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Michael Katz, along with his brother Isaac, owned and operated Katz Drug Store in Kansas City, Missouri. These marketing geniuses managed to use advertising and promotion to boost their store (which was no ordinary drug store…I understand that they had a full soda fountain AND sold pet monkeys) into the upper echelons of the drug store market. And any market, really… they even sold appliances, and if it could be bought, it was generally considered that the best buy on it could be had at Katz Drugs. Eventually, this store chain became the more recognizable Skaags, and then the more modern Osco.

Michael Katz is interred in a mausoleum at Rose Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Great Garbo started life as Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden. Before her big break in silent film, she held jobs first as a shampoo girl at a barber shop, then as a clerk at a department store. She was one of the few actresses able to successfully make the switchover from silent films to “talkies”, though her first talkie, which won her an Academy Award and familiarized the world with her low, husky voice was one she could never make herself like. Garbo quickly became a legend, albeit a cranky one. Her final film was a complete box office flop, and because of this, she chose to live out the rest of her life in relative seclusion in New York. However, her films, both vocal and silent, are still loved enough to pack the home theater furniture used by movie buffs today.

Greta Garbo is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholms Ian, Sweden.

Alphonso DiMino was a businessman and inventor who held the patents on around fifty different devices, many involving microchip technology. His work was a precursor to modern KVM technology, among other things, He also had patents on medical devices that helped modern medicine advance. His grave is located in the George Washington Memorial Park in Bergen County New Jersey, plot Section B Plot 60 Grave D-4.

Dan Blocker, best remembered for his portrayal of the simple, bumbling Eric “Hoss” Cartwright on the hit western Bonanza, was far from a simple man himself. He was a teacher in Texas before becoming an actor, and, a much lesser known fact, he was the founder of the steakhouse chain Bonanza. He died of a pulmonary embolism in his forties. It is an unfortunate fact that if that had occurred at a later date, modern medical monitors or various types of other medical jewelry might indeed have saved his life. As a part of the childhoods of so very many, he will long be remembered.

Dan Blocker is buried at Woodmen Cemetery in Bowie County, Texas.

Edward Lanctot was a business man, a man whose actions affexted many more people than will ever recognise his name. His revolutionaary marketing ideas and insights became the True Value Hardware chain. In the days before the internet, his way of doing business helped bring a greater variety of useful hardware products to as many locations as possible, unlike the previous stores which tended to carry only one type or size of any given item. These days, you can just click your way to Schlage and order online, but back then, this was incredibly important.

His burial location is unknown.

Carroll O’Connor was best remembered for his starring rolls in not just one, but two award winning hit series. His role as Archie Bunker in the long running hit “All in the Family” will never be forgotten. His later series, “In the Heat of the Night”, included his son Hugh in the cast list. Hugh O’Connor eventually committed suicide after years of being in and out of drug rehabilitation programs. This single event shaped the rest of his father’s life. Carroll O’Connor spent the rest of his life doing his best to convince parents to do anything they could to get between their children and the drugs so readily available to them.

Carroll O’Connor is buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.

Shell Kepler died Friday at a hospital in Oregon. No cause of death was released. She was forty nine years old.

Keplar will live forever in memory as the gossipy nurse Amy Vining on television’s long running soap opera, “General Hospital”. Her other credits include a role in Joan Collins film “Homework”, plus a couple episodes on the seventies situation comedy mega hit “Three’s Company”. In addition to her acting career, she was a noted businesswoman, marketing millions of dollars worth of items through the Home Shopping Network.

When the name Thomas Edison comes up, most people automatically associate it with the invention of the light buld. However, he did a lot more than that. His improvements to the telegraph and telephone were revolutionary. He invented the phonograph.He was also responsible for the first moving picture machine, the storage battery, the mimeograph, and literally a thousand other inventions. His last patent was issued when he was eighty one years old. Not bad for a man who had less than three MONTHS of formal education, is it? Think what he could have done if he had been able to use the things we take for granted today, say, a common notebook computer.

Edison’s remains have been moved and re-buried on the grounds of the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey.

Roy Scheider, best known for his starring role in the blockbuster 70s hit JAWS, died yesterday at the University of Arkansas Hospital for Medical Studies in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was seventy five years old. While no cause of death has been released, he has been a patient at the hospital for the last two years (off and on) for treatment of multiple myeloma.

Who could ever forget the line “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, or that famous singing scene, all three actors singing “Show Me the Way To Go Home” in that dark little boat, leaning on one of those platform beds shelf things little boats have, right before the shark attacks?

RIP, Mr. Scheider.