began scrutinizing just musical drama and established however later extended to pop, assortment, and artful dance.
He would stay at La Presse for over 60 years.
Claude Gingras secured the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and I Musici de Montréal.
Gingras was viewed as a merciless commentator.
Claude Gingras retired from La Presse on 28 December 2015.
Claude Gingras passed away at 87 years old.
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.
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.
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.
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