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Mark York, ‘The Office’ actor who played Billy Merchant, dies at 55
https://myfox8.com ^ | Updated: May 25, 2021 / 05:43 PM EDT | by: Darcie Loreno

Posted on 05/26/2021 5:11:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

(WJW) — Actor Mark York, best known for his role in “The Office,” passed away in Ohio after a brief, unexpected illness.

According to his obituary, York, 55, died early May 19 at Miami Valley Hospital.

York, who played Billy Merchant on “The Office,” has been paraplegic since 1988. According to his obituary, he has been working as an inventor for the past several years and obtained two patents for his inventions.

York graduated from Arcanum High School in Arcanum, Ohio. He then was a triple major graduate from Anderson University in Indiana. The Cincinnati Reds and Ohio State were among his favorite sports teams.

York was best known as Billy Merchant in “The Office.” But he also appeared in shows including “CSI: New York.”

“He had such an outgoing, uplifting, positive attitude and personality. He always tried to look at what he could accomplish and do, not what he couldn’t do,” his obituary states.


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1 posted on 05/26/2021 5:11:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

When did he get vaccinated?


2 posted on 05/26/2021 5:13:28 AM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle

Sounds like the Vax.


3 posted on 05/26/2021 5:24:21 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Red Badger

“Died of a brief undisclosed illness”. Some sort of cover up we’ll hear about in a month


4 posted on 05/26/2021 5:25:31 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: struggle

Seemed like he was a good, smart guy. So let’s drag his death across free republic so we can try to connect it to a tinfoil covid vaccine conspiracy theory!


5 posted on 05/26/2021 5:28:08 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: mikelets456

Some cancers are very rapid..................


6 posted on 05/26/2021 5:34:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Appears to be the ‘stupid-game-of-the-day’.


7 posted on 05/26/2021 5:37:01 AM PDT by larrytown ( )
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To: Red Badger

I enjoyed his appearances on The Office. Sadly, fellow actors like Jenna Fischer didn’t acknowledge his passing. See Jenna Fischer’s self-absorbed Instagram feed.


8 posted on 05/26/2021 6:35:30 AM PDT by Browns Ultra Fan
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Most of the folks suggesting it was “vaccine” related probably cannot spell “invention”, let alone get patents for one.

I guess everyone who dies over the next five years will be vaccination related.

FR, and most of the other forums I visit lately have become cesspools of lousy information and supposition. Between Aliens coming down to visit us and the vaccine that will turn us into reptilians...these places are almost unreadable.


9 posted on 05/26/2021 6:36:55 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

You mean like everyone who died over the last year died of covid. Is that right?


10 posted on 05/26/2021 6:45:00 AM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: Vermont Lt
Aliens coming down to visit us and the vaccine that will turn us into reptilians..

Add to that the libertarian trash having nothing to say unless they're pushing dope and you've got a trifecta.

11 posted on 05/26/2021 6:46:21 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Since you are so far above all the people that post here, you probably missed the humor when people were showing memes with reptilians.

Another thing, once you start making hay out of a typo or misspelling, you have to check every post of your own carefully because you just set yourself up to be scrutinized for errors.


12 posted on 05/26/2021 6:49:39 AM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: Red Badger

Billy apparently really wasn’t


13 posted on 05/26/2021 7:01:38 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: struggle
When did he get vaccinated?

My first question, too.

14 posted on 05/26/2021 8:18:31 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Stop spewing ignorance. Previous (real) vaccinations were pulled from distribution after 25 deaths reported to the Vaccine Advers Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Covid injections (Moderna admitted in their Wall Street filing that it’s really an experimental gene therapy according to the FDA) now have over 4,000 deaths reported in the US, and over 12,000 in Europe.


15 posted on 05/26/2021 8:20:40 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: dforest

Of course they didn’t.

But statistics on deaths usually take at least a year to compile.

If people spent as much time asking questions about “how stuff is done” that they do posting silly comments…they would know the answers to such questions.

Posing an “opposite” as a debating technique loses its effectiveness some time after 4th grade.


16 posted on 05/26/2021 9:33:51 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: dforest

I am not “above” anyone. I never believed that.

I DO tend to read other sources. I ask critical questions. And I try to keep things in context. A lot of posts lately are not thoughtful, accurate, or the least bit helpful.

When people tie events that are not related, I try to determine the likelihood of those things being correlated. That is a step many posters here do not take.

The part I find most amusing is that so many Trumpians refuse to trust the vaccine. And the almost the first thing they say when Biden mentions the vaccines is that they were developed under Trumps watch.

They don’t even “see” when they do this.

I too was joking about the Aliens and Reptilians. But…these days almost nothing can be dismissed completely out of hand. Ha ha.


17 posted on 05/26/2021 9:43:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Red Badger

Sad. RIP.


18 posted on 05/26/2021 11:37:48 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: mikelets456

Aids or cancer tend to be referred to as, “a long illness”. Some cancer can be quick, so that can mean so many different things. They meant whatever it is to be vague though.


19 posted on 05/26/2021 1:23:47 PM PDT by Trillian
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