"Socks" - a popular figure during the Clinton years, Socks was Chelsea's cat. Since the family left the White House, Socks has been living with the president's secretary, Betty Currie. A Tuxedo Cat - he was 18.
Our Sylvia is also 18 and a Tuxedo Kitty - but she doesn't sport a Hitler moustache.
SOURCE: Life In Legacy
Paul Harvey (90) news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose distinctive style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices. Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951, when he began his News & Comment for ABC Radio Networks. He became a heartland icon, delivering news and commentary with a distinctive Midwestern flavor. He was credited with inventing or popularizing terms such as "skyjacker," "Reaganomics," and "guesstimate." In 2005, Harvey was one of 14 notables chosen as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His death came less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne Harvey. Paul Harvey died in Phoenix, Arizona on February 28, 2009.
Harvey was a radio fixture for over 70 years. His political philosophy was a mixture of Midwestern populism and Goldwater conservatism, with a good measure of sappy patriotic fervor and religiosity. He opposed the Vietnam War.
Ernie Ashworth (80) Grand Ole Opry singer since 1964 who had a No. 1 hit in '63 with "Talk Back Trembling Lips." Ashworth began his career writing songs for Little Jimmy Dickens, Carl Smith, Johnny Horton, and pop idol Paul Anka. As a recording artist, he scored hits with "Everybody But Me" and "I Love to Dance with Annie." He died after a sudden illness, in Hartsville, Tennessee on March 2, 2009.
Rev. Art, appearing as "Art Wild", emceed a weekly live outdoor country music show at Wild Cherry Park, near West Milton, Ohio in the early '70s. Ernest Ashworth was one of our headliners. Yes, I have his autographed photo...
Al Lewis (84) host known as "Uncle Al" on a long-running Cincinnati children's TV show that aired nationally on ABC affiliates on Saturday mornings over two years in the late '50s. A Cincinnati TV icon, Lewis produced and starred in The Uncle Al Show, dressed in a straw hat and a bow tie and with an ever-present accordion. The show, which aired locally for 35 years (1950-85), combined music, education, drawing, and exercise activities for children. Lewis died in Hillsboro, Ohio on February 28, 2009.
Louie Bellson (84) big-band and jazz drummer, a master musician who performed with such greats as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, and his late wife, singer/comedienne Pearl Bailey (d. 1990). The youngest and last of the "great three" showman-drummers in jazz (the others were Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich), Bellson died of complications from Parkinson's disease after breaking his hip in November 2008, in Los Angeles, California on February 14, 2009.
