Dead Woman Has To Pay Late Fees

Even the dead apparently have to pay the fines on their overdue books at one Harrison New York library.
Elizabeth Schaper said she was charged a 50-cent late fee while turning in a book that her late mother had checked out of a Harrison Public Library branch.
“I was in shock,” Schaper said. “This has rocked me [...]

PODCAST: Alice Ghostley: Not A Regular Face In The Crowd

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Tony Award-winning actress Alice Ghostley, well-known to couch potatoes for playing confused sidekicks on Bewitched and Designing Women took her Final Taxi at 81.
From 1966 through 1972, she made regular appearances on the sitcom Bewitched as shy, bumbling witch Esmeralda From 1986 through 1993, Ghostley portrayed oddball neighbor Bernice [...]

A moment of silence for Marcel Marceau

Most of the mimes I have ever seen are just as annoying as the panhandlers you meet in any big city. I am not a fan but have seen a few that know what they are doing and can really pull it off.
Marcel Marceau, the most well-known mime artist, was one of those who you [...]

PODCAST: Match Game’s Brett Somers Has Blanked

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Actress and comedian Brett Somers, who amused game show fans with her quips on the “Match Game” in the 1970s, has taken her Final Taxi at 83.
Hosted by Gene Rayburn, “Match Game” was the top game show during much of the 1970s. Contestants would [...]

A Graveyard For Sports Fans.

I talked earlier this week about how here in Alabama their are fans that get their coffin the colors of there favorite college football team. Europe is now one on us here. They say true soccer fans remain faithful to their team until the day they take their Final Taxi, but that’s not long enough [...]

Has America Forgotten It’s Famous Clown?

Funny how you can go to a doctor’s offices and find magazines that are years old in the lobby. I had to go to a dentist two week ago and found a Golf magazine from the 80’s. I also found a magazine that told me the following story:
Decades ago, a young American was flying across [...]

Coffin Shopping

Being in Alabama I am also in college football country. I once had to go to a funeral for a co-worker’s father. It was known that he was a big Alabama Crimson Tide fan. He had tickets to all the games. Traveled to games out of state and when the team went to the bowl [...]

PODCAST: The voice of Jaws and Airplane’s Lipstick Lady.

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Percy Rodrigues, whose role as a neurosurgeon on the 1960s television series “Peyton Place” broke ground because he was cast as an authority figure when relatively few black actors were given such parts, has taken his Final Taxi at 89. He will be known by Star Trek [...]

Time runs out for Mickey Mouse watch designer

If you didn’t have one you knew someone that did. That something is a Mickey Mouse watch.
Growing up I knew quite a few people who had one. It wasn’t just for kids. I did know an adult or two that hand one.
 Learning to tell time you would say,  “ Mickey’s big hand is on the [...]

Frozen Mom Visited Every Week By Daughters

When is it time to let go of your deceased love one and move on?
 I think that it depends on the person but at the emporium of G Saville & Son Funeral Directors  in London a decade is still not enough and that kind of disturbs your writer here at the Final Taxi.
For ten years [...]