Author: Barbara Quarshie

Sir Murray Gordon Halberg ONZ MBE was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. Halberg and his wife Phyllis had two children. There are no public records bout his children’s personal lives. Halberg won his first senior national title in 1954, propelling him to fifth place in the mile at the 1954 Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. Two…

Lady Phyllis was the wife of Sir Murray Gordon Halberg ONZ MBE a New Zealand middle-distance runner. Halberg and his wife Phyllis had two children. Murray Halberg passed away on Wednesday, November 30 2022. He was 89. Athletics NZ issued a statement confirming the Olympic champion’s death on Wednesday evening. After a serious injury left him…

Sir Murray Gordon Halberg ONZ MBE was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. Halberg was born in Ekethuna on July 7, 1933, and later moved to Auckland, where he attended Avondale College. After a serious injury left him with a withered left arm, Halberg chose to take up running and showed early promise, teaming up with…

Murray Halberg a New Zealand middle-distance runner passed away on Wednesday, November 30 2022. He was 89.  Athletics NZ issued a statement confirming the Olympic champion’s death on Wednesday evening. Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson gave a statement on the death of Sir Murray Halberg. “Sir Murray was an extraordinary athlete. His gold…

Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an underground comics artist from the United States. Aline was the mother of Sophie Crumb. Sophie, their daughter, was born in 1981. Like her parents, Sophie Crumb is also a comics artist. Crumb studied acrobatics and clowning at a French circus school after finishing her secondary education in France. She sold her…

Robert Crumb is an American cartoonist and musician who was the husband of Aline Kominsky-Crumb an underground comics artist from the United States. The couple got married in 1978. Sophie, their daughter, was born in 1981. Beginning in the late 1970s, Aline and Robert collaborated on a series of comics called Dirty Laundry, which depicted…

Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an underground comics artist from the United States. Aline Goldsmith was born into a Jewish family on Long Island, New York’s Five Towns. Kominsky-Crumb’s work is known for its unvarnished, confessional nature, as it is almost entirely autobiographical. Kominsky-Crumb was also a painter in addition to her work in comics. She shifted…

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, a pioneering cartoonist, died at her home in France, on November 29, 2022 according to social media reports. She was 74 years old. Although no further information is available, she died after a long illness. Her local comic shop/gallery was the first to report the news. La Galerie VP (située à Sauve, dans…

Al Bemiller, one of Buffalo’s longest-serving AFL players, died on Wednesday November 30, 2022, at the age of 84. His cause of death has not been made public. Bemiller, who manned the pivot on the Bills’ offensive line for nine seasons from 1961 to 1969, was literally at the heart of Buffalo’s American Football League…

Mike Nichols was a film and theater director, producer, actor who was married to Diane Sawyer a television broadcast journalist. Diane Sawyer married Mike Nichols in 1988 and the marriage lasted until Nichols passed away in 2014. They had no children, but Nichols did have two children from previous marriages. Mike Nichols was praised for…