
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
In my life I watched Esther Rolle in various roles as a function of that television available to me.
She was an American actress and star of stage and screen born November 8, 1920 who lived through November 17, 1998.
I regularly viewed the comedy Good Times and participated in the antics of the family of Florida Evans.
A lot of people watched that program for Jimmy Walker. I watched it for Esther Rolle.
Her credits went far beyond this and toward the end of her career the film Rosewood had her portray a character called Aunt Sarah, a sweet woman who was murdered in the acompanying fray and I cried with Don Cheadle as he rode the train after escaping in her casket.
From Maude, Touched by an Angel and Murder She Wrote through Fantasy Island, Driving Miss Daisy, Cleopatra Jones, and even Poltergeist: The Legacy she was an award winning actress who passed from the sequela of diabetes too soon and she was always instantly recognizable by me and for whom I would take pause to enjoy yet another character in her vast repetoire.
She had a knack for portraying family and was always someone to whom I could relate.
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() Stan Lee December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018 |
![]() |
![]() |
| ☠ | election workers | |
| ☠ | postal employees | |
| ☠ | elected representatives | |
| ☠ | main stream media | |
| ☠ | complacent complicit coward republicans who did nothing | |
| ☠ | Niki Haley & Chris Christie this means you |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Last night I happened upon the headstone of my late Navy buddy, Jerry R Landry, who was born Aug 22, 1953 and died Jan 25, 2007 from a myocardial infarction.
He was a lifetime resident of Barnstable Village on Cape Cod and was so proud of the fact that he wasn't one of we who reside to the West of Cape Cod to whom he always referred to as "indians".
His loss was an open wound on my soul until I secured a copy of his death certificate from the state of Massachusetts and now that I know his final disposition I intend to travel back to Cape Cod to pay my respects in person.
He is interred at Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville,Massachusetts. This town is in the county of his birth and residence — and is also where Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband Sargent Shriver are also interred.
We typically aren't fortunate enough to have many really good friends in life, but Jerry was one of my mine and I have missed him over the years.
Continued rest in peace.