Global RIP thread

[dean]

This is only for those who have lived in California sometime over the last 60 years. Cal Worthington died at the age of 92.

[Flashermac]

Now that is a name I haven't heard in decades!

 

 

[Flashermac]

[acockasian]

FBF has received word that Tim “Wanchai†Young has passed away. A resident of Bangkok for almost 40 years, Tim died peacefully on Monday evening. Randy and others from Goldfingers were alerted and called the medics but nothing could be done.

The cremation is planned for Tuesday, August 13 at a temple in Chaeng Wattana, northern Bangkok. We don’t know complete plans yet but there may be a bus leaving from Goldfinger that morning and I’m sure there will be a wake of sorts at the Finger that evening.

Latest word is that folks are coming from Chiang Mai, Udon, Sakhon Nakhon, Pattaya, and the US. It might be a good time to remember Tim and reunite with some old friends.

[update]: It appears that there will be a prayer service at the temple on Sunday, aimed mainly at Farangs, and there will be a wake at Goldfingers on Tuesday after the cremation.

Tim’s eulogy may be found here.

More here as we learn.

RIP Tim. You will be missed.

If anyone has a photo of Tim, please pass it to me and I’ll put it here. Ideally, of him sitting there in the corner…

 

http://www.frangipani.com/wordpress/tim-young/#.UjlWAD-4ncs

[Flashermac]

A nice and respectful eulogy, though Tim was an administrative specialist (a clerk), not a combat soldier. I bent a few elbows with him, and he was a good guy. RIP, GI. We will raise a few in your memory.

[cavanami]

Seems like I met him a few years back at a VFW Xmas dinner?

 

RIP.

[Flashermac]

Former Post editor dies

 

 

Michael Gorman, editor of the Bangkok Post from 1971-1983, died on Sept 11 at his home in southwestern France after a short illness. He was 76.

 

Apart from being editor and publisher of the Bangkok Post, Gorman was also managing director of Allied Printers.

 

Born in Croydon, United Kingdom and a graduate from Bristol University majoring in economics, Gorman came to Thailand in 1970 after having worked with the Thomson Organisation Limited since 1960.

 

He was a trustee of the Press Foundation of Asia for 10 years and was an active member of the International Press Institute. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society and member of the Institute of Marketing.

 

Gorman successfully steered the Bangkok Post through a turbulent period in recent Thai history while securing its financial situation, eventually listing Post Publishing Co on the SET Index in 1980.

 

He oversaw the merger of the Bangkok Post and its rival morning daily the Bangkok World in 1972 with the World reverting to a tabloid evening paper.

 

At a time when Thailand was under heavy pressure from both democratic revolutions and military coups, Gorman successfully guided the Post. He was jailed briefly in the early 1980s after offending the military autocrat Gen Kriangsak Chomanan.

 

Under his stewardship the Post was selected to help the Chinese government set up its first English-language newspaper, the China Daily. Gorman also established Thailand’s first non-contributory pension scheme for staff.

 

Gorman resigned from the company on May 1, 1985.

 

He is survived by his wife Christine, and children Julius, Benedict and Chloe.

 

 

http://www.bangkokpo...l-j-gorman-dies

[Flashermac]

Seems like I met him a few years back at a VFW Xmas dinner?

 

RIP.

 

Could have been, though never saw him at a meeting.

[Flashermac]

Heavyweight boxing legend Ken Norton dies at 70

 

 

Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali, has died at the age of 70, his son says.

 

Norton, who had been in poor health following a series of strokes, died at a care facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

Norton broke Ali's jaw in their first bout in San Diego, California, in 1973, which Norton won.

 

In their last meeting on September 1976 at New York's Yankee Stadium, Ali won a narrow and controversial decision to retain the heavyweight title.

 

"I'm sure he's in heaven now with all the great fighters," Gene Kilroy, Ali's former business manager, told the Associated Press news agency. "I'd like to hear that conversation."

 

Norton began boxing during his time in the US Marine Corps, and turned professional shortly after he left the military in 1967.

 

He won a heavyweight title in 1977, but lost the following year in a classic 15-round fight with Larry Holmes.

 

After his boxing career ended, Norton appeared in several movies and became a fight commentator.

 

He had five children, one of whom went on to play professional football and now coaches in the National Football League for the Seattle Seahawk

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-24155378

[acockasian]

Former Post editor dies

 

 

Michael Gorman, editor of the Bangkok Post from 1971-1983, died on Sept 11 at his home in southwestern France after a short illness. He was 76.

 

Apart from being editor and publisher of the Bangkok Post, Gorman was also managing director of Allied Printers.

 

Born in Croydon, United Kingdom and a graduate from Bristol University majoring in economics, Gorman came to Thailand in 1970 after having worked with the Thomson Organisation Limited since 1960.

 

He was a trustee of the Press Foundation of Asia for 10 years and was an active member of the International Press Institute. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society and member of the Institute of Marketing.

 

Gorman successfully steered the Bangkok Post through a turbulent period in recent Thai history while securing its financial situation, eventually listing Post Publishing Co on the SET Index in 1980.

 

He oversaw the merger of the Bangkok Post and its rival morning daily the Bangkok World in 1972 with the World reverting to a tabloid evening paper.

 

At a time when Thailand was under heavy pressure from both democratic revolutions and military coups, Gorman successfully guided the Post. He was jailed briefly in the early 1980s after offending the military autocrat Gen Kriangsak Chomanan.

 

Under his stewardship the Post was selected to help the Chinese government set up its first English-language newspaper, the China Daily. Gorman also established Thailand’s first non-contributory pension scheme for staff.

 

Gorman resigned from the company on May 1, 1985.

 

He is survived by his wife Christine, and children Julius, Benedict and Chloe.

 

 

http://www.bangkokpo...l-j-gorman-dies

 

Thanks very much for posting that...I would have missed it otherwise.