Australian Elderly 100-Years Old Wishing to Die

http://www.bbc.com/arabic/world-43990798

Barbara Bush Funeral

Big enough cross will be fabulous and enticement for Jesus to personally meet her and small hug.

HOUSTON - Former first lady Barbara Bush was remembered at her funeral on Saturday as a formidable but caring figure whose devotion to her family was matched only by her commitment to public service.

the wife of the 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, and the mother of the 43rd, George W. Bush





The husband reflections,


Five Gone. Time Marches On.

Fighting Death April-2018 Barbara Bush

Barbara Bush Is Sick And Won't Seek Further Treatment

APRIL 15 2018

Former first lady Barbara Bush, whose health has been in decline for several months, won't seek further treatment and will instead "focus on comfort care," a spokesperson said on Sunday.

"Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now 92, has decided not to seek additional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort care," said Jim McGrath, spokesperson for Barbara and George H. W. Bush, in a statement.

Barbara Bush, wife and mother of presidents, dies at 92



Professor who insulted Barbara Bush and rejoiced after her death.

Stephen Hawking Dies at 76

    

Stephen W. Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist and best-selling author who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination and curiosity, died early Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, England.

What is equally amazing is that he had a career at all. As a graduate student in 1963, he learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neuromuscular wasting disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was given only a few years to live.

The disease reduced his bodily control to the flexing of a finger and voluntary eye movements but left his mental faculties untouched.

Billy Graham Evangelist Died Feb 21, 2018

Billy Graham Evangelist
February-2018

Billy Graham, 99, Dies; Pastor Filled Stadiums and Counseled Presidents

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/obituaries/billy-graham-dead.html

Billy Graham Biography

Evangelist(1918–2018)

https://en.mediamass.net/people/billy-graham/deathhoax.html

News of religious figure Billy Graham’s death spread quickly earlier this week causing concern among fans across the world. However the February 2018 report has now been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports. Thankfully, the 99-year-old religious figure is alive and well.

On Tuesday (February 20) the religious figure's reps officially confirmed that Billy Graham is not dead. “He joins the long list of celebrities who have been victimized by this hoax. He's still alive and well, stop believing what you see on the Internet,” they said.

Some fans have expressed anger at the fake report saying it was reckless, distressing and hurtful to fans of the much loved religious figure. Others say this shows his extreme popularity across the globe.

    

QUICK FACTS

NAME

Billy Graham

OCCUPATION

Evangelist

BIRTH DATE

November 7, 1918

DEATH DATE

February 21, 2018

EDUCATION

Famous Wheaton College (Illinois) Alumni, Florida Bible Institute, Bob Jones College

PLACE OF BIRTH

Charlotte, North Carolina

PLACE OF DEATH

Montreat, North Carolina

FULL NAME

William Franklin Graham J

Billy Graham was an evangelist at revival meetings, and on radio and television for over 40 years.

Who Was Billy Graham?

Born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Billy Graham was preaching at an L.A. revival and was a guest on Stuart Hamblen's radio show in 1949. The publicity made Graham a superstar and he began broadcasting his sermons globally. Though detractors criticized Graham for being too liberal, one Time reporter dubbed him "the Pope of Protestant America." Graham retired in 2005, and later died at his North Carolina home on February 21, 2018, at age 99.

Early Life

Religious figure and Christian evangelist William Franklin Graham, Jr. was born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to parents William and Morrow Graham. Billy Graham was the first of four children raised on the family's dairy farm in Charlotte. In hindsight there was little indication that Graham would one day preach the Christian gospel to as many as 215 million people in live audiences over 185 countries. Graham has been credited with preaching to more individuals than anyone else in history, not counting the additional millions he has addressed through radio, television and the written word.

While Graham's parents were strict Calvinists, it would be an unfamiliar traveling evangelist who would set Graham on a profound spiritual path. At the age of 16, Graham attended a series of revival meetings run by evangelist Mordecai Ham. Despite the fact that Graham was a well-behaved adolescent, Ham's sermons on sin spoke to young Graham. After high school Graham moved to Tennessee to enroll in the conservative Christian school, Bob Jones College. However, he felt disconnected from the school's rigid doctrine and soon transferred to the Florida Bible Institute. While in Florida, Graham joined a Southern Baptist Convention church, where he was ordained in 1939.

After graduating from the Florida Bible Institute with a bachelor's in theology, Graham moved to Illinois and enrolled at Wheaton College for further spiritual training. Here he would meet his future wife, Ruth McCue Bell. Ruth was the daughter of a missionary, and lived with her family in China until she turned 17. After graduating with a bachelor's in anthropology, Graham and Bell were married on August 13, 1943. They would eventually raise five children together.

Superstar Preacher

Graham briefly pastored the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Illinois, before leaving to join Youth for Christ, an evangelical missionary group which spoke to returning servicemen and young people about God. In 1947, Billy Graham became president of Northwestern Schools, a group of Christian schools in Minnesota. In 1948, he resigned from Youth for Christ and focused on Northwestern Schools until 1952, when he resigned to concentrate on preaching.

It did not take long for people to identify with Billy Graham's charismatic and heartfelt gospel sermons. In 1949, a group called "Christ for Greater Los Angeles" invited Graham to preach at their L.A. revival. When radio personality Stuart Hamblen had Graham on his radio show, word of the revival spread. The publicity filled Graham's tents and extended the revival for an additional five weeks. At the urging of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, papers around the nation covered Graham's revival meetings closely.

As a consequence, Graham became a Christian superstar. Sociologically it is believed that Graham's success was directly related to the cultural climate of post-WWII America. Graham spoke out against the evils of Communism—one of the biggest fears threatening the American consciousness. In a 1954 interview Graham stated, "Either communism must die, or Christianity must die, because it is actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ." With the advent of nuclear weapons and the demonstrated fragility of life, people turned to spirituality for comfort, and Graham illuminated their path.

Thus, Graham helped bind together a vulnerable nation through religious revival. By glazing over the finer details of Christianity and focusing on more moderate doctrines, Graham made evangelism enticing, non-threatening, even easy—and the media made his messages accessible to the masses.

Televangelist

In order to expand and maintain a professional ministry, Graham and his colleagues eventually incorporated the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). Graham began broadcasting his sermons over the radio during a Christian show called Songs in the Night. Once a week he also hosted a program called The Hour of Decision, a program ABC initially transmitted to 150 stations before reaching its peak of 1,200 stations across America.

Eventually this program was converted into a television show which ran for three years. The success of Graham's radio and television programs speak to his role as a Christian media visionary. Graham used the media as a means for spreading the gospel of Christ, allowing him to access millions of people around the globe.

With Graham's success, BGEA opened numerous international offices and started publishing periodicals, records, tapes, films and books. BGEA also accepted invitations from religious figures around the world to hold evangelical "crusades." Scouts would be sent to these cities to reserve a venue, organize volunteer choirs and arrange speakers. At the end of these events, audience members would be invited to commit to Christ and meet with volunteer counselors.

These new recruits would be given workbooks for at-home bible study and referrals to local evangelist pastors. BGEA eventually began to air footage of these crusades on national television with subscriber information. In 1952, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association created the Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry as a means of distributing personal conversion stories to the public through films. BGEA also acquired several radio stations around America in an effort to broadcast Graham's radio shows to a wider audience.

In terms of print media, BGEA created Christianity Today in 1955. This magazine continues to be the leading journal for evangelical Christians. In 1958, BGEA started Decision magazine, a monthly mailer with bible studies, articles, church histories and crusade updates. Eventually this magazine was published in Spanish, French and German. Additionally, Graham himself authored numerous books including such titles as Angels: God's Secret Agents (1975), How to be Born Again (1979), Death and the Life After (1994) and The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World (2006).

Death

Graham passed away at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, on February 21, 2018, at the age of 99. Although his health had been in decline in recent years, he reportedly died of natural causes.

The Year 1941 Born and Death Announcement ... The year I was born 1941 still alive

lLin Bolen was born March 23, 1941,

Lin Bolen · Died

Jan 19, 2018

(1941–2018)
she came west and landed at NBC as a program producer.

Television was still a boy's club when Lin Bolen pushed through the front doors of NBC, rearranged the landscape of daytime programming and cemented herself as one of the most powerful women in TV.
Bolen died Jan. 18 in Santa Monica. At 76,
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Kim Jong-il

Former Supreme Leader of North Korea

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• Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m)
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DR. PROFESSOR EMERIT MARTIN SCHETZEN OBITUARY 1928 - 2017 Northeastern as a Full Professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer

SCHETZEN, Professor Emeritus Dr. Martin A longtime resident of Brookline died peacefully at home after a long illness on Friday, September 8, 2017. He was 89 years old. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he attended the Horace Mann High School in Riverdale, NY. Upon graduating in 1945, Martin was drafted into the US Army where he did his basic training at Fort McClellan, AL, then transferred to airborne school at Fort Benning, GA, where he served with the 501 Parachute Battalion. He was discharged in 1948.

Martin earned his Bachelors Degree from New York University, graduating with honors in Electrical Engineering in 1951. He received both his Master of Science Degree (1954) in Electrical Engineering and his Doctor of Science Degree (1961) from MIT for his Thesis, "Some Problems in Nonlinear Theory".

While Assistant Professor at MIT, he did research for NASA on the Apollo 11 program which put Astronauts on the moon. Martin won the Apollo Achievement Award in 1961 for his theory that landed the Lunar Lander on the moon and the Certificate of Commendation from MIT in 1961 for his contributions in Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems.

In 1962, Martin transferred to Northeastern as a Full Professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Department teaching courses in Control and Linear and Nonlinear Systems. While at Northeastern, he did theoretical research and wrote four books: The Voltera and Weiner Theories of Nonlinear Systems (Wiley), Linear Time-Invariant Systems (Wiley), Discrete Systems Laboratory (Brooks/Cole) and Airborne Doppler Radar Applications, Theory and Philosophy (AIAA). He retired from Northeastern in 2003. 

Martin's main interest was in science but he was very much interested in art, music, philosophy, history, and politics. His students appreciated that he could discuss and argue with them on any subject they were interested in and make them defend their position. He taught them to think.

Martin leaves his beloved wife of 34 years, Jeannine (Desrochers) Schetzen and was uncle to Hannah Cohen and several additional nieces and nephews.

Services were held at the Levine Chapels, 470 Harvard St., BROOKINE, on Sunday, September 10, 2017. Burial was at the Beth El Cemetery, 776 Baker Street, West Roxbury. 

Shiva from 1-4pm daily at his late residence.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to , Donor Services, PO Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202; or the /, PO Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241. Levine Chapels, Brookine

(617) 277-8300

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American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

September 10, 2017

May your memories of the wonderful times you shared with your loved one comfort you and your family, today and always.

American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

Published in The Boston Globe on Sept. 11, 2017