This is named after what my students started calling my Current Events back when I was teaching. I checked the obituaries to find the names of any one who lived an interesting life or had done something of note. We did so many obituaries, they got to calling it the Dead Page.
VINCENT FORD, 68
Died Dec. 28, 2008. Credited with composing Bob Marley's famous "No Woman, No Cry," a reggae classic, and three other songs from the 1976 album "Rastaman Vibration." Mr. Ford operated a soup kitchen in the infamous Trench Town part of Kingston, Jamaica, where Marley lived in the late fifties.
Ford suffered from diabetes and had had both legs amputated and this was also the cause of his death. Many think Bob Marley put Ford's name on the song to insure royalties for the soup kitchen and diabetes.
DELANEY BRAMLETT, 69
Co-wrote "Let it Rain" with Eric Clapton. Also worked with George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, and Dave Mason. He was probably the most famous during his 50-year music career as leader of the Southern Blues Rock band Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Bonnie Bramlett was his wife. He wrote "Superstar" for the Carpenters and "Never Ending Song of Love" that was performed by his band.
TED WHITE, 85
On Feb. 23, 1945, he watched the US flag being raised by Marines on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. He was part of a Marine scouting team that had gone to the top to see if it was safe. They decided it was. While coming down, they saw another group of Marines going to the top with a flag, but it was too small. A second flag was brought up and that is when Joe Rosenthal took the famous picture.
Mr. White and the others had an excellent vantage point for the flag-raising, but no one realized the significance of it at the time.
Later, in March, he was wounded and sent state side.
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