Jean Casselman Wadds, Canadian politician, MP for Grenville—Dundas (1958–1968); High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1979–1983), died she was 91.

Jean Casselman Wadds, OC  was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Grenville—Dundas from 1958 to 1968. She sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party  died she was 91..

(September 16, 1920 – November 25, 2011)

Wadds was born in 1920 in Newton Robinson, Ontario. She was the daughter of William Earl Rowe; Wadds and Rowe are, to date, the only father and daughter to sit as MPs in the same session of Parliament.
In 1946, she married Arza Clair Casselman, who represented Grenville—Dundas in the House of Commons until his death in 1958, and she was elected to the same seat later that year.
Wadds served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health and Welfare in 1962 and 1963. She was the first woman to serve as a parliamentary secretary in the Canadian government.
In 1979, Wadds was appointed Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. She served in this capacity until 1983. During this time, the Canadian Constitution was patriated. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was to say of her:

"I always said it was thanks to three women that we were eventually able to reform our Constitution. The Queen, who was favourable, Margaret Thatcher, who undertook to do everything that our Parliament asked of her, and Jean Wadds, who represented the interests of Canada so well in London."^[1]

In 1982, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for carrying "out her duties with great competence and conscientiousness, particularly during the period of the patriation of the Constitution".^[2]
On November 25, 2011, Wadds died at the age of 91.^[3]

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Coco Robicheaux, American blues musician and artist, died he was 64.

Curtis John Arceneaux ^[1] better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States died he was 64..

(October 25, 1947 – November 25, 2011)

He was born in Merced, California.^[1] Arceneaux took his stage name from a Louisiana legend, in which a naughty child called Coco Robicheaux, is abducted by a werewolf (Loup Garou or Rougarou). Also, the name 'Coco Robicheaux' is repeated in the song "I Walk on Guilded Splinters" from Dr. John the Night Tripper's 1968 album, Gris-Gris.^[2]
Robicheaux appeared in the episode "Hotshots", of the USA Network series Big Easy, playing a New Orleans musician named "Coco", who had sold his soul to the devil. Two of Robicheaux's songs were also featured in the episode, "Broken String" and "Spiritland". Coco Robicheaux appeared as himself in the second episode of HBO's Treme, first broadcast in the US on April 18, 2010.
Coco Robicheaux died in November 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of 64.^[1]
One of his last recordings were for the Danish singer Naja Rosa Koppel´s album "The Place I Call Home" (2012)
His very last was the day of his birthday, one month before his death, with singer Frenchie Moe. Mike Hood, Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, Jimmy Carpenter and Jack Cruz also participated to the song.

Discography

• Spiritland (Orleans 1994)
• Louisiana Medicine Man (Orleans 1998)
• Hoodoo Party (Orleans 2000)
• Yeah, U Rite! (Spiritland 2005)
• Like I Said, Yeah, U Rite! (Spiritland 2008)
• Revelator (Spiritland 2010)

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Frederik Meijer, American businessman, Chairman of Meijer (1964–1990), died from a stroke he was 91.

Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer  was the Chairman of the Meijer hypermarket chain in Michigan, United States died from a stroke he was 91..^[1]

^{(December 7, 1919 – November 25, 2011)}

Biography

Frederik Meijer was born in Greenville, Michigan.^[1] In 1962, he launched Meijer Thrifty Acres with his father and pioneered one-stop shopping.^[1] He inherited the company in 1964, after the death of his father, Hendrik Meijer.^[1] In 1990, he handed over the company to his sons, Doug and Hank, though he remained the Chairman of the Board until his death.^[1]
He helped establish the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.^[2] An Honors College at Grand Valley State University is named for him.^[3] A Chair in Dutch culture at Calvin College is also named for him.^[4] As of September 2011, he was worth US$5 billion.^[1] He was the 60th richest person in the United States at the time of his death.^[1][5]
Fred Meijer died on November 25, 2011 at the Spectrum Health System in Grand Rapids, MI after suffering a stroke in his Grand Rapids home in the early morning hours, reported by the Grand Rapids Press.^[6]

Bibliography

ten Harmsel, Larry; Bill Smith (2009). Fred Meijer: Stories of His Life. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 0-8028-6460-0.

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Hoddy Mahon, American college basketball coach (Seton Hall University), died he was 79.

Horace J. "Hoddy" Mahon was the head coach of the Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team during the 1981-82 season died he was 79.. He succeeded Bill Raftery and preceded P. J. Carlesimo. He was a longtime assistant coach for the Pirates and was hired to replace Raftery, who left to pursue his communications career. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania

(January 17, 1932 – November 25, 2011) 

Preceding his tenure at Seton Hall, he was a very successful New Jersey high school coach at Orange High School and at Essex Catholic High School. He brought both schools to the state finals. He won the Essex county and state championships while at Orange. Mahon's college coaching career began at Fordham University as an assistant to Hal Whistle, where he helped recruit players Ken Charles and Charlie Yelverton for the Rams.
After Fordham, he joined Raftery at Seton Hall as an assistant for 12 years. While head coach, he knocked off the University of Houston and Phi Slamma Jamma in a huge upset and started the season with a 9–1 record. Then, two starters and one bench player who played large minutes were declared academically ineligible for the Pirates' second half of the season. Despite this, Mahon finished with a respectable season. However, even after doing this, Mahon was not hired by the university at the end of the season. In the end, Seton Hall decided to hire the younger, more energetic P. J. Carlesimo instead of the older, more conservative Mahon. This effectively ended Mahon's tenure at Seton Hall and he later took the reins at both William Paterson University and Upsala University, both of which are New Jersey schools. At both institutions he recorded winning records.
He died at his Allenhurst, New Jersey home in 2011.^[1]


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Judy Lewis, American actress (General Hospital, The Secret Storm), daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young, died from cancer she was 76.

Judy Lewis ^[1] was an American actress, writer, producer, and therapist, and the secret biological daughter of actor Clark Gable and actress Loretta Young  died from cancer she was 76.^[1][2]

^{(November 6, 1935 – November 25, 2011)}

History

Judy Lewis was the biological daughter of actress Loretta Young and actor Clark Gable, who had a brief affair while working on the film The Call of the Wild. Lewis was the only biological child that Gable had while he was still alive (his only son was born four months after his death), but he had no relationship with her. Gable was married at the time to "Ria" Langham. Young concealed her pregnancy to protect their film careers and to avoid scandal. Young went to Europe for several months and then returned to a small house in Venice, California with her mother.^[3] A Hollywood gossip columnist interviewed Young because she was claiming to be ill for weeks and needed rest. She gave the interview from her bed, covered in blankets to conceal her pregnant belly.
Young gave birth, and weeks later, the baby was put in an orphanage.^[3] Lewis would spend the next 19 months in various "hideaways and orphanages" until Young's mother retrieved the toddler.^[3] Later she told Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons that she had "adopted" two children and several weeks later, told Parsons that she had to give one of the children back to its biological mother. She did this as a smokescreen to cover up the birth and to make her adoption story more believable.^[4]
When Lewis was four years old, her mother married businessman Tom Lewis, and Judy went by his last name. However, Tom never adopted Judy because he never knew that she was Loretta's biological daughter, a fact that he would have learned had he gone through adoption procedures. Christopher Lewis once told Judy that at one time his father thought that Judy was the biological daughter of Loretta's sister, Sally Blane, because of Judy's resemblance to Sally.^[5][6][7] Her mother went on to have two sons, Christopher Paul and Peter Charles, with Tom Lewis.
Lewis looked strikingly like Gable as she grew older, including having ears that stuck out like Gable's.^[3] Young often put bonnets on the toddler, and had Lewis undergo a painful operation on her ears as a child to pin them back in another attempt to hide her real parentage. As Lewis grew up, several people in Hollywood, as well as the public, began to believe that Clark Gable was her biological father. When Judy was fifteen, Gable came to her mother's house to visit her briefly. Gable asked Lewis about her life and then upon leaving, kissed her on her forehead. It was the only time that Judy ever spoke to Gable, and she had no idea he was her father. When Lewis met her future husband at the age of twenty-three, it was he who told her that Gable was her biological father and that "everyone" knew, which stunned Lewis.^[8] Lewis, at age 31, finally confronted her mother when Gable had been dead for five years.^[3] Loretta Young became nauseated but confirmed the truth.^[3] Lewis wrote a book about her life titled Uncommon Knowledge, because it seemed that she was the only one who did not know about her true parentage. Loretta Young died on August 12, 2000, at age 87; her autobiography, published posthumously, confirmed that Gable was indeed Lewis's father.^[3]
Lewis was the niece of actresses Polly Ann Young, Sally Blane, and Georgiana Young. Her aunt, Georgiana (Loretta Young's half-sister), was married to actor Ricardo Montalbán for sixty-three years until her death in 2007. She was also the half-sister of John Clark Gable (Clark Gable's son with his fifth wife, Kay Williams), Christopher Lewis and Peter Lewis (Loretta's biological sons). Musician David Lindley is her cousin.^[9]
Lewis' credits include appearances on TV serials such as General Hospital, Kitty Foyle, The Brighter Day, The Doctors. Ms. Lewis had her longest running serial role on The Secret Storm as Susan Ames from 1964–1971. She also produced the short-lived Another World spin-off, Texas and was a script writer for NBC Daytime's Search for Tomorrow.
In 1958, Lewis guest starred in the episode entitled "Attack" of the syndicated western series Mackenzie's Raiders, starring Richard Carlson. She guest starred with Grant Sullivan in his syndicated western series, Pony Express. In 1960, Lewis portrayed a girlfriend of a United States Navy officer in the episode "Tiger Blood" of the syndicated series The Blue Angels. In the 1961–1962 television season, she appeared as Connie Masters, an employee of the Wells Fargo office in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in the NBC western series, The Outlaws. In 1975, she guest starred in the short-lived CBS family drama, Three for the Road.
Lewis was divorced with one daughter, Maria, and two grandsons. She obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in clinical psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles, became a licensed family and child counselor in 1992, and was a practicing psychotherapist in Los Angeles, with specialty in foster care and marriage therapy.^[10][11]
Judy Lewis died of cancer on November 25, 2011.^[1]


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Karel Hubáček, Czech architect, designer of the Ještěd Tower, died he was 87.

Karel Hubáček  was a Czech architect who designed the Ještěd Tower and hotel atop the Ještěd mountain near Liberec died he was 87..^[1]

^{(Czech pronunciation: [ˈkarɛl ˈɦubaːtʃɛk]; 23 February 1924 – 25 November 2011)}

Hubáček's best known work was the Ještěd Tower, which was constructed between 1966 and 1973.^[1] In 1969, the Ještěd Tower received the Perret Prize from the International Union of Architects.^[1][2] In 2000, Czech architects named Hubáček's tower most successful domestic architectural work of the 20th Century.^[1]
In addition to the Ještěd Tower, Hubáček designed buildings throughout the Czech Republic. Czech architects named Hubáček the fourth most influential Czech architect of all time. He was the only living architect to place in the top ten in the same survey.^[1]
Hubáček was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 23 February 1924. He died in the Czech Republic on 25 November 2011, at the age of 87.^[1] A funeral will be held on 2 December at the crematorium in Liberec.^[1]


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Fred Etcher, Canadian Olympic silver medal-winning (1960) ice hockey player, died he was 79.

Fred Etcher was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics. He was born in Oshawa, Ontario died he was 79..

(August 23, 1932 – November 25, 2011)

Etcher won the silver medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in ice hockey and still holds the record for the most points (9 goals, 12 assists) in a single Olympic tournament. Etcher is also tied for the record of the most assists in a single Olympic tournament.
He played for Oshawa Generals. Etcher played 102 matches in the Ontario Hockey Association.


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