Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), died from a cardiac arrest he was 92.

Carl Henry Lindner, Jr. was a Cincinnati businessman and one of the world's richest people. According to the 2006 issue of Forbes Magazine's 400 list, Lindner was ranked 133 and was worth an estimated $2.3 billion.^[1] After dropping out of school at 14 during the Great Depression, he helped to expand his family's dairy business into United Dairy Farmers, a large chain of convenience stores. With his three sons, he controlled roughly 42% of American Financial Group, a holding company based in Cincinnati, Ohio whose primary business is insurance and investments.
Lindner was a part owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Cincinnati Reds until he sold a majority interest to a group led by Robert Castellini on November 2, 2005 and stepped down as CEO. Lindner remained an active partner in the organization after the transaction.^[2] In 1997, Lindner was inducted into Junior Achievement's U.S. Business Hall of Fame.

(April 22, 1919 – October 17, 2011) 

Philanthropy

Lindner donated to charitable causes and political campaigns. The Lindner family has supported several Cincinnati private schools, including Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, which was founded by the Lindners. Lindner supports his Carl H. Lindner Honors-PLUS program within the University of Cincinnati's College of Business. His Great American Insurance Company was once the title sponsor of the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament.^[3] Phillips Chapel Church honored Lindner with the addition of the Carl Lindner, Jr Fellowship Hall.
Most recently, in June 2011 The University of Cincinnati honored Mr. Lindner by renaming the College of Business the Carl H. Lindner College of Business after him in recognition of his and his family's contributions to the college, university, and business community.

Death

Carl Lindner Jr. died on October 17, 2011 at age 92. He is survived by his wife, the former Edyth Bailey; his sons, Carl III, Craig and Keith; 12 grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchildren.^[4]

Republican financial support

Lindner supported the Republican Party. During the 2004 election, the Lindner family contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Republicans, including the Republican National Committee and several politicians. In 2004, the Republican National Committee named Lindner as one of 62 "Super Rangers", the highest level of fundraising recognition, accorded to those who raise $300,000 or more.^[5] Lindner, an ally of George W. Bush, secured the use of Great American Ball Park for Bush's re-election campaign on October 31, 2004, two days before the 2004 Presidential Election.
In 2005, Lindner was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.^[6][7][8] In the Republican primary race of the 2008 Presidential election, he was a supporter of Mitt Romney.

Associations

Carl Lindner and his brother Robert used their family's dairy business to build a chain of convenience stores in Cincinnati, Ohio. From there they went into the financial and communications fields. Through their holding company American Financial Corporation (AFC) they control Great American Insurance, a holding company for a group of property and life insurance companies that constitute the twenty third largest insurer in the country. AFC owns the fourth-largest bank in Cincinnati and the second-largest savings and loan. The Lindners also control seventy shopping centers around Cincinnati. They once owned Bantam Books and the major newspaper of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Enquirer. Charles Keating, also of Cincinnati, was a close friend and colleague of the Lindners.
Carl Lindner also had major investments in United Brands (formerly known as United Fruit - Chiquita Bananas), Gulf+Western (later Paramount Communications, now part of Viacom and CBS Corporation), Warner Communications, Kroger (a major supermarket chain in the eastern U.S.), and Penn Central.
Whereas the Lindner companies and financial institutions once operated on conservative, cautious principles they later became involved in riskier ventures. Lindner insurance companies began to invest in junk bonds and other Lindner companies began to issue junk bonds. The SEC noted that Lindner companies were the single largest filers of new issues of securities in the U.S. Lindner was repeatedly accused of self-dealing in the corporations under his control; e.g. having such a corporation give him a private aircraft. He became closely associated with Michael Milken and the others in the junk bond field to the extent that his financial institutions invested in the junk bonds of the others. He and others actively engaged in public relations efforts to present an image of fiscal propriety to the general public.^[9]


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Osvaldo Guidi,Argentine actor, died from suicide by hanging he was 47.

Osvaldo Oreste Guidi  was an Argentine cinema, theater and television actor, a dramaturge and theater director. He committed suicide by hanging.^[1][2]
He studied acting and theater pedagogy and for twenty years engaged in teaching, in his theater studio in Buenos Aires. He appeared in tens of theater productions (as actor, writer and director), in films and television series.^[3]

(born in Máximo Paz, Argentina on 10 March 1964 – died in Buenos Aires on 17 October 2011)

Filmography

Film

• 1979: Contragolpe
• 1980: Canción de Buenos Aires
• 1982: Plata dulce
• 1998: Tango
• 2000: Apariencias
• 2000: Sin reserva
• 2004: Peligrosa obsesión

Television

• 1988: La bonita página
• 1988: De carne somos
• 1989: Rebelde
• 1991: Chiquilina mía
• 1991: Celeste
• 1992: Antonella
• 1993: Zona de riesgo
• 1993: Casi todo casi nada
• 1994: Milagros
• 1994: Con alma de tango
• 1994: Más allá del horizonte
• 1995: Poliladron
• 1998: Muñeca brava
• 2000: Primicias
• 2000: Amor latino
• 2002: Infieles
• 2003: Resistiré
• 2003: Costumbres argentinas
• 2004: La niñera
• 2005: Amor mío
• 2006: Se dice amor

Theater

as playwright and director

• Ibseniana
• Tango mortal
• Milonga de ángeles
• Sexo necesidad maldita
• Yepeto

as actor

• Feizbuk Stars
• Escoria
• Partes iguales
• Ibseniana
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Volpone y el zorro
• Scapino
• Tango mortal
• Milonga de ángeles
• Sexo necesidad maldita

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Hella Haasse, Dutch writer, died she was 93.

Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse^[1] was a Dutch writer, often referred to as "the Grand Old Lady" of Dutch literature,^[2] and whose novel Oeroeg (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren.^[3] Her internationally acclaimed Magnus opus is "Heren van de Thee", translated to "The Tea Lords".^[4] In 1988 Haasse was chosen to interview the Dutch Queen for her 50th birthday after which celebrated Dutch author Adriaan van Dis called Haasse "the Queen among authors".^[5]
Haasse has the first Dutch digital online museum dedicated to the life and work of an author. The museum was opened in 2008 on her 90th birthday.^[6]
Haasse is the only Dutch author to have an asteroid named after her.^[7]

(2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011)

Dutch East Indies literature

An important segment of her literary work consists of Dutch Indies literature. Her debut Oeroeg (1948), is set in the Dutch East Indies, where Haasse was born and lived for most of the first 20 years of her life. Even more autobiographical texts and books about her life in the East Indies, includes books such as Krassen op een rots (1970). The East Indies continued to play an important part in her work as can be seen in her last novel Sleuteloog (2002), which has the same theme as Oeroeg: is a friendship between a Dutch and an Indonesian child possible and can they really understand each other?
Her successful debut book Oeroeg was well received and often reprinted, but did experience some controversy due to the critical reception by the older author Tjalie Robinson. The Indo (Eurasian) Tjalie Robinson pointed out why he did not find the characters in the story credible. Moreover as Tjalie Robinson himself was still living in the Dutch East Indies at that time, hoping for and working towards fraternization between the Dutch and Indonesians his sharp criticism was directed against what he considered the defeatist nature of the book.^[8][9]
The movie Oeroeg based on the book premiered in 1993.^[10]

Tea plantation, Java, Dutch East Indies, 1910-1940.

Her internationally acclaimed Magnus opus "Heren van de Thee" was translated to ‘The Tea Lords’ in 2010. It is a historical novel set in the Dutch East Indies of the 19th and 20th century, based on a trove of documents and letters deposited in the Netherlands by the heirs and relations of the book’s characters.

”I can only say that realising her characters were once flesh and blood made me feel I had read the most humane sort of biography, in which the writer inhabits every emotional recess and significance. That may make The Tea Lords sound like half a novel; but read it and you might agree that it is more in the nature of an improvisation, a graceful, marvellously achieved improvisation that only a novelist of the greatest imagination and sympathy could have written.” Julian Evans.^[11]

Awards

Her great commercial success and critical acclaim is reflected in the numerous prizes she has been awarded over the years. She has won prizes for both her first novel in 1948 as well as her last novel in 2003. Prestigious awards for her entire oeuvre up to that time include the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1981 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1984. Various other prizes include the ‘’Annie Romein Prize’’and the ‘’Dirk Martens Prize’’. She has also won the ‘’Prize of the Public of the NS’’ twice and is the only author who has written the prestigious annual "Boekenweekgeschenk" thrice, in 1948, 1959 and 1994 respectively.

International recognition

Haasse lived in France for many years (1981–1990), and much of her work has been translated into French. The '‘Académie Française’' awarded Haasse the Diplôme de médaille Argent in 1984. The next year she delivered a presentation on colonial literature at the University of Dakar. She was awarded the Officier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur in 2000.
Haasse received an honorary literary doctorate from the University of Utrecht in 1988 and from the Belgian University of Leuven in 1995. In 1987 she had already been given an honorary membership of the Belgian Royal Literary Academy (Belgische Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (KANTL)) in Gent.
The Chilean Ministry of Education (‘El Ministerio de education de Chile') awarded her a prize for her “universal contribution to culture” in 1996.
In 1989 the city of Boston awarded her the ‘Boston Certificate of Recognition’, for her book ‘’In a Dark Wood Wandering’’: “In recognition and appreciation of your outstanding contributions to the City of Boston and its residents.”
In 1992 Haasse attended the opening of the IKAPI ‘International Book Fair’ in Jakarta. It was the last time she would visit her birthplace, Java, and the year her Dutch Indies literature masterpiece Heren van de Thee was published.

Gallery

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  Lake Telaga Hideung on Java, close to where Hella Haasse grew up as a child and which prominently features in her debut book Oeroeg.
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  Tea plantation in the Preanger mountains, East Java, the area where Haasse's novel The Tea Lords is situated and which she visited.

Bibliography

• Oeroeg (1948)
• Het woud der verwachting - 1949 (translated into English as In a dark wood wandering, 1989)
• De verborgen bron - The hidden source (1950)
• De scharlaken stad - 1952 (translated into English as The scarlet city. A novel of 16th-century Italy, 1952)
• De ingewijden - The incrowd (1957)
• Cider voor arme mensen - Cider for poor people (1960)
• Een nieuwer testament - A newer testament (1966, translated as Threshold of fire. A novel of fifth century Rome, 1993)
• De tuinen van Bomarzo - The gardens of Bomarzo (1968)
• Huurders en onderhuurders - Tenants and Undertenants (1971)
• De Meester van de Neerdaling - The Master of Descent (1973)
• Een gevaarlijke verhouding of Daal-en-Bergse brieven - A dangerous affair or Daal-en-Bergish letters (1976)
• Mevrouw Bentinck - Mrs. Bentinck (1978, 1982 and 1990)
• Charlotte Sophie Bentinck (1978 and 1996)
• De wegen der verbeelding - The roads of imagination (1983)
• Een vreemdelinge in Den Haag - 1984 (translated into English as A stranger in The Hague. The letters of Queen Sophie of the Netherlands to Lady Malet, 1842–1877, 1989)
• Berichten van het Blauwe Huis - Messages from the blue house (1986)
• Schaduwbeeld of Het geheim van Appeltern (1989) - Shadow picture or the Secret of Appeltern
• Heren van de thee - The Lords of Tea (1992) (translated into English by Ina Rilke as The Tea Lords, 2010. )
• Een handvol achtergrond, 'Parang Sawat' - A handful of background, 'Parang Sawat' (1993, translated into English as Forever a stranger and other stories, including Oeroeg, 1996)
• Transit (1994)
• 1995 - Overeenkomstig en onvergelijkbaar
• 1996 - Toen ik schoolging
• 1996 - Ogenblikken in Valois (essays)
• 1996 - Uitgesproken opgeschreven. Essays over achttiende-eeuwse vrouwen, een bosgezicht, verlichte geesten, vorstenlot, satire, de pers en Vestdijks avondrood
• 1997 - Zwanen schieten
• 2000 - Lezen achter de letters (essays)
• 2000 - Fenrir: een lang weekend in de Ardennen
• 2002 - Sleuteloog, (won Dutch prize: NS-Publieksprijs 2003)
• 2003 - Het dieptelood van de herinnering (autobiographical)
• 2004 - Oeroeg - een begin (facsimile-edition on the occasion of Dutch prize: Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren)
• 2005 - Over en weer (stories)
• 2006 - Het tuinhuis (stories)
• 2006 - Een kruik uit Arelate (available as podcast^[12])
• 2007 - Sterrenjacht (1950 Het Parool publication)
• 2007 - De handboog der verbeelding (Interviews)
• 2008 - Uitzicht

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Charles Brooks, American editorial cartoonist, died he was 90.

Charles G. Brooks was a editorial cartoonist for The Birmingham News in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

(November 22, 1920 – September 29, 2011) 

Early life

Brooks was born in Hopewell, near Andalusia in Covington County, Alabama. After high school he moved to Birmingham and studied at Birmingham-Southern College for two years, and then transferred to the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where he was instructed by Vaughn Shoemaker (Chicago Daily News) and Don Ulsh. While in Chicago, Brooks met his future wife, Virginia. They had a daughter, Barbara, and son, Charles G. Brooks, Jr.
In 1942 Brooks enlisted in the United States Army. After training he was enrolled in Officers Candidate School and was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the 531st Engineer Shore Regiment. His unit participated in the D-Day landing at Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, mainly helping to establish a supply port at the beachhead. Later that winter the unit, re-commissioned as the 3053rd Engineer Combat Battalion, which deployed from Liège deep into Germany with the 9th Army and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. During his army service Brooks drew several cartoons which appeared in Stars and Stripes.

Professional life

After his discharge in 1945 Brooks returned to his wife and new daughter in Chicago. He worked for Brach's Candy Company and as a bank guard before he found representation at the Fred Zaner Advertising Cartoon Syndicate. Hopeful that he could become an editorial cartoonist he wrote to friends in Birmingham and received mild interest from the Birmingham News. He took a gamble and made the trip to meet with News officials and was offered the position beginning in 1948.
Brooks' cartoons were immediately popular in Birmingham. He used the platform to express great faith in the character of the American people and harsh criticism of anyone or anything that attacked or insulted that character. He did not withhold criticism of the Ku Klux Klan, a group which is believed to have counted many of the city's powerful men among its members. In addition to cartooning, the News lent Brooks out to work with police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to create sketches of suspects from eyewitness descriptions.

Honors

Brooks won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for the most outstanding editorial cartoon of 1959. His winning panel, entitled "Two Deadly Weapons" depicted a hand holding a revolver and a second hand holding an automobile in the same manner, labeled "reckless speeding driver." Another cartoon on the same subject, which appeared during the holiday season, showed the Biblical Magi on camels following the Star of Bethlehem in the top panel and two colliding cars in the lower panel with the caption "Then...Bethlehem. Today...Mayhem." The Texas Highway Patrol distributed copies of the cartoon instead of warnings in 1960 and partially credited Brooks with a drop in the number of fatalities during the Christmas season.
Brooks' farewell to Walt Disney in 1966 showed dozens of Disney's cartoon characters gathered mournfully at his grave. Thousands of copies were requested from across the country and the original hands at Disney Studios. A 1975 cartoon lambasting Vice President Nelson Rockefeller for ignoring parliamentary procedure during debate of an anti-filibuster bill was passed around the Senate floor. A 1973 "The Wizard of Id" strip, drawn by Brooks' friend Brant Parker, shows an editorial catroonist named "Charles" being punished by the King for lampooning him. Parker sent a personally inscribed copy to Brooks. A 1976 editorial in The Wall Street Journal referenced a Brooks cartoon entitled "All Things to All People" which showed presidential candidate Jimmy Carter standing at a church pulpit with a Bible in one hand and a copy of Playboy in the other.
Brooks was invited to the White House in 1982 and presented an original of a cartoon making fun of Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill to President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. Senator John Glenn's wife, Annie, requested the original of another cartoon showing Glenn rowing alone in the center of a river while a donkey leads Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, George McGovern and Jesse Jackson in a larger boat on "the left". Glenn wrote Brooks that it was the best gift his wife had given him and that it was the only cartoon he hung in his office. Former head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, also requested a Brooks original cartoon, which he hung in his office.
He served as president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in 1969 and edited an annual volume of the Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year since 1972 for Pelican Books. He retired from the News in 1985. Since 1982 the University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Community and Allied Health has presented a "Charles Brooks Award" annually to a graduating senior who made a creative contribution to the school.
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Eddie Bockman, American baseball player, manager and scout (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees), died he was 91.

Eddie Bockman was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1946 through 1949 for the New York Yankees (1946), Cleveland Indians (1947) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1948–1949). Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), 175 lb. he batted and threw right-handed.^[1]
Born in Santa Ana, California, Bockman was a triple-threat back for Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California, in 1937.^[2]

(July 26, 1920 – September 29, 2011) 


While playing at second base, Bockman hit a home run for the Fullerton, California All-Stars to help lead them to a 16–4 victory over Fort Rosecrans, in August 1943.^[3] He also played third base for a Pacific Coast League All-Star team which featured Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller. The All-Stars opposed the Kansas City Monarchs in an exhibition game at Wrigley Field (Los Angeles), on October 2, 1945, with Satchel Paige pitching for the Monarchs.
Bockman missed 1943 to 1946 due to military service during World War II conflict. He joined the Yankees in September 1946, and later spent parts of the next three years with the Indians and Pirates.
His most productive seasons came with Pittsburgh, when he collected career numbers with a .239 batting average and 23 runs batted in in 1948. Then, in 1949 he posted career-highs in games (79) and home runs (9), driving in 19 runs while scoring 21 times. In April of that year, he belted two home runs in a single game to give the Pirates a 3–1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Forbes Field. His two-run homer in the fourth inning scored Danny Murtaugh, who had walked previously.^[1][4]
Bockman was a .230 hitter with 11 home runs and 56 RBI in 199 games.^[1] Following his majors stint, he became a Minor league player-manager for the Albuquerque Dukes (1955), Visalia Cubs (1956) and Amarillo Gold Sox (1957–1958).^[5]
He later scouted for the Indians, Phillies, Pirates and Yankees organizations, being credited for signing Bob Boone, Larry Bowa, Joe Charboneau, Buck Martinez, Ricky Jordan, Randy Lerch, Dick Ruthven, John Vukovich and Bob Walk, among others.^[6]
Brockman died in Millbrae, California, at the age of 91.^[6]

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Vesta Williams, American R&B singer, died she was 53.

Mary Vesta Williams was an American recording artist and songwriter, who performed across genres such as pop, jazz, adult contemporary and R&B. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was sometimes simply billed as Vesta beginning in the 1990s.^[3] She was known for her four-octave vocal range.^[4][5] Although Williams never had any albums certified gold nor any Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, she scored six Top 10 hits on the United States Billboard R&B chart from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Williams was known for the hits "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", "Sweet Sweet Love", "Special", and her 1989 #1 hit and signature song,^[6] "Congratulations".^[7]

(December 1, 1957 – September 22, 2011^[2])

Biography

Born in Coshocton, Ohio, United States,^[1][3] Williams' father was a disc jockey. Her family moved from Ohio to Los Angeles in the 1960s. While there, Williams and her three sisters, Margaret, Marte and Marlena, appeared on the television show Jack and Jill as "The Williams Sisters".^[8] Later, she returned to Ohio but decided to go back to Los Angeles in order to launch a solo career.^[3] Former Fifth Dimension member Ron Townson put Williams in his band Wild Honey.^[8] Following that stint, Williams found work as a backup singer, working with artists such as Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Sting, Stephanie Mills, Anita Baker and Gordon Lightfoot. Williams sang on the original version of Joe Sample's "The Survivor",^[8] and met producer David Crawford while working with his group Klique. After doing session work, she landed a recording contract with A&M Records and her debut album, Vesta, was released in 1986.^[8] The album featured her first Top 10 R&B hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", which became her only UK hit and performed modestly on the US R&B charts.^[3]
Her 1988 release, Vesta 4 U, produced the Top 10 R&B hits "Sweet Sweet Love", "4 U", and "Congratulations", with the latter peaking at #55 on the Hot 100 chart and #5 on the R&B chart.^{[citation needed]} The album would become her most successful,^{[citation needed]} and her only album to appear on the US Billboard 200, peaking at #131. In 1991, Williams released her third album entitled Special, with the title track as a single. "Special" became her highest charting song on the R&B chart at #2, but sales of the album were less than that of Vesta 4 U. Her next album, 1993's Everything-N-More, produced only a minor R&B hit, "Always".^[9]
In 1989, Polygram Records purchased A&M Records. Williams' 1998 album Relationships was released under the Polygram name, and it became a modest seller, appearing on the R&B charts. Following the release of Relationships, A&M/Polygram did not renew her contract. Williams continued to work as a session singer, landing spots on albums by such artists as Phil Perry, Howard Hewett, and George Duke. Her voice could be heard by radio listeners in jingles for advertisers that included McDonald's, Nike, Baskin-Robbins, Diet Coke, Revlon and Exxon.^[10] That same year, she performed the opening theme to the ABC miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place.^[11]
Williams portrayed a saloon singer in the 1993 film Posse, directed by Mario Van Peebles.^[12] During this time period she had a hit with the SWV song, "Rain", recorded alongside smooth jazz musician, Norman Brown.^{[citation needed]} Williams had a recurring role as "Monica", Jackee Harry's best friend, in the television series Sister, Sister in the 1998-99 season. Her singing voice is featured during the opening theme song of UPN's Malcolm and Eddie.^[13]
In 2000, Polygram released a compilation album, featuring songs from Williams and Polygram artist, CeCe Peniston. In 2007, Williams released an album of R&B songs on Shanachie Records entitled Distant Lover. Produced by Chris "Big Dog" Davis, Distant Lover was a cover album featuring songs originally recorded by Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Sade, and Deniece Williams. Her last recording was the song "Dedicated", released on 7 December 2010 on Stimuli Music.^[14]
By 2002, Williams became a radio personality and was co-hosting a morning show on KRNB, a radio station based in Dallas/Fort Worth.^[15] In recent years, Williams lost 100 pounds, going from size 26 to a size 6.^[16] It was at this time that Williams became an advocate for the prevention of childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes.^[17]
Her final performance was on September 17, 2011 in Portsmouth, Virginia, performing at the Autumn Jazz Explosion, just five days before her death.^[13]
Williams was scheduled to perform at the 21st annual "DIVAS Simply Singing!" in Los Angeles on October 22. Shanice performed "Congratulations" in the show as a tribute to Williams; there also was a tribute to the late singer, Teena Marie.^[18] Williams was taping TV One's "Unsung" at the time of her death. The episode aired January 2, 2012.^[19]

Death

On September 22, 2011, Williams was found dead in a hotel room in El Segundo, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.^[1][20][21] According to the county coroner's office, Williams was found dead at 6:15 p.m. A Los Angeles County Coroner's Office spokesperson stated that the following autopsy did not yield a cause of death. In late December 2011, the family released this statement, through a family friend singer/producer Norwood Young, reporting her official cause of death: "Following three months of intensive coroner's autopsy and toxicology research, it has been definitively determined that the cause of death for our beloved Vesta was 'natural death' from 'hypertensive heart disease,'" adding: "An enlarged heart can remain undetected for many years."^[22][23][24]
Vesta Williams was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) on Octoder 4th, 2011 following the memorial service at West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles, California.^[25] Attendees included notable friends Wanda Dee, singer Peggi Blu, Freda Payne, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Kellita Smith, Norwood Young, Michael Collier (author), Miki Howard, Karel Bouley, Kiki Shepard, Jackee’, Luenell and renowned Blues singer, Linda Hopkins. A private reception was held following the interment. ^[26]
She is survived by her mother, daughter, three sisters, a brother and three grandchildren as well as many cousins, friends and fans.^[27]

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions[28]		Record Label
		US	US R&B
1986	Vesta	—	43	A&M
1988	Vesta 4 U	131	26
1991	Special	—	15
1993	Everything-N-More	—	65
1998	Relationships	—	55	I.E. / PolyGram
2000	Winning Combinations (a compilation) with CeCe Peniston	—	—	A&M/Universal
2007	Distant Lover	—	—	Shanachie
2012	Seven [29]	—	—	Bronx Bridge Entertainment
"—" denotes the album failed to chart

Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions[30]
		US	US R&B	US Dance	Dutch Single Top 100	UK[31]
1986	"Once Bitten, Twice Shy"	—	9	45	20	14
1987	"Something About You"	—	46	21	—	—
	"Don't Blow a Good Thing"	—	17	5	—	89
	"Suddenly It's Magic"	—	—	—	—	88
	"You Make Me Want To (Love Again)"	—	90	—	—	—
1988	"Sweet, Sweet Love"	—	4	—	—	—
1989	"4 U"	—	9	—	—	—
	"Congratulations"	55	5	—	—	—
	"How You Feel"	—	70	—	—	—
1990	"I'll Be Good to You" (with Najee)	—	9	—	—	—
1991	"Special"	—	2	—	—	—
	"Do Ya"	—	43	—	—	—
1993	"Always"	—	44	—	—	—
1998	"Somebody For Me"	—	—	—	—	—
2010	"Dedicated"	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes the single failed to chart or was not released

Music videos

• "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
• "Somebody For Me"
• "Don't Blow a Good Thing"
• "Sweet Sweet Love"
• "4 U"
• "Congratulations"
• "How You Feel"
• "Special"
• "Do Ya"
• "Somebody For Me"
• "Dedicated"

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Sissy Löwinger , Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger, died she was 70.

Sissy Löwinger  was an Austrian actress, director and theatre manager. She was the daughter of Austrian actor and director Paul Löwinger. She worked in public relations and dramaturgy for the family theatre "Löwinger Bühne" together with her brother, Paul. Later she also directed plays. After her father's death she became manager of the theatre, again with her brother Paul. She directed and edited television comedies and also wrote eight plays. She appeared in the role of Walpurga in the Franz Josef Gottlieb directed German production of Saison in Salzburg (1961).
She was married to the very popular Austrian television presenter Peter Rapp, and later to Peter Blechinger, with whom she lived in a house in Neulengbach in Austria. Löwinger had a daughter from her first marriage.
Löwinger died on 25 September 2011 in Altlengbach, Lower Austria.^[1] She was 70.

(22 June 1941 – 25 September 2011)

Director

• 1983: Ein Mann für zwei Frauen
• 1985: Der keusche Joseph

Films

• 1961: Saison in Salzburg (Season in Salzburg)
• 1965: Das ist mein Wien
• 1968: Immer Ärger mit den Paukern (Always Trouble with the Teachers)
• 1969: Liebe durch die Hintertür (Wild, Willing & Sexy)
• 1969: Frau Wirtin hat auch eine Nichte (House of Pleasure)
• 1969: Komm, liebe Maid und mache (Sex Is a Pleasure aka The Brazen Women of Balzac)
• 1970: Frau Wirtin treibt es jetzt noch toller (The Hostess Exceeds All Bounds)
• 1974: Auf der Alm, da gibt’s koa Sünd’ (Bottoms aka Bouncing Boobs)

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