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Saturday, April 08, 2017Survivors include: her loving husband of 46 years, Harold Woodward; three sons, Justin Reed Woodward (wife Janelle) of Miami, Fl., Matthew Duane Woodward (wife Jennifer) of Mt. Vernon, Mo., and Brian Wayne Woodward of Kansas City, Mo.; her mother, Mary Jane Hansen of Scotia, Nebraska; three brothers, Galen Stanley Hansen (wife Lois) of Scotia, Nebraska, Gary Hansen (wife Cathy) of Scotia, Nebraska, and Harlan Hansen (wife Colleen) of Scotia, Nebraska; six grandchildren, Cole, Reed and Lyle Woodward of Miami, Fl. and Grayson, Harper, and Thatcher Woodward of Mt. Vernon, Mo.; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.She was preceded in death by her father, Duane Hansen in 1985 and her daughter, Dianna Lynn Woodward on September 16, 2006.Visitation will be held at Concord Baptist Church from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at Concord Baptist Church with the Reverend Dr. Monte Shinkle officiating. Graveside services and interment will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, April 6, 2017 at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Scotia, Nebraska.Those desiring may make memorial contributions to Concord Baptist Church, 3724 W. Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Mo. 65109. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Freeman Mortuary.
Saturday, April 08, 2017Monday, April 3, 2017. He was born on June 22, 1990 in Tulsa to David L. and Shelly D. (Renfro) Norris. Christian graduated from Ketchum High School in 2009, then attended NEO A&M College in Miami, where he received his Associates Degree, he was currently attending NSU in Broken Arrow and was finishing his last classes this semester for his degree. Christian was an employee of Carter’s Grocery Store in Vinita. He was also a very dedicated writer, and was planning to be a professional writer. Christian had belonged to the drama club, writing club, academic club, and played saxophone in the band while in school. He was an avid gamer, writer and movie connoisseur. Christian also loved to watch his favorite football team the Miami Dolphins.The family includes; his parents, David and Shelly Norris of the home; his brothers, Caleb A. Norris of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania and Noah A. Norris of Ketchum; his grandparents, Dorothy and Bob Renfro of Ketchum, Elaine and Billy Kerns of Ramona, Fred and Jackie Norris of Tulsa.The family will receive friends from 6-8 PM on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Luginbuel Funeral Home in Vinita.The funeral service will held Friday, April 7, 2017 at 2:00 PM, in the Luginbuel Chapel, with Pastor Tommy Scott officiating. Interment will follow at the K...
Don Rickles, Comedy's Equal Opportunity Offender, Dies at 90 - New York Times
Saturday, April 08, 2017Mr. Rickles got his first break, the story goes, when Sinatra and some of his friends came to see him perform in 1957 — in Hollywood, according to most sources, although Mr. Rickles said it was in Miami. “Make yourself at home, Frank,” Mr. Rickles said to Sinatra, whom he had never met. “Hit somebody.” Sinatra laughed so hard, he fell out of his seat.Mr. Rickles was soon being championed by Sinatra, Dean Martin and the other members of the show business circle known as the Rat Pack. Steady work in Las Vegas followed. But he was hardly an overnight success: He spent a decade in the comedy trenches before he broke through to a national audience.In 1965, he made the first of numerous appearances on “The Tonight Show,” treating Johnny Carson with his trademark disdain to the audience’s (and Carson’s) delight. He also became a regular on Dean Martin’s televised roasts, where no celebrity was safe from his onslaughts. (“What’s Bob Hope doing here? Is the war over?”)Mr. Rickles’s wife, who he said “likes to lie in bed, signaling ships with her jewelry,” was not immune to his attacks. Neither was his mother, Etta, whom he referred to as “the Jewish Patton.” But off the stage, he didn’t hesitate to express his gratitude to his mother for unflaggingly believing in his talent, even when he himself wasn’t so sure.“She had a tremendous drive,” he recalled in “Mr. Warmth.” “Drove me crazy. But she was like the driving force for me.”He shared an apartment with his mother and did not marry until he was almost 40. After marrying Barbara Sklar in 1965, he saw to it that his mother had the apartment next door. His wife survives him, as do a daughter, Mindy Mann, and two grandchildren. Mr. Rickles’s son, Lawrence, died in 2011.Donald Jay Rickles was born in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens on May 8, 1926, to Max Rickles, an insurance salesman, and the former Etta Feldman. During World War II, he honed his comedic skills while serving in the Navy. (“On the ship that I went over to the Philippines,” he told The New York Times in 2015, “out of 300 men I was the class comedian.”) After being discharged, he followed his father into the insurance business, but when he had trouble getting his customers to sign on the dotted line, decided to try acting.He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, an experience that he later said gave him a greater sense of himself. But he found it difficult to get acting jobs and turned to stand-up comedy.For a while, he pursued acting and comedy simultaneously. He did his stand-up act at Catskills resorts and in strip clubs, and his movie career got off to an auspicious start with a small part in the 1958 submarine drama “Run Silent, Run Deep,” starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. But the bulk of his film work in the 1960s was in low-budget beach movies: “Bikini Beach,” “Muscle Beach Party” and “Pajama Party,” all in 1964, and “Beach Blanket Bingo” in 1965.By that time, his comedy career had begun gathering momentum. Focusing less on prepared material and more on interaction with his audience, he had found his voice. He was not the first insult comedian — and in fact an earlier master of the comic insult, Jack E. Leonard, was known to complain that Mr. Rickles’s act was too similar to his — but he soon became far and away the most successful.Bookings in the late 1950s at the Slate Brothers nightc...
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Saturday, April 08, 2017Survivors include: her loving husband of 46 years, Harold Woodward; three sons, Justin Reed Woodward (wife Janelle) of Miami, Fl., Matthew Duane Woodward (wife Jennifer) of Mt. Vernon, Mo., and Brian Wayne Woodward of Kansas City, Mo.; her mother, Mary Jane Hansen of Scotia, Nebraska; three brothers, Galen Stanley Hansen (wife Lois) of Scotia, Nebraska, Gary Hansen (wife Cathy) of Scotia, Nebraska, and Harlan Hansen (wife Colleen) of Scotia, Nebraska; six grandchildren, Cole, Reed and Lyle Woodward of Miami, Fl. and Grayson, Harper, and Thatcher Woodward of Mt. Vernon, Mo.; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.She was preceded in death by her father, Duane Hansen in 1985 and her daughter, Dianna Lynn Woodward on September 16, 2006.Visitation will be held at Concord Baptist Church from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at Concord Baptist Church with the Reverend Dr. Monte Shinkle officiating. Graveside services and interment will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, April 6, 2017 at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Scotia, Nebraska.Those desiring may make memorial contributions to Concord Baptist Church, 3724 W. Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Mo. 65109. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Freeman Mortuary.
Saturday, April 08, 2017Monday, April 3, 2017. He was born on June 22, 1990 in Tulsa to David L. and Shelly D. (Renfro) Norris. Christian graduated from Ketchum High School in 2009, then attended NEO A&M College in Miami, where he received his Associates Degree, he was currently attending NSU in Broken Arrow and was finishing his last classes this semester for his degree. Christian was an employee of Carter’s Grocery Store in Vinita. He was also a very dedicated writer, and was planning to be a professional writer. Christian had belonged to the drama club, writing club, academic club, and played saxophone in the band while in school. He was an avid gamer, writer and movie connoisseur. Christian also loved to watch his favorite football team the Miami Dolphins.The family includes; his parents, David and Shelly Norris of the home; his brothers, Caleb A. Norris of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania and Noah A. Norris of Ketchum; his grandparents, Dorothy and Bob Renfro of Ketchum, Elaine and Billy Kerns of Ramona, Fred and Jackie Norris of Tulsa.The family will receive friends from 6-8 PM on Thursday, April 6, 2017 at the Luginbuel Funeral Home in Vinita.The funeral service will held Friday, April 7, 2017 at 2:00 PM, in the Luginbuel Chapel, with Pastor Tommy Scott officiating. Interment will follow at the K...
Don Rickles, Comedy's Equal Opportunity Offender, Dies at 90 - New York Times
Saturday, April 08, 2017Mr. Rickles got his first break, the story goes, when Sinatra and some of his friends came to see him perform in 1957 — in Hollywood, according to most sources, although Mr. Rickles said it was in Miami. “Make yourself at home, Frank,” Mr. Rickles said to Sinatra, whom he had never met. “Hit somebody.” Sinatra laughed so hard, he fell out of his seat.Mr. Rickles was soon being championed by Sinatra, Dean Martin and the other members of the show business circle known as the Rat Pack. Steady work in Las Vegas followed. But he was hardly an overnight success: He spent a decade in the comedy trenches before he broke through to a national audience.In 1965, he made the first of numerous appearances on “The Tonight Show,” treating Johnny Carson with his trademark disdain to the audience’s (and Carson’s) delight. He also became a regular on Dean Martin’s televised roasts, where no celebrity was safe from his onslaughts. (“What’s Bob Hope doing here? Is the war over?”)Mr. Rickles’s wife, who he said “likes to lie in bed, signaling ships with her jewelry,” was not immune to his attacks. Neither was his mother, Etta, whom he referred to as “the Jewish Patton.” But off the stage, he didn’t hesitate to express his gratitude to his mother for unflaggingly believing in his talent, even when he himself wasn’t so sure.“She had a tremendous drive,” he recalled in “Mr. Warmth.” “Drove me crazy. But she was like the driving force for me.”He shared an apartment with his mother and did not marry until he was almost 40. After marrying Barbara Sklar in 1965, he saw to it that his mother had the apartment next door. His wife survives him, as do a daughter, Mindy Mann, and two grandchildren. Mr. Rickles’s son, Lawrence, died in 2011.Donald Jay Rickles was born in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens on May 8, 1926, to Max Rickles, an insurance salesman, and the former Etta Feldman. During World War II, he honed his comedic skills while serving in the Navy. (“On the ship that I went over to the Philippines,” he told The New York Times in 2015, “out of 300 men I was the class comedian.”) After being discharged, he followed his father into the insurance business, but when he had trouble getting his customers to sign on the dotted line, decided to try acting.He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, an experience that he later said gave him a greater sense of himself. But he found it difficult to get acting jobs and turned to stand-up comedy.For a while, he pursued acting and comedy simultaneously. He did his stand-up act at Catskills resorts and in strip clubs, and his movie career got off to an auspicious start with a small part in the 1958 submarine drama “Run Silent, Run Deep,” starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. But the bulk of his film work in the 1960s was in low-budget beach movies: “Bikini Beach,” “Muscle Beach Party” and “Pajama Party,” all in 1964, and “Beach Blanket Bingo” in 1965.By that time, his comedy career had begun gathering momentum. Focusing less on prepared material and more on interaction with his audience, he had found his voice. He was not the first insult comedian — and in fact an earlier master of the comic insult, Jack E. Leonard, was known to complain that Mr. Rickles’s act was too similar to his — but he soon became far and away the most successful.Bookings in the late 1950s at the Slate Brothers nightc...
