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Mackay was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He was brought up in Clydebank by a widowed aunt after the death of his mother from diabetes. His father was employed by the NAAFI. [1] On leaving school, Mackay trained as a quantity surveyor and later volunteered for the Royal Air Force in 1941, but was not accepted because of a perforated ...
John Linnell was born in New York City, to father Zenos Linnell, (1925–2011), a psychiatrist, [5] and mother Kathleen (née Glenn; 1926–2008). [6] [3] When Linnell was a child, Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo album made a strong impression on his musical sensibilities.
In 1887, Bucas returned to his former parish of Mackay, where he served for another 25 years. He built a magnificent church in Mackay, and also established church buildings in the surrounding rural areas. He was assiduous in his attendance at the hospital and the homes of the sick, and was well-regarded by all as a kindly and sympathetic priest ...
Rick Mackey, the winner of the 1983 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, has died of lung cancer, his daughter told The Associated Press Wednesday. The Mackey name is closely tied to the history of the ...
A Maryland mother is mourning the loss of her 4-year-old son who was allegedly killed by his father on Christmas Eve during a domestic dispute.
DJ Unk, the Atlanta rapper behind the hits “Walk It Out” and “2 Step,” died at the age of 43. Unk, born Anthony Platt, was one of the key figures in snap music, a subgenre of crunk that ...
His funeral service was attended by 500 mourners who travelled to Lawrence on a special train from Long Island City, but by no members of his immediate family. [10]In 1910, J. P. Morgan donated $100,000 to Yale University to establish the William M. Laffan Professorship of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature in his memory.
David Oman McKay (September 8, 1873 – January 18, 1970) [2] was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1951 until his death in 1970.