{"id":24866,"date":"2022-06-30T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24866"},"modified":"2022-06-30T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:44:04","slug":"obit-watch-june-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24866","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 30, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

This one goes out to Lawrence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

She was known as the \u201cRed Headed Ball of Fire,\u201d a title given her for her stature \u2014 she was a diminutive 5-foot-1 \u2014 and her fiery hair. She found the moniker, which was often shortened to \u201cBall of Fire,\u201d corny. But Betty Rowland was a burlesque queen nonetheless. A headliner in the racy variety shows\u2019 glory years in the 1930s and \u201940s, she worked well into the \u201950s.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Betty Rowland was 106 when she passed on April 3rd. Her death was not widely reported until recently.<\/p>\n

John Visentin<\/a>, the CEO of Xerox. He was 59, and passed due to \u201ccomplications from an ongoing illness” according to a company statement.<\/p>\n

Sonny Barger<\/a>, founder of the Hells Angels. Cancer got him at 83.<\/p>\n

In 1972, he and three others were acquitted of murdering a Texas drug dealer and setting a home on fire.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

Barger was sentenced to 10 years to life behind bars in 1973 after he was convicted of possession of narcotics and a weapon by a convicted felon.<\/a>
\nHe was paroled in November 1977 after serving four-and-a-half years of his sentence, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

In 1979, he was among 33 people indicted on charges of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act…Barger was acquitted in 1980 after a split verdict.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

In 1987, Barger was arrested on charges relating to narcotics, weapons and explosives as FBI agents and state law enforcement carried out a series of raids.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

Barger was convicted of conspiracy in October 1988 and was sentenced to four years in jail.<\/a>
\nHe was released from FCI Phoenix in November 1992 after serving three-and-a-half years behind bars.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Edited to add: NYT<\/strong> obit<\/a>, which was not up when I originally posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one goes out to Lawrence: She was known as the \u201cRed Headed Ball of Fire,\u201d a title given her for her stature \u2014 she was a diminutive 5-foot-1 \u2014 and her fiery hair. She found the moniker, which was often shortened to \u201cBall of Fire,\u201d corny. But Betty Rowland was a burlesque queen nonetheless. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24872,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866\/revisions\/24872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}