Obituary Thread, famous people, places & events.

[jedicurt]

What a voice he had. First syllable of anything he said you knew who it was.

absolutely, and my personal favorite voice work for him was one of the Simpsons Treehouse of horrors episodes where he read "The Raven"

[Jeepnokc]

Reading an article about him, he had a stuttering problem as a child and taught himself how to control it. It was so bad, he basically didn't speak for about 8 years

[Urbanized]

^^^^^^^
Adding on to this, it was a teacher who encouraged him to become verbal, by reading his own poetry. The teacher realized he had a talent for poetry, and that by reading it he could overcome his stutter and his reluctance to speak. Just goes to show how much one teacher can change the world. And how important the humanities can be in a well-rounded education.

[The]

^^^^^^^
Adding on to this, it was a teacher who encouraged him to become verbal, by reading his own poetry. The teacher realized he had a talent for poetry, and that by reading it he could overcome his stutter and his reluctance to speak. Just goes to show how much one teacher can change the world. And how important the humanities can be in a well-rounded education.

This!

[ManAboutTown]

Tito Jackson, the oldest of the Jackson 5 and resident of Claremore, Oklahoma, at the time of his death...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainm...d=BingNewsSerp

[Jeepnokc]

Tito Jackson, the oldest of the Jackson 5 and resident of Claremore, Oklahoma, at the time of his death...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainm...d=BingNewsSerp

Wonder how he ended up in Claremore

[Brett]

Wonder how he ended up in Claremore

I don't have a subscription to the Tulsa World but I occasionally check out their website and it looked like Tito Jackson was attracted to Tulsa and may have had plans to do something there. It is a shame that he passed unexpectedly.

[TheTravellers]

Wonder how he ended up in Claremore

Family and friends ended up there.