Valley of Life | Online Memorial Blog

Singer Abbey Lincoln and photographer Herman Leonard, both icons in the world of jazz music, died on August 14, 2010 of unrelated causes. Lincoln was 80, and Leonard was 87.

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In the midst of Memorial Day weekend plans, weather forecasts and special services, media headlines were full of news about a record number of celebrity deaths. The following celebrities are artists, actors and musicians whom fans are memorializing: (more…)

Once Los Angeles County Coroner, Ronald N. Kornblum passed away on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at the age of 74.  Kornblum performed some of the most widely watched autopsies in Hollywood, including those for John Belushi, Natalie Wood, Karen Carpenter and Truman Capote.  The 74 year old died at his home in La Canada.

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Founder of the Hardee’s Hamburger chain, Wilber Hardee, died on June 20 at the age of 89 due to a heart attack.  His name has become legendary, as the founder of a chain that now has over 2,000 restaurants around the world. Those stores all started with one empty lot in Greenville, North Carolina where he opened his first hamburger stand.  That no dining room, no drive-up window establishment was opened up on September 3, 1960 and sold hamburgers and milkshakes for .15 each.

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