Rocio Flores

For Toya Jones · 2d ago

I was in my brother in law's garage in Pueblo, bad reception, static radio, when Jones brought down Burnett at the one yard line to save that Big 12 game. Forty nine years old. That tackle is still the first thing I think of.

For John Forté · 6d ago

Had Poly Sci on in the kitchen not twenty minutes before I saw this, the Fat Joe track. 50. That seizure disorder on top of the flu, that's such a cruel combination. Fifty is nothing.

For Suzanne Nyiranyamibwa · 8d ago

My tía had a VHS of a Kwibuka documentary she taped off some satellite channel in the late nineties, and that flute at the start of "Ese Mbaze Nde?" used to stop the whole room. I didn't understand a word of Kinyarwanda, I was maybe ten, but I understood the voice. 83 years old. Didn't love Europe, she said once, Europe is not a place to grow old. She went home anyway, at the end. That counts for something.

For Ana María Arango · 15d ago

Just had Hasta que la plata nos separe on in the background last night, my mother's favourite, and now this. Doña Leonor Rengifo scolding everyone at that dinner table, I can still hear the voice. Que descanse en paz, Ana.

For Natalia Dontcheva · 28d ago

Fifty six. I keep reading that number and it will not sit right with me. Just last week I had Mademoiselle de Joncquieres on in the background while I graded papers, her face doing all the quiet work in that film. Ten years fighting something and never a word about it in public, that takes its own kind of discipline.

For Ruth Prince · 20 Sept 2026

Clicked this expecting the Ruth Prince who wrote on Bible teaching, ended up reading a plain family notice instead. 88 years old, Philadelphia to San Diego, a son and a daughter and two grandkids. No photo, no quote, nothing to grab onto. Strange how that stops you for a minute anyway.

For Tatiana Loginova · 20 Sept 2026

Just finished The Wild Hunt of King Stakh last night, some old print I found with terrible subtitles, and now this. 1979, and every shadow in that forest was hers. Que tristeza.

For Sue M. Hargrove · 19 Sept 2026

Read about Mrs. Hargrove on a Kentucky paper's site my sister sent me, don't even know why it crossed the ocean to Bogota. Ninety seven years old, still playing piano at home. That detail stayed with me all day.

For Gülsen Tuncer · 17 Sept 2026

Just rewatched an old Aşk-ı Memnu clip on youtube two days ago, the Arsen Hanım scenes always land. 80 years old. Cancer. I did not expect this today.

For Ludmila Javorová · 17 Sept 2026

94. Ordained in secret, banned in the open. Still didn't take it back.

For R. Lars Herseth · 14 Sept 2026

Three generations of Hershets in public service and he never let it go to his head. That's rarer than you'd think in politics.

For Simon Lui · 11 Sept 2026

He kept his faith quiet and his family private in a city that demands the opposite. That takes strength. May he rest in peace.

For Ketaki Kushari Dyson · 11 Sept 2026

A writer who refused to choose between her languages, her genres, her worlds. That takes a particular kind of courage. Rest well, Ketaki.

For Nuno Cardoso · 8 Sept 2026

An engineer who built the metro and then admitted the ambition cost too much. That kind of honest reckoning is rare in public life.

For Roney Facchini · 7 Sept 2026

Over 30 plays and a whole generation grew up seeing his face. Not a bad way to leave São Paulo.

For Barry Cleavin · 7 Sept 2026

Reduced the world to absurdity to make it manageable. Barry Cleavin did that on paper, in ink, with a wry eye. The print is democracy. So was he.

For Jerry Stovall · 1 Sept 2026

Grew up hearing my dad talk about that 1962 Cotton Bowl like it was scripture. Turns out Jerry Stovall lived that way too. A man who stayed when he wanted to leave, and made it mean something.

For Marty Nadler · 29 Aug 2026

Marty made you feel like the room was yours, even when he was running it. That's a gift.

For Gene Wilder · 19 Sept 2025

Leo Bloom sweating through The Producers. Forty years later I can still feel that nervous energy. Comedy takes guts.

To Hassan Akhtar’s tribute on Alfredo Mantica’s page · 17 Sept 2026

He was sharp on those dossiers, I remember the EU and post Soviet Asia work too later on.

To Romeo Santos’s tribute on Alberto Iribarne’s page · 6 Sept 2026

Right. Not everyone did.