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Singer Andy Williams returns home to spend his dying days surrounded by family
Daily Mail ^ | July 16, 2012 | Graham Smith

Posted on 07/16/2012 11:48:39 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Singer Andy Williams has returned home to spend his final days with his family after doctors told him they can do nothing more to treat his bladder cancer.

The Moon River crooner, 84, is now at his Branson, Missouri, home surrounded by his wife, children and friends.

He has asked them to remember the good times and the music he has created over a career that has last three-quarters of a century.

'They are all desperately sad to see their father ­suffer,' a source told the Sunday Express. 'But he has told them all not to cry for him and remember him when he has gone through the music he has loved all his life.'

Williams announced he was suffering from bladder cancer onstage at a show at the Moon River Theater in Branson last December.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: andywilliams; branson; hospice; music; williams
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1 posted on 07/16/2012 11:48:42 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sad. What an amazing life he’s led. May the Lord welcome him home with open arms.


2 posted on 07/16/2012 11:51:17 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: SunkenCiv; fieldmarshaldj

ping


3 posted on 07/16/2012 11:51:47 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He's a good man. Glenn Beck has had him on his radio show around Christmas for the last few years.

Godspeed, Andy. You were always one of my mom's favorite voices, and you'll be a part of every Christmas for me.

4 posted on 07/16/2012 11:51:59 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Godspped, Andy Williams....you will be missed....


5 posted on 07/16/2012 11:53:33 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Andy Griffith

Ernest Borgnine

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6 posted on 07/16/2012 11:54:13 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Saw him a few years ago, very entertaining show...Sad news.


7 posted on 07/16/2012 11:55:27 AM PDT by Shady (There is no separation of powers..they want to ace the people out...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

IBITHWD (In Before I Thought He Was Dead!)


8 posted on 07/16/2012 11:56:48 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: TexasCajun

Jon Lord Hammond. That makes 3.

We’ll be starting a new trio.


9 posted on 07/16/2012 11:58:31 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: TexasCajun
Andy Griffith Ernest Borgnine ...

Sadly you can add "Jon Lord" to that list, only the greatest rock keyboardist ever.

10 posted on 07/16/2012 11:59:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Andy is one of the great ones... one of the last of a fading breed.

God bless him and welcome him home whenever his time comes.


11 posted on 07/16/2012 12:00:16 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Andy Williams - Moon River

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXPV0Gj1Wnc&feature=related

ANDY WILLIAMS..... yesterday when i was young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGrwXFPb2NU&feature=related


12 posted on 07/16/2012 12:01:05 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Shady
Serious question. Why is it sad? He's 84, has had a good career, much success..will die at home, surrounded by his family..I'd happily sign up for that right now. We shold celebrate a life well lived..not mourn it.

BTW..is is ex wife still in jail for murdering her boyfriend? I have one of her LPs in the attic somewheres..

13 posted on 07/16/2012 12:02:00 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three are a Congress".....John Adams)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Can’t Get Used To Losing You - Andy Williams - HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_ArLvatRA


14 posted on 07/16/2012 12:03:15 PM PDT by donna (Mitt quote: ..gay couples raising kids. That's the American way..(Penn St feels same about showers))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
In my opinion, the Andy Williams Show and the Dean Martin Show were the best two shows of that type ever to be on Television. Both men were great personalities and loved by their audiences.
15 posted on 07/16/2012 12:03:28 PM PDT by fish hawk (Religion: Man's attempt to gain salvation or the approbation of God by his own works)
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To: Kartographer

Try To Remember - andy williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32a9bM0tcI&feature=fvwrel


16 posted on 07/16/2012 12:04:43 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: ken5050
BTW..is is ex wife still in jail for murdering her boyfriend? I have one of her LPs in the attic somewheres..

One of the most tasteless SNL skits ever

The Claudine Longet Invitational

17 posted on 07/16/2012 12:05:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: ScottinVA
Andy is one of the great ones... one of the last of a fading breed.

Andy Williams and Jack Jones are about the last of the old school crooners.

18 posted on 07/16/2012 12:11:24 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just sad for me as well. Mom loved his music. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without her playing that album every holiday season.


19 posted on 07/16/2012 12:13:45 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)
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To: dfwgator

Right down there with the Jon Benet skits and ALL the AG Johnny Reno Dance Club skits.


20 posted on 07/16/2012 12:14:13 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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